Methodological guidelines for publishing library data as linked data

Abstract

Publishing data as Linked Data increases the interoperability and discoverability of resources over the web space. This process involves several design decisions and technologies. However, there is no one-size-fits-all formula for publishing data as Linked Data. Also, the quality of linked data published is a key issue to take into account. In the library domain, the quality of linked data is a crucial point for improving the retrieval and use of the data. In this paper, we propose a set of methodological guidelines based on five activities for publishing library data as Linked Data. The proposed guidelines consider the quality of published data as a key issue. In this line, our approach includes a preprocessing task for data cleansing and normalization. The proposed approach has been applied in a use case for publishing bibliographic data from Open Access journals in Cuba. The results obtained show the applicability of the methodological guidelines proposed in a real environment.