TY - CHAP
T1 - SELLING OUR SOUL (FOR TOTAL CONTROL)?
T2 - Linked Open Data and GLAM
AU - Burrows, Toby
AU - Verhoeven, Deb
AU - Jones, Mike
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 selection and editorial matter, Isabel Galina Russell and Glen Layne-Worthey; individual chapters, the contributors.
PY - 2024/1/1
Y1 - 2024/1/1
N2 - This chapter examines the deployment of Linked Open Data (LOD) in the GLAM sector, with a particular focus on libraries. It considers to what extent implementations of LOD remain attached to concepts like “authority control,” “name authorities,” and “universal bibliographic control,” and to what extent LOD approaches are opening up institutional metadata practices and policies to more diverse, contested, and ambiguous perspectives. Several major LOD initiatives are used to explore facets of openness, including distributed authority control (National Libraries); data aggregation and standardization (Europeana); capability development and curated data (American Art Collaborative); the digital commons (Wikidata); and open linked data (Humanities Networked Infrastructure – HuNI). The chapter concludes with some observations on the contested, collaborative, creative, and contributory nature of humanities research, and the need to “deselect” GLAM LOD implementations that still rely on control and authority.
AB - This chapter examines the deployment of Linked Open Data (LOD) in the GLAM sector, with a particular focus on libraries. It considers to what extent implementations of LOD remain attached to concepts like “authority control,” “name authorities,” and “universal bibliographic control,” and to what extent LOD approaches are opening up institutional metadata practices and policies to more diverse, contested, and ambiguous perspectives. Several major LOD initiatives are used to explore facets of openness, including distributed authority control (National Libraries); data aggregation and standardization (Europeana); capability development and curated data (American Art Collaborative); the digital commons (Wikidata); and open linked data (Humanities Networked Infrastructure – HuNI). The chapter concludes with some observations on the contested, collaborative, creative, and contributory nature of humanities research, and the need to “deselect” GLAM LOD implementations that still rely on control and authority.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85212609738&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4324/9781003327738-16
DO - 10.4324/9781003327738-16
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85212609738
SN - 9781032356259
SP - 187
EP - 203
BT - The Routledge Companion to Libraries, Archives, and the Digital Humanities
PB - Taylor and Francis
ER -