Kevin Ford works in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office at the Library of Congress where he is a member of the six-member internal LC group shepherding the Library’s Bibliographic Framework Initiative, which will ultimately replace the MARC Communication Formats with a Linked Data model. Kevin is also the current project manager for the Library of Congress's Linked Data service, http://id.loc.gov. Among many other authority files and value lists, LC’s Linked Data Service publishes the LC Name Authority File; LC Subject Headings; Thesaurus of Graphic Materials; and a number of MARC lists and ISO languages. Kevin spends a significant amount of time modeling traditional library data in RDF for publication at ID and consulting within the Library on other vocabulary-related issues, and he regularly follows Linked Data and Semantic Web developments for LC. He participated in the W3C's Library Linked Data Incubator Group.
