On May 16-17, 2011, the Berkman Center together with Open Knowledge Commons and the Institute for Information Law at the University of Amsterdam convened a group of technical and legal experts from public and research libraries and government agencies in the United States and Europe for a workshop focused on key questions regarding global interoperability in digital libraries. The goal of this meeting was to learn from the experiences of existing projects such as Europeana in order to apply these lessons to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) from the outset; much of the discussion focused on linked data in general and on linked library data in particular. Presentations examined interoperability of discovery, use, and deep research in existing global digital library infrastructure with a view toward ensuring that the DPLA adopts best practices in these areas.
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Agenda
May 16, 2011
Segment I: Welcome and Setting the Stage
- Maura Marx, Open Knowledge Commons
- Lucie Guibault, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam
- John Palfrey, Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Harvard Law School
Segment II: Linked Data and Interoperability in Europeana
- Introduction to Linked Data: Dan Brickley,University of Amsterdam
- Open Linked Data and Cultural Heritage: Kennisland Nederland
- The Europeana Data Model: Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Linked Open Data: Principles and Two Projects: Dr. Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt University of Berlin
- Discussion moderated by Martin Kalfatovic, Smithsonian Institution and Biodiversity Heritage Library
Segment III: Interoperable discovery: bibliographic metadata
- Open Bibliographic Data: Rufus Pollock, Open Knowledge Foundation
- The Virtual International Authority File: Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC
- Issues of Data Synchronization: Ed Summers, Library of Congress
- Bibliographic Metadata & HathiTrust: Jonathan Rothman, HathiTrust
- Fulltext Search and Opportunities to Extend Discovery: John Weise, HathiTrust
- Discussion moderated by David Weinberger, Harvard Library Innovation Lab
Segment IV: Interoperable use: licensing frameworks and rights language
- Marking the Public Domain: Paul Keller, Kennisland Nederland
- Determining Rights and Opening Access in HathiTrust: John Weise, HathiTrust
- Bridging Gaps; ARROW Rights Information Infrastructure: Paola Mazzucchi, ARROW
- Working with licensing frameworks: Lucie Guibault, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam
- Working with licensing frameworks: Urs Gasser, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
- Discussion moderated by John Palfrey, Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Harvard Law School
May 17, 2011
Segment V: Interoperability for mining and research: full text
- Multilinguality and Semantic vs. Syntactic Interoperability: Repke de Vries, Heritage of the People's Europe
- Building a Public Research Center for the HathiTrust Digital Library: Robert McDonald, Indiana University
- Deep Research: Greg Crane, Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University
- Discussion moderated by Josh Greenberg, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Summary and Next Steps
- Discussion moderated by John Palfrey, Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Harvard Law School
Participants
- Dan Brickley,University of Amsterdam
- Africa J. Bwamkuu, Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) and African Digital Library Support Network
- Valentine Charles, The European Library
- Greg Crane, Perseus Digital Library, Tufts University
- Repke de Vries, Heritage of the People's Europe (HOPE)
- Lorcan Dempsey, OCLC
- Kim Dulin, Harvard Library Innovation Lab
- Louise Edwards, The European Library
- Vera Franz, Open Society Foundations
- Chris Freeland, Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Rachel Frick, on Library and Information Resources and Digital Library Federation
- Urs Gasser, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
- Stefan Gradmann, Humboldt University of Berlin
- Josh Greenberg, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- Lucie Guibault, Institute for Information Law, University of Amsterdam
- Irene Haslinger, National Library of the Netherlands
- Rebekah Heacock, Berkman Center for Internet & Society
- Antoine Isaac, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Hans Jensen, EIFL
- Max Kaiser, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
- Martin Kalfatovic, Smithsonian Institution and Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Paul Keller, Kennisland Nederland
- Giulia Marangoni, ARROW
- Maura Marx, Open Knowledge Commons; Berkman Center for Internet & Society
- Paola Mazzucchi, ARROW
- Robert McDonald, Indiana University
- Paul Miller, JISC
- Jan Molendijk, Europeana
- John Palfrey, Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Harvard Law School
- Patrick Peiffer, Bibliothèque Nationale de Luxembourg
- Rufus Pollock, Open Knowledge Foundation
- Joyce Ray, Institute of Museum and Library Services
- Jonathan Rothman, HathiTrust
- Gosia Stergios, Harvard Business School Knowledge and Library Services
- Ed Summers, Library of Congress
- Doron Weber, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
- David Weinberger, Harvard Library Innovation Lab
- John Weise, HathiTrust
- Ben White, British Library
Pre-Workshop Notes
Examples of research enabled by mining text corpora