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February 23 LD4L Workshop breakout session: Community Building
facilitator: Tom Cramer
Table 1
- look at existing community structures, like LODLAM et. al.
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- build community through practice:
- Tools
- Methods
- Use cases?
- "Profiles"
- Non-
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- Library community, crowdsourcing
- Existing players,
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- like vendors, search etc.
- New community group, or glom on
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- / co-opt existing structures?
- Baby steps, quick wins, simple tools
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Table 2
- implementing tools
A&M (us) skills
- archives & museums in particular really need skill development in LOD
- But use it or lose
- it – can't just train
- Look at other, existing communities: LODLAM, Europeana, DPLA? IDH projects, SWIB, ALA
- Market useful things, not linked data
- Sharing data, finding
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- data
- international, multilingual communities
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Table 3
- Organize & publish best (or some) practice
- we can't define best practice right now
- Useful tools in library
- Partnerships with non-
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- libraries and open Web
- Ontologies
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- : microcommunities. There will never be a single to rule them all
- End users <-- software developers --> Data providers
- software devs are the connective tissue between data and users
- they need things:
- data
- platforms
- education
- Find/adopt a
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- central org to serve as a hub for LOD in LAMs (NISO, LC, etc.)
- Or not?
- NISO
- LC
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- LOD is inherently distributed...
- but we're too distributed / ethereal right now
- LOD is inherently distributed...
Table 4
- Void in community
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- right now
- even the VIVO people don't talk to digital repository people in our own orgs
- problem when people try to do Whole stack? technology implementation + top down community direction + own relationship to users. Need better separation of concerns
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- Cross domain is hard – people tend to divide up and talk to each other, in their own echo chambers
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- We really need connections to industry and research
- is LD4L
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- too narrow? isn't LD "4" everyone?
- Who's not here?
- Lotsa libraries (including Special libraries, publics, states)
- Catalogers
SemWeb
InfoMan
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- Semantic Web industry
- Information Management industry
- What do we do to forge links?
- List touchpoints just out of scope
- Do outreach
- Invite people in