LD4 2026 Conference: Full Schedule

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Welcome to the LD4 2026 Conference!

Monday September 28, 2026 10:00am - 10:10am EDT

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Welcome to the LD4 2026 Conference!

Speakers

Kyla Jemison

Metadata Librarian, University of Toronto Libraries

Kyla Jemison is a metadata librarian at the University of Toronto working with special formats. She is interested in music and audiovisual cataloguing, and how metadata affects discovery.

Bree Midavaine

Arcadia Director of the Library and Archives, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Mark Pyzyk

Monday September 28, 2026 10:00am - 10:10am EDT
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Welcome

10:15am EDT

Building more complete and linked GLAM datasets: The Smithsonian’s (In)Visible Women’s Project

Monday September 28, 2026 10:15am - 10:45am EDT

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The Smithsonian’s (In)Visible Women Project, based at the National Museum of the American Indian, is developing pan-institutional data practices within Wikidata to support the disambiguation of artists, designers, scientists, etc. documented across fourteen Smithsonian repositories. This work seeks to connect siloed internal collections information systems (ArchivesSpace, TMS, EMu, etc.), an...
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Amanda Sorensen

Data Manager, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

Rachel Menyuk

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian

Richard Naples

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Deborah Shapiro

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Monday September 28, 2026 10:15am - 10:45am EDT
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Presentation

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JCricket as an Operational Entity Editor for Shared Cataloguing

Monday September 28, 2026 10:45am - 11:15am EDT

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The transition toward linked data environments, entity-based models, and interoperable metadata ecosystems is reshaping cataloguing into a dynamic, collaborative, and distributed practice based on shared cataloguing. To respond to this change, the Share Family community has developed JCricket, the Linked Data Entity Editor designed for collaboratively curating entities in a multi-institutional,...
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Serena Cericola - Share Family / Casalini Libri, R&D Assistant Cericola

R&D Assistant, Share Family / Casalini Libri

Anna Lionetti

ShareVDE

Monday September 28, 2026 10:45am - 11:15am EDT
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Presentation

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Connecting Hidden Histories: Reimagining the LSE Suffrage Interviews as Connected Knowledge

Monday September 28, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am EDT

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Helen Williams

Metadata Manager, LSE Library, London School of Economics and Political Science

Monday September 28, 2026 11:15am - 11:45am EDT
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Presentation

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Once-in-an-Instance in BIBFRAME: Describing Manuscripts

Monday September 28, 2026 11:45am - 12:15pm EDT

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Part of the task force for the second revision cycle of the Art and Rare Materials (ARM) BIBFRAME ontology extension, the Manuscripts Subteam has been working to define the role of unique items, such as manuscripts, within the conceptual framework BIBFRAME is built from. Describing manuscripts poses challenges as it requires sets of definitions that can be adapted to objects that, by definition,...
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Hilary Murusmith

Princeton University

Mariagabriella Stuardi

Central Michigan University

Massoomeh Niknia

German National Library

Natalie Kazmin

University of South Florida

Monday September 28, 2026 11:45am - 12:15pm EDT
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Presentation

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Vendor 1

Monday September 28, 2026 12:15pm - 1:15pm EDT

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Monday September 28, 2026 12:15pm - 1:15pm EDT
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Vendor

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Charting New Territory: Reflections from a New Linked Data Librarian

Monday September 28, 2026 1:20pm - 1:30pm EDT

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This presentation reflects on my first year in a newly created Linked Data Librarian position at Middle Tennessee State University. I will discuss the creation of the role, initial expectations, and my experience learning linked data while exploring future implementations and building professional connections. The talk will highlight challenges, lessons learned, and insights gained along the way,...
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Tomeka Jackson

Linked Data Librarian, Middle Tennessee State University, Linked Data Librarian

Monday September 28, 2026 1:20pm - 1:30pm EDT
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Lightning Talk

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Building the Bridge: How WorldCat is Evolving to Support MARC and BIBFRAME

Monday September 28, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EDT

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Libraries around the world are at various stages in their transition to BIBFRAME. Some are learning the impact and benefits of leveraging BIBFRAME data; many are experimenting with BIBFRAME data in their cataloging and discovery workflows; and others are ready to fully productionize BIBFRAME data across their metadata management ecosystems. When it comes to widespread adoption and...
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Kirk Hess

Lead Software Engineer, OCLC

Morag Boyd

Director of Metadata Applications and Engagement, OCLC

Monday September 28, 2026 1:30pm - 2:00pm EDT
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Presentation

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Blue Core MVP Community Update

Monday September 28, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT

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The Blue Core project successfully completed its prototype development in 2025, establishing a community-operated and owned BIBFRAME data store. This prototype has served as a critical testing environment for integration with two open-source linked data editors: Sinopia and Marva. Following comprehensive scalability testing, metadata operations validation, and integration assessments with local...
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Kalliopi Mathios

Authorities and Entity Management Librarian, Stanford University, Authorities & Entity Management Librarian

n/a

Monday September 28, 2026 2:00pm - 2:30pm EDT
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Presentation

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EMCO 101: Entity Management for Everyone

Monday September 28, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT

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The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) aims to reduce costs associated with producing bibliographic and authority records to support discovery within public catalogs. The PCC meets this aim by developing metadata application profiles and implementing an apprenticeship-style training scheme within its global membership. The PCC launched a new program in spring 2025, the Entity Management...
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Misti Kane

Metadata and Access Librarian, University of Pittsburgh

Hello! This will be my first conference and I'm extremely excited that I have the opportunity to attend. I'm interested in learning as much about Linked Data and BIBFRAME as possible in transitioning from MARC. Electronic resources are also another area of interest. And, I'm in the... Read More →

Kyla Jemison

Metadata Librarian, University of Toronto Libraries

Kyla Jemison is a metadata librarian at the University of Toronto working with special formats. She is interested in music and audiovisual cataloguing, and how metadata affects discovery.

Jill Strykowski

Cataloging & Metadata Analyst, San Jose State University

Mary Campany

Monday September 28, 2026 2:30pm - 3:00pm EDT
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Presentation

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Using Wikidata to identify duplicates in the Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF)

Monday September 28, 2026 3:00pm - 3:10pm EDT

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The Library of Congress Name Authority File (LCNAF) has few tools for identifying duplicates. Since February 2026, Wikiproject P244 maintenance has worked as part of the newly-founded EMCO program to use Wikidata to identify and merge more than 160 pairs of duplicate LCNAF records. This lightning talk will discuss our process, the work that remains, and how you can help, whether you can edit the...
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Mary Campany

Monday September 28, 2026 3:00pm - 3:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talk

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From Wikidata to Our Collection Management System: Automating GIS Import for Cultural Heritage Data

Monday September 28, 2026 3:10pm - 3:20pm EDT

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Linking a place authority record to a usable geographic shape is often a manual, time-consuming step in collection management systems — yet the linked data is frequently already there. This lightning talk demos a small, open, dependency-free (Python standard library only) pipeline built for Axiell Collections at the Rijksmuseum, which takes a Wikidata QID, follows its OpenStreetMap relation...
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Jeroen De Meester

Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Application Manager Collections

Monday September 28, 2026 3:10pm - 3:20pm EDT
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Lightning Talk

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What goes around comes around: Leveraging linked data in cataloging workflows

Monday September 28, 2026 3:20pm - 3:30pm EDT

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The benefits of linked data in the cataloging community are often tied to improved search and discovery for library users, but in this lightning talk, I share a small use case of linked data also benefiting us, the catalogers creating the linked data. To tackle a backlog of CDs and vinyl requiring original cataloging at the UCLA Library, I worked with music catalogers to create a Python tool that...
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Erica Zhang

UCLA Library, Metadata Librarian for Open Access

Monday September 28, 2026 3:20pm - 3:30pm EDT
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Lightning Talk

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Naive Bibliometrics: The ongoing bibliometric impact of a racist article

Monday September 28, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm EDT

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As part of two larger projects in 2025 I identified four articles about bibliometrics published in journals identified as sources of racial hereditarian research. These four articles are relatively insignificant in the larger bibliometrics literature, but they form a natural experiment for both testing the scope of what is available in the bibliometrics data sources and the impact of racial...
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Brett Williams

Senior Research Analyst, Ontario Medical Association

Monday September 28, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm EDT
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Presentation

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Passing the BF Vibe Check: A Workshop on Chat-Based BIBFRAME Creation

Monday September 28, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT

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This workshop introduces a pre-release version of BF Vibe Desktop, an application where catalogers describe a resource in chat and receive validated BIBFRAME to edit and download. The AI runs on your own computer, like any desktop program, and descriptions are never sent to a commercial AI service. BIBFRAME structure comes from templates modeled on Library of Congress patterns, and shared...
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Jim Hahn

PhD Candidate, University of Illinois, School of Information Sciences

Monday September 28, 2026 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
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Workshop

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Coffee Hour

Monday September 28, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT

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Bree Midavaine

Arcadia Director of the Library and Archives, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Monday September 28, 2026 5:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
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Social Event

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Finding where to contribute on Wikidata with Dustpan and Broomstick

Tuesday September 29, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EDT

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Finding where to contribute on Wikidata isn't always straightforward, especially with structured and lexicographical data spread across multiple WikiProjects and languages. Identifying a gap, and knowing how to act on it, can be harder than making the edit itself. This session introduces Dustpan and Broomstick, two tools developed by Wikicollabs that help contributors discover opportunities to...
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Raisha Abdillah

Wikicollabs

Marchella Angelina

Wikicollabs

Tuesday September 29, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EDT
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Presentation

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Wiki Loves Names

Tuesday September 29, 2026 10:10am - 10:40am EDT

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This session will provide an overview of Wiki Loves Names and its contribution to Wiktionary. It will highlight the importance of documenting personal names, their meanings, origins, pronunciations, linguistic forms, and cultural contexts, particularly names from underrepresented languages and communities. The session will explore how Wiki Loves Names supports the preservation and visibility of...
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Onyinye Jane Achukwu

Tuesday September 29, 2026 10:10am - 10:40am EDT
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Presentation

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Lexipedia - linking data to process for design and description

Tuesday September 29, 2026 10:40am - 10:50am EDT

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For over 50 years, lawyers have used process models to describe how information and decisions move. Lexipedia, developed by the Center for Civic Innovation and the University of Virginia, describes legal processes using modern procedural standards such as BPMN (Business Process Model Notation) and Petri Nets. Process models describe how things happen, but offer no convenient discovery mechanism....
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anson parker

center for civic innovation, fellow

Tuesday September 29, 2026 10:40am - 10:50am EDT
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Lightning Talk

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Identifying Impact: Building an Architecture Alumni dataset at Georgia Tech

Tuesday September 29, 2026 10:50am - 11:00am EDT

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See how the Georgia Tech Library designed and built a dataset of notable architecture alumni in Wikidata, for outreach and development. We will talk about the research need that led to the development of the dataset, reflect on the design and implementation challenges encountered along the way, and future plans for further development.

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Cliff Landis

Georgia Tech Library, Digital Curation Archivist

Jeff Jensen

School of Design, Georgia Tech

Tuesday September 29, 2026 10:50am - 11:00am EDT
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Lightning Talk

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Beginner LD Q & A

Tuesday September 29, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EDT

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ALL are welcome!

Place for linked data beginners, interested parties, and experts to gather to answer questions about linked data.

If you are currently working on a linked data project and are willing to answer linked data questions we could use the help! Let the organizer know when you arrive.

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Mark Pyzyk

Data Analyst and Facilitator, Getty Research Institute

Bree Midavaine

Arcadia Director of the Library and Archives, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Tuesday September 29, 2026 11:00am - 11:30am EDT
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Social Event

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Reduced Fuzziness in Semantic Kompakkt 3D Object Viewer through Extensive Data Modelling in Wikibase

Tuesday September 29, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EDT

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Designed for digital humanities research, Semantic Kompakkt is a free, open-source platform for exploring and semantically annotating visual media in an interconnected open-data environment. Semantic Kompakkt, provides accessible features through graphical interfaces while Wikibase manages metadata storage as linked open data, thus enabling the publication and annotation of 2D, 3D, and audiovisual...
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Martha Mosha

University of Cologne

Tuesday September 29, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EDT
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Presentation

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Vendor 2

Tuesday September 29, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

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Tuesday September 29, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
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Vendor

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Cataloging with Official RDA in Wikibase Cloud

Tuesday September 29, 2026 1:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

This workshop provides attendees with an opportunity to familiarize themselves with Official RDA and Wikibase through practical, hands-on application. Attendees will bring a physical, single-part book with them to catalog during the workshop. Simple linked data application profiles for Official RDA will be provided and explained during the first fifteen minutes, and attendees will be instructed to...
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Crystal Yragui

Co-Interim Head, Metadata and Cataloging Initiatives Unit, University of Washington iSchool, Assistant Teaching Professor

Tuesday September 29, 2026 1:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

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Behind the Fence: Linked Data and Discovery in a Restricted Environment

Tuesday September 29, 2026 3:00pm - 3:10pm EDT

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What does openness mean when data cannot leave a restricted environment? This lightning talk discusses how linked data principles are being adapted within the National Security Research Center (NSRC) at Los Alamos National Laboratory, where more than eighty years of secrecy have made access control a defining feature of knowledge organization. At the NSRC, security requirements function as...
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Jane Thaler

Archivist, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Amanda DeGiorgis

Research Librarian, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Tuesday September 29, 2026 3:00pm - 3:10pm EDT
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Lightning Talk

3:10pm EDT

Never Guess: A Tiered Approach to Linked Data Reconciliation

Tuesday September 29, 2026 3:10pm - 3:20pm EDT

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Bridging library metadata to the semantic web sounds simple — until you're staring at a fuzzy title match and wondering whether "Emma" the Wikidata item is actually "Emma" the Jane Austen novel. This talk walks through a working pipeline that reconciles MARC records and spreadsheets against Wikidata before generating BIBFRAME RDF — deliberately in that order. MARC's fixed fields, controlled...
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Kalliopi Mathios

Authorities and Entity Management Librarian, Stanford University, Authorities & Entity Management Librarian

n/a

Tuesday September 29, 2026 3:10pm - 3:20pm EDT
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Lightning Talk

3:20pm EDT

Using AI Agents to Code a RDF Editor

Tuesday September 29, 2026 3:20pm - 3:50pm EDT

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Agentic AI coding tools such as Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and the open source OpenCode enable users to create sophisticated software applications from natural-language feature descriptions. This approach, often called “vibe coding,” allows people without software development experience to build applications. It also changes how experienced developers can iteratively orchestrate AI agents to...
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Jeremy Nelson

Software Engineer, Stanford University Libraries, Software Developer

Jeremy Nelson is a software engineer at Stanford University Libraries. He is on the team that migrated Stanford to FOLIO and is active developer in the Sinopia Linked Data Editor and Blue Core projects. His research interests include applying AI to improving library workflows.

Tuesday September 29, 2026 3:20pm - 3:50pm EDT
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Presentation

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Sinopia for Blue Core

Tuesday September 29, 2026 3:50pm - 4:20pm EDT

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In this presentation, the PCC Sinopia Cataloging Affinity Group will share updates to the Sinopia editor made for Blue Core, including updates to the interface, functionality, and seed data. We will provide an overview of Sinopia, compare Sinopia Classic to Sinopia for Blue Core, and highlight plans for production cataloging in BIBFRAME. We will review recent developments to operational metadata...
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Kalliopi Mathios

Authorities and Entity Management Librarian, Stanford University, Authorities & Entity Management Librarian

n/a

Tuesday September 29, 2026 3:50pm - 4:20pm EDT
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Presentation

4:20pm EDT

Linked data and discovery: Past, present, and future through the eyes of the Discovery Affinity Group

Tuesday September 29, 2026 4:20pm - 5:20pm EDT

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The LD4 Discovery Affinity Group was formed in 2019 to provide a space for discussion and sharing knowledge about the intersection of linked data and discovery. Recognizing the increasing focus or reference to AI in various library and discovery areas, this past year we started a series on AI, linked data, and discovery. We began by walking through fundamental concepts for machine learning and AI,...
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Huda Khan

Software Developer, Stanford University, Software developer

Software developer at Stanford University. Previously at Cornell University.

Astrid Usong

Tuesday September 29, 2026 4:20pm - 5:20pm EDT
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Affinity Group

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Coffee Hour

Tuesday September 29, 2026 5:20pm - 5:50pm EDT

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ALL are welcome! Casual time to meet other attendees, feel free to bring your own snack and drink!

We will discuss our favorite topics presented during the past two days, as well as what we are looking forward to on the last day.

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Bree Midavaine

Arcadia Director of the Library and Archives, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Tuesday September 29, 2026 5:20pm - 5:50pm EDT
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Social Event

9:30am EDT

The National Library Board’s Entity Data Service (EDS)

Wednesday September 30, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EDT

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The National Library Board’s (NLB) Entity Data Service (EDS) is a linked data initiative built on NLB’s knowledge graph, comprising some 2.6 million transformed records from the NLB and National Archives of Singapore (NAS) collections, with entities representing people, organisations and places described across these collections. This presentation will introduce the origins of the EDS and...
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Phyllis Wee

Senior Librarian, National Library Board, Singapore | Senior Librarian

Wednesday September 30, 2026 9:30am - 10:00am EDT
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Presentation

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From Language Data to Linked Open Knowledge: Strengthening Malagasy Digital Representation

Wednesday September 30, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am EDT

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The presentation will explore how diverse initiatives can complement one another to strengthen the Malagasy language in digital spaces. Key strategies include contributing linguistic data to Unicode and CLDR to enhance technical representation, participating in initiatives supported by organizations such as AFLC and SILICON at Stanford University, expanding open knowledge through Wikipedia and...
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Mamisoa Raveloaritiana

Wednesday September 30, 2026 10:00am - 10:30am EDT
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Streamlining Discover With Linked Metadata

Wednesday September 30, 2026 10:30am - 10:40am EDT

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This 10-minute presentation will explore how the migration to a Hyku-based platform enabled DigitalGeorgetown to transition out of a rigid hierarchy into a work-centered model due in large part to additional linked metadata fields on the new platform. I will discuss how we’re using certain fields to flatten the hierarchy and how facets are being used by an archivist to help enhance her searches....
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Rachel Jacobson

Digital Repository and Preservation Librarian, Georgetown University, Digital Repository and Preservation Librarian

Wednesday September 30, 2026 10:30am - 10:40am EDT
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Lightning Talk

10:40am EDT

Using Wikidata to Improve the Visibility of African Women in Open Knowledge

Wednesday September 30, 2026 10:40am - 10:50am EDT

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Women across Africa remain underrepresented in digital knowledge spaces, including Wikimedia projects. Beyond the lack of content, communities also face gaps in structured data that make it difficult to discover, connect, and improve information about African women. This lightning talk explores how Wikidata can serve as a practical, community-driven tool for addressing these visibility and...
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Amarachi Okoro

Wednesday September 30, 2026 10:40am - 10:50am EDT
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Lightning Talk

10:50am EDT

Our quest: cataloging video games in Blue Core

Wednesday September 30, 2026 10:50am - 11:00am EDT

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A discussion from a cataloging manager and a cataloger on why we are looking forward to cataloging video games in the Blue Core MVP.

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Jenn Colt

Head, Automation & Metadata Systems, Cornell University Library

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Laura Daniels

Cornell University Library

Wednesday September 30, 2026 10:50am - 11:00am EDT
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Lightning Talk

11:00am EDT

LD4 Arts Affinity Group - Connect with Us!

Wednesday September 30, 2026 11:00am - 11:15am EDT

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Join members of the LD4 Arts Affinity Group for an informal drop-in session to connect with some of our co-conveners and learn more about the Affinity Group. We’ll share a “year in review” of presentations from our monthly(ish) calls, answer any questions about our meeting logistics, and simply say “hello”! We expanded our scope this year and would love your input on the kind...
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Jessika Davis

Research Fellow, Freelance Researcher/Project Manager Cultural Heritage Knowledge Organization

Interests: Experiential Data | Multi-sensory Knowledge Making | Information Technology | LOD | Digital Humanities (and its hotly contested meaning). I recently received a MS in Museum and Digital Culture at Pratt Institute with Advanced Certificate in Digital Humanities. Currently... Read More →

Emma Clarkson

Metadata Specialist, New York Public Library

Wednesday September 30, 2026 11:00am - 11:15am EDT
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Affinity Group

11:30am EDT

You Can't Reconcile What Isn't There

Wednesday September 30, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EDT

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As linked data increasingly moves from experimentation toward implementation and production, GLAMs face a practical dilemma: how do we build scalable workflows while also ensuring that this data represents the collections and communities we seek to describe? Archival collections especially make this challenge visible. Their records often contain historically underrepresented creators that are...
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Isabella Brouse

Wednesday September 30, 2026 11:30am - 12:00pm EDT
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Presentation

12:00pm EDT

Vendor 3

Wednesday September 30, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT

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Wednesday September 30, 2026 12:00pm - 1:00pm EDT
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Vendor

1:00pm EDT

Wikidata Affinity Group: Working with Corporate Bodies for EMCO

Wednesday September 30, 2026 1:00pm - 3:00pm EDT

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This session, presented by PCC EMCO Wikidata Registry Coordinators, will introduce the group and its work over the past year supporting Wikidata as a shared platform for entity management within the Entity Management Cooperative (EMCO). The presenters will provide an overview of the application profile developed for representing corporate bodies in Wikidata, covering its key modeling choices along...
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Christa Strickler

Cataloging and Metadata Librarian, University of Notre Dame

Benjamin Riesenberg

Mary Campany

Wednesday September 30, 2026 1:00pm - 3:00pm EDT
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Affinity Group

3:00pm EDT

LD Project Share Out

Wednesday September 30, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT

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ALL are welcome!

If you are currently working on a linked data project and are willing to share what you are working we want to hear from you!

Come meet others working on LOD projects or talk through something you're stuck on.

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Bree Midavaine

Arcadia Director of the Library and Archives, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Wednesday September 30, 2026 3:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
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Social Event

3:30pm EDT

Shipping BIBFRAME

Wednesday September 30, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm EDT

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Part of BIBFRAME’s promise is that bibliographic descriptions move between systems on the web. The Library of Congress (LC) and the Blue Core project have been using the Concise Bounded Description (CBD) as their unit of description for BIBFRAME data. However, there is no shared, machine checkable definition of what a valid one looks like.In this talk we will describe what LC’s CBD is, and how...
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Kevin Ford

Library of Congress

Ed Summers

Stanford University

Wednesday September 30, 2026 3:30pm - 4:00pm EDT
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Presentation

4:00pm EDT

From Sounds to Solidarity: Jazz, Student Protests, and Wikidata

Wednesday September 30, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT

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The records of a single archival collection are inherently linked via a complex web of interrelationships between topics, people, places, and historical events. Current archival practices and metadata standards, however, do not easily facilitate the discovery of these relationships. In January 2025, Archivists at Dana Library on the campus of Rutgers University - Newark launched a pilot project...
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Angela Lawrence

Archivist, Rutgers University-Newark Archives

Dianne Biunno

Wednesday September 30, 2026 4:00pm - 4:30pm EDT
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Presentation

4:30pm EDT

BIBFRAME-ARM: An Update on the Current Revision Cycle

Wednesday September 30, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm EDT

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The Art and Rare Materials BIBFRAME Extension (ARM), first published in 2018 as part of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation-funded Linked Data for Production (LD4P) project (2016-2018), is currently undergoing its second revision cycle. It has grown in scope to cover four distinct and interrelated domains; in its current form it seeks to extend the BIBFRAME ontology with additional classes and...
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Zoe Dobbs

Catalog/Metadata Librarian, Yale University

Regine Heberlein

Principal Cataloger and Metadata Analyst, Princeton University

Raphael Sasayama

Metadata Specialist II, Getty Research Institute

Wednesday September 30, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm EDT
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Presentation

5:00pm EDT

Cartonera Digital do Cariri: Collaborative Knowledge Production, Cultural Memory, Open Access, and Linked Data

Wednesday September 30, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT

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This presentation shares the experience of Cartonera Digital do Cariri, a university extension project at the Federal University of Cariri (UFCA), Brazil, that combines cartonera publishing, cultural memory, sustainability, accessibility, open access, and collaborative knowledge production. Inspired by the Latin American cartonera movement and the cultural traditions of the Cariri region, the...
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Carla Maria Rodrigues de Souza

Wednesday September 30, 2026 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
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Presentation

5:30pm EDT

Thank you and closing remarks

Wednesday September 30, 2026 5:30pm - 5:45pm EDT

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Speakers

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