Ilka,

 

I had a brief attempt several months ago to get to grips with this (or to be precise with ‘linked data’) but like you could not find much ‘concrete’, and eventually I got pulled back onto ‘real’ work. I had found some help in looking at BNB, and references to a useful company called Zepheira; and through the Library Link Network I had started to learn about Boston University Libraries who (“jwacooks”) were publishing records from Alma as linked – this last was the only case where I managed to find an example of an actual record which seemed to be linked data (i.e. a concrete example) but I was just reaching the point of realising that ‘whatever I am looking at, it is not really linked data’ when the real world reasserted itself.

 

If any of this sounds useful, I could probably supply a few more specific details (links etc.), though they will now be months old. However, mainly, I’d be as interested as you in hearing what others say.

 

Best wishes,

 

Alan

 

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