2021 LD4 Conference on Linked Data

Authoritative Data: User Stories and Change Management, ​E. Lynette Rayle​​​
The Best Practices for Authoritative Data working group has completed the first charter and the second charter is underway. This presentation will describe the outputs of the first charter which focused on identifying and prioritizing user stories from the perspective of catalogers and curators who consume authoritative data by connecting it to larger entities like works and instances, authoritative data providers who want to support access to their data, and developers who provide applications and tools that allow end users to find and connect to authoritative data. This presentation will also provide an update on the second charter which focuses on change management and future plans.

Semantic Citations as a Service: Developing a Proof of Concept for Adding Semantic Markup to Researcher Websites, ​Sarah Kasten​​​
In order to improve the online visibility of academic researchers and their work, Semantic Citations as a Service is an effort to generate semantic markup for the University of Notre Dame's departmental, faculty and laboratory group websites based on Wikidata. A potential workflow has been developed for adding and maintaining data in Wikidata, transforming it to schema.org markup that can be added to faculty or laboratory websites, and an end user review process for verifying and accepting citation data. The focus of this work to date has been to develop a proof of concept for this idea. This lightning round talk will walk through stages of problem clarification, solution design and development, and plans to pilot a linked data-based service.

Beyond Topic Classification: Logical Links at the Claim Level, ​Jamie Joyce and Marc-Antoine Parent
The purpose of this lightning talk is to introduce a novel utility of linked data. The presenters hope to stir and solicit insightful feedback from the audience, while also providing examples of new applications. Originally designed for basic metadata, linked data can be extended to represent entities, claims and arguments inside documents and media objects. The presenters will discuss their work identifying implicit and explicit claims in documents and media resources, which has allowed them to tie these claims at the level of logical links between them, while maintaining provenance and links to supporting and opposing evidence. Curated claim maps become artifacts in their own right. Map examples and a preliminary linked data representation will be provided. The presenters posit that libraries could find an expanded role exposing and curating argument analysis on public discourse, making it accessible as linked data. Extracting and exposing this richer meaning between documents would enable new usages, including collaborative and curated classification, educational mapping, and public deliberation of highly salient topics.