SHARE Virtual Discovery Environment (Share-VDE) is a library-driven initiative-bringing library catalogs together in a shared Virtual Discovery Environment. It uses linked data technology to create connections between bibliographic information contributed by different institutions.
The British Library will be the first institution to contribute its national bibliography to Share-VDE and it plans to contribute its catalog data. By collaborating with the Share-VDE community, the British Library will extend access to information about its collections and services and enable information to be reused.
The Library also contributes to Share-VDE by participating in community groups working to develop the metadata model and Share-VDE functionality. This provides the Library with a practical approach for bridging differences between the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Library Reference Model (LRM) and the Bibliographic Framework (BIBFRAME) initiative, led by the Library of Congress.
The Share-VDE in Linked Data is a library community-driven research and development project aimed at bringing BIBFRAME into practice for the benefit of librarians and library patrons. The deliverables of the project include the conversion into over 100 million bibliographic and authority records for the entire catalog of the participating institutions BIBFRAME.
The Share-VDE project is carried out through discussion and experimentation of the options for the native Resource Description Framework (RDF) data creation, enhancement, and sharing of all type of resources with the library, archive, and museum communities, also revealing the richness within the data of existing collections, often hidden or unexpressed in a traditional catalog.
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