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OCLC has published bibliographic linked data for the most widely held works in WorldCat.

 

The download file contains approximately 80 million linked data “triples”, representing nearly 1.5 million resources.

The while WorldCat contains bibliographic records for more than 275 million items of more than 10.000 libraries worldwide. The criteria used to select was: the resource had to be held by at least 250 libraries (Jeff Young). More info.

Some journals cost have increased by about 145% over the past six years

Memorandum: Major Periodical Subscriptions Cannot Be Sustained
To: Faculty Members in all Schools, Faculties, and Units
From: The Faculty Advisory Council 
Date: April 17, 2012

...Harvard’s annual cost for journals from these providers now approaches $3.75M. In 2010, the comparable amount accounted for more than 20% of all periodical subscription costs and just under 10% of all collection costs for everything the Library acquires. Some journals cost as much as $40,000 per year, others in the tens of thousands. Prices for online content from two providers have increased by about 145% over the past six years, which far exceeds not only the consumer price index, but also the higher education and the library price indices. These journals therefore claim an ever-increasing share of our overall collection budget. Even though scholarly output continues to grow and publishing can be expensive, profit margins of 35% and more suggest that the prices we must pay do not solely result from an increasing supply of new articles...

Global Interoperability and Linked Data in Libraries

Programme

Abstracts

Preprint in JLIS.it

Topics

• Web of data
• Linked bibliographic data
• Management of data and distribution in libraries
• Open data exchange
• Semantic web techniques and technologies
• Knowldge sharing and connection of data
• Development of open technical standards
• Best practices for publishing and connecting structured data on the web.
• Open archives
• Open access
• Conceptual models
• Knowledge Organisation Systems (KOS)
• Consuming and using library data
• Standard vocabularies
• Open library data