Presentations
Reimagining digital data curation—New structured data approaches for digital collections (video)
The presenters will provide an overview of a pilot project using CONTENTdm to build, preserve, and showcase their digital collections, discuss the lessons learned so far, and preview the work ahead.
Topics: Linked Data, Works in Progress
How IIIF standards improve search and discovery for Cultural Heritage collections
Tampa, Florida, USA
IIIF is an emerging standard for sharing digital structural metadata. OCLC is an active member of the IIIF community and has been working to integrate the standard in is services/products. This talk discusses the experimental IIIF work being done by OCLC Research to help test evolving IIIF standards and help integrate them into production services.
Topics: IIIF, Linked Data
Introducing the CONTENTdm Linked Data Pilot Project
Indianapolis, IN, USA
The CONTENTdm Linked Data pilot explores how to convert CONTENTdm data into linked data, how to curate the data in the Wikibase infrastructure, and how to use the data to improve end-user experiences in CONTENTdm. This presentation covers the background research that led to the development of the pilot, the plans for the 3 phases of the pilot, and some early feedback from one of the pilot participants.
Topics: Linked Data, IIIF
IIIF Change Discovery in Action: Findings from an OCLC Research Experiment
Göttingen, Germany
OCLC Research is participating in the IIIF Discovery Working Group's on-going effort to develop a "Change Discovery API". The Change Discovery API will provide the information needed to discover and subsequently make use of IIIF resources.
Topics: IIIF, Linked Data
Adoption and Use of IIIF for Digital Resource Sharing in CONTENTdm
Columbus, OH (USA)
Huddleston and Mixter provide an overview of IIIF Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and how OCLC is using them across services, as well as our work in supporting standards with other organizations.
Topics: IIIF
Wikidata Lessons Learned
San Jose, CA (USA)
Jeff Mixter shares lessons learned during the Linked Data Wikibase Prototype pilot project, including features of MediaWiki and Wikibase and a variety of use cases.
Topics: Linked Data
Works in Progress Webinar: Prototype to Production: OCLC Work with the International Image Interoperability Framework (video)
In this webinar, members of the OCLC Research and Product teams discuss the history and strategy behind bringing IIIF support to CONTENTdm, the relationship between OCLC Research and the Product team in building a production service, and the upcoming work to implement the IIIF Discovery API specification at scale and to advance the standard.
Topics: IIIF, Research Library Partnership, Works in Progress
CONTENTdm IIIF Discovery API
Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)
Jeff Mixter details how OCLC Research built a Change Discovery API for all 14.4 million CONTENTdm items using the current IIIF Change Discovery API v0.2 spec, as well as current and future plans for the service.
Topics: IIIF
Lightening Talk - IIIF R&D at OCLC Research
Edinburgh, Scotland (UK)
This presentation provides an overview of OCLC Research's current work in IIIF, including IIIF Discovery API implementation and IIIF Manifest harvesting.
Topics: IIIF, Linked Data
Linked Data Prototype - Final Partner Meeting (video)
Virtual
Presented online to partner libraries to wrap-up the Linked Data Platform for Production Cataloging Workflows project
Additional Materials:
PowerPoint Slides (7.3MB)
Topics: Linked Data, Wikimedia