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10:00am EDT

Disclosing Linked Open Data at Nieuwe Instituut

Thursday October 10, 2024 10:00am - 10:45am EDT

Nieuwe Instituut (NI) houses around 4 million pieces from the National Collection of Architecture and Urban Planning, managing a vast and valuable array of architecture and design archives. In a bid to improve accessibility to this archive, the Ministry of Education, Culture, and Science (OCW) allocated 11 million euros in 2022. As part of this program, the Linked Open Data (LOD) project endeavors to unveil the richness of NI's archive to the public using semantic web technologies and facilitates LOD connections with other architecture collections.

During our presentation we showcase a series of projects that illustrate our journey with LOD. We provide an overview of the LOD transformation process and demonstrate how we link to external resources such as RKD artist and Getty AAT. Additionally, we discuss the Data Cleaning Initiative (DCI), which ensures the quality of our collection data by cleaning and enriching it. Within the realm of data enrichment, we highlight two initiatives: the Asterisk project, which offers more contextual information through critical review of archival description, and the AI-closed-beta project, a collaboration with Axiell Group, where we utilize AI discovery tools for entity recognition and provide semantic annotations from Wikidata. Lastly, we outline future directions as the OCW program ends.

Speakers

Loïs Hutubessy

Collection System Manager, Nieuwe Instituut

Nora Abdelmageed

Nieuwe Instituut

Thursday October 10, 2024 10:00am - 10:45am EDT
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1:00pm EDT

Putting It Together: Lessons Learned from Implementation of the DS 2.0 Project for the Digital Scriptorium Catalog

Thursday October 10, 2024 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT

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This presentation will focus on the challenges encountered, insights gained, and lessons learned by the DS 2.0 Project team during practical implementation of the development plans for the redesigned Digital Scriptorium (DS) Catalog, a national union catalog and Linked Open Database for metadata about premodern manuscripts held in North American institutional collections. The presentation will review the innovations of the DS Catalog data model, its use as a metadata schema, and its related workflows to aggregate, enrich, and harmonize heterogeneous data about premodern manuscripts. This overview will outline the use of Wikibase infrastructure as the basis for the data model, explain the process for semantic enrichment of contributed data, and discuss the use of Linked Open Vocabularies for authority control. The presentation will also describe complications and difficulties experienced, and solutions employed, by the DS team. Among the issues to be explored will be strategies for handling disparate formats, standards, and levels of quality in contributed data; decision-making for entity management in the DS Catalog authorities; the tools, techniques, and workflows used for DS data enrichment and curation; and special concerns raised regarding metadata about cultural heritage and manuscript objects.

Speakers

L.P. Coladangelo

DS Catalog Project and Data Manager, Digital Scriptorium

Based in Northeast Ohio, I am the Digital Scriptorium Catalog Project and Data Manager and a PhD Candidate in Communication and Information at Kent State University. My research interests include knowledge organization systems, metadata, semantic technologies, and information organization... Read More →

Thursday October 10, 2024 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT
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1:45pm EDT

Hidden Histories: Illuminating LGBTQ+ archives at the University of Las Vegas, Nevada using Wikidata

Thursday October 10, 2024 1:45pm - 2:30pm EDT

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The University of Nevada, Las Vegas Special Collections and Archives has been strategically working to increase the discoverability, visibility, and access to collections related to marginalized communities in Southern Nevada. In the first stage of this grant-funded Wiki project, over 60 archival collections and 80 oral histories, including related people, businesses, and events associated with the Las Vegas LGBTQ+ community, have been contributed to Wikidata. In this presentation, the author continues this work by introducing UNLV's Special Collections Wiki project, "LGBTQ Hidden Histories." The presentation will discuss ongoing efforts to create, expand, and enrich linked data about the Nevada LGBTQ+ community, address challenges faced during entity extraction using archival materials, and conclude with a linked data visualization exercise using Wikiframe-VG (Wikiframe Visual Graph).

Speakers

Kayla Ott

Wikimedian-In-Residence, University of Las Vegas, Nevada

Thursday October 10, 2024 1:45pm - 2:30pm EDT
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3:00pm EDT

Semantic MediaWiki as Linked Open Data Platform

Thursday October 10, 2024 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT

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Semantic MediaWiki is a very flexible platform for providing linked open data, collaborativley editing data and interlinking data from other sources including Wikidata.

The talk will demonstrate features of Semantic MediaWiki and how to use them in order to set it up as a linked data platform. Some examples from the Vienna History Wiki and other use cases will be shown. See also Krabina, 2023: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.websem.2022.100771
Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) is an open-source knowledge management solution based on MediaWiki, the software the powers Wikipedia, but is also used in more than 60.000 third-party wikis. With SMW, MediaWiki can be turned into a Linked Open Data Platform. I will demonstrate what elements are needed for a linked open data platform and how this can be achieved with SMW. I will also highlight the differences to Wikibase (the MediaWiki extension that powers Wikidata). Wikibase is a great platform, but so is SMW, and in the talk I will highlight advantages and disadvantages of using either or the approaches.

I will provide examples from GLAM Wikis such as the Vienna History Wiki or the FINA and SILVER wikis, which are about scholarly correspondence in the 16-18th century and ancient silver coins covering aspects of interlinking data between a GLAM wiki and Wikidata or other vocabularies such as Nomisma and Schema.org.

Speakers

Bernhard Krabina

Managing Partner, Knowledge Management Associates

Thursday October 10, 2024 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
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3:45pm EDT

Enhancing Search and Discovery for LGBTQIA+ Materials at the Orbis Cascade Alliance and Beyond: a Tour of the Homosaurus Implementation Project

Thursday October 10, 2024 3:45pm - 4:30pm EDT

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In 2023, the Orbis Cascade Alliance’s Cataloging Standing Group (CSG) launched a project to retrospectively add terms from the Homosaurus international linked data vocabulary to bibliographic records across its consortium’s holdings. This project serves as a model for libraries and vendors seeking to expand search and discovery for LGBTQIA+ materials using linked data in national bibliographic databases. The project provides pathways for non-library metadata experts to expand discovery and mitigate harm in bibliographic records and library systems drawing from their diverse perspectives.

This presentation will highlight training materials developed for the project, workflows for enhancing the Homosaurus with suggestions for new terms or revisions to existing terms, and an overview of a process for submitting proposals to the SACO Gender and Sexuality Funnel Project. Presenters will also discuss reflections on project participants’ integration with the Homosaurus community of practice through implementation coordination and the development of best practices, plans for advocacy with metadata vendors and library systems, and lessons learned from managing a consortium-wide project.

Speakers

Rose Krause

Eastern Washington University

Crystal Yragui

Co-Interim Head, Metadata and Cataloging Initiatives Unit, University of Washington

Thursday October 10, 2024 3:45pm - 4:30pm EDT
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4:30pm EDT

Community-building through international collaboration on multilingual LOD vocabulary: Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging

Thursday October 10, 2024 4:30pm - 5:15pm EDT

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The Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) will present the Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging project, a LOD vocabulary used by museums to index and access their collections. We will describe how Nomenclature has leveraged LOD to enhance the dataset through co-referencing with other LOD vocabularies, and has developed LOD features to make it easier for museums to implement the vocabulary within their collections management systems. Nomenclature is an international partnership between CHIN, the Nomenclature Committee of the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) and Parks Canada. Development is driven by the museum community, with Nomenclature users continuously making submissions to the Nomenclature Committee for the addition of new terms and alterations to existing terms. We will describe the community-building aspects of this multilingual, international project: the governance, and how the various committees and language communities work together to include terminology in Spanish, French, Inuktitut (an Inuit language), and Canadian regional terms. Despite limited financial and human resources, CHIN and the Nomenclature Committee have developed partnerships and technologies to support these initiatives. Nomenclature will continue to respond to the needs of the community, through terminology review, modernized conventions, technological improvements, and inclusion of terms for Indigenous concepts and in Indigenous languages.

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