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.

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