Universities Working to Make Library Metadata Searchable on the Web - David Raths, Campus Technology

Since the 1960s, academic libraries have been using their own standards for the communication of metadata about resources in their catalogs. Originally designed for magnetic tape-based computers, machine-readable cataloging (MARC) standards are only understood by library systems. Failure to speak the language of the web has isolated libraries from the broader world of information developing there. Determined to take advantage of the semantic web, Stanford Libraries is working with the libraries of Cornell, Harvard and the University of Iowa to continue the development of a "linked data" metadata environment. https://campustechnology.com/articles/2018/07/05/universities-working-to-make-library-metadata-searchable-on-the-web.aspx