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Call for Participation We invite you to join a collaborative effort to identify design patterns for Linked Data in Libraries, Archives, and Museums (LODLAM). A LODLAM design pattern identifies common problems, solutions, and examples found in current LAM metadata standards and emerging Linked Data approaches. Participants in this study are invited to use the LODLAM Proto-Patterns wiki (http://lodlampatterns.org/protopattern) as platform for identifying potential problems, solutions, and contexts. In the wiki these patterns can be edited, refined, classified, and further developed over time. The results of this study will be used to understand what patterns exist in our current environment and what patterns are desirable as we move towards Linked Data approaches. In other disciplines, design patterns have proven to be useful for broadening the debate about technical standards and as instructional tools. Your participation in this study will guide the development of a representation pattern library (http://lodlampatterns.org) that can be useful to Linked Data users, developers, students, and metadata creation professionals. Richard J. Urban, Assistant Professor College of Communication and Information School of Library and Information Studies Florida State University Florida's iSchool [log in to unmask] @musebrarian