The Mellon Foundation recently approved a grant to Stanford University for a project called Linked Data for Production (LD4P). LD4P is a collaboration between six institutions (Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Library of Congress, Princeton, and Stanford University) to begin the transition of technical services production workflows to ones based in Linked Open Data (LOD). This first phase of the transition focuses on the development of the ability to produce metadata as LOD communally, the enhancement of the BIBFRAME ontology to encompass multiple resource formats, and the engagement of the broader academic library community to ensure a sustainable and extensible environment. As its name implies, LD4P is focused on the immediate needs of metadata production such as ontology coverage and workflow transition. In parallel, Cornell also has been awarded a grant from the Mellon Foundation for Linked Data for Libraries-Labs (LD4L-Labs). LD4L-Labs will in turn focus on solutions that can be implemented in production at research libraries within the next three to five years. Their efforts will focus on the enhancement of linked data creation and editing tools, exploration of linked data relationships and analysis of the graph to directly improve discovery, BIBFRAME ontology development and piloting efforts in URI persistence, and metadata conversion tool development needed by LD4P and the broader library community. The presentation will focus on a brief description of the projects, how they interrelate, and what has been accomplished to date. Special emphasis will be given to extensibility and interactions with the broader LOD community. |