DCMI Virtual: Presentations on DCMI

Why AI ≠ Automated Indexing: What Is and Is Not Possible

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Speaking:

Hans Brandhorst
Mnemosyne
Hans Brandhorst (Leiden, 14-07-1956), is an independent art historian, editor of the Iconclass system and Arkyves. Together with Etienne Posthumus, he has created the online Iconclass browser and the Arkyves website. He has published on illuminated manuscripts, emblems and devices, iconography and classification, and digital humanities. He was trained in art history at Leiden University and has been using Iconclass as an iconographer since the 1980s. He was part of the team at Utrecht University that created the computer version of the system in the 1990s, and he has been acting as editor of the online Iconclass system since 2000. His primary research focus is the simple question “What am I looking at?" in an iconographical sense. His theoretical work deals with the issues of how humanities scholars, in particular iconographers, can collaborate and enrich each other's research results rather than repeat and duplicate efforts. He believes that to accomplish this, the use of a shared vocabulary for the description of the content of cultural artefacts - Iconclass - is an important condition. Besides the editorship of Iconclass and Arkyves, Hans Brandhorst is also involved in the digitization of Kirschbaum’s Lexikon der Christlichen Ikonographie for Brill Publishers, and he is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal Visual Resources. Recently he founded, together with André van de Waal, the “Henri van de Waal Foundation”, dedicated to iconographic research with the help of modern technology such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

Joaquim Moré López
Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Dr. Joaquim Moré López is a senior researcher and expert in Computational Linguistics. He has a Ph.D. in Knowledge and Information Society at the Open University of Catalonia. His major areas of expertise are Machine Translation, Information Extraction, Text Mining, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Engineering and Opinion Mining. He is working actively in the BSC for the Oficina Técnica de Gestión for the Plan Nacional de Impulso a las Tecnologías del Lenguaje, sponsored by the Spanish Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital, to use HPC to exploit the possibilities of Natural Language Processing for Public and Private institutions. He provides solutions to issues related to natural language processing in the Saint George on a Bike project.

Marjorie Hlava
Access Innovations
She worked for five years at NASA, logging up to 20 hours per week as an online searcher, using systems and giving feedback. Margie was the Information Director for the DOE National Energy Information Center and its affiliate NEICA, where she rose to the position of Information Director before taking her team private as Access Innovations. Margie developed the Data Harmony software suite to increase search accuracy and consistency while streamlining the clerical aspects in editorial and indexing tasks. Her most recent innovation is applying those systems to medical records for medical claims compliance in a new application called Access Integrity. Margie served for seven years on the NISO board, chaired the SLA Standards committee for nine years, and chaired the NFAIS Standards committee from 2001- 2016. She was instrumental in working on the NISO standards for thesauri and controlled vocabularies (Z39.19), Dublin Core (Z39.85), DOI (Z39.84), and contributed Metadata which formed the basis of CrossRef, The Credit taxonomy for author contributions and others. She was NFAIS president and has served on that board twice, was president of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), president of Documentation Abstracts, president of ASIDIC, and Treasurer of IIA at the time of its merger with SPA to become SIIA. She also gives back to her local community, serving on the boards of the New Mexico Information Commons, the Hubbell House Alliance, New Mexico Data Stream, and the Hubbell Society Museum and Library. Margie’s work has been acknowledged through numerous awards, including ASIS&T’s Watson Davis award, the SLA John Cotton Dana and SLA President’s Award, recognition as an SLA Fellow, and as an Albuquerque Business First Woman of Influence for Technology. In February of 2014 she received the Miles Conrad lectureship for NFAIS. In November 2014, she received the ASIS&T Award of Merit. She was elected to the Hubbell Hall of Fame in June 2019. She is the author of multiple books and more than 200 articles, including the The Taxobook, a three-volume collection on the history and implementation of taxonomies. She holds two U.S. patents encompassing 21 patent claims.

Maria-Cristina Marinescu
Barcelona Supercomputing Center

Mingfang Wu
Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC)
Dr. Mingfang Wu, is senior research data specialist at the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). She has conducted research in the areas of interactive information retrieval, search log analysis, interfaces supporting exploratory search and enterprise search. Her recent research focuses on the data discovery paradigms as part of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) initiative and for improving data discovery service of Australian national research data catalogue, as well as a few data management related topics such as data provenance, data versioning and data quality.

Osma Suominen
National Library of Finland
Osma Suominen is working as an information systems specialist at the National Library of Finland. He is currently working on automated subject indexing, in particular the Annif tool and the Finto AI service, as well as the publishing of bibliographic data as Linked Data. He is also one of the creators of the Finto.fi thesaurus and ontology service and is leading development of the Skosmos vocabulary browser used in Finto. Osma Suominen earned his doctoral degree at Aalto University while doing research on semantic portals and quality of controlled vocabularies within the FinnONTO series of projects.

Abstract:

Automated indexing is only as good as the training set, or rules that are available for the domain. It’s important to learn what type of content a pre-trained algorithm has been trained on. Consider what type of content is readily available to train an algorithm—what’s popular and what’s available. Scholarly and historical content is not available in consumable formats at the large volume that is required for machine learning. There are exceptions such as science and medicine where large well documented collections are available. This panel will discuss the current state of automated categorization covering domains including research data, art history, and scientific publishing. The goal is to provide practical advice on how to take meaningful steps towards building the infrastructure needed for sustainable automated indexing.

Welcome from the DCMI Executive Director

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Speaking:

Sam Oh
Professor, SungKyunKwan Uuniversity LIS AND DATA SCIENCE, SEOUL, KOREA. AMBASSADOR, GLOBAL iSCHOOLS. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, DUBLIN CORE METADATA INITIATIVE.
Sam Gyun Oh is a professor at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul Korea and chairs the ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 (Document Description & Processing Languages) and ISO TC46/SC9 (Identification & Description) committees. He represents the National Library of Korea on the DCMI Governing Board. He teaches courses such as database design, Web database design, designing XML and metadata schemas, ontology modeling, information architecture, and designing knowledge management systems. His main research interest is in the area of metadata and ontology modeling. He has extensive experience in consulting companies and government sectors regarding design of metadata and ontologies. He received his Ph.D. in Information Science and Technology from Syracuse University, NY, USA in 1995 and worked for the Information School at the University of Washington for 4 years (1994-1998) prior to taking his current post.

Welcome from the Chair of DCMI Governing Board

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Speaking:

Stefanie Rühle
Göttingen State and University Library
Stefanie Rühle, works at the Data Conversion Group of the State and University Library in Göttingen and is responsible for metadata supply to zvdd (Zentrales Verzeichnis Digitlisierter Drucke) and the German Digital Library (DDB). She works primarily on the analysis, conversion and modeling of cultural heritage metadata with a particular focus on Linked Data. Stefanie is co-chair of the DINI AG KIM (Competence Center for Interoperable Metadata) and has been involved in DCMI work since 2008.

Transforming publisher-supplied metadata to improve digital legal deposit workflows at Library and Archives Canada

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Speaking:

Arlene Whetter
Library and Archives Canada
Arlene is a librarian who leads the digital legal deposit unit at Library & Archives Canada (LAC). For the past 5 years, she has been working with a project team to develop and implement new transfer workflows for digital publications submitted for legal deposit.

Abstract:

The digital legal deposit unit at LAC acquires digital publications in several ways, including web form submissions, SFTP deliveries of ONIX metadata and e-books, harvested ETD-MS metadata and theses/dissertations from institutional repositories, and automated transfers of MARC metadata and publications from government departments. We have developed customized metadata transformations for each of these ingest streams. We enrich the publisher-supplied metadata to create standardized MODS records for all of the publications in our Preservica repository. The MODS records then undergo an additional transformation into MARC format before we load them to our library catalogue. The goal is to leverage publisher-supplied metadata to automate (as much as possible) the creation of library catalogue records for digital publications while maintaining acceptable standards of metadata quality. Transforming the various types of metadata that we receive into library catalogue records has been an interesting challenge. Arlene will share LAC's experiences and lessons learned.

The use of Dublin Core in the Brazilian Scientific Information Ecosystem

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Speaking:

Washington Luís Ribeiro de Carvalho Segundo
Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia
He holds a doctorate and a master's degree in Informatics from the University of Brasilia, with a Sandwich PhD internship at King's College London. He has a degree in Mathematics (Bachelor and Licenciatura) also from the University of Brasília. He is the Technical Coordinator of the Area of Treatment, Analysis and Dissemination of Scientific Information at the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (Ibict / MCTI).

Abstract:

Brazil has a long tradition of creating interoperable networks of open access digital resources. In 2002 the Brazilian Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (BDTD) was created, which used a standard for the description of documents based on a specific Interoperability Metadata Standard for Electronic Theses and Dissertations, the ETD-MS. In the second half of the 2000s, the Brazilian Portal for Scientific Publications and Data (OasisBr) was also created, which was organized around the OAI-DC standard for metadata description. Finally, from 2018 onwards, OasisBr starts to aggregate research data in addition to textual scientific objects. To describe this type of resource, the DataCite standard was used as a basis. Even more, another extension of OasisBr is underway, with the construction of a Current Research Information System nationwide, called BrCris. The latter is based on the VIVO Ontology for the description of entities and relationships. The intended audience of this presentation is the data analysts, the librarians and the open digital repositories stakeholders.

The Semantic Architecture Based on Cloud Native Implementation: the design of Digital Humanities Platform at Shanghai Library

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Speaking:

Cuijuan Xia
Shanghai Library (Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of Shanghai)
Xia Cuijuan is Researcher of Shanghai Library. She has taken a mainly part in develop and design DH projects of Shanghai Library. She is a deputy director of the Youth Academic Committee, and a director of the Digital Humanities Professional Committee of the Shanghai Library Society. Her research focuses on Metadata, Ontology, Knowledge Organization, Linked Data, Digital Humanities, and Cultural Memory. She hosts and participates in many national research projects and has published more than 60 papers in many academic journals.

Wei Liu
Shanghai Library (Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of Shanghai)
Liu Wei is the Deputy Director of Shanghai Library. He is also an adjunct professor of Fudan University, East China Normal University and Shanghai University, act as a doctoral tutor and give lectures on Digital Libraries and Digital Humanities. He took part in many major Digital Library projects in China since 1995. He is in charge of the information technology application in Shanghai Library and very active in developing "Smart Library" services for the Library. He is also the Vice Chairman of Shanghai Library Society, member of the Governing Board of Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) and the Board of Open Library Foundation.

Abstract:

Semantic architecture is a unique architecture of Digital Humanities application systems, and also a capability brought by the maturity of semantic technology. Specifically, it means the digital knowledge content in Digital Humanities platform has a certain structure which can be described and expressed in the form of Ontology, Linked Data, Knowledge Graph, etc.. For example, various vocabularies which make the characters, attributes, and relationships of various objects(persons, places, temporal, events,etc..) can be described and encoded so that computers can process these semantic data (which can be understood as RDF data). And then the semantic data can be considered as "understandable" by the machine, therefore a large amount of digital content in the whole knowledge base can be regarded as a digital twin of the real world, It can even be used to make the machine carry out certain "factual reasoning". With this presentation, the presenters will try to explain the design and Cloud Native based implementation of the semantic architecture of Digital Humanities Platform at Shanghai Library.

The role of Dublin Core in the publication of Open Geospatial Data

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Speaking:

Javier Nogueras Iso
Advanced Information Systems Laboratory of the University of Zaragoza
Javier Nogueras-Iso received the MS and PhD degrees in computer Science from the University of Zaragoza, Spain. After working for the Economic and Social Committee of the European Communities (Belgium), in 1998 he started his research at the Advanced Information Systems Laboratory of the University of Zaragoza, where he is currently an Associate Professor of computer science. In 2005, he completed a postdoctoral stay at the Joint Research Centre (Institute of Environment and Sustainability, Italy). From 2011 to 2017, he was the Director of Catedra Logisman on Technological Document Management, and from 2015 to 2019, he was an Associate Director of the Aragon Institute of Engineering Research (I3A). His research interests are focused on Information Retrieval and Semantic Web technologies applied to different domains, although with a special emphasis on Geographic Information Infrastructures.

Abstract:

This talk will present the history of Dublin Core during the past 20 years in connection with the publication of geospatial data in Spatial Data Infrastructures and Open Data portals. Given the importance of geographic information for decision-making and resource management in diverse areas, this talk may be of interest to any person interested in the development or management of information systems.

The National Library of Korea's activities and challenges for library metadata standardization in Korea

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Speaking:

Yoon Kyung Choi
National Library of Korea
I'm Yoonkyung Choi who is the National Library of Korea (NLK) librarian. I've been working at the bibliographic control division in NLK as a deputy manager since 2016. I'm charge of developing and maintaining library metadata standards and metadata service. I'm participating in the revision of the Korean cataloging rules as a cataloging member of the Korean Library Association. I have bachelor, master, and Ph.D degrees in Library and Information Science. Before working at the NLK, I had studied information organization including metadata and subject access, and participated in various projects in graduate school. When working here, I undertook a lot of projects related to metadata standardization, cooperative cataloging services and data quality improvement at national level. Currently, I'm interested in the linked data, transitioning to BIBFRAME and automation and improvement of cataloging workflow using new technology.

Abstract:

The National Library of Korea (NLK) as the representative library in Korea has carried on various business related metadata standardization for Korean libraries. In Member's Forum, I'm going to introduce the NLK's role and practice for metadata standardization in Korea and also the ongoing activities as the DCMI regional member. For example, we are developing and updating the KORMARC (Korean MARC) as the Korean Industrial Standards (KS) for the traditional bibliographic data, and translating and updating various metadata schemes-DC, MODS, etc. - in Korean for Korean libraries, etc. Also, I will share our plan for transition to BIBFRAME for our bibliographic data in the future.

The Dublin Core Scholarly Resources Application Profile (SRAP)

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Speaking:

Juha Hakala
National Library of Finland
Juha Hakala is a senior adviser in the National Library of Finland, where he is responsible of standards related work. He has been the chair of the Finnish TC 46 mirror committee for 20 years, and 2012-2020 he was also the chair of TC 46 Subcommittee 9 Technical Interoperability. His Dublin Core involvement began with the 2nd Dublin Core workshop held in Warwick, April 1996. He was a DCMI Board of Trustees member 2002-2011.

Abstract:

Dublin Core is commonly used for description of Doctoral dissertations, Master's thesis and other resources institutions of higher education such as universities and polytechnics store and make available via their institutional repositories. Since DC Metadata Terms do not contain all core metadata elements required even for simple description of these materials, many proprietary extensions to Dublin Core have been created, on national, regional and institutional levels. In order to make Dublin Core a more valuable tool and to foster usage of Dublin Core for description of scholarly resources, the National Library of Finland (NLF) proposed development of Scholarly Works Application Profile (SRAP). The proposal was approved by the Dublin Core Governing Board, and the Dublin Core SRAP working group was established in Spring 2021. The working group chose a draft created in NLF as the starting point for its ongoing work. See https://github.com/dcmi/dc-srap for the current status of the draft, and additional information about the project.

The Data Conversion Group (DCG) - a brief insight

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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Abstract:

The Data Conversion Group at the SUB Göttingen is a team of metadata experts that handles various aspects in the area of metadata and standardization and whose tasks range from teaching metadata via development of Application Profiles and data models to the validation and transformation of data from different providers. The DCG's work for the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek is one example of the variety of tasks, where, in addition to data clearing, work on standards and best practice guidelines plays an important role. To fulfil these tasks the DCG developed a tool, supporting the day to day work of harvesting, validating, transforming and supply of metadata in the most efficient way.

Teaching and Learning Metadata

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Speaking:

Kyong Eun Oh
Simmons University
Kyong Eun Oh is an Associate Professor and the Co-Director of the Ph.D. program in the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons University. She has been serving on the DCMI Governing Board since 2014 and served as the Co-Chair of the Metadata Best Practice Presentations track at DCMI Virtual 2020. This year, she is serving a the Chair of the Metadata Best Practice Presentation track at DCMI Virtual 2021. Oh teaches graduate courses in information organization, metadata, and research methods. Her research interests include information organization, personal information management, and information behavior. She studies how people manage and organize information and how classification influences the way people find and use information.

Abstract:

This presentation will introduce one of the DCMI institutional members, Simmons University School of Library and Information Science. The presentation will also introduce how metadata is taught and learned.

Support of metadata mapping with coli-conc infrastructure

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Speaking:

Uma Balakrishnan

UMA BALAKRRISHNAN holds a master’s degree in Library and Information Science. She leads the project coli-conc and other knowledge organisation system (KOS) related projects at the head office of the Common library network (VZG). Her interests include KOS, metadata standards and interoperability. She represents the VZG at various expert panels such as the AG-K10plus SE ( Expert Group for K10plus Subject indexing), the FAG-EI (GBV Expert Group for Information and Indexing), the European Dewey User Group and the Regensburg Verbund Classification User group.

Jakob Voß

JAKOB VOSS studied computer science, library science, and philosophy with a PhD degree from the Humboldt University, Berlin. He works in research and development at the headquarters of the Common Library Network (VZG) in Göttingen. His main interests include data modeling, interoperability and knowledge organization.

Stefan Peters

STEFAN PETERS works as a software developer for the project coli-conc at the head office of the Common Library Network (VZG) and he is the developer of the web based mapping tool Cocoda.

Abstract:

Since decades, the Interoperability between knowledge organisation systems (KOS) has been amongst major challenges in German libraries. The KOS landscape of Germany is marked with numerous indexing systems; the majority of libraries use more than one system for indexing, and over 50% of the libraries according to recent statistics use home-grown systems. The project coli-conc addressed this issue and has developed services that enable a uniform access to and an easy sharing of KOS, support computer-assisted mappings between various KOS and facilitate collection, storage and management of both KOS and their mappings on a single platform. This workshop will offer an insight into the service portfolio of coli-conc and demonstrate the functionalities of the mapping tool Cocoda with a hands-on session for the widely-used library KOS like Dewey Decimal Classification, Library of Congress Classification, Library of Congress Subject Headings, Wikidata, and Regensburg Classification. If you are interested in working with other KOS that are relevant to your library or country, please email us and we will be glad to add them to our agenda and data pool.

Session for the DCMI members to share their major accomplishments since the last conference

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Speaking:

Alasdair Macdonald
The University of Edinburgh
Alasdair MacDonald is Metadata Co-ordinator at Edinburgh University Library, a post he has held since January 2014. He has worked as a librarian for over 23 years, specialising in metadata since 2000. His previous role was Head of Bibliographic Maintenance & Authority Control at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, where he co-ordinated the Bodleian's NACO cataloguing programme and worked as the metadata lead for the Bodleian Libraries' Inventory Control Project from 2009-2011, which undertook an inventory of over 7 million items from the Bodleian collections. He has also worked at the National Library of Scotland and Edinburgh Council Music Library.

Abstract:

The Members' Forum at DCMI Virtual 2021will see the institutional and regional members of DCMI showcase the metadata work and teaching of their institutions. In a series of lightning talks, speakers from Europe, Asia and the Americas will cover topics including national metadata initiatives, open access repositories, DCMI application profiles and teaching metadata practice as an academic subject. The session offers the opportunity for conference delegates to engage with the work of a diverse and truly international community of metadata professionals.

Sensors are Everywhere

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Speaking:

John Antill
Department of Defense Army, USA gov
I currently hold the position as Army Expeditionary Civilian Workforce Knowledge Manager. I have been a knowledge manager since 2008 when I started with the 115th Expeditionary Signal Battalion to a deployment in Afghanistan. I am married with 2 wonderful boys. Evan is our oldest and suffered a TBI last year during his tour in the Army. He was awarded the Army combat medic of the Quarter for FT Bliss Texas prior to his accident. Our Youngest, Ethan, is an Army Signal Intelligence Operator. I am very excited for both my boys. We currently have 4 dogs in the house, 1 of which is my service dog. I currently hold a Masters in Certified Knowledge Management from KM Institute and a Master of Science in Knowledge Management from Kent State. My wonderful wife is currently managing 3 schedules and running the day to day operations of the hours. By no means does this mean she doesn't work. You try keeping up with 3 peoples Medical and various schedules. Without her I could not keep my head on straight. Hobbies include wood working and motorcycles.

Abstract:

The military uses multiple data points to create reports. Some of these are open source data points and others are military specific. Open source data can include tracking of endangered animals movement as they react to threats, Social Media Posts and GPS enabled pictures, websites that post propaganda. Some of the military specific data points can be biometric, geospatial, imagery, signals, human, or cyber identifiers. This session will go over how the data is identified than normalized and placed into the intelligence report at a high level.

Schema.org and Dublin Core: The Next Chapter

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Speaking:

Dan Brickley

Dan Brickley is best known for his work on Web standards in the W3C community, where he helped create the Semantic Web project and many of its defining technologies. Dan is currently working on outreach activities related to the Schema.org initiative. Previous work included six years on the W3C technical staff, establishing ILRT’s Semantic Web group at the University of Bristol, and more recently at Joost, an Internet TV start-up, and at the Vrije University Amsterdam. He has been involved with resource discovery metadata since 1994 when he published the first HTML Philosophy guide on the Web, and has been exploring distributed, collaborative approaches to “finding stuff” ever since.

REDI+ : Toward an Ecuadorian Research Information Platform based in CRIS

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Speaking:

Freddy Sumba
Ecuadorian National Research and Education Network (CEDIA)

Abstract:

REDI+ is the Ecuadorian project of CEDIA for setting up and operate the national information of Science, Technology, and Innovation. It is an open standards-based platform, specifically as a central aggregator of open access repositories of Ecuador. The main goal of this project is to develop an open, interoperable and integrated national platform that provides information of publications, researchers, patents, events, services, and general results of science and technology, and innovation. Besides, the platform allows providing value-added services for access to enriched data and aggregated information to improve decision-making at different levels, local, institutional, and in the private sector. The vision is to have an information ecosystem of research, technology, and innovation in Ecuador to provide value, accessibility, and development for all people.

Putting standards into practice: pathogen genomics contextual data (“metadata”) standards in public health and food safety

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Speaking:

Emma Griffiths
Faculty of Health Science, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Emma Griffiths received her PhD at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada studying how molecular markers known as inserts and deletions can be used to augment traditional approaches to understanding bacterial phylogeny. Her postdoctoral work focused on how contextual data standards such as ontologies, improve data harmonization and integration in public health and food safety genomics. She is a member of the Standards Council of Canada and is engaged in many contextual data (“metadata”) harmonization initiatives - both Canadian and international - including the development of an ISO standard for the use of whole genome sequencing and contextual data in the typing and genomic characterization of foodborne bacteria, and the development of an international public health data standard for CanCOGeN - Canada’s SARS-CoV-2 genomic surveillance initiative. She is currently a research associate at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada.

Abstract:

Whole genome sequencing (WGS) is a powerful tool for tracking and understanding the spread of pathogens impacting environmental, animal and human health. Contextual data (“metadata”) consists of laboratory (e.g. date and location of testing, cycle threshold (CT) values), clinical (e.g. hospitalization, outcomes), epidemiological (e.g. age, gender, exposures) and methods (sampling, sequencing, bioinformatics) information that enables the interpretation of sequence data and the production of actionable results for public health and food safety programs. Contextual data is often collected on a project-specific basis according to local needs and reporting requirements which results in the collection of different data types at different levels of granularity, with different meanings and implicit bias of variables and attributes. Furthermore, the information is often collected as free text, or if structured, according to organization or initiative-specific data dictionaries, using different fields, terms, formats, abbreviations, and jargon. The variability in the way information is encoded in private databases tends to propagate to public repositories, which makes the information more difficult to interpret and to use. Our work focuses on the development and implementation of contextual data standards that can improve data harmonization and integration in different Canadian and international initiatives. Examples of our work include the development of two ontologies - the Food Ontology (FoodOn) and the Genomic Epidemiology Ontology (GenEpiO) - as part of the IRIDA project (Canada’s public health Integrated Rapid Infectious Disease Analysis bioinformatics platform), an ISO standard for genomic characterization of foodborne bacteria, and an international standard for SARS-CoV-2 pandemic genomic surveillance.

Publishing Linked Data Description: an Introduction to Omeka S

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Speaking:

Sharon Leon

Sharon Leon is the Director of Omeka (2012-), and Associate Professor of History and Digital Humanities at Michigan State University. She has responsibility for overall project vision, oversight of development, interaction with our project partners, testing, and distribution of Omeka.

Robin Fay

Robin Fay is the Omeka End User Support and Training Specialist

Abstract:

Designed specifically to offer users an easy way to create linked data description for their materials, Omeka S offers both the familiarity of a content management system and the capacity for users to create new kinds of linked-data driven digital publications.

Promoting accessibility of scientific information and digital data in food & agriculture

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Speaking:

Imma Subirats Coll
FAO of the UN (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
Imma Subirats, Senior information management officer at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations leading AGROVOC, AGRIS and AGORA programmes with the objective to enhance accessibility and visibility to knowledge, information and data produced by FAO Member Countries

Abstract:

AGRIS, a global public service provided by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), is a central service which manages diverse resources crossing many boundaries such as resource types, languages, geographic regions, providers, and domains. This presentation will focus on three important components: (1) a metadata infrastructure which unifies the management and access of bibliographic and research data, (2) the indexing approach enabled through the AGROVOC for its multilingualism and semantic strategies, and (3) a unified platform and service for the community that enables two ways for the data providers, partners, and users to contribute to the AGRIS core knowledgebase.

Problem-Solved: Metadata Explorations vs. Metadata Education

Thu, 07 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

Speaking:

Joseph T. Tennis
University of Washington
Joseph T. Tennis is Professor, Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, and Executive Director of Administrative Services at the University of Washington Information School, Adjunct Professor in Linguistics, and a member of the Textual Studies, Computational Linguistics, and Museology faculty advisory groups at the University of Washington. He served as President of the International Society for Knowledge Organization from 2014-2018. He is on both the Usage Board and the Governing Board of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. He has served on the Library Quarterly and Knowledge Organization editorial boards, and he is a member of the InterPARES Trust research team – a multidisciplinary digital records preservation research project with researchers across six continents. Tennis holds his Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies from Lawrence University, a Master of Library Science, and a Specialist Degree in Book History both from Indiana University, and a PhD in Information Science from the University of Washington. He has thrice been a visiting scholar at the State University of São Paulo. And in the spring of 2016, he was an invited professor at the Université Charles-de-Gaulle - Lille 3.

Abstract:

Many who come to metadata think of it as problem-solving, and they are not wrong. However, solving the immediate organizational and representational concern may introduce new problems for the designers and engineers of such systems. Metadata education is about moving design and implementation of metadata out of the problem-solving zone and into a realm of expertise. In order to do this, metadata education needs to consider time, domains, context, interoperability, and ethics. In this brief talk, I cover how we think about curriculum related to metadata that moves it from problem-solving to problem solved.