LOD for EMP: CERL’s history and future in Linked Open Data
Author(s): Andreas Walker
Publication date: August 6, 2020
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Abstract
When CERL was founded in the early 90s, we lived in simpler, happier times. Books were books, libraries collected them and catalogued them, researchers visited those libraries to see the books they had found in our catalogues, and all was well. Today, a global pandemic is raging across the globe, no one knows exactly what a book is supposed to be, libraries are constantly having to justify their existence, and our catalogues have turned into ‘data’, and – even more troubling – data that is supposed to be linked and open.
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