As part of the Mellon-funded LD4P2 project, Stanford will host two meetings of the Blacklight development community to advance the use of Linked Data for discovery in Blacklight-based environments. While the grant will fund participation from a set of attendees, the meeting will be open to interested and qualified members of the Blacklight or LD4 communities.
These meetings will cover any of the topics named in WP4 of the grant, or any topics related to enriching our current discovery environments with linked data or semantic enhancements. The main areas of development named in the grant are:
- Microdata / schema.org markup
- Knowledge panels
- Authority-enhanced browse
- Semantic search
The outputs of this Working Meeting are expected to include working code, reference implementations, better understandings of LD-enhanced discovery, current and prospective data sources, UX issues, engineering concerns, and a roadmap for future work.
Attendees should be from Blacklight-friendly institutions that are also invested in linked data. Attendees may have a variety of roles: developers, linked data practitioners, UX designers, metadata, etc. It might enrich the meeting to include Blacklighteers working in some of the particular Blacklight sub-projects: GeoBlacklight, Spotlight, ArcLight.
The first Blacklight-LD meeting will be 3.5 days and held at Stanford, the from Tuesday, September 24 at 9 AM to Friday, September 27 at noon. (Note: Oct 9-11 is Blacklight Summit at Duke.)
Logistics
Meeting Dates
Start: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 (8:30 AM)
End: Friday, September 27 (noon)
Meeting Location:
The meetings will be held at Lathrop Library, Stanford University.
Travel Arrangements:
Travel Reimbursement:
The grant will fund a limited number of participants from invited institutions. Invited participants with travel support can find more information here:
Communication Channels
Slack: #blacklight-ld channel in LD4 slack (event-specific slack channel; all participants on it; lurkers welcome)
Email list: blacklight-ld@googlegroups.com (event-specific email list; all participants on it; lurkers welcome)
Google Drive: Blacklight-LD Working Meeting (publicly accessible)
