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The development and implementation of a new digital collections system built on the Linked Data Platform has provided University of Maryland Libraries with an ideal opportunity to prototype and test ways to model local corporate name authorities in resource description framework (RDF). This includes assessing the local corporate names metadata, reconciling these names against existing authorities, and devising and executing an RDF model for unreconciled names in support of the new linked data environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on audio digitization project of the research library Hathi Trust. It is reported that the scope of digitization at Hathi Trust partner institutions is broader, as the University of Michigan Library seeks to incorporate time-based media, initially audio, into the repository. The audio collections were prioritized for preservation based on the research value of the information held on the recordings, as well as the format and physical condition of the recordings.