As more libraries beginpublishing and using linked data, many in the library community may be
curious about how they can start creating their own linked data sets. This article will describe the
various stages in a linked data creation project, using North Carolina State University (NCSU)
Libraries' Organization Name Linked Data (ONLD) project (http://lib.ncsu.edu/ld/onld) as an
example and sharing specific approaches that the project team took to produce and publish
their data set. Best practices for project planning, data clean up, conversion, and publishing
linked data are also discussed.
Keywords: linked open data, RDF, metadata conversion, linked data projects