Today's Topics:

   1. ALA Annual 2016 - Linked Library Data IG Program (Elaine Franco)
   2. ALA Annual 2016: ALCTS CaMMS Heads of Cataloging IG: Monday,  June 27,
8:30-10 am (Convention Center S320 A-C) (Elaine Franco)

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We are excited to announce three exceptional presentations at this year ALA
Annual Linked Library Data Interest Group session to be held at
8:30-10:00AM, Saturday, June 25, 2016 in W208 at Orange County Convention
Center (OCCC).

1. Title - OpenVIVO: a hosted platform for representing scholarly work

Description: OpenVIVO is a hosted, VIVO system that anyone with an ORCiD
identifier can use. Using ORCiD identifiers for signon and contributor
identification, OpenVIVO can gather works from Figshare, ORCiD, PubMed, and
CrossRef. A signed on user can add a paper, or other identified work, to
their profile by providing the DOI, along with the contribution they made to
the work.

OpenVIVO loads the metadata for the publication from CrossRef in real time.
GRID data is used to identify organizations. An extensive list of journals
is included. Data is published to GitHub on a daily basis for anyone to use.
Features developed for OpenVIVO will become part of VIVO in future releases.
OpenVIVO demonstrates the value of augmentation of the scholarly record with
identifiers, the addition and tracking of contribution types, the value of
open, immediate reuse of the data through daily export under FAIR (Findable,
Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) data principles.

VIVO, on which OpenVIVO is based, is an open source, community supported,
linked data system for representing scholarly work. Institutions host VIVO
to collect, represent, and provide information regarding the scholarly work
at their institutions and the people involved in that work. Using the
VIVO-ISF ontology, VIVO provides an open platform for integrating
information from repositories, publishers, funding agencies, and others,
providing that information to the public in the form of data driven profile
pages, and using the data to learn more about the nature of scholarship, and
in particular, the interactions of scholars as coauthors, teachers, mentors,
and grant participants. Data from VIVO has been used for expert finding,
social network analysis, program evaluation, faculty development, grant
writing, and team building.

The talk will describe OpenVIVO and its value to scholars and those who
study scholarship. Features, design decisions and experience will be
described, as well as relationships between OpenVIVO, institutional VIVOs,
and other elements of the scholarly ecosystem. Use of OpenVIVO data will be
described through examples of cross site search, and pattern analysis.

Speaker: Michael Conlon, PhD, VIVO Project Director, Emeritus Faculty,
University of Florida

2. Title: Linked Data for Production : Research Questions and Project Goals

Description: Following the completion of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
funded Linked Data for Libraries (LD4L) phase 1 (2014-2016), the libraries
of Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton and Stanford Universities along
with the Library of Congress partnered on Linked Data for Production (LD4P),
a research project investigating linked data in a technical services
environment. This Mellon funded effort includes cataloging natively in RDF,
data conversion and developing ontology extensions for the description of
art, cartographic materials, performed music and rare materials.

This presentation will detail the research questions raised in LD4P, which
are also relevant for all linked data implementations in libraries,
including data persistence and sharing as well as technical infrastructure.
It will provide an overview of the LD4P institutional projects and discuss
the alignment between the LD4P program and LD4L Labs, a complementary Andrew
W. Mellon Foundation funded project developing tools in support of linked
data in a library context.

Speakers:

Jason Kovari, Head of Metadata Services, Cornell University

Nancy Lorimer, Head of Metadata Department, Stanford University

Non-presenting co-authors:

Joyce Bell, Cataloging & Metadata Services Director, Princeton University

Steven Folsom, Metadata Technologies Program Manager, Harvard University

Sally McCallum, Chief, Network Development/MARC Standards Office, Library of
Congress

Melanie Wacker, Metadata Coordinator, Columbia University

3. Title: Linking People: Developing Collaborative Regional Vocabularies

Description: The University of Utah was awarded an IMLS grant titled
"Linking People: Developing Collaborative Regional Vocabularies." This
project involves four phases: 1) investigating data models to express
local/regional name authority data using linked data standards; 2)
evaluation of tools used for creating, maintaining, and making this data
available; 3) pilot implementation using the tools investigated in the
second phase; 4) assessment of how this type of authority data can improve
digital collection metadata on a local, regional, and national level. This
presentation will foster a discussion about the benefits of collaborative
regional authority control and encourage audience participation and feedback
in articulating additional use cases for the development of local/regional
ontologies. Current constraints for authority control in digital collections
using linked data standards will be explored, as will the impact in
discoverability on harvested metadata in an agg!
 regated repository.

Speakers:

Jeremy Myntti, Head of Digital Library Services, University of Utah

Anna Neatrour, Metadata Librarian, University of Utah

We look forward to seeing you all there!

Violeta Ilik, Co-Chair LLD IG
Jee Davis, Co-Chair LLD IG

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Please mark your calendar and join us:

Title: Toward Semantic Metadata Aggregation for DPLA and Beyond
Location: Convention Center S320 A-C
Time: Monday, June 27, 8:30-10 am
http://connect.ala.org/node/253236

Description: What happens when metadata that was created for a specific
library catalog is aggregated and re purposed for a network-scale discovery
environment like DPLA? What kinds of data modeling, mapping, remediation,
and reconciliation are needed in advance of such aggregation?  What happens
when metadata from different domains (e.g., galleries, libraries, archives,
museums), created with different standards and schemas are forced to
inter-operate semantically? These are some of the questions will be
investigating at the Heads of Cataloging/Metadata Interest Group meeting at
ALA Annual. Our panelists will be Josh Hadro, Deputy Director of NYPL Labs
and Jason Roy, Director of Digital Library Services at the Minnesota Digital
Library.

Co-chair:

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Daniel Lovins
Head of Knowledge Access, Design & Development Knowledge Access & Resource
Management Services New York University, Division of Libraries
20 Cooper Square, 3rd floor (311)
New York, NY 10003-7112
[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>
212-998-2489

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Jackie Shieh || Coordinator, Resource Description || George Washington
University Libraries jshieh [at] gwu.edu ||
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3214-8846


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