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UCSB’s American Discography Project (APD) is pleased to announce that the Discography of American Historical Recordings (DAHR) has enhanced its name index using Linked Data. Thanks to funding from the Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Board, ADP staff have used LC Name Authority identifiers to link approximately 18,000 of our 60,000 unique names in DAHR to their corresponding entries in the Library of Congress Name Authority File. Through the networks of Linked Data, this allows DAHR to join this web of linkages to other data sets. For an example of a new detailed DAHR name entry, see the record for jazz musician Benny Carter <https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/103374/Carter_Benny>. The Linked Data allows us to automatically pull in biographies and photographs from Wikipedia and have outbound links to other public databases for added context. As more streaming and downloadable audio is added to DAHR, we hope this richer context will help users of the database to make positive IDs of people for the purposes of research, teaching, and cataloging, among other things. We have also created a DAHR URI to add back to the web of Linked Data identifiers so that DAHR can be cited without fear of obsolescence and can inter-operate with other data sets. More information on our Linked Data project can be found here <https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/resources/detail/443>. In addition to the Library of Congress, we’d also like to thank our partners at AVP for designing and executing the data harvest and our database developer Properlysorted LLC. We welcome feedback and suggestions, corrections, and the like. David Seubert Project Director, ADP University of California, Santa Barbara