This handbook teaches how to unlock the value of existing metadata through cleaning, reconciliation, enrichment and linking, as well as how to streamline the process of new metadata creation. It introduces the key concepts related to metadata standards and Linked Data and how they can be practically applied to existing metadata. Chapters are dedicated to modeling, cleaning, reconciling, enriching, and publishing one's data.

URL: http://book.freeyourmetadata.org/
Keywords: Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LAMs), Linked Open Data (LOD), HTTP URIs, Controlled vocabulary, Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS), Semantic Web
Author: Verborgh, Ruben
Publisher: Facet Publishing
Date created: 2014-06-19 04:00:00.000
Language: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/iso639-2/eng
Time required: P5H
Educational use: professionalDevelopment
Educational audience: teacher-educationSpecialist
Interactivity type: mixed

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