Semantic representation of bibliographic resources cataloged in the UTPL Library

The ideas behind Linked Data and the Semantic Web have gained ground because they have shown the potential of redefining the world of the Web, and of any heterogeneous, autonomous, and distributed information system. Linked data can create a globally linked database with understandable relationships to human beings and machines agents. The benefits of Semantic Web paradigm and Linked Data approach for libraries and their users are potentially excellent, but so are the numerous challenges for their implementation. This model is based mainly on the reuse of existing ontologies and vocabularies. The present work applied the process to Linked Data generate from bibliographic records cataloged in the Library “Benjamín Carrion” de UTPL (BBC-UTPL). These bibliographic resources are described, exchanged and connected through unique identifiers, obtaining the semantic description of bibliographic records using RDF and the data linking with other external sources of information.