2019 LD4 Conference: Kickoff session. Kovari; Schreur; Lih; Rust; Berry

LD4 Conference on Linked Data in Libraries, Boston, Massachusetts May 10, 2019
Kickoff session.
Facilitator: Jason Kovari
Philip Schreur. Linked Data for Production (LD4P): Evolving Goals, Developing Dreams
LD4P began as tool for the transformation of library metadata production from workflows based in the MARC formats to linked data. As the project evolves, however, it becomes an opportunity to reevaluate the library’s role in a developing, worldwide information ecosystem.
Andrew Lih. Linking the World's Knowledge through Wikidata - A vision for connected cultural heritage with the crowd
While much of the world knows about Wikipedia, the emergence of Wikidata as a key global structured data project has only recently emerged as a key way to engage libraries, archives and museums. Andrew will discuss the ways in which the Wikimedia movement has adopted Wikidata and how it interfaces to institutions and collections through linked open data initiatives and innovative reuse. He will talk about notable projects that showcase these and a vision for the future which includes projects such as Structured Data on (Wikimedia) Commons, a global citation database in WikiCite and unified collections contributions workflows now being engineered tougher by the Wikimedia community and GLAM institutions.
Dorothy Berry and Amanda Rust. Description and Inclusion: Surfacing Whose Histories?
Through considering a case study written for the Design for Diversity project, we will consider how metadata and aggregation across collections has simultaneous potentials: to perhaps surface a more diverse range of histories and cultures; to perhaps surface those histories but through metadata that still lacks cultural relevance or respect; or to perhaps only re-inscribe the largely white, largely male histories represented in U.S. library, archive, and museum collections. Amanda Rust will first briefly introduce the Design for Diversity project, and Dorothy Berry will then discuss her work making African American materials more discoverable through digitization and metadata aggregation in Umbra Search.
Panel Q&A