Open and Linked Data
Despite a proclivity toward openness,
libraries have historically been involved
with data and content under various levels
of restrictions imposed by copyright
and proprietary business arrangements.
Libraries have also dealt with data primarily
through self-contained applications,
mostly managed within relational
databases. While these modes of operation
persist today in the mainstream
production systems of interest to libraries,
a strong movement is underway
toward the principles of the Semantic
Web and more open approaches to
sharing data. I see libraries now at an
interesting juncture between the realm
of proprietary, restricted, and isolated
data and a new era with possibilities for
more openness in sharing data and putting
it to work through Semantic Web
technologies.
--Marshall Breeding
Also in this issue
- OCLC Navigates the Realm of Open Linked Data
- Talis: Making a Business through the Semantic Web
- SirsiDynix Development Strategies
- Library Technology News in Brief
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