I was advised by the Linked Data Group to post this idea here because I submitted the following for the LOD Working Group webinar in December:

Broader strategic and commercial alliances required to ensure that data is ready to be linked?

To engender confidence in CZ and make it linked-data ready, why don’t the Company do business with e.g. Backstage Library Works for authority control clean-up and maintenance?

Metadata is a global commodity so all stakeholders have responsibility for creating, sharing, enriching and maintaining it, and of course there are costs for all of these elements which we could share.

Isn’t this the best way to ease the burden on libraries and leverage our metadata improvements for mutual and sustainable benefit?

I note that this document alludes to the Company taking a lead in creating a new open metadata platform and preserved data in an open format.
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Materials/010Roadmap/Linked_Open_Data

Preserving metadata is not the same thing as maintaining it because metadata evolves e.g. authorities are deleted, changed and new ones created.

In light of this I would ask that the Company explore strategic commercial partnerships to ensure that any metadata that they manage (knowledgebases, platforms) is properly maintained.

Jane