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LD4P began as tool for the transformation of library metadata production from workflows based in the MARC formats to linked data. As the project evolves, however, it becomes an opportunity to reevaluate the library’s role in a developing, worldwide information ecosystem.

Through considering a case study written for the Design for Diversity project, we will consider how metadata and aggregation across collections has simultaneous potentials: to perhaps surface a more diverse range of histories and cultures; to perhaps surface those histories but through metadata that still lacks cultural relevance or respect; or to perhaps only re-inscribe the largely white, largely male histories represented in U.S. library, archive, and museum collections. Amanda Rust will first briefly introduce the Design for Diversity project, and Dorothy Berry will then discuss her work making African American materials more discoverable through digitization and metadata aggregation in Umbra Search.

This session will not be recorded.

In this hands-on workshop (using the sandbox at https://omeka.org/s/download/#sandbox) we will begin with a brief introduction to the popular digital humanities publication platform Omeka S and how it implements Linked Open Data. We will focus on content creation and, of course, metadata creation options using a variety of LOD vocabularies, and how content and metadata are represented in the JSON-LD-based API. To get the most out of this tutorial, participants should bring a laptop and have access to a few files (images or other content) and some metadata for those files.

This session is about the story of the National Archives' first catalog API—our design choices, use cases, philosophies—and how it has evolved over 5 years of development and use, and become engrained in our daily work. It is a story not just about the API itself, but how the act of designing an API from scratch has provoked us to change old ways of thinking about discovery, reference, and, ultimately, archival work itself.

This lightning talk will discuss the Perseus Catalog, a research project of the Perseus Digital Library, and current work to convert the legacy metadata collection and related bibliographic data to linked data standards.