Tránsito Ferreras Fernández

Qualified Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices for GREDOS

The aim of this article is to present the work carried out to create GREDOS, the Institutional Repository of the University of Salamanca. Besides introducing GREDOS and explaining how the project was developed, we also present our best practices manual in the use of Qualified Dublin Core Metadata (QDCM). The guidelines followed in the use of metadata, standardization, work methodology, and the digitalization parameters employed are described. Some practical examples of descriptions of different digital resources of varied typology are provided. We conclude by showing the final outcome of the project.

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.

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.