Resources

Dashboard

The Community of Practice maintains a “Linked Data Development in Ex Libris Products” Dashboard at https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/e/2PACX-1vSYlQCkfBM-6jqAYUruFRVwk672OBeKG0c7CpwmIBtyw0QTpyJKiL4ORY3dtie9XpW1DB-IcnjLzOc1/pub which lists the current or proposed LOD developments in Ex Libris products. It is regularly updated. So for up to date information it is a good starting point.

The group recently wrote a report about URIs in Ex Libris Products, which can be viewed here: http://documents.el-una.org/2097/

We also run Town Hall meetings during the year. These are recorded to allow access to them in various time zones. You can find them under the Events link from the LOD CoP front page.

Community Meetings

The most recent community meeting which took place on January 12 2023 was titled: A Sinopia, Marva and Alma Linked Data Implementation. The presentation slides can be viewed here. A list of the resources mentioned at the event is accessible here

See our previous community meetings on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/c/IGeLUandELUNAShowTell), Linked Open Data Playlist. Please keep an eye on the Events page for upcoming meetings.

User Stories

LOD Working Group now seeking User Stories/Use cases for linked data from Ex Libris customers. If you have ideas or user stories, please submit them using the Google form (https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSekrf8BVU-51xdjJp8lWtYDuL46zGnyEmL7_8hQBv9BvFNaUA/viewform).

Other Resources

A classic article by Tim Berners-Lee Linked Open Data: “Is Your Data 5*?”

https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html

Another rich resource is the SWIB (Semantic Web in Libraries) conference which for the last couple of years has been held online. Last year’s presentations are available from: http://swib.org/swib21/

A presentation introducing linked open data from a SWIB workshop outlines the basics 

http://swib.org/swib14/slides/ostrowski_swib14_45.pdf 

Ex Libris Tech Blog

The Ex Libris Developer Network also has information on work undertaken by both the Company and customers. A recent development on Using the Linked Data Integration API to Enhance Discovery is documented.

Searching under linked data brings up further posts.