Princeton - Project Updates

Princeton Proposal

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

Phase 1 (Apr.-Sept. 2016)

• Expanded core group to include local Rare Books staff
• Consulted with faculty stakeholder in French and Italian Dept.
  
  • Explored the possibility of coordination with related CDH Derrida project
• 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
• 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
• Studied ontology modelling by way of a Protégé Pizza ontology tutorial
• 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
  
  • "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

(Last updated Sept. 2016, to be updated again Dec. 2016)