The Alma ILS supports both MARC and BIBFRAME data formats and includes a RESTful API for their customers to use in creating and editing BIBFRAME Work and BIBFRAME Instance data in Alma. Building on prior API driven integrations (https://youtu.be/Q0-ABLG4dyQ ) of linked data editors and the Alma ILS, this presentation will explore the opportunities of connecting BIBFRAME data in Alma to entity management software from the Share Family LOD Platform technology.
The JCricket entity editor is a manual entity editor from the Share Family designed to facilitate the management, editing and creation of entities for bibliographic and authority data. Within their discovery system, the Penn Libraries is planning on displaying work clusters that are retrieved from the Share LOD Platform APIs (https://upenn.box.com/s/k4fxbnez5zuelpk3xohp0q9xq0uqw16x ). Therefore, there is a need for catalogers to have the ability to curate or otherwise align data from the Alma ILS with LOD Platform clusters. A related tie-in that will be explored in this presentation is the ability for new BIBFRAME resources that are stored in the Alma system at Penn to be immediately reflected in the clustering available from LOD Platform APIs.