 |
 |
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 email: [log in to unmask]