Disambiguating Descriptions: Mapping Digital Special Collections Metadata into Linked Open Data Formats
Jett, Jacob; Cole, Timothy W.; Han, Myung-Ja K.
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Title
Disambiguating Descriptions: Mapping Digital Special Collections Metadata into Linked Open Data Formats
Author(s)
Jett, Jacob
Cole, Timothy W.
Han, Myung-Ja K.
Issue Date
2016
Keyword(s)
Linked Open Data
special collections
digital special collections
metadata
Abstract
In this poster we describe the Linked Open Data (LOD) for Digital Special Collections project at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and describe some of the particular challenges that legacy metadata poses for representation in LOD formats. LOD formats are primarily based on the World Wide Web Consortium’s Resource Description Framework standard which demands both that entities be named by opaque universal identifiers whenever possible but also that metadata descriptions for entities be as unambiguous as possible. The challenges for disambiguating those descriptions are illustrated through examples drawn from digital special collections based at four different digital libraries
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