Linked data and URIs -- #7 Resources and more...
Linked data and URIs -- #7 Resources
Even if your library isn’t currently using linked data, it’s helpful to be aware of these practices, especially with the increasing presence of URIs in cataloging data. The posts shared here over the past 6 weeks have only presented some introductory material on linked data and URIs in MARC records. Here are some links to more information on these topics if you want to dive deeper:
This is the final post in a series weekly blog posts written by Zahra Gordon, the NHSL Cataloger, which will explain “Linked Data,” an emerging topic in the library field, and how it relates to “Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs),” which are appearing in subfields of MARC records with increasing frequency.    
Van route changes this weekWe are still juggling ILL driver shortages and van maintenance schedules, so!
More Request Manager modifications Tue 6/9 10pmThe NHAIS ILL System will be offline briefly tonight (Tuesday, June 9) starting at 10 o'clock. This will allow installation of software updates that include further enhancements to the Request Manager screen based on feedback following changes made two months ago. With this update, you'll see a larger font size on the Request Manager page and the red dots will go away, with the same "unreviewed notes" icon you see elsewhere in the program replacing the dots.   Clicking on the Borrower heading near the top of the Request Manager screen will take you to the Borrower Requests list and clicking on the Lender heading will take you to the Lender Requests page. This saves a step if you're looking for a request but don't find it in the expected status. When that happened in the past, you needed to go to Staff Dashboard > ILL Admin > Borrower [or Lender] Requests to look for a title and see its status. You can still do that but now you have the option of going straight to Borrower Requests or Lender Requests from the Request Manager.   
SW-A van route truncated Fri 6/5Sorry for the delayed announcement. The SW-A van route is shortened/modified today [Friday, June 5]. The libraries who ARE receiving deliveries today are:
Linked data and URIs -- #6 Example of a Relator URI
The 100 field for the author in our example bib record also contains a third URI in a subfield $4. As stated in an earlier post, URIs may now be used in subfield $4 to link to records that provide information about the relationship/relator codes that catalogers have been using for a while in this subfield. The URI in the second subfield $4 of this example: $4 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut links to the record below from the Library of Congress’ Linked Data Service (https://id.loc.gov/) which describes the relator, “author” (represented by the code “aut” in the first subfield $4): author
URIs in subfield $0 might also point to records describing other types of controlled terms used in cataloging. For example, the URI for content type from the Library of Congress’ Linked Data Service (https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/contentTypes/sti.html) would be entered in the subfield $0 of a 336 field: 336 field from MARC record: 336 $a text $b txt $2 rdacontent $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/contentTypes/txt Record linked to by URI in the subfield $0 describing the controlled term “text”: text
In the next and final post of this series, you’ll find a list of resources that you can use to learn more about linked data and URIs in MARC records. This is the sixth in a series of seven weekly blog posts written by Zahra Gordon, the NHSL Cataloger, which will explain “Linked Data,” an emerging topic in the library field, and how it relates to “Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs),” which are appearing in subfields of MARC records with increasing frequency.
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