Have you worked with the linked data features of any Ex Libris products? If yes, we would like to invite you to present at the IGeLU/ELUNA Linked Open Data Community of Practice online event scheduled for Wednesday, April 26, 2023, from 1-2 PM ET. Topics can be anything that focuses on linked data in Ex Libris products […]
The IGeLU/ELUNA Linked Open Data Community Of Practice Working Group has published a report on URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers). The report details how URIs are handled by Ex Libris, seeking to identify ways in which Ex Libris could improve these product features as well as to inform their future developments. The report can be viewed […]
This Town Hall meeting will focus on URIs (Uniform Resource Identifiers) in Ex Libris Products. We will discuss some critical URI issues identified by the working group members who evaluated a set of sample outputs from Alma and Primo. We will also present the potential solutions for discussion. Your participation and input will help the […]
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The Linked Open Data Special Interest Working Group has been working a fair amount behind the scenes since IGeLU 2015 in Budapest. Throughout the past year, much of our work been in collaboration with the Interoperability SIWG and the nascent Analytics SIWG. Our 3 groups organized the first in a series of “Show and Tell” […]
Developer Day Collaboration between the Interoperability and Linked Open Data SIWGs has continued since our last Newsletter, with more quarterly call as well as increased effort gone into planning the Developers Day post-conference after IGeLU on Saturday, September 5. Our hopes of a modest 50 attendee-meeting have been far exceeded, with over 85 registrants for […]
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Interoperable Collaborations The LOD and Interoperability SIWGs have begun to discuss ways to work together more closely. It is neither possible nor desirable to separate concerns about API-Level interoperability and RESTful interfaces from concerns about Data-Level Interoperability and Linked Open Data. To this end, our SIWG Working Body’s have begun quarterly joint calls and are […]
New members on the Working Body Following an engaging IGeLU 2014, the Linked Open Data LOSSpecial Interest Working Group filled two vacancies on our Working Body, and are looking forward to collaborating with the two newest members of the group: * Dr. Arif Shaon, Lead Technical Officer, Library Repository Services, University of New South Wales […]
News from all IGeLU working groups IGeLU would not be able to be a viable organisation without the Working Groups. They form the core of IGeLU! Your are kindly invited to read all about their important activities in the news of Product Working Groups and Special Interest Working Groups: Primo / Metalib Product Working Group news SFX Product […]
Collecting use cases The joint EGeLU/ELUNA Linked Open Data SIWG continues to collect use cases and present them to Ex Libris on WebEx conference calls. On February 26, 2014, Roxana Popistasu of the National Library of Luxembourg presented on linking between author data in Primo/Aleph and Autorenlexikon, an encyclopedia of Luxembourgish literary authors. On March […]
Activities The LOD SIWG has been hosting discussions with Ex Libris about scenarios for using Linked Data with Ex Libris applications. On July 11, 2013, Lukas Koster presented on resolving harvested URIs into Primo PNX. On September 30, 2013 North Rhine-Westphalian Library Service Center (hbz) described their process and challenges encountered in publishing Aleph bibliographic […]
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