PAST: Generations of catalogers were instructed to follow the “rule of three”. Born from the catalog card’s limited real estate this rule applied to resources with more than three authors (or artists) resulting in only the first named individual appearing in the bibliographic record followed by “… [et al.]”. The adoption of RDA reversed th…[Read more]

Wikidata is a free, open, and multilingual knowledge base that serves as the structured data for Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects. Staff at many libraries, archives, and museums have found that Wikidata provides an accessible method of making information about collections and resources available as linked open data, which in turn enables…[Read more]