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Managing the LOD Ecosystem: Whose Job is it Anyway?
Monday October 7, 2024 2:25pm - 2:45pm EDT
Zoom
ZOOM PASSCODE: ld4-2024
For years, organizations have been releasing authority data as Linked Open Data, using properties like owl:sameAs and skos:exactMatch to maintain reciprocal relationships between their data and that of others. Organizations have been following their own data management practices and best practices to create these relationships, and large-scale projects leveraging them have been rare, so any inaccuracies have remained dormant. However, with the launch of LUX, Yale’s cross-collections, linked open data discovery portal in June 2023, this dynamic has changed. LUX reveals the technical and research debt that has accumulated across the cultural heritage field, particularly in authority control and consistency in property usage.
The obscured relationship graph that LUX now exposes raises an important question: If these properties are to be effectively leveraged, who is responsible for maintaining best practices in their use? How can we come together as a community to establish these practices? This lightning talk will explore the sometimes amusing and often unfortunate downstream effects of incorrect reciprocal relationships now revealed by LUX and invite the community to reconsider our approach to data creation in light of these challenges.
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avatar for Kelly Davis

Kelly Davis

Cultural Heritage Data Engineer, Yale University
I'm the cultural heritage data engineer on Yale's LUX platform, a native LOD cross-collections discovery service. I came to Yale in the summer of 2022, after eight years working at the Getty Provenance Index, a program of the Getty Research Institute. My background is art history... Read More →
Monday October 7, 2024 2:25pm - 2:45pm EDT
Zoom
  Lightning talk, Monday Panel
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