Birds of a Feather
Birds of a Feather sessions are informal discussion groups that will each consider a specific issue or subject. Spaces will be designated for each topic (see space assignments below). To suggest a discussion topic, please post to the comments section below!
The discussions will begin in Continental C to give everyone time to eat. Look for the table with the number for the discussion you would like to join (see number assignments below). About a half hour to an hour into lunch (12:30-1PM), the discussions will move to their assigned spaces in the meeting rooms.
Number/Meeting Room Assignments:
1. Digital Asset Management System – Blake
2. From Wikipedia to your library – Lawrence AB
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Todd Grappone
Shared publicly - Oct 2012
The University of California is developing a technical model for a system wide Digital Asset Management System with integrated Discovery and Display. The project team Todd Grappone (UCLA), Declan Fleming (UCSD), Erik Hetzner (CDL), Brian Tingle (CDL) and Susan Perry (UCSC) will be discussing the technical modeling and looking for community input as they develop a model for a DAMS. We are looking into some specific technology (Nuexo, Islandora, Hydra and Alfresco) or a combination of technologies to accomplish our goals. Please join the discussion if you have interest in this area.
John Mark Ockerbloom
Shared publicly - Nov 2012
From Wikipedia to your library
I’ve been thinking about how patrons can more easily get from popular research starting points like Wikipedia and search engines to the research resources our libraries offer. Wikipedia in English already provides basic information on over 4 million concepts (and Google’s Knowledge Graph includes many more); but there’s usually no clear link to follow from these popular starting points to information on our library’s related resources (which are often not on the open Web).
We should be able to provide these missing links. We basically need 3 things:
1. Standards for linking from a Wikipedia article, or similar popular knowledge access points, to a corresponding access point at a searcher’s preferred library. (OpenURL-aware databases already provide library-specific links for citations; this is basically doing the same thing for concepts.)
2. Ways to determine relationships between Wikipedia articles (or other common concept sets) and concepts library catalogs and databases know about (e.g. authorized names and subject headings). This helps us ensure that the links above *will* go to useful corresponding library access points.
3. Ways of producing useful displays and navigation for relevant library concepts on the fly. This ensures that our library patrons can find useful things, and explore further, once they reach the access points we provide.
I’m currently working on techniques for all three of these, including subject maps, Wikipedia data-mining, and a simple library-specific concept link resolver. I suspect I’m not the only one interested in these sorts of capabilities. I’d love to talk, and compare work, with other folks thinking about or working with similar problems and tools; and to see what collaborations might be useful.