Building Blocks for the Future: Making Controlled Vocabularies Available for the Semantic Web
Barbara B. Tillet
Efforts have been underway for several years to lay some of the building blocks for linked data, cloud computing, and foundations for the Semantic Web. How are libraries contributing? Some of the projects that the Library of Congress has contributed to are described: the Virtual International Authority File, the id.loc.gov site for posting LC's own controlled vocabularies, like the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) in SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization Schema) format; and the controlled vocabularies prepared for the new cataloging code, RDA: Resource Description and Access.
This would not be an "original" paper for ELAG, as we are trying to spread the word at various venues, which is why I wanted to ask before submitting a proposal for a paper. I hope to do the LCSH/LCC portion for IFLA in August in Puerto Rico and have given the full VIAF-LCSH/SKOS-RDA registry presentation (see attachment) in the US at several venues - but not yet in Europe. I am attaching the full presentation as given to the Library of Congress chiefs in November for your information.
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