This page provides quick links for the Registered FRBR Element Sets and Value Vocabularies.

The akronym 'lobid' stands for "Linking Open Bibliographic Data". We support the process of creating Linked Open Bibliographic Data out of existing libraries and other associated data.

This overview attempts to lay out provisional directions for the development of the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) platform.

The Closure tools help developers to build rich web applications with JavaScript that is both powerful and efficient.

Pandora for books: NoveList Plus is a comprehensive online readers' advisory tool. Using NoveList Plus, you can search among hundreds of thousands of popular fiction and readable nonfiction titles, and also retrieve author read-alikes, book lists, book discussion guides, and more. All of this rich editorial content is crafted by librarians and reading authorities who are experts in the field

The Chicago Underground Library is a new model for open, location-specific archiving of independent and small press media. We are always seeking books, magazines, zines, journals, broadsides, newspapers, and art books of all types, genres, and print runs from the Chicago area. (And maybe your city, too. Be patient, or ask us how to start your own.)

We accept everything from the area (ever), regardless of perceived quality or importance in order to create a detailed index from which connections among the publications will emerge.

Keeping records of everyone who contributed to a work, as well as keywording every subject, allows us to map the evolution (historically and contemporaneously) of Chicago’s communities and movements and encourage the production of new media by providing context, inspiration, and programming designed to support collaboration.

The mission of the International Children's Digital Library Foundation (ICDL Foundation) is to support the world's children in becoming effective members of the global community - who exhibit tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas -- by making the best in children's literature available online free of charge.

National Leadership Grants support projects that have the potential to elevate museum, archival, and library practice within the context of national strategic initiatives. The Institute seeks to advance the ability of museums, archives, and libraries to preserve culture, heritage, and knowledge, contribute to building technology infrastructures and information technology services, and provide 21st century knowledge and skills to current and future generations in support of a world-class workforce.

Successful proposals will have national impact and generate results—new tools, research, models, services, practices, or alliances—that can be widely adapted or replicated to extend the benefit of federal investment and that increase community access and participation.

"Rather than moving towards amalgamation and interoperability across databases, you really get the sense that everybody’s been busy grabbing at whatever piles of text they can lay their hands on, building the biggest little mudhill they can manage to put up, and then building walls around it. There are interstitial services that help a user 'jump' from one little fragmented collection to another and portals that aim to be a 'top level' to return to, sure, but we should be doing better by now."

Addresses the basics of copyright law and the exclusive rights of the copyright owner, the major exemptions used by cultural heritage institutions, and stresses the importance of “risk assessment” when conducting any digitization project.

Welcome to the Public Index, a site to study and discuss the proposed Google Book Search settlement. Here, you can browse and annotate the proposed settlement, section-by-section.

Intute is a free online service providing you with a database of hand selected Web resources for education and research.

A simple componentised framework constructed in Javascript to enable the sharing of Ajax Style extensions to a web interface. The framework is applicable to any environment which, via identifiers contained within a html page, needs to link to or embed external resources.

"...even if web of data turns out to be all its proponents want it to be, narrative won’t still be part of it, but it will be something to put on top." Problematic assumption that facts precede narratives, that narratives are something you "put on top" of or weave out of facts or data... rather than facts being distilled from or abstracted out of narratives.

PP is a python module which provides mechanism for parallel execution of python code on SMP (systems with multiple processors or cores) and clusters (computers connected via network).

One of Django’s great strengths lie in its abundant library of 3rd party “pluggable” Need a blog? Grab a few pluggable apps to get you off your feet. The only problem is… they’re so hard to find and keep track of. That’s what we’re here for. We do the work of making sure you’re keeping your pluggables up-to-date.

The SeeAlso Linkserver API documentation is intended for web developers that want to write dynamic web pages that include additional links, or to developers that want to provide links and other information to specific resources that people can include in their web pages.

1999 interviews with Patrick Wilson.

Browsable LOC classification.

With JeromeDL's social and semantic services every library user can bookmark interesting books, articles or other materials in semantically annotated directories.

Its goal was to develop a theoretical understanding of the records generated by experiential, interactive and dynamic systems, of their process of creation, and of their present and potential use in the artistic, scientific and governmental sectors.

In the First Person is a free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world.

Access to the most widely used cataloging documentation resources in an integrated, online system.

Intends to be a dynamic digital library which will understand user queries in the context of a specific discipline, look for content in a domain alien to that discipline and return the results presented in a way useful and comprehensive to the user.

This online publication provides access to both the full and concise versions of the MARC 21 Format for Authority Data.

The purpose of adapting the LCSH with a simplified syntax to create FAST is to retain the very rich vocabulary of LCSH while making the schema easier to understand, control, apply, and use.

Aimed at integrating, combining, and deducing information on the early American history to assist general users or historians in exploring American history by using new technology offered by the Semantic Web.

Unless and until some deal can be worked out for digital rights to images, the focus of the digital library is limited to text—just as we enter the golden age of visual narration.

A summary of the current API, as of June 2008.

Libraries for constructing, parsing, manipulating and serializing OAI-ORE Resource Maps.

LCCN Permalinks are persistent URLs for bibliographic records in the Library of Congress Online Catalog.

The Kernel vocabulary, based on a subset of the Dublin Core (DC) metadata element set, aims to describe objects of any form or category, but its reach is limited to a small number of fundamental questions such as who, what, when, and where.

Douglas Tudhope leads the research on Knowledge Organisation Systems and Services.

The Bibliographic Ontology Specification provides main concepts and properties for describing citations and bibliographic references (e.g. quotes, books, articles, etc.).

This is an experimental service that makes the Library of Congress Subject Headings available as linked-data using the SKOS vocabulary.

Submit an OCLC number to this service, and it returns a list of related OCLC numbers and selected metadata.

A request to any web server in existence can be modeled in the simplest of terms: what, who, where, why, when, and how.

How to link to COPAC via OpenURL.

A comprehensive HTTP client library that supports many features left out of other HTTP libraries.

The atompubbase library is a Python client library for AtomPub services. Along with the library comes a command line tools for interacting with AtomPub services call apexer.

Omeka is a simple and flexible system for organizations, cultural institutions, and individuals to manage and publish items, collections, and exhibits on the web.

COinS (ContextObjects in Spans) is a simple, ad hoc community specification for publishing OpenURL references in HTML.

Browse and view authority headings for Subject, Name, Title and Name/Title combinations; and download authority records in MARC format.

Services include the ability to search and browse a large variety of texts and can be used with Perseus' Art and Archaeology Module.

LAF is an OAICat server containing LC and potentially other authority records.

The FRBRoo is a formal ontology intended to capture and represent the underlying semantics of bibliographic information and to facilitate the integration, mediation, and interchange of bibliographic and museum information.

A set of terms for categories of geographic places; terms to indicate the nature of a place. It has been designed to be used with the Alexandria Digital Library (ADL) Gazetteer.

The Talis Platform is an open and extensible Web 2.0 platform that enables you to participate in a revolutionary shared architecture for creating, locating and delivering relevant content.

An RDF graph of the Library of Congress Classification Outline.

An object-oriented formulation of FRBR (FRBRoo) that is a compatible extension of the CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model (CRM).

Liverpool project to integrate the Fab4 (Multivalent) browser, the Cheshire XML search engine, and the Kepler (Ptolemy) workflow engine.

DSpace is an open source digital repository software system for research institutions.

The Sample Pool API allows two media hosting servers to keep track of when one uses samples from another.

Ithaka is an independent not-for-profit organization with a mission to accelerate the productive uses of information technologies for the benefit of higher education worldwide.

Form Fonts is a web-based subscription service that provides professional low-poly 3D models and textures for one low monthly fee.

The Cartoon Research Library’s primary mission is to develop a comprehensive research collection documenting American printed cartoon art, to organize the materials, and to provide access to these resources.

The CDL eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) is a flexible indexing and query tool that supports searching across collections of heterogeneous data and presents results in a highly configurable manner.

Freja is an Open-Source MVC Javascript Framework which uses XSLT to transform XML docs to presentation formats.

Can we say it was a mistake? For it was a mistake.

As my host Michael Buckland observed, there is clarity in the counsel of our fundamentals: making information available, ensuring open access, assisting others in discovery, creating user-empowering tools and services.

Boasts direct integrated access to the Beatport Online Music Store, allowing you to browse their extensive catalogue, pre-listen and buy hot new tracks and download them directly into your library.

The editors would need good tools to create and manage all of the bibliographic and personal relationships, and the users would need a navigation and visualization system that gave them customizable views of the information.

It was the so-called ephemera of earlier eras that caused the greatest concern, as these were precisely the materials that would disappear most quickly, and leave holes in the cultural record of their time.

Using Library of Congress Authorities, you can browse and view authority headings for Subject, Name, Title and Name/Title combinations; and download authority records in MARC format for use in a local library system.

The eScholarship Editions collection includes almost 2000 books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction.

[Database] interfaces are modeled on existing genres and media, including the museum because of its archiving and classifying functions...

GNU FD-licensed intro to Django.

Addressing the archive as an abstract concept, a concrete object, and a practice, we would like to consider theoretical explorations as well as projects focusing on libraries, museums, collections, collectors...

Assistant Professor at the School of Information at UNC Chapel Hill. My major focus is the management and preservation of digital materials.

Standards and practices for organization and description of bibliographic, textual, and non-textual collections.

The DailyKos folks have run into the limitations of free tagging, and want to move toward a controlled vocabulary maintained by professional librarians.

The world suffers a silent phenomenon of "digital decay". This quirky realm is mostly populated by librarians, archivists and museum curators, plus the occasional anxious scientist and panicky megacorporate record clerk.

Tanaka Katsumi's lab at Kyoto University's Department of Social Informatics, focused on Digital Library research (including video).

The semantic web has a lot of people working on the technological guts, but very few on the social practices that might make it happen.

The author's experiences as a master's and doctoral student at the UC Berkeley School of Library and Information Studies during a formative period in the history of information science, 1966-71, are described.

Breakbeat sampling citation data (who sampled whom).

Nearly a million programmes are catalogued, with descriptions, contributor details and annotations drawn from a wonderfully detailed controlled vocabulary.

By holding texts in a horizontal fashion, the design can accommodate up to 70 small and large books in a very compact footprint.

OAI is an initiative to develop and promote interoperability standards that aim to facilitate the efficient dissemination of content.

The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia