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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, which is the informative hub of Share-VDE and the Share Family.
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/.
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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* [https://wiki.share-vde.org/wiki/ShareFamily:NewsAndUpdates/September_2022 Number 6, September 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/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]
'''<big>Number 10, April 2025</big>'''
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.


'''<big>Number 8, December 2023</big>'''
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.


You can download this document at https://bit.ly/SFBulletin_n8_Dec2023
== 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.


Citation: Share Family Team, ''Share Family Bulletin'' 8 (December 2023), https://bit.ly/SFBulletin_n8_Dec2023
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.
 
=== Cluster Knowledge Base and data management ===
'''<big>Entity model and Cluster Knowledge Base</big>'''
 
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.       
 
[[File:opus-work-model UpdateOpusTypes VersioneMia.drawio.png|none|thumb|735x735px]]




== Introduction ==
As 2023 comes to an end, we take a moment to look back at the achievements and challenges within the Share Family initiative during the past year. This report serves as a comprehensive reflection on the accomplishments of this year, while also offering insights into the exciting goals we've set for the upcoming period. It provides a glimpse into both the highlights of the past year and our shared vision for the future within the Share Family community.


The international reach of the Share Family, spread across different countries and bibliographic traditions, stimulates mutual exchanges and gives us the occasion to improve our processes, data treatment and outputs.  
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.


The efforts and resources devoted to the development of the initiative (both technical and in terms of cooperation and outreach) are always rewarded by the added value of working side by side with member institutions and partners in the linked data community. This co-operative approach, with time, expertise and costs shared across the community for the benefit of all members, is creating a truly global network of interconnected institutions and information resources that transcends traditional cataloging boundaries.
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:


A useful perspective on how we carry on this family of initiatives can be found in the [https://bit.ly/SVDE-Executive-Summary Share-VDE Executive Summary]: the outline of SVDE role in linked open data for libraries is reflected on the overall approach to all the branches of the Share Family.
* 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…);


In this context, we also find useful to provide a comprehensive overview of the main stepping stones that have marked the path of the Share Family of initiatives over the years, described in detail in the next sections:
* improved conversion from MARC to BIBFRAME and vice versa;
[[File:timeline updated.jpg|alt=|none|thumb|750x750px]]
* 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:


In this extensive update are reported - among others - prominent achievements:
* 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.


* the extension of the community of members and parallel pilots;
After completing the work on these vocabularies, they will be made available on JCricket.
* the publication of new branches of the Share Family dedicated to specific initiatives, supported by dedicated entity discovery portals and linked data infrastructure (the portals for the BNB - British National Bibliography, Parsifal, and LILLIT);
* the involvement in the international library and cultural heritage community through cross-institutional working groups;
* the development of JCricket collaborative entity editor for shared cataloguing;
* the continuous enhancement of the system components and upgrade to a new version 3 of the technology in use, towards the support of production workflows;
* the extension of LOD Platform technology capabilities for the integration with third parties.




To cope with all this, the Share Family internal team of metadata experts and technicians is constantly working to improve the internal organisation of work and is increasingly formalising project rules and methodology to streamline development processes and achieve better results.


== News from members, promotion and outreach ==
'''<big>UNIMARC</big>'''
The Share Family linked data ecosystem comprises several collaborative LOD - Linked Open Data environments (also called “[https://wiki.share-vde.org/wiki/ShareFamily:Main_Page#The_Share_Family_branches_.28tenants.29 tenants]” in Share Family jargon).


The different characteristics of each field represented in the various environments are a useful asset that can be used to the advantage not only of the Share Family as a whole, but for each single discipline.
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]).


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).


The tenants currently active and the corresponding discovery websites are:


* [https://www.svde.org/ Share-VDE] (Virtual Discovery Environment);
* [https://catalogo.share-cat.unina.it/sharecat/clusters?l=en SHARE Catalogue] - the Italian network of university libraries;
* the [https://pcc-lod.org/ PCC data pool] - the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Catalogue in Linked Open Data;
* [https://www.natbib-lod.org/ National Bibliographies] in Linked Open Data;
* [https://parsifal.urbe.it/parsifal/?l=en Parsifal] - the LOD portal of the URBE consortium (Roman Union of Ecclesiastical Libraries).
* [https://lillit.share-family.org/lillit/?l=en LILLIT] - portal for Italian illustrated books with Linked Open Data descriptions and illustrations of Italian editions printed in the 16th-18th centuries.


[[File:loghi.jpg|none|thumb|600x600px]]
'''<big>UAT – User Acceptance Testing environment</big>'''


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.


'''<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">The tenant infrastructure is designed to be flexible, therefore it’s possible to show the data of participating members at the tenant level or even in an institutional customised sub-portal of a pre-existing tenant (also called “skin portal” in Share Family jargon). This can be done according to the institution/consortia’s needs and policies.</span>'''


[[File:sf infrastr.jpg|none|thumb|700x700px]]


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


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 Share Family team is committed to advancing the technical developments of each tenant and also to fostering user engagement through outreach initiatives. Below are reported the main facts around membership and outreach within the Share Family.
The delta updates workflow will be applied to all tenants as soon as massive data import and indexing will be stable.


=== New Share-VDE members and ongoing pilots ===
=== JCricket Entity Editor ===
In 2023 Berkeley Law Library joined [https://www.svde.org/ Share-VDE], while, in an exciting development, Toronto University Library and Lehigh University will be joining Share-VDE in 2024.
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).


The National Taiwan University Library will join the Share Family too: it will be particularly valuable to enrich LOD Platform processes with the treatment of non-Latin scripts, thus expanding the wealth of data at disposal of the Share Family community.
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.  


In the framework of the cooperation with library consortia that the Share Family is bringing forward, we are working on a linked open data pilot with the [https://ivpluslibraries.org/ IPLC - IvyPlus Libraries’ Confederation] using the IPLC data lake hosted in the MARC based [https://pod.stanford.edu/ POD - Platform for Open Data]. We are working to provide the Share Family LOD Platform environment and discovery portal to the IPLC institutions to assess the compatibility with the POD Aggregator scope and carry on the complementary aspects with the BIBFRAME based components of Share Family. The initial phase started in October 2023 with the set-up of the dedicated IPLC infrastructure tenant, which will include a dedicated discovery portal. After the ingestion of the 100M+ records from the 13 IPLC institutions is concluded an assessment period by POD members to test the output will be undertaken.
The evolution of JCricket over time illustrates the progress of the tool and future goals.


The participation of new institutions signifies a commitment to advancing research and educational opportunities, and we look forward to the contributions they will make to our growing community of libraries and institutions.
[[File:JCricket timeline.png|none|thumb|658x658px]]


=== The British National Bibliography in NatBib tenant ===
=== Architecture and infrastructure ===
As part of the NatBib - National Bibliographies tenant, the British Library announced its Linked Open Data BNB - British National Bibliography in beta version, now available for exploration at https://bl.natbib-lod.org.
<big>'''Multi-tenant architecture'''</big>


'''CAVEAT''': as of early January 2024, we will be updating the technical infrastructure of https://bl.natbib-lod.org, therefore the portal might be unstable.
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.


For further insights into the benefits of the collaboration between the Share Family and the British Library and future developments, we invite you to visit their Digital Scholarship blog at https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2023/07/share-family-british-national-bibliography.html.


=== The PCC data pool hosted by the Share Family infrastructure ===
The cooperation with the Program for Cooperative Cataloguing - initiated in 2020 as part of the LD4P pilot cataloguing activities and enabled by the cooperation with OCLC - for the management of a linked data pool of PCC records has continued with a test phase by a dedicated task group formed by volunteer PCC members. The task group has tested the PCC data pool discovery portal https://pcc-lod.org/ and reported back inputs for adjustments that will greatly improve our work.


The feedback received from the task group was analyzed and mostly incorporated by the Share Family team. The output will be visible after re-indexing of PCC data pool data, which is expected to take place in early 2024. The PCC will also be involved in a testing phase of the JCricket entity editor. To present the new edition of the data as well as JCricket we plan to establish a communication channel with the PCC group for ongoing updates and training in the use of JCricket.
'''<big>New database</big>'''


=== SHARE Catalogue: the Italian network of university libraries ===
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.
The [https://catalogo.share-cat.unina.it/sharecat/clusters?l=en SHARE Catalogue initiative] has completed the work on UNIMARC - BIBFRAME direct mapping and conversion (with no intermediate steps through MARC), and will share this work with the linked data community through a Wikibase instance https://unimarc2bibframe.wikibase.cloud/ that will be enriched and documented.


The Share Family team has been working hard to incorporate the developments derived from the UNIMARC - BIBFRAME direct mapping and to prepare for the switch from the discovery portal version 1.0 to 2.0 (and the consequent transition of the back-end infrastructure to AWS - Amazon Web Services that better supports system scalability and robustness), which is expected in early 2024.
=== 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:


=== Parsifal: the LOD portal of the URBE consortium ===
* 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;
On May 11, 2023 the Roman Union of Ecclesiastical Libraries (URBE) and [https://www.atcult.com/en/home @CULT] (the technological branch of the Share Family, developing and maintaining its [https://wiki.share-vde.org/wiki/ShareFamily:Main_Page#The_Share_Family_technology:_the_LOD_Platform LOD Platform technology]) announced the release of [https://parsifal.urbe.it/parsifal/homeSearch?l=en PARSIFAL], a cutting-edge linked data management system and entity discovery platform. PARSIFAL aims to enhance the exchange and interoperability of bibliographic data and authority items, significantly increasing accessibility to the abundant resources of the 16 participating URBE libraries. With a vast collection of 2.8 million records regularly updated, PARSIFAL offers users a streamlined research experience, enriched by diverse catalogues.
* 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.
[[File:Integrations 1729264956711.png|none|thumb|662x662px]]


Much work has been done to allow Parsifal libraries to have a shared authority system, built on collaboration between libraries and which guarantees each member to be autonomous in local data treatment, sharing in the same time the effort of data quality with the whole Parsifal community. This is achieved through the unified access for the maintenance of the Central Authority Catalogue, whereby each library accesses the same system to increase the quality level of the catalogue. The authority data, commonly created or enriched by all URBE cataloguers, becomes part of the clustering/conversion pipeline, to optimize the libraries' production processes and increase the quality of the data published on the Parsifal portal.
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.


=== LILLIT: the portal for Italian illustrated books 1501-1800 ===
[[File:JCricket interactions.png|none|thumb|656x656px]]  
The [https://lillit.share-family.org/lillit/ LILLIT] portal for Italian illustrated books 1501-1800 is a collaborative effort by Sapienza University, ICCU (Central Institute for the Single Catalog of Italian Libraries), the Central Institute for Graphics and @Cult. Developed through a Sapienza University of Rome project, LILLIT offers an intuitive interface, advanced search options, and access to digital copies. Utilizing Linked Open Data, the portal displays enhanced information on 16th-18th century editions, highlighting engraving techniques and creators. Operating on the BIBFRAME bibliographic model, LILLIT seamlessly aligns with the technological and conceptual innovation of the other Share Family initiatives, bringing new possibilities to the bibliographic landscape.


=== Towards new domains: Share Art, Share Music, Share MIA ===
Further references can be found at this wiki page [https://wiki.share-vde.org/wiki/ShareVDE:Activities/Integrations Integration with third parties].  
The Share Family institutions and collaborative networks of libraries are engaging in discussions to establish three specialized shared discovery environments: Share Art, Share Music, and Share MIA (Manuscripts, Incunabula, and Ancient Books). These initiatives are designed to cater to the specific needs of the art, music, and ancient book domains, providing a wealth of resources and knowledge to users, and further strengthening the interconnected bibliographic data network through the use of linked open data technologies. This will translate into dedicated tenants (branches) of the Share Family infrastructure.


On this topic, two presentations have been given at IFLA WLIC 2023 and IFLA 2023 Satellite Conference, that can be found in the [https://wiki.share-vde.org/wiki/ShareVDE:Resources Resources] section of this wiki:
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.


* [https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/8/8c/IFLA2023WLIC.pdf The Share Family technology - concrete benefits to increase discovery experience and linked data curation in the art domain], by Jackie Shieh.
[[File:integrazione fonti esterne3.jpg|none|thumb|656x656px]]
* [https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/b/ba/IFLA_2023_Satellite_Conference_Art.pdf The Share Family initiative - enabling connections for the cultural heritage], by Michele Casalini.
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:


=== New brochure website for the Share Family ===
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:
We are thrilled to introduce the new Share Family website, [https://www.share-family.org/ www.share-family.org], a digital hub designed to connect our community. This website serves as a window into the heart of the Share Family, offering a comprehensive overview of our mission and values, a general presentation of our goals and technology. The website also serves as a dynamic platform for keeping everyone informed about our latest [https://www.share-family.org/en/news activities], [https://www.share-family.org/en/events events], and advancements.


To delve even further into the intricacies of our project, we encourage you also to explore the other sections of this wiki, a resource which provides more in-depth information, including technical documents, a [https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/7/7f/Share-Family_brochure_2023-June.pdf new brochure] that can be freely distributed, and recent updates available both in [https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/d/d0/Share-VDE_and_Share_Family_update_-_2023-Jul-12.pdf presentation format] and as [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DrZcxwjEqq88b-kqOVaunVXzS7eg6KeL/view demo video].
* [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.


=== Conferences and events ===
=== Front-end enhancements ===
In 2023, the Share Family team and member institutions have had the opportunity to showcase the initiative and highlight its latest developments at numerous conferences. These presentations have served as a platform for sharing insights, best practices, and the collective achievements of the Share Family community. You can find slides and, often, recording of these events on this page of the [https://wiki.share-vde.org/wiki/ShareVDE:Resources#Year_2023 Share Family wiki].
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:  


=== Work exchange with National Library of Finland member Serafia Kari ===
* 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.
From April to May 2023 we welcomed Serafia Kari, a Service Designer for the [https://www.finna.fi/Content/about_finnafi?lng=en-gb Finna] service within the National Library of Finland. Her main goal during her visit was to conduct a usability study focusing on the Share-VDE portal's discovery interface ([https://www.svde.org/ www.svde.org]). This study aimed to assess the information-sharing capabilities of the portal from the perspective of users from different backgrounds. Serafia recently had the opportunity to share her findings in a presentation titled "Usability Study of Share-VDE" at the BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe, held in Brussels on September 19, 2023. For those eager to delve deeper into her research, the slides and a recording of the session are available for review at https://www.bfwe.eu/brussels_2023.
* 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.


== Share Family community work and cooperation ==
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:
We are very committed to encouraging the cooperation within the Share Family membership, to demonstrate the invaluable benefit of being part of an initiative developed and driven by libraries and for libraries. To support the constant exchange of ideas and principles that, together, define the vision, aims and progress of Share Family environments and their tools, we have created new materials and accompanying documents to guide member institutions into this process.


The wiki members’ area dedicated to participating institutions has been enriched with documentation on how to provide feedback on the various linked data entity discovery environments. Structured processes supported by ad hoc tools and testing environments have been shared with members that are actively involved in exchanges with the Share Family staff to collaboratively improve the system functioning.
* 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.


=== Share-VDE and Share Family Working Groups ===
== Community work ==
Share Family activities are organised into several work strands. Being a community initiative, the goals and desired outcomes are defined by the participating institutions through active engagement in different [https://wiki.share-vde.org/wiki/ShareVDE:Members/Share-VDE_working_groups working groups]. The current working groups are guided by the Advisory Council, which plays a key role in shaping the future of the initiative and provides advice on how to develop use cases and establish priorities, and ensures communication among member institutions.


Each member institution has a seat in the Advisory Council and this governance model based on direct participation of member institutions steering the initiative represents one of the major strengths and core values of the Share Family.  
=== 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.


Also, each community of institutions participating in the individual Share Family of initiatives can establish its specific governance group that determines the policy for the treatment and processing of the data.
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.


Among the major achievements of the Working Groups in cooperation with the Share Family team it is worth mentioning those carried out by the SEI – Sapientia Entity Identification Working Group and the User Experience – User Interface Working Group cooperating with the National Bibliographies Working Group.
=== 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:


==== Sapientia Entity Identification Working Group ====
* 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 [https://wiki.share-vde.org/wiki/ShareVDE:Members/Share-VDE_working_groups#SVDE-AC_Sapientia_Entity_Identification_working_group_.28SEI.29 SEI – Sapientia Entity Identification Working Group] has worked on the creation of the Share-VDE Ontology, that is an extension to BIBFRAME. While the ontology supports the discovery functionality of Share-VDE and the Share family search systems, it may be re-used in any system requiring a bridge among BIBFRAME, IFLA LRM and RDA. Classes of the Share-VDE ontology include the svde:Opus, svde:OpusType, and svde:Work. The Share-VDE ontology achieves interoperability among the major bibliographic models by asserting that bibliographic entities are described by attribute sets. The attribute set modeling approach is a departure from the conceptual modeling that has informed the development of nearly all modern linked data models. A few steps remain to complete the ontology, and its preliminary version has been published, see https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8332350. The latest public updates on the ontology have been shared at SWIB conference ([https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/9/90/development-of-SVDE-ontology.pdf slides] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyrVaKJYt7w recording] available).
* 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.  


==== User Experience – User Interface Working Group ====
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.
The analysis for improvements of the Share Family entity discovery portals has been devised by the [https://wiki.share-vde.org/wiki/ShareVDE:Members/Share-VDE_working_groups#SVDE-AC_User_Experience.2FUser_Interface_working_group_.28UX-UI.29 User Experience – User Interface Working Group] cooperating with the [https://wiki.share-vde.org/wiki/ShareVDE:Members/Share-VDE_working_groups#Share_Family_National_Bibliographies_working_group_.28Natbib.29 National Bibliographies Working Group]. After tests and use of the beta version of [https://www.svde.org/ Share-VDE 2.0] and the [https://www.natbib-lod.org/ National Bibliographies portal], working groups members have been analysing the front-end layer of the entity discovery portals according to a set of evaluation criteria including for example usability and accessibility, consistency of design and navigation, overall user friendliness, integration with SVDE features and local library discoveries etc. In parallel, the groups have been collecting issues and adjustments that can be potentially made to the display of information on the entity discovery portals, along with proposals for new features that will enhance the user experience.


This analysis, which will incorporate inputs also from the PCC, will output suggestions for improvements in the overall orchestration of the front-end layer and will continue with the exploration of further areas for enhancements and new features.
On behalf of the various [[ShareFamily:Main Page#The%20Share%20Family%20branches%20(tenants)|Share Family tenants]] we are happy to mention important advancements:


=== IFLA, Linked data and BIBFRAME communities ===
* 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.
 
=== 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.
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.


Tiziana Possemato participates in the IFLA Bibliographic Section through various working groups of this division, co-chairing with Annette Dortmund the National Bibliographies and New Technologies working group that will be dedicated to national bibliographies metadata and ICT technologies like AI, linked open data, the semantic web. This opportunity will also foster the interconnections of the Share Family National Bibliographies working group and the related tenant https://natbib-lod.org.  
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.


The exchanges with [https://sites.google.com/stanford.edu/ld4-community-site/home LD4P - Linked Data 4 Production] will move towards establishing a permanent connection with the Sinopia BIBFRAME editor environment for the mutual exchange of data in BIBFRAME/RDF.


More broadly, Share-VDE takes part in the [https://wiki.lyrasis.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=249135298 BIG - BIBFRAME Interoperability Group] established to create guidelines for data exchange in BIBFRAME, thus expanding the methods and tools shared by linked data nodes for BIBFRAME interoperability.


== LOD Platform developments ==
'''<big>RDA Steering Committee</big>'''
We are striving to enhance the Share Family [https://wiki.share-vde.org/wiki/ShareFamily:Main_Page#The_Share_Family_technology:_the_LOD_Platform LOD Platform technology] towards production workflows that make available [https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/5/54/share_components_EN.pdf advanced tools and components] to support linked data management systems and entity discovery platforms of institutions and consortia.


The increasing complexity of the Share Family system poses several challenges that we constantly tackle by improving the organisation of our teamwork and the planning of developments.
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.  


Here follows an overview of the major work strands intertwined.
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:


=== JCricket entity editor ===
* on RDA Chair Documents page: https://www.rdatoolkit.org/rsc/chair-documents
JCricket is the Share Family tool for collaborative entity curation shared across member institutions. It primarily serves as an entity editor, enabling - according to the BIBFRAME ontology - the creation of new entities, entity modification, and the application of merge and split functions to improve the quality of automated LOD Platform clustering processes. With JCricket, it becomes possible to manage or create any kind of entities, each representing what, in traditional cataloging, was known as a "bibliographic set".
* 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.  


Also, the availability of this tool enables new data workflows that are being analysed to support the integration and use of JCricket even outside of the Share Family LOD Platform. We are considering several scenarios where linked data systems (eg. Library of Congress Marva or LD4P Sinopia BIBFRAME editors) can simultaneously operate locally with their own tools and share and cooperatively edit linked data resources across different environments using JCricket.


JCricket operates on the Share-VDE CKB - Cluster Knowledge Base (and on the CKB of the other Share Family tenants), which is not a local data storage for a single library, but rather the outcome of complex integration processes that generate entities from local data in traditional formats, such as MARC, and new formats, like RDF. Its optimal application is within a large data pool formed through contributions from multiple libraries, such as Share-VDE; therefore, it does not impact original data that reside in member libraries’ systems (unless libraries want to use ad hoc APIs for entity updates both in SVDE and in their systems).


The following picture illustrates JCricket workflow from a conceptual standpoint:
<big>'''IFLA'''</big>
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The system fetches MARC records from member libraries for ingestion and BIBFRAME conversion; linked data entities are created from this process and stored in the Cluster Knowledge Base. Entities are in fact clusters, ie. entities created through the aggregation of data from multiple institutions (Provenances).


Using JCricket, member libraries are able to authenticate in a dedicated area of the search portal and manually edit potential errors found in entities that are created during the conversion of records contributed by member libraries. These edits on entities will be saved in the system.
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.


Also, JCricket APIs allow communication with member libraries’ systems, to notify the changes made on the entities in the CKB: this can be done in case the libraries want to use this service to be informed about the changes in the clusters to which the library data contributed, or even to optionally activate the entity update APIs.
Highlights from two IFLA events:


JCricket is integrated in the discovery portal web interface, for authenticated users.  
* [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.
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* [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.
Several demos have been done this year, showing the advancements of JCricket user interface, which will be released in a test version shortly:


* JCricket première at the ALA Conference 2023, during the [https://drive.google.com/file/d/16vv_xOT7leOwf-TcWjC_mcJUCisLhudO/view Share-VDE Workshop];
* JCricket demo at the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbrqvWGnvfI LD4 Conference 2023] ([https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/7/71/JCricket_overview_-_LD4P_-_2023-July-12.pdf slides] are also available).


The work on this key component of the LOD Platform technology and of the vision of Share Family environments for cooperative linked data sharing was one of the most intense throughout 2023. A test version of JCricket is soon to be released for user validation.


=== Third parties integration ===
<big>'''PCC - Program for Cooperative Cataloguing'''</big>
The evolution of the Share Family technology encompasses the ability to mutually integrate the data produced by the LOD Platform with external systems, notably with local ILS and Library Service Platforms and authority sources.
 
Share Family representatives have been involved at various levels in PCC - Program for Cooperative Cataloguing activities including various stakeholders:
 
* 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.
 
 


As to ILS and LSP integration, it’s worth mentioning some advancements:
<big>'''BIG - BIBFRAME Interoperability Group'''</big>


* the new authority services for MARC-based workflows – designed with [https://wiki.share-vde.org/wiki/ShareVDE:Members/Share-VDE_working_groups#SVDE-AC_Authority.2FIdentifier_Management_Services_working_group_.28AIMS.29 SVDE AIMS Working Group] and further input by Stanford University Library – have been completed and are available for institutions willing to test and use them. Also, the AIMS Working Group will reconvene in 2024 to analyse and devise the authority control features for RDF / linked data based workflows;
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''.
* the integration of Alma circulation APIs for local library services is almost completed;
* the integration with the native BIBFRAME cataloguing editor Sinopia is progressing: the parser for incoming RDF data from Sinopia to be clustered by Share-VDE processes is under development;
* the connection to FOLIO ILS has been analysed to correlate FOLIO Inventory data with Share-VDE data, and to integrate JCricket user interface in FOLIO. [https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/7/74/ShareVDE_meets_FOLIO_Collaborative_Entity_Editing.pdf A possible model for ILS/LSP interaction through FOLIO] was presented by Andrea Gazzarini from the Share Family team and Sebastian Hammer from Index Data at WOLFcon 2023, to engage discussion within the linked data community on how to pursue this connection.


As to integration with authority systems, several data sources are being investigated and in some cases the initial integration steps have been completed:


* LD4P Questioning Authority lookup tool;
* Wikidata for mutual enrichment of entity IDs (initial specifications were shaped by SVDE working groups);
* ISNI for mutual enrichment of entity IDs (initial specifications were shaped by SVDE working groups).


The resulting scenario will translate into an integrated, “hybrid” operational ecosystem, based on a variety of tools and diverse data sources including traditional workflows (eg. new authority services for MARC workflows) as well as advanced models for data exchange, eg. those envisaged above to simultaneously operate through JCricket and local BIBFRAME editors both within the Share Family system and locally.
<big>'''Consortia'''</big>


=== Data processing and BIBFRAME conversion ===
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.


==== Catalogues ingestion and ongoing data updates ====
== Information resources ==
Much work is going on to complete the full workflow of data ingestion, conversion, regular updates of data exports from libraries and publication to the discovery portal of the Share-VDE tenant.  
=== 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.


The very complex architecture of the Share Family, made of different tenants each one residing on a separate branch of the system infrastructure with its own installation of databases and system components, entails articulated processes that often take some time to become stable, due to the impact they have on the whole system. In this scenario, the completion of the module handling ongoing updates (“delta updates” in Share Family jargon) done in 2023 is a significant milestone adding value to a system moving towards the support of stable production workflows.  
A summary of useful resources was published in the [[ShareFamily:NewsAndUpdates/July2024|previous issue of the Bulletin]].


The full workflow of ingestion and ongoing updates has been tested for the beta version of the BNB – British National Bibliography skin portal on NatBib tenant, and is being fine tuned for the future steps towards bringing the BNB in production. The BNB experience will also be useful to measure the performance of the system in view of the much larger scale process for the Share-VDE tenant.
=== Publications ===
Among recent publications, it’s worth mentioning:


It’s also important to mention that we anticipate the release of a new version 3 of the software supporting JCricket and introducing major changes, that will trigger a new ingestion of libraries’ catalogues and the connection to the delta updates module - pausing the load of library catalogue using the previous version of the software was preparatory to this major change. The new version 3 release is expected in early 2024, starting with the Share-VDE tenant, and the subsequent steps (ie. delta updates module set-up and data ingestion, publication of new data on svde.org portal), will follow.
* ''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) [[doi:10.3998/mpub.14509768|https://doi.org/10.39''98/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.


==== Granularization of the Cluster Knowledge Base and new conversion model ====
=== Dissemination channels ===
So far, the support of linked data conversion from multiple input formats has been managed through multiple conversion pipelines.
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].  


In line with the evolution of the system over time, it became clear that a single “source of truth” is needed to orchestrate a conversion workflow as frictionless as possible. So, several analysis and implementation actions have been undertaken to revise the current conversion model and streamline this process by extending input data capabilities and making the conversion component format-agnostic.  
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].


To achieve this, the new conversion model should support:
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.


* a finer granularity level of the CKB in compliance with BIBFRAME granularity;
== Events ==
* a “format-agnostic” CKB with extended input data capabilities to converge all input formats into one conversion source (eg. MARC21, UNIMARC, native BIBFRAME/RDF eg. from LD4P Sinopia application profiles etc.);
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.
* one single conversion pipeline from the CKB – removing the conversion pipeline based on MARC.


In addition, the granularization of the CKB will facilitate the implementation of the Share-VDE Ontology extensions that have been introduced during 2023 by the work of the SEI – Sapientia Entity Identification Working Group (see the current version of the SVDE Ontology at https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.8332350), and the ongoing improvements to the clustering algorithm that will derive from members’ and users’ tests with the data.
Presentations not mentioned above are reported in this section. Full documentation is available on the page [[ShareFamily:Resources|Resources]].


Finally, the review of the CKB will facilitate the integration of data from other domains, including archival and museum domains.
=== 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].  


Once the final pipeline conversion will be in place, the triple store will make available the stable version of the data that will be even more compatible for reuse externally of the Share system.
=== 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:


This work will continue in 2024.
[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:


==== Subjects and Concepts ====
* [https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/8/86/MARC_My_Words.pdf MARC My Words];
Collaboration with numerous libraries has contributed to improving the data processing of subject-related information. Currently, we identify and display the most general level, which is the Related Subjects. These subjects may encompass various linguistic variations, but these variations will not be explicitly categorized as such; typically, they will be considered as Related Subjects.
* [https://wiki.share-vde.org/w/images/b/b8/BIBFRAME_in_Production2.pdf BIBFRAME in production].
[[File:concepts.jpg|none|thumb|900x900px]]
In the future, we plan to highlight more specific subsets of equivalent subjects or linguistic variations. This selection will be based on the original data provided by the libraries. Variations will only be identified as such if the library has accurately flagged them in their own records. Additionally, further analysis is being conducted to enhance the development of Concepts and their display in all Share Family tenants.
[[File:topics.jpg|none|thumb|600x600px]]


==== Non-Latin scripts ====
=== DCMI 2024 ===
Within the Share Family community, a significant and ongoing discussion revolves around the processing of non-Latin scripts. This encompassing dialogue includes active participation from members within the Advisory Council. Testing of data provided by the National Taiwan University Library will be carried out by the LD4P Non-Latin Script Material affinity group.
[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.


Also, an experiment is being carried out with a test portal supporting Arabic script that gave us the occasion to further test with non-Latin scripts, and to apply to the LOD Platform features that will be propagated to all other Share Family tenants, ie.:
=== 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.


* the creation of Subject entity starting from authority subjects (ie. not only from bib. record access points);
=== SWIB Conference 2024 ===
* an improved version of Subject management, including related subjects.
[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].


==== Goals for the next period ====
=== IFLA webinar on National Bibliographies ===
By adopting BIBFRAME as the main ontology in compatibility with IFLA-LRM, the Share Family takes advantage of the potentials of linked open data to facilitate interoperability among data pools, in coexistence with MARC. Leveraging this approach, we work to ultimately:  
[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].


* consolidate outputs and collaborative tools to enhance workflows and services for consortia or individual libraries;
== Next events ==
* transform library catalogs into research tools with structured access and visibility to original language research in all disciplines;
Public presentations where Share Family staff or members contribute their experience are announced at https://www.share-family.org/en/events.
* serve as an authoritative data source, contribute to a new bibliographic ecosystem where data modeling, enrichment and sharing are handled collectively;
* apply and support open metadata policies.


As always, this will be achieved by being independent of local practices and of ILS/LSP local systems, and through the international collaboration at the heart of the Share Family vision.
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''].


We will continue to cooperate with any kind of system or initiative that will be eager to become “Share-ready”.
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).


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 forum https://forum.svde.org/ or send a message to helpdesk@svde.org.


For general information on the initiative, contact info@svde.org.


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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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.

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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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