Dear Colleagues,
For those of you attending ALA in Chicago, we are pleased to announce the Share-VDE Workshop that will be held on Monday, June 26th at 8.30am – 10.30am CDT, at McCormick Place Convention Center, meeting room W192c. 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.
After the 2022 event hosted at the Library of Congress, where significant upgrades to the system infrastructure were presented along with achievements in the broader Share Family linked data ecosystem where Share-VDE expands its liaisons, this year we will be happy to showcase the advancements in the cooperation that this library-driven initiative has been carrying on. The program includes an overview of Share-VDE and Share Family background; a focus on the progress of the working groups that inform the benefits that the common Share Family LOD Platform technology supports, to the advantage of the Share Family community and for the interoperability opportunities with third parties including ILS/LSP organizations and linked data networks; the demo of JCricket, the tool for entity management and a dedicated editor for linked data editing enabling entity sharing; use cases, future perspectives and models for participation.
The event is also posted in ALA 2023 online program.
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 its Advisory Council.
For further information on the opportunities, visit https://wiki.svde.org or contact info@svde.org.
We look forward to meeting you in Chicago!
Best wishes,
Beth
Beth Picknally Camden | Goldstein Director of Information Processing | University of Pennsylvania Libraries | 215-746-4149 | bethpc@upenn.edu | orcid.org/0000-0003-4964-5312 | http://bpcamden.wordpress.com/