Our guest on the Gang this month, Karen Coyle, has recently published a Library Technology Report -
Understanding the Semantic Web: Bibliographic Data and Metadata. She was therefore in an great position to provide an introductory overview of the Semantic Web and how it could apply to the data rich world of libraries. Describing herself as a semantic web opportunists, not a semantic web purist, she was ideally placed to get this month’s conversation going. Gang members
Carl Grant and
Marshall Breeding soon joined in the conversation, making it clear we were talking about the practical implementation of semantic web technologies, not the big ‘vision’.
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in the library cataloging environment. Now there’s yet another potential user of library data, and that user is the Web and services that function on the Web.
"The start of a new year and a new decade gives us a great opportunity to take a look
