Shared Entity Management Infrastructure, John Chapman and Anne Washington In January 2020, OCLC began work on a two-year project (https://oc.lc/sharedentitymgmt) funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The project is designed to provide critical linked data infrastructure for libraries and other cultural heritage institutions by focusing on publishing millions of entity descriptions for creative works and persons, and providing infrastructure by which they can be maintained and enhanced.
OCLC staff John Chapman and Anne Washington will present an update on the project, progress towards its goals, and lessons learned throughout.
Sustainability and Load Distribution of Authoritative Data Lookup Services, E. Lynette Rayle and Greg Delisle As part of the Linked Data for Production grant, the presenters have been maintaining an authoritative data lookup service operating over cached versions of the data. They are looking at ways to maintain this service beyond the life of the grant. There are several challenges including implementing a process for keeping the cache up to date, hosting billions of triples in the cache, the processing costs of creating a performant indexing scheme over the cache, and maintaining a lookup service that is always available. An early part of this work was retooling the authority indexing and search mechanisms to minimize the resources required to deploy a given authority search function. The presenters will discuss their experience using Docker to create containers that make it easier for other institutions to access this work and set up their own or shared lookup services. They will also look at Amazon Web Services (AWS) templates that are included with the container that perform many of the steps for deploying to AWS.
Anne Washington is a Product Analyst on the Metadata and Digital Services Team at OCLC, focusing on next generation metadata applications. She previously worked at the University of Houston and the University of Virginia. Anne received her MLIS at the University of Wisconsin-Milw... Read More →
John Chapman is Senior Product Manager, Metadata Strategy and Operations, for OCLC. He oversees cataloging applications, including Connexion and WorldShare Record Manager, as well as the WorldCat Metadata API. He also helps direct linked data strategy for OCLC, and is the manager... Read More →
I am a ruby/rails developer at Mann Library at Cornell. I work on Samvera applications and on linked data technologies. I am interested in talking with folks about linked data projects (access to authorities, authorities as controlled vocabularies, autocomplete UI, lookup UI, efficient... Read More →
