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The project team will work with the Blacklight community through a combination of reference implementations and workshops to disseminate approaches and encourage both community code development and deployment. The result will be better contextualization of persons, organizations, places and other entities in our user interfaces. We will also expand on the work started in LD4P2 about appropriately incorporating linked data into library services, and work to identify what external data sources can and should be enriched through library data contributions. Software will be contributed back to the community Blacklight codebase, and we will continue to work with Wikidata as the most promising service that provides the data necessary to interlink between library and non-library resources, leveraging the contributions of both the professional library community and the volunteer Wikidata community.
Research "track"
DASH! (Discovery Across Subject Headings)
This phase explored the use of linked data sources to provide additional context to and relationships for authors and subjects. We generated prototypes for integrating information into knowledge panels as well as into dedicated author and subject pages.
- Preliminary data analysis
- Review of how catalog authority indices are setupData analysis
- Screenshots of prototype (version for usability testing)
- Usability results
- Conversations with and feedback from D&A user representatives
- April presentation to user representatives
- August presentation to user representatives
- Mockups for additional feedback
- Feedback from user representatives
- Production work
- Points of intersection with catalog indices
- Knowledge panels and author/subject pages
- Lessons learned
BANG! (Bibliographic Associations Newly GUI'ed)
In this phase, we are analyzing relationships between works and instances and how we can use information about these relationships from data sources like ShareVDE generated BIBFRAME and the Library of Congress Hubs to bring in information about related items into the catalog.
- Preliminary data analysis
- Analysis of selected data sources (report)
- Prototyping how to bring in data: examples
- Data analysis
- Prototyping for integration: examples Possible use cases