The transition toward linked data environments, entity-based models, and interoperable metadata ecosystems is reshaping cataloguing into a dynamic, collaborative, and distributed practice based on shared cataloguing. To respond to this change, the Share Family community has developed JCricket, the Linked Data Entity Editor designed for collaboratively curating entities in a multi-institutional, shared space. Drawing on over ten years of developments within the Share Family Ecosystem, this presentation will show the concrete implementation of JCricket and how it streamlines libraries’ operational workflows and real-world cataloguing practices. Through granular cataloguing, Provenance-based data management, and integrations with FOLIO and Alma library services platforms (and others to come), data entered in libraries’ ILS/LSP is reflected in the central Cluster Knowledge Base underlying JCricket and vice-versa. These new copy cataloguing features allow for a full roundtrip of data transitioning from record transfer workflows to collaborative, entity-based data management. In JCricket, bibliographic entities are no longer isolated local records or static imported copies, but interconnected data objects continuously enriched, synchronised, corrected, and reused across institutions. Since JCricket operates on a multi-Provenance dataset, its inherent complexity requires guidelines: a set of best practices is being elaborated to consolidate shared cataloguing workflows and ensure consistent data integration with external systems.
