ALCTS Metadata Interest Group

Slides: Linked Data Initiatives at NLM

  • 1.  Slides: Linked Data Initiatives at NLM

    Posted Feb 19, 2015 12:50 PM

    Presentation slides from the ALCTS Metadata Interest Group Meeting at the 2015 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Chicago are available below as attachments (pdf and pptx formats available).


    Linked Data Initiatives at NLM


    Nancy Fallgren and Barbara Bushman, the National Library of Medicine


    In January 2014, following an environmental scan of linked data at peer institutions and a survey of NLM’s “datascape”, NLM formed the Linked Data Infrastructure Working Group to investigate the potential for publishing NLM linked data, determine best practices for publishing NLM linked data, and prioritize linked data projects. The Working Group was charged to develop and build an infrastructure for transforming, storing and publishing NLM linked data beginning with transforming MeSH as a linked data pilot. This presentation will review the progress of our pilot project to convert MeSH XML to MeSH RDF. We will discuss our collaborative process, the technical and organizational issues we tackled, and the future of linked data at NLM.


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