Harvard will work in 2 areas:
This sub-project of the Linked Data for Libraries/Production will explore best practices for creating native Linked Data descriptions for library cartographic resources including printed maps, atlases, digital geospatial datasets, and other cartographic information resources. The project will evaluate BIBFRAME’s effectiveness as a data model for describing cartographic materials for research needs and will compare BIBFRAME’s effectiveness versus other available Linked Data descriptive schemas. In addition the group will evaluate the thesauri and controlled vocabularies associated with the description of cartographic resources to identify those vocabularies best suited to describe cartographic resources in a linked data environment. The group’s deliverables will include: a BIBFRAME profile for cartographic resources; a set of published BIBFRAME descriptions for a variety of cartographic resource types; a written evaluation of the project and set of recommendations for future research and development; and presentation of project findings to appropriate library cartographic materials and linked data communities.
Moving Images
The project will explore best practices for creating linked data descriptions for moving image resources including a variety of formats (film prints, negatives, DVDs, VHS, Super 8, and others) and content (feature films, trailers, home movies, ethnographic films, propaganda) and related archival materials (including production elements, artwork, film stills, and promotional ephemera) held by the Harvard Film Archive. The project will evaluate BIBFRAME/LD4L’s effectiveness as a data model for describing moving image materials for research needs and the lifecycle of moving image materials, and identify vocabularies for description of these materials in a linked data environment. The project will create mappings for records from the HFA’s film print database, focusing on a subset of moving image materials by women directors. Wherever possible, entities will be reconciled to linked data URIs, including personal and corporate names (ISNI, LCNAF), place names (GeoNames), genres (LC genre/form, Getty AAT), and works. The project deliverables will include: a BIBFRAME/LD4L profile for moving image resources; a set of published descriptions for moving image materials and related archival collections; deployment of descriptions as linked data in the triplestore; a user interface and visualization for film researchers based on an Omeka or Harvard Geospatial Library on-line collection; and a written evaluation of the project and set of recommendations for future research and development.