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Here is text about the project, whether ontology or metadata production or both. There can be links here to other stuff.

Princeton Project Proposal

Here's a list of what this project hopes to achieve. Eventually this list will link to actual stuff like documents.

• outcome 1
• outcome 2

Stuff you're doing right now.

Good headers are:

Analysis/Modeling

Linked Data Creation

Tool Exploration / Requirements Definition

Collaboration

Community Engagement

Link to working documents (for partners only)

Last updated Dec. 2016, to be updated again Mar. 2017

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):

• FUN - Introduction to a Web of Linked Data

• FutureLearn: Introduction to Linked Data and the Semantic Web

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

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

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

• Worked on modelling of annotations, seeking input from members of the Web Annotation Working 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"

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