20 articles in this issue
 
Preliminary pages including Preface and Program Committee listing.
Brian Dobreski,Jaihyun Park,Alicia Leathers,Jian Qin
Though archival resources may be valued for their uniqueness, they do not exist in isolation from each other, and stand to benefit from linked data treatments capable of exposing them to a wider network of resources and potential users. To leverage these ... see more
Eunah Snyder,Lisa Lorenzo,Lucas Mak
Linked open data (LOD) has long been touted as a means to enhancing discovery of library resources through the use of robust links between related items and concepts. Recently, libraries have begun to experiment with LOD sources such as Wikidata and DBped... see more
Daichi Machiya,Tomoko Okuda,Masahide Kanzaki
The National Diet Library, Japan (NDL), with support by Xenon Limited Partners, has designed a new metadata schema based on the RDF model while developing a national platform for metadata aggregation and sharing, "Japan Search". Japan Search collects meta... see more
Brinna Michael,Myung-Ja K. Han
As interest in linked data grows throughout the cultural heritage community, it is necessary to critically assess current tools for conversion and creation of linked data "records" and to explore new avenues for creating and encoding data using existing f... see more
Anne Washington,Annie Wu,Santi Thompson,Todd Crocken,Leroy Vallejo,Sean Watkins,Andrew Weidner
The University of Houston (UH) Libraries, in partnership and consultation with numerous institutions, was awarded an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Leadership/Project Grant to support the creation of the Bridge2Hyku (B2H) Toolkit... see more
Hollie C. White,Leisa Gibbons,Eileen Horansky
Memory institutions and other organizations interested in preserving social media data are using a variety of collection level metadata to represent those materials. The aim of this paper is to start a dialogue within the metadata community about how meta... see more
Sonia Pascua,Kai Li
The role of metadata to support research cannot be underestimated; and, yet, it is difficult to develop a systematic understanding of metadata activities throughout the research process. In this paper, we preliminary analyzed how metadata activities were ... see more
Mark E. Phillips,Oksana L. Zavalina,Hannah Tarver
Digital collections in cultural heritage institutions are increasingly digitizing physical items, collecting born-digital items, and making these resources available online. Metadata plays a crucial role in the discovery and management of these collection... see more
Nuno Freire,Antoine Isaac
Wikidata is an open data source with many potential applications. Our study aims to evaluate the usability of Wikidata as a linked data source for acquiring richer descriptions of digital objects within the context of Europeana, a data aggregator from the... see more
Chunqiu Li,Yuhan Zhou,Kun Huang
The open government movements facilitate the transparency and sharing of government data. Provenance of open government data (OGD) describes source information related to who, how, where, when and other information over the lifecycle of OGD. Provenance o... see more
Yuka Egusa,Masao Takaku
Japanese Textbook Linked Open Data (LOD) is an LOD dataset of bibliographic and educational information that has been organized over the years by the Library of Education at the National Institute for Educational Policy Research. The dataset consists of b... see more
Kazufumi Fukuda
Video games have a short but rich history. Therefore, they have been gaining popularity as cultural heritage and research material. Several studies have analyzed the metadata and cataloging of video games. However, the research on its implementation is li... see more
Sittisak Rungcharoensuksri,Wachiraporn Klungthanaboon
To advocate open science and knowledge development, the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (SAC) recognizes the significance of collocation of scattered research outputs funded by the SAC for the public use. The SAC Research Database was ... see more
Sebastian Lawrenz,Priyanka Sharma,Andreas Rausch
With the shift to a data-driven society, data trading takes on a completely new significance. In the future, data marketplaces will be equivalent to other electronic commerce platforms such as Amazon or eBay. Just like any other online marketplace a data ... see more
Kathy Choi,Haliza Jailani
As part of Singapore's smart nation initiative, Moments of Life (MOL) was created as a whole of government mobile application to serve citizens' needs better through technology. A strategic project under the Smart Nation and Digital Government Office, Nat... see more
Nishad Thalhath,Mitsuharu Nagamori,Tetsuo Sakaguchi,Shigeo Sugimoto
Metadata Application Profiles are the elementary blueprints of any Metadata Instance. Efforts like the Singapore Framework for Dublin Core Application Profiles define the framework for designing metadata application profiles to ensure interoperability and... see more
Mairelys Lemus-Rojas,You Young Lee
Wikidata is an open knowledge base that stores structured linked data. It contains over 58 million items ("Wikidata:Statistics," n.d.), but its data reveal a noticeable and prevalent gender disparity. In an effort to contribute to the growth and enhanceme... see more
Marc Stoeckle,Ingrid Reiche
Magnus Pfeffer,Martin Roth