Linking Library Data: A Linked Data Based Approach

Abstract

In order to bring library resources into the web the data must be rendered into the underlying representation format provided by Semantic Web technology. In doing so library data have become a part of Linking Open Data (LOD) project, participating into a globally interlinked data hub. In this article, we present how Linked Data approach has been used to represent and publish library data into the Web of Data. Moreover, the library community can thus be influenced by the benefits provided by Linked Data. It avails linking and sharing information with external sources, data enrichment, and reusing the resources among libraries.