LD4P began as tool for the transformation of library metadata production from workflows based in the MARC formats to linked data. As the project evolves, however, it becomes an opportunity to reevaluate the library’s role in a developing, worldwide information ecosystem.
Through considering a case study written for the Design for Diversity project, we will consider how metadata and aggregation across collections has simultaneous potentials: to perhaps surface a more diverse range of histories and cultures; to perhaps surface those histories but through metadata that still lacks cultural relevance or respect; or to perhaps only re-inscribe the largely white, largely male histories represented in U.S. library, archive, and museum collections. Amanda Rust will first briefly introduce the Design for Diversity project, and Dorothy Berry will then discuss her work making African American materials more discoverable through digitization and metadata aggregation in Umbra Search.
10:15 - 10:30
Break
Block 1: 10:30 - noon (90 min)
Discovery 1 Facilitator: Greg Reeve
Modeling Facilitator: Asaf Bartov
Wikidata Tutorial 1 Facilitator: Amber Billey & Will Kent
The Wikidata Tutorial will provide a hands-on introduction to the basics of Wikidata and the Wikidata Query Tool. Participants will learn the basic functions of both and how to make simple manual edits to Wikidata items and create simply database queries. The workshop will also discuss how institutions can use Wikidata effectively and employ automated tools like the Distributed Game and OpenRefine. A laptop or mobile device will be necessary to fully participate in the workshop.
noon - 13:00
Lunch
Block 2: 13:00 - 15:00 (2 hours)
Discovery 2 Facilitator: MJ Han
Stanford implemented Schema.org in its Blacklight-based catalog SearchWorks. This lightning talk will discuss the implementation, plans for enhancements, and the path forward to shareability with other Blacklight-based discovery environments.
Learn how bibliographic data provided by libraries is used at Google and why machine-readable linked data is the way to go.
I will describe my attempt so far, to learn what Linked Data is and to implement a simplified project at my institution. I use my university’s strategic goals to convince our administration and colleagues and I want to inspire them with a demonstration showing the results of higher visibility of a unique collection to benefit anyone interested in this collection.
A visual workflow not only helps students and volunteers with cataloging, but also supports Linked Data with a focus on concepts instead of terms. The worksheet tool at DressDiscover.org explores this approach for describing artifacts of historic clothing, providing visual choices backed by terms from thesauri that are available as Linked Data.
Special Formats 1 Facilitator: Mary Seem
This session will not be recorded.
Wikidata Tutorial 2 Facilitator: Amber Billey & Will Kent
15:00 - 15:30
Break
Block 3.1: 15:30-16:30 (60 min)
Library of Congress Special Topics Facilitator: Greg Reeve
Digital Collections & Institutional Repositories 1 Facilitator: Nancy Fallgren
Omeka Tutorial Facilitator: Michelle Futornick
In this hands-on workshop (using the sandbox at https://omeka.org/s/download/#sandbox) we will begin with a brief introduction to the popular digital humanities publication platform Omeka S and how it implements Linked Open Data. We will focus on content creation and, of course, metadata creation options using a variety of LOD vocabularies, and how content and metadata are represented in the JSON-LD-based API. To get the most out of this tutorial, participants should bring a laptop and have access to a few files (images or other content) and some metadata for those files.
16:30 - 16:40
Break
Block 3.2: 16:40 - 17:15 (35 minutes)
The National Archives API: A Five-Year Journey from Idea to Imperative Facilitator: Will Kent
This session is about the story of the National Archives' first catalog API—our design choices, use cases, philosophies—and how it has evolved over 5 years of development and use, and become engrained in our daily work. It is a story not just about the API itself, but how the act of designing an API from scratch has provoked us to change old ways of thinking about discovery, reference, and, ultimately, archival work itself.
Digital Collections & Institutional Repositories 2 Facilitator: Michelle Durocher
This lightning talk will discuss the Perseus Catalog, a research project of the Perseus Digital Library, and current work to convert the legacy metadata collection and related bibliographic data to linked data standards.
Starting in 2018 as part of the Cultivating a Latin American Post-Custodial Archival Praxis grant funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the LLILAS Benson Post Custodial project team began working on developing and migrating the Latin American Digital Initiatives (LADI) digital repository to the Drupal 8/Islandora 8 (formerly CLAW)/Fedora 4 repository framework. One core component of this work includes investigations and implementation of linked data capabilities for better discoverability, access, and analysis.
Managing Local Data Facilitator: Michelle Futornick
Implementation of BIBFRAME or other linked data cataloging workflows at scale will require institutions to address both how the data will be managed over time and how administrative activities that have been driven by MARC data will need to adapt. Bring your ideas, concerns, and questions to this conversation about what is necessary in the short-term as we experiment with new approaches to description and what is required in the long-term to make adoption of best practices feasible. Potential discussion questions include:
If you are cataloging materials in a linked data editor, does your institution plan to represent those materials in the current integrated library system, or other local systems?
Is it best practice to continue to manage a MARC dataset alongside RDF entities or other linked data datasets? Or, will it be best to transform historic data so that bibliographic data is uniformly represented in a local system? What are the risks and benefits associated with each of the options?
What are the functional requirements for managing linked data for description in a system such as FOLIO that is intended to be format agnostic for bibliographic data?
Application Profiles Facilitator: Jennifer Baxmeyer
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.
10:30 - 11:00
Break
Block 5: 11:00 - 12:30 (90 minutes)
Wikidata in Action Facilitator: Merrilee Proffitt
Community Adoption Facilitator: Andrew Pace
Lunch and Birds of a Feather Topics to be chosen by participants
12:30 - 13:00
Pick up lunch
13:00 - 14:15
Birds of a Feather 1 (Rotunda) | Birds of a Feather 2 (Room 214 (38 ppl)
Birds of a Feather 3
Birds of a Feather 4
14:15 - 14:45
Break
Block 6: 14:45 - 16:30 (1 hour 45 min)
Technical Focus: Projects and Development Facilitator: Merrilee Proffitt
Cataloger Perspective: Tools and Training Facilitator: MJ Han
Closing
Accommodations
We have reserved a block of rooms at the Inn at Longwood Medical, which is in walking distance to the conference center.
Inn at Longwood Medical 342 Longwood Avenue, Fenway Kenmor Boston, Massachusetts 02115 The Inn at Longwood Medical is now sold out; to check for cancellations call them directly (617) 731-4700, our booking code is STAN0519
Another hotel option, Longwood Inn's sister hotel, just over 1 mile from the conference center), no booking code required. The Midtown Hotel 220 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115 617-369-6285/F: 617-262-8739
Background
Linked data promises to expose the richness of library collections to the world, and to open up new pathways to knowledge based on previously unlinked data. After a decade of experimentation and pilot projects, what are the next steps to move to large-scale production of linked data? How can the library community learn from and contribute to other communities who are working toward similar goals? The 2019 LD4 Conference, to be held May 10-11 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, aims to bring practitioners together to collaborate on creating pathways to implementation of linked data in libraries.
The language of the conference is English.
Participation
Participation is by open application; the application period ended February 28, 2019. The Program Committee invited participation that will bring diverse and broad perspectives, from both aspiring and experienced practitioners including:
Librarians working (or aspiring to work with) linked data
Representatives from adjacent cultural heritage spaces including archives and museums
Ontologists and data modelers
Software engineers and user experience professionals interested in library metadata
Open knowledge advocates
Others who share an interest in implementing linked data in libraries
We had a large response to our call for applications, and the Program Committee chose the applications that best fit within the conference scope.