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Case study : professional involvement for CPD
No full textThis case study discusses aspects of professional involvement in librarianship and how it can be used as experience and material for continuing professional development (CPD
Professional Organisations
Get PDFLibrary and information organisations play an essential role in the development of libraries and information services on behalf of users, and the standing of the profession locally and internationally. Professional organisations set standards, develop guidelines, and advocate for the value of library and information services to decisionmakers. A strong membership is necessary for organisations to have a strong voice
Linked data and the LOCAH project
No full textThe popularity of the Semantic Web has been growing in recent years. Introduced by Tim Berners-Lee in 2001, the vision of the Semantic Web is of a web of data, negotiable by machines. One of the main components of this is Linked Data, which describes things and the relationships between them using controlled ontologies and HTTP URIs. This article provides a clear explanation of the fundamentals of Linked Data, and discusses how these are being used by the JISC-funded LOCAH project, which aims to make bibliographic and archival data from the Copac and the Archives Hub available as open Linked Data. Providing data as Linked Data creates links with other data sources, and allows the development of new channels into the data. Bibliographic and archive data is especially rich in the kind of data that can enhance existing knowledge and conceptions. The author also looks at the power and the potential of Linked Data, the growth in its application, and concludes with some of the ways businesses (BBC, Vodaphone, and the oil and gas industries) are beginning to use Linked Data. © The Author(s) 2011
Libraries contributing data to the National Bibliographic Knowledgebase
No full textList of those libraries contributing their data to the National Bibliographic Knowledgebase (NBK). List contains those libraries who have supplied data to Jisc as of 16 November 2018
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