Heather Pretty (Newfoundland, Canada)
MARC to Linked Data
Canvaswork with cottons, silks and metallic ribbons
Designed and stitched by Heather Pretty
“This conceptual piece represents the transition of MARC metadata to Linked Data through the application of RDF triples of Work-Expression-Manifestation-Item (WEMI) relationships.”
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Heather Pretty is a cataloging librarian at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada.
Heather’s piece is shows a diamond of nodes in orange, blue, purple and green. They are surrounded by diagonal wavy ribbons of the same colors. The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard originally designed as a data model for metadata.