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Welcome to the project wiki-space for the Linked Data for Libraries (LD4L) project. The project is a collaboration of the Cornell University Library, the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, and the Stanford University Libraries, and is funded by a nearly $1 million two-year grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

The goal of the project is to create a Scholarly Resource Semantic Information Store (SRSIS) model that works both within individual institutions and through a coordinated, extensible network of Linked Open Data to capture the intellectual value that librarians and other domain experts and scholars add to information resources when they describe, annotate, organize, select, and use those resources, together with the social value evident from patterns of usage.

Our intent was to do so using existing ontologies and Open Source technology.

Project Pages

• Project Proposal:
  • Why Linked Data?
  • Previous Library-related Linked Data work at Cornell, Harvard, and Stanford
  • Rationale for the project
  • Project Description
  • Expected Outcomes
  • Intellectual Property and Sustainability
• Project Timeline
• Planned LD4L Workshop (tentatively set for January Overview 
  • Agenda (February 2015)
• Project Team
• Communications and Outreach (Press releases, Presentations, Social media, Blog Posts, etc.)
• Related Projects

Working Documents

• LD4L Use Cases
• Working GroupsPossible Data Sources
• Team Meetings
• First Team Meeting
• LD4L code repository on github
• LD4L Data ArchiveCode Repository