Sinopia

Update on #BIBFRAME 2020 Project

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Good news, even with my several columns on BIBFRAME and its implementation in LD4P‘s Sinopia editor for TS-SIS’s Technical Services Law Librarian publication. (TSLL). I am submitting my summer 2020 report for the granting Special Interest Sections.

For this report, I will generally describe the survey responses, lay out the plan for future writing on the topic, and describe the technical difference of metadata in the form of RDF and linked-open-data. The grant committee is expecting this report by the end of this week [2020-07-17] (aye…). But I am pretty far along (despite my super busy week).

The next steps will be to step-up my external publication efforts, produce a FINAL report to the grant committee in September, and then…well, I have more ideas.

In the future…more…

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Update on #BIBFRAME Primer project (JSON stuff)

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Thanks to JSON-Schema on Github (accessed 22 May 2020)

I have acquired the right-plenty collection of responses from my national survey (with a few international contributors) about use and expectations of BIBFRAME and Sinopia. The survey data will generate some kind of writing associated with it separately from the larger project (even as it becomes subsumed by the larger ‘thing’) because I want a whole section of analysis on the people-side of the work.

I have also been working on getting ‘under the hood’ of the technical aspects to the BIBFRAME Editor as implemented by LD4P’s Sinopia. This part has been slower – not for lack of interest or confusion, but the shift to remote working (due to Covid 19) has messed up some routines. Many of these are being put back together…anyway..I am getting a solid education of the JSON Schema – which organizes much of the order in the background. This part has been super fun to see the ranges of applications that use JSON as well as its potential.

Note, I am not at all a programmer – but my systems-oriented thinking grows.

Thank you for reading

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#Covid-19 Library Work

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Brief summary of current projects while remote working:

Managing some dB cleanup tasks: Checking and cleaning URLs for migrated e-resources that never got cleaned up after a platform migration by the vendor; Cleaning up basic e-resource cataloging procedures (because of overlapping tasks); Responding to questions that come from these procedures and processes

Reworking LD4P/Sinopia Profiles and Templates: After some changes made by the cohort of libraries in the LD4P project, those of us working and developing Linked-data-for-Production in Sinopia, a BIBFRAME editor and template builder for using this new schema, we realized we needed to update some templates for Series, Administrative Metadata to track provenance of the data for resources, as well as some ongoing efforts to add persistent data to avoid re-keying or re-searching for URIs

Working up Review for Publication: I am reviewing an item in the READING AUGUSTINE series, On Agamben, Arendt, Christianity and the Dark Arts of Civilization / by Peter Iver Kaufman. This work, fundamentally, compares, these three thinkers’ notion of ‘pilgrims,’ ‘refugees,’ and ‘pariahs,’ to draw some political/social continuities (and dis-continuities) between the three paradigms (which of course largely split over worldview).

And Plenty O’ other things…

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