Library automation solutions provider Ex Libris Group, Israel, has announced that it has become a member of the W3C Schema Bib Extend Community Group. This community group brings together diverse library organisations and individuals who are creating proposals for extending schemas to improve the representation of bibliographic information on the Internet. The group operates under the umbrella of the schema.org initiative.
As a member of the group, Ex Libris will work toward making the data managed by Ex Libris solutions more accessible to others in the scholarly community and, similarly, making data from other systems available to libraries that use Ex Libris solutions.
Membership in the community group is part of the Company's ongoing initiative to take advantage of linked data for the benefit of its customers and the wider library community. Linked data is a method of Internet publishing that enables data to be linked to automatically, rendering the data more accessible and hence more valuable.
