LD4 2024 Conference: Full Schedule

10:30am EDT

Lightning Talks 1

Monday October 7, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am EDT

Four lightning talks. Please click on the individual talks for a description of the talk.

10:30AM-10:40AM: Computational Literary Methods for all: CLS INFRA
Sarah Hoover, University of Galway

10:40AM-10:50AM: A Linked Data Journey into Forough's Poetry
Maede Hajjari

10:50AM-11:00AM: Grant Funding for Linked Humanities Data
Perry Collins, Senior Program Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities

11:00AM-11:10AM: Bridging the Digital Scriptorium Data Model and Wikidata to Expand Reuse of Manuscript Metadata
Rose McCandless, Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Fellow, University of Denver; Digital Scriptorium

11:10AM-11:30AM: Questions and answers

Speakers

Perry Collins

Senior Program Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities

Rose McCandless

Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Fellow, University of Denver; Digital Scriptorium

Sarah Hoover

CLS INFRA: WP2, University of Galway

Maede Hajjari

Monday October 7, 2024 10:30am - 11:30am EDT
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Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 1

10:31am EDT

Computational Literary Methods for all: CLS INFRA

Monday October 7, 2024 10:31am - 10:40am EDT

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CLS INFRA is an EU Horizon 2020 funded project building shared and sustainable infrastructure for computational literary studies. The resources we have built link existing tools and processes, experiment with new programmable corpora, and reviews resources for their multilingual applicability and interoperability. We hope these will be of use to the GLAM sector, so this session will introduce the project and outputs and invite suggestions as to what would be most useful for DH and non-DH experts there.

Speakers

Sarah Hoover

CLS INFRA: WP2, University of Galway

Monday October 7, 2024 10:31am - 10:40am EDT
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Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 1

10:40am EDT

A Linked Data Journey into Forough's Poetry

Monday October 7, 2024 10:40am - 10:50am EDT

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In this lightning talk, I will introduce the concept of Linked Open Data (LOD) and its application in Persian literature. LOD is a method of structuring data to make it easily connectable and shareable across the web, which is particularly useful for digital humanities. Persian literature contains a wealth of dispersed textual, historical, and cultural data. By applying LOD principles, we can link these scattered resources, creating a more cohesive and accessible network of information.
This talk will briefly cover how LOD can enhance the study of Persian literature by interlinking various datasets, improving data discoverability, and fostering new research opportunities. The focus will be on practical examples of how LOD has been successfully implemented in other literary fields, demonstrating its potential for Persian literary studies.

Speakers

Maede Hajjari

Monday October 7, 2024 10:40am - 10:50am EDT
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Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 1

10:50am EDT

Grant Funding for Linked Humanities Data

Monday October 7, 2024 10:50am - 11:00am EDT

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This brief lightning talk will highlight 2-3 grant programs offered by the National Endowment for the Humanities that have and continue to support efforts to foster linked data infrastructure. From early convenings and experiments, to more recent efforts focused on equitable access to collections, NEH has invested in such work for well over a decade. This snapshot will take the form of an overview and an invitation for conversation with potential applicants.

Speakers

Perry Collins

Senior Program Officer, National Endowment for the Humanities

Monday October 7, 2024 10:50am - 11:00am EDT
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Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 1

11:00am EDT

Bridging the Digital Scriptorium Data Model and Wikidata to Expand Reuse of Manuscript Metadata

Monday October 7, 2024 11:00am - 11:10am EDT

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Due to the complex and unique nature of manuscripts as handwritten objects, there exists no standard cataloging methodology for manuscripts. Institutional metadata contributed to the Digital Scriptorium (DS) Catalog, an online union catalog aggregating manuscript records from institutions across North America, varies in robustness of description, encoding formats, and other elements of data organization. The DS Catalog, therefore, enables the harmonization of diverse institutional descriptions and the broader linked data environment, which includes Wikidata, an open, crowdsourced, global database for structuring data.

Out of a desire for increased discoverability and data reusability, the research team developed a crosswalk from the DS Catalog and Wikidata to address issues of interoperability between metadata schemas and vocabularies by matching semantically equivalent or similar elements or values. In order to upload manuscript records from the DS Catalog to Wikidata, the research team identified ways to map the DS data model, and the manuscript records and data values found in the DS Catalog, to Wikidata. This lightning will provide a brief introduction to the development of this mapping process, the tools used, obstacles encountered, and solutions identified, and the implications for the future of manuscript cataloging and data reuse.

Speakers

Rose McCandless

Manuscript Data Curation Graduate Fellow, University of Denver; Digital Scriptorium

Monday October 7, 2024 11:00am - 11:10am EDT
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Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 1

1:45pm EDT

Monday Panel

Monday October 7, 2024 1:45pm - 2:45pm EDT

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ZOOM PASSCODE: ld4-2024
Afternoon panel consisting of three short talks + questions and answers. Please click on the links to the fuller descriptions of each talk for more details.
From Linked Art to Text and Back Again: An Unsupervised Approach
William Thorne, PhD Candidate, University of Sheffield; National Gallery (London)

Learning Together: Tech Services Linked Data Roundtable
Sasha Frizzell, Catalog/Metadata Management Librarian, Binghamton University

Managing the LOD Ecosystem: Whose Job is it Anyway?
Kelly Davis, Cultural Heritage Data Engineer, Yale University

Speakers

Sasha Frizzell

Catalog/Metadata Management Librarian, Binghamton University

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 →

William Thorne

PhD Candidate, University of Sheffield; National Gallery (London)

I'm Liam, I am studying a joint PhD between the University of Sheffield and the National Gallery (London) into information extraction, organisation and searching of art historical text collections. My key areas of research interest are in reducing computational and data costs of language... Read More →

Monday October 7, 2024 1:45pm - 2:45pm EDT
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Lightning talk, Monday Panel

1:46pm EDT

From Linked Art to Text and Back Again: An Unsupervised Approach

Monday October 7, 2024 1:46pm - 2:05pm EDT

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ZOOM PASSCODE: ld4-2024
The intersection of human understanding and machine processing in cultural heritage presents a fundamental challenge: humans naturally express their interpretations through textual descriptions, while machines reason most reliably over structured data.

Whilst researchers, developers and the public need data to be available in numerous formats, manual translation requires time and intimate knowledge of the data and chosen ontology; machine learning approaches generally require numerous paired training examples to perform well.

However, large quantities of linked-data and natural language samples already exist separately. We use cycle-consistency training, an unsupervised approach for learning bidirectional translation between linked-data and natural language. Using two sequence-to-sequence language models and two unpaired datasets, we learn to align their feature spaces through iterative back-translation: one model generates a synthetic example as input to a second model, which attempts to recreate the real, original input data to the first model. Once trained, these models may be used to translate arbitrary data from one representation to the other. This approach has already been shown to be incredibly effective in a graph-to-text setting (Q. Gou et al., 2020) but is yet to be applied in cultural heritage.

This presentation gives an overview of the datasets, the key differences between them, and the implications this has for the task of translation, particularly with respect to our training paradigm. I will then close with some proposed remedies before opening up to questions.

I look forward to seeing you all there!

Speakers

William Thorne

PhD Candidate, University of Sheffield; National Gallery (London)

Monday October 7, 2024 1:46pm - 2:05pm EDT
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Lightning talk, Monday Panel

2:05pm EDT

Learning Together: Tech Services Linked Data Roundtable

Monday October 7, 2024 2:05pm - 2:25pm EDT

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ZOOM PASSCODE: ld4-2024
In January 2024, the Technical Services team at Binghamton University launched an informal, monthly linked data study group. These meetings create space to discuss, research, and ask open questions about linked data projects and how they could be integrated into our daily workflows. This lightning talk will explain what the group formation looked like, our initial plans, how those plans changed, and what we hope to accomplish in the future.

Speakers

Sasha Frizzell

Catalog/Metadata Management Librarian, Binghamton University

Monday October 7, 2024 2:05pm - 2:25pm EDT
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Lightning talk, Monday Panel

2:25pm EDT

Managing the LOD Ecosystem: Whose Job is it Anyway?

Monday October 7, 2024 2:25pm - 2:45pm EDT

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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.

Speakers

Kelly Davis

Cultural Heritage Data Engineer, Yale University

Monday October 7, 2024 2:25pm - 2:45pm EDT
Zoom

Lightning talk, Monday Panel

9:45am EDT

Lightning Talks 2

Tuesday October 8, 2024 9:45am - 10:15am EDT

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ZOOM PASSCODE IS: ld4-2024
Morning session with two short talks + questions and answers. Please click on the links to the fuller descriptions of each talk for more details.

9:45AM-9:55AM: Wikidata, Wikibase & Libraries: a 2024 update
Alan Ang, Senior Partner Manager, Wikimedia Deutschland

9:55AM-10:05AM: Application of Linked Open Data in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums in Nigeria
Grace Temilolu Ikenna, Researcher, University of Ibadan / State House Abuja

10:05AM-10:15AM: Questions and discussion

Speakers

Grace Temilolu Ikenna

Researcher, University of Ibadan / State House Abuja

I am a simple and forward thinking person.Authors BiographyI am Grace Temilolu Ikenna, Researcher at the State House Abuja, Nigeria. I am also a Doctoral student at Department of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. I have an active research interest... Read More →

Alan Ang

Senior Partner Manager, Wikimedia Deutschland

As a partner manager within the Software Communication team in the software development department at Wikimedia Deutschland, I work on data partnerships related to Wikidata and Wikibase. The data partnerships team works with a range of institutions from the GLAM (galleries, libraries... Read More →

Tuesday October 8, 2024 9:45am - 10:15am EDT
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Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 2

9:46am EDT

Wikidata, Wikibase & Libraries: a 2024 update

Tuesday October 8, 2024 9:46am - 9:55am EDT

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ZOOM PASSCODE IS: ld4-2024
In 2024, Wikidata is arguably the world's largest open data knowledge graph, with more than 100m data items. It is also the most edited Wikimedia project, with about 25,000 active editors per month. Wikibase, the software that powers Wikidata, enables users to create their own "mini-Wikidata" and be connected to the Linked Open Data web.

At this Lightning Talk session, we will share an overview of how some libraries are interacting with Wikidata and Wikibase in 2024 as part of their LOD efforts.

Speakers

Alan Ang

Senior Partner Manager, Wikimedia Deutschland

Tuesday October 8, 2024 9:46am - 9:55am EDT
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Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 2

9:55am EDT

Application of Linked Open Data in Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums in Nigeria

Tuesday October 8, 2024 9:55am - 10:05am EDT

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ZOOM PASSCODE IS: ld4-2024
Linked Open Data (LOD) is a combination of linked and open data that is sharable, extensible, and easily re-usable. It is a type of structured information which is available to users of Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) in Nigeria. However, not many GLAM institutions in Nigeria have applied LOD in their services delivery to their users.
The paper reviewed the application of LOD in GLAM in Nigeria, and reported that some benefits may be ensued in its use in services delivery which includes: creation of artificial intelligence models; scheming new tools to support machine learning; and combination of many different types of data; The paper also identified some major threats to the application of LOD in GLAM institutions in Nigeria which may include but not limited to the followings: cost, technology, infrastructural facilities, obsolete and incompleteness of data, skilled manpower etc.
The paper concluded that, the application of LOD in GLAM in Nigeria will promotes the accessibility of data, improved efficiency and effectiveness, foster innovation thereby inproving services delivery in GLAM institutions in Nigeria. A recommendation was provided that, all GLAM or heritage institutions in Nigeria should use and incorporate Linked Open Data in service delivery to their users.

Speakers

Grace Temilolu Ikenna

Researcher, University of Ibadan / State House Abuja

Tuesday October 8, 2024 9:55am - 10:05am EDT
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Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 2

1:00pm EDT

Lightning Talks 3

Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT

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

1:00PM-1:10PM: Open Repositories: the case of Wikibase
Carla Toro, Community Support Officer, Wikimedia Chile

1:10PM-1:20PM: Saying goodbye: When to sunset a community group or walk away from a project
Esther Jackson, Scholarly Communication Technologies Librarian, Columbia University

1:20PM-1:30PM: Let’s talk about the ‘Work’!
Myung-Ja (MJ) Han
Greta Heng, Cataloging and Metadata Strategies Librarian, San Diego State University
Tricia Lampron (she/her), Cataloging and Metadata Librarian, University of California Irvine

1:30PM-1:45PM: Questions and discussion

Speakers

Myung-Ja (MJ) Han

Metadata Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

MJ is the Professor/Metadata Librarian at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on interoperability of metadata, metadata modeling, bibliographic control in the digital library, and the use of Linked Open Data in library service architectures and im... Read More →

Esther Jackson

Scholarly Communication Technologies Librarian, Columbia University

Greta Heng

Cataloging and Metadata Strategies Librarian, San Diego State University

Carla Toro

Training and Tech Products, Wikimedia Chile

Astronomer and Science Communicator. I currently work as Training and Tech Products Lead at Wikimedia Chile.

Tricia Lampron (she/her)

Cataloging and Metadata Librarian, University of California Irvine

Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT
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Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 3

1:01pm EDT

Open Repositories: the case of Wikibase

Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:01pm - 1:10pm EDT

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We will explore the role of Wikibase as a flexible and powerful platform for creating and managing open repositories of linked open data. Wikibase, the software behind Wikidata, provides an adaptable solution for institutions looking to leverage the benefits of linked data in their own datasets. We will examine the key features of Wikibase, its integration with other linked open data initiatives, and real-world use cases demonstrating its impact on data accessibility and interoperability. Attendees will gain insights into how Wikibase can be utilized to enhance their own projects and contribute to the growing ecosystem of linked open data.

Speakers

Carla Toro

Training and Tech Products, Wikimedia Chile

Astronomer and Science Communicator. I currently work as Training and Tech Products Lead at Wikimedia Chile.

Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:01pm - 1:10pm EDT
Zoom

Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 3

1:10pm EDT

Saying goodbye: When to sunset a community group or walk away from a project

Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:10pm - 1:20pm EDT

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With new tools, vocabularies and projects, there is often enthusiasm when it comes to starting a new working or interest group. However, as time goes on, sustainability may become more difficult for a variety of reasons. This lightning talk will have viewers to ask themselves some questions about sustainability in the context of professional, volunteer-led groups, using the LD4 Wikibase Working Group as its model.

Speakers

Esther Jackson

Scholarly Communication Technologies Librarian, Columbia University

Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:10pm - 1:20pm EDT
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Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 3

1:20pm EDT

Let’s talk about the ‘Work’!

Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:20pm - 1:30pm EDT

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The concept of "Work" differs across reference models currently being used in library spaces, complicating the implementation of linked data creation in our catalog and metadata management systems. Moving forward toward linked library data will require changes in data storage structure, library systems, cataloging workflows, and several other areas, given the critical role of the "Work" entity in resource sharing, resource management, and discovery. While the general definition of Work is well understood by most, there are still areas where clear expectations regarding what to include at the Work level and how it should be created and managed remain ambiguous. This lightening talk will discuss the current state of Work level data, including granularity and the various data models being used for library metadata, and explore the role of Work level data in our workflows and systems.

Speakers

Myung-Ja (MJ) Han

Metadata Librarian, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Greta Heng

Cataloging and Metadata Strategies Librarian, San Diego State University

Tricia Lampron (she/her)

Cataloging and Metadata Librarian, University of California Irvine

Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:20pm - 1:30pm EDT
Zoom

Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 3

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

11:00am EDT

Lightning Talks 5

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:00am - 11:45am EDT

Zoom

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

11:00AM-11:10AM: Compounding drugs data: developing a drug terms tool for knowledge synthesis projects using linked open data
Tyler Ostapyk, Librarian, WRHA Virtual Library, University of Manitoba

11:10AM-11:20AM: Developing a Spanish-language Homosaurus: Using Multi-language Linked Data to Enhance LGBTQ+ Resource Discoverability
Ernesto Cuba, Postdoctoral fellow, University of Washington, Information School

11:20AM-11:30AM: Controlled Vocabulary Linked Data for Improved Subject Access to LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage Resources
Joseph Dudley, System Librarian, Bryant & Stratton College

11:30AM-11:45AM: Questions and discussion

Speakers

Tyler Ostapyk

Librarian, WRHA Virtual Library, University of Manitoba

Joseph Dudley

System Librarian, Bryant & Stratton College

I am a librarian at Bryant & Stratton College, working virtually to provide reference assistance and technical services to BSC students and faculty in western NY, OH, and WI. We are looking forward to becoming a Linked Data library in order to share our collections across several... Read More →

Ernesto Cuba

Postdoctoral fellow, University of Washington, Information School

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:00am - 11:45am EDT
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Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 5

11:01am EDT

Compounding drugs data: developing a drug terms tool for knowledge synthesis projects using linked open data

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:01am - 11:10am EDT

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For knowledge synthesis projects such as systematic reviews it is necessary to build a literature search strategy that is broad enough to capture all available literature on a research topic. For research involving pharmaceutical interventions this often requires identifying the various brand names and synonyms used for a particular drug. This is typically done through a combination of discussion with experts in the field, an investigation of terms used in existing literature, and a manual examination of various thesauri.

With the objective of saving searchers time when building their list of search terms, the author has developed a tool that queries various linked data sources including Wikidata, RxNorm, MeSH, and PubChem. Using the results of the query, the tool then produces a search string that can be directly input into bibliographic databases such as Ovid Medline or CINAHL. Although the intention is for this tool to be as comprehensive as possible, restrictive access policies and fees for API use have prevented the inclusion of some authoritative data sources for drug terms. These barriers to access have proved challenging and may limit the effectiveness of the tool.

Speakers

Tyler Ostapyk

Librarian, WRHA Virtual Library, University of Manitoba

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:01am - 11:10am EDT
Zoom

Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 5

11:10am EDT

Developing a Spanish-language Homosaurus: Using Multi-language Linked Data to Enhance LGBTQ+ Resource Discoverability

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:10am - 11:20am EDT

Zoom

In this lightning talk, I will present the ongoing implementation of the Spanish Homosaurus project, an international linked open data (LOD) vocabulary of Spanish LGBTQ+ terms that supports improved access to LGBTQ+ resources within cultural heritage institutions––libraries, archives, and museums––worldwide. The Spanish Homosaurus is further situated within the landscape of multi-language description and, in particular, efforts to move beyond the monolingualism and Anglocentrism of library and information studies practice. Phase one of this LOD project involved developing an initial Spanish vocabulary based on one-to-one translation of terms included in the (original English) Homosaurus, whose first version dates back to 2013. This stage also covered the Spanish Homosaurus platform development and relationship building between library and archives partners and the project team. In this brief talk, I will delve into the activities of the current second phase of the project, which aims to add new terms beyond Standard Spanish-translated terms, concretely, community-preferred, colloquial language employed in Spain and the 19 predominantly Spanish-speaking Latin American countries. Phase two entails including culturally specific LGBTQ+ terms drawing from the collections of the Spanish Homosaurus partners. I will conclude with remarks about the challenges and opportunities for information science professionals in carrying out the Spanish Homosaurus.

Speakers

Ernesto Cuba

Postdoctoral fellow, University of Washington, Information School

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:10am - 11:20am EDT
Zoom

Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 5

11:20am EDT

Controlled Vocabulary Linked Data for Improved Subject Access to LGBTQ+ Cultural Heritage Resources

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:20am - 11:30am EDT

Zoom

This lightning talk will review the Homosaurus project, an international controlled vocabulary of LGBTQ+ terms expressed as linked data and designed to supplement broad subject term vocabularies such as the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). The talk will review the vocabulary’s beginnings as a term list to describe resources in the Dutch language Homodoc bibliographic database in the 1980s, its translation to English in 1997 as the Queer Thesaurus, and its later conversion into Homosaurus version 1 (2013) and release as a linked data vocabulary (2015), which dramatically increased accessibility by allowing GLAM institutions around the world to access a standardized LGBTQ+ vocabulary. The talk will also review the current international usage of the Homosaurus (over 50 GLAM institutions in 11 countries), its approval for use in MARC bibliographic records using the source code HomeIT, and its support of the LGBTQ+ student and research communities by serving as a counterpoint to larger subject vocabularies which may contain outdated terms and thus contribute to biased search practices.

Speakers

Joseph Dudley

System Librarian, Bryant & Stratton College

Thursday October 10, 2024 11:20am - 11:30am EDT
Zoom

Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 5

3:45pm EDT

Lightning Talks 6

Friday October 11, 2024 3:45pm - 4:30pm EDT

Zoom

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

3:45PM-3:55PM: Integration of the Share Family Entity Editor and the Alma ILS
Jim Hahn, Head of Metadata Research, Penn Libraries

3:55PM-4:05PM: Assessing data quality of Linked Open Data in Cultural Heritage institutions
Meltem Dişli, Research Assistant, Hacettepe University, Department of Information Management
Gustavo Candela, Developer and researcher, Universidad de Alicante

4:05PM-4:15PM: Technology adoption of Linked Data in Libraries: A Case study in Taiwan
Hui-Yu Hsiung, doctoral student, University of North Texas

4:15PM-4:30PM: Questions and discussion

Speakers

Jim Hahn

Head of Metadata Research, Penn Libraries

Gustavo Candela

Developer and researcher, Universidad de Alicante

Hui-Yu Hsiung

doctoral student, University of North Texas

Meltem Dişli

Research Assistant, Hacettepe University, Department of Information Management

Friday October 11, 2024 3:45pm - 4:30pm EDT
Zoom

Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 6

3:46pm EDT

Integration of the Share Family Entity Editor and the Alma ILS

Friday October 11, 2024 3:46pm - 3:55pm EDT

Zoom

The Alma ILS supports both MARC and BIBFRAME data formats and includes a RESTful API for their customers to use in creating and editing BIBFRAME Work and BIBFRAME Instance data in Alma. Building on prior API driven integrations (https://youtu.be/Q0-ABLG4dyQ ) of linked data editors and the Alma ILS, this presentation will explore the opportunities of connecting BIBFRAME data in Alma to entity management software from the Share Family LOD Platform technology.

The JCricket entity editor is a manual entity editor from the Share Family designed to facilitate the management, editing and creation of entities for bibliographic and authority data. Within their discovery system, the Penn Libraries is planning on displaying work clusters that are retrieved from the Share LOD Platform APIs (https://upenn.box.com/s/k4fxbnez5zuelpk3xohp0q9xq0uqw16x ). Therefore, there is a need for catalogers to have the ability to curate or otherwise align data from the Alma ILS with LOD Platform clusters. A related tie-in that will be explored in this presentation is the ability for new BIBFRAME resources that are stored in the Alma system at Penn to be immediately reflected in the clustering available from LOD Platform APIs.

Speakers

Jim Hahn

Head of Metadata Research, Penn Libraries

Friday October 11, 2024 3:46pm - 3:55pm EDT
Zoom

Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 6

3:55pm EDT

Assessing data quality of Linked Open Data in Cultural Heritage institutions

Friday October 11, 2024 3:55pm - 4:05pm EDT

Zoom

Assessing data quality of Linked Open Data in Cultural Heritage institutions

Dişli, Meltem & Candela, Gustavo

Cultural Heritage (CH) institutions have been exploring new ways to make their digital collections available. New initiatives have emerged to promote computational access and reuse in innovative ways in which high-quality data is essential. This session will present a reproducible approach to assessing data quality in Linked Open Data (LOD) repositories made available by CH institutions. The session includes an overview of the importance of assessing LOD quality, followed by a concise introduction to the data quality criteria, which are based on a literature review, the existing vocabularies used to describe data quality, and how Jupyter Notebook can be used to assess LOD repositories in a reproducible manner. The primary aim of this session is to facilitate best practices and guidelines in order to assess the data quality of LOD repositories, ensuring their broader adoption and reproducibility.

Speakers

Gustavo Candela

Developer and researcher, Universidad de Alicante

Meltem Dişli

Research Assistant, Hacettepe University, Department of Information Management

Friday October 11, 2024 3:55pm - 4:05pm EDT
Zoom

Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 6

4:05pm EDT

Technology adoption of Linked Data in Libraries: A Case study in Taiwan

Friday October 11, 2024 4:05pm - 4:15pm EDT

Zoom

The application of Linked Data in libraries is not new. Libraries have started to take advantage of Linked Data for increased visibility and availability of their resources on the Web. For libraries, adopting linked data principles initiates a transformation moving bibliographic data away from library-specific MARC format to new web-based formats. While Linked Data is considered the necessary next step to make library resources more robust and easier to access, the reality of full Linked Data adoption is still far from ideal even with its promising benefits. Most empirical literature on Linked Data for libraries offers a landscape view of the rationale for Linked Data adoption and how to publish library bibliographic data as Linked Data. The majority of Linked Data initiatives occur in North America and Europe. Research on the library use of Linked Data in Asia, particularly in Taiwan, is limited. This study looks at the current state of Linked Data implementation among Taiwan academic libraries. An investigation is conducted to understand library professionals’ perceptions of Linked Data and their attitudes toward engaging in Linked Data implementation. In addition, by utilizing the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) framework, this study is also to identify what factors influence library professionals’ intention to use Linked Data technologies in transforming library bibliographic data into Linked Data to connect library resources with many other resources on the Web.

Speakers

Hui-Yu Hsiung

doctoral student, University of North Texas

Friday October 11, 2024 4:05pm - 4:15pm EDT
Zoom

Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 6

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