Using an existing, established PID system, a library consortium and government bodies are working together to create open data that can be attributed and which is linked and future-proof.
Two organisation from different disciplines have joined forces to enhance messy metadata into clean, reliable and connected data. Rather than dealing with variations like abbreviations, renamings, or typos, a single persistent identifier links datasets across data portals and over time. Replacing free text with GND URIs transforms open governmental metadata into real Linked Open Data — machine-actionable, traceable, and interoperable.
This high-level view is all about how different fields can work together to break down walls between people's ways of thinking. This is a real-life example of what works, what breaks systems, and the common pitfalls of public-sector cooperations.