Session recordingLooking beyond LC: Wikidata for Metadata Reconciliation and Enhancement, Greer Martin (Loyola University Chicago)
This lightning talk will discuss the use of Wikidata for retrieving geodata for a Wordpress mapping project. Data from a website, a directory of women scholars in a specific field, required normalization, and the Library of Congress authorities were the initial target for this work, via reconciliation services in OpenRefine. However, Wikidata provided more: name reconciliation and the required geographic data for our mapping plugin, due the ability to pull properties of reconciled Wikidata records.The simplicity of this task has inspired the investigation of using Wikidata for digital collections metadata remediation, particularly for building and personal names, with an eye towards how this data can be enhanced by Wikidata data extensions.
Using IIIF to help improve search and discovery of digital cultural heritage material, Jeff Mixter (OCLC)
OCLC is a member in the IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) Consortium and has been integrating IIIF standards in OCLC products for the past 4 years. In 2019, OCLC Research started experimenting with the IIIF Change Discovery API, testing its use as an IIIF syndication and aggregation protocol. This experimental work confirmed the benefits of standardization around the IIIF Change Discovery API and resulted in an experimental discovery application for searching across 13 Million IIIF compliant CONTENTdm resources. Jeff will demonstrate the experimental search application and highlight the metadata analysis and synthesis challenges that arise when working with heterogeneous IIIF resource descriptions in a large aggregation.
