** apologies for crossposting **
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the Share Family Workshop that will be held on Monday, July 1st at 8.30am – 10am Pacific US Daylight Time | 5.30pm – 7pm Central European Summer Time, at ALA Conference 2024 in San Diego (Location: Marriott Marquis Hotel, Grand Ballroom Section 02).
The meeting is free and open and will be held in hybrid format, both in person and online. For those who can join the session in person, please note that the physical meeting room can accommodate up to 80 people. The Zoom link to join remotely and the detailed agenda will be shared later in June.
The previous Share-VDE Workshop at ALA Conference 2023 in Chicago provided an overview on Share-VDE and Share Family background, with a focus on the progress of the use cases and models for participation that inform the benefits that the common Share Family LOD Platform technology supports, and a première demo of JCricket Entity Editor supporting collective entity management in shared linked data environments (slides and recording available).
This year, we are happy to share major updates on the tools that the Share Family LOD Platform technology makes available to libraries, consortia and cultural heritage institutions to enable linked data interoperability. The program includes: the evolution of JCricket Entity Editor as a working tool that has been released to members of the Share-VDE and Share Family initiatives for linked data editing and entity sharing; the progress of the SVDE Ontology, modelling the backbone of the LOD Platform data structure and enabling interoperability across linked data formats; opportunities for the integration of Share tools with external networks and ILSs / LSPs; the presentation of a new paradigm for publishing and consuming linked data in a distributed and scalable approach; the practical experience of adopting BIBFRAME for transitioning from original UNIMARC records to linked data descriptions.
The event is also posted on ALA 2024 online programme.
Share-VDE and the Share Family linked data ecosystem are developed and driven by libraries and cultural heritage institutions, in an international collaborative, consortial effort. Share-VDE and the Share Family support the library community through the transition from bibliographic data in traditional formats to linked open data, leveraging the cooperation to put linked data workflows into practice. The adoption of the path of the entity-oriented environment, a collective approach to quality bibliographic metadata and the collaborative development of a common infrastructure benefit all member institutions, with time, expertise and costs shared across the community.
The role of Share-VDE in the linked open data ecosystem is outlined in the Executive Summary; Share-VDE also adopts an Open Metadata Policy, approved by the Advisory Council. The Share Family approach and technology empower consortia in the transition to linked open data, as outlined in the Executive Summary for Consortia.
For further information on the opportunities, visit https://www.share-family.org/ or contact info@svde.org.
Further documentation and resources are available on the wiki https://wiki.svde.org.
We look forward to meeting you in San Diego!
Nina Servizzi
on behalf of the Share Family Advisory Council
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Nina Servizzi
Assoc. Dean Knowledge Access & Resource Management Services
New York University
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