Registration is open for #LD4 2024 Conference: Building Community for #LinkedOpenData October 7-11, 2024. The conference is free to attend and completely virtual. Register at 🔗https://2024ld4.sched.com/

2024 LD4 Conference: Building Community for Linked Open Data,
7-11 October 2024
#LD4 #LD4_2024
https://sites.google.com/view/2024-ld4-conference/

CFP deadline: August 25, 2024
Submission form: https://forms.gle/jYXkFMYMVBVSYd6o7

"We are accepting proposals for content in a variety of formats and we invite you to submit your proposal to be part of creating this conference! By bringing together a broad range of perspectives, the conference seeks to foster a community of practice for linked data in cultural heritage institutions."

Getting ready to join my #ld4 Rare Materials Affinity Group colleagues for A community developed BIBFRAME profile for the description of Rare Books. The session (11am ET) will be live-streamed and recorded on LD4’s YouTube channel! #LinkedData #ld4_2023 #LD4_23 #RareBooks #bibframe

Today's #LD4_2023 sessions start with Yinlin Chen discussing using a #LLM to generate SPARQL queries on DBpedia based on supplied questions. There is some evidence that suitably trained large language models can generate half-decent boilerplate code (though they have attribution and copyright issues), though their accuracy may vary widely. I'll be curious to see how well it works in this case. (SPARQL queries typically include a fair bit of boilerplate). #LD4

One thing that makes it work in his system is that librarians who notice problems with the data reconciliation can fix the data easily enough that special case processing is not required. (It's itself an impressive design that allows that to happen; I've worked with other systems where it's hard enough for people who notice a problem to correct the data and make the correction stick that it often doesn't happen.) #LD4_2023 #LD4

In Richard Wallis's #LD4_2023 talk on a linked data discovery & management system for the Singapore national library & archives, I'm particularly impressed by the entity reconciliation process he's discussing. With messy data, you often have many different text strings in different records describing the same entity, so it's vital that those be normalized. He describes some interesting work designing similarity assessments between different strings in the bibliographic & authority data. #LD4

Today's #LD4_2023 sessions are starting now. Here's the schedule: https://2023ld4conferenceonlinkedda.sched.com/ #LD4

Peggy Greisinger discusses the chapter she co-authored on privacy of personal information (specifically of creators in name authority records). Many authority and linked data knowledge bases have lots of personal information, and it's usually not clear whether the people want all that info widely available It's good to have well-established ways to managec and keep track of information on consent for providing that info. #LD4_2023 #LD4 (Right now it's very ad hoc on different platforms.)

Erin Canning's ethics chapter talks about replatforming (taking data in one place and putting it on another). The functional, contextual, and audience changes involved have both potential benefits and potential risks; the chapter discusses three main ethical questions to consider. (If you've seen discussions in the fediverse about visibility of posts, whether to allow search and quote-embed, and when to federate or defederate, I suspect they raise many of the same issues.) #LD4_2023 #LD4

The examples in the linked data ethics chapter by @platypus and @Salo all have to do with maintainers of a relied-upon data service not maintaining it in a timely way (either due to temporary issues, or losing the ability or interest to keep it up). Nearly every project will suspend or end its maintenance at some point, but there are important ethical concerns in how you handle that: #LD4_2023 #LD4

Multiple fediverse folks (including @platypus, @dsalo, and probably others whose handles I don't know) are among the editors of the book _Ethics in Linked Data_, which will be the topic of a live #LD4_2023 panel session that's about to start! Details here: https://2023ld4conferenceonlinkedda.sched.com/event/1OPUy/ethics-in-linked-data-book-panel. (including a Zoom link if you're signed up for the conference) #LD4

Today's #LD4_2023 program starts off in less than an hour! Here's the schedule: https://2023ld4conferenceonlinkedda.sched.com/

I won't be able to make the early short talks live (but they, like most of the other sessions, will be recorded and available on Youtube). I am particularly looking forward to the Ethics in Linked Data book panel discussion, which starts at 1pm Eastern US time. #LD4

#LD4_2023 keynote postponed due to unforeseen issues. Organizers hope the talk or a recording of it will be available later on. Later sessions still going on today include a hands-on session with the MARVA BIBFRAME editor, a presenter from the WIkimedia foundation reaching out to library linked data projects, and a one-hour series of short talks from library linked data practitioners. Schedule here: https://sites.google.com/stanford.edu/2023-ld4-conference/schedule #LD4

Website of Sarah T. Roberts, who'll be starting the #LD4_2023 keynote shortly. Includes links to a number of her writings and videos: https://drsarahtroberts.com/ #LD4

You can also watch the #LD4_2023 videos on Youtube. Here's their channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLx2ZluWEZtIAwEyTn6ci7gZIGmJKPezV0. The opening keynote goes live shortly. #LD4

(Note that the main discussion channel within the #LD4 #LD4_2023 conference is on Slack; see the https://sites.google.com/stanford.edu/ld4-community-site/home for information on how to join. Questions for presenters, etc., should be asked there.)

The #LD4_2023 virtual conference on linked data in libraries is now starting! Sarah T. Roberts delivers the opening keynote at 10am eastern US time, and there are currently about 250 people signed up to hear it. Here's the full schedule: https://2023ld4conferenceonlinkedda.sched.com/ According to the main site, registration is still open (and free): https://sites.google.com/stanford.edu/2023-ld4-conference/.

(Reposted to use the official hashtag announced at the opening session. I may also use #LD4 )

The #LD4 virtual conference on linked data in libraries starts in less than 20 minutes! Conference opening is at 9:30 eastern US time time, and Sarah T. Roberts delivers the opening keynote at 10am eastern US time, and there are currently about 250 people signed up to hear it. Here's the full schedule: https://2023ld4conferenceonlinkedda.sched.com/ According to the main site, registration is still open (and free): https://sites.google.com/stanford.edu/2023-ld4-conference/.

Signing up for next week's virtual #LD4 conference on linked data for libraries. Hoping to get to a bunch of the sessions, and also have opportunities to talk informally with folks (which looks like is mostly happening on Slack). Details and link to schedule here: https://sites.google.com/stanford.edu/2023-ld4-conference/

I might also livepost from some sessions here. I assume that #LD4 is the main hashtag to use, but organizers can let me know if I should use something else. (AFAIK, that's what to follow or mute for now.)

can anyone DM me a link to join the #LD4 slack? Everything on https://sites.google.com/stanford.edu/ld4-community-site/home seems kaput.