Rationale

There is a pressing need to provide concrete demonstrations of the benefits of linked data in order to help motivate the transition of library catalogs from MARC.  Within LD4P3, work to enhance the discovery of library resources is the focus of WP3: Discovery. Within LD4P2, similar work was the focus of WP4: Discovery. The partners had committed to working with the Blacklight framework to demonstrate enhanced discovery features such as:

  1. knowledge panel in search results to present contextual information powered by linked data;
  2. browsing based on authority files and links to related entities in external data; 
  3. semantic search, which could include laying out alternative terms in a “no results” page, suggesting semantically related terms in a type-ahead, or providing richer, geo-based browse by leveraging URIs for places; and
  4. microdata on item pages to enable machine crawling.

In all of these areas there is opportunity for community input on and discussion of the best approaches and the desired outcomes. The LD4 Discovery Affinity Group will provide a forum for these discussions, with the following goals:

Approach

Calls and topics

Calls bi-weekly, Tuesdays,  9am PT / 12noon ET, 5pm UK, 6pm CET,    (Note Zoom URL has been changed, and will now be stored in the meeting document )

Calls are expected to continue through the length of the grant and hopefully beyond.

Discussion materials and references (e.g. slides, documents, etc.)


Possible future call topics