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About the Share Family

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Being part of the Share Family means facilitating cataloguing and exposition of bibliographic records in linked data, thus supporting the transition from the traditional cataloguing environment to innovative models applying the linked data paradigm, and providing the LAM - Libraries, Archives, Museums domain and information professionals with a more comprehensive suite of tools at their disposal.

The platform www.share-vde.org and the other dedicated environments part of the Share Family enhance the discovery potential of library resources and unveil information that would otherwise have been hidden in archives, thus enabling the access to a rich amount of data that can be exported and re-imported by the participating institutions.

The output common to all the branches of the Share Family foresees:

  • conversion of library catalogues from MARC to linked data;
  • enrichment of original MARC data and of the records converted in linked data with identifiers from external sources (e.g. ISNI, VIAF) and with original Share-VDE identifiers;
  • reconciliation and clusterization of entities created through library data conversion;
  • delivery of converted and enriched data to libraries for reuse in their systems;
  • publication of library records converted in linked on the discovery platform www.share-vde.org and on the other dedicated platforms of part of the Share Family.

The Share Family map

Share Family map 2019The Share Family map updated to 2019 is available at http://bit.ly/Share_map_2019

The Share Family institutions

The Share Family institutions at December 2019 are:

Share-VDE members
Share-VDE full members LD4P cohort members Share-CATALOGUE Institutions Share-ART (Kubikat-LOD) project
Duke University Cornell University Università Degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II” Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
New York University Frick Art Reference Library Università degli Studi della Basilicata Biblioteca Hertziana, Rome
Stanford University Harry Ransom Center Texas A&M Università Degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale Central Institute of Art History, Munich
University of Alberta - NEOS consortium Harvard University Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte, Paris
University of Chicago National Library of Medicine Università del Salento
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor Northwestern University Università degli Studi di Salerno
University of Pennsylvania Princeton University Università degli Studi del Sannio RCost
Yale University University of California Davis Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”
University of California San Diego
National libraries University Colorado at Boulder Share-MUSIC project
National Library of Norway University of Minnesota Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
National Library of Finland University of Texas A&M Library of Congress
University of Washington Stanford University
With the cooperation of
Library of Congress