2012:

• Collaboration between the University of Washington (UW) Libraries and the UW iSchool launches a Semantic Web Investigator Group (SWIG)
• SWIG initiates project to express the Newspaper Genre List as a Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) vocabulary (RDF available at https://doi.org/10.6069/uwlib.55.d.5)
• UW Libraries convenes a campus-wide meeting with linked data stakeholders

2012-2014:

• Cataloging and Metadata Librarian Theodore Gerontakos serves as Co-Chair of the Linked Library Data Interest Group (LITA / ALCTS)

2014-2016:

• UW Libraries’ Cataloging and Metadata Services (CAMS) staff provide feedback on BIBFRAME 1 and 2 through Library of Congress (LOC) listservs and GitHub code repositories
• CAMS staff prepare BIBFRAME training materials and offer sessions
• 100+ MARC records are converted to BIBFRAME 1 and reviewed by cataloging staff
• CAMS staff create an RDA Input Form as a proof-of-concept, demonstrating output of both RDA-in-RDF and BIBFRAME from input data

2016:

• LoC releases BIBFRAME 2
• Test conversion of MARC records to BIBFRAME 2
• Comparative testing of searches on BIBFRAME data converted from MARC and digital-collections XML
• CAMS publishes a mapping of BIBCO Standard Record RDA elements to BIBFRAME 2.0
• First directed fieldwork in semantic web standards and data by a University of Washington iSchool student
• CAMS publishes draft best practices for language tags in bibliographic linked data

2017:

• CAMS XML server expanded to include an RDF triplestore for training use
• SPARQL Study Group convened at the UW Libraries
• UW Libraries begins participation as a Linked Data for Production: Pathway to Implementation (LD4P2) project subgrantee