Linked Jazz: Building with Linked Open Data (EDUCAUSE Review) | EDUCAUSE.edu

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-06-30

Summary:

Linked open data represents an exciting frontier for digital scholarship, offering the possibility of the web functioning in a whole new way: connecting not just one page to another, but one piece of discrete data to another, dynamically. This new web capability will not thrive without the work of research teams dedicated to finding out how to make the data currently held in dispersed, individual silos — such as library catalogs, archival finding aids, and digitized books and records — available for integrated access as linked open data. By supporting the use of linked open data and participating in linked open data research and development, libraries, archives, and other nonprofit or mission-driven institutions dedicated to providing equitable access to information have an opportunity to expose their resources to a wider audience of users. Research into the possibilities for linked open data applications within digital scholarship remains wide open. While a number of research projects are currently exploring methods and tools to clean and open up data for use in linked open data environments, the field of digital scholarship lacks a critical mass of these efforts. To describe how a linked open data project works — and to call others to action — this article presents a case study of Linked Jazz, an education-focused project about jazz history in which team members research and develop applications of linked open data and encourage others to become involved in related scholarship.

Link:

http://www.educause.edu/ero/article/linked-jazz-building-linked-open-data

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.educause oa.gold oa.lod oa.data oa.case.data oa.linked_jazz oa.libraries oa.archives oa.museums oa.glam oa.ch oa.journals

Date tagged:

06/30/2014, 16:44

Date published:

06/30/2014, 12:44