Columbia Art Properties

Here is text about the project, whether ontology or metadata production or both. There can be links here to other stuff.

Link here the Project's proposal page

Here's a list of what this project hopes to achieve. Eventually this list will link to actual stuff like documents.

• outcome 1
• outcome 2

Stuff you're doing right now.

Good headers are:

Analysis/Modeling

Linked Data Creation

Tool Exploration / Requirements Definition

Collaboration

Community Engagement

Link to working documents (for partners only)

 (Last updated 11/14/2016)

 Month 8 (November 2016) 

• Compare Artframe and Rare Material use cases and identify commonalities (Amber Billey, Jason Kovari, Melanie Wacker)
• Presentation on Artframe project at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Nov. 14, 2016 (Roberto Ferrari, Melanie Wacker) 
• Test VitroLib Sandbox and provide feedback (Columbia Group) 
• Continue participation in collaborative LD4* ontology calls and LD4L/BIBFRAME Alignment Group (Amber Billey, Melanie Wacker) 

Months 5-7 (August-October 2016)

• Create larger data set representing more than 2000 objects from the Art Properties collection (Columbia Group)

• Reconcile new data set to external ontologies (Columbia Group)

• Finalize literature review (Columbia Group)

 Months 1-3 (April-June 2016)  

• Create public wiki page on the Columbia Wiki: https://wiki.library.columbia.edu/display/CBT/Columbia+BIBFRAME+Test+Home

• Participation in collaborative LD4* ontology calls, LD4L/BIBFRAME Alignment Group, calls, ontology alignment sprint calls, and the identity subgroup calls

• Follow wider linked data-related activities

• Test open source tools for ontology development and data processing

• Mapping of Art Properties data to MARC 21 resulting in the initial release of over 1,000 Art Properties MARC records through CLIO, Columbia University Libraries’ online catalog.

• Map Art Properties data to BIBFRAME 2.0

• Map BIBFRAME 2.0 to VRA RDF (shared with members of the VRA RDF Ontology Group)

• Begin work to analyze CIDOC-CRM and FRBRoo data models and relate them to BIBFRAME 2.0

• Outreach to linked data projects in the art domain

• Presentation:

• "Artframe, LD4P@Columbia" at METRO Workshop “The Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME): Development, Vocabulary and Use” (June 2 2016)

Pre-project activities (prior to April 2016) 

• Form Columbia core group consisting of members of the Libraries’ Original and Special Materials Cataloging Division, Avery Library, and the Art Properties Department.

• Create private wiki for Columbia internal documentation

• Create test dataset in spreadsheet form representing a variety of art formats

• Reconcile spreadsheet data to external controlled vocabularies

• Characterize objects in the Art Properties collection based on sample data

• Survey existing linked data developments in the art domain

• Map Art Properties data to Bibframe 1.0

• Document issues and omissions in BIBFRAME 1.0 relating to art descriptions

• Map Art Properties data to VRA RDF 

• Presentation:

• "LD4P@Columbia: BIBFRAME and Art Properties", BIBFRAME Update Forum, ALA Midwinter Meeting, Jan. 10, 2016