As a community of practice that is beginning to implement systems that use linked data in cataloging and discovery library systems, we still face questions around which discovery use cases can most benefit from the use of linked data. Various experiments, prototypes, and systems, including those developed or reviewed as part of the Linked Data for Production: Pathways to Implementation grant, have explored linking external data sources to authorities to provide context around authors and subjects as well as suggestions to catalog end users.
This discussion will focus on three questions: (a) Can we better understand how information related to an entity is captured, whether in MARC or BIBFRAME, and how that information is then relayed across library systems to be made available in the discovery layer? (b) Which linked data connections can be made at various points in this journey? (c) How might these linked data connections support specific discovery tasks? The objective of this group discussion will be to generate as many concrete examples as possible and touch on how the lifecycle of this entity may relate to systems such as FOLIO.
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