Jason Kovari Head of Metadata Services | Cornell University Library New York Technical Services Librarians 2016 May 04 Linked Data Efforts at Cornell University Library (selective) : a snapshot in time

Cornell University Library What is Linked Data? Linked Data?

Cornell University Library Why Linked Data in a Library Context? Linked Data?

Cornell University Library Collaboration Experimentation Difficulty Comprehensiveness Caveats

Cornell University Library Projects General Thoughts Table of Contents

Cornell University Library Linked Data for Libraries (LD4L) Phase 1,

Cornell University Library Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project: $999, LD4L, phase 1

Cornell University Library Collaboration -Cornell University Library (Lead Institution) -Harvard Library Innovation Lab -Stanford University Libraries LD4L, phase 1

Cornell University Library Use Cases : Clusters -Bibliographic + Curation data -Bibliographic + Person data -Leveraging External Data, including Authorities -Leveraging the Deeper Graph -Leveraging Usage Data LD4L, phase 1

Cornell University Library Ontology Individuals, too many to name but explicit mention of Jon Corson-Rikert, Steven Folsom, Rob Sanderson and Rebecca Younes as major players in ontology development (RDF available) LD4L, phase 1

Cornell University Library Ontology -Prior work -Ontology reuse -Created ontology LD4L, phase 1

Cornell University Library Ontology (RDF available) LD4L, phase 1

Cornell University Library Ontology LD4L, phase 1

Ontology Cornell University Library LD4L, phase 1

Cornell University Library LD4L, phase 1

Cornell University Library LD4L (continued)

Cornell University Library Linked Data for Production (LD4P)

Cornell University Library Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project: $1,466,000 LD4P

Cornell University Library Components -LD4P program -LD4P institutional projects LD4P

Cornell University Library Collaboration -Columbia University Libraries -Cornell University Library -Harvard University Library -Library of Congress -Princeton University Library -Stanford University Libraries (Lead) LD4P

Cornell University Library General areas of continued research (selective): -Data Persistence -Data Sharing -Tooling LD4P

Cornell University Library LD4L-O and BF2 alignment and assessment (current effort) LD4P

Cornell University Library Rare Materials ontology extension -Community effort (RBMS) -Kicking off later this week! LD4P - Cornell

Cornell University Library Native RDF Cataloging : 1000 Hip Hop LPs LD4P - Cornell

Cornell University Library Linked Data for Libraries - Labs (LD4L - Labs)

Cornell University Library Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project: $1,500,000 LD4L Labs

Cornell University Library Collaboration -Cornell University Library (Lead Institution) -Harvard University Library -Stanford University Libraries -University of Iowa LD4L Labs

Cornell University Library Technology development (sampling of initial priorities) Converter(s) LD4L Labs

Cornell University Library Technology development (sampling of initial priorities) Cataloging tool (RDF Instance Editor) LD4L Labs

Cornell University Library Authorities

Cornell University Library National Strategy for Shareable Local Name Authorities

Cornell University Library Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership Grants for Libraries National Digital Platform $98,484 Authorities Forum

Cornell University Library Problems Research Questions Goals Authorities Forum

Cornell University Library (Lead Institution) BIBFLOW Coalition for Networked Information Harvard Library Library of Congress OCLC ORCID organization Program for Cooperative Cataloging Social Networks and Archival Context (SNAC) Stanford University Library More! Cornell University Library Authorities Forum

Cornell University Library Authority Creation & Maintenance Experimentation, 2016

Cornell University Library Problem: high threshold for authority creation Problem: non-MARC authorities not controlled* Problem: local authorities are bound in siloes Problem: Cornell moving to a new ILS LTS Authority Pilot

Cornell University Library On-the-ground: -LD4L efforts -Open Library Environment implementation LTS Authority Pilot

Cornell University Library What exactly is happening? LTS Authority Pilot

Cornell University Library Back to Larger Program Area

Cornell University Library Again, this was a snapshot of selected projects in the program area

Cornell University Library General Thoughts

Cornell University Library The complexity of legacy data Miscellany

Cornell University Library Lots of Research Questions Remain Miscellany

Cornell University Library Collaboration is essential: Linked data in libraries cannot happen without technical services experts AND technologists!!! Miscellany

Cornell University Library We're hiring a Metadata Librarian! (posting should go live in next week or two) Miscellany

Cornell University Library Thank You! Questions? Jason Kovari |