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Share-VDE's role in Share Family - linked data ecosystem

Share-VDE is an initiative part of the Share Family. The 2022 Executive Summary describes Share-VDE role in linked open data for libraries. Share-VDE also adheres to the Share Family Open Metadata Policy, which has been approved by its Advisory Council.

Additionally, you can find the previous Share-VDE Statement 2021, which provides further insight into Share-VDE's vision.

Being an initiative promoted by Casalini Libri, also Share-VDE takes into account its accessibility manifesto.

Share-VDE in a few steps

Share-VDE is an initiative led by the community of participating libraries, with the aim of setting up linked data based workflows.

For an overview of the entity discovery portal, see the demo of the Share-VDE entity discovery portal with an introduction on the Share-VDE user experience and user interface design process; supporting slides are also available.

Share-VDE makes available:

1. enrichment of original institutions' records with URIs from different sources;
2. convertion of records in MARC and other metadata formats to RDF using the BIBFRAME vocabulary and additional ontologies as needed;
3. publication of converted data to an entity discovery portal based on the extended BIBFRAME entity model;
4. a database of relationships and clusters of entities (Sapientia Cluster Knowledge Base) accessible in RDF;
5. tools for data curation and shared cataloguing, including validation, updates, and long-term control and maintenance of clusters and URIs through JCricket Entity Editor;
6. batch/automated data updates procedures;
7. delivery of converted and enriched data to libraries for reuse in their system.

The technological components underlying the Share infrastructure are orchestrated by the LOD Platform, that is a highly innovative technological framework, an integrated ecosystem for the management of bibliographic, archive and museum catalogues and their conversion to linked data, extensible as needed for specific purposes. The LOD Platform was designed with the idea of creating scalable and configurable linked data management systems and discovery interfaces able to adapt to ontologies from different library, archive and museum (LAM) domains, capable of automating the processes of creating and publishing linked open data, regardless of the data source format.

The Share-VDE portal

From September 2021, Share-VDE is live at https://svde.org with an enhanced Entity Discovery Portal and Linked Data Management System. The load of Share-VDE libraries’ data is being done progressively while we work towards the production workflow; currently https://svde.org hosts a subset of the data of members institutions.

To provide feedback, report bugs and suggestions reach out through the forum https://forum.svde.org/.

Why choosing Share-VDE to give more visibility to your library catalogue?

Share-VDE facilitates cataloguing and exposition of bibliographic records through a linked data based approach.

The platform www.svde.org enhances the discovery potential of library resources and unveils information that would otherwise have been hidden in archives → access to a rich amount of data that can be exported and re-imported by the participating institutions.

It’s an authoritative source thanks to the data enrichment with external URIs (ISNI, VIAF, Wikidata etc.) and internal ones (the URI created by Share-VDE for each entity).

Fosters the collaboration with the Linked Data for Production (LD4P) initiative and the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) for the study and application of linked data.

Three major benefits:

Quality: enrichment with data from other authoritative sources.

Use: better exposition, data analysis opportunity, reuse in other projects.

Engagement: facilitate information exchange and collaboration with other communities.

How to join

For more information on how to join the Share Family, contact us at info@share-family.org.