Last month, SemanticWeb.com, supported by OCLC and LITA, put out a call for
work that promoted or demonstrated the benefits of linked data for
libraries.
After receiving a number of excellent nominations, we are pleased to
announce that *Kevin Ford*, from the Network Development and MARC Standards
Office at the Library of Congress, was selected to showcase his work with
the Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME) and his continuing work
on the Library of Congress's Linked Data Service (loc.id). In addition to
being an active contributor, Kevin is responsible for the BIBFRAME website;
has devised tools to view MARC records and the resulting BIBFRAME resources
side-by-side; authored the first transformation code for MARC data to
BIBFRAME resources; and is project manager for The Library of Congress’
Linked Data Service. Kevin also writes and presents frequently to promote
BIBFRAME, ID.LOC.GOV, and educate fellow librarians on the possibilities of
linked data.
Because of previous commitments, Kevin will not be able to use the travel
grant from this award to go to San Francisco this June. He will, however,
be able to use the grant in order to travel to and present his work at a
SemanticWeb conference in the future.
*Congratulations, Kevin, and thanks to all the other great library linked
data projects nominated!*
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Check out the OCLC Innovation page <
http://www.oclc.org/en-US/events/innovation.html> for more details and the
still available 50% SemTechBiz conference registration discount offer.
Received on Tue May 21 2013 - 12:35:02 EDT