Chapter 5. The Current Landscape

Ted Fons

Abstract


Chapter 5 of Library Technology Reports (vol. 52, no. 5), “Improving Web Visibility: Into the Hands of Readers,” introduces various activities aimed sharing library data over the Internet: the Library of Congress’s BIBFRAME initiative; the BIBFLOW project, centered at the University of California, Davis; Linked Data for Libraries; and Linked Data for Production. Meanwhile, major vendors manage existing bibliographic data in MARC format, while exploring models like BIBFRAME or schema.org to enhance metadata services.


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