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How do we get from here to there? Our existing infrastructure is heavily based on MARC, but the MARC format itself has evolved in ways that can help smooth the path to adoption of linked data. This presentation will describe recent work by the PCC on incorporating linked data into MARC and suggest directions that cataloguing practice can take in response to these developments.

The talk will cover the process of creating video game controlled vocabulary in Wikidata and the translation of the vocabulary to 6 languages (English, German, French, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean).

The Harvard Map Collection is home to over 250,000 sheet maps dating back to the late 15th Century.  Over 5,000 of these maps have been scanned and are freely available for viewing through the Harvard Library image delivery service but remain largely undiscoverable outside of the Harvard Library online catalog.  This talk will focus on describing an LD4P2 subproject that is exploring the use of the LD4P Sinopia Linked Data Editor with the BIBFRAME 2.0 ontology and Wikidata items to produce linked data descriptions for scanned cartographic materials to enable broader discovery and re-use of these images on the open web.

Serials cataloging is the National Library of Medicine's bread and butter because of the importance of serials to the medical community and internal dependencies related to article indexing. This talk discusses some of the challegnes we face in cataloging serials, a living, changing bibliographic entity with BIBFRAME.

The work of the American Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs is notorious among collectors and bibliographers for its scale and complexity. In this presentation, we describe our objectives and experiences in representing, enhancing, and publishing the information in Brian E.C. Schottlaender’s “Anything But Routine: A Selectively Annotated Bibliography of William S. Burroughs, version 4.0” as linked data using BIBFRAME 2.0 and ARM ontologies.

Women Writers in Review is a collection of 18th- and 19th-century reviews, publication notices, literary histories, and other texts responding to works by early English-language women writers. It is published by the Northeastern University Women Writers Project with support from the Digital Scholarship Group at Northeastern University Libraries, and grant funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. This session provides an introduction to the data, an explanation of how a digitized evaluation of reception of these works enriches the understanding of the data, and reviews potential ways of modeling it on Wikidata. It also addresses how development of a Wikidata model for this purpose could be adapted to other scholarly digital collections.

The concept of the (metadata) application profile has for two decades been a central focus of attention in the Dublin Core community and has underpinned many of DCMI's development efforts. There continues to be significant community interest in developing tools to help people create and document application profiles and, more recently, in technologies for validating data produced according to profiles. This talk will describe a new initiative to respond to this interest.

This talk presents the work of the LD4P Profiles Working Group to develop initial protocols for collaborative development of profiles in the LD4P Sinopia shared environment. Attendees will (1) get a better sense of what a BIBFRAME profile is and how it can be managed; (2) understand the challenges of working with profiles on a shared environment; (3) learn about strategies and best practices for profile re-use; and (4) see a live-demo of the tools and the workflow.

This presentation highlights some key lessons from our experiences in the OCLC Research’s Linked Data Wikibase Prototype (“Project Passage”) regarding Wikidata’s multilingualism support.

The Canadian Federation of Library Associations launched the BIBFRAME Readiness Workgroup in late 2018 with the mission to assess the readiness of Canadian libraries to adopt BIBFRAME. In 2019, the workgroup will survey Canadian libraries to measure their readiness for a transition to, and their understanding of, BIBFRAME. These findings, analyzed by demographics including library type, library size, participant role, and region, will inform the Canadian library community's efforts to support BIBFRAME adoption.

Using the Wikibase Linked Data Prototype as an example, Pace will outline 5 simple steps for managing a complex project that will improve your chances for getting from an experiment to a production service.

This spring the LD4P's Sinopia project will release their first Minimum Viable Product (MVP) of a collaborative, cloud-based, linked data editor. This talk will explain the Lean Startup approach the Sinopia team took in building the MVP in the first work cycle following the Build-Measure-Learn methodology for agile software development. Specific examples and experiences from the Sinopia project will be shared as the team prepares for the MVP release to the initial cohort of users. Finally, as the team measures usage and adoption of Sinopia in the next few months, learning continues for refining features and pulling other requirements from the community for the next iterative work cycle of Sinopia.

This presentation shares highlights of the soon-to-be-published OCLC research report on Project Passage, OCLC’s pilot study of the metadata creation workflow using the Wikibase platform, which was completed in September 2018.

Although most traditional MARC-based cataloging interfaces are woefully inadequate, lacking even basic validation and placing the full burden of data entry on the cataloger, they have the side effect of forcing catalogers to internalize the standards they work with and to achieve a level of mastery of the relevant content and encoding standards. What kinds of tools and interfaces are most conducive to training catalogers for mastery of linked data and semantic modeling concepts as a practical part of their daily work?

In the LD4P/LD4L-Labs and LD4P2 grants, we explored cataloger needs to help design linked data cataloging interfaces.  In this presentation, we will review what we learned from these explorations and what further questions we can review as we develop Sinopia.

OCLC’s Project Passage evaluated a federated instance of Wikibase as a platform for cataloging bibliographic entities.  This presentation will focus on applications and workflows that were developed during the project to help speed and improve the cataloging user experience.