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9:00am EDT

Collaborative Enhancements in Linked Data: Ex Libris and Community Efforts

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:00am - 9:45am EDT

Discover how Ex Libris is partnering with the community to advance linked data functionalities in Alma and Primo. This session will delve into our strategies for transitioning to a linked data ecosystem and addressing the challenges that have risen. We will share insights on various methods to incorporate linked data into your library, including some live demos. Additionally, we will explore the significant benefits of linked data for special collections and rare materials and discuss how the Ex Libris community can contribute to a seamless transition to a linked data environment.

Speakers

Adina Marciano

Product Manager, Ex Libris, Part of Clarivate

Product manager Ex Libris focused on bringing Linked Data into the library ecosystem into our products.

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:00am - 9:45am EDT
Zoom

Presentation

9:45am EDT

Graph Explorer: A Browser-Based Tool for Querying Sinopia RDF

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:45am - 10:30am EDT

Zoom

Graph Explorer is a proof of concept for loading Sinopia RDF in a browser-based environment by selecting groups or individual resources. Once loaded, a user can query the returned RDF using SPARQL and download the results as csv. In this presentation, we will discuss Graph Explorer’s design and development, and demonstrate how to query Sinopia using the Graph Explorer and SPARQL. We also welcome feedback from the LD4 community on desired enhancements and potential uses. Sinopia is an open source linked data cataloging tool developed by the LD4P initiative. Graph Explorer offers Sinopia users and the Sinopia curious a new way to query Sinopia data, practice SPARQL skills, and examine data created in Sinopia. This session will be presented by Jeremy Nelson, Library Systems Software Developer, and Kalli Mathios, Linked Data Community Outreach Librarian, Stanford Libraries.

Speakers

Jeremy Nelson

Software Engineer, Stanford University

Kalli Mathios

Linked Data Community Outreach Librarian, Stanford Libraries

Wednesday October 9, 2024 9:45am - 10:30am EDT
Zoom

Presentation

10:30am EDT

Wednesday morning break

Wednesday October 9, 2024 10:30am - 10:45am EDT

10:45am EDT

Lightning Talks 4

Wednesday October 9, 2024 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT

Zoom

Morning session with five short talks + questions and answers. Please click on the links to the fuller descriptions of each talk for more details.

10:45AM-10:55AM: Shape Expressions for Rhizome's ArtBase
MSLIS Candidate at Pratt Institute | Preservation Intern at Rhizome

10:55AM-11:05AM: Toward Interconnected Object Histories: Challenges and Opportunities in the Creation of Provenance Linked Open Data
Lynn Rother, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Fabio Mariani, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Max Koss, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

11:05AM-11:15AM: Conoshing the Connoisseurs: A Joint Bibliography of Bernard and Mary Berenson
Alexandra Alisa Provo, Research Curation Librarian, and Research Fellow, Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute, New York University

11:15AM-11:25AM: Building a database on colonial Mexican painters: reflections on LOD and digital scarcity
Maria Laura Flores Barba, PhD Candidate in Hispanic Studies, Western University, Department of Languages and Cultures

11:25AM-11:35AM: Building a Framework for Diverse Ecologies: Transforming Research Data into Linked Open Data
Bárbara Romero Ferrón, Data Consultant, Digital Humanities Specialist, Utrecht University Library
Lena Thöle, Universiteit Utrecht

11:35AM-12:00PM: Questions and discussion

Speakers

Maria Laura Flores Barba

PhD Candidate in Hispanic Studies, Western University, Department of Languages and Cultures

I'm an art historian wrapping up my PhD in Hispanic Studies at Western University (Ontario, Canada). My thesis project is the design of a database about painters in Colonial Mexico, which can produce data for social network analysis. Most recently, I have been working with a multidisciplinary... Read More →

Alexandra Alisa Provo

Research Curation Librarian, and Research Fellow, Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute, New York University

Bárbara Romero Ferrón

Data Consultant, Digital Humanities Specialist, Utrecht University Library

Lena Thöle

Universiteit Utrecht

Lynn Rother

Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

Xavi Danto

MSLIS Candidate at Pratt Institute | Preservation Intern at Rhizome

Fabio Mariani

Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

Max Koss

Research Associate, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

Wednesday October 9, 2024 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Zoom

Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 4

10:46am EDT

Shape Expressions for Rhizome's ArtBase

Wednesday October 9, 2024 10:46am - 10:55am EDT

Zoom

This lightning talk will feature a brief introduction to Shape Expressions (ShEx) and its significance for Linked Open Data (LOD), using the development of ShEx for Rhizome’s Wikibase (ArtBase) as a case study. ShEx is a schema language used to validate RDF data, ensuring it conforms to specific user-defined rules. Although the usage and development of ShEx is relatively new, the ability to validate data is increasingly vital to this institution and others using Wikibase, where datasets must adhere to consistent standards for interoperability. In this instance, the significance and potentiality of Rhizome's ShEx schemas stretches beyond interoperability and data accuracy, with the additional goal to provide a more supportive user interface for internal, institutional usage. Likewise, this session will focus on leveraging resources from shex.io and community contributions while discussing the current state of validation tools accessible to Wikibase instances.

Speakers

Xavi Danto

MSLIS Candidate at Pratt Institute | Preservation Intern at Rhizome

Wednesday October 9, 2024 10:46am - 10:55am EDT
Zoom

Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 4

10:55am EDT

Toward Interconnected Object Histories: Challenges and Opportunities in the Creation of Provenance Linked Open Data

Wednesday October 9, 2024 10:55am - 11:05am EDT

Zoom

The provenance of an artwork documents its ownership and socio-economic custody changes. Provenance records usually contain information on auction houses, collectors, dealers, galleries, and other art market participants, which is often relevant to the history of several artworks in different museum collections (Rother, Koss, Mariani 2022). With the extensive production of increasingly detailed provenance texts in museums in recent decades, creating provenance linked open data (PLOD) thus offers new avenues for collaborative research within and across institutions. PLOD makes it possible to break down the data silos in which provenance data is stored in most museums. It elevates provenance from a difficult-to-access specialist resource to a widely available and contributable resource for historical research of different kinds.
The creation of PLOD in museums necessitates the transformation of large quantities of unstructured textual information to become fully machine-readable. By addressing natural language processing challenges, AI can assist with the laborious and resource-intensive work of structuring provenance data (Rother, Mariani, Koss 2024). However, the research and documentation complexities of provenance records require human intervention. This lightning talk showcases the application of artificial intelligence combined with a human-in-the-loop approach to create and unlock the potential of provenance linked open data.

Speakers

Lynn Rother

Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

Fabio Mariani

Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

Max Koss

Research Associate, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg

Wednesday October 9, 2024 10:55am - 11:05am EDT
Zoom

Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 4

11:05am EDT

Conoshing the Connoisseurs: A Joint Bibliography of Bernard and Mary Berenson

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:05am - 11:15am EDT

Zoom

This lightning talk will give an overview of a joint bibliography, implemented in Wikidata, of the early published writings of art historians Bernard and Mary Berenson. The Berensons were key figures in art criticism and the art market in the last decade of the 19th century and in the early 20th century. The rationale for this joint bibliography project is to address the collaborative nature of Bernard and Mary Bereson’s scholarship, bring more visibility to Mary, and engage in feminist art historiography and the broadening of focus from attributional art criticism to “cultures” of connoisseurship.

This talk will focus on the process of the project, which may be applicable to others embarking on similar projects as digital humanities researchers or on behalf of cultural heritage institutions seeking to donate their metadata to public platforms like Wikidata. One major topic of the presentation will be data modeling, particularly the granularity of the metadata available in shared library catalogs versus the needs of a scholar-specific bibliography. The presentation will suggest ways Wikidata can be used as a bridge to connect institutional metadata with metadata generated by scholarly research. Other topics covered will include data preparation workflows and tools, preliminary visualizations, and reflections on how communities of practice have facilitated work on this project.

Speakers

Alexandra Alisa Provo

Research Curation Librarian, and Research Fellow, Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute, New York University

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:05am - 11:15am EDT
Zoom

Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 4

11:15am EDT

Building a database on colonial Mexican painters: reflections on LOD and digital scarcity

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:15am - 11:25am EDT

Zoom

At the beginning of my PhD journey about colonial Mexican painters, I had research questions that I couldn't answer using available digital collections or datasets. Moreso, the available linked data that I was able to access did not cover the actors, places, and temporality I wanted to study. This scarcity constrained me to create my own datasets and focus on a methodological problem instead: the creation of a database using printed sources. In ths presentation, I will explain how I created this database and datasets, but I will also reflect on the digital scarcity of sources in Spanish and about historical actors from the peripheries.

Speakers

Maria Laura Flores Barba

PhD Candidate in Hispanic Studies, Western University, Department of Languages and Cultures

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:15am - 11:25am EDT
Zoom

Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 4

11:25am EDT

Building a Framework for Diverse Ecologies: Transforming Research Data into Linked Open Data

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:25am - 11:35am EDT

Zoom

In this lightning talk, we will share part of our project focused on transforming research data into LOD and developing a reproducible framework for LOD projects. The Utrecht University Library securely stores and archives hundreds of thousands of datasets from various research projects, which, according to university policy, must be preserved for at least ten to fifteen years.
A key objective of our project is to make this vast collection of data both accessible and interconnected as linked data while also creating a framework that can be replicated in future LOD projects involving research data. Given the diverse landscape of data types, models, and academic fields, we designed a project where each faculty formed a small subgroup of graduate students, researchers, and other interested parties. These subgroups are tasked with gathering information, researching data models and ontologies, and developing small projects to link pre-existing data.
However, reaching this significant goal requires including a series of workshops and sessions in the framework, aimed not only at raising awareness but also at guiding researchers through the data process. These sessions cover topics such as data models, ontologies, and linked data.

Speakers

Bárbara Romero Ferrón

Data Consultant, Digital Humanities Specialist, Utrecht University Library

Lena Thöle

Universiteit Utrecht

Wednesday October 9, 2024 11:25am - 11:35am EDT
Zoom

Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 4

12:00pm EDT

Casalini Libri - @Cult Virtual Booth

Wednesday October 9, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

Zoom

Casalini Libri is an international bibliographic agency producing authority and bibliographic data; a library vendor, supplying books and journals, and offering a variety of collection development and technical services; an e-content provider, working both for publishers and libraries.
As the technology division of Casalini Libri, @Cult is a provider of Integrated Library System and Discovery tools, specialized in software development for bibliographic data management and linked data, and has managed the development of linked data projects for several years with Casalini Libri.
With their long-standing expertise, Casalini Libri and @Cult have been increasingly liaising with library information experts in the international library community, and are involved with projects and initiatives aimed to foster new opportunities for the library sector such as linked data and BIBFRAME. In addition to more information about the two companies, the opportunity will be provided to learn more about the options and scenarios envisioned to support libraries and cultural heritage institutions in the transition to the new linked data ecosystem.

Speakers

Patricia O'Loughlin

Head of Sales, Casalini Libri - @Cult

Anna Lionetti

R&D Assistant, Casalini Libri - @Cult

Wednesday October 9, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
Zoom

Virtual Booth

1:00pm EDT

LD4 Art & Design Affinity Group

Wednesday October 9, 2024 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT

Zoom

Join members of the LD4 Art & Design Affinity Group to learn about what the group has covered in the last year and discuss topics related to modeling, creating, querying, and visualizing linked data related to art and design. Attendee participation will be encouraged, and some possible prompts for brainstorming and discussion include:

-What are some art and design topics you are interested in using linked data to represent?
-What data models and/or platforms are you familiar with for creating and managing linked data for art and design?
-What are some unique challenges of representing art and design topics as linked data?
-What are you working on at the moment that you'd like to connect with others about?
-What projects or other groups should the LD4 Art & Design Affinity Group connect with?

Speakers

Alexandra Alisa Provo

Research Curation Librarian, and Research Fellow, Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute, New York University

Samie Konet

Dance Audio and Moving Image Cataloger, New York Public Library

Wednesday October 9, 2024 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT
Zoom

Affinity Group

1:45pm EDT

Enhancing Bibliographic Description with ScriptShifter and Parallelogram

Wednesday October 9, 2024 1:45pm - 2:30pm EDT

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ScriptShifter is an open-source tool developed by the Library of Congress for transliterating non-Latin scripts to Latin based on ALA-LC Romanization Tables, and vice versa in some cases. It supports cataloging for non-Latin materials and integrates with various library systems. In this session, we will demonstrate ScriptShifter and its integration with the "Parallelogram" Cloud App for Alma, which uses ScriptShifter's language rules and data from WorldCat and the NACO Authority File to create accurate parallel fields in bibliographic records. These applications utilize Linked Open Data principles to connect linked bibliographic descriptions, authority control, and vocabularies available via OCLC WorldCat and NACO Authority File, making the data discoverable across platforms and institutions and enhancing LOD efforts.

Speakers

Jessalyn Zoom

Library of Congress

Stefano Cossu

Thomas Ventimiglia

Wednesday October 9, 2024 1:45pm - 2:30pm EDT
Zoom

Presentation

2:30pm EDT

Wednesday afternoon break 1

Wednesday October 9, 2024 2:30pm - 2:45pm EDT

2:45pm EDT

Discovery with linked data: challenges and opportunities

Wednesday October 9, 2024 2:45pm - 3:30pm EDT

Zoom

In this session, we will introduce the LD4 Discovery Affinity Group and review the landscape of discovery with linked data. In this session, we will provide an overview of the kinds of questions and topics of interest to us in the affinity group in general, and invite discussion on specific areas including:

Examples of linked data and discovery successes in production
Challenges and opportunities remaining: Going beyond knowledge panels, considering implementation options, exploring discovery opportunities provided by specific models
Looking towards the future: (i) Cataloging with an eye to discovery with linked data and (ii) supporting institutions on their journey to use linked data for discovery

Slides
Agenda/notes document

Speakers

Astrid Usong

UX Designer, Stanford Libraries

Huda Khan

Software Developer, Stanford University

Software developer at Stanford University. Previously at Cornell University.

Wednesday October 9, 2024 2:45pm - 3:30pm EDT
Zoom

Affinity Group

3:30pm EDT

Cross-Campus Consortium Linked Data Training and Collaboration: What have we learned?

Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:30pm - 4:15pm EDT

Zoom

Across our 23-campus consortium, the adoption of Linked Data has varied significantly, with some campuses showing strong engagement while others question when, how and if they should ever engage. Recognizing this disparity led to establishing a Linked Data community and assessing specific training requirements to prepare for future system adoption and the implementation of Linked Data at the consortium level. A Task Force began as a small group in 2021 focused on investigating potential Linked Data products and features. This initiative evolved into a Linked Data study group (2022-2023), where basic Linked Data concepts and Wikidata were introduced to interested participants. During these study group meetings, members expressed strong interest in working on a Wikidata project leading to extensive training. This presentation will share insights gained from providing training to a multi-campus community reflecting a population of library workers. They are not on the front lines of decision-making and experimentation within neither the LD4 nor PCC communities. We will specifically discuss the learning needs of metadata practitioners with varying levels of Linked Data knowledge and different metadata creation competencies. Additionally, we will address the key barriers to the broader use of Linked Data and explore strategies to overcome these challenges.

*We’re eager to learn if your consortium or group has organized any Linked Data training opportunities, and we’d love to hear about your experiences. Please help us by filling out this survey: https://forms.gle/CExCpfAPZuS85MRCA

Speakers

Greta Heng

Cataloging and Metadata Strategies Librarian, San Diego State University

Michael Herrick

Cataloging and Metadata Librarian, San Francisco State University

Wednesday October 9, 2024 3:30pm - 4:15pm EDT
Zoom

Presentation

4:15pm EDT

Wednesday afternoon break 2

Wednesday October 9, 2024 4:15pm - 4:30pm EDT

4:30pm EDT

Getting started with ARK persistent identifiers

Wednesday October 9, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT

Zoom

This interactive tutorial introduces ARK (Archival Resource Key) persistent identifiers. As PIDs (persistent identifiers, permalinks) for information objects of any kind, ARKs support durable web addresses (e.g., that don’t return 404 Page Not Found) in the sense of “Cool URIs don't change”, protecting society’s investment in the linked data. ARKs are non-paywalled, decentralized PIDs that, compared with fee-based PIDs such as doi.org and handle.net, and with domain-centralized PIDs such as purl.org and w3id.org, flexibly support the 4 Rules of Linked Data. Decoupling Rules 1 and 2, ARKs are expressible as compact URIs or HTTP URIs, and even in the former (non-resolving) case, recipients can still learn which ARK assigning authority created the name. Decoupling Rules 2 and 3, ARK persistent identity need not be centralized around a particular DNS name.

While Rule 4 is routinely honored in ARK metadata, it is always honored implicitly by ARK syntax – slashes ("/") represent hierarchy that a client can expect to traverse, periods (".") represent resource variants (".jpg", ".pdf", etc.) that a client can expect to elide to receive "default" representations, and privileged query parameters (aka "inflections") such as "?info" can predictably transform any given URI name to a set of additional protocol-reasonable requests. For example, the simple existence of an ARK with an internal slash implies the existence of another (containing) object identified by its “parent” ARK (obtained by truncating the original ARK at the slash).

Since 2001, 8.2 billion ARKs have been created by over 1350 organizations — libraries, data centers, archives, museums, publishers, government agencies, and vendors. With highly flexible metadata, both in application profile and in access, citation-friendly ARKs identify anything digital, physical, or abstract. The tutorial includes hands-on experience and is for is anyone interested in PIDs supporting nuanced persistence policies.

Topics covered:
• Why ARKs – non-paywalled, decentralized, flexible
• Use cases – Smithsonian, French National Library, Internet Archive
• Metadata for early and ongoing object development
• Metadata for persistence
• Minting and assigning ARK identifiers
• Creating and resolving metadata vocabulary
• Resolvers, resolution, redirection
• Persistence considerations

No prior knowledge is required. Familiarity with basic website management would be nice but is not required.

Speakers

John Kunze

Senior Research Associate, Drexel University Metadata Research Center

John Kunze is a pioneer in the theory and practice of digital libraries. With a background in computer science and mathematics, he wrote BSD Unix tools that come pre-installed with Mac and Linux systems. He created the ARK identifier scheme (arks.org), the N2T.net scheme-agnostic... Read More →

Donny Winston

President, Polyneme LLC

Talk to me about ARKs, RDF, ontologies, Linked Data / Semantic Web technologies, and applications to natural sciences. Fediverse profile (Mastodon): https://fairpoints.social/@donny

Wednesday October 9, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT
Zoom

Workshop

5:30pm EDT

Wednesday Social Hour

Wednesday October 9, 2024 5:30pm - 6:00pm EDT

Zoom

Wednesday October 9, 2024 5:30pm - 6:00pm EDT
Zoom

Social Hour

LD4 2024 Conference