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This section includes the latest issue of the Share Family Bulletin. More information on the current activities going on within the various [https://wiki.share-vde.org/wiki/ShareFamily:Main_Page branches of the Share Family] can be found throughout this wiki website https://wiki.svde.org/, which is the informative hub of Share-VDE and the Share Family.


For a general presentation of the Share Family, of its mission and values, and to find out the latest news, you can also explore the brochure website https://www.share-family.org/.


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To explore previous issues of the Share Family Bulletin, feel free to navigate through the following links:


Find out the latest news about the [https://www.share-family.org/ Share Family of initiatives] and the most relevant updates on the developments going on within the various [[ShareFamily:Main Page#The Share Family map|branches of the family]].
* [https://wiki.share-vde.org/wiki/ShareFamily:NewsAndUpdates/December2019 Number 1, December 2019]
* [https://wiki.share-vde.org/wiki/ShareFamily:NewsAndUpdates/November2020 Number 2, November 2020]
* [https://wiki.share-vde.org/wiki/ShareFamily:NewsAndUpdates/October2021 Number 3, October 2021]
* [https://wiki.share-vde.org/wiki/ShareFamily:NewsAndUpdates/January2022 Number 4, January 2022]
* [https://wiki.share-vde.org/wiki/ShareFamily:NewsAndUpdates/May2022 Number 5, May 2022]
* [https://wiki.share-vde.org/wiki/ShareFamily:NewsAndUpdates/September_2022 Number 6, September 2022]
* [https://wiki.share-vde.org/wiki/ShareFamily:NewsAndUpdates/January2023 Number 7, January 2023]
* [https://wiki.share-vde.org/wiki/ShareFamily:NewsAndUpdates/December2023 Number 8, December 2023]
* [https://wiki.share-vde.org/wiki/ShareFamily:NewsAndUpdates/July2024 Number 9, July 2024]


==Share-VDE and Share Family progress update (January 2023)==
As the year 2023 has started, we are happy to look at the results achieved within the Share-VDE and Share Family initiatives over the past year and share with you the goals for the next period.


Among the most recent news, it’s very important to mention that '''on December 7th the Share-VDE Advisory Council has approved the new [https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/4/43/Share-VDE_Executive_Summary_2022-12-07.pdf Executive Summary]'''. Following the [https://bit.ly/SVDE-Statement-2021 Share-VDE Statement] published in 2021, the new Summary outlines the scope of Share-VDE in the context of Linked Open Data for Libraries. We owe much gratitude to the joint effort of the Advisory Council members in writing this important document.


===SVDE 2.0 system infrastructure===
'''<big>Number 10, April 2025</big>'''
As you know, we are putting much effort into the work needed '''towards the production environment'''.


The adoption of AWS - Amazon Web Services was a milestone to better support system scalability, make it more robust and meet high availability expectations. Right now, we are working on the pre-conditions for the system components to progressively migrate from staging to production. To this aim, we will inform you about planned downtimes of the system in the coming period (one downtime is in course right now, see the alert message a few days ago).
You can download a printable version at https://bit.ly/SFBulletin_n10_Apr2025 


Also, once the back-end environments for all the [[ShareFamily:Main Page#The Share Family branches .28tenants.29|Share Family tenants]] will be switched to production and the module of the system managing regular data updates will be in place, the URIs of the entities stored in the various tenants will be persistent.
Citation: Share Family Team, ''Share Family Bulletin'' ''10'' (April 2025), https://bit.ly/SFBulletin_n10_Apr2025
== Introduction ==
The Share Family is committed to fostering cooperation among its member institutions and within the broader GLAM community to showcase the immense value of being part of an initiative developed and driven by libraries for libraries.  


So far, SVDE 2.0 system processed around 65 million of MARC bibliographic records and 13 million of authority records, to create approximately '''150,2 million of BIBFRAME entities'''. These have been created from the catalogues of [[ShareVDE:Main Page/SVDE institutions|SVDE institutions]] that we have loaded to [https://wiki.share-vde.org/wiki/ShareVDE:Main_Page/SVDE_institutions https://svde.org] [1], and for all of them a skin portal is available (see more on skin portals below).
The Share Family’s collaborative approach to linked open data results in advanced technology applications for bibliographic descriptions and shared data management tools. Member institutions embrace the recent progress of LOD Platform technology and are empowered by the advantages of linked open data for knowledge sharing.


During 2023, we will conclude this round of data ingestion and publication to the SVDE portal.
== Version 3.1.1 and LOD Platform developments ==
The version 3.0.0 of the [[ShareDoc:PublicDocumentation/LODPlatform|LOD Platform]] that was announced [https://bit.ly/SFBulletin_n9_Jul2024 in the latest issue of the Share Family Bulletin] has introduced substantial changes to the technology framework supporting the system. JCricket entity editor and shared cataloguing tool is the major enhancement of v.3.0.0, but the system has undertaken important optimisations in the [[ShareDoc:PublicDocumentation/Release notes|following software releases 3.1.0 and 3.1.1]], which are currently being tested by member institutions.  


Regarding the other tenants of the Share Family: the process towards the production environment described above will take place in the same way as we are doing for Share-VDE also for the '''National Bibliographies tenant''' (https://natbib-lod.org/), the '''British National Bibliography skin portal''' (preview of its beta site: https://bl.natbib-lod.org/), and the '''PCC data pool''' '''that is hosted by the Share-VDE infrastructure''' (https://pcc-lod.org).
The LOD Platform technology is shared across all environments of the [https://www.share-family.org/ Share Family initiative], and software releases are rolled out to the various [[ShareFamily:Main Page#The%20Share%20Family%20branches%20(tenants)|tenants]] following a dedicated schedule.


Also, a dedicated task group formed by volunteers PCC members is testing the PCC data pool discovery portal, and the results will greatly improve our work.
=== Cluster Knowledge Base and data management ===
'''<big>Entity model and Cluster Knowledge Base</big>'''


===New content and overview of technical developments===
The LOD Platform currently supports the latest version of the BIBFRAME ontology, and will upgrade the MARC-to-BIBFRAME mapping to the most up to date version. The use of BIBFRAME within the Share Family initiative has been extended to guarantee interoperability with IFLA LRM and with applications not based on BIBFRAME. The [https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.8332350 SVDE Ontology] is the result of work that has been carried on since last year by the [https://wiki.share-vde.org/wiki/ShareFamily:NewsAndUpdates#Share_Family_Community_updates SEI - Sapientia Entity Identification Working Group], with the svde:Opus entity being the most prominent extension of the ontology.      
Among SVDE brand new content, you might want to look at the '''demo of the Share-VDE entity discovery portal''' available at https://bit.ly/SVDE-discovery-live-demo. This walkthrough includes an introduction on the Share-VDE user experience and user interface design process. Also, supporting slides with further materials are available at https://bit.ly/SVDE-discovery-demo-slides.


In this video you will see some '''features of the discovery portal''' that is worth summarising:
[[File:opus-work-model UpdateOpusTypes VersioneMia.drawio.png|none|thumb|735x735px]]


*the configuration of the simple search function that enables the option of Publication simple search default, where this is relevant (e.g. in the National Bibliographies tenant and [https://bl.natbib-lod.org/ British National Bibliography skin portal]);
*the initial version of Subject entity, that [https://www.svde.org/infinite-jest-a-novel-p1401654885176149/subjects aggregates all subjects pertaining to a resource], with their Provenance. This will be enhanced by Concepts, ie. the pieces that form a subject string and that are currently added to the [https://www.svde.org/family-life-fiction-s1031654873687244/original-works-about Subject pages] in a rough version;
*the tracking of Provenance: the system can be queried via API to return the bibliographic records of a given Provenance (= institution) connected to an Instance, while the discovery portal shows which institutions have contributed e.g. to subjects. Provenance is also key to support the editing of linked data entities with [https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/7/74/JCricket_overview_-_2023-Jan-26.pdf JCricket editor], to track updates and collaborative services;
*as mentioned above, skin portals are available for individual institutions. While the main entity discovery portal of a tenant shows the data of all the institutions feeding the tenant's Cluster Knowledge Base (e.g. svde.org), the skin portal gives the ability to filter only the data of the institution that the skin portal has been designed for.  To this aim, an ad hoc function was added to filter publications by what is available at the current library. It is enabled on skin portals at Publication (= Instance) level in these cases:
**in advanced search, see e.g. NYU data pre-filtered here https://nyu.svde.org/advanced-search/publications?q=(title+does_not_contain+xyz)&heldAtLibrary=true (see the toggle on the right of the screen, you can turn it on / off);
**in the Original work entity page that lists Publications, see e.g. https://nyu.svde.org/suite-de-la-mancha-flute-cello-piano-unknown-author-o781654264663247/library-publications (see the toggle on the right of the screen, you can turn it on / off);
**a caveat: this function is visible and clickable on all skin portals, but currently works on institutions’ skins that have item data clustered and rendered to the portal. As soon as other institutions’ item data will be clustered and rendered to the portal, the toggle will work there as well;
*all tenants of the Share Family can now search for classification numbers in advanced search.


Moreover, we are working to complete the connection with local library services, to enable the integration with e.g. circulation services, lending system etc.


Regarding other technical developments, the core of SVDE system, ie. '''the clustering module that creates clusters of BIBFRAME entities''', has been reviewed based on the input that users and SVDE libraries have provided (in particular through the dedicated Sapientia Entity Identification Working Group). This revision cycle is still ongoing, and some items are being addressed by this group (see below).  
The output of the SEI Working Group is being incorporated in the LOD Platform components, e.g. the OpusType property is available in the test environment and can be used in the JCricket entity editor that is being tested.


Connected to that, in order to ensure flexibility in gathering users’ feedback and in reviewing the clustering logics, '''we are preparing a new test environment''', which will immediately highlight the changes to data elaboration carried out from time to time.
A key aspect of LOD Platform data management is the ability to manage data at a very fine granularity level. The aim is to have the [[ShareDoc:PublicDocumentation/LODPlatform/ClusterKnowledgeBase|CKB - Cluster Knowledge Base]] (or Entity Knowledge Base) as a single source of truth for the LOD Platform and Share Family installations. This will improve:


===Major milestones during 2023===
* a “format-agnostic” CKB where all input formats converge into one conversion source (eg. MARC21, UNIMARC, native BIBFRAME/RDF eg. from LD4P Sinopia application profiles…);
One of the most important work strands involves the '''linked data entity editor JCricket'''. The work on the back-end APIs has been completed, while the respective front-end features are being developed. As soon as a preview of the early functions will be available, we will provide more updates on this. To give evidence to the ongoing work, we are organizing a step-by-step release method that will allow us to share progresses with the community as we go along.


Much work is also ongoing behind the scenes to complete '''all the pieces of the Share-VDE system pipeline''', that we aim to finalise during 2023:
* improved conversion from MARC to BIBFRAME and vice versa;
* single conversion pipeline from the CKB – removing the conversion pipeline based on MARC.


*the new RDF conversion tool, that will support the export of RDF data dumps (including an updated triple store database) and the import of Sinopia data to close this loop of LD4P project;
One of the main pipelines we’re following in this context is the management of attributes through controlled vocabularies instead of literals. This is being achieved by:
*the regular updates module (AKA “delta” updates), to enable periodic imports of MARC records for continuous update of SVDE data;
*the creation of entity clusters of items, generated from libraries’ item data;
*the development of tools / protocols for third parties’ data consumption and harvesting, including APIs, OAI-PMH, Atom feeds and Activity stream;
*a Share Family index, to set-up interconnections among the linked data entities stored in the various tenants.


===Community work===
* defining each controlled vocabulary in collaboration with the Sapientia Entity Identification Working Group;
Share-VDE initiative is also committed to a '''continuous community work''', through its regular [[ShareVDE:Members/Share-VDE working groups|working groups]] and the participation to the discussion within the broader BIBFRAME community.
* enriching each vocabulary with external authoritative sources (RDA, Library of Congress, FINTO…);
* clustering of controlled vocabularies and assignment of a URI to each value.


In the '''Share-VDE Advisory Council''', Nina Servizzi from New York University is the new Chair starting her service in 2023, following Beth P. Camden from the University of Pennsylvania who served until 2022. We are very grateful to Beth for her wise guidance and we will continue to rely on her as Past Chair. We are very glad to welcome Nina in this role.
After completing the work on these vocabularies, they will be made available on JCricket.


The '''SVDE User Experience – User Interface Working Group''' has been reconvened recently, having as co-chairs Abigail Sparling from the University of Alberta and Kayt Ahnberg from the University of Pennsylvania. This group steered the design of the current SVDE web portal a few years ago, and it’s now called to review the discovery features currently implemented for potential optimisations. These and discussions around new features for future versions of the discovery will be carried on also in cooperation with the '''National Bibliographies working group''', that will also address discovery features specific to the National Bibliographies tenant.


The work of the '''Sapientia Entity Identification Working Group''' has among the current tasks the formalization of a SVDE ontology, and to give recommendations on the use of bf:Hub in SVDE data.


'''<big>UNIMARC</big>'''


In the broader community, we are consolidating the cooperation about '''BIBFRAME data exchange''', launched by the '''PCC and carried on by the BIBFRAME Interoperability Group''' that SVDE participate in.  
The direct management of UNIMARC records in clusterization and reconciliation processes without the “middle step conversion” from UNIMARC to MARC21 has been completed, and a Wikibase instance https://unimarc2bibframe.wikibase.cloud/ documents this work. An update has also been provided at the 6th IFLA UNIMARC Users Meeting in November 2024, with the presentation by Tiziana Possemato and Claudio Forziati [https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/c/c4/10_Possemato_Forziati.pdf ''UNIMARC-BIBFRAME Mapping: Evolving Interoperability in Data Modelling''] ([https://youtu.be/uNpQXHTS3pw?feature=shared&t=3561 recording available]).


Also, the continuous discussions with the Library of Congress, the PCC, the LD4P – Linked Data for Production project, and OCLC will be of great importance to contribute to BIBFRAME interoperability among linked data nodes.
The related developments had as a result the migration of the SHARE Catalogue platform to the new CKB infrastructure and enhanced entity discovery portal https://www.sharecatalogue-lod.org/ (see also the [https://wiki.share-vde.org/wiki/ShareFamily:NewsAndUpdates#Share_Family_Community_updates updates on Share Family tenants] below).


===Events and conferences===
Finally, numerous '''events and conferences''' have taken place in the latest months where the Share-VDE team and member libraries had the occasion to contribute, and we hope for more in the future.


On January 19th Jim Hahn from the University of Pennsylvania will present at a session of the ALA/Core Linked Data Interest Group, addressing topics about BIBFRAME interoperability that also touch the SVDE experience.


The [[ShareVDE:Resources#Year 2022|Share-VDE wiki Resources page]] collects the materials presented at such events.
'''<big>UAT – User Acceptance Testing environment</big>'''


As usual, we would be happy to have your feedback on the initiative, or any other questions or comments. Don’t hesitate to look at the SVDE wiki https://wiki.svde.org for more details on the initiative, or to contact us at [mailto:info@svde.org info@svde.org].
In the Share-VDE tenant, sets of real data from SVDE members institutions have been loaded to a UAT (User Acceptance Testing) environment that runs on the latest software version. The purpose is to test the most recent output of the clusterization of SVDE libraries’ data in a small-scale data pool. Members are validating the results of clusterization processes in the common CKB, ie. the quality of data processing, clustering, linked data conversion and entity display on the discovery portal. Input from the SVDE and Share Family community has always been the foundation of the initiative and an added value to developments.




[1] Library catalogues loaded to svde.org and converted to BIBFRAME so far:


'''<big>Data update procedures</big>'''


Duke University [https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fduke.svde.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7Canna.lionetti%40casalini.it%7C8d645fee0a444f3a34b308daed837f0e%7C86419e2c5b044b33afaf3d8b6229cf81%7C0%7C0%7C638083446273608744%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=wdiFNGF3WlFUZLa0RrolyLxciuPakAJ3OKOReKsNYSY%3D&reserved=0 https://duke.svde.org]
Incremental updates of data ingested from member institutions are managed through a dedicated module that has been continuously fine-tuned to streamline and automate the so-called “delta updates” imports. On the Natbib tenant, the institutional portal for the BNB - British National Bibliography currently supports a stable workflow of delta updates ingestion.


Library of Congress [https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Floc.svde.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7Canna.lionetti%40casalini.it%7C8d645fee0a444f3a34b308daed837f0e%7C86419e2c5b044b33afaf3d8b6229cf81%7C0%7C0%7C638083446273608744%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=cAk71hI5kWgLbrNK6tLoIXgM7GwbW7OpwaCK7Bi4BRs%3D&reserved=0 https://loc.svde.org/]
The delta updates workflow will be applied to all tenants as soon as massive data import and indexing will be stable.


National Library of Finland [https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnatlibfi.svde.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7Canna.lionetti%40casalini.it%7C8d645fee0a444f3a34b308daed837f0e%7C86419e2c5b044b33afaf3d8b6229cf81%7C0%7C0%7C638083446273608744%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=o3U07F3ii1DIeLqnzQrLiLurvBZqL2HQqcnTGGp%2FYTc%3D&reserved=0 https://natlibfi.svde.org/]  
=== JCricket Entity Editor ===
Upon the release of the LOD Platform v.3.0.0, JCricket was rolled out in a test environment dedicated to member institutions. The first round of tests has been done in the second half of 2024, and a new testing phase is ongoing. Feedback from testers will be incorporated in the application. You can explore more of JCricket in the [[ShareDoc:PublicDocumentation|Public Documentation section]] of the Share Family wiki at [[ShareDoc:PublicDocumentation/LODPlatform/EntityEditor|LOD Platform Entity Editor - JCricket]] and check out the demo of JCricket entity editor at the [https://youtu.be/sD3qYbx0n0Q BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe 2024] ([https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/6/6c/day1_004_SFamily_BFWE_2024.pdf slides] are also available).


National Library of Norway [https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnln.svde.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7Canna.lionetti%40casalini.it%7C8d645fee0a444f3a34b308daed837f0e%7C86419e2c5b044b33afaf3d8b6229cf81%7C0%7C0%7C638083446273608744%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=RRsJPrE9kvi6VQ7BBnU%2BiiHtAdcl%2F3rXwXV%2F05zGAD8%3D&reserved=0 https://nln.svde.org/]
JCricket operates on all layers of the LOD Platform entity model (ie. bf:Agent, svde:Opus, svde:Work, bf:Instance, Item). Also, JCricket users see multi-provenance data at individual attribute level. The tracking of the [[ShareDoc:PublicDocumentation/LODPlatform/EntityEditor#Provenance%20and%20Prism|Provenance]] has been implemented since the beginning as a pivotal element to enable entity data curation by cataloguers from different institutions in a shared space.  


New York University [https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnyu.svde.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7Canna.lionetti%40casalini.it%7C8d645fee0a444f3a34b308daed837f0e%7C86419e2c5b044b33afaf3d8b6229cf81%7C0%7C0%7C638083446273608744%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=csh1yE1zn%2BiaS0tOTHQsekpYxMASW2WmAT9ACp%2BJMw0%3D&reserved=0 https://nyu.svde.org]
The evolution of JCricket over time illustrates the progress of the tool and future goals.


Smithsonian Institution [https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsmithsonian.svde.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7Canna.lionetti%40casalini.it%7C8d645fee0a444f3a34b308daed837f0e%7C86419e2c5b044b33afaf3d8b6229cf81%7C0%7C0%7C638083446273765340%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=znnVCd1fnvBToZNZcXOy1q8PnAxGTMQNxi322RGvOBU%3D&reserved=0 https://smithsonian.svde.org/]  
[[File:JCricket timeline.png|none|thumb|658x658px]]


Stanford University [https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fstanford.svde.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7Canna.lionetti%40casalini.it%7C8d645fee0a444f3a34b308daed837f0e%7C86419e2c5b044b33afaf3d8b6229cf81%7C0%7C0%7C638083446273765340%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=jdkKoytEDMp4XxBOomM0p7ZLzZ1Gc%2FHhCs1zZPPS7TQ%3D&reserved=0 https://stanford.svde.org]
=== Architecture and infrastructure ===
<big>'''Multi-tenant architecture'''</big>


University of Pennsylvania [https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpenn.svde.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7Canna.lionetti%40casalini.it%7C8d645fee0a444f3a34b308daed837f0e%7C86419e2c5b044b33afaf3d8b6229cf81%7C0%7C0%7C638083446273765340%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=aDFC8b1FhzukSYFG1%2FlsYJX0E%2BxGmZ6QE0KFrpk2jvc%3D&reserved=0 https://penn.svde.org]
Multi-tenancy is an infrastructure configuration that allows many clients to share a single instance of a software application and the related infrastructure resources. We have implemented and are rolling out this approach to reduce effort and machine resources needed to set-up and configure a new tenant or an institutional installation within it. This ensures that data is stored and managed in a unified way, optimizing security, scalability, and efficiency. While built for multi-tenancy, the architecture also seamlessly adapts to private deployments for those who require a dedicated installation.


University of Alberta Library [https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fualberta.svde.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7Canna.lionetti%40casalini.it%7C8d645fee0a444f3a34b308daed837f0e%7C86419e2c5b044b33afaf3d8b6229cf81%7C0%7C0%7C638083446273765340%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=H6nxh363yjNH6u8%2Bkf%2FMW92HrCH1VoXmal8Mpnvwxxc%3D&reserved=0 https://ualberta.svde.org]


== [[ShareFamily:NewsAndUpdates/January2023|January 2023]] ==


==Share-VDE and Share Family Summer and Autumn 2022 events (September 2022)==
'''<big>New database</big>'''
September and the coming autumn are continuing a rich set of conferences where Share-VDE and the wider Share Family community will contribute with presentations and speeches.


As you might already know, on September 20<sup>th</sup> – 21<sup>st</sup> the BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe will take place in Budapest, with a pre-meeting on Monday 19<sup>th</sup> specific to SVDE.
Because the scale of the Share Family environment has been growing at a big data level (particularly for the largest tenant Share-VDE), we are testing a new database solution that would rely on a NoSQL approach. This would ensure scalability and stable performance in massive data imports and incremental updates.


After visiting Frankfurt, Florence and Stockholm, and two online editions, the 2022 workshop will be a free hybrid event, hosted by the National Széchényi Library. This year's focus will be on BIBFRAME in operation, new developments and interoperability.
=== Third parties integration ===
The evolution of the LOD Platform technology encompasses the ability to mutually integrate the data produced with external systems, notably with local ILS and Library Service Platforms and authority sources. This is being achieved through the integration of the LOD Platform tools with local ILS and LSP, or cataloguing modules:


The aim of the BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe is to be a forum for sharing knowledge about planning, practice and production relating to BIBFRAME implementation. The intention is to bring together the community working or interested in the transition from MARC to Linked Data using the BIBFRAME model and related tools.
* Alma: connection to circulation processes have been established; exploration of CRUD APIs together with Alma libraries is in course, to push data from JCricket to Alma;
* FOLIO: pilot integration in progress with Lehigh University (Share-VDE member and FOLIO adopter); initial tests are completed for the automated data flow from JCricket into FOLIO’s Inventory module. The FOLIO Instance is automatically updated starting from input data in JCricket as the “source of truth”. Further use cases of mutual integration are being analysed and tested.
* Sinopia LD4P BIBFRAME cataloguing module: connection to Sinopia and parsing of Sinopia-generated data has been completed; after the testing phase, Sinopia data will be included in the LOD Platform CKB - Cluster Knowledge Base and edited through JCricket.
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The workshop areas are strongly focused on the practical implementation of BIBFRAME, rather than being a theoretical Linked Data / Semantic Web event.
This work aims to facilitate a hybrid cataloging environment that retains support for existing MARC-based integrations while developing the flexibility and interconnectedness offered by Share Family-maintained entities. By automating this process, this integration project not only enhances the metadata management capabilities of libraries but also paves the way for seamless collaborative cataloging within the Share Family community.


Share-VDE presentation will be on Wednesday 21<sup>st</sup> focussing on the progress of the initiative and on the compatibility of SVDE BIBFRAME output with other BIBFRAME nodes in the library community.
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The full programme, registration link and practical information on how to join in presence or online are available at [https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2F2022.bfwe.eu%2F&data=05%7C01%7Canna.lionetti%40casalini.it%7Cf68270a224654dba138708da92773a78%7C86419e2c5b044b33afaf3d8b6229cf81%7C0%7C0%7C637983338017294851%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=HRrSD%2BkeEGOBnbm6w3j2yul%2BxzcjnJnpVIKQTkyu1gE%3D&reserved=0 <span style="color: #044A91">https://2022.bfwe.eu</span>].  
Further references can be found at this wiki page [https://wiki.share-vde.org/wiki/ShareVDE:Activities/Integrations Integration with third parties].  


Also, for those who will be in Budapest, you are welcome to join the informal SVDE meeting on Monday 19<sup>th</sup> at 2.30pm – 4.30pm CEST.
Lookup on authoritative sources such as Wikidata is also being developed to query and pull data while using JCricket. An endpoint has been set-up to query Wikidata Agents and Works via API and SPARQL. Currently, this implementation lives in the internal development environment.


It will be a nice occasion to get together in person and discuss the status of the initiative. This pre-meeting will be in presence, but online connection should also be supported – we will post the link to join as soon as available.
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Finally, efforts to integrate LOD Platform features in other applications are progressing steadily also on other fronts. Two conference presentations by Jim Hahn (University of Pennsylvania) have demonstrated some of the options for interoperability supported by JCricket and LOD Platform search APIs:


In general, please find here the major events that took place during the Summer and that will take place in the coming Fall touching the Share-VDE world:
Finally, efforts to integrate LOD Platform features in other applications are progressing steadily also on other fronts. Two conference presentations by Jim Hahn (University of Pennsylvania) have demonstrated some of the options for interoperability supported by JCricket and LOD Platform search APIs:


ALA annual:
* [https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/3/3a/Integration_of_The_Share-VDE_Entity_Editor_and_Alma.pdf ''Integration of the Share Family Entity Editor and the Alma ILS''], at the LD4 Conference, 11 October 2024;
* [https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/3/39/SWIB_2024_Jim_Hahn_browser-plugin-linked-data-find.pdf ''Browser plugin to enable linked data discovery in a Blacklight Catalog''], at SWIB Conference 2024, 27 November 2024.


*[https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.share-vde.org%2Fw%2Fimages%2Fc%2Fce%2FPenn_SVDE_Evaluation_Presentation_2022-06-25.pdf&data=05%7C01%7Canna.lionetti%40casalini.it%7Cf68270a224654dba138708da92773a78%7C86419e2c5b044b33afaf3d8b6229cf81%7C0%7C0%7C637983338017294851%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=qdSXFzQ5gjZoiFnyN1IFJz7zQbaTIGUHlQ4MByPwoUk%3D&reserved=0 A Comparative Evaluation of Linked Data Discovery in the Share-VDE 2.0 Catalog], on June 25<sup>th</sup>, by Jim Hahn, Beth Camden, Kayt Ahnberg (University of Pennsylvania);
=== Front-end enhancements ===
*Share-VDE semi-annual Workshop on June 27<sup>th</sup>, with Share-VDE and Share Family members; the agenda including the link to the presentations and the [https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.loc.gov%2Fitem%2Fwebcast-10468%2F&data=05%7C01%7Canna.lionetti%40casalini.it%7Cf68270a224654dba138708da92773a78%7C86419e2c5b044b33afaf3d8b6229cf81%7C0%7C0%7C637983338017294851%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Cu6fl%2FlD4hbuNvU8GKrO9kNEZGSCZfjrybnnF3X%2B%2FzQ%3D&reserved=0 recording] is available at [https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FSVDE_workshop_2022-Jun-27&data=05%7C01%7Canna.lionetti%40casalini.it%7Cf68270a224654dba138708da92773a78%7C86419e2c5b044b33afaf3d8b6229cf81%7C0%7C0%7C637983338017294851%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ONwsIRCklncta0Cj333XogLT27cMyDPy09sVVn7o8MA%3D&reserved=0 https://bit.ly/SVDE_workshop_2022-Jun-27];
The majority of front-end enhancements has been devoted to improving JCricket, also as a consequence of users’ feedback and tests, as well as following the evolution of the tool. Ongoing optimisations include not only design revisions, but also data curation features. Just a few examples:  


* the Provision Activity block of information structures publication data by mirroring the corresponding RDF group of publication attributes, and ensures better identification and reconciliation of Publishers.
* The ability to edit svde:Work data (as mentioned above, JCricket operates on all layers of the LOD Platform entity model).
* A preview of RDF entity representation has been designed and will be implemented.


LD4 Conference – [https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.share-vde.org%2Fw%2Fimages%2Fd%2Fd5%2FThe_Share_Family%25E2%2580%2594One_Project%252C_Many_Tenants.pdf&data=05%7C01%7Canna.lionetti%40casalini.it%7Cf68270a224654dba138708da92773a78%7C86419e2c5b044b33afaf3d8b6229cf81%7C0%7C0%7C637983338017294851%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Kb1fVaS6xAx8tdxjniGBPD37QfpgSJUvYSo5GFG26tA%3D&reserved=0 The Share Family—One Project, Many Tenants], on July 15<sup>th</sup>, by Beth Picknally Camden (University of Pennsylvania), Alan Danskin (British Library), Abigail Sparling (University of Alberta), Roberto Delle Donne (University of Naples Federico II); [https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.loc.gov%2Fitem%2Fwebcast-10468%2F&data=05%7C01%7Canna.lionetti%40casalini.it%7Cf68270a224654dba138708da92773a78%7C86419e2c5b044b33afaf3d8b6229cf81%7C0%7C0%7C637983338017451068%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=PeDoYLcWwwWgU7Ogo1SGNspbQSz0zGaMO3yvXusEn0U%3D&reserved=0 recording available];
The presentation layer of the discovery portal is also being improved, especially as far as accessibility for visually impaired users is concerned. Work is ongoing to validate the accessibility features of the web portal to confirm compliance with international guidelines. Also, refinements are ongoing to the management of Arabic script on the user interface. This task complements the management of multilingualism of Share Family data, that is already handled in two fashions:


WOLFcon – Tiziana’s presentation <span class="apple-converted-space">[https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.share-vde.org%2Fw%2Fimages%2F9%2F92%2FWOLFcon_Possemato_2022-Sep-02.pdf&data=05%7C01%7Canna.lionetti%40casalini.it%7Cf68270a224654dba138708da92773a78%7C86419e2c5b044b33afaf3d8b6229cf81%7C0%7C0%7C637983338017451068%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=rBb%2FUdFOdcPpGYcFcy8lobRLtAWRRKbwpB56%2BqqHnBM%3D&reserved=0 Share-VDE and FOLIO cooperation]</span> on September 2<sup>nd</sup>;
* Clusterization processes (automated processes): in this case, the variant forms in various languages and scripts retrieved from the available national and international data sources are used to enable the end user to perform searches on the discovery portal using different scripts and getting the same results.
* Using JCricket entity editor (manual process): in this case, cataloguers can enrich the entity cluster with variant forms in terms of both different languages and different scripts.


== Community work ==


Linked Data and International Standards for Cultural Heritage at KBR – Royal Library of Belgium – Tiziana’s presentation <span class="apple-converted-space">[https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdocs.google.com%2Fdocument%2Fd%2F1vZ7TVJKTrpsH2gcxSlLc4Xp11BtXvBlj%2Fview&data=05%7C01%7Canna.lionetti%40casalini.it%7Cf68270a224654dba138708da92773a78%7C86419e2c5b044b33afaf3d8b6229cf81%7C0%7C0%7C637983338017451068%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=edbC88qPnZV8pNlS3zM6rfLjZg7rjtrqs8IgQaAMzkU%3D&reserved=0 The Share family, a shared and integrated ecosystem for library linked data],</span> on September 13<sup>th</sup>;
=== New Open Metadata Policy ===
The Share Family strives to support and invest in open data to freely share information, and an updated [https://bit.ly/ShareFamily-Open-Metadata-Policy Open Metadata Policy] has been approved by its Advisory Council. The community is committed, wherever possible, to share data transformed by its series of Linked Open Data (LOD) processes. 


The [https://bit.ly/SVDE-Open-Metadata-Policy previous version of the policy] was published in 2023 to encourage open access to data produced by Share Family processes.


TPDL conference 2022 – <span class="apple-converted-space">[https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ftpdl2022.dei.unipd.it%2Fprogram.html&data=05%7C01%7Canna.lionetti%40casalini.it%7Cf68270a224654dba138708da92773a78%7C86419e2c5b044b33afaf3d8b6229cf81%7C0%7C0%7C637983338017451068%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=PWJXYqOZkv0%2BLvlnxLjwgW9d0oOTmPZBqiv8vZWQWeY%3D&reserved=0 Conducting the Opera: The Evolution of the RDA Work to the Share-VDE Opus and BIBFRAME Hub],</span> on September 22<sup>nd</sup>, by Ian Bigelow (University of Alberta);
=== Share Family Community updates ===
As usual, exchanges within the Share Family community steer the vision and the evolution of the initiative and the output of working groups nurtures technical developments:


* The [[ShareVDE:Members/Share-VDE working groups#SVDE-AC%20Sapientia%20Entity%20Identification%20working%20group%20(SEI)|Sapientia Entity Identification Working Group]] is committed to the [https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.8332350 SVDE Ontology] to define svde:Opus entity properties for different content types. RDA properties are also taken into account in framing the ontology, and this will ensure greater interoperability.
* The [[ShareVDE:Members/Share-VDE working groups#SVDE-AC%20User%20Experience.2FUser%20Interface%20working%20group%20.28UX-UI.29|User Experience – User Interface Working Group]] continues working jointly with the [[ShareVDE:Members/Share-VDE working groups#Share%20Family%20National%20Bibliographies%20working%20group%20.28Natbib.29|National Bibliographies Working Group]] on a design proposal for the Publication page of the entity discovery portal, focusing on the aggregation of svde:Work and bf:Instance data. The group has narrowed down the core metadata for each material type and is now deciding how to display additional metadata that is not core to publication identification, with the aim of improving navigation and optimizing how end-users interact with and utilize the data.


DCMI 2022 – Dublin Core Metadata Initiative – virtual panel [https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dublincore.org%2Fconferences%2F2022%2Fprogramme%2F&data=05%7C01%7Canna.lionetti%40casalini.it%7Cf68270a224654dba138708da92773a78%7C86419e2c5b044b33afaf3d8b6229cf81%7C0%7C0%7C637983338017451068%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=Iofmi0SgaoiRvUN3Vi2cEfnn2TgwHIPcs9L1vHGUiPY%3D&reserved=0 BIBFRAME Implementation Experiences], on October 4<sup>th</sup><span class="apple-converted-space">,</span> with Sally McCallum (Library of Congress), Niklas Lindström (National Library of Sweden), Tiziana Possemato (@Cult and Casalini Libri / Share-VDE);
On 19th September 2024 an informal Share Family meeting dedicated to members was held in Helsinki, at the National Library of Finland, after the two-day BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe. The engagement of the membership around key areas of development confirmed the added value of being part of an active and diverse community.


On behalf of the various [[ShareFamily:Main Page#The%20Share%20Family%20branches%20(tenants)|Share Family tenants]] we are happy to mention important advancements:


Charleston Conference – online session [https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcharleston-hub2022.exordo.com%2Fprogramme%2Fpresentation%2F183&data=05%7C01%7Canna.lionetti%40casalini.it%7Cf68270a224654dba138708da92773a78%7C86419e2c5b044b33afaf3d8b6229cf81%7C0%7C0%7C637983338017451068%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=S16pppQKGj34e7Huz5kyF8AvkVznsUMdYZRIrLFS8Y4%3D&reserved=0 From idea to implementation: BIBFRAME becomes reality], on November 14<sup>th</sup>, with Sally H. McCallum (Library of Congress), Beth Picknally Camden (University of Pennsylvania), Nancy Lorimer (Stanford), Simeon Warner (Cornell), Tiziana Possemato (@Cult-Casalini Libri)
* The Share Catalogue tenant has transitioned to the latest version of the LOD Platform, which includes the advanced entity discovery portal and JCricket. The new version is online at https://www.sharecatalogue-lod.org/ and will be enhanced in the next period as far as data quality and data curation functions.
* The NLN - National Library of Norway joined the [https://natbib-lod.org National Bibliographies tenant]. Already a member of the SVDE tenant contributing its catalogue, the NLN will also provide the Norwegian national bibliography data and will be the second institution feeding this tenant along with the British Library.  
* The beta British National Bibliography in linked data is stable in the institutional portal https://bl.natbib-lod.org, which is populated with regular updates.
* The Parsifal tenant https://parsifal.urbe.it/parsifal/ is effectively enabling the URBE network in the curation of a shared authority file originally created through the aggregation of the catalogues from participating libraries. We are working on a dashboard that orchestrates the workflow between the central authority file and the Cluster Knowledge Base, to facilitate individual libraries’ operations.


All members are welcome to contribute expertise, specific experience and bibliographic information for the enrichment of a collective catalogue and the entire Share community.


SWIB 2022 – online session [https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fswib.org%2Fswib22%2Fprogramme.html&data=05%7C01%7Canna.lionetti%40casalini.it%7Cf68270a224654dba138708da92773a78%7C86419e2c5b044b33afaf3d8b6229cf81%7C0%7C0%7C637983338017451068%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=glqAVrypeKxKtci42OTXnMnfsKsSLQ9liSaDrjukku4%3D&reserved=0 Evaluation and evolution of the Share-VDE 2.0 Linked Data Catalog], between November 28<sup>th</sup> and December 2<sup>nd</sup>, with Beth Camden, Jim Hahn, Kayt Ahnberg (University of Pennsylvania), Filip Jakobsen (Samhæng)
=== Collaborations with the library community ===
The Share Family team and member institutions continue to nurture the liaisons with the library information experts and linked data and BIBFRAME communities, to increase interoperability to the advantage of new bibliographic and linked data workflows and to enhance existing ones.


Moreover, participation in international working groups and networks is strategic to the Share Family community, and responds to its core principle of creating connections and increasing communication across initiatives and projects.


To see the full list of presentations and events, please browse the [https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.share-vde.org%2Fwiki%2FShareVDE%3AResources%23Year_2022&data=05%7C01%7Canna.lionetti%40casalini.it%7Cf68270a224654dba138708da92773a78%7C86419e2c5b044b33afaf3d8b6229cf81%7C0%7C0%7C637983338017451068%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=oMyvGQz00cHou42nXmSXry8a7w3Q8iFnatLO4Au2MGw%3D&reserved=0 <span style="color: #044A91">Share-VDE wiki resources section</span>].


As always, you can follow the implementations and the progresses of the numerous activities related to the entity management, the discovery platform and the connected output on [https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwiki.svde.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7Canna.lionetti%40casalini.it%7Cf68270a224654dba138708da92773a78%7C86419e2c5b044b33afaf3d8b6229cf81%7C0%7C0%7C637983338017451068%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=TjpNsgaAxrmXdV3Ic5vDRB95GvM6r5tt41bxR%2FmOsJ4%3D&reserved=0 https://wiki.svde.org].


==Share-VDE and Share Family progress update (May 2022)==
'''<big>RDA Steering Committee</big>'''
<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">We are happy to announce the '''Share-VDE semi-annual workshop''' for current and former members and for observer institutions on '''Monday June 27th at 8am - 10am PDT | 11am - 1pm EDT | 5pm - 7pm CEST'''. </span>


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">It’s a great pleasure to announce that the meeting will be held in hybrid format, '''both in presence and online'''. For those who are able to join the session in presence, the venue is in the Jefferson Building at the Library of Congress, in the Room # LJ119.</span>
A [https://www.rdatoolkit.org/sites/default/files/uploads/RSC_Chair_2025_9_BIBFRAME_protocol_ShareVDE_2025_0.pdf liaison protocol] has been signed to establish the relationship at the strategic level between the Share Family Advisory Council and the RSC - RDA Steering Committee.  


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">Much gratitude goes to the Library of Congress for hosting the meeting.</span>
This step is considered particularly fruitful also in consideration of the activities that libraires from different countries and continents are bringing forward in the Share Family Working Groups with the scope of enhancing the practical implementations and the concrete interoperability of the emerging bibliographic ecosystem based on linked open data. The protocol has been published:


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">In the file https://bit.ly/SVDE_workshop_2022-Jun-27 you can find the link to the agenda document that includes the instructions to [https://loc.zoomgov.com/j/1613858256?pwd=MXdFaGxtbXFMWGpNK3ZUbEJjc2kzZz09 join remotely].</span>
* on RDA Chair Documents page: https://www.rdatoolkit.org/rsc/chair-documents
* in RDA protocols and liaisons page: https://www.rdatoolkit.org/rsc/RSCprotocols;
* as a RDA news item: https://www.rdatoolkit.org/rsc/ShareFamilyProtocol;
* as a Share Family news item: https://www.share-family.org/news?id=67fe5ec16e504.  


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">See below an '''extensive update on the latest developments''' for Share-VDE and the other branches of the Share Family that are supported by the same [[ShareFamily:Main Page#The%20Share%20Family%20technology%3A%20the%20LOD%20Platform|LOD Platform technology]], towards the production environment.</span> <span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">Since the last update shared via this mailing list a few months ago, important advancements have been made particularly to the system infrastructure and to the features that leverage the API layer orchestrating the query of SVDE data.</span>


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">Having a system capable of hosting union catalogs that integrate catalogs from many libraries producing a rich and articulated structure of linked data entities imposes the challenge of having adequate technological and infrastructural resources to support the connected complexity and amount of data. For this reason, SVDE has '''recently adopted AWS - Amazon Web Services''' which will better support system scalability to make it more robust and meet high availability expectations.</span>


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">Obviously, this further enhancement of infrastructure meant a lot of work in setting up the AWS backbone and integrating it with the pre-existing components, in particular the clustering module and algorithms that are constantly refined and enriched based on the input of the SVDE community itself, particularly through the work of the SEI - Sapientia Entity Identification group.</span>
<big>'''IFLA'''</big>


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">In light of this, '''in March we processed an initial set of approximately 42 millions bibliographic and authority MARC records''' that were converted to create '''98 millions of clusters of linked data entities'''. This process is iterative until all components of the system are stable; therefore in the next few weeks we will continue with the data uploads and the final numbers will be much higher.</span>
As a member of the[https://www.ifla.org/units/bibliography/ IFLA Bibliography Section], Tiziana Possemato is also the official liaison IFLA Bibliography Section / Share Family National Bibliographies group.


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">A similar process is in course to be replicated '''also for the other branches and portals housed by the Share Family''', that is: the portal dedicated to National Bibliographies which hosts the data of the British National Bibliography, with the British Library being the first institution participant in this tenant; the open pool of PCC-quality BIBFRAME data; the portal of the Kubikat-LOD pilot project which aggregates the catalogs of the four German art history libraries of the Kubikat group.</span>
Highlights from two IFLA events:


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">The SVDE staff is testing the results of loading the data on the various portals through a structured method that will be useful for making constant optimizations to the functioning of the system. ('''Please note a caveat''': because of this reprocessing work, during this and the next week you might experience '''intermittent outage or downtimes of the Share Family portals''' due to the re-load of the data. If some of the links included in this message do not work properly, that’s for this reason.)</span>
* [https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/9/9b/IFLA_Webinar_2024-Nov-27-_BNB-Share-Family.pdf ''The British National Bibliography Experience in the Share Family Linked Open Data Environment''], at the webinar Linked Open Bibliographies: Exposing, Linking, Reusing, 27 November 2024, by Thurstan Young and Anna Lionetti.
* [https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/c/c4/10_Possemato_Forziati.pdf ''UNIMARC-BIBFRAME Mapping: Evolving Interoperability in Data Modelling''], at the 6th IFLA UNIMARC Users Meeting, 12 November 2024, by Tiziana Possemato and Claudio Forziati discussed the interoperability and UNIMARC-BIBFRAME conversion.


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">In parallel with the infrastructure improvement, '''a number of advancements have been developed''', including clustering and search algorithm refinements. Those enhancements are beneficial to all Share Family tenants, and the new processing run of library catalogues in progress these weeks is a prerequisite to activate the new functions.</span>


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">Just to mention some of the most relevant new features involved:</span>


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<big>'''PCC - Program for Cooperative Cataloguing'''</big>
    &quot;Times New Roman&quot;">'''1.''' Improvements and refinements to the '''search functions''', including:</span>


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">Publication simple search, including the default simple search on Publications and the ability to filter for Language, Year, Type, Library, Electronic / Print, Auctions / Exhibitions. The default simple search on Publications will be enabled only on some tenants of the Share Family. As soon as it will be available, we’ll be able to show you more on this.</span>
Share Family representatives have been involved at various levels in PCC - Program for Cooperative Cataloguing activities including various stakeholders:


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">The search mechanism and search features like facets are configurable at tenant level.</span>
* The PCC Task Group on AI and Machine Learning for Cataloging and Metadata provides guidelines for the integration of AI and Machine Learning technologies into cataloging and metadata work. This includes emphasizing strategic planning and ensuring that AI augments rather than replaces the valuable work of cataloging professionals. For more information, visit the [https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/PFCCP/PCC+Task+Group+on+AI+and+Machine+Learning+for+Cataloging+and+Metadata PCC Task Group on AI and Machine Learning for Cataloging and Metadata wiki] and the PoCo-approved [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UIDqZGU-1gVfRmWb_-UKRhZRUySyr1SdrU6qSA2f-80/edit?usp=sharing draft of the Guiding Principles for Use of AI and Machine Learning Technologies in Cataloging and Metadata Work].
* The [https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/bibframe/Linked-Data-Tactical-Planning-Meeting-Outcomes.pdf Outcomes of the Linked Data Tactical Planning Meeting] report on the meeting organised by the PCC in November 2024 about transitioning cooperative cataloging workflows to a linked data-based production environment. Share Family staff and members contributed to the discussion with the experience of SVDE environment and JCricket entity editor.
* The newly created [https://wiki.lyrasis.org/display/PFCCP/EMCO EMCO - Entity Management program] has kicked off the activities building on current PCC programs for authority control, to create an international cooperative program for managing linked data entities from any source PCC member institutions choose to use in their descriptive metadata practices.


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">Support for the federated search and integration of data from external sources (es. JSTOR for the Kubikat-LOD pilot portal).</span>


'''2.''' <span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif;
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mso-ansi-language:IT;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Initial version of '''Subject management''', including subject strings linked in the Subject tab of the Publication page and the display of concepts; currently this is visible for example on Kubikat-LOD pilot, and will be displayed soon on the other Share Family portals. There will also be an improvement of the current feature in future versions of the system.</span>


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<big>'''BIG - BIBFRAME Interoperability Group'''</big>
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mso-ansi-language:IT;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">User interface functions that enable '''connections with local library environments or connected services''', including the link to the local OPACs and in the future interactive features like circulation request buttons (e.g. see an example of the button “[https://www.svde.org/your-statistical-consultant-answers-to-your-data-analysis-questions-p26341656929688702/subjects Available at]”). Other similar functions are being analysed for further enhancements of the actions available for end users.</span>


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The Share-VDE participation in the [https://wiki.lyrasis.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=249135298 BIG - BIBFRAME Interoperability Group] is strengthening cooperation among institutions adopting BIBFRAME internationally. Recently, Xiaoli Li, Tiziana Possemato and Kalli Mathios presented at the [https://iflacos.eu/index.php/meeting-and-sympsosium-program/ IFLA Advisory Committee on Standards Symposium] in Athens, on March 19th, sharing insights from ''BIBFRAME Interoperability Group: Tackling Implementation Challenges Across Institutions''.
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'''6. <span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif;
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mso-ansi-language:IT;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">of library resources: the system can be queried via API to return the bibliographic records of a given Provenance (= institution) connected to an Instance, and alo to show which institutions have contributed to a given linked data cluster (through the Provenance itself). This is crucial to support the editing of linked data entities that will be enabled by the JCricket editor that is under development. See more on Provenance [https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/b/b3/Share-VDE_perspective_on_Cluster_Knowledge_Base_and_Provenance.pdf in a recent presentation].</span>


<big>'''Consortia'''</big>


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">Concerning other work strands, the developments for the '''JCricket linked data entity editor''' are moving forward: a lot of work is going on behind the scenes for the implementation of the back-end features that will support the editing of the data in the Cluster Knowledge Base. For example, federated authentication and authorization to manage JCricket users; entity status mechanism to rule concurrent editing and cluster variations; notification management.</span>
We are striving to share the benefits of the Share Family approach to consortia and networks of institutions working with shared practices. The LOD Platform entity identification and reconciliation processes are suitable to environments that are already designed to be shared spaces. The potential for consortia of applying Share Family principles and tools is being investigated in a cooperative effort with consortia representatives. The [https://bit.ly/SF-Executive-Summary-Consortia Share Family Executive Summary for Consortia] sketches the outcomes envisioned when supporting consortia in adopting linked data methodologies for enhanced collaboration.


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">Much work is also being done to '''optimise the general performance of the system''' and in particular of the indexing process, which is a key part of the data load to the web portals. This is not a trivial task when it comes to the very large size of SVDE tenant, which supports an exponential number of clusters created from the original library records. It is critical to have a responsive system and we are doing our best to provide the best user experience possible.</span>
== Information resources ==
=== Publication documentation section in the wiki ===
The knowledge base of informative resources describing and documenting Share Family tools and activities continues to grow. The [[ShareDoc:PublicDocumentation|Public Documentation]] section includes detailed information on the LOD Platform workflow and components, the available APIs, the release notes, and public user guides.


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">Developments are also ongoing to complete '''customised skin portals''' and SVDE localisations, starting from the University of Pennsylvania dedicated portal.</span>
A summary of useful resources was published in the [[ShareFamily:NewsAndUpdates/July2024|previous issue of the Bulletin]].


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=== Publications ===
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Among recent publications, it’s worth mentioning:
Calibri;mso-ansi-language:IT;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">From the community work standpoint, the '''SEI - Sapientia Entity Identification working group''' has concluded the work on the definition of the Instance entity and how it should be clustered among the other SVDE entities, and defined the rules to model the relationships between entities in order to relate them appropriately. This represents a significant contribution to the BIBFRAME based SVDE ontology that is also compatible with IFLA LRM.</span>


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">Moreover, we are very happy with the '''progress of the [[ShareVDE:Members/Share-VDE working groups#Share%20Family%20National%20Bibliographies%20working%20group%20.28NB.29|National Bibliographies working group]]'''. After the initial discussion phase opened in the first months of the group’s work, we are now structuring the use cases for a tenant hosting a collective global catalogue of national bibliographies in linked open data, thanks to the input of the participating libraries. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif;
* ''Smithsonian Libraries & Archives: BIBFRAME linked data experiment with the Share Family technology'', by Jackie Shieh, in «Art Libraries Journal»; 50:1, 12 - 18 (April 2025); online access https://doi.org/10.1017/alj.2025.5.
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* ''Share-VDE and Beyond: Cooperation and Innovation to Bring Linked Open Data into Practice'', by Jim Hahn, Sebastian Hammer, Tiziana Possemato, Nina Servizzi, in «Charleston Conference Proceedings, 2023», 309-333 (2024) [[doi:10.3998/mpub.14509768|https://doi.org/10.39''98/mpub.14509768'']]''.''
Calibri;mso-ansi-language:IT;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Starting from this input, we have distilled a first set of high-level use cases that the group is analyzing; the next step is for the group to define priority use cases, that is, those that will be transformed into functions that libraries want to be developed first in the National Bibliographies tenant.</span>
* ''Un esempio di entity modeling: l’Opus in Share-VDE, Proprietà delle entità svde:Opus, svde:Work e bf:Hub, L’ontologia Share-VDE: un’estensione di BIBFRAME per la discovery dei linked data, L'ontologia di Share-VDE come estensione di BIBFRAME'', by Tiziana Possemato, in «Entity modeling: la terza generazione della catalogazione», 112-138, 281-302 (2024); free online access https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0393-7.


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">It’s also worth mentioning that the involvement in the discussions stemming from the [https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/bibframe/PCC-BIBFRAME-Data-Exchange-Summary.pdf '''PCC BIBFRAME Data Exchange meeting'''] will be of great value for the advancement of '''interoperability and cooperation''' within the community, and for the Share Family itself. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif;
=== Dissemination channels ===
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As part of outreach actions, we have issued an informative e-mail communication to publicize the Share Family promotional videos and the initiative as a whole. This type of broad communication runs in parallel with more specialized information such as the Share Family Bulletin, and will be issued from the new e-mail contact address [mailto:info@share-family.org info@share-family.org], which will be active together with [mailto:info@svde.org info@svde.org].  
Calibri;mso-ansi-language:IT;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">This focus on interoperability among BIBFRAME nodes will also be beneficial to the harmonisation of SVDE - LD4P3 interaction, and the connection with the Sinopia environment.</span>


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Check out our presentation videos and learn more about the Share Family mission on Youtube: [https://youtu.be/MswOgMsiRns COOPERATION], [https://youtu.be/wJDqEeB0wNk SUSTAINABILITY], [https://youtu.be/PLNP6G0Ml8U OPENNESS], [https://youtu.be/tf0YGV5Sk14 INCLUSIVITY], [https://youtu.be/KjI648JXpn0 DYNAMISM].
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Calibri;mso-ansi-language:IT;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">Regarding other Share-VDE connected services, the '''initial release of the authority control features''' for MARC-based environments is now available, while we look forward to designing the BIBFRAME-based authority workflows which will complete the picture of authority control services.</span>


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">The information to process is a lot, so don’t hesitate to ask for functional, infrastructural or technical details on any of the above.</span>
The Share Family website https://www.share-family.org/ remains the informative showcase and we are working to enrich it and expand it with new sections. See the latest news https://www.share-family.org/en/news.


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">To '''provide feedback''' on the new version of https://svde.org, do report bugs and suggestions by reaching out through the forum https://forum.svde.org/.</span>
== Events ==
Regular virtual and in-person events, such as conferences, workshops, and working group meetings, provide opportunities for member institutions to connect, share ideas, and explore potential areas of collaboration.


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Presentations not mentioned above are reported in this section. Full documentation is available on the page [[ShareFamily:Resources|Resources]].
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Calibri;mso-ansi-language:IT;mso-fareast-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">For '''further information''' on any of the above, do not hesitate to contact us at [mailto:info@svde.org info@svde.org] or consult the SVDE https://wiki.svde.org, that is the source of information about [[ShareVDE:Resources|Share-VDE]] and the [https://www.casalini.it/linked-data-for-libraries/ Share Family].</span>


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=== BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe 2024 ===
Hosted by the National Library of Finland, the [https://www.bfwe.eu/helsinki_2024 BFWE 2024] has seen an important contribution from Share Family representatives, including a [https://youtu.be/sD3qYbx0n0Q demo of JCricket].


==Share-VDE and Share Family New Year update (January 2022)==
=== WOLFcon 2024 ===
<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">As 2022 has started, we are happy to look at the results achieved within the Share-VDE initiative over the past year and share with you the goals for the next period.</span>
A session featuring the evolution of the pilot integration in progress between Share-VDE and Lehigh University’s FOLIO installation has been presented at WOLFcon 2024:


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">Since the release of Share-VDE 2.0 new version in September available at [http://www.svde.org www.svde.org], other advancements have been done particularly to the system infrastructure and to the features that leverage the API layer orchestrating the query of SVDE data. Among others, the content negotiation mechanism used for serving different representations of a resource, and the Provenance that supports the tracking of the data source. More information is available, don’t hesitate to ask for details about API queries.</span>
[https://wolfcon2024.sched.com/event/1eesB/marc-my-words-navigating-the-bibframe-frontier ''MARC My Words: Navigating the BIBFRAME Frontier''], by Wayne Schneider, Charlotte Whitt, Tiziana Possemato, Nate Trail, Boaz Nadav Manes, Lisa McColl; slides:


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">To provide feedback on the new version of [http://www.svde.org www.svde.org], do report bugs and suggestions reaching out through the forum https://forum.svde.org/.</span>
* [https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/8/86/MARC_My_Words.pdf MARC My Words];
* [https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/b/b8/BIBFRAME_in_Production2.pdf BIBFRAME in production].


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">The new year is very promising as far as upgrades to the Share-VDE 2.0 linked data management system and discovery portal.</span>
=== DCMI 2024 ===
[https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/e/ef/Leveraging_Linked_Data_Fragments_for_enhanced_data_publication_the_Share-VDE_case_study.pdf ''Real-Time “RDFization”. Leveraging Linked Data Fragments for enhanced data publication: the Share-VDE case study''], at DCMI 2024, 23 October 2024, by Andrea Gazzarini.


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">We are working on several important objectives and it may be useful to anticipate some that we hope will be of interest to the members of Share-VDE and to the wider community of the Share Family of initiatives.</span>
=== Charleston Conference 2024 ===
[https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/c/c0/Share_Family_-_Charleston_2024.pdf ''New pathways for resource description and interoperability: innovative strategies from the Share Family Ecosystem''], at Charleston Conference 2024, 14 November 2024, by Nina Servizzi, Jeanette Norris, Sebastian Hammer, Tiziana Possemato.


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">The recent huge improvements to the system infrastructure will support the operations for the incremental import of SVDE libraries catalogues that will populate the entity discovery.</span>
=== SWIB Conference 2024 ===
[https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/e/ef/Leveraging_Linked_Data_Fragments_for_enhanced_data_publication_the_Share-VDE_case_study.pdf ''Leveraging Linked Data Fragments for enhanced data publication: the Share-VDE case study''], at SWIB Conference 2024, 27 November 2024, by Andrea Gazzarini; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnN3lco3tYU recording available].


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">JCricket, the module for the editing of linked data entities, will be developed throughout 2022 and will benefit from the developments done for SVDE 2.0. Also, the functional analysis done by the [[ShareVDE:Members/Share-VDE working groups|SVDE dedicated working groups]] has framed the interaction with external data sources to be incorporated into JCricket, and we look forward to start working on the inclusion of Wikidata and ISNI data, after the main features of the editor will be completed.</span>
=== IFLA webinar on National Bibliographies ===
[https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/9/9b/IFLA_Webinar_2024-Nov-27-_BNB-Share-Family.pdf ''The British National Bibliography Experience in the Share Family Linked Open Data Environment''], at the webinar Linked Open Bibliographies: Exposing, Linking, Reusing, 27 November 2024, by Thurstan Young and Anna Lionetti; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GZlPbhOoDw&t=457s recording available].


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">The working group devoted to [https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/7/79/Comparison_IFLA-LRM_BIBFRAME_SVDE.pdf entity modeling] will consolidate the definition of Share-VDE Instance entity properties and will review clustering and conversion rules to optimise system processes, as part of the regular group activities. This is one of the added values to the management of a union catalogue such as Share-VDE.</span>
== Next events ==
Public presentations where Share Family staff or members contribute their experience are announced at https://www.share-family.org/en/events.


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">Developments will continue to complete customised skin portals and SVDE localisations.</span>
The cross-domain vocation of the Share Family will be represented in the art libraries sector at the [https://arlisna53rdconference.sched.com/about ARLIS/NA 53rd Annual Conference]: on May 14th, Jackie Shieh and Anne Evenhaugen will present [https://arlisna53rdconference.sched.com/event/1x5y4/breaking-barriers-using-art-and-architectural-data ''Data Unleashed: Smithsonian Library Data for Artists and Artwork in Share-VDE BIBFRAME''].


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">After the analysis done by the SVDE working groups dedicated to authority management, the initial release of the authority control features (through both automated and manual processes) for MARC-based environments is being refined, and Stanford University Libraries is early adopter. The next step will be the implementation of BIBFRAME-based authority workflows.</span>
In the context of the Share Catalogue achievements with UNIMARC-to-BIBFRAME mapping, the Lightning talk [https://openreview.net/forum?id=UaBDWHMWJa ''Mapping UNIMARC to BIBFRAME: The SHARE Catalogue Knowledge Base on Wikibase.cloud''] will be presented by Claudio Forziati and Alessandra Moi on June 5th - 6th at [[metawikimedia:Wikidata_and_research|Wikidata and research]], at the University of Florence (Italy).


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">We are very happy about the progress of the new working group dedicated to National Bibliographies that has been meeting regularly since early September. The involvement of SVDE members and external institutions enriches the discussion of interesting input for the creation of an ad hoc Share Family tenant hosting national bibliographies data.</span>
Like every year, the Share Family will be present at ALA Conference 2025 in Philadelphia. A Share Family Workshop is being organised on Monday June 30th. A full announcement will be shared as soon as more details for participation are available.


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">Connected to this, we will be working to the <span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0060DF">[https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/1/1d/Schema_Share_family_tenant.png <span style="color: #0060DF">Share Family tenant infrastructure</span>]</span></span> that allows configurability and flexibility of the data grouped and presented according to each specific library or library consortia domain needs.</span>
The yearly appointment with the BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe is confirmed on September 16th - 17th 2025, in Naples (Italy). This event is a major gathering for sharing knowledge and practices about BIBFRAME implementation.


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">Various strands of cooperation have been continued and new ones have been activated within the community of institutions that adopt linked data.</span>


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">Our commitment with the PCC is proceeding to feed the open pool of PCC-quality BIBFRAME data available as a trusted data source for cataloguers.</span>


<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">The collaboration with LD4P3 continues to be an important part of SVDE community work, e.g. as far as the harmonisation of SVDE conversion vs. Sinopia data and connection with Sinopia environment is concerned.</span>
Your opinion is always welcome: to provide feedback on the Share Family discovery website, report bugs and suggestions as external users reach out through the forum<nowiki/>https://forum.svde.org/ or send a message to [mailto:helpdesk@svde.org helpdesk@svde.org]. For general information on the initiative, contact [mailto:info@share-family.org info@share-family.org].
 
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<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">Working Groups involving the Library of Congress, Stanford, OCLC and SVDE stemmed from the [https://www.loc.gov/aba/pcc/bibframe/PCC-BIBFRAME-Data-Exchange-Summary.pdf PCC BIBFRAME Data Exchange meeting] held in September 9-10 2021: the output of this activity will be crucial to reinforce the role of the BIBFRAME nodes in the library community and to foster interoperability among them.</span>
 
<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">Among the other initiatives and projects based on the same <span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color: #0060DF">[https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/5/54/share_components_EN.pdf <span style="color: #0060DF">LOD Platform technology framework</span>]</span></span> as Share-VDE, it’s worth mentioning the Kubikat-LOD pilot project where important components emerged that serve the whole Share Family infrastructure. Work is currently progressing for the release of the specific Kubikat tenant.</span>
 
<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">The [http://catalogo.share-cat.unina.it/sharecat/clusters?l=en Share-Catalogue project] is working on the alignment of their processes to SVDE, for example through the update of UNIMARC - BIBFRAME conversion.</span>
 
<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">All the results achieved and the forthcoming ones are possible also thanks to library members of Share-VDE and Share Family Working Groups and parallel projects that support this initiative and are constantly contributing with the competences of their Subject Matter Experts.</span>
 
<span style="font-family:&quot;Arial Nova Cond&quot;,sans-serif">The input that we gather from the linked data community as a whole is also very precious to improve our work.</span>
 
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AR-SA">For further information on any of the above, do not hesitate to contact us at [Mailto:info@svde.org info@svde.org] or consult this wiki site.</span>
 
==Share-VDE and Share Family periodic update (October 2021)==
<span style="color: #000000">Th</span><span style="color: #000000">e new version Share-VDE 2.0 is live at</span> [https://svde.org/ <span style="color: #1155cc">https://svde.org</span>] <span style="color: #000000">with an enhanced Entity Discovery Portal and Linked Data Management System. The previous version at</span> [https://share-vde.org/ <span style="color: #1155cc">https://share-vde.org/</span>] <span style="color: #000000">will be active in parallel to Share-VDE 2.0 until the migration of libraries’ data on the new system will be completed. The load of Share-VDE libraries’ data is being done progressively and currently the new web portal hosts a subset of the data available on the previous version.</span>
 
If <span style="color: #000000">you want to discover the advanced functions of Share-VDE 2.0, the web portal at</span> [https://svde.org/ <span style="color: #1155cc">https://svde.org</span>] <span style="color: #000000">is the place to go.</span>
 
To <span style="color: #000000">provide feedback on the new version, report bugs and suggestions reach out through the forum</span> [https://forum.svde.org/ <span style="color: #1155cc">https://forum.svde.org/</span>]<span style="color: #000000">.</span>
 
Th<span style="color: #000000">is news has also been published in a dedicated</span>[https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/5/5e/Share-VDE_2.0_EN.pdf <span style="color: #1155cc"> Share-VDE press release</span>]<span style="color: #000000">.</span>
 
 
An <span style="color: #000000">important aspect to underline is that the Share-VDE and Share Family components are supported by the</span>[https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/5/54/share_components_EN.pdf <span style="color: #1155cc"> LOD Platform technology framework</span>]<span style="color: #000000">. Among these components, it’s relevant to mention the services for the authority control, that we have developed based on the analysis carried on by the</span>[[ShareVDE:Members/Share-VDE working groups|<span style="color: #1155cc"> Share-VDE working groups</span>]]<span style="color: #000000">, and the</span>[https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/1/1d/Schema_Share_family_tenant.png <span style="color: #1155cc"> Share Family tenant infrastructure</span>] <span style="color: #000000">that allows configurability and flexibility of the data grouped and presented according to each specific library or library consortia domain needs.</span>
 
<span style="color: #000000">Th</span><span style="color: #000000">e</span>[https://bit.ly/SVDE-Statement-2021 <span style="color: #1155cc"> Share-VDE Statement</span>] <span style="color: #000000">has been distributed widely to give context on Share-VDE position in the linked data ecosystem. In light of the work that Share-VDE is carrying on and of its involvement in several international initiatives, the SVDE Advisory Council has approved and published an official statement that is the explanation of position of the initiative in the broader context of Library Linked Open Data.</span>
 
 
<span style="color: #000000">Se</span><span style="color: #000000">veral events over the last weeks have marked significant steps for Share-VDE and for knowledge sharing in the library community:</span>
 
*<span style="color: #000000">th</span><span style="color: #000000">e NLN – National Libraries Now 2021 conference on 16<span style="font-size:0.6em;vertical-align:super;">th</span> – 17<span style="font-size:0.6em;vertical-align:super;">th</span> September was a fruitful event where Tiziana Possemato delivered a speech about</span>[https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/e/e5/NLNow_2021_Possemato.pdf <span style="color: #1155cc"> Experience of International Cooperation: Towards a Collective and Global Catalog of National Bibliographies</span>]<span style="color: #000000">.</span>
*<span style="color: #000000">On</span> <span style="color: #000000">the subject of national libraries, a new working group has been formed in Share-VDE and in the Share Family of initiatives dedicated to practical cooperation among institutions managing National Bibliographies. Considering the important presence of several National Libraries in the Share-VDE community and in the broader network of institutions that follow the progress of this initiative and of other Linked Open Data projects, this working group has been launched in order to study and address the needs of National Libraries and institutions that hold National Bibliographies in the framework of a shared entity discovery environment such as the Share Family of initiatives.</span>
 
<br /><span style="color: #000000">If</span> <span style="color: #000000">you are interested in this new group, don’t hesitate to contact us at [mailto:info@svde.org info@svde.org]. The materials of the first meeting are available: agenda and notes</span>[https://bit.ly/SVDE_National-Bib-WG_2021-Sep-01 <span style="color: #1155cc"> https://bit.ly/SVDE_National-Bib-WG_2021-Sep-01</span>] <span style="color: #000000">and meeting recording</span>[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gcuVrXmEMzzcJJ5MhG7Le1xgHykPSvCO/view <span style="color: #1155cc"> National_bibliographies_WG_2021-09-01.mp4</span>]<span style="color: #000000">.</span><br />
 
*<span style="color: #000000">Th</span><span style="color: #000000">e semi-annual SVDE workshop on 20<span style="font-size:0.6em;vertical-align:super;">th</span> September was the occasion where the new version of the system was presented. The major achievements are included in the SVDE Workshop agenda</span>[https://bit.ly/SVDE_workshop_2021-Sep-20 <span style="color: #1155cc"> https://bit.ly/SVDE_workshop_2021-Sep-20</span>]<span style="color: #000000">. Among the workshop materials:</span>
**[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wW8r-KuPFsNpkdUghyF5VfUs7HqzeQQ7/view SV<span style="color: #1155cc">DE workshop 2021-Sep-20_progress_status.pdf</span>]<span style="color: #000000"> (this presentation was delivered also at the BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe on September 21<span style="font-size:0.6em;vertical-align:super;">st</span>);</span>
**<span style="color: #000000">as</span><span style="color: #000000"> mentioned above, the new SVDE 2.0 is now live at</span> [https://svde.org <span style="color: #1155cc">https://svde.org</span>]<span style="color: #000000">, you are welcome to have a tour of the beta system (some information about it is available at</span> [https://www.svde.org/about/about-share-vde <span style="color: #1155cc">https://www.svde.org/about/about-share-vde</span>]<span style="color: #000000">);</span>
**<span style="color: #000000">th</span><span style="color: #000000">e recording of the SVDE Workshop can be useful to see a thorough demo of the new system</span>[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Ht5_uCJ05-FfZOWtochVtdWL8ol0vKnk/view <span style="color: #1155cc">Share-VDE Workshop September 20 2021.mp4</span>]<span style="color: #000000">.</span>
 
*<span style="color: #000000">Th</span><span style="color: #000000">e BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe from September 21<span style="font-size:0.6em;vertical-align:super;">st</span> to 23<span style="font-size:0.6em;vertical-align:super;">rd</span> engaged a large community of BIBFRAME adopters and professionals working in the transition from MARC to Linked Data using the BIBFRAME model. The first afternoon was focused on implementations (including Share-VDE), the second afternoon on new developments, and the third one on a vast data exchange topic including a panel on RDA/RDF. The presentations and links to the recordings of the sessions are available at</span> [https://2021.bfwe.eu/ <span style="color: #1155cc">https://2021.bfwe.eu/</span>]<span style="color: #000000">.</span>
 
==Share-VDE periodic update (November 2020)==
As the year comes to an end, several important updates on Share-VDE in 2020 are worth sharing. Those of you who follow the initiative very closely are already informed about the major achievements so far, but I am pleased to share our progresses with the whole Share-VDE community.
 
This year has been complex for everyone because of the consequences of the COVID pandemic, but that didn’t stop us from moving forward: as announced earlier this month, Casalini Libri and its technological partner @Cult joining forces is the most recent of many steps taken on the Share-VDE path.
 
From the modelling of Share-VDE entities, to the outline of the main functions of the Cluster Knowledge Base editor JCricket, we feel that the outcomes of the intense activities carried on with the Share-VDE working groups are of high scientific value for the advancement of Linked Open Data for the library community and the cultural heritage sector.  In the same time, we are working with complete dedication to the technical enhancement of the Share-VDE back-end and front-end components and we are eager to apply the tools that we have designed with your precious contribution and collaboration.
 
We are confident that the results will greatly increase the benefits that linked data offer to libraries, and the progress report attached is an attempt to sketch the development strands that are running simultaneously and the main accomplishments (the report is also available at https://bit.ly/SVDE_WG_progress).
 
For the future, we hope that the Share family will expand and we are very grateful to every single institution involved and to Linked Data for Production for the fruitful and constant cooperation.
 
==Share-VDE achievements in 2019==
The following document includes the most relevant achievements of the Share-VDE initiative over the 2019: [https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/6/6c/Share-VDE_achievements_2019-12.pdf Share-VDE major achievements in 2019].

Latest revision as of 10:34, 22 April 2025


This section includes the latest issue of the Share Family Bulletin. More information on the current activities going on within the various branches of the Share Family can be found throughout this wiki website https://wiki.svde.org/, which is the informative hub of Share-VDE and the Share Family.

For a general presentation of the Share Family, of its mission and values, and to find out the latest news, you can also explore the brochure website https://www.share-family.org/.

To explore previous issues of the Share Family Bulletin, feel free to navigate through the following links:


Number 10, April 2025

You can download a printable version at https://bit.ly/SFBulletin_n10_Apr2025

Citation: Share Family Team, Share Family Bulletin 10 (April 2025), https://bit.ly/SFBulletin_n10_Apr2025

Introduction

The Share Family is committed to fostering cooperation among its member institutions and within the broader GLAM community to showcase the immense value of being part of an initiative developed and driven by libraries for libraries.

The Share Family’s collaborative approach to linked open data results in advanced technology applications for bibliographic descriptions and shared data management tools. Member institutions embrace the recent progress of LOD Platform technology and are empowered by the advantages of linked open data for knowledge sharing.

Version 3.1.1 and LOD Platform developments

The version 3.0.0 of the LOD Platform that was announced in the latest issue of the Share Family Bulletin has introduced substantial changes to the technology framework supporting the system. JCricket entity editor and shared cataloguing tool is the major enhancement of v.3.0.0, but the system has undertaken important optimisations in the following software releases 3.1.0 and 3.1.1, which are currently being tested by member institutions.

The LOD Platform technology is shared across all environments of the Share Family initiative, and software releases are rolled out to the various tenants following a dedicated schedule.

Cluster Knowledge Base and data management

Entity model and Cluster Knowledge Base

The LOD Platform currently supports the latest version of the BIBFRAME ontology, and will upgrade the MARC-to-BIBFRAME mapping to the most up to date version. The use of BIBFRAME within the Share Family initiative has been extended to guarantee interoperability with IFLA LRM and with applications not based on BIBFRAME. The SVDE Ontology is the result of work that has been carried on since last year by the SEI - Sapientia Entity Identification Working Group, with the svde:Opus entity being the most prominent extension of the ontology.

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The output of the SEI Working Group is being incorporated in the LOD Platform components, e.g. the OpusType property is available in the test environment and can be used in the JCricket entity editor that is being tested.

A key aspect of LOD Platform data management is the ability to manage data at a very fine granularity level. The aim is to have the CKB - Cluster Knowledge Base (or Entity Knowledge Base) as a single source of truth for the LOD Platform and Share Family installations. This will improve:

  • a “format-agnostic” CKB where all input formats converge into one conversion source (eg. MARC21, UNIMARC, native BIBFRAME/RDF eg. from LD4P Sinopia application profiles…);
  • improved conversion from MARC to BIBFRAME and vice versa;
  • single conversion pipeline from the CKB – removing the conversion pipeline based on MARC.

One of the main pipelines we’re following in this context is the management of attributes through controlled vocabularies instead of literals. This is being achieved by:

  • defining each controlled vocabulary in collaboration with the Sapientia Entity Identification Working Group;
  • enriching each vocabulary with external authoritative sources (RDA, Library of Congress, FINTO…);
  • clustering of controlled vocabularies and assignment of a URI to each value.

After completing the work on these vocabularies, they will be made available on JCricket.


UNIMARC

The direct management of UNIMARC records in clusterization and reconciliation processes without the “middle step conversion” from UNIMARC to MARC21 has been completed, and a Wikibase instance https://unimarc2bibframe.wikibase.cloud/ documents this work. An update has also been provided at the 6th IFLA UNIMARC Users Meeting in November 2024, with the presentation by Tiziana Possemato and Claudio Forziati UNIMARC-BIBFRAME Mapping: Evolving Interoperability in Data Modelling (recording available).

The related developments had as a result the migration of the SHARE Catalogue platform to the new CKB infrastructure and enhanced entity discovery portal https://www.sharecatalogue-lod.org/ (see also the updates on Share Family tenants below).


UAT – User Acceptance Testing environment

In the Share-VDE tenant, sets of real data from SVDE members institutions have been loaded to a UAT (User Acceptance Testing) environment that runs on the latest software version. The purpose is to test the most recent output of the clusterization of SVDE libraries’ data in a small-scale data pool. Members are validating the results of clusterization processes in the common CKB, ie. the quality of data processing, clustering, linked data conversion and entity display on the discovery portal. Input from the SVDE and Share Family community has always been the foundation of the initiative and an added value to developments.


Data update procedures

Incremental updates of data ingested from member institutions are managed through a dedicated module that has been continuously fine-tuned to streamline and automate the so-called “delta updates” imports. On the Natbib tenant, the institutional portal for the BNB - British National Bibliography currently supports a stable workflow of delta updates ingestion.

The delta updates workflow will be applied to all tenants as soon as massive data import and indexing will be stable.

JCricket Entity Editor

Upon the release of the LOD Platform v.3.0.0, JCricket was rolled out in a test environment dedicated to member institutions. The first round of tests has been done in the second half of 2024, and a new testing phase is ongoing. Feedback from testers will be incorporated in the application. You can explore more of JCricket in the Public Documentation section of the Share Family wiki at LOD Platform Entity Editor - JCricket and check out the demo of JCricket entity editor at the BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe 2024 (slides are also available).

JCricket operates on all layers of the LOD Platform entity model (ie. bf:Agent, svde:Opus, svde:Work, bf:Instance, Item). Also, JCricket users see multi-provenance data at individual attribute level. The tracking of the Provenance has been implemented since the beginning as a pivotal element to enable entity data curation by cataloguers from different institutions in a shared space.

The evolution of JCricket over time illustrates the progress of the tool and future goals.

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Architecture and infrastructure

Multi-tenant architecture

Multi-tenancy is an infrastructure configuration that allows many clients to share a single instance of a software application and the related infrastructure resources. We have implemented and are rolling out this approach to reduce effort and machine resources needed to set-up and configure a new tenant or an institutional installation within it. This ensures that data is stored and managed in a unified way, optimizing security, scalability, and efficiency. While built for multi-tenancy, the architecture also seamlessly adapts to private deployments for those who require a dedicated installation.


New database

Because the scale of the Share Family environment has been growing at a big data level (particularly for the largest tenant Share-VDE), we are testing a new database solution that would rely on a NoSQL approach. This would ensure scalability and stable performance in massive data imports and incremental updates.

Third parties integration

The evolution of the LOD Platform technology encompasses the ability to mutually integrate the data produced with external systems, notably with local ILS and Library Service Platforms and authority sources. This is being achieved through the integration of the LOD Platform tools with local ILS and LSP, or cataloguing modules:

  • Alma: connection to circulation processes have been established; exploration of CRUD APIs together with Alma libraries is in course, to push data from JCricket to Alma;
  • FOLIO: pilot integration in progress with Lehigh University (Share-VDE member and FOLIO adopter); initial tests are completed for the automated data flow from JCricket into FOLIO’s Inventory module. The FOLIO Instance is automatically updated starting from input data in JCricket as the “source of truth”. Further use cases of mutual integration are being analysed and tested.
  • Sinopia LD4P BIBFRAME cataloguing module: connection to Sinopia and parsing of Sinopia-generated data has been completed; after the testing phase, Sinopia data will be included in the LOD Platform CKB - Cluster Knowledge Base and edited through JCricket.
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This work aims to facilitate a hybrid cataloging environment that retains support for existing MARC-based integrations while developing the flexibility and interconnectedness offered by Share Family-maintained entities. By automating this process, this integration project not only enhances the metadata management capabilities of libraries but also paves the way for seamless collaborative cataloging within the Share Family community.

JCricket interactions.png

Further references can be found at this wiki page Integration with third parties.

Lookup on authoritative sources such as Wikidata is also being developed to query and pull data while using JCricket. An endpoint has been set-up to query Wikidata Agents and Works via API and SPARQL. Currently, this implementation lives in the internal development environment.

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Finally, efforts to integrate LOD Platform features in other applications are progressing steadily also on other fronts. Two conference presentations by Jim Hahn (University of Pennsylvania) have demonstrated some of the options for interoperability supported by JCricket and LOD Platform search APIs:

Finally, efforts to integrate LOD Platform features in other applications are progressing steadily also on other fronts. Two conference presentations by Jim Hahn (University of Pennsylvania) have demonstrated some of the options for interoperability supported by JCricket and LOD Platform search APIs:

Front-end enhancements

The majority of front-end enhancements has been devoted to improving JCricket, also as a consequence of users’ feedback and tests, as well as following the evolution of the tool. Ongoing optimisations include not only design revisions, but also data curation features. Just a few examples:

  • the Provision Activity block of information structures publication data by mirroring the corresponding RDF group of publication attributes, and ensures better identification and reconciliation of Publishers.
  • The ability to edit svde:Work data (as mentioned above, JCricket operates on all layers of the LOD Platform entity model).
  • A preview of RDF entity representation has been designed and will be implemented.

The presentation layer of the discovery portal is also being improved, especially as far as accessibility for visually impaired users is concerned. Work is ongoing to validate the accessibility features of the web portal to confirm compliance with international guidelines. Also, refinements are ongoing to the management of Arabic script on the user interface. This task complements the management of multilingualism of Share Family data, that is already handled in two fashions:

  • Clusterization processes (automated processes): in this case, the variant forms in various languages and scripts retrieved from the available national and international data sources are used to enable the end user to perform searches on the discovery portal using different scripts and getting the same results.
  • Using JCricket entity editor (manual process): in this case, cataloguers can enrich the entity cluster with variant forms in terms of both different languages and different scripts.

Community work

New Open Metadata Policy

The Share Family strives to support and invest in open data to freely share information, and an updated Open Metadata Policy has been approved by its Advisory Council. The community is committed, wherever possible, to share data transformed by its series of Linked Open Data (LOD) processes.

The previous version of the policy was published in 2023 to encourage open access to data produced by Share Family processes.

Share Family Community updates

As usual, exchanges within the Share Family community steer the vision and the evolution of the initiative and the output of working groups nurtures technical developments:

  • The Sapientia Entity Identification Working Group is committed to the SVDE Ontology to define svde:Opus entity properties for different content types. RDA properties are also taken into account in framing the ontology, and this will ensure greater interoperability.
  • The User Experience – User Interface Working Group continues working jointly with the National Bibliographies Working Group on a design proposal for the Publication page of the entity discovery portal, focusing on the aggregation of svde:Work and bf:Instance data. The group has narrowed down the core metadata for each material type and is now deciding how to display additional metadata that is not core to publication identification, with the aim of improving navigation and optimizing how end-users interact with and utilize the data.

On 19th September 2024 an informal Share Family meeting dedicated to members was held in Helsinki, at the National Library of Finland, after the two-day BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe. The engagement of the membership around key areas of development confirmed the added value of being part of an active and diverse community.

On behalf of the various Share Family tenants we are happy to mention important advancements:

  • The Share Catalogue tenant has transitioned to the latest version of the LOD Platform, which includes the advanced entity discovery portal and JCricket. The new version is online at https://www.sharecatalogue-lod.org/ and will be enhanced in the next period as far as data quality and data curation functions.
  • The NLN - National Library of Norway joined the National Bibliographies tenant. Already a member of the SVDE tenant contributing its catalogue, the NLN will also provide the Norwegian national bibliography data and will be the second institution feeding this tenant along with the British Library.
  • The beta British National Bibliography in linked data is stable in the institutional portal https://bl.natbib-lod.org, which is populated with regular updates.
  • The Parsifal tenant https://parsifal.urbe.it/parsifal/ is effectively enabling the URBE network in the curation of a shared authority file originally created through the aggregation of the catalogues from participating libraries. We are working on a dashboard that orchestrates the workflow between the central authority file and the Cluster Knowledge Base, to facilitate individual libraries’ operations.

All members are welcome to contribute expertise, specific experience and bibliographic information for the enrichment of a collective catalogue and the entire Share community.

Collaborations with the library community

The Share Family team and member institutions continue to nurture the liaisons with the library information experts and linked data and BIBFRAME communities, to increase interoperability to the advantage of new bibliographic and linked data workflows and to enhance existing ones.

Moreover, participation in international working groups and networks is strategic to the Share Family community, and responds to its core principle of creating connections and increasing communication across initiatives and projects.


RDA Steering Committee

A liaison protocol has been signed to establish the relationship at the strategic level between the Share Family Advisory Council and the RSC - RDA Steering Committee.

This step is considered particularly fruitful also in consideration of the activities that libraires from different countries and continents are bringing forward in the Share Family Working Groups with the scope of enhancing the practical implementations and the concrete interoperability of the emerging bibliographic ecosystem based on linked open data. The protocol has been published:


IFLA

As a member of theIFLA Bibliography Section, Tiziana Possemato is also the official liaison IFLA Bibliography Section / Share Family National Bibliographies group.

Highlights from two IFLA events:


PCC - Program for Cooperative Cataloguing

Share Family representatives have been involved at various levels in PCC - Program for Cooperative Cataloguing activities including various stakeholders:


BIG - BIBFRAME Interoperability Group

The Share-VDE participation in the BIG - BIBFRAME Interoperability Group is strengthening cooperation among institutions adopting BIBFRAME internationally. Recently, Xiaoli Li, Tiziana Possemato and Kalli Mathios presented at the IFLA Advisory Committee on Standards Symposium in Athens, on March 19th, sharing insights from BIBFRAME Interoperability Group: Tackling Implementation Challenges Across Institutions.


Consortia

We are striving to share the benefits of the Share Family approach to consortia and networks of institutions working with shared practices. The LOD Platform entity identification and reconciliation processes are suitable to environments that are already designed to be shared spaces. The potential for consortia of applying Share Family principles and tools is being investigated in a cooperative effort with consortia representatives. The Share Family Executive Summary for Consortia sketches the outcomes envisioned when supporting consortia in adopting linked data methodologies for enhanced collaboration.

Information resources

Publication documentation section in the wiki

The knowledge base of informative resources describing and documenting Share Family tools and activities continues to grow. The Public Documentation section includes detailed information on the LOD Platform workflow and components, the available APIs, the release notes, and public user guides.

A summary of useful resources was published in the previous issue of the Bulletin.

Publications

Among recent publications, it’s worth mentioning:

  • Smithsonian Libraries & Archives: BIBFRAME linked data experiment with the Share Family technology, by Jackie Shieh, in «Art Libraries Journal»; 50:1, 12 - 18 (April 2025); online access https://doi.org/10.1017/alj.2025.5.
  • Share-VDE and Beyond: Cooperation and Innovation to Bring Linked Open Data into Practice, by Jim Hahn, Sebastian Hammer, Tiziana Possemato, Nina Servizzi, in «Charleston Conference Proceedings, 2023», 309-333 (2024) https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.14509768.
  • Un esempio di entity modeling: l’Opus in Share-VDE, Proprietà delle entità svde:Opus, svde:Work e bf:Hub, L’ontologia Share-VDE: un’estensione di BIBFRAME per la discovery dei linked data, L'ontologia di Share-VDE come estensione di BIBFRAME, by Tiziana Possemato, in «Entity modeling: la terza generazione della catalogazione», 112-138, 281-302 (2024); free online access https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0393-7.

Dissemination channels

As part of outreach actions, we have issued an informative e-mail communication to publicize the Share Family promotional videos and the initiative as a whole. This type of broad communication runs in parallel with more specialized information such as the Share Family Bulletin, and will be issued from the new e-mail contact address info@share-family.org, which will be active together with info@svde.org.

Check out our presentation videos and learn more about the Share Family mission on Youtube: COOPERATION, SUSTAINABILITY, OPENNESS, INCLUSIVITY, DYNAMISM.

The Share Family website https://www.share-family.org/ remains the informative showcase and we are working to enrich it and expand it with new sections. See the latest news https://www.share-family.org/en/news.

Events

Regular virtual and in-person events, such as conferences, workshops, and working group meetings, provide opportunities for member institutions to connect, share ideas, and explore potential areas of collaboration.

Presentations not mentioned above are reported in this section. Full documentation is available on the page Resources.

BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe 2024

Hosted by the National Library of Finland, the BFWE 2024 has seen an important contribution from Share Family representatives, including a demo of JCricket.

WOLFcon 2024

A session featuring the evolution of the pilot integration in progress between Share-VDE and Lehigh University’s FOLIO installation has been presented at WOLFcon 2024:

MARC My Words: Navigating the BIBFRAME Frontier, by Wayne Schneider, Charlotte Whitt, Tiziana Possemato, Nate Trail, Boaz Nadav Manes, Lisa McColl; slides:

DCMI 2024

Real-Time “RDFization”. Leveraging Linked Data Fragments for enhanced data publication: the Share-VDE case study, at DCMI 2024, 23 October 2024, by Andrea Gazzarini.

Charleston Conference 2024

New pathways for resource description and interoperability: innovative strategies from the Share Family Ecosystem, at Charleston Conference 2024, 14 November 2024, by Nina Servizzi, Jeanette Norris, Sebastian Hammer, Tiziana Possemato.

SWIB Conference 2024

Leveraging Linked Data Fragments for enhanced data publication: the Share-VDE case study, at SWIB Conference 2024, 27 November 2024, by Andrea Gazzarini; recording available.

IFLA webinar on National Bibliographies

The British National Bibliography Experience in the Share Family Linked Open Data Environment, at the webinar Linked Open Bibliographies: Exposing, Linking, Reusing, 27 November 2024, by Thurstan Young and Anna Lionetti; recording available.

Next events

Public presentations where Share Family staff or members contribute their experience are announced at https://www.share-family.org/en/events.

The cross-domain vocation of the Share Family will be represented in the art libraries sector at the ARLIS/NA 53rd Annual Conference: on May 14th, Jackie Shieh and Anne Evenhaugen will present Data Unleashed: Smithsonian Library Data for Artists and Artwork in Share-VDE BIBFRAME.

In the context of the Share Catalogue achievements with UNIMARC-to-BIBFRAME mapping, the Lightning talk Mapping UNIMARC to BIBFRAME: The SHARE Catalogue Knowledge Base on Wikibase.cloud will be presented by Claudio Forziati and Alessandra Moi on June 5th - 6th at Wikidata and research, at the University of Florence (Italy).

Like every year, the Share Family will be present at ALA Conference 2025 in Philadelphia. A Share Family Workshop is being organised on Monday June 30th. A full announcement will be shared as soon as more details for participation are available.

The yearly appointment with the BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe is confirmed on September 16th - 17th 2025, in Naples (Italy). This event is a major gathering for sharing knowledge and practices about BIBFRAME implementation.


Your opinion is always welcome: to provide feedback on the Share Family discovery website, report bugs and suggestions as external users reach out through the forumhttps://forum.svde.org/ or send a message to helpdesk@svde.org. For general information on the initiative, contact info@share-family.org.

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