Ana Belén Ríos Hilario

From Bibliographic Records to Data: Changes in the Library Environment with the Application of Linked Open Data Technologies

The change that has taken place in the library environment with the application of linked open data technologies is analyzed. Thus, the main objective of this paper is twofold. First, the authors intend to describe this new environment from the perspective of the institutions called GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museum); and, second and more precisely, they analyze the change from traditional library records to the particular case of linked open bibliographic data. To attain the first part of this goal, they systematized the information found in the official sources that define the different concepts under study. To address the second part of that objective the authors examined the publication of two key documents: Library Linked Data Incubator Group: Use Cases, in particular the section referring to the bibliographic data cluster, and Linked Open Data-Enabled Bibliographical Data (LODE-BD). It is concluded that the main result of the conversion of bibliographic data to open linked data is that the data will be more visible and integrated with other services and therefore more likely to be reused by them.

Los catálogos de las bibliotecas de los conservatorios superiores de música: identificación, análisis y evaluació

The online catalogs (OPACs) belonging to the libraries of the Superior Music Conservatories are evaluated. To achieve this goal, we begin by analyzing the scientific literature on the subject. The study population is then identified through the consultation of the Directory of Spanish Librarie s, the website of the Spanish Association of Higher Schools of Artistic Teaching and the Map of Conservatories of Music of Spain recently created. For the analysis of the catalogs we opted for the creation of an ad hoc evaluation instrument defining the following parameters: Presentation, retrieval of information, export of records, bibliographic services, user attention, diffusion and social OPAC. It concludes by highlighting the main results obtained and establishing a series of proposals for improvements.

Features of public libraries today: Focus groups as a technique for the study of the social representation of the library

This article is a summary of a study of the social representation of the library. It emphasizes the importance of studies like these in the current climate, in which public libraries seek to redefine their role in society. The study is exploratory and so selected a qualitative methodology, focus groups.

Linked open bibliographic data

It analyzes the application of Linked Open Data (LOD) in the particular case of bibliographic data through examination of two key documents: the Library Linked Data Incubator Group: Use Cases and, more specifically, the section that refers to the bibliographic data cluster and, the Linked Open Data-Enabled Bibliographical Data (LODE-BD). Following the introduction that contextualizes the object of study, it goes on to describe the first of the documents published by the W3C and describes the advantages of the application of LOD in the case of bibliographic data. In the second document, more practical is examined its structure in order to facilitate the publication of bibliographic data as linked open data.