Kevin Ford Selected for the Semantic Web.com Spotlight on Library Innovation

Last month, SemanticWeb.com, supported by OCLC and LITA, put out a call for work that promoted or demonstrated the benefits of linked data for libraries.

After receiving a number of excellent nominations, we are pleased to announce that Kevin Ford, from the Network Development and MARC Standards Office at the Library of Congress, was selected to showcase his work with the Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME) and his continuing work on the Library of Congress's Linked Data Service (loc.id). In addition to being an active contributor, Kevin is responsible for the BIBFRAME website; has devised tools to view MARC records and the resulting BIBFRAME resources side-by-side; authored the first transformation code for MARC data to BIBFRAME resources; and is project manager for The Library of Congress’ Linked Data Service. Kevin also writes and presents frequently to promote BIBFRAME, ID.LOC.GOV, and educate fellow librarians on the possibilities of linked data.

Because of previous commitments, Kevin will not be able to use the travel grant from this award to go to San Francisco this June. He will, however, be able to use the grant in order to travel to and present his work at a SemanticWeb conference in the future.

Congratulations, Kevin, and thanks to all the other great library linked data projects nominated!

Check out the OCLC Innovation page <http://www.oclc.org/en-US/events/innovation.html> for more details and the still available 50% SemTechBiz conference registration discount offer.

Received on Tuesday, 21 May 2013 16:39:19 UTC