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Membership Products Support Research Events About Contacts Sign in to Services Settings Menu Search Overview Inside WorldCat OCLC delivers quality Libraries provide the foundation Partners support growth Linked data Shared entity management infrastructure For decades, OCLC has provided reliable infrastructure for OCLC numbers and authority records. Now, with financial support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we’re building a persistent, shared, and centralized entity management infrastructure for library linked data work. When completed in December 2021, this infrastructure will include easily accessible authoritative descriptions of works and persons, enhanced and managed by OCLC and the library community. Connections to other external vocabularies will place library collections in a broader context across the web. As always, we’re closely collaborating with the library community to fully understand and address needs. Our entity management infrastructure will be largely API-based, allowing librarians to customize their workflows around linked data opportunities. We will also create a basic user interface for librarians to create and manage entities. No matter how far along your library is with using new data models (including BIBFRAME), or even if you wish to continue to work in MARC, you’ll see improved data quality and workflow efficiency as a result of this new entity management infrastructure. “Reliable identifiers...” “For linked data to move into common use, libraries need reliable and persistent identifiers and metadata for the critical entities they rely on. This project begins to build that infrastructure and advances the whole field.” Lorcan Dempsey Vice President Membership and Research, and Chief Strategist OCLC Latest updates How your library will benefit from linked data 02 September 2020 As we move toward new ways to create and share information about library collections, I believe that no matter what type of library you are associated with, you and your users will benefit from this project. New OCLC linked data recording and advisory group members 01 September 2020 Be sure to watch our "Moving from research to reality" on-demand recording and welcome to our new advisory group members.  International interest continues to grow in OCLC's Shared Entity Management Infrastructure 01 July 2020 OCLC welcomes four new libraries from Europe and Canada to our advisory group. Shared entity management infrastructure advisory group members Agence bibliographique de l’enseignement supérieur (ABES) Biblioteca Universitaria di Bologna Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) Brigham Young University Library British Library Central Michigan University Libraries Cleveland Public Library Cornell University Library Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (DNB) Harvard University National Library Board, Singapore National Library of Medicine National Library of New Zealand New York University Libraries Oxford University Libraries Princeton University Library Smithsonian Libraries Temple University Libraries U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center University of California, Davis Library University of Minnesota Libraries University of Pennsylvania Libraries University of Tennessee Libraries University of Victoria Libraries Yale University Library   Have a question or want to get involved? If you have a question or are interested in joining the advisory group to provide feedback, test APIs, or help with workflow creation as our work progresses, please contact us. Shared entity management advisory board contact On-demand webinars 02 March 2021 OCLC and Linked Data: The transition to contextual metadata Learn more about the impacts of contextual linked metadata on the library community. 29 July 2020 OCLC and Linked Data: Moving from research to reality Highlighting OCLC’s linked data progress and its impact on the library community. 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