Following a successful launch of the “Global Digital Libraries Collaborative” in November 2009,[1] the British Library sponsored an instructional and planning workshop on the topic of Linked Data in the context of digital libraries. The concept of Linked Data, a term closely tied with the idea of the Semantic Web and coined by W3C director and web pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee, describes exploiting web technologies to interconnect information that has not been explicitly linked by creators or curators. The mechanisms required to realize the goals of the Semantic web are a data model and series of formats and protocols described by the W3C as the Resource Description Framework (RDF). While such tools may not completely replace the need to build shared, domain-specific data repositories, at least in the short run, it is difficult to imagine digital libraries interoperating at a truly global scale without a commonly held model for data interchange that is as lightweight, sustainable, and extensible as the RDF promises to be.