by Sara Ring
Quick Summary
OCLC Research TAI CHI Webinar: How You Can Make the Transition from MARC to Linked Data Easier Attend this webinar on November 5th, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (Central) and learn more about what metadata specialists can do now to make it easier to transform text strings in MARC data into the entity-“things” we later expose as linked data that others can consume.
OCLC Research TAI CHI Webinar: How You Can Make the Transition from MARC to Linked Data Easier
Attend this webinar on November 5th, 10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. (Central) and learn more about what metadata specialists can do now to make it easier to transform text strings in MARC data into the entity-“things” we later expose as linked data that others can consume.
Description
From OCLC's experiences in datamining WorldCat to identify entities that can be exposed to the semantic Web, OCLC has learned that there's a lot of data that can be parsed easily and made into "statements" – and sadly, a lot that cannot be without a lot more effort. In this webinar, Jean Godby and Karen Smith-Yoshimura of OCLC Research offer examples from their multilingual bibliographic structure and performers extraction adventures of what metadata specialists can do now to make it easier to transform text strings in MARC data into the entity-"things" we later expose as linked data that others can consume.
This webinar is free and open to all but advanced registration is required. A recording of this webinar will be made available on this page afterward.
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This is the 16th webinar in the OCLC Research Technical Advances for Innovation in Cultural Heritage Institutions (TAI CHI) Webinar Series, the goal of which is to highlight specific innovative applications, often locally developed, that libraries, museums and archives may find effective in their own environments, as well as to teach technical staff new technologies and skills.
