facilitator: Steven Folsom

Themes Identified:

 

UNEDITED NOTES

Table 1

DPLA: placename resolution

Entity recognition

Table 2

strings --> things

libraries divide and conquer entity cataloging

post-processing tools

accuracy tools

entity extraction

how motivate users to take tools/data for a spin?

what if we had no metadata and started only with full text?

Table 3

challenges

parsing MARC to find translaters and role

person reconciliation

crowd sourcing

music parsing

image identity

Table 4

UCSD – mix of auto & manual review

CERL – name, spelling & disambiguation

HBS – URIs provided by authority vendor

Create local auth record/URI for strings with no auth?

Feed into LC or OCLC for needed authorities?

Improve cataloging tools with type-ahead entity resolution