Introduction to SKOS given at the Linked Data Working Group meeting, 20 September 2016, at the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida
Notes from the Library Juice Academy courses on XPath, XSLT, and XQuery: Univ...Allison Jai O'Dell
This document summarizes key concepts about XML, XPath, XSLT, and XQuery. It provides examples of using XPath to select nodes from an XML document, using XSLT to transform XML documents to other formats like HTML, and using XQuery to query XML data. XPath is used to navigate XML, XSLT transforms XML documents, and XQuery combines XPath and FLWOR expressions to process, join, and return XML data. Examples demonstrate selecting nodes, transforming XML to XML and HTML, and the basic structure of XQuery with FLWOR expressions.
This document provides an overview of taxonomy, ontology, folksonomies, and SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization Systems). It defines each concept and provides examples. Taxonomy is described as a subject-based classification system. Ontology is defined as a formal specification of concepts and relationships. Folksonomies allow user-generated tagging. SKOS provides a standard for sharing and linking knowledge organization systems on the web. Bibliographies with relevant references are also included for each topic.
Presentación del Dr. Getaneh Alemu (Solent University, Reino Unido), en el II Congreso de Información, Comunicación e Investigación (CICI 2018) “Metadatos y Organización de la Información”. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, México. Evento organizado por el Cuerpo Académico 'Estudios de la Información' y el Grupo Disciplinar ‘Información, Lenguaje, Comunicación y Desarrollo Sostenible’. 29 de octubre de 2018.
Sherif Metadata Talk - London (June 25th 2018)Getaneh Alemu
This document summarizes the existing challenges and opportunities in the cataloguing and metadata function of Southampton Solent University. It discusses how the university has shifted to primarily electronic resources and moved to enrich metadata through standards like RDA. It also touches on balancing metadata quality with completeness while avoiding duplication through techniques like WEMI and FRBRization. The future of metadata is discussed as being enriched, linked, open and filtered.
Notes from the Library Juice Academy courses on XPath, XSLT, and XQuery: Univ...Allison Jai O'Dell
This document summarizes key concepts about XML, XPath, XSLT, and XQuery. It provides examples of using XPath to select nodes from an XML document, using XSLT to transform XML documents to other formats like HTML, and using XQuery to query XML data. XPath is used to navigate XML, XSLT transforms XML documents, and XQuery combines XPath and FLWOR expressions to process, join, and return XML data. Examples demonstrate selecting nodes, transforming XML to XML and HTML, and the basic structure of XQuery with FLWOR expressions.
This document provides an overview of taxonomy, ontology, folksonomies, and SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization Systems). It defines each concept and provides examples. Taxonomy is described as a subject-based classification system. Ontology is defined as a formal specification of concepts and relationships. Folksonomies allow user-generated tagging. SKOS provides a standard for sharing and linking knowledge organization systems on the web. Bibliographies with relevant references are also included for each topic.
Presentación del Dr. Getaneh Alemu (Solent University, Reino Unido), en el II Congreso de Información, Comunicación e Investigación (CICI 2018) “Metadatos y Organización de la Información”. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de la Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, México. Evento organizado por el Cuerpo Académico 'Estudios de la Información' y el Grupo Disciplinar ‘Información, Lenguaje, Comunicación y Desarrollo Sostenible’. 29 de octubre de 2018.
Sherif Metadata Talk - London (June 25th 2018)Getaneh Alemu
This document summarizes the existing challenges and opportunities in the cataloguing and metadata function of Southampton Solent University. It discusses how the university has shifted to primarily electronic resources and moved to enrich metadata through standards like RDA. It also touches on balancing metadata quality with completeness while avoiding duplication through techniques like WEMI and FRBRization. The future of metadata is discussed as being enriched, linked, open and filtered.
Presented for managers & researchers at The Global One Health Initiative of the Ohio State University, Africa Regional Branch in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (April 24th 2019)
Infromation Reprentation,Structured Data and SemanticsYogendra Tamang
This document provides an overview of information representation standards including XML, DTD, XML Schema, RDF, RDF Schema, and related technologies. It describes the basic structures and components of these standards for representing structured data and semantics on the web.
From the principle of sufficiency and necessity to metadata enrichingGetaneh Alemu
In contrast to the principle of metadata simplicity and sufficiency, the principle of metadata enriching can be considered a departure from traditional cataloguing approaches where the focus was on metadata simplicity. Metadata created and managed following the principle of metadata enriching better responds to users’ needs. Whilst the principle of enriching results in a potential abundance of metadata, the principle of filtering is used to simplify its presentation by enabling a user-centred/focused/led design.
The document discusses guidelines for creating shareable MODS metadata records for the DLF Aquifer initiative. It provides an overview of the Aquifer project and its goal of aggregating digital collections. The guidelines were developed to promote consistent, coherent metadata that is understandable and useful outside local contexts. It outlines required and recommended MODS elements and provides examples to allow varying levels of functionality for end users searching and browsing aggregated collections. Current and future work includes validation tools and converting between MODS and MARC formats.
This presentation was provided by Ashley Clark, Northeastern University, during a NISO Virtual Conference on the topic of data curation, held on Wednesday, August 31, 2016
- The document discusses shareable metadata, the Metadata Object Description Standard (MODS), and the Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard.
- Shareable metadata promotes search interoperability across systems, is understandable outside its local context, is useful outside its local context, and is machine-processable.
- MODS is a simplified version of MARC that uses XML and is a useful middle ground between MARC and Dublin Core for library applications.
- RDA is a content standard that is closely aligned with MARC and MODS, and examples of RDA implementation in MODS would be useful.
The document discusses the Endeca Search software, including its functionality like keyword searching, relevance ranking, and faceted classification. It also covers how Endeca is extensible through features like taxonomy trees and thesaurus creation. Examples are given of how Endeca has been implemented at institutions like North Carolina State University and in applications like Harvard Business Online.
The document discusses possibilities for improving how libraries manage and disseminate information using semantic web technologies. It outlines tools like VIVO and Karma that can integrate relational data into RDF format. Examples show how Karma can be used to model person, position, and organization data from files into RDF triples. The conclusion states that while semantic technologies still have barriers, tools now exist to help libraries apply linked data principles.
This document discusses metadata and its importance for digital libraries and humanities. It defines metadata as "data about data" that describes resources to help users find, identify and select them. Metadata plays a crucial role in managing the huge amount of digital information and data available. The document advocates for an approach of enriching metadata by allowing both experts and users to contribute, and filtering it through customizable interfaces to meet diverse user needs.
An Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. University of Pretoria Visitor Presentation. Smithsonian Libraries. 20 September 2013.
Lice on the Web: A workshop on the new Phthiraptera websiteVince Smith
Smith, V.S. (2010). Lice on the Web: A workshop on the new Phthiraptera website
Forth-International Congress on Phthiraptera (ICP4)., Urgup, Cappadocia, Turkey. 13 -18 June.
Metadata enriching and discovery at Solent University Library Getaneh Alemu
This document discusses metadata enriching and discovery at Solent University. It begins with introductions and context about how enriched, linked, open and filtered metadata drives resource usage. It then discusses several principles of metadata including sufficiency, necessity, user convenience, representation and standardization. The document outlines how Solent University has enriched its metadata by importing subject headings and authorities. It discusses metadata linking, openness, filtering and usage. Overall it emphasizes the importance of enriching metadata and keeping interfaces simple while maximizing resource discovery and usage.
Slides from a webinar presentation organised by ALCTS -A division of the American Library Association - February 19th 2020. http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/021920
The return on investment for academic libraries is chiefly tied to access, usage, and impact. Without accurate, consistent, and quality metadata on the one hand, and an easy-to-use and effective discovery service on the other, these valuable resources may remain invisible and inaccessible to users. In this webinar, four overarching metadata principles, namely metadata enriching, linking, openness, and filtering, are presented. In addition, presenters will examine how these ideas help shape the metadata creation and discovery services at Solent University—focusing on the implementation of RDA and FRBR as well as the use of subject authority headings and authority controls.
The role of metadata for discovery: tips for content providersGetaneh Alemu
This presentation was made on 17th February 2022 at the NISO PLUS 2022 Conference. It offers an overview of IFLA’s LRM (FRBR) tasks, namely finding, identifying, selecting, obtaining, and exploring information resources. It points out that metadata is key for content distribution, visibility, discoverability, accessibility, sales and usage.
https://np22.niso.plus/Category/28a52f1d-a477-43e8-a7dc-abd009383a57
Metadata enriching and filtering for enhanced collection discoverability Getaneh Alemu
The return on investment for academic libraries is chiefly tied to access, usage and impact. Without accurate, consistent and quality metadata on the one hand, and an easy-to-use and effective discovery service on the other, these valuable resources may remain invisible and inaccessible to users. In this talk, Getaneh aims to present four overarching metadata principles, namely: metadata enriching, linking, openness and filtering. And how these ideas help shape the metadata creation and discovery services at Solent University – focusing on the implementation of RDA and FRBR as well as the use of subject headings and authority controls.
Current metadata landscape in the library world (Getaneh Alemu)Getaneh Alemu
The document summarizes the current metadata landscape in libraries. It discusses what metadata is, existing metadata challenges like growing collections and changing user expectations. It covers common metadata standards like MARC21, Dublin Core and frameworks like FRBR. The document emphasizes that metadata enables functions like search, discovery and organization. It discusses metadata enrichment through user tagging and linking metadata to controlled vocabularies. The future of metadata is seen as enriched, linked, open and filtered to meet changing needs.
Current metadata landscape in the library world Getaneh AlemuGetaneh Alemu
This workshop was presented at MTSR-2017 (Nov. 27, 2017) in Tallinn, Estonia http://www.mtsr-conf.org/index.php/programme The workshop aims to bring the current metadata landscape in libraries in context, with particular emphasis on emerging theory/principles and best practices covering:
• The theory of enriching and filtering
• Metadata enriching through RDA (Hands on - The RDA Toolkit and implementation of RDA at Southampton Solent University)
• Metadata filtering through FRBR (practical issues that cataloguers face in FRBRising their catalogue)
• Metadata management (metadata quality, authority control and subject headings)
• Metadata systems, tools and applications (practical issues of e-books and database cataloguing)
The document summarizes library resources and how LIS staff can help researchers at the university. It includes overviews of the extensive electronic journal collections, databases, citation searching tools, current awareness services, document supply, and access to other libraries. LIS staff can provide advice on database selection, different search approaches, additional learning resources, and access to resources outside of the university. A variety of library tutorials are also available.
This presentation is intended to create an overview upon the services and instruments the beneficiaries of LAM have at their disposal, and how LAMs understand to come in a helpful way towards meeting the expectations of their patrons. The range of instruments and services the user is accustomed to use are shown in order to make visible the gaps that are slowly getting bigger between the user and the LAM. This highly skilled user is searching to find the same instruments he is in the habit of using when he turns his limited attention towards LAMs searching for “stuff” BG (Before Google). Libraries, Archives and Museum are put in the position to adapt and rethink their role taking into consideration the user’s needs and information seeking and retrieving habits. Internet for him becomes more and more the primary source for information.
Next Generation Catalogs: Extensible Catalog, David Lindahlyouthelectronix
On Wednesday November 7th, 2007 David Lindahl from the University of Rochester discussed his work on the eXtensible Catalog project as part of a program on Next Generation Library Catalogs held at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and sponsored by the Five Colleges' Librarians Council and Simmons College Graduate School of Library & Information Science (GSLIS). More information is available here:http://www.smith.edu/libraries/staff/fivecoll/nextgen.htm
SQL: University of Florida Libraries, Linked Data Working Group, Tech Talk 20...Allison Jai O'Dell
SQL is a standard language for accessing and manipulating relational databases. It allows users to execute queries to retrieve, insert, update, and delete data. Some common SQL queries include SELECT statements to retrieve data, CREATE statements to build new databases and tables, and JOIN statements to combine data from multiple tables. SQL also supports functions, sorting, filtering, and aggregation of results.
Towards a Framework for Linked Rare Materials Metadata: An Overview of the Ta...Allison Jai O'Dell
The task force is charged with determining data elements for describing rare materials that are complementary to existing standards like DCRM and controlled vocabularies. Without consistent encoding and granular data, rare materials discovery is diminished. The task force proposes a framework of linked metadata elements for rare materials description that will enable improved discovery and utilization of existing standards. The framework includes over 50 proposed data elements across various categories for describing physical features, user engagement, production processes, and rights/restrictions.
Presented for managers & researchers at The Global One Health Initiative of the Ohio State University, Africa Regional Branch in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (April 24th 2019)
Infromation Reprentation,Structured Data and SemanticsYogendra Tamang
This document provides an overview of information representation standards including XML, DTD, XML Schema, RDF, RDF Schema, and related technologies. It describes the basic structures and components of these standards for representing structured data and semantics on the web.
From the principle of sufficiency and necessity to metadata enrichingGetaneh Alemu
In contrast to the principle of metadata simplicity and sufficiency, the principle of metadata enriching can be considered a departure from traditional cataloguing approaches where the focus was on metadata simplicity. Metadata created and managed following the principle of metadata enriching better responds to users’ needs. Whilst the principle of enriching results in a potential abundance of metadata, the principle of filtering is used to simplify its presentation by enabling a user-centred/focused/led design.
The document discusses guidelines for creating shareable MODS metadata records for the DLF Aquifer initiative. It provides an overview of the Aquifer project and its goal of aggregating digital collections. The guidelines were developed to promote consistent, coherent metadata that is understandable and useful outside local contexts. It outlines required and recommended MODS elements and provides examples to allow varying levels of functionality for end users searching and browsing aggregated collections. Current and future work includes validation tools and converting between MODS and MARC formats.
This presentation was provided by Ashley Clark, Northeastern University, during a NISO Virtual Conference on the topic of data curation, held on Wednesday, August 31, 2016
- The document discusses shareable metadata, the Metadata Object Description Standard (MODS), and the Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard.
- Shareable metadata promotes search interoperability across systems, is understandable outside its local context, is useful outside its local context, and is machine-processable.
- MODS is a simplified version of MARC that uses XML and is a useful middle ground between MARC and Dublin Core for library applications.
- RDA is a content standard that is closely aligned with MARC and MODS, and examples of RDA implementation in MODS would be useful.
The document discusses the Endeca Search software, including its functionality like keyword searching, relevance ranking, and faceted classification. It also covers how Endeca is extensible through features like taxonomy trees and thesaurus creation. Examples are given of how Endeca has been implemented at institutions like North Carolina State University and in applications like Harvard Business Online.
The document discusses possibilities for improving how libraries manage and disseminate information using semantic web technologies. It outlines tools like VIVO and Karma that can integrate relational data into RDF format. Examples show how Karma can be used to model person, position, and organization data from files into RDF triples. The conclusion states that while semantic technologies still have barriers, tools now exist to help libraries apply linked data principles.
This document discusses metadata and its importance for digital libraries and humanities. It defines metadata as "data about data" that describes resources to help users find, identify and select them. Metadata plays a crucial role in managing the huge amount of digital information and data available. The document advocates for an approach of enriching metadata by allowing both experts and users to contribute, and filtering it through customizable interfaces to meet diverse user needs.
An Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Martin R. Kalfatovic. University of Pretoria Visitor Presentation. Smithsonian Libraries. 20 September 2013.
Lice on the Web: A workshop on the new Phthiraptera websiteVince Smith
Smith, V.S. (2010). Lice on the Web: A workshop on the new Phthiraptera website
Forth-International Congress on Phthiraptera (ICP4)., Urgup, Cappadocia, Turkey. 13 -18 June.
Metadata enriching and discovery at Solent University Library Getaneh Alemu
This document discusses metadata enriching and discovery at Solent University. It begins with introductions and context about how enriched, linked, open and filtered metadata drives resource usage. It then discusses several principles of metadata including sufficiency, necessity, user convenience, representation and standardization. The document outlines how Solent University has enriched its metadata by importing subject headings and authorities. It discusses metadata linking, openness, filtering and usage. Overall it emphasizes the importance of enriching metadata and keeping interfaces simple while maximizing resource discovery and usage.
Slides from a webinar presentation organised by ALCTS -A division of the American Library Association - February 19th 2020. http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/021920
The return on investment for academic libraries is chiefly tied to access, usage, and impact. Without accurate, consistent, and quality metadata on the one hand, and an easy-to-use and effective discovery service on the other, these valuable resources may remain invisible and inaccessible to users. In this webinar, four overarching metadata principles, namely metadata enriching, linking, openness, and filtering, are presented. In addition, presenters will examine how these ideas help shape the metadata creation and discovery services at Solent University—focusing on the implementation of RDA and FRBR as well as the use of subject authority headings and authority controls.
The role of metadata for discovery: tips for content providersGetaneh Alemu
This presentation was made on 17th February 2022 at the NISO PLUS 2022 Conference. It offers an overview of IFLA’s LRM (FRBR) tasks, namely finding, identifying, selecting, obtaining, and exploring information resources. It points out that metadata is key for content distribution, visibility, discoverability, accessibility, sales and usage.
https://np22.niso.plus/Category/28a52f1d-a477-43e8-a7dc-abd009383a57
Metadata enriching and filtering for enhanced collection discoverability Getaneh Alemu
The return on investment for academic libraries is chiefly tied to access, usage and impact. Without accurate, consistent and quality metadata on the one hand, and an easy-to-use and effective discovery service on the other, these valuable resources may remain invisible and inaccessible to users. In this talk, Getaneh aims to present four overarching metadata principles, namely: metadata enriching, linking, openness and filtering. And how these ideas help shape the metadata creation and discovery services at Solent University – focusing on the implementation of RDA and FRBR as well as the use of subject headings and authority controls.
Current metadata landscape in the library world (Getaneh Alemu)Getaneh Alemu
The document summarizes the current metadata landscape in libraries. It discusses what metadata is, existing metadata challenges like growing collections and changing user expectations. It covers common metadata standards like MARC21, Dublin Core and frameworks like FRBR. The document emphasizes that metadata enables functions like search, discovery and organization. It discusses metadata enrichment through user tagging and linking metadata to controlled vocabularies. The future of metadata is seen as enriched, linked, open and filtered to meet changing needs.
Current metadata landscape in the library world Getaneh AlemuGetaneh Alemu
This workshop was presented at MTSR-2017 (Nov. 27, 2017) in Tallinn, Estonia http://www.mtsr-conf.org/index.php/programme The workshop aims to bring the current metadata landscape in libraries in context, with particular emphasis on emerging theory/principles and best practices covering:
• The theory of enriching and filtering
• Metadata enriching through RDA (Hands on - The RDA Toolkit and implementation of RDA at Southampton Solent University)
• Metadata filtering through FRBR (practical issues that cataloguers face in FRBRising their catalogue)
• Metadata management (metadata quality, authority control and subject headings)
• Metadata systems, tools and applications (practical issues of e-books and database cataloguing)
The document summarizes library resources and how LIS staff can help researchers at the university. It includes overviews of the extensive electronic journal collections, databases, citation searching tools, current awareness services, document supply, and access to other libraries. LIS staff can provide advice on database selection, different search approaches, additional learning resources, and access to resources outside of the university. A variety of library tutorials are also available.
This presentation is intended to create an overview upon the services and instruments the beneficiaries of LAM have at their disposal, and how LAMs understand to come in a helpful way towards meeting the expectations of their patrons. The range of instruments and services the user is accustomed to use are shown in order to make visible the gaps that are slowly getting bigger between the user and the LAM. This highly skilled user is searching to find the same instruments he is in the habit of using when he turns his limited attention towards LAMs searching for “stuff” BG (Before Google). Libraries, Archives and Museum are put in the position to adapt and rethink their role taking into consideration the user’s needs and information seeking and retrieving habits. Internet for him becomes more and more the primary source for information.
Next Generation Catalogs: Extensible Catalog, David Lindahlyouthelectronix
On Wednesday November 7th, 2007 David Lindahl from the University of Rochester discussed his work on the eXtensible Catalog project as part of a program on Next Generation Library Catalogs held at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and sponsored by the Five Colleges' Librarians Council and Simmons College Graduate School of Library & Information Science (GSLIS). More information is available here:http://www.smith.edu/libraries/staff/fivecoll/nextgen.htm
SQL: University of Florida Libraries, Linked Data Working Group, Tech Talk 20...Allison Jai O'Dell
SQL is a standard language for accessing and manipulating relational databases. It allows users to execute queries to retrieve, insert, update, and delete data. Some common SQL queries include SELECT statements to retrieve data, CREATE statements to build new databases and tables, and JOIN statements to combine data from multiple tables. SQL also supports functions, sorting, filtering, and aggregation of results.
Towards a Framework for Linked Rare Materials Metadata: An Overview of the Ta...Allison Jai O'Dell
The task force is charged with determining data elements for describing rare materials that are complementary to existing standards like DCRM and controlled vocabularies. Without consistent encoding and granular data, rare materials discovery is diminished. The task force proposes a framework of linked metadata elements for rare materials description that will enable improved discovery and utilization of existing standards. The framework includes over 50 proposed data elements across various categories for describing physical features, user engagement, production processes, and rights/restrictions.
Defining Usefulness and Facilitating Access Based on Research ApplicationsAllison Jai O'Dell
Presented at the IFLA 2016 World Library and Information Conference, Classification & Indexing Section Satellite Meeting, "Subject Access: Unlimited Opportunities"
Teaching Linked Data to Librarians: A Discussion of Pedagogical MethodsAllison Jai O'Dell
This document discusses pedagogical methods for teaching linked data concepts to librarians. It describes mini workshops on topics such as linked data principles, RDF, ontologies and query languages. It recommends making the material approachable by relating it to librarianship, providing opportunities for assessment and practice, and provoking conceptual change through dissatisfaction with prior knowledge, intelligible explanations, plausible alternatives and demonstrating usefulness.
Notes from the Library Juice Academy courses on “SPARQL Fundamentals”: Univer...Allison Jai O'Dell
This document provides an overview of SPARQL, the SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language, including its basic components and syntax. It discusses key SPARQL features and operators such as triple patterns, namespaces, SELECT, WHERE, DISTINCT, ORDER BY, LIMIT, OFFSET, UNION, property paths, and the four main SPARQL query forms: SELECT, CONSTRUCT, ASK, and DESCRIBE. It also provides examples of basic, more complex SELECT queries, and a CONSTRUCT query.
Understanding Regular expressions: Programming Historian Study Group, Univers...Allison Jai O'Dell
An accompaniment to the Programming Historian lesson on "Understanding Regular Expressions," http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/understanding-regular-expressions
Big Metadata: Mining Special Collections Catalogs for New KnowledgeAllison Jai O'Dell
This document discusses mining metadata from library catalogs to gain new insights. It defines metadata as "data about data" and notes that catalog metadata was traditionally stored in card catalogs. It describes how large amounts of semi-structured metadata can be analyzed as "big metadata" using techniques like data mining, topic modeling, visualization and pattern matching. A variety of tools are mentioned that can be used to perform these analyses in order to create discovery experiences and drive new insights from existing metadata. The goal is to leverage metadata already present in catalogs to benefit researchers.
'I need help and FAST!': Immediate Guided Search with the assignFAST GadgetAllison Jai O'Dell
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help boost feelings of calmness, happiness and focus.
Special Collections, Special Thesauri: Managing and Publishing Local Vocabula...Allison Jai O'Dell
Discusses the management of local vocabularies in special collections libraries. Ideas for publishing local vocabularies as Linked Open Data and building user interfaces.
Part of a co-presentation given at the Society of Florida Archivists 2014 Annual Meeting titled "Exploring EAC-CPF with the Remixing Archival Metadata Project (RAMP)." This section introduces EAC-CPF as a format for encoding creator records.
Descriptive Cataloging for Special Collections, University of Miami LibrariesAllison Jai O'Dell
A mini crash course on Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials alongside University of Miami Libraries cataloging guidelines for the Special Collections Department
Studying the book arts in the 21st century: using Linked Data to enhance know...Allison Jai O'Dell
This document discusses using linked data and metadata standards like EAC-CPF to enhance access to information about creators of book arts. It describes projects that link authority records of creators to additional resources like catalogs, datasets and biographies. The document advocates applying linked data practices and creator metadata to provide more context and connections regarding people involved in the production of books and other cultural artifacts.
Designing Metadata to Meet User Needs for Special CollectionsAllison Jai O'Dell
Users need subject and keyword access, relevance ranking, comprehensive coverage, and awareness of collections. To meet these needs, metadata should support controlled vocabularies, semantic search, and arrangement of items. Metadata should also be shared outside library systems through APIs, linked data, and data dumps to increase awareness of collections.
Pet 485 supervision presentation mike mc_kenziemaydaymckenzie
Michael McKenzie's presentation discusses supervision and reflection during student teaching. It aims to provide guidance to university supervisors, cooperating teachers, and teacher candidates on utilizing reflection and communication. Daily conferences with the cooperating teacher and weekly meetings with the university supervisor used a situated learning model of supervision to help the candidate develop from beginner to expert. Reflection, both during and after teaching experiences, was a key part of the process and utilized tools like video analysis, post-teaching analysis, and reflective writing. Challenges included things not going as planned and managing student behavior and time constraints.
SKOS - 2007 Open Forum on Metadata Registries - NYCjonphipps
An brief introduction to SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization Systems) and its usage in the NSDL Metadata Registry, with some discussion of current challenges.
The Web of Linked Open Data, or LOD, is the most relevant achievement of the Semantic Web. Initially proposed by Tim Berners-Lee in a seminal paper published in Scientific American in 2001, the Semantic Web envisions a web where software agents can interact with large volumes of structured, easy to process data. It is now when users have at our disposal the first, mature results of this vision. Among them, and probably the most significant ones, are the different LOD initiatives and projects that publish open data in standard formats like RDF.
This presentation provides an overview and comparison of different LOD initiatives in the area of patent information, and analyses potential opportunities for building new information services based on largely available datasets of patent information. Information is based on different interviews conducted with innovation agents and on the analysis of professional bibliography and current implementations.
LOD opportunities are not only restricted to information aggregators, but also to end-users and innovation agents that need to face with the difficulties of dealing with large amounts of data. In both cases, the opportunities offered by LOD need to be assessed, as LOD has just become a standard, universal method to distribute, share and access data.
Linking Folksonomies to Knowledge Organization SystemsJakob .
This document discusses linking folksonomies, which are user-generated tagging systems, to formal knowledge organization systems (KOS). It describes harvesting tags from Wikipedia and Stack Exchange to generate SKOS/RDF representations. These folksonomies are then enriched by linking tags to concepts in controlled vocabularies. The results include hierarchical links between tags, mappings to other KOS, and using these links to provide related documents and analyze document collections.
Knowledge organization (KO) refers to activities like document description, indexing and classification performed in libraries and databases to organize documents and concepts. Knowledge organization systems (KOS) include classification schemes, subject headings, thesauri and other systems used to organize information. KOS impose structures on collections and can be used in digital libraries to provide overviews and support retrieval, though different KOS may characterize entities differently. Common types of KOS include term lists, classifications and categories, and relationship lists.
Presentation at ISKO-UK Linked Data: The Future of Knowledge Organization on the Web conference. More at http://www.iskouk.org/events/linked_data_sep2010.htm
One of presentations given in "Where's the University?": building an institutional geolocation service: Janet McKnight and Sebastian Rahtz, Oxford University Computing Services- parallel session given at Institutional Web Management Workshop 2009, University of Essex, 28 - 30, July 2009
The document discusses perspectives on metadata from web resources and database systems. It describes how metadata comes in many forms and serves various purposes, such as supporting discovery and identification of information resources on the web (resource metadata), and ensuring consistency and analysis of structured data in databases (metadata in database systems). Resource metadata commonly follows standards and is stored separately from the resources it describes, while database metadata includes both structural metadata describing data organization and content metadata in the form of data dictionaries.
TSS 2017: Terminology and Knowledge Organization SystemsMichael Wetzel
Terminology Summer School 2017
What is a KOS, what are its benefits, typical examples, the role it plays in the Semantic Web. What is the difference between a classification, a taxonomy, a thesaurus, an ontology.
Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) in the Context of Semantic Web De...gardensofmeaning
The document discusses the development and use of SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System) for representing knowledge organization systems like thesauri and classification schemes as structured data on the semantic web. It describes how LCSH (Library of Congress Subject Headings) has been converted to RDF using SKOS and published as linked open data. It suggests further steps like linking LCSH to other metadata and developing RDF representations of additional bibliographic schemas.
The document discusses SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System), a common data model for sharing and linking knowledge organization systems on the web. SKOS allows publishing thesauri and other controlled vocabularies as linked data. It provides a simple framework for representing concepts and semantic relationships to support tasks like searching across mapped thesauri. SKOS has been adopted by several communities and projects for integrating and mapping their vocabularies and terminology systems.
This document summarizes the CyberStacks prototype, which applies traditional library classification and organization methods to facilitate access to science and technology resources on the World Wide Web. The prototype uses the Library of Congress classification system to organize selected Internet resources and provides browsable access through broad subject categories. It aims to enhance discovery and use of relevant resources by applying established selection criteria and presenting descriptive annotations. The document outlines the philosophy, organization, selection process, and access features of the CyberStacks prototype, arguing that familiar library structures and conventions can help users navigate Internet resources more effectively.
This document summarizes the CyberStacks prototype, which applies traditional library classification and organization methods to facilitate access to science and technology resources on the World Wide Web. Specifically, it uses the Library of Congress classification system to organize selected Internet resources into categories. This allows users to browse broad subjects and drill down into more specific topics. The goals are to reduce cognitive load for users and provide context among related resources. Key elements include selecting high-quality reference materials, classifying resources based on subject coverage, and presenting descriptive annotations to help users evaluate resources. The document argues this approach can make Internet resources easier to navigate for users familiar with traditional library systems and services.
Expressing Concept Schemes & Competency Frameworks in CTDLCredential Engine
This presentation is focused on how the Credential Engine can access 3rd party resource data stores and recipes for mapping and publishing competency frameworks as Linked Data.
OAIS: What is it and Where is it Going? - Don Sawyer (2002)faflrt
Open Archival Information Service (OAIS) workshop. Presented by Don Sawyer of NASA Goddard and Lou Reich, CSC contractor to NASA. Sponsored by ALA Federal and Armed Forces Libraries Roundtable (FAFLRT). Presented on June 15, 2002 at ALA Annual Conference.
Presented at DocTrain East 2007 by Joe Gelb, Suite Solutions -- Designing, building and maintaining a coherent information architecture is critical to proper planning, creation, management and delivery of documentation and training content. This is especially true when your content is based on a modular or topic-based model such as DITA and SCORM or if you are migrating to such a model.
But where to start? Terms such as taxonomy, semantics, and ontology can be intimidating, and recognized standards like RDF, OWL, Topic Maps (XTM) and SKOS seem so abstract. This pragmatic workshop will provide an overview of the standards and concepts, and a chance to use them hands-on to turn the abstract into tangible skills. We will demonstrate how a well-designed information architecture facilitates reuse and how the information model is integrally connected to conditional and multi-purpose publishing.
We will introduce an innovative, comprehensive methodology for information modeling and content development called SOTA Solution Oriented Topic Architecture. SOTA does not aim to be yet another new standard, but rather a concrete methodology backed up with open-source and accessible tools for using existing standards. We will demonstrate ֖and practice—hands-on—how this powerful methodology can help you organize and express information, determine which content actually needs to be created or updated, and build documentation and training deliverables from your content based on the rules you define.
This workshop is essential for successfully implementing topic models like DITA and SCORM, multi-purpose conditional publishing, and successfully facilitating content reuse.
Knowledge Organisation Systems in Digital Libraries: A Comparative StudyBhojaraju Gunjal
The document presents a study that compares the different Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS) used in major digital libraries. It finds that while traditional libraries used standardized systems like classification schemes, digital libraries employ various KOS tools including thesauri, ontologies, and subject headings. The study analyzes the specific KOS used in different digital libraries and summarizes the current state of KOS in these libraries.
End-to-end pipeline agility - Berlin Buzzwords 2024Lars Albertsson
We describe how we achieve high change agility in data engineering by eliminating the fear of breaking downstream data pipelines through end-to-end pipeline testing, and by using schema metaprogramming to safely eliminate boilerplate involved in changes that affect whole pipelines.
A quick poll on agility in changing pipelines from end to end indicated a huge span in capabilities. For the question "How long time does it take for all downstream pipelines to be adapted to an upstream change," the median response was 6 months, but some respondents could do it in less than a day. When quantitative data engineering differences between the best and worst are measured, the span is often 100x-1000x, sometimes even more.
A long time ago, we suffered at Spotify from fear of changing pipelines due to not knowing what the impact might be downstream. We made plans for a technical solution to test pipelines end-to-end to mitigate that fear, but the effort failed for cultural reasons. We eventually solved this challenge, but in a different context. In this presentation we will describe how we test full pipelines effectively by manipulating workflow orchestration, which enables us to make changes in pipelines without fear of breaking downstream.
Making schema changes that affect many jobs also involves a lot of toil and boilerplate. Using schema-on-read mitigates some of it, but has drawbacks since it makes it more difficult to detect errors early. We will describe how we have rejected this tradeoff by applying schema metaprogramming, eliminating boilerplate but keeping the protection of static typing, thereby further improving agility to quickly modify data pipelines without fear.
06-04-2024 - NYC Tech Week - Discussion on Vector Databases, Unstructured Data and AI
Round table discussion of vector databases, unstructured data, ai, big data, real-time, robots and Milvus.
A lively discussion with NJ Gen AI Meetup Lead, Prasad and Procure.FYI's Co-Found
Global Situational Awareness of A.I. and where its headedvikram sood
You can see the future first in San Francisco.
Over the past year, the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100 billion clusters to trillion-dollar clusters. Every six months another zero is added to the boardroom plans. Behind the scenes, there’s a fierce scramble to secure every power contract still available for the rest of the decade, every voltage transformer that can possibly be procured. American big business is gearing up to pour trillions of dollars into a long-unseen mobilization of American industrial might. By the end of the decade, American electricity production will have grown tens of percent; from the shale fields of Pennsylvania to the solar farms of Nevada, hundreds of millions of GPUs will hum.
The AGI race has begun. We are building machines that can think and reason. By 2025/26, these machines will outpace college graduates. By the end of the decade, they will be smarter than you or I; we will have superintelligence, in the true sense of the word. Along the way, national security forces not seen in half a century will be un-leashed, and before long, The Project will be on. If we’re lucky, we’ll be in an all-out race with the CCP; if we’re unlucky, an all-out war.
Everyone is now talking about AI, but few have the faintest glimmer of what is about to hit them. Nvidia analysts still think 2024 might be close to the peak. Mainstream pundits are stuck on the wilful blindness of “it’s just predicting the next word”. They see only hype and business-as-usual; at most they entertain another internet-scale technological change.
Before long, the world will wake up. But right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness. Through whatever peculiar forces of fate, I have found myself amongst them. A few years ago, these people were derided as crazy—but they trusted the trendlines, which allowed them to correctly predict the AI advances of the past few years. Whether these people are also right about the next few years remains to be seen. But these are very smart people—the smartest people I have ever met—and they are the ones building this technology. Perhaps they will be an odd footnote in history, or perhaps they will go down in history like Szilard and Oppenheimer and Teller. If they are seeing the future even close to correctly, we are in for a wild ride.
Let me tell you what we see.
4th Modern Marketing Reckoner by MMA Global India & Group M: 60+ experts on W...Social Samosa
The Modern Marketing Reckoner (MMR) is a comprehensive resource packed with POVs from 60+ industry leaders on how AI is transforming the 4 key pillars of marketing – product, place, price and promotions.
Predictably Improve Your B2B Tech Company's Performance by Leveraging DataKiwi Creative
Harness the power of AI-backed reports, benchmarking and data analysis to predict trends and detect anomalies in your marketing efforts.
Peter Caputa, CEO at Databox, reveals how you can discover the strategies and tools to increase your growth rate (and margins!).
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This is the webinar recording from the June 2024 HubSpot User Group (HUG) for B2B Technology USA.
Watch the video recording at https://youtu.be/5vjwGfPN9lw
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Natural Language Processing (NLP), RAG and its applications .pptxfkyes25
1. In the realm of Natural Language Processing (NLP), knowledge-intensive tasks such as question answering, fact verification, and open-domain dialogue generation require the integration of vast and up-to-date information. Traditional neural models, though powerful, struggle with encoding all necessary knowledge within their parameters, leading to limitations in generalization and scalability. The paper "Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks" introduces RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation), a novel framework that synergizes retrieval mechanisms with generative models, enhancing performance by dynamically incorporating external knowledge during inference.
SKOS, Simple Knowledge Organization System: University of Florida Libraries, Linked Data Working Group Tech Talk, 2016-09-20
1. TechTalk
Linked Data Working Group
20 September 2016
SKOS:
Simple Knowledge Organization System
Allison Jai O’Dell | AJODELL@ufl.edu
2. Knowledge Organization Systems
“The term knowledge organization systems is intended to encompass all
types of schemes for organizing information and promoting knowledge
management. Knowledge organization systems include classification
schemes that organize materials at a general level (such as books on a
shelf), subject headings that provide more detailed access, and authority
files that control variant versions of key information (such as
geographic names and personal names). They also include less-
traditional schemes, such as semantic networks and ontologies.”
-- https://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub91/1knowledge.html
3. SKOS
Simple Knowledge Organization System
“SKOS provides a standard way to represent knowledge organization systems using the
Resource Description Framework (RDF).” -- https://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/intro