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The ALCTS Metadata Interest Group will hold a meeting at the ALA Midwinter
in Chicago on Sunday, February 1, 2015 from 8:30 to 10am in McCormick Place
West Room W176c. The meeting will include two presentations.
Jennifer Wright and Matt Carruthers from the University of Michigan
Libraries will present "Breaking the Bottleneck: Automating the
Reconciliation of Named Entities to the Library of Congress Name Authority
File."
“At the University of Michigan Libraries, we have developed an intuitive,
straight-forward process for automating the reconciliation of named
entities against the Library of Congress Name Authority File. Using
OpenRefine and stable, publicly available APIs, the process automatically
searches the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) for matches to
personal and corporate names, looks for a Library of Congress source
authority record in the matching VIAF cluster, and extracts the authorized
heading. The end result is a dataset, exportable from OpenRefine, with the
corresponding authorized LCNAF heading paired with the original name
heading, along with a link to the authority record on lccn.loc.gov. This
process is automated and requires no programming knowledge or support from
developers. Using this process, we have been able to reduce the time taken
to reconcile name headings drastically.
In this presentation, we will lead attendees through the quick and easily
generalizable process, and explain what is happening behind the scenes. We
will also discuss the impact it has had on our local workflows, the
limitations of the process, and detail how attendees can use this process
themselves to aid in their authority control processes.”
Nancy Fallgren and Barbara Bushman from the National Library of Medicine
will present "Linked Data Initiatives at NLM."
“In January 2014, following an environmental scan of linked data at peer
institutions and a survey of NLM’s “datascape”, NLM formed the Linked Data
Infrastructure Working Group to investigate the potential for publishing
NLM linked data, determine best practices for publishing NLM linked data,
and prioritize linked data projects. The Working Group was charged to
develop and build an infrastructure for transforming, storing and
publishing NLM linked data beginning with transforming MeSH as a linked
data pilot. This presentation will review the progress of our pilot
project to convert MeSH XML to MeSH RDF. We will discuss our collaborative
process, the technical and organizational issues we tackled, and the future
of linked data at NLM.”
We look forward to seeing you all there!
Program co-chairs,
Santi Thompson
Head of Digital Repository Services, University of Houston Libraries
(713) 743-9685 | sathompson3_at_uh.edu
Liz Woolcott
Digital Discovery Librarian, Utah State University
(435) 797-9458 | liz.woolcott_at_usu.edu
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