Info Org Book Club
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The Info Org Book Club is an informal reading-and-discussion group for Folger staff. It will meet every three to four weeks to discuss and explore emerging trends relating to information organization.
Basics
- All sessions will meet in the Board Room from 3:30 - 4:30 pm, unless noted otherwise. Coffee and cookies will be provided.
- Despite the name, we won't actually read full books; material for the group will include articles, videos, and sometimes tools (working from generous definitions of "texts" and "reading"). However, the method will be similar: read materials in advance, then discuss and/or explore them with colleagues.
- The first three sessions will focus on linked data and BIBFRAME, topics currently looming large on the horizon for libraries. Future topics could include catalog data manipulation, markup languages (TEI, XML, etc.), Wiki systems and history, digital archiving, or any information organization-relevant topics that are of interest to Folger staff. We'll discuss this briefly at the first meeting, but please feel free to make any preferences known on the group's Talk page too.
- Most sessions will be discussion-based, but some will be hands-on, to give participants a chance to experiment with new tools and programs.
- Each session will consist of 2-4 texts to be discussed, and will usually include a few supplemental materials for anyone who wants to explore a topic further. If you are unable to attend a session, you can discuss a topic on the Talk page at any time.
- The Info Org Book Club is meant to be a low-pressure space for exploration - both experts and novices are very welcome!
August 13th (Thursday) - Linked Data 1
(Session one will include a brief discussion of administrivia to prepare for later sessions, and will then proceed to a discussion of linked data. )
Overview: what is linked data? What does linked data look like? How is it used? How could it be useful for libraries?
- Introduction to Linked Open Data at Rare Book School (Eric Rochester)
- Linking Things on the Web (Ed Summers)
- BIBFRAME training at the Library of Congress - Module 1, part 1 (Semantic web and linked data concepts: a basic overview)
Supplemental texts:
- Linked Data Design Issues (Tim Berners-Lee)
- Introduction and Review of Linked Data for the Library Community, 2003–2011 (Virginia Schilling)
- The Strongest Link: Libraries and Linked Data (Gillian Byrne and Lisa Goddard)
September 3rd (Thursday) - Linked Data 2 (RDF)
What is linked data, again? What forms does linked data take? How does RDF work?
- Break On Through to the Other Side: The Library and Linked Data (F. Tim Knight)
- An introduction to the Resource Description Framework (Eric Miller)
- BIBFRAME training at the Library of Congress - Module 1, part 2 (Semantic data model: basic overview)
Supplemental materials:
- Linking Things on the Web (Ed Summers, Dorothea Salo)
- RDF linked data cataloguing at Oslo Public Library (Asgeir Rekkavik)
- Introducing graph data (LinkedDataTools.com)
- Introducing RDF/XML (LinkedDataTools.com)
September 22nd (Tuesday) - BIBFRAME (the Bibliographic Framework Initiative)
What is BIBFRAME? How does it use linked data concepts? (Is it linked data?) How can we start using BIBFRAME/transitioning from MARC?
- Cataloger 3.0: competencies and education for the BIBFRAME Catalog (Allison Jai O'Dell)
- The impact of BIBFRAME (Thomas Meehan)
- Bibliographic Framework as a web of data: linked data model and supporting services (Zepheira for Library of Congress)
Supplemental texts: