Toward a National Digital Network: An Update from DPLA and ESDN - Metro Annua...kerriwillette
Presentation and panel session at the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) Annual Conference 2015 held at Baruch College on January 15, 2015. Panel included Kerri Willette (ESDN Manager), Chris Stanton (ESDN Metadata Specialist), John Mignault (ESDN Technology Specialist), and Mark Matienzo (DPLA Director of Technology), moderated by Davis Erin Anderson (METRO Community Engagement Manager).
Ink On Our Hands: Plotting the Map of Canada's Integrated Digital Scholarship...Hamilton Public Library
Presented at the OLA Super Conference, January 2016
The Integrated Digital Scholarship Ecosystem (IDSE) is an initiative to advance research in Canada by understanding the complexity of the digital landscape and by seeking opportunities to align key stakeholders and providers around a series of shared objectives. The ecosystem combines capabilities and infrastructure beyond content t seamlessly harness the work of diverse organizations that contribute to digital scholarship.
ArchivesSpace: Building a Next-Generation Archives Management ToolMARAC Bethlehem PC
ArchivesSpace is a project to build a next-generation archives management tool through a community effort led by NYU, UIUC, and UCSD. It aims to consolidate Archivists' Toolkit and Archon into a more scalable and flexible system with improved digital object management. Development is scheduled to begin in January 2012 with beta testing in late 2012 and migration paths for existing users planned. The project is selecting an organizational home and developer to ensure ongoing maintenance and support.
This document discusses different online platforms in information and communication technology (ICT). It describes presentation tools like Google Slides and PowerPoint Online that allow users to create slideshows. It also covers cloud computing services like Google Drive and Dropbox, mapping tools such as Google Maps and Wikimapia, file manager platforms, social media platforms including Facebook and YouTube, and tools for creating web pages in HTML.
DKAN is an open source data portal built on Drupal that aims to provide the same functionality as CKAN, an open data portal, but with a single software stack and integrated content, data, and permissions management. It allows users to upload datasets containing files like CSVs and view visualizations of the data. DKAN components include the distribution, dataset and data store modules. Key features include previews of geospatial data on maps and graphs of data columns. Ongoing development focuses on additional functionality, file type support, and an open SaaS offering called "NuData DKAN".
A distributed network of digital heritage information - Semantics AmsterdamEnno Meijers
This document discusses strategies for improving discovery of digital heritage information across Dutch cultural institutions. It identifies problems with the current infrastructure based on OAI-PMH including lack of semantic alignment and inefficient data integration. The proposed strategy is to build a distributed network based on Linked Data principles, with a registry of organizations and datasets, a knowledge graph with backlinks to support resource discovery, and virtual data integration using federated querying of Linked Data sources. This will improve usability, visibility, and sustainability of digital heritage information in the Netherlands.
Development of a MODS-RDF Cataloguing Tool for Information Professionals CONU...Lucy McKenna
Generating bibliographic records as linked data (LD) offers the opportunity for libraries to publish and interlink metadata on the semantic web (SW). This can expose library resources to a larger audience, increase the use of library materials, and allow for more efficient searches. The Digital Resources and Imaging Services (DRIS) department of the Library of Trinity College Dublin (TCD) hopes to move towards publishing their bibliographic records as LD and, therefore, requires a tool that allows for the creation of records in RDF - a model for representing and exchanging LD on the web as structured data.
Although libraries are publishing LD in increasing quantities there remains many barriers to librarians making full use of the SW, including that many tools used for generating LD are aimed at technical experts. This project explored a means of overcoming some of these barriers through the development a MODS-RDF cataloguing tool for use in the library domain. MODS is a highly flexible XML metadata schema that can be used to catalogue cultural heritage materials, and MODS-RDF is an expression of this schema in RDF.
A user-centred design approach, which focuses on designing an interface from the perspective of its users, was followed when developing the tool. As such, DRIS was involved in all stages of development, including requirements gathering, interface prototyping and design, and usability testing. The results of the first phase of usability testing indicated that many of the initial user requirements were met and that DRIS were interested in developing the interface further. These results are being used to inspire the second iteration of the tool. Ongoing usability testing will be conducted to ensure that the resulting interface meets DRIS’ unique needs.
By developing a tool that allows DRIS to produce MODS-RDF records, the library will be able to interlink with other LD resources. This could allow library users to access a web of related data from a single information search, making the research process more efficient and potentially inspiring new research through the linking of disparate collections.
Toward a National Digital Network: An Update from DPLA and ESDN - Metro Annua...kerriwillette
Presentation and panel session at the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) Annual Conference 2015 held at Baruch College on January 15, 2015. Panel included Kerri Willette (ESDN Manager), Chris Stanton (ESDN Metadata Specialist), John Mignault (ESDN Technology Specialist), and Mark Matienzo (DPLA Director of Technology), moderated by Davis Erin Anderson (METRO Community Engagement Manager).
Ink On Our Hands: Plotting the Map of Canada's Integrated Digital Scholarship...Hamilton Public Library
Presented at the OLA Super Conference, January 2016
The Integrated Digital Scholarship Ecosystem (IDSE) is an initiative to advance research in Canada by understanding the complexity of the digital landscape and by seeking opportunities to align key stakeholders and providers around a series of shared objectives. The ecosystem combines capabilities and infrastructure beyond content t seamlessly harness the work of diverse organizations that contribute to digital scholarship.
ArchivesSpace: Building a Next-Generation Archives Management ToolMARAC Bethlehem PC
ArchivesSpace is a project to build a next-generation archives management tool through a community effort led by NYU, UIUC, and UCSD. It aims to consolidate Archivists' Toolkit and Archon into a more scalable and flexible system with improved digital object management. Development is scheduled to begin in January 2012 with beta testing in late 2012 and migration paths for existing users planned. The project is selecting an organizational home and developer to ensure ongoing maintenance and support.
This document discusses different online platforms in information and communication technology (ICT). It describes presentation tools like Google Slides and PowerPoint Online that allow users to create slideshows. It also covers cloud computing services like Google Drive and Dropbox, mapping tools such as Google Maps and Wikimapia, file manager platforms, social media platforms including Facebook and YouTube, and tools for creating web pages in HTML.
DKAN is an open source data portal built on Drupal that aims to provide the same functionality as CKAN, an open data portal, but with a single software stack and integrated content, data, and permissions management. It allows users to upload datasets containing files like CSVs and view visualizations of the data. DKAN components include the distribution, dataset and data store modules. Key features include previews of geospatial data on maps and graphs of data columns. Ongoing development focuses on additional functionality, file type support, and an open SaaS offering called "NuData DKAN".
A distributed network of digital heritage information - Semantics AmsterdamEnno Meijers
This document discusses strategies for improving discovery of digital heritage information across Dutch cultural institutions. It identifies problems with the current infrastructure based on OAI-PMH including lack of semantic alignment and inefficient data integration. The proposed strategy is to build a distributed network based on Linked Data principles, with a registry of organizations and datasets, a knowledge graph with backlinks to support resource discovery, and virtual data integration using federated querying of Linked Data sources. This will improve usability, visibility, and sustainability of digital heritage information in the Netherlands.
Development of a MODS-RDF Cataloguing Tool for Information Professionals CONU...Lucy McKenna
Generating bibliographic records as linked data (LD) offers the opportunity for libraries to publish and interlink metadata on the semantic web (SW). This can expose library resources to a larger audience, increase the use of library materials, and allow for more efficient searches. The Digital Resources and Imaging Services (DRIS) department of the Library of Trinity College Dublin (TCD) hopes to move towards publishing their bibliographic records as LD and, therefore, requires a tool that allows for the creation of records in RDF - a model for representing and exchanging LD on the web as structured data.
Although libraries are publishing LD in increasing quantities there remains many barriers to librarians making full use of the SW, including that many tools used for generating LD are aimed at technical experts. This project explored a means of overcoming some of these barriers through the development a MODS-RDF cataloguing tool for use in the library domain. MODS is a highly flexible XML metadata schema that can be used to catalogue cultural heritage materials, and MODS-RDF is an expression of this schema in RDF.
A user-centred design approach, which focuses on designing an interface from the perspective of its users, was followed when developing the tool. As such, DRIS was involved in all stages of development, including requirements gathering, interface prototyping and design, and usability testing. The results of the first phase of usability testing indicated that many of the initial user requirements were met and that DRIS were interested in developing the interface further. These results are being used to inspire the second iteration of the tool. Ongoing usability testing will be conducted to ensure that the resulting interface meets DRIS’ unique needs.
By developing a tool that allows DRIS to produce MODS-RDF records, the library will be able to interlink with other LD resources. This could allow library users to access a web of related data from a single information search, making the research process more efficient and potentially inspiring new research through the linking of disparate collections.
Introduction to the University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library's "ArchivesSpace, Archivematica - Dspace Workflow Integration" project (funded by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation). The project seeks to integrate these platforms into an end-to-end digital archives workflow that will facilitate the deposit of content into a digital repository and enable the reuse of descriptive and administrative metadata across platforms. This presentation was made to the September 18, 2014 meeting of the Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners at Central Michigan University.
Introduction to Metadata for IDAH FellowsJenn Riley
Riley, Jenn. "Introduction to Metadata for IDAH Fellows." Presentation to Indiana University Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities staff and faculty fellows, December 5, 2008.
In April 2014, the Bentley Historical Library received a $355,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to integrate ArchivesSpace, Archivematica and DSpace into an end-to-end digital archives workflow. This presentation will identify key project goals and outcomes and demonstrate features and functionality of Archivematica’s new “Appraisal and Arrangement” tab.
ResourceSync - Overview and Real-World Use Cases for Discovery, Harvesting, a...Martin Klein
This document provides an overview of ResourceSync, which is a framework for synchronizing web resources between systems. Some key points:
- ResourceSync was created to address limitations of existing protocols like OAI-PMH by allowing synchronization of any web resource and enabling both one-time and ongoing synchronization.
- It supports various capabilities for synchronization like resource lists, change lists, and notifications. These can be used for initial synchronization or incremental updates.
- Real-world examples are described where ResourceSync has been implemented for projects involving aggregation of digital collections, like Europeana and CLARIAH. It facilitates synchronization between diverse data sources.
- Presentations were given on how ResourceSync could also be useful
Update on the Bentley Historical Library's ArchivesSpace Archivematica DSpace Workflow Integration project, with development provided by Artefactual Systems.
LoCloud is a project funded by the EU to help small institutions make their content available through Europeana. It has developed several cloud-based services and infrastructure including LoCloud Collections, MORe aggregator, MINT mapping tool, and various microservices. These services aim to make metadata ingestion and enrichment easier for institutions and explore the potential of cloud technologies. LoCloud also provides support portals and training materials to help institutions participate.
This document summarizes Susan Johns-Smith's work coordinating library system integrations at Pittsburg State University. It describes integrating the university's discovery platform, Summon, with their ILS after migrating from Dynix to Sierra in 2014. The integration projects included mapping MARC data in Summon to items in the online catalog, managing additions and deletions daily via FTP, and refreshing the full database quarterly. It also discusses integrating Sierra with their Encore discovery interface and implementing various APIs for functions like patron loads and fines/fees. Finally, it provides strategies for basic integration approaches and considerations around profile setup, APIs, identity management, and utilizing discovery integration.
This document provides an overview of the focus areas and schedule for ICANN64 taking place in Kobe, Japan. It outlines the organization's 5-year strategic plan, ongoing policy development work, technical sessions on topics like DNSSEC and emerging identifiers, and sessions specific to the Asia Pacific region including on IDNs and universal acceptance. It also lists introductory sessions for newcomers, social events during the meeting, and notes the Asia Pacific Internet Governance Academy as the next opportunity to engage with ICANN after this meeting.
The document discusses enabling tools and methods for international collaboration using virtual workspaces. It describes three types of workspaces - DataSpaces to connect data providers and users, ActivitySpaces to connect people working on shared activities, and ToolSpaces to connect tool creators and users. Examples are given of different projects that have used these virtual workspaces to facilitate collaboration, including developing naming conventions, air quality data summits, and designing a community air quality data system. The workspaces allow distributed groups to easily share and archive related content, discussions, and resources to support ongoing collaborative work.
This document describes a service-oriented architecture for automatically marking up legal documents in XML using Akoma-Ntoso. It discusses two projects at the Library of Congress of Chile aimed at obtaining parliamentary interventions and tracking the evolution of laws. The strategic decisions include using SOA, linked open data, and the Akoma-Ntoso standard. The automatic markup process involves named entity recognition using a Spanish adapted Stanford NER, assigning URIs, adding structural markup, and translating to the Akoma-Ntoso format.
2016 SDMX Experts meeting, Implementation of SDMX RI at INS, Kamel AbdellaouiStatsCommunications
1. NIS Tunisia is implementing SDMX to standardize their data exchange and dissemination.
2. They are conducting training and building internal capacity on SDMX data modeling, reporting, and tools.
3. NIS Tunisia has created an SDMX action plan with three stages: testing and validating SDMX outputs internally, piloting data sharing with a national partner, and communicating SDMX to establish a national data hub.
This document describes the benefits of Brand Image Central (BIC), a single point of contact system for managing gas station branding from start to finish. BIC allows marketers and resellers to purchase approved image elements, ensures brand standards are followed, and handles ordering, production, funds management, and deadlines. It provides a paperless process managed through online tools and updates. A dedicated BIC team supports functions like customer service, graphic design, site surveys, and training. The system includes applications like an e-catalog, virtual image tool, and site attribute manager to configure signs and store details. It aims to improve the process of gas station branding management and coordination.
Empire State Digital Network (ESDN) Project Update for ASCLA-CDIG, Midwinter ...kerriwillette
Empire State Digital Network (ESDN) is a New York State service hub for DPLA. This brief project update was presented at the ASCLA Collaborative Digitization Interest Group at ALA Midwinter 2015 in Chicago.
This document discusses some of the challenges facing artists in the digital age. It notes that the arts sector consists of many different "villages" or disciplines that require different marketing approaches. While the internet has democratized distribution and given artists more control, success is still difficult to achieve alone without significant resources. Competition for attention is also overwhelming, and true financial success through independent online channels remains elusive for most. Larger organizations still dominate prominent platforms and venues, and relying solely on the internet often does not provide a livable income for artists. Overall, the "revolution" brought about by new technologies is an ongoing process, and significant support is usually still needed to achieve widespread success.
When Social Media Fails to Inspire: Transforming your library's social media ...kerriwillette
The document discusses transforming a library's social media presence from initial goals of broadcasting announcements and promoting events to focusing on listening to users and participating in the community. It recommends forming a team to manage social media, defining a clear vision and goals, focusing on a few key tools that fit the audience, defining and learning from measures of success and failure, prioritizing social media, and listening to the community.
Introduction to the University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library's "ArchivesSpace, Archivematica - Dspace Workflow Integration" project (funded by a generous grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation). The project seeks to integrate these platforms into an end-to-end digital archives workflow that will facilitate the deposit of content into a digital repository and enable the reuse of descriptive and administrative metadata across platforms. This presentation was made to the September 18, 2014 meeting of the Mid-Michigan Digital Practitioners at Central Michigan University.
Introduction to Metadata for IDAH FellowsJenn Riley
Riley, Jenn. "Introduction to Metadata for IDAH Fellows." Presentation to Indiana University Institute for Digital Arts & Humanities staff and faculty fellows, December 5, 2008.
In April 2014, the Bentley Historical Library received a $355,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to integrate ArchivesSpace, Archivematica and DSpace into an end-to-end digital archives workflow. This presentation will identify key project goals and outcomes and demonstrate features and functionality of Archivematica’s new “Appraisal and Arrangement” tab.
ResourceSync - Overview and Real-World Use Cases for Discovery, Harvesting, a...Martin Klein
This document provides an overview of ResourceSync, which is a framework for synchronizing web resources between systems. Some key points:
- ResourceSync was created to address limitations of existing protocols like OAI-PMH by allowing synchronization of any web resource and enabling both one-time and ongoing synchronization.
- It supports various capabilities for synchronization like resource lists, change lists, and notifications. These can be used for initial synchronization or incremental updates.
- Real-world examples are described where ResourceSync has been implemented for projects involving aggregation of digital collections, like Europeana and CLARIAH. It facilitates synchronization between diverse data sources.
- Presentations were given on how ResourceSync could also be useful
Update on the Bentley Historical Library's ArchivesSpace Archivematica DSpace Workflow Integration project, with development provided by Artefactual Systems.
LoCloud is a project funded by the EU to help small institutions make their content available through Europeana. It has developed several cloud-based services and infrastructure including LoCloud Collections, MORe aggregator, MINT mapping tool, and various microservices. These services aim to make metadata ingestion and enrichment easier for institutions and explore the potential of cloud technologies. LoCloud also provides support portals and training materials to help institutions participate.
This document summarizes Susan Johns-Smith's work coordinating library system integrations at Pittsburg State University. It describes integrating the university's discovery platform, Summon, with their ILS after migrating from Dynix to Sierra in 2014. The integration projects included mapping MARC data in Summon to items in the online catalog, managing additions and deletions daily via FTP, and refreshing the full database quarterly. It also discusses integrating Sierra with their Encore discovery interface and implementing various APIs for functions like patron loads and fines/fees. Finally, it provides strategies for basic integration approaches and considerations around profile setup, APIs, identity management, and utilizing discovery integration.
This document provides an overview of the focus areas and schedule for ICANN64 taking place in Kobe, Japan. It outlines the organization's 5-year strategic plan, ongoing policy development work, technical sessions on topics like DNSSEC and emerging identifiers, and sessions specific to the Asia Pacific region including on IDNs and universal acceptance. It also lists introductory sessions for newcomers, social events during the meeting, and notes the Asia Pacific Internet Governance Academy as the next opportunity to engage with ICANN after this meeting.
The document discusses enabling tools and methods for international collaboration using virtual workspaces. It describes three types of workspaces - DataSpaces to connect data providers and users, ActivitySpaces to connect people working on shared activities, and ToolSpaces to connect tool creators and users. Examples are given of different projects that have used these virtual workspaces to facilitate collaboration, including developing naming conventions, air quality data summits, and designing a community air quality data system. The workspaces allow distributed groups to easily share and archive related content, discussions, and resources to support ongoing collaborative work.
This document describes a service-oriented architecture for automatically marking up legal documents in XML using Akoma-Ntoso. It discusses two projects at the Library of Congress of Chile aimed at obtaining parliamentary interventions and tracking the evolution of laws. The strategic decisions include using SOA, linked open data, and the Akoma-Ntoso standard. The automatic markup process involves named entity recognition using a Spanish adapted Stanford NER, assigning URIs, adding structural markup, and translating to the Akoma-Ntoso format.
2016 SDMX Experts meeting, Implementation of SDMX RI at INS, Kamel AbdellaouiStatsCommunications
1. NIS Tunisia is implementing SDMX to standardize their data exchange and dissemination.
2. They are conducting training and building internal capacity on SDMX data modeling, reporting, and tools.
3. NIS Tunisia has created an SDMX action plan with three stages: testing and validating SDMX outputs internally, piloting data sharing with a national partner, and communicating SDMX to establish a national data hub.
This document describes the benefits of Brand Image Central (BIC), a single point of contact system for managing gas station branding from start to finish. BIC allows marketers and resellers to purchase approved image elements, ensures brand standards are followed, and handles ordering, production, funds management, and deadlines. It provides a paperless process managed through online tools and updates. A dedicated BIC team supports functions like customer service, graphic design, site surveys, and training. The system includes applications like an e-catalog, virtual image tool, and site attribute manager to configure signs and store details. It aims to improve the process of gas station branding management and coordination.
Empire State Digital Network (ESDN) Project Update for ASCLA-CDIG, Midwinter ...kerriwillette
Empire State Digital Network (ESDN) is a New York State service hub for DPLA. This brief project update was presented at the ASCLA Collaborative Digitization Interest Group at ALA Midwinter 2015 in Chicago.
This document discusses some of the challenges facing artists in the digital age. It notes that the arts sector consists of many different "villages" or disciplines that require different marketing approaches. While the internet has democratized distribution and given artists more control, success is still difficult to achieve alone without significant resources. Competition for attention is also overwhelming, and true financial success through independent online channels remains elusive for most. Larger organizations still dominate prominent platforms and venues, and relying solely on the internet often does not provide a livable income for artists. Overall, the "revolution" brought about by new technologies is an ongoing process, and significant support is usually still needed to achieve widespread success.
When Social Media Fails to Inspire: Transforming your library's social media ...kerriwillette
The document discusses transforming a library's social media presence from initial goals of broadcasting announcements and promoting events to focusing on listening to users and participating in the community. It recommends forming a team to manage social media, defining a clear vision and goals, focusing on a few key tools that fit the audience, defining and learning from measures of success and failure, prioritizing social media, and listening to the community.
El documento presenta tres tablas con datos numéricos. La primera tabla muestra el recuento de nombres completos por rótulo de fila, con un total general de 48. La segunda tabla presenta el recuento de asignaturas por rótulo de fila, con un total de 46. La tercera tabla vuelve a mostrar el recuento de nombres completos por rótulo de fila, con un total general también de 48.
El documento presenta tres tablas con datos numéricos. La primera tabla muestra el recuento de nombres completos por rótulo de fila, con un total general de 48. La segunda tabla presenta el recuento de asignaturas por rótulo de fila, con un total de 46. La tercera tabla vuelve a mostrar el recuento de nombres completos por rótulo de fila, con un total general también de 48.
Hosting Hubs Update: Services, Pricing, and HighlightsRebekah Cummings
Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) provides a central search portal to over 800,000 digital resources from memory institutions in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, and Hawaii. MWDL partners typically work with one of approximately 30 MWDL hosting hubs. Hubs assist partners by providing digital collections training, digitization services, and repository hosting services. Through the hubs model MWDL supports a distributed digital collections network around the Mountain West and works to expand digital library services to additional memory institutions in the region.
In this webinar, Sandra and Rebekah will provide background on the hubs model, explain the different kinds of MWDL hubs, and discuss the need to update the current model of service. Time will be allotted for questions and discussions about the needs of both hubs and partners, and for ideas about how MWDL can modify the hubs model in the future.
MWDL Hosting Hubs Update: Services, Pricing, and HighlightsSandra McIntyre
Sandra McIntyre, Director
Rebekah Cummings, Assistant Director/Outreach Librarian
Tuesday, January 7, 2014
11:00 a.m.-12:00 noon MST / 10:00–11:00 a.m. PST
The Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) provides a central search portal to over 800,000 digital resources from memory institutions in Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Arizona, and Hawaii. MWDL partners typically work with one of approximately 30 MWDL hosting hubs. Hubs assist partners by providing digital collections training, digitization services, and repository hosting services. Through the hubs model MWDL supports a distributed digital collections network around the Mountain West and works to expand digital library services to additional memory institutions in the region.
In this webinar, Sandra and Rebekah will provide background on the hubs model, explain the different kinds of MWDL hubs, and discuss the need to update the current model of service. Time will be allotted for questions and discussions about the needs of both hubs and partners, and for ideas about how MWDL can modify the hubs model in the future.
The document discusses UNLV Libraries' project to transform their digital collection metadata into linked open data. It describes how the project started as a study group and literature review in 2012. The goals were to preserve metadata richness when converting to a standard like Dublin Core and improve discoverability by publishing in the Linked Data Cloud. Technologies used included ContentDM, OpenRefine, Karma, Mulgara/Virtuoso triplestores, and SPARQL. The process involved cleaning, exporting, reconciling, generating RDF triples, importing to a triplestore, publishing, and querying the data. Visualizations were created using PivotViewer and RelFinder to showcase relationships. Next steps include transforming all collections and increasing linkages to other datasets.
Cloud-based Linked Data Management for Self-service Application DevelopmentPeter Haase
Peter Haase and Michael Schmidt of fluid Operations AG presented on developing applications using linked open data. They discussed the increasing amount of linked open data available and challenges in building applications that integrate data from different sources and domains. Their Information Workbench platform aims to address these challenges by allowing users to discover, integrate, and customize applications using linked data in a no-code environment. Key components of the platform include virtualized integration of data sources and the vision of accessing linked data as a cloud-based data service.
Linked Data Notifications Distributed Update Notification and Propagation on ...Aksw Group
Distributed Update Notification and Propagation on the Web of Data with: Linked Data Notifications, PubSubHubbub, Semantic Pingback and Structured Feedback
This was a presentation for the Connecticut Library Association 2016. It introduces how the Connecticut Digital Archive came to be, the challenges of the CTDA and how it is moving forward.
Session 1.4 a distributed network of heritage informationsemanticsconference
This document discusses strategies for improving discovery of digital heritage information across Dutch cultural institutions. It identifies problems with the current infrastructure based on OAI-PMH including lack of semantic alignment and inefficient data integration. The proposed strategy is to build a distributed network based on Linked Data principles, with a registry of organizations and datasets, a knowledge graph with backlinks to support resource discovery, and virtual data integration using federated querying of Linked Data sources. This will improve usability, visibility, and sustainability of digital heritage information in the Netherlands.
The document outlines the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), a national digital library that aggregates content from various cultural heritage institutions. It describes the DPLA's board, code, metadata practices, content from over 450 institutions, tools and services, community involvement, and pilot with service and content hubs to harvest metadata and content. The DPLA aims to provide open access to digitized materials from across the United States through its portal and API.
CLARIAH Toogdag 2018: A distributed network of digital heritage informationEnno Meijers
Slides of my keynote at the CLARIAH Toogdag 2018 on 9 March at the National Library of the Netherlands. The main topics were the development of the distributed digital heritage network and the alignment to and cooperation with the CLARIAH infrastructure and data. It also points at some of the current limitations of the semantic web technology.
About the Webinar
The library and cultural institution communities have generally accepted the vision of moving to a Linked Data environment that will align and integrate their resources with those of the greater Semantic Web. But moving from vision to implementation is not easy or well-understood. A number of institutions have begun the needed infrastructure and tools development with pilot projects to provide structured data in support of discovery and navigation services for their collections and resources.
Join NISO for this webinar where speakers will highlight actual Linked Data projects within their institutions—from envisioning the model to implementation and lessons learned—and present their thoughts on how linked data benefits research, scholarly communications, and publishing.
Speakers:
Jon Voss - Strategic Partnerships Director, We Are What We Do
LODLAM + Historypin: A Collaborative Global Community
Matt Miller - Front End Developer, NYPL Labs at the New York Public Library
The Linked Jazz Project: Revealing the Relationships of the Jazz Community
Cory Lampert - Head, Digital Collections , UNLV University Libraries
Silvia Southwick - Digital Collections Metadata Librarian, UNLV University Libraries
Linked Data Demystified: The UNLV Linked Data Project
3-27-12 Preservation & Archiving Highlights from ADR - Presentation SlidesDuraSpace
This webinar discussed the Alliance Digital Repository (ADR) managed by the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries. The ADR launched in 2006 using Fedora as its initial platform but migrated to Islandora in 2011. It currently hosts over 48,000 objects for 9 member institutions. The webinar covered ADR's history, governance structure, policies for content identification and metadata, and plans to further develop the repository with Islandora and DuraCloud in 2012. Attendees were also polled on their institutions' digital repository experience.
Global lodlam_communities and open cultural dataMinerva Lin
This document provides an overview of linked open data in libraries, archives, and museums. It defines linked open data and open cultural data, and discusses their importance in enabling connections and collaboration. The history and role of communities in advancing open cultural data initiatives are described. Key events like the LODLAM summits that brought the community together are summarized. The document promotes open data standards and licensing to realize the full potential of linked open cultural data.
Resource sync overview and real-world use cases for discovery, harvesting, an...openminted_eu
This document summarizes an overview presentation about ResourceSync and its implementations at Hyku and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). Some key points:
- ResourceSync was developed as an update to OAI-PMH for synchronizing web resources between systems in a more flexible way. It supports resource lists, change lists, and dumps.
- Hyku has implemented ResourceSync publishing capabilities, and the DPLA has developed a harvester for the Hyku endpoint. This allows for incremental metadata updates rather than full resynchronization of data sets.
- Next steps include potentially supporting resource dumps in Hyku and harvesting from 3 DPLA providers using ResourceSync by the end of the year
Slides from our tutorial on Linked Data generation in the energy domain, presented at the Sustainable Places 2014 conference on October 2nd in Nice, France
CTDA Services for Academic InstitutionsGreg Colati
The document discusses the Connecticut Digital Archive (CTDA), a service of the University of Connecticut Libraries and the Connecticut State Library. The CTDA preserves, manages, and provides access to digital cultural and academic materials from non-profit institutions in Connecticut. It addresses the challenges of ensuring digital resources remain accessible and usable over time. The CTDA offers a range of services, including preservation storage, metadata services, and presentation channels to help organizations share their digital collections while retaining ownership of content.
The Canadian Linked Data Initiative: Charting a Path to a Linked Data FutureNASIG
As libraries prepare to shift away from MARC to a linked data framework, new convergences in the metadata production activities of our libraries' technical services units, special collections, and digital libraries are becoming possible. In September 2015, the Canadian Linked Data Initiative (CLDI) was formed to leverage the existing collaboration between the Technical Services departments of Canada’s top 5 research libraries and the Library and Archives of Canada. Working cooperatively, our objective is to provide a path to linked data readiness for our institutions and leadership for the adoption of linked data by libraries across Canada. To achieve this goal, partner libraries are working across departments and institutions to create new workflows and tools and adapt to a new conceptual understanding of descriptive metadata. This presentation is a preliminary report on the progress made in five key areas of interest: digital collections, education and training, MARC record enhancement, evaluation of linked data tools and vendor supplied metadata. Building on existing initiatives, the CLDI is investigating the potential of integrating linked data elements into digitized collections, as well as MARC-based bibliographic and authority records, with the aim of fostering new and interesting pathways for resource discovery. To strengthen and expand the professional knowledge of staff, partner institutions are collaborating in the production of educational and training materials related to linked data principles and practices. The evaluation and potential development of linked data tools is another area of concentration. Finally, with the goal of changing workflows upstream, the CLDI is working to engage publishers and vendors in the linked data conversation. In addition to reporting on the work undertaken in the first year of the project, this presentation will also cover lessons learned and outline some of the new opportunities gained from working on a collaborative project that spans across multiple boundaries.
Marlene van Ballegooie, Metadata Librarian,
University of Toronto
Juliya Borie, University of Toronto Libraries
Andrew Senior, Coordinator,
E-Resources and Serials, McGill University
IASSIST40: Data management & curation workshopRobin Rice
The document summarizes Edinburgh DataShare, an open access data repository at the University of Edinburgh that supports the university's research data management policy. It stores a wide range of research data across disciplines. The repository uses the DSpace platform and is promoting open data, though getting some academics to deposit data can be challenging. It focuses on making metadata and data discoverable through various search tools and indexes. Basic quality assurance checks are performed during the self-deposit process.
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6. Timeline
• Hire staff
• Convene advisory &
working groups
• Develop infrastructure
• Establish workflows
• Gather data from NY 3Rs
hosted collections
• Create and distribute
guidelines for contribution
• Outreach to LAMS
statewide
• Grow New York content in
DPLA
Phase 1
October 2013 - April 2015
Phase 2
May 2015 - April 2016
10. Regional Partners
Hosted Regional Collections Non-hosted Regional Collections
Member institutions with:
• Locally hosted collections
– Large private institutions
– Small specialized institutions
with local systems
• Collections looking for a
home
12. What’s next
Phase 1
• First contribution to DPLA – happening now! 89,626 records
• Schedule monthly ongoing harvests
• Coordinate outreach and communication through 3R’s regional
liaisons in preparation for Phase 2
Phase 2
• Broaden contribution
• Streamline contribution processes
• Continue adding regionally hosted content
• Work with regional liaisons to include non-hosted partners
statewide
• Grow New York content in DPLA
15. Contribution
ESDN gets different metadata feeds from lots of partners:
CONTENTdm, Islandora, CollectiveAccess, ArchivalWare, etc.
DC, MODS right now.
ESDN maps all that data to MODS.
ESDN sends one stream of MODS data to DPLA.
23. Step by Step
• Get permission.
• Map collection metadata to our MODS for
sending to DPLA.
• Review data feed for inconsistency and mapping
issues (OAI must be configured).
• Check for presence of required and
recommended fields.
25. Get Permission
“I understand that the descriptive metadata – as distinguished from the
digital objects themselves – will be made freely available by the DPLA for
harvesting and re-use under a Creative Commons CC0 license.”
28. Required/Recommended Fields
• Required (per record):
• Title
• Rights
• Link to object in local context
• Link to thumbnail (where applicable)
• Other fields recommended :
• Date
• Place
• Type
• Subject
29. What should I do to get ready?
Administrative/Technical
• Start thinking about the permission letter.
• For local systems, verify that OAI or other
sharing protocols are configured.
30. What should I do to get ready?
Metadata
• Follow standards/local practices consistently.
• Read a bit about shareable metadata.
• Review your rights statements.
DPLA brings together digital resources from America’s libraries, archives and museums and it makes them freely available to the world.
In addition to their searchable portal which provides access to millions of items from libraries, archives, and museums around the US -- DPLA is also a platform with a free and open Application Programming Interface (API) for developers and programmers. The API encourages creative reuse of this shared content.
Where does all that content come from?
DPLA relies on a national network of partners called “Hubs”. Many of DPLA’s hubs are state or regionally based partners – these are the Service hubs shown in this diagram - that gather data from collecting institutions and share that data with DPLA.
ESDN is the New York State service hub for DPLA.
In May 2013 - the NY 3Rs association put out a report that named 6 initiatives as part of their strategic planning process. One of the 6 initiatives was the creation of a New York service hub for DPLA. It was agreed then that METRO would host the hub, but that it would be administered in collaboration with the other 8 regional councils that make up the NY 3R’s Association.
When the hub was announced a 3-year project plan was put in place. The plan was divided into two phases.
As you can see, we are now in the home stretch of Phase 1 which has focused primarily on laying the necessary groundwork to get the hub up and running. Basically, we’ve spent the past year putting the pieces in place to get our hub functional. And now we’re preparing to move into phase 2 this spring. Phase 2 is when the hub will really open for business. That’s when we will begin to open up participation more broadly throughout the state.
Phase 1 – we mostly focused on hosted 3R’s collections and low hanging fruit. We used select collections from regional projects and a few additional partners to get our infrastructure and workflows ironed out.
We roped in the State Library and the State Archives and we wanted to work with at least one large, private institution in the state, Columbia University. These organizations all agreed to provide us with data from their systems so that we could work through our technical processes – but even more importantly they’ve helped us establish our workflows for contribution.
So when we open up contribution more broadly in Phase 2 and begin bringing in content from all sorts of organizations statewide, we have some idea now of what our process needs to look like.
First of all, we’re clear now that we cannot sustain 1 to 1 relationships with every institution in the state that wants to contribute data to DPLA. Instead we will be relying on the 3R’s councils to facilitate the contribution process with new partners. We’re working now to implement a regionally coordinated approach.
We think this will function kind of like a statewide network of mini-hubs. Luckily, the state is already divided into to nine existing service regions.
This is the NY 3Rs councils map. In phase 2 of the ESDN project plan, all communication and contact with potential and existing contributors will be coordinated through the NY3R’s regional councils. Each regional council will host an ESDN liaison (a council staff member) who will be the primary contact for ESDN within a given part of the state. So there will be 9 liaisons statewide that will facilitate contribution to DPLA.
That facilitation will continue to include growing content from these hosted projects we’ve already been working with in Phase 1. We believe these projects will also provide a potential on-ramp to DPLA for small institutions in each region that can’t support their own systems locally.
Of course not every institution in the state has their digital content in one of these hosted projects. So, in addition to growing content from the existing hosted projects, regional liaisons will also facilitate partnerships with institutions that host collections locally.
The ESDN Regional Liaisons are already meeting as a group and working with ESDN staff to coordinate consistent and clear communication statewide.
For the Capital District, your regional liaison for ESDN will be Susan.
Susan has been working closely with us from the beginning. She will take the lead in contacting and communicating with institutions that would like to contribute to DPLA through ESDN.
If over the course of the past year you have reached out to ESDN directly to express interest in contributing – either via the online interest form, or speaking to me directly at conferences – that information has all been tracked and passed on to Susan so she is aware of your interest. Later this spring, once we enter phase 2, Susan will take the lead in reaching out to interested parties.
Some of you may have already heard from Susan and we’re very excited for the interest CDLC members have shown in participating in DPLA, we just ask your patience as we move forward to begin rolling partners into the project.
11,324 from CDLC member institutions in this first batch. (miSci – contributed 5,286 records; Sage – contributed 176 records). We have partners in other regions contributing as few as 1 record. Quantity doesn’t matter. To us it’s about representing the state’s cultural heritage as completely as we can.
Mission/primary goal of a service hub (from a metadata perspective), taken from DPLA Hubs info page.
Want to use this as the basis for a relatively high-level discussion about how we provide metadata records to the DPLA.
Up till this point, majority of content from CONTENTdm hosted collections. CONTENTdm uses Dublin Core. Other systems store data in other metadata formats like MARC or MODS.
So, as we’re pulling records from all kinds of different systems we need to have one common standard that we’re mapping stuff to.
Aggregation process – the business of ESDN in a nutsell.
Partner metadata coming from CONTENTdm, Islandora, CollectiveAccess, ArchivalWare, etc. – currently aggregating from 71 institutions
Pull in data from multiple providers in all kinds of formats. We apply transformations to address weird system quirks and inconsistencies in date fields, etc. We output one single, normalized stream of data to DPLA.
Aggregation process – the business of ESDN in a nutshell.
Partner metadata coming from CONTENTdm, Islandora, CollectiveAccess, ArchivalWare, etc. – currently aggregating from 71 institutions
Pull in data from multiple providers in all kinds of formats. We apply transformations to address weird system quirks and inconsistencies in date fields, etc. We output one single, normalized stream of data to DPLA.
This is a screen grab of one of miSci’s records in New York Heritage (General Electric Photographs Collection). It’s one of 4,689 records in this collection in COTNENTdm. You can see a little snippet of the Dublin Core metadata that displays to the public.
Behind the scenes, when we pull data from New York Heritage, we’re using the OAI-PMH protocol to pull the metadata from this collection into our aggregation tool, REPOX.
Here’s what the OAI-PMH – the raw dublin core that we pull from CONTENTdm - for that same record looks like. When you enter data into a system like CONTENTdm and it might ask you to map it to a dublin core field – that system then outputs this record in an XML feed of dublin core data.
Systems like CONTENTdm often provide OAI capability or plugins so that a system administrator can choose to expose that feed to harvesters like ESDN.
We do this for every collection in NYH that we have permission to contribute to DPLA
Guess what record is included in miSci’s records we pulled from CONTENTdm? Here’s Mr McCune out put from REPOX as MODS which we will deliver to DPLA.
And then, once our records are actually live in DPLA, this is how that data will be displayed in DPLA’s portal.
One of the key pieces of our contribution workflow which will be coordinated through the regional liaisons will be the acquisition of permissions letters from each contributing institution.
Our agreement with DPLA specifies that we need to obtain written permission from libraries and archives before we start harvesting and sharing their metadata. That seems fair. So, we have decided to do this a little less formally than they do in some other states. We are not asking for institutions to sign a legal agreement with ESDN or anything like that. We are simply asking institutions to provide a signed letter on their letter head specifiying that they understand what were doing and that they agree to share their metadata with DPLA through ESDN.
I said “simply” but whether or not getting a letter like this signed is a simple process at any given organization seems to be a coin toss. The thing that makes some institutions nervous is this sentence:
A Creative Commons CC0 license effectively places your metadata in the public domain. All metadata contributed to DPLA is available for download and reuse by anyone for any purpose.
One of DPLA’s goals is to promote innovation and development within the cultural heritage community. Their commitment to open access goes beyond just making metadata searchable through their interface, it also includes making it available to developers and programmers to create new and transformative uses of our collective cultural heritage.
This can only work if all of the metadata contributed to DPLA is unencumbered by copyright restrictions.
We have some more information about CC0 and some additional information about this requirement and what it means will be available on our website. I’d like to encourage you to read more about this and get familiar with the language being used by us and the DPLA about opening up access to metadata. And also the many benefits that go along with this openness.
But please understand, this is a non-negotiable requirement for contribution to the DPLA. So, we do need a signed permission letter on file before we can share your data with the DPLA. For CDLC members, this is one of those things you’ll work with Susan on.
We do not require many fields, more optional and recommended fields. Low-barrier to entry.
One of the most time consuming pieces of the contribution workflow is getting the institutional letters signed by administrators. Some places need to go through a legal council, others don’t. Each local environment is different, so if this might take more time in your environment, you might want to lay a little ground work on this.
Another unexpected hiccup can be configuring your digital collections system to expose your data via OAI-PMH or some other sharing protocol. To be clear – if your collections are in one of the council hosted projects like in New York Heritage – you won’t have to worry about this at all.
Or, if your institution uses a proprietary digital collections tool like CONTENTdm, it might be as easy as clicking on a check box in the administrative module. However if your institution hosts digital projects in an open source system like Islandora or Collective Access you might need to do some work with your tech folks to get that set up so that we can harvest your data.
Again, these are things you can think about starting now, but once ESDN is fully functional and we begin open contributions more broadly, your council liaison will have information and resources for you to help get you step-by-step through the contribution process.
This is a question I get almost everywhere I go? How do we get ready to contribute to DPLA? What do we have to do?
As you can imagine, each institution and in fact each collection at each institution is unique. We really do look at each collection as it comes to us and we deal with data issues collection by collection. That said, here are some basic principles that if you can address some of these things now, it will make the whole processes much easier and may even increase the click backs you receive from the DPLA website after you contribute your data.
This is to say – if you’ve been following standards in metadata creation, that is fantastic. It doesn’t so much matter to us if you’ve followed those standards correctly, as long as you’ve followed them consistently. So, if your cataloger or metadata specialist has entered all of your creator names in a title field and all of your titles in a creator field – that’s fine by us! Because we can programmatically translate that very consistent mistake into the necessary fields on our end. Where things get tricky for us is when half of your title fields contain creator data and the other half contain title data. Then we have no way to distinguish which is which.
Begin thinking and reading about what your records might look like outside of their local context. If someone finds an image titled “boy on dock” within a clearly marked photography collection from the Hudson River Valley Swimmers Memorial collection, that title is going to make a lot of sense. However, if someone finds this record in DPLA or a google search, the title “boy on dock” loses a bit of context and meaning. As we begin to see our cultural heritage in a larger shared context, we’re realizing that what makes sense locally doesn’t always translate when a record is standing on it’s own. That’s what shareable metadata is all about in a nut shell. Google shareable metadata for more.
This one is one where I might get a little bit on my high horse so please bear with me. There is a long standing practice in digital collections of adding a single rights statement for every item in every collection that an institution owns. Existing statements often says something along the lines of: “All rights reserved” Or “Written permission is required” Or something like that. Often – VERY often – those statements are inaccurate. For example, if an all rights reserved statement is attached to a photograph from the 1890s we believe pretty strongly that that statement is inaccurate because a photo from the 1890’s is in the public domain. So, we are definitely encouraging folks – and DPLA is encouraging folks - to take a look at the rights statements in your records. Reconsider usage rights and apply statements that are as accurate as humanly possible.
To be clear, for the time being we will take your records even if you don’t fix any of these issues – and we know that going back and doing clean-up projects like this is no small deal. So, please don’t have metadata shame! Don’t hold back contribution because your data currently has one or all of these issues. The beautiful thing about incremental harvesting is that any changes you make to your records over time will be reflected in DPLA going forward. Clean-up is often a long term process and making your valuable materials accessible is much more important than having perfect records.