Location: Marriott Marquis, Grand Ballroom Section 02
Materials available on the SVDE wiki. The Share Family, evolved from the successful model originated from Share-VDE pilot project began in October 2016, is an international library-driven initiative devoted to implement linked data based on the Library of Congress’ BIBFRAME ontology. This initiative brings together consortial and individual library members working collaboratively for the creation, management, and discovery of library collections transformed to the BIBFRAME based linked open data structure to present library’s collections and agents data enriched with interlinks dynamically across the Web, as shown in its beta release. Library’s authority files received a new makeover as an entity identity management service, enabling librarians and machines to interact and enhance with reliable and up-to-date Web sources utilizing HTTP URIs. The technology lessens the challenges of data normalization and standardization, assuring data accuracy and inducing in users the high confidence of the relevancy from search results. JCricket, the entity management tool, is system agnostic. It aims to give the Share Family ability to manage and publish entities in their respective native Share Family environments, also in their local ILS/LSP system (e.g., FOLIO, Alma). In addition, interacts with other BIBFRAME editors, such as Sinopia. The Share-VDE Ontology, developed by Share Family member libraries, is an extension to BIBFRAME that brings refinements to discovery of and access to the Share Family resources. Being part of the greater LOD community, interoperability is essential and at the core of the Share Family mission and its tools.
The session will feature presentations by: Nina Servizzi, New York University Libraries Tiziana Possemato, Casalini Libri and @Cult, Share Family Boaz Nadav-Manes, Lehigh University Libraries Sebastian Hammer, Index Data Nancy Lorimer, Stanford University Libraries Claudio Forziati, Federico II University in Naples, SHARE Catalogue Andrea Gazzarini, Spaziocodice - Share Family