LD4 2024 Conference: Full Schedule

9:00am EDT

Opening Session

Monday October 7, 2024 9:00am - 9:30am EDT

Introduction to the conference, including conference technology platforms, communication channels, formats, social opportunities, code of conduct, and more!

Speakers

Mohammed Awal Alhassan

Outreach and Campaigns manager, Dagbani Wikimedians User Group

Monday October 7, 2024 9:00am - 9:30am EDT
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Opening Session

9:30am EDT

Building a Semantic Knowledge Graph at National Library Board Singapore

Monday October 7, 2024 9:30am - 10:15am EDT

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In December 2022 the National Library Board Singapore (NLB) launched a continuously updated, Linked Data based, Semantic Knowledge Graph (KG) to manage and aggregate resources from their library, authority, National Archives, and content management systems. The design of the data, and operational architecture of the KG, based upon the BIBFRAME and Schema.org vocabularies, took a unique approach to the management and cataloguing of data about library resources. It did not seek to change or replace established cataloging systems or processes, to facilitate the introduction of a linked data KG. These remain unchanged in the source systems. The creation of linked data entities and descriptions from source, resides in the daily import pipeline processes of the KG. This results in the dual benefits of not requiring the introduction of new end to end systems, or the disruption to current cataloging practices. It also separates the concerns of linked data entitity management into the KG system. Developments have continued since the successful launch. Utilising the data and functionality from the KG for sharing across the web and embedding in other NLB hosted services. Additionally, processes have been implemented to use external authority services, such as the Library of Congress Name Authority File, to enrich and improve the data quality of KG entities. Richard will review the architecture, its benefits and challenges plus advancements made since the initial launch of the system.

Speakers

Richard Wallis

Founder, Data Liberate

Monday October 7, 2024 9:30am - 10:15am EDT
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Presentation

10:30am EDT

Lightning Talks 1

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

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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

12:00pm EDT

OCLC Virtual Booth

Monday October 7, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

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ZOOM PASSCODE IS: ld4-2024
Jeff Mixter, Senior Product Manager of linked data at OCLC, will discuss topics related to OCLC work in linked data and answer any questions about linked data use in the library community today and into the future. Linked data resources will also be available to help educate and inform of OCLC’s linked data initiatives.

Speakers

Jeff Mixter

Sr. Product Manager, OCLC

Jeff Mixter works as a Sr. Product Manager at OCLC and oversees Linked Data products and services.

Monday October 7, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
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Virtual Booth

1:00pm EDT

Unlocking WNYC's On the Line: Creating Cataloging Tools to Make Human Review Efficient and Intentional

Monday October 7, 2024 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT

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ZOOM PASSCODE IS: ld4-2024
Cataloging over 2,000 episodes of On the Line (1989-2002), the predecessor to The Brian Lehrer Show and a highlight in the WNYC collection, offered the opportunity to create new tools for applying linked data. The goal of creating “selector” tools was to create a central view for a variety of inputs, including an original producer database and Library of Congress authority records, each carefully selected based on collection relevance. The selector tools allow efficient and targeted human review, resulting in persistent URLs to be uploaded as XML and affixed to digitized episode audio.
This process allows for efficient cataloging while maintaining ownership over original asset metadata and newly available audio, and resulted in adding 6,000 LCNAF links, creating 3,000 internal authorities, and applying LCSH to more than 9,000 segments. The result is a case study in adding Linked Data to assets at scale, with lessons learned that will go into effect in future collections, as well as a demonstration of the importance of Linked Data to create discoverability and inspire trust through accuracy. This presentation will share the exact steps taken and tools created alongside highlights along the way, with the aim to help series cataloging to be more standardized, thorough, and streamlined.

Speakers

Marcos Sueiro Bal

Archive Manager, New York Public Radio

Our stations' are nearly a century old, so there is a wide variety of quality in both metadata and audio.My focus has been on normalization of metadata (within and across platforms), as well as data augmentation via APIs and Linked Data. For example, we are developing tools that analyze... Read More →

Martha Ball

Project Cataloger, New York Public Radio

Monday October 7, 2024 1:00pm - 1:45pm EDT
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Presentation

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
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Lightning talk, Monday Panel

3:00pm EDT

Mobile Subjects in Linked Open Data: Biases and Gaps in Identity and Representation

Monday October 7, 2024 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT

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Mobile Subjects, Contrapuntal Modernisms investigates the circulation of artists from the decolonizing world through the colonial and artistic capitals of London and Paris. It examines and compares London and Paris as contrapuntal capitals of decolonizing empires that functioned as critical meeting places, anti-colonial hubs, and sites of exchange after WWII due to postwar mass migration. The project addresses the invisibility of overseas artists in histories of art through computational methods revealing their connections and intersections.

The relational database built for this project has been modeled upon CIDOC CRM ontology and establishes an event-based schema that connects people (or actors as defined by the CRM) to each other and defines their identities and social relationships, including racial identity, citizenship, gender, social class, political affiliations, language(s) used, and belonging to artistic groups. We decided to adopt an “universally” recognised ontology for the benefits of data integration and exchange with GLAM institutions and other art history projects. However, we are increasingly aware of the epistemological biases and knowledge gaps present in the CIDOC CRM. In this lightning talk we will discuss our work, focusing on the classes and properties that need to be addressed to better represent the identities of artists, and review existing efforts to tackle elements of this issue in other ontologies and CIDOC CRM extensions.

Speakers

Janneke Van Hoeve

PhD Student, Carleton University

I am in my first year of studying for my PhD in Cultural Mediations at Carleton University. My research on the international “Art Bank” model uses data to examine difficult histories in public art collections.My recent MA thesis work: ARTiculating Canadian Identities (padlet... Read More →

Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja

Carleton University and University of the Arts London

Maribel Hidalgo Urbaneja is a postdoctoral researcher working on the Worlding Public Cultures research project at the University of the Arts London and on the Mobile Subjects. Contrapuntal Modernisms research project at Carleton University in Canada. Her research interests span digital... Read More →

Monday October 7, 2024 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
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Presentation

3:45pm EDT

Yale's LUX: a New Paradigm in Cross-Collections Discovery

Monday October 7, 2024 3:45pm - 4:30pm EDT

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Launched in June 2023, LUX: Yale Collections Discovery represents a groundbreaking shift in the conversation around linked data within the cultural heritage sector. As the largest cross-collections linked data portal in the U.S., LUX consolidates records from eight distinct Yale units: the Yale Center for British Art, Yale University Art Gallery, Peabody Museum, Yale University Library System, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Paul Mellon Centre, Yale Collection of Musical Instruments, and the Yale Campus Art Collection. These units span a wide array of cultural heritage domains, and LUX integrates their records into a unified search and discovery portal.
This presentation will provide an overview of how LUX operates, exploring both the technical infrastructure and the collaborative, social processes that were essential to its development. We’ll delve into what was required to build this comprehensive portal and how the work has influenced cataloging and access methodologies across the participating units.
Additionally, the session will include a live demonstration of the platform, showcasing its powerful features and illustrating how LUX contributes to the expansion of the cultural heritage knowledge graph. While focusing on the platform’s capabilities, the presentation will also touch upon the challenges encountered during implementation, particularly in areas of data quality and reconciliation.

Speakers

Kelly Davis

Cultural Heritage Data Engineer, Yale University

Monday October 7, 2024 3:45pm - 4:30pm EDT
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Presentation

4:45pm EDT

LD4 Rare Materials Affinity Group

Monday October 7, 2024 4:45pm - 5:30pm EDT

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Join the LD4 Rare Materials Affinity Group (RMAG | https://github.com/LD4/rare-materials) to learn more about our group activities and programing and contribute to an informal discussion regarding community needs for a revision of the Art and Rare Materials (ARM) BIBFRAME Ontology Extension | https://github.com/Art-and-Rare-Materials-BF-Ext/arm. The session will include a short presentation on the history of ARM and plans for a new joint task force to review the ontology. Then the floor will be open for discussion.

Speakers

Paloma Graciani Picardo

Metadata Librarian, Harry Ransom Center

Metadata Librarian at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, where I oversee the creation and management of MARC-based cataloging and develop metadata strategies to enhance access and discovery of rare and unique materials. Working collaboratively across departments... Read More →

Gioia Stevens

Librarian for Specialized Cataloging, New York University Libraries

Monday October 7, 2024 4:45pm - 5:30pm EDT
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Affinity Group

5:30pm EDT

Monday Social Hour

Monday October 7, 2024 5:30pm - 6:00pm EDT

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Monday October 7, 2024 5:30pm - 6:00pm EDT
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Social Hour

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

10:30am EDT

LCCNbot: Creating connections between the Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) and Wikidata

Tuesday October 8, 2024 10:30am - 11:15am EDT

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ZOOM PASSCODE IS: ld4-2024
In early 2024 Matt Miller, Steven Folsom, and Mary Campany deployed LCCNbot, a Wikidata bot that adds Library of Congress authority identifiers to Wikidata items. Since the bot began running it has made more than 10,000 edits and has facilitated the correction and de-duplication of many LCNAF records. This presentation will focus on the work of a team of volunteers who correct errors the bot identifies, their impact on both Wikidata and the Library of Congress authority file, and potential next steps for improving linked data connections between these systems and others that are used by the library linked data community.

Speakers

Elizabeth Plantz

Cataloger, National Library of Medicine

Crystal Yragui

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

Mary Muratsubaki Campany

Authorities Metadata Librarian, Cornell University Library

Sasha Frizzell

Catalog/Metadata Management Librarian, Binghamton University

Kelly Davis

Cultural Heritage Data Engineer, Yale University

Tuesday October 8, 2024 10:30am - 11:15am EDT
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Presentation

11:15am EDT

Tangible advancements in linked data: What we’ve achieved over the past year

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT

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ZOOM PASSCODE IS: ld4-2024
OCLC has worked closely with the library community to make significant advancements in linked data over the past year. This includes the improvement and enrichment of data; the development of linked data applications and services; enhancements to the infrastructure and technologies that support linked data; and growth in our knowledge and understanding of the future of library metadata.

Both libraries and OCLC have invested an increasing amount of time and resources in making these achievements possible. There is growing recognition that linked data—when built upon thoughtfully and collaboratively—can provide a means to solve a variety of library challenges.

In this session, we’ll dive into the tangible advancements in linked data OCLC has made over the past year that have afforded opportunities for libraries to participate in a linked data future, and how community engagement has informed and guided these advancements. We’ll articulate the widespread benefits of recent data enrichment initiatives; showcase new linked data applications as well as enhancements to existing metadata management tools; and share near-term goals that will continue driving the library community forward.

Regardless of where a library lies on its linked data journey, there is room to learn, experiment, practice, grow, and innovate together.

Speakers

Jeff Mixter

Sr. Product Manager, OCLC

Jeff Mixter works as a Sr. Product Manager at OCLC and oversees Linked Data products and services.

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:15am - 12:00pm EDT
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Presentation

12:00pm EDT

Midday Break

Tuesday October 8, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

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Tuesday October 8, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
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Break

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
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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
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Lightning talk, Lightning Talks 3

1:45pm EDT

Linked Data and Anthropological Archives: Learning from Motives Across Disciplines

Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:45pm - 2:30pm EDT

Zoom

Anthropology is a multidisciplinary field relying on a rich and diverse base of evidence, including manuscripts, photographs, cultural belongings, physical specimens—and the data derived from all of these. As anthropologists and archives work to make anthropological evidence and data more broadly accessible and useful, the field seeks to draw inspiration from and connect to relevant collections and data infrastructures across many disciplines. While linked data has gained momentum in cultural heritage, we know less about how it is deployed in other fields that intersect with anthropology—particularly to represent primary sources, ranging from manuscripts to specimens, across the sciences and social sciences. In this lightning talk, we discuss the findings of a recent systematic review exploring the use of primary sources and linked data derived from them in the sciences and social sciences. We share what we’ve learned about the range of linked data projects across disciplines and the motives that drive them. We aim to engage our audience in dialog about new project leads, disciplinary differences, and other considerations that shape the future of linked data in anthropology.

Speakers

Katrina Fenlon

Assistant professor, University of Maryland College of Information

Nikki Wise

PhD Student, University of Maryland

Diana Marsh

University of Maryland College of Information

Tuesday October 8, 2024 1:45pm - 2:30pm EDT
Zoom

Presentation

2:45pm EDT

The cataloger is always right: a user-centered approach for designing and building the linked data editor in FOLIO

Tuesday October 8, 2024 2:45pm - 3:30pm EDT

Zoom

In 2025 - scheduled for the Sunflower release - FOLIO will launch a new linked data editor that will provide libraries with the ability to catalog and manage collections as linked data. The talk will focus on UX research conducted early on with catalogers and how learnings informed design decisions for the application. Moving cataloging operations away from MARC will require significant change management planning. Anticipating this, a key objective for the project was designing an environment that catalogers could intuitively “recognize” in order to facilitate adoption. The presentation will outline some of these challenges and conclude with a demo of the application.

Speakers

Gloria Gonzalez

Senior Product Manager for Linked Data Innovation, EBSCO

I work on data graphs for public, academic, and government libraries at EBSCO. As Senior Product Manager for Linked Data, I help libraries create new ways for people to find what they have.My work with linked data started in 2011 with a visualization tool called Viewshare at the Library... Read More →

Douglas Loynes

Product Owner, ESBCO Information Services

Joined EBSCO 2023, to head up project for adding support for linked data cataloging in FOLIO. Previously with OCLC, holding positions in product management and business development.Based in Columbus OH

Tuesday October 8, 2024 11:45am - 12:30pm PDT
Zoom

Presentation

3:30pm EDT

Dynamic Mapping using Collaborative Knowledge Graphs: A SPARQL Workflow for Real-Time SKOS Mapping from Wikidata

Tuesday October 8, 2024 3:30pm - 4:15pm EDT

Zoom

This presentation introduces an advanced workflow for semantic data management, centered around SPARQL CONSTRUCT queries to map live data from Wikidata to SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) concepts. As part of this workflow, we introduce CSV-2-RDF-Converter, a Python program that converts a CSV output from executed Wikidata queries into RDF triples, serialized in the .nt format. This tool enables the integration of structured tabular data into your organization's semantic web applications, linked data environments, and knowledge graphs. The presentation will highlight the efficiency and scalability of dynamically constructing RDF graphs from live data sources, emphasizing the benefits of real-time data retrieval, enhanced interoperability, and consistent data mapping. We will also discuss key considerations for optimizing query performance and end with a live demonstration of the workflow.

Speakers

Darnelle Melvin

Special Collections and Archives Metadata Librarian & Associate Professor, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Darnelle Melvin is the Special Collections and Archives Metadata Librarian and an Associate Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, where he is the lead metadata and Semantic Web strategist responsible for managing metadata activities such as largescale remediation projects... Read More →

Tuesday October 8, 2024 3:30pm - 4:15pm EDT
Zoom

Presentation

4:30pm EDT

LD4 Wikidata Affinity Group: Ethical Description of Humans on Wikidata: Panel & Community Discussion

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT

Zoom

Many of our most fruitful Wikidata projects involve creating items for humans. This session will offer several case studies of ethical considerations that emerge when describing humans in a public and open forum like Wikidata, some discussion of compiling best practices relating to creating identity-based statements, and a robust community discussion on these topics.

Session Leader: Mara Caelin, Yale University (Wikidata Affinity Group)
Speakers: Dr. Tajah Ebram, Rutgers University; Arielle J. Rodriguez, University of Washington Tacoma; David Fiora, Saint Mary's College

Speakers

Mara Caelin

Catalog/Metadata Librarian, Beinecke Library, Yale University

(she/her)I am a rare books cataloger and the metadata lead for the Black Bibliography Project, a Wikibase project that seeks to create a linked data platform for the search and discovery of bibliographic metadata for African American literature. I am also active in the LD4 Wikidata... Read More →

Tajah Ebram

Rutgers University

David Fiora

Saint Mary's College

Hello! My name is David Fiora, and I am the Electronic Resources Librarian at Saint Mary's College (IN).

Arielle Rodriguez

University of Washington

Tuesday October 8, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm EDT
Zoom

Affinity Group

5:30pm EDT

Tuesday Social Hour

Tuesday October 8, 2024 5:30pm - 6:00pm EDT

Zoom

Tuesday October 8, 2024 5:30pm - 6:00pm EDT
Zoom

Social Hour

9:00am EDT

Collaborative Enhancements in Linked Data: Ex Libris and Community Efforts

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

Zoom

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

10:45am 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

Zoom

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

2:45pm 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

4:30pm 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

9:00am EDT

Empowering Lexicographical Data Contributions on Wikidata with Lexica

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:00am - 10:00am EDT

Zoom

In this session, participants will explore the fascinating world of lexicographical data on Wikidata and discover how they can contribute meaningfully using Lexica, a tool specifically designed to facilitate micro-edits to Lexemes directly from mobile devices. The workshop will begin with a concise introduction to lexicographical data, providing context and understanding of its importance in documenting and preserving languages. Following this, we will dive into Lexica, demonstrating its features and guiding participants through the process of linking Lexemes to Items on Wikidata. This hands-on session aims to empower attendees with the knowledge and tools needed to make impactful contributions to Wikidata's lexicographical data, whether they are seasoned contributors or new to the field. By the end of the session, participants will be equipped with practical skills to use Lexica for enriching language data on Wikidata.

Speakers

Raisha Abdillah

Project Lead, Wikidata Software Collaboration Indonesia

Thursday October 10, 2024 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
Zoom

Workshop

10:00am EDT

Disclosing Linked Open Data at Nieuwe Instituut

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

Zoom

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
Zoom

Presentation

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
Zoom

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

Zoom

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

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

Zoom

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
Zoom

Presentation

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

Zoom

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
Zoom

Presentation

3:00pm EDT

Semantic MediaWiki as Linked Open Data Platform

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

Zoom

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
Zoom

Presentation

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

Zoom

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 12:45pm - 1:30pm PDT
Zoom

Presentation

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.

Speakers

Heather Dunn

Heritage Information Analyst, Canadian Heritage Information Network

Heather Dunn is a Heritage Information Analyst with the Canadian Heritage Information Network, with a focus on museum collections management and documentation.

Trang Dang

IT Technical Advisor, Canadian Heritage Information Network

Trang Dang is an IT Technical Advisor with the Canadian Heritage Network, with a focus on data management and development.

Philippe Michon

Semantic Web Analyst, Canadian Heritage Information Network

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

Presentation

5:15pm EDT

Thursday Social Hour

Thursday October 10, 2024 5:15pm - 6:00pm EDT

Zoom

Thursday October 10, 2024 5:15pm - 6:00pm EDT
Zoom

Social Hour

9:00am EDT

The Multidimensional Steampunk Mixtape: Music Binder’s Volumes Meet Linked Data

Friday October 11, 2024 9:00am - 9:45am EDT

Zoom

The Binders Volumes Research Initiative, funded by a 2023-2025 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, is a pilot project to advance preservation, access, and description of music binder’s volumes. These volumes appeared particularly in the mid-1800s, as compilations of selected sheet music in a way similar to mixtapes compiled about a century and a half later. As products of industrializing societies in the Age of Steam, one might call them “steampunk” mixtapes. The volumes preserve rare works while also capturing the social musical activity of their compilers, and the collections' characteristics as compound works containing notated music bring particular needs and opportunities for description above and beyond current cataloging and metadata practices. The affordances of Linked Data (particularly via SNAC and Wikidata) to further connect this multidimensional “collection of collections” are prominent features in this project, with the aim of maximizing discoverability and uncovering new insights into geographical connections and social and personal networks among musicians, publishers, and compilers. This presentation demonstrates the site in progress for the project, seeking user feedback while hopefully providing a precedent for similar projects in the future.

Speakers

Maristella Feustle

Music Special Collections Librarian, University of North Texas Music Library

Maristella Feustle is the Music Special Collections Librarian at the University of North Texas, and has been the chair of MLA's Archives and Special Collections Committee from 2019-2023. She also serves on the Society of American Archivists' Technical Subcommittee on Describing Archives... Read More →

Friday October 11, 2024 9:00am - 9:45am EDT
Zoom

Presentation

9:45am EDT

Many Projects, One Platform: Renegotiating Semantics Across Knowledge Graphs

Friday October 11, 2024 9:45am - 10:30am EDT

Zoom

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.

Speakers

Karen Li-Lun Hwang (she/her)

Metadata Librarian / Archivist, Semantic Lab / Asian American Arts Centre

Promoting more diverse representation in the historical record.

M. Cristina Pattuelli

Professor, Pratt Institute School of Information

Matt Miller

Linked Data Specialist, Library of Congress

Ava Kaplan

Jessika Davis

Friday October 11, 2024 9:45am - 10:30am EDT
Zoom

Presentation

10:45am EDT

An Introduction to Description Logic

Friday October 11, 2024 10:45am - 11:45am EDT

Zoom

Description Logic provides a formal language for knowledge representation. It is the theoretical base for ontology authoring languages like OWL. They do this by expressing relationships between concepts and individuals in a given domain in a way that can be analyzed by people and algorithms alike. In this talk, I will explain how to read the most commonly used symbols in Description Logic one at a time and then introduce larger expressions. I will go over the core ideas of Description Logic and walk through examples of their usage, including an explanation of a very simple Description Logic called the Attributive Language. After going over Attributive Language, I will cover how extensions to this language add expressivity at the cost of complexity. Finally, I will briefly explain how some of the basics of Description Logic map to OWL to RDF.

Speakers

Alex Berry

Data Engineer, Indiana University

Alex draws on their background in Computer Science, Information Science, Library Science, and work in Free and Open Source Software to help increase the inclusiveness, accessibility, and usage of linked open data by working on both documentation and tooling.

Friday October 11, 2024 10:45am - 11:45am EDT
Zoom

Workshop

12:00pm EDT

Wikidata and Open Data: Enhancing the Hausa Community's Digital Presence

Friday October 11, 2024 12:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

Zoom

This project is aims to increase the visibility and recognition of Hausa peoples on wiki Linkin Data. We tackle challenges like their lack of visibility and the digital divide they face. Our strategy involves creating Wikipedia pages, collaborating with the community to gather accurate information, and promoting digital literacy by providing resources to enhance their digital skills and participation on Hausa Wikipedia.

Speakers

Abubakar Gwanki

Sulaiman Hassan Muhammad

Yusuf Sa'adu

Hausa community

Friday October 11, 2024 12:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
Zoom

Workshop

1:15pm EDT

Building the Nigerian University Libraries for Linked Open Data: The Way Forward in Nigerian University Education

Friday October 11, 2024 1:15pm - 2:00pm EDT

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The lack of literature on integrating Linked Open Data (LOD) within Nigerian university libraries for a transformative opportunity, information accessibility, and interoperability in the digital age, within Nigerian university education is the study import. This paper intends to use the descriptive survey to explore the strategic pathways for building robust University libraries via the library professionals’ perspectives on LOD, focusing on Nigerian universities' unique context and challenges in the digital age.
The collaboration and community building, status, and critical components, with a call for partnerships between academic libraries, research institutions, and other stakeholders in the country will be identified. The paper will investigate the technical infrastructure available in selected university libraries for LOD implementation, including tools, platforms, and integration with existing systems. It will examine the significance of data quality, open data policies, and ethical considerations in publishing and curating LOD. Furthermore, the paper will study strategies for user engagement, sustainability, and long-term planning, for the roadmap to continuous evolution of LOD in Nigerian university libraries.
It should conclude with recommendations for fostering a vibrant LOD community that enhances the discoverability and usability of scholarly resources, ultimately contributing to the advancement of education and research in Nigeria

Speakers

Joseph Olorunsaye

University of Ibadan

Friday October 11, 2024 1:15pm - 2:00pm EDT
Zoom

Presentation

2:00pm EDT

PCC Sinopia Cataloging Affinity Group: From Pilot to Production: Workflows with Sinopia

Friday October 11, 2024 2:00pm - 2:45pm EDT

Zoom

The PCC Sinopia Cataloging Affinity Group presents a roundtable discussion on different uses and implementations of Sinopia across the spectrum of library linked data workflows. We will discuss testing, pilot, and production workflows and the challenges and opportunities that present themselves. Joanna Fuchs (Brandeis University), PCC Sinopia Cataloging Affinity Group co-convener, will moderate a discussion between TJ Kao (University of California, Davis), Margarita Perez Martinez (University of Miami Law), Kalli Mathios and Jeremy Nelson (Stanford University), Joe Cera and Michael Lindsay (University of California, Berkeley Law), and Jim Hahn (University of Pennsylvania).

Speakers

Joe Cera

Librarian, University of California, Berkeley Law

Jeremy Nelson

Software Engineer, Stanford University

Jim Hahn

Head of Metadata Research, Penn Libraries

TJ Kao

Head of Metadata Creation, University of California, Davis

Margarita Perez Martinez

Metadata Librarian / IR Manager, University of Miami Law School

Kalli Mathios

Linked Data Community Outreach Librarian, Stanford Libraries

Joanna Fuchs

Brandeis University

Michael Lindsay

University of California, Berkeley Law

Friday October 11, 2024 2:00pm - 2:45pm EDT
Zoom

Affinity Group

3:00pm EDT

Designing Blue Core: Enabling Scalable, Collaborative Linked Data for Libraries

Friday October 11, 2024 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT

Zoom

Blue Core, a collaboration that envisions a shared linked data environment to bring BIBFRAME cataloging to production, was introduced as the natural evolution of the Mellon Foundation-funded Linked Data for Production (LD4P) projects. In this presentation, we will discuss efforts to shift from established local copying and editing workflows to truly shared, collaborative linked data cataloging and community-based practices that can be scaled across production environments, with open data at its core. We will share our progress, and present the opportunities and challenges uncovered during the planning phases of work between 2023 and 2024. We will also present recent developments, ongoing questions, and look to the community for feedback.

Speakers

Kalli Mathios

Linked Data Community Outreach Librarian, Stanford Libraries

Friday October 11, 2024 3:00pm - 3:45pm EDT
Zoom

Presentation

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