A Beginner's Guide to Creating Library Linked Data: Lessons from NCSU's Organization Name Linked Data Project

As more libraries begin publishing and using linked data, many in the library community may be curious about how they can start creating their own linked data sets. This article will describe the various stages in a linked data creation project, using North Carolina State University (NCSU) Libraries’ Organization Name Linked Data (ONLD) project (http://lib.ncsu.edu/ld/onld) as an example and sharing specific approaches that the project team took to produce and publish their data set. Best practices for project planning, data clean up, conversion, and publishing linked data are also discussed.