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Many Projects, One Platform: Renegotiating Semantics Across Knowledge Graphs
Friday October 11, 2024 9:45am - 10:30am EDT
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The Semantic Lab at Pratt has a long and ongoing engagement with cultural heritage linked open data, beginning with the Linked Jazz project in 2011. This session will cover Semantic Lab’s evolving approach to generating linked open data from archival documents and how the adoption of Wikibase and the development of a custom-built annotation platform have significantly enhanced our capabilities. They allow the capture of more knowledge and the management of diverse projects simultaneously, expanding a simple set of social network triples into complex knowledge graphs. These affordances, however, expose a need for new, more intentional lines of cross-project collaborative work, as ontological inconsistencies between projects are revealed. In this session, we will provide examples of how Wikibase’s built-in functionality facilitates our efforts to renegotiate semantics and restructure classes in order to unify a range of digital humanities projects like E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology) and the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, as well remediate incongruences resulting from the migration of legacy data into a more complex model. We will also discuss how a broader community of researchers, data practitioners, and cultural institutions impacts our work through their interest in, contribution to, and use of our data.
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avatar for Jessika Davis

Jessika Davis

Research Fellow, Pratt Institute Semantic Lab
Interests: Experiential Data | Multi-sensory Knowledge Making | Information Technology | LOD | Digital Humanities (and its hotly contested meaning). I recently received a MS in Museum and Digital Culture at Pratt Institute with Advanced Certificate in Digital Humanities. Currently... Read More →
avatar for Karen Li-Lun Hwang (she/her)

Karen Li-Lun Hwang (she/her)

Metadata Librarian / Archivist, Semantic Lab / Asian American Arts Centre
Promoting more diverse representation in the historical record.
avatar for M. Cristina Pattuelli

M. Cristina Pattuelli

Professor, Pratt Institute School of Information
avatar for Matt Miller

Matt Miller

Linked Data Specialist, Library of Congress
avatar for Ava Kaplan
Friday October 11, 2024 9:45am - 10:30am EDT
Zoom
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