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Wikimedia And Beyond: Linked Data Projects In Minnesota, Greta Bahnemann, Theresa Berger, Bri Krumwiede, Sara Ring, Heidi J. Southworth
Wikimedia And Beyond: Linked Data Projects In Minnesota, Greta Bahnemann, Theresa Berger, Bri Krumwiede, Sara Ring, Heidi J. Southworth
Library Services Publications
How many linked data conference sessions have you attended where the benefits of linked data to libraries were discussed, with the ultimate goal of leading to better visibility for libraries? These sessions likely mentioned research initiatives at large, well-resourced institutions such as the Library of Congress and OCLC Research. But then the post-conference reality sets in and linked data applications in the real world seem almost unattainable. Join us to learn about some of the more approachable and practical implementations of linked data in libraries. We have discovered that one of the best ways to learn about the impact of …
Linked Data Via Vivaldi: A Musical Journey From Wikidata To The Library Catalog, Emma Clarkson, Steven Folsom, Huda Khan, Kevin Kishimoto, Astrid Usong, Rachel Evans
Linked Data Via Vivaldi: A Musical Journey From Wikidata To The Library Catalog, Emma Clarkson, Steven Folsom, Huda Khan, Kevin Kishimoto, Astrid Usong, Rachel Evans
Presentations
In collaboration with the Music Library Association Linked Data Working Group (MLA LDWG), and as part of the Linked Data for Production: Closing the Loop (LD4P3) grant, Cornell University and Stanford University explored the integration of Wikidata properties describing musical works into a Cornell library catalog prototype. In this presentation, we will briefly describe the MLA LDWG’s project to add thematic catalog codes and other information to musical works represented in Wikidata. We will review the design, development, and usability testing of a Cornell library catalog prototype that integrated these Wikidata properties.
We will also discuss the specific choices we …
Linked Data, Wikidata And Their Implementations, Sai Deng
Linked Data, Wikidata And Their Implementations, Sai Deng
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
An introductory session on linked data, wikidata and related implementations delivered to participating students for a National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) Major Collaborative Archives Initiative Grant led by Dr. Rosalind J. Beiler in History and Dr. Amy Giroux in Center for Humanities and Digital Research at the University of Central Florida.
Term Circles: Using Linked Data As A Tool To Mitigate Colonial Subject Bias, F. Tim Knight
Term Circles: Using Linked Data As A Tool To Mitigate Colonial Subject Bias, F. Tim Knight
Librarian Publications & Presentations
This paper considers the Canadian Federation of Library Associations (CFLA) recommendation to “decolonize library access and classification” and begins by exploring the difficulty involved when addressing this recommendation working from within a colonial institution that represents a colonial worldview. It compares general characteristics of Western and Indigenous worldviews and considers the affect that these perspectives have on the organization of knowledge and information especially in relation to a controlled subject vocabulary like the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). It presents the “term circle” as a way to mitigate colonial biases by creating a hybrid subject language system using SKOS …
Using The Cataloguing Code Of Ethics Principles For A Retrospective Project Analysis, Angela Yon, Eric Willey
Using The Cataloguing Code Of Ethics Principles For A Retrospective Project Analysis, Angela Yon, Eric Willey
Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library
This study uses the recently released Cataloguing Code of Ethics to evaluate a project which explored how to ethically, efficiently, and accurately add demographic terms for African American authors to catalog records. By reviewing the project through the lens of these principles the authors were able to examine how their practice was ethical in some ways but could have been improved in others. This helped them identify areas of potential improvement in their current and future research and practice and explore ethical difficulties in cataloging resources with records that are used globally, especially in a linked data environment.
Using Linked Data To Mitigate Colonial Subject Bias, F. Tim Knight
Using Linked Data To Mitigate Colonial Subject Bias, F. Tim Knight
Librarian Publications & Presentations
This presentation is inspired by the Truth and Reconciliation Report and Recommendations released by the Canadian Federation of Library Associations in April 2017. With a focus on the “decolonization of library access and classification” in relation to the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH) it presents the term circle as a way to mitigate colonial biases by creating a hybrid subject language system using SKOS RDF/XML in a linked data context. This hybrid system facilitates Indigenous community participation in the control and development of subject metadata and suggests a new role for metadata.
Linked Data For The Real World: Leveraging Metadata For Cataloging, Rachel S. Evans, Robin Fay, Linh Uong
Linked Data For The Real World: Leveraging Metadata For Cataloging, Rachel S. Evans, Robin Fay, Linh Uong
Presentations
Will the promise of linked data actually save us time? How will catalogers and machines work together to streamline recording of data and authority maintenance work, allowing catalogers and metadata practitioners to focus more on data stewardship and less on being data scribes? Will Real World Objects (RWOs) and linked data help bridge the gap between traditional cataloging and the larger semantic web communities of practice, ensuring that library metadata supports our users’ search behaviors, those FRBR User Tasks? Or will it just provide more maintenance work down the road? This session will explore the potential of linked data and …
Worldviews, Term Circles, Linked Data, F. Tim Knight
Worldviews, Term Circles, Linked Data, F. Tim Knight
Librarian Publications & Presentations
The CFLA-FCAB Truth & Reconciliation Report advises that libraries address “structural biases” in knowledge organization. This session explores the effects a Western worldview has on our ability to successfully “integrate Indigenous epistemologies” and decolonize our approaches to knowledge organization, the need for respectful consultation with Indigenous communities, and linked data as a way forward. This session features Camille Callison, Anne Carr-Wiggin and F. Tim Knight and is one of several sessions at OLA SC 2020 concentrating on the respectful decolonization of Canadian libraries.
Be Empowered! Take The 'Scary' Out Of Linked Data, Angela Yon, April K. Anderson-Zorn
Be Empowered! Take The 'Scary' Out Of Linked Data, Angela Yon, April K. Anderson-Zorn
Faculty and Staff Publications – Milner Library
The archives and library community has implemented linked data in recent years. Linked data empowers archivists to connect local data to a global audience using common identifiers and standards. However, due to the high level of institutional requirements that projects typically need with the high barrier of time and resources, many archivists have difficulty incorporating linked data practices into their daily descriptive work.
The Dr. Jo Ann Rayfield Archives at Illinois State University’s Milner Library received the opportunity to digitize a segment of the expansive Ken-Way Studio Photograph Collection. The collection encompasses 120 linear feet and documents the history of …
The Obs/Ts Summit 2020 & Linked Data In Libraries Conference, Rachel S. Evans
The Obs/Ts Summit 2020 & Linked Data In Libraries Conference, Rachel S. Evans
Articles, Chapters and Online Publications
Conference program review of all sessions at the OBS/TS Summit and Linked Data in Libraries Conference.
Viva Linked Data Pilot Project, Rebecca B. French, Steven W. Holloway
Viva Linked Data Pilot Project, Rebecca B. French, Steven W. Holloway
Libraries
JMU Libraries & Educational Technologies participated in a 2017 pilot project with VIVA to present special collections records through a BIBFRAME discovery platform. This poster describes the project's goals, the steps we took to prepare our records for conversion into linked data by Zepheira, and our observations on usability of the discovery layer and the effects on search engine optimization.
The Mystery Of The Schubert Song: The Linked Data Promise, Kimmy Szeto
The Mystery Of The Schubert Song: The Linked Data Promise, Kimmy Szeto
Publications and Research
Linked open data promises global interconnectedness of a vast amount of data. Web technologies promise to lower the barriers to accessing information and to enable knowledge production of massive scale. But can the web of data answer a music reference question? Starting with a seemingly impossible search for a Schubert song, this article describes how linked data technologies could overcome some limitations of catalog searching. However, technical and conceptual challenges are intertwined in the library community’s effort to publish linked data. Through an analysis of contrasting data models, this article offers a linked data reading of medium of performance and …
Overcoming The Challenges Of Implementing Standardized Metadata Practices In A Digital Repository, Sai Deng
Overcoming The Challenges Of Implementing Standardized Metadata Practices In A Digital Repository, Sai Deng
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works
While implementing standards in cataloging digital collections is often a Metadata Librarian’s conscience or inner desire, sometimes it’s a challenge to do so if a system is not built to accommodate such standardized practices. This kind of dilemma is not uncommon in the metadata and digital repository arena. This presentation will address the various challenges in working with metadata in digital repositories such as, name authority control for authors, departments and colleges, type values selection, keywords and subject choices, whether to add linked data URIs to various fields in the records and data discrepancies in harvesting data into the OCLC’s …
Linked Metadata For 3d Models: From Dublin Core To Europeana Data Model, Xiying Mi, Bonita Pollock
Linked Metadata For 3d Models: From Dublin Core To Europeana Data Model, Xiying Mi, Bonita Pollock
Collections and Discovery Faculty and Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
Linked Metadata For 3d Models: From Dublin Core To Europeana Data Model, Xiying Mi, Bonita Pollock, Richard Bernardy
Linked Metadata For 3d Models: From Dublin Core To Europeana Data Model, Xiying Mi, Bonita Pollock, Richard Bernardy
Collections and Discovery Faculty and Staff Publications
No abstract provided.
Untangling Medium Of Performance For The Linked Data Environment, Kimmy Szeto
Untangling Medium Of Performance For The Linked Data Environment, Kimmy Szeto
Publications and Research
Medium of performance is critical for music retrieval and has long been a complex facet of music cataloging. Recent years saw significant strides towards standardizing the vocabulary and encoding medium of performance data in the MARC environment as well as in the linked data environment. In the course of leading the MLA BIBFRAME task force to examine the potentials of expressing, standardizing, and implementing music-related data and data structures, I discovered our handling of medium of performance has not been consistent with respect to the FRBR constructs of “work” and “expression,” as well as the concept of “event.” After the …
Ripples And Triples In The Bibliographic Data Pool : Rda And Linked Data, F. Tim Knight
Ripples And Triples In The Bibliographic Data Pool : Rda And Linked Data, F. Tim Knight
Librarian Publications & Presentations
Beginning with the RDA ripples that are visible on the surface of the bibliographic data pool, this presentation reviews some highlights of the “new” cataloguing rules and explores the shifting perception of bibliographic data as we slowly drift toward a linked data future.
Challenging Classification Bias With Linked Data, Juliya Borie, F. Tim Knight, Jordan Hale
Challenging Classification Bias With Linked Data, Juliya Borie, F. Tim Knight, Jordan Hale
Librarian Publications & Presentations
Can library classification systems find new ways to deal with charges of bias? Can linked data contribute a more inclusive representation of diverse voices and communities? This panel will discuss the inherent biases present in cataloguing and classification, and consider the potential for linked data to provide a space to highlight and explore the challenging political issues that can arise in our work. These include issues related to jurisdiction, territory, and community with examples drawn from legal classification and the classification of cartographic resources.
The Kf Modified Linked Data Project, F. Tim Knight, Sarah Sutherland
The Kf Modified Linked Data Project, F. Tim Knight, Sarah Sutherland
Librarian Publications & Presentations
Libraries have a lot of legacy data to bring to the linked data table. As the potential of the semantic web grows, it’s clear that controlled methods of organization will be critical for its success. This panel discusses two projects to take existing library cataloging and metadata standards and transform them for use as and within Linked Open Data platforms. Tim and Sarah have set out to explore if library classification standards can facilitate and improve semantic navigation as an online controlled vocabulary. They are using a specialized legal classification scheme known as KF Modified. The project has two phases: …
Research Data And Linked Data: A New Future For Technical Services?, Sherry L. Vellucci
Research Data And Linked Data: A New Future For Technical Services?, Sherry L. Vellucci
University Library Scholarship
This book chapter examines two futures for academic librarians working in access (technical) services: deeper collaboration on data management with faculty and student researchers and expanded access to library resources on the Semantic Web. Both are concerned with data organization, discovery, access, and support of shared data beyond the library. The chapter examines many aspects of research data from the perspectives of researchers and librarians. It briefly examines events prior to the library's greater involvement with research data, looks at how librarians gained fundamental knowledge and skills to assist with the tasks involved with research data curation, and discusses why …
Linked Data Pilot Project At Syracuse University Libraries, Brian Dobreski, Sarah Theimer
Linked Data Pilot Project At Syracuse University Libraries, Brian Dobreski, Sarah Theimer
Libraries' and Librarians' Publications
Provides general information about the semantic web, RDF and the initiation of a pilot project at the Syracuse University Library
Breaking Records: The History Of Bibliographic Records And Their Influence In Conceptualizing Bibliographic Data, Rachel I. Clarke
Breaking Records: The History Of Bibliographic Records And Their Influence In Conceptualizing Bibliographic Data, Rachel I. Clarke
School of Information Studies - Faculty Scholarship
A bibliographic record is a conceptual whole that includes all bibliographic information about a resource together in one place. With the Semantic Web, individual data statements are linked across the web. This position article argues that the traditional conceptualization of bibliographic records affects the affordances and limitations of that data. A historical analysis of the development of bibliographic records contrasted with the Semantic Web model reveals how the “record” model shaped library cataloging and the implications on library catalogs today. Reification of the record model for bibliographic data hampers possibilities for innovation in cataloging, inspiring a reconceptualization of bibliographic description.
Exposing Missing Links: From Contentdm Digital Collections To The Linked Open Data Cloud, Silvia B. Southwick
Exposing Missing Links: From Contentdm Digital Collections To The Linked Open Data Cloud, Silvia B. Southwick
Library Faculty Presentations
Agenda
- Linked Data basic concepts
- UNLV Linked Data project
- Technologies
- Transforming metadata into linked data
- Next steps
Not Just For Geeks: A Practical Approach To Linked Data For Digital Collections Managers, Silvia B. Southwick, Cory K. Lampert
Not Just For Geeks: A Practical Approach To Linked Data For Digital Collections Managers, Silvia B. Southwick, Cory K. Lampert
Library Faculty Presentations
As digital library managers, we know our collections contain rich metadata, but data (or metadata) are encapsulated in these records and are accessible to users only when records containing them are retrieved in a search. This approach for managing data, although a common practice that extends far beyond digital collections, creates silos of data. Data associated with records is isolated and does not directly link to related data existing in other records. These silos hide valuable relationships among data, leaving to users the task of discovering these hidden connections.
Join other digital library managers at this workshop designed to provide …
Linked Data And Canadian Legal Resources, F. Tim Knight
Linked Data And Canadian Legal Resources, F. Tim Knight
Librarian Publications & Presentations
An overview of the basic theory and building blocks that support linked data; the growth of the so-called linked open data cloud; how this idea might be applied to legal resources and some of the challenges involved; and what organizations like CanLII can do to support linked data developments
Transforming Digital Collections Into Linked Data: The Rise Of Missing Links, Silvia B. Southwick, Cory K. Lampert
Transforming Digital Collections Into Linked Data: The Rise Of Missing Links, Silvia B. Southwick, Cory K. Lampert
Library Faculty Presentations
Goals
- Study the feasibility of developing a common process that would allow the conversion of our collection records into linked data preserving their original expressivity and richness
- Publish data from our collections in the Linked Open Data Cloud to improve discover-ability and connections with other related data sets on the Web
Linked Data Demystified: Practical Efforts To Transform Contentdm Metadata For The Linked Data Cloud, Silvia B. Southwick, Cory K. Lampert
Linked Data Demystified: Practical Efforts To Transform Contentdm Metadata For The Linked Data Cloud, Silvia B. Southwick, Cory K. Lampert
Library Faculty Presentations
The library literature and events like the ALA Annual Conference have been inundated with presentations and articles on linked data. At UNLV Libraries, we understand the importance of linked data in helping to better service our users. We have designed and initiated a pilot project to apply linked data concepts to the practical task of transforming a sample set of our CONTENTdm digital collections data into future-oriented linked data. This presentation will outline rationale for beginning work in linked data and detail the phases we will undertake in the proof of concept project. We hope through this research experiment to …
Visualizing Linked Data, F. Tim Knight
Visualizing Linked Data, F. Tim Knight
Librarian Publications & Presentations
Provides an introduction to linked data considering ways to visualize and get a better understanding of this relatively new concept. Linked data is a different way for our bibliographic data to interact with the data available on the Web.. It will hopefully enhance the information we already provide, make it easier for us to provide that information and allow libraries to integrate themselves better with other information sources on the web.
Authority Control In The Next Generation. A Report Of The Lita/Alcts Authority Control Interest Group Program, American Library Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, June 2011, Lynnette Fields
SIUE Faculty Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity
Report from the Authority Control Interest Group meeting (ACIG) held at the American Library Association Annual Meeting held in New Orleans in June 2011. The Library of Congress supplied an update report from Janis Young, and three speakers, Karen Coyle, Gordon Dunsire, and Robin Johnson, discussed the future of authority control with linked data.
Break On Through To The Other Side: The Library And Linked Data, F. Tim Knight
Break On Through To The Other Side: The Library And Linked Data, F. Tim Knight
Librarian Publications & Presentations
This article discusses the barriers that exist between library bibliographic data and other data available on the World Wide Web. The isolation of this bibliographic data is a problem that impacts on the successful integration of the library catalogue into the potential semantic Web of the future. It will look at two available data models for bibliographic data and introduces the Resource Description Framework (RDF) which has emerged as the preferred data model for enabling linked data on the Web. The article concludes with a brief look at some current activities related to linked data that are occurring as part …