Piloting Linked Open Data for Artists' Books

FAIN: PW-228261-15

Regents of the University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA 92617-3066)
John Renaud (Project Director: July 2014 to July 2016)

A pilot project to create linked open data for a collection of around 500 artists’ books, including works by and about women and contemporary American politics and works produced in Latin American countries.

The University of California, Irvine Libraries seeks planning support for an incubator project to connect scholars to artists’ books through the use of linked open data (LOD). The pilot project will incorporate expertise from special collections, visual arts, metadata, and information technology into development of a scalable resource for facilitating discovery of artists’ books and increase scholarly attention on these highly visual, sculptural, and interactive works of art.