Dear all,

*Call for Papers (Issue Featuring on Linked Data)*

*The International Journal of Librarianship (IJoL)* is a peer-reviewed and
open access journal in library and information science, published
biannually by the Chinese American Librarians Association, an affiliate of
the American Library Association. *IJoL* is dedicated to sharing ideas and
developments in librarianship across borders.

In the past decade, the growth of Linked Data on the Web is significant.
Libraries, archives, and museums around the world have been experimenting
with Linked Data that opens up opportunities to enhance and further improve
services they provide. New models, standards, and applications are inspired
by Linked Data. Although Linked Data technology is becoming mature, there
are still many issues that prevent library communities from moving forward
with this technology. It is time to share lessons learnt, to demonstrate
benefits of Linked Data, and to discuss the future of Linked Data in
libraries, archives, and museums.

*IJoL* invites both practitioners and researchers to share their
experiences and strategies. While *IJoL* continues to accept submissions on
any aspects of librarianship, articles about Linked Data are particularly
welcomed.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

·         Deploying linked data

·         Linked data and authority control

·         Linked data and big data;

·         Linked data and smart data;

·         Linked data applications

·         Linked data in digital projects;

·         Linked data in knowledge organization systems (e.g. controlled
vocabularies, taxonomy, thesaurus)

·         Linked data publication

·         Linked data quality

·         Linked data query builders

·         Publishing linked data

·         Visualization of linked data

Articles are generally 3000 - 5000 words in length, and should be in APA
(American Psychological Association) 6th ed. format. Shorter or longer
articles may be accepted if deemed to be of high quality. Papers submitted
to this special issue must be original and must not be under consideration
for publication in any other journal or conference.

This issue will be published in the summer of 2018. The manuscript
submission deadline is April 1, 2018.

To submit your manuscript, please go to our website:
http://journal.calaijol.org. If this is your first time submitting a paper
to us, click the login button and then click the “Register with this site”
link to create your account. Please check the Author Guidelines section by
going to About -> Submissions for detailed instructions on how to prepare
your manuscript before submission. Please address any questions or concerns
to the editor-in-chief, Grace Liu at [log in to unmask]

*IJoL* also invites book reviews for the following of books to be included
in the Book Review section of the summer 2018 issue:

·         Linked Data for Cultural Heritage (An ALCTS Monograph); Ed Jones
and Michele Seikel, editors; 2016; ISBN: 978-0-8389-1439-7

·         Library Linked Data in the Cloud; Carol Jean Godby, Shenghui
Wang, Jeffrey K. Mixter; 2015; ISBN: 978-1-6270-5219-1

·         Linked Data for Libraries, Archives, and Museums: How to Clean,
Link and Publish Your Metadata; Seth Van Hooland and Ruben Verborgh; 2014;
ISBN: 978-0-8389-1251-5

·         Linked Data: Structured data on the web; David Wood, Marsha
Zaidman, Luke Ruth; 2014; ISBN: 978-1-6172-9039-8





Editorial Board

*International Journal of Librarianship*



-- 
Yongming Wang
The College of New Jersey
tel: 609-771-3337
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