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Pre-project activities (prior to Apr. 2016)
- Formed core group within Library Technical Services Dept. and scheduled weekly meetings
- Did initial modelling for annotations, investigate applicability of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Annotation Data Model
- Manually created 45 sample annotations in turtle format
- Prototyped an annotation creation tool
- Consulted with Princeton University Center for Digital Humanities (CDH)
- Presentation:
- "De-"framing" Derrida", BIBFRAME Update Forum, ALA Midwinter Meeting 2016
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Phase 1 (Apr.-Sept. 2016)
Logistics and Planning
Created private GitHub wiki for Princeton internal documentation
Scheduled bi-weekly LD4P workshops for the core group
Outlined plans for Oct.-Dec. 2016, the first half of Phase 2
Collaboration
Expanded core group to include local Rare Books staff
Consulted with library IT staff
Consulted with faculty stakeholder in French and Italian Dept.
Explored the possibility of coordination with related CDH Derrida project
Met with the LD4P Project Manager during on-site visit
- Created informational web page on Princeton website and updated it regularly: https://library.princeton.edu/tsd/cams/ld4p/ Created private GitHub wiki for Princeton internal documentation
Data creation
Created proposal for imaging relevant pages from a sample of ~500 annotated books
Selected 525 objects from Derrida's library for digitization
Initiated process of hiring student help for the transcription of annotations in Phase 2
Modelling
Participated in collaborative LD4P Rare Materials ontology calls
Contributed to the creation, categorization, and prioritization of use cases
Participated in LD4All Ontology Alignment Calls
- Consulted with library IT staff Discussed idea of training a select group of staff in linked data concepts
Worked on modelling of annotations, seeking input from members of the Web Annotation Working Group
Scheduled bi-weekly LD4P workshops for the core group
Self-learning
Studied ontology modelling by way of a Protégé Pizza ontology tutorial
Followed wider linked data-related activities
Outreach
Discussed idea of training a select group of staff in linked data concepts
Created informational web page on Princeton website and updated it regularly: https://library.princeton.edu/tsd/cams/ld4p/
Presentations
"Deframing Derrida: Encoding Annotations from Rare Books and Special Collections" at NISO Virtual Conference: BIBFRAME & Real World Applications of Linked Bibliographic Data
"Pour Jacques" at PCC Participants meeting, ALA annual
Articles
Submitted article to the Journal of Library Metadata entitled "From Notes to Annotations: Deconstructing Dedications in the Library of Jacques Derrida at Princeton University"
- Created proposal for imaging relevant pages from a sample of ~500 annotated books
- Selected 525 objects from Derrida's library for digitization
- Met with the LD4P Project Manager
- Outlined plans for Oct.-Dec. 2016, the first half of Phase 2
- Initiated process of hiring student help for the transcription of annotations in Phase 2
- Followed wider linked data-related activities
- Presentations
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Phase 2 (Oct. 2016-Mar. 2017)
Collaboration
Attended second LD4P All-Hands meeting in Washington D.C.
Met with the Princeton Digital Humanities Center’s Derrida project management team (regarding their separate but potentially related project)
Data creation
Digitization
Arranged for digitization of the sample set of 500 objects
Transcription
Created MS Access data entry form
Hired student workers for double-blind data entry
Began transcription of dedications
Began comparison and reconciliation of transcriptions
Modelling
Participated in ongoing Rare Materials Ontology Extension work
Followed developments in LD4All Ontology Alignment Calls
Self-learning
Completed the Protégé pizza tutorial
Began book study group on Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist
Participated in massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs):
Outreach
Presentations
Presented LD4P project update to Princeton’s professional catalogers
Presented to Princeton Library Management Group (LMG) on Limitless possibilities: the promise of linked data
Articles
Timothy A. Thompson, et al. (2016). From Notes to Annotations: Deconstructing Dedications in the Library of Jacques Derrida at Princeton University, Journal of Library Metadata, 16(3-4), 146-165. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19386389.2016.1258908
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(Last updated Dec(Last updated Sept. 2016, to be updated again DecMar. 20162017)