 But before we get started with going on to the particular tools, I did want to kind of lay some groundwork here in case you're not familiar or Excuse me, we're just like a refresher on some of the background technology and terminology I'm going to talk a little bit about what we mean when we talk about linked data as I said the proposed replacement for mark Encoding is called the frame and it is what they call a linked data model. So I Want to talk just a little bit about what we mean when we say linked data Here to start with is an official definition. I suppose official meeting. It's something that I didn't come up with it's from Wikipedia and You know, you can read what it says But the main things I wanted to highlight is that linked data is a method of publishing structured data It's important to know that it's structured and not just put up there in whatever format people want So that it can be interlinked that there's an important Poiment is linking data from different sources and it is encoded in a way that can be read not just by humans but Automatically by computers. So those are kind of the three main things. I like to point out about linked data to kind of illustrate that more This is sort of what web pages look like encoded in standard hypertext market language HTML Yes, they're linked. You may say, what's the big deal about linked data? We have links now, right? We do but they're linked to kind of these monolithic resources and the links don't really say a lot about why People are or why these things are linked together and in a linked data I'm universe The links instead of linking to just pages would link to discrete pieces of data within a web resource And the links would have a lot more encoded in them that says How these pieces of data are related? So here is, you know, what HTML looks like now Those tags h1 and the p tags they tell the computer this is a heading and this is a paragraph but it doesn't really tell the computer anything about what type of information is encoded basically all the computer can get is how To display this information it knows to make the The heading slightly bigger and in bold type compared to the paragraph But it doesn't say anything about what the information in those paragraphs or headings are Contrast this to a piece of data Set up according to the resource description framework rdf and encoded in XML extensible markup language I promise I'm not going to throw too much of this code at you But I think I just wanted to show you this chunks so you can see where the information Is encoded well, then because what they mean when they say that computers can understand the information on this piece of code Is about it's describing this particular resource which in this case is a CD and You can see from the computer encoding that the artist of the CD is Bob Dylan It was produced in the USA by Columbia, etc. Etc. Basically all this information is encoded right there So the computer can understand it and so In addition to having this encoded meaning the other part of this important about link data is that relationships are key We are used as human consumers of web pages to connecting pieces of information based on their context if we look at a catalog record for example and we see Title the Christmas Carol author Charles Dickens We know that that means that Charles Dickens wrote the Christmas a Christmas Carol the computer has no way of telling that Relationship so with link data it makes the relationships explicit to computers If you read anything about link data and about rdf You will hear the phrase triples rdf is kind of based on Triples which are statements and they're called triples because they have three parts subject predicate an object just like sentences And so the subject and the object are two entities that are linked together by the predicate Which is the relationship between them so if you're describing the resource at Christmas Carol The relationship is has author and the other entity that is linked by that relationship is Charles Dickens and so ideally this these linking and relationships would be linked together within this rdf code instead of Having all the information supplied by Text in these you could have you arise uniform resource identifiers that link to various sources and so that would be truly the real strength of Link data when you are not just encoding all this data yourself But you are linking it out to other sources that have already been made available in a linked data format And so the end result of that is that the web of data link data can be crawled by following these rdf links and so It basically turns the whole web into a search engine or an API and application programming interface you can bring together different sources of data on the fly and Just creates a whole new Realm of search queries, you know You're probably used to seeing examples of things like this in your daily life if you go to Google and you type in Chevy Chase Probably even before you finish typing it along the right-hand side of your search results You'll see a box like this. This is not coded ahead of time. This is all brought together from various sources Things like Wikipedia And other various sources probably IMDB they can bring his Twitter profile in All of these are encoded in a way that allows it to be brought together on the fly and So this happens if you type in Chevy Chase if you keep typing and just type the letters ma in all of a sudden Google knows that you are not talking about Chevy Chase the actor, but you're talking about Chevy Chase the town in Maryland and now there is a whole a Different set of data that is pulled up again automatically through link data technology Because things are encoded this way and so you know, that's the type of world We're talking about when we talk about link data and these days, you know It doesn't even have to be on your computer. It can happen on your phone if you have a smartphone I have an Android phone and you know, I could find that you're going to the Google now app It'll pull up things from weather based on my location it will Pull out things about my flights. I have coming out based on my email You know if I've given information that I'm interested in particular baseball teams They can pull up scores on that, you know, that's another example of ways in which link data is kind of you know It's it's creating a world that we're used to right now I mean we are used to being able to find information from a variety of sources without necessarily having to go to a bunch of different websites you know just kind of Instorming and following this to maybe some logical or perhaps not so logical conclusions. Um, I Always like to draw in the concept of the Amazon echo when I talk about this I have one at home And I don't notice wouldn't necessarily say it's based on link data technology now It's more just the magic of Amazon and their database But you know an echo is a device that will sit in the corner of your house And you can ask it questions it'll you know search the internet for you It'll draw things from Wikipedia and I'm you know just kind of thinking Extensions in a link data world, you know, perhaps an application to libraries wouldn't it be cool if you could ask your Amazon echo Does my library have a particular book and can I place a hold on it? And you know, that's the type of thing that might be possible if libraries are engaged in a linked data world So on those lines, that's maybe one answer to this question Hopefully, I haven't totally bored you to death talking about link data, but If so, maybe this next part will be a little bit more relevant talking about why libraries and librarians should care about link data Well in one word big frame As I mentioned before the Library of Congress is currently working on a replacement for the mark 21 in coding standard machine readable cataloging They released a statement a few years ago Saying that they are going to replace mark this sort of came out of the Test of the National Libraries did with the RDA cataloging rules one of the stipulations of the test report was that in order for RDA to be implemented We really need to be working on a replacement for mark because the RDA cataloging rules are kind of Restrained by mark and our current environment and so the result of that was big frame which stands for It's an abbreviation for the bibliographic framework Transition initiative They always capitalize it. I'll let all the kill letters are capitalized even though it's not really an acronym It's just an abbreviation but the library of Congress's statement said that something new is now needed Mark was is a 40-something year old Technology it was Came up with in the 1960s and it was really revolutionary at the time But it was used for printing catalog cars and we've sort of Modified it to be our online catalog Encoding standard and it's really just kind of out of sync with the rest of the Computer science community the worldwide web and so in order to Play nicely with the rest of the information out there on the web We really need to move beyond beyond mark move on to something different and the library of Congress has chosen a length data Model a way of doing things And so if you're interested in more information about big frame the library of Congress has some information on their website at loc.gov Slash big frame. They also have another domain name devoted specifically to big frame at big frame org And that is the site that has some of the tools that I'm going to be talking about later in this presentation And when I'm talking about why Link data and big frame are important to libraries and what could be different in a link data Library catalog I like to point to the example of a project called open cat which took place in France And they used to have a live prototype site that I really likes to Show people some example searches in and I've recently discovered that that is no longer available Perhaps they're moving beyond the prototype phase and working towards making this a reality So I'm just going to do my best to explain what this product is without being able to do test searches But I still think it's a couple of resources where you can read about this project What open cat is is it's a collaboration between the French National Library the BNF and a public library in a suburb of France And their project is an attempt to supplement the catalog of the public library with some data and bibliographic information from the French National Library So for example one of the test searches I used to do when the prototype was available was for Victor Hugo in the public library's catalog And you would get the typical things in a list of what the public library held by Victor Hugo But there would also be links to information about Victor Hugo from the National Library There are archival material things like that also even virtual exhibits that were online that talked about the life of Victor Hugo And all of this was created on the fly using link data technology These were not pages that were programmed ahead of time, it was just the way that the data from the public library and the French National Library were encoded And like I said the prototype site is no longer live but I found a really good article that explains how it works And the URL for that is there I should at this point also mention that I will be sending my slides to Krista, the usual host of Encompass Live And so she will have all these URLs and she will make them available when the recording of the show goes out So you don't need to worry about writing down, I know some of these are kind of complicated web addresses So they will be made available to you after the fact But this is an article called Customized OPEX on the Semantic Web and it explains the OpenCat prototype And to me I thought it was explained in a really understandable way that didn't get too jargon-y And it made some really good points about why they're doing what they're doing And one of the things I liked was that they detailed some of the usability testing that they did with the linked data catalog And the results were interesting, a lot of people really liked it, they liked being able to search for Victor Hugo and not to see what their own library had But see some of the things like the virtual exhibits, a lot of people were not so into it They thought this was just clutter and they wanted to be able to see simply what their own library had So it's interesting to think about some of the pros and cons maybe of linked data resources But I thought this was a really good way to get an idea of what linked data would mean for library catalogs in one sense In the sense that you can bring in information from outside sources to your local catalog And I guess the other benefit or the other effect that I can see of linked data on libraries is kind of going the other way Instead of bringing linked data information into your catalog, it's making our catalog information more visible on the web as a whole I have attended a number of webinars by a company called Zephira who originally partnered with the Library of Congress on their BIP Frame project And they have since gone separate ways and Zephira is doing their own BIP Frame projects and Library of Congress is doing their own BIP Frame projects But a number of libraries have been partnering with Zephira to encode their data in a way that will show up automatically in a search engine Without anybody having to go to the library's home page And we all know that people don't necessarily start their search at the library catalog They probably start with Google and they might, if they search something, specifically search for a library name Like Worthington Public Library, they'll probably get the library's home page But if they search for a resource, they want to automatically show up that it's held at a library And so I like this quote from Chuck Gibson, the director of the Worthington Public Library He said, when my community searches the web for something we have, we better show up as an option And so the Denver Public Library is one of the partners with Zephira who is encoding their bibliographic information in linked data And the example that Zephira always gives in their webinars is if you go to Google and type in Molly Brown Papers The first hit will be a direct link to the catalog page of the Denver Public Library for their archiving materials The Molly Brown Papers, they won't be a link to the library's home page It won't be a link to just information about the paper is actually some place where you can access those papers in a library And that is because of the way they've encoded their data using linked data standards And so lastly I just kind of want to sum up this section on why librarians should care about linked data With the Library of Congress's summary of why it's important The Library of Congress is currently doing a pilot project with their catalogers to actually catalog using BibFrame And in the summary from the introduction to their training material, these are the things that they consider to be relevant Libraries have a huge amount of identifiers. Link data is all about identifying things in a standard way Those entities that make up the RDF triples, those need to be identified in a standard way Which libraries are used to through authority headings and things like that So going along with that, number two, no community does authorities like we do We identify structure and organize data in different ways, but with WebFrame we can leverage the existing web standards To make library content more visible with, you know, identifying structure and organize our data in a way that is workable with web standards And I think, you know, I agree with them that we really can translate our mark skills and practices into a linked data content It's just a different kind of structured data I think I'll pause here for a second and see if anybody has any questions about kind of the background materials Before I go into talking about the actual tools, prototype tools that I, that is the meat of the presentation Does anybody have any questions here? We haven't gotten anything yet, Sally, have we? I don't. We have one question where they're asking about, is it Zafira or Zafira with a Z or with an S? Z, Z-E-P-H-E-I-R-A Oh, I wouldn't have guessed that. I'm glad they asked. That's the only question we have at this time Excellent question because that's not an intuitive company name, but yeah, it starts with a Z And they are doing a lot of innovation with linked data Another, if it's easier than Googling Zafira, you can do libhub.org And that is kind of their website where they are working with libraries on linked data projects That's L-I-B-H-U-B.org, libhub is the initiative, is their project Okay, so now I'm going to kind of jump into talking about cataloging tools of the future As promised in the title of the session And these are just different ways, I would say, of kind of envisioning what might be A lot of them highlight kind of different aspects of an RDA, BIB frame, linked data type of world And they're, you know, in various levels of practicality, as to something you can actually use now But I think I've used all of them and they each have provided me with some different aha moments Of, oh yeah, this is what it might be like working with our bibliographic data in a non-mark world The first one I want to talk about is called RDA in many metadata formats RIMF is the rather inelegant acronym that they have for it It is a free tool available for download from Mark of Quality And the URL is there, again, these will all be available after this show with the recording And this, you know, doesn't result in BIB frame, you know, XML encoded data that you can put into a catalog or anything But I just thought it was a really interesting way of thinking about the various entities that If you're familiar with RDA, you know, it breaks down the things that we catalog into Work, expression, manifestation, and item, and so it separates out kind of the abstract content from the physical carrier And RIMF is really good at sort of visualizing that, breaking down the pieces of information in our catalog records Into works, entities, manifestations, and items, and then showing how the relationships between these entities work RIMF is kind of based on an entity index, what they call anything that you have created in RIMF A record form, a work, an expression, a manifestation, so on, shows up in the entity index So if you want to see every single thing that you've created, you can see the entity index And it also, it makes it really easy to see different expressions of a particular work My main experience with RIMF was at what they called the Janathon, a pre-conference event at last year's ALA Midwinter And so we cataloged things dealing with Jane Austen And so here you can see that they have a number of different expressions of pride and prejudice in Spanish, German, Hungarian, Portuguese, and a lot of other languages Those are all different expressions And so to create that entity index, you create records for each of these separate RDA entities, work, expression, manifestation, and item And what I found really useful about this was that it was really, you know, just reading through the text of the RDA rules I found it really difficult to kind of think about what piece of information in a catalog record as we do it today relates to the work And what relates to the expression, what relates to the manifestation And so having completely separate records for each of these really made it solidify in my mind what types of information go with each And so this is a work record We're creating a record for the work of Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice And this is, again, the most abstract level It's the idea of Pride and Prejudice as it existed in Jane Austen's mind And then it has all these expressions down here And these blue ones mean that they are links to separate records for each of those individual expressions in different languages And so here is one expression It is the Pride and Prejudice text, the language is English And this is what I mean, you know, that when you're broken down into these different records You can see that the expression level is where things like the language of the expression come in And here's another one Again, it's another expression relating to the same work They all have the link to the same work But this one has the qualifying information that it's Dutch, so it's a different expression And same thing, this is one in German And it's really, really labor-intensive We sat there the whole day at the Jane Austen Pre-conference And I mean, I don't think in a practical and cataloging tool of the future You would necessarily want to have a separate work record and type out a separate expression record It might be easier to have them all on one screen And we'll see some of these BibFrame editors we're going to look at later They do have all the information on one screen, which leads to a really, really long record But for conceptual development and sort of wrapping your head around the ideas of RDA And how it relates to link data and BibFrame, I found RIMP really useful for that So this is a free program that you can... It's not web-based, you do need to download it and put it on your computer But I think it's really useful for playing around with and wrapping your head around link data And how it can be expressed around RDA and how it can be expressed without Mark The next tool I was going to talk about, a pair of tools I would say, are BibFrame editors I mentioned that Zafira and Library of Congress have kind of gone their separate ways Of working on BibFrame, and they each have a BibFrame editor Which allows you to simply type information into a BibFrame work form And might simulate what you might see in a postmark cataloging world Zafira's BibFrame editor is called Scribe And so there is the URL for that there And one thing I found comforting about this is that unlike RIMP It pretty much presents you with just one long screen You choose from the side what type of item you're working with Sort of like choosing a work form in OCLC Connection these days So if you were doing a print book, for example, it would pop up the right fields that you would need to use And basically what I found comforting to go back to my original thought Was that you just type in the information You know, you don't have to know mark tags or any other part of the encoding I think a lot of the technical computer encoding part of BibFrame will be behind the scenes compared to mark now And so any of these boxes that just have text boxes are transcribed elements You simply type something in there The ones that have kind of the plus sign after them Those are authorized hangings You start typing things in there It will start auto-populating with information from these external services You can choose, like the Library of Congress authority file V-OF, the virtual international authority file These are places where information is available in a linked data format And you can bring the identifiers to be your authority records basically So that's kind of how Zephira's BibFrame editor is envisioning that we will work with cataloging in the future And as you can see, I said it's a really, really long screen because it brings together the work elements, the expression elements, the manifestation and item elements all on one page And let me go back Some of them are pre-populated based on what you chose So if for an e-book you would have online resource for your carrier category already selected So some of those are populated by your choice of format And then at the end, you can choose to export this in a XML linked data encoded format If you have some kind of tool locally where you want to play around with the data If you want to simply just go to the website and see what it's like to input the data, that's fine But if you also want to export it, you can do that as well with the Zephira Scribe BibFrame editor The Library of Congress also has a BibFrame editor on their site BibFrame.org slash tools is where you can get a variety of different tools including the editor I believe that there can be downloaded or you can just do the demo where you play around with it online So if you would like to do more sense of things, you can download a version to your own computer But I have mostly stuck with the demonstration editor at this point And it's pretty similar in some ways to the Zephira Scribe BibFrame editor Again, you can kind of choose what profile, which again is sort of a work form You're working with, they have kitchen sink profiles where they will bring in pretty much any element you would need for any type of item And then they have profiles for a simple monograph So if you want to play around with just a simple monographic book, you can get started on those as well And you can choose whether you want to create a new instance and a work or just an instance or just a work For those of you maybe not so familiar with the BibFrame jargon, they've taken kind of the entities of work, expression, manifestation, item from RDA And connect them into work and instance Work is kind of the more abstract, I would say, organic expression in RDA Whereas instance combines the manifestation and item information, the stuff that relates more to the physical item in your library collection And so you choose which ones you want to create And then again, it is pretty similar to the Zephira editor in that there are ones where you transcribe information and then click set to make it stay Any of these where there are just a button rather than a text box, these are the authorized fields And again, like the Zephira editor, when you click on these, there will be a place to type And then it will auto-populate with information from the Library of Congress's authorities, which are available in the link data format And so again, you make the distinction between transcribed elements and authorized elements And again, it has the work and instance information all on one page as opposed to the RIMF records And so it's a fairly long screen, but it has things pretty clearly labeled Which information is about the work and which one is about the instance And again, after you've filled in the work information at the top of the screen, it'll populate the instance where it links to the work information And again, it's a very, very long screen because it has these possible relationships that RDA builds in, things that allow for relationships to other resources And then at the very end, it has the holding information, things that are extremely specific to one local library and their local call number, their shelf location, their lending policy, et cetera So again, I think it's a good example of how it makes it more concrete It's one thing to talk about the really abstract applications of link data and everybody wants to know, well, how does a local library deal with this as far as holding information Because we don't just want to replicate the bibliographic information that we have in our catalogs, but we do need something that can use holding information, circulation information, things like that And so I think the BibFrame editor from the Library of Congress gets into that to a certain extent Now, the editor is not the only tool that the Library of Congress has on their BibFrame.org site There's also a comparison service And in this service, you look up the identification number of a record in the Library of Congress catalog online And when you type that in, you'll get a comparison side by side of the mark record versus the BibFrame record Okay, now I did take cataloging in my last courses and mark records were scary enough, and I'm just looking at this one I'm very glad you're doing that. Thank you so much Yes, and like I said, judging from the BibFrame editors, you won't have to look at all this scary stuff too much I mean, most of it will simply be typing in while the title goes here and the author's name goes here And we want to look up the authorized access point here So you shouldn't have to see if you want to do that scary stuff, but... That makes me feel better Good, good So moving away from the Library of Congress suite of tools The next thing I want to talk about is, again, another piece of software that does need to be downloaded to your computer It's not a web-based service, but it is free Can I interrupt you for just a minute? Because we have a question over here Can you define what you mean by the word instance? Sure, instance is BibFrame speak In their model, they separate the information about something that we're cataloging into a work and an instance And the work is the more abstract information, like the title, the subject headings It applies to any physical format of this particular book Whereas the instance deals with more specific physical information, like whether it's a print book or an e-book What is the publisher of this particular edition of the print book? An instance is something that really deals more with the actual item sitting on the shelf in your library Something you can use as a doorstop as opposed to the abstract content information, I guess That would apply to any kind of physical representation of that particular resource that you're cataloging Thank you I'll let you go on to your next option here Okay, the next option I'm talking about is a suite of cataloging and metadata tools called MarkEdit It's a totally free program developed by a wonderful librarian named Terry Reese out of the Ohio State University He is continually refining it It has a lot of other options that I'm not even going to talk about right now Because it has a lot of options for dealing with traditional mark cataloging and batch editing of mark records I'm going to stick purely to the suite of tools he calls MarkNext And if you have MarkEdit, once you have it installed on your computer This will be the screen that you see when you open it up And the mark next are this little science lab looking icon over here to indicate that we are playing around with things that might come after Mark And he has a couple of different options here One of which I'm going to talk about is the link identifiers option As I've been saying all along, an important thing about link data is to link to other sources of information And to have standard ways of identifying these information So URIs, Uniform Resource Identifiers are a way of making a particular entity represented on the web basically And so even while we're still continuing to catalog in Mark One possibility that people are considering is to begin to incorporate these identifiers, the URIs into our mark records And so Terry's link identifier function does just that You upload a file of mark records and it goes out on the web and looks for identifiers that have been made available in link data So this is the authorized authority record heading for Jennifer Schmidt's name But she also exists as an identifier in the Library of Congress's link data information Same thing with subject headings, traffic safety, it has the texturing But then it also in a subfield zero puts the URI for the identifier in So your catalogs won't really be able to do anything with this now because our ILS systems are not set up that way But looking ahead towards some bright future down the line it might help to have these identifiers already created in our bibliographic data And so some people are doing that using the link identifiers Even if you're not actually going to put this data into your catalog So it's kind of cool to just see the kind of information that's out there and sort of get a sense for how our bibliographic data could link to other data sets that are already available out there in link data format Okay Emily, we have another question that might make you take a step back I'm going to read it here, you've mentioned that with the bib frame editors most of the scary stuff will be hidden Do you think that's a disservice to future catalogers who would benefit from being able to better understand what's happening with the data being entered? That is a very good question And I think it depends upon the particular cataloger and how involved they want to be with the data I certainly think it would behoove anybody who is interested in the programming and the back end of it to definitely be aware of what is going on behind the scenes I think as our cataloging tools continue to evolve it might be a disservice if you're just blindly typing things in On the other hand I think maybe it's a lower barrier to entry for some people who really just want to be on the front end side of things And that way it might make cataloging more accessible but I certainly think there is room for a particular breed of cataloger who is a cataloger slash programmer and wants to know what's going on in both the front and back end So I don't know if that's really an answer to your question but I think it will depend on the person honestly I think that's a good answer and now I have one more question and then let's get back to your presentation Since our catalogs are not big frame compliant at least at this point in time, will the $0 be invisible to the end user for now? I think it should be yes I would assume that your catalog is set up in a way to only display the more traditional subfields in a 100 field or a 650 field Or in most systems I would think that if it's not currently there would be a way to turn that off So yeah I think that right now this is purely a behind the scenes thing that will be useful someday but I would not expect that to display or do anything in your catalogs right now Okay thank you now I'll stop interrupting for a little bit I appreciate the interruption I definitely want to get questions answered at the point of contact as much as possible because yeah there's a lot of stuff here We're moving quickly from one thing to the next The other tool in the mark edit suite of tools so this is again the same software but a different function within the mark next suite is the bib frame test bed Again it's available if you click on that little mark edit science lab icon And this does kind of similar to like the Zafira bib frame editor if you type in something and then you export it and you can really get your hands into the code With this function you take a batch of mark records and you upload it and it spits out the RDF version of it So if you really have a batch of data that you want to take and either just look at it to see what it looks like Or you have some kind of tool that will actually let you deal with link data and you want to convert a bunch of stuff so that you can play around with it The bib frame test bed is the place to do that in mark edit And the last tool that I'm going to talk about is a web based well no you do have to download this one as well Tool called open refine you can download it from the website openrefine.org And again similar to mark edit this one has a lot of functions that are really really cool and I could spend all day talking about it But they don't necessarily relate to the link data stuff we're talking about here so I will brain myself in and only talk about the link data options Mark I will just leave it with saying that open refine is a really cool tool for cleaning up inconsistencies in your metadata if you want to You know find fields where people have left off the period when there should be one and easily correct it without having to touch individual records Definitely look into open refine but what I'm going to talk about is using open refine in order to link your data to other data that is out there on the web already This requires downloading the open refine software downloading an extra extension called the RDF extension which converts to RDF resource description framework And this is something that takes a really really long time to run in real time so I'm definitely just sticking to screenshots here Basically you tell it where you want to get the data from you have to know a source of link data on the web And you tell it how you want it to match in this case we're matching to the Library of Congress subject headings And so it runs its test and it takes ages and ages when I attended webinars about this people who have used it for big products call this the go get a cup of coffee steps But when you're done whatever column you selected in this case they were matching categories to the Library of Congress subject headings The overall kind of slider over here tells you how the percentage of which ones were matched so we'll see that we got almost half as opposed the green is how much were matched If something just comes up as a blue term that means it matched it in it found a Library of Congress subject heading and so now that field in your data is linked and it has the identifier from the Library of Congress subject headings as link data Sometimes there will be multiple ones that might sort of match and so you have to kind of go through and decide which one you want and sometimes if they're just plain black that means they didn't match at all And so you have to decide what you want to do about it if you want to maybe bring in another vocabulary that you can match to as well if it didn't match in Library of Congress But either way it just sets up your data for matching to link data out there on the web and then it'll set you up for going ahead and publishing your own data and linking in to the web of link data so to speak So that was really a whirlwind tour I didn't expect you to come away as experts on any of those tools but I just wanted to kind of give you the idea that they're out there So if you're feeling like you know in theory what link data and bin frame is all about but you'd like to get some ways to play around with this type of data I wanted to make sure you had these tools available to you If you do have any questions after the fact there's my email address there that is my own slideshare website and I will be putting these slides up They will also be available on the Encompass Live webpage and Crystal will send them out with the recording Do we have any other questions coming in? I'm not seeing anything yet we'll just give people a minute if they want to type in another question or maybe you'll be getting emails in a couple of days Which is certainly fine I realize this is the type of stuff where you take a while to sink in sometimes so somebody will wake up in the middle of the night with a question about open refine or something I will be happy to answer it next week maybe not on Thanksgiving Day but next week's for sure I think that's reasonable Here's a question what are your recommendations for how cataloguers should prepare for the upcoming changes That is a good question Well if you actually want to do as far as preparing your data I think that doing things like the mark edit link identifiers tool is pretty good Even outside of that I think just becoming kind of consistent in the way you identify relationships in your catalog The relationship designators in RDA are optional so using subfield E for author in your 100 field it's optional But I think that anything we can do to explicitly identify relationships in our data will make it a lot easier to make those relationships implicit as far as the computer encoding when the big frame Brave New World dawns I think that that is something being really mindful about how you handle relationships in your bibliographic data is something important And other than that I would just probably recommend being aware, educating yourself, doing things like attending this webinar, knowing what's coming, being educated enough to talk to your vendor to see what your ILS vendor is doing A number, a few anyway, vendors are also partnering with Zavira I mentioned libraries were their partners but I know that Cersei Dynex and Triple I they are both supposed to be working on the Libhub initiative So definitely I feel like when the RDA rules were implemented it was kind of a chicken and egg scenario The librarians are waiting to see what the vendors were doing and the vendors were waiting for the librarians to ask them and tell them what to do So be proactive about that with your vendor and see what they're doing and if they don't have good answers for you definitely push them on that I guess those would be my recommendations, try and be consistent with your data, keep yourself well educated and bug your vendors That sounds great, we have another question that says thanks so much for this webinar, thank you for your time Emily we really appreciate it And I imagine people will be emailing you as they think about it like you said That is definitely, they are more than welcome to do that, thank you so much for having me on Oh several more thank yous, oh good, and one from me too And I'm hoping that when I click on this it shows our Encompass live on our the library commission web page Are you seeing that now? It's still showing my screen I'm not sure how to do that, see it, this is what happens when you have a rookie Yeah okay I'm going to make you the presenter Okay I'll take that I'll give it back to you And then it should give you the option to show your screen I think I'm showing the screen now, I just wanted to show you the library commission web page, you can go to that And search for Encompass live in the search box and then the information comes up that shows Here's our upcoming shows, well this one right here is just now completing But these are our upcoming shows and just below that are archived Encompass live sessions So if you want to watch this again you can go right there and click on that And after Krista puts it up and puts in the links and everything for you You can sure go there and find the information you need to view this or a portion of this again Thank you for joining us and thank you again Emily for being our presenter today We really appreciate it Thanks for having me And have a wonderful Thanksgiving everybody