The activities of Share-VDE 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 working groups that meet on a regular basis.
Share-VDE member libraries are welcome to join one or more working groups based on their interest in a specific work strand and on the active contribution they can bring to the discussion. To become a member of a working group, contact the chair or Share-VDE team at helpdesk@svde.org.
SVDE Advisory Council (AC)
The Share-VDE AC will take an active role in determining future uses and vision for the Share-VDE initiative; Develop future use cases for Share-VDE, and set development priorities as needed; Monitor and lead the work of the various Advisory Council Working Groups; Maintain communication among the Share member institutions.
The current members list of the SVDE Advisory Council (including liaisons from other projects) and the Share Family Working Groups is available at https://bit.ly/2023_ShareFamily-SVDE_WG_members.
Among the latest outcomes:
- Share-VDE Executive Summary, December 2022, summarising the scope of Share-VDE in the context of Linked Open Data for Libraries;
- Share-VDE Statement, September 2021, illustrating the explanation of position of SVDE in the broader context of Library Linked Open Data;
- Library and community events sub-group, dedicated to monitoring conferences/events/initiatives of interest for the Share community, and to submitting proposals for presentations as appropriate;
- see the SVDE wiki Resources page for details about SVDE presentations at conferences and events;
- see the SVDE wiki News and updates page for the upcoming events.
Current AC members
Berkeley Law Library
Michael Colin Lindsey
Duke University
Jacquie Samples, Past Chair
Library of Congress
Kevin Ford
Nate Trail
National Library of Finland
Matias Frosterus
National Library of Norway
Oddrun Ohren
New York University
Nina Servizzi, Chair
Smithsonian Institution
Jackie Shieh
Stanford University
Nancy Lorimer
The British Library
Andrew MacEwan
University of Alberta Library
Abigail Sparling
Ian Bigelow
University of Chicago
Christie Thomas
University of Pennsylvania
Jim Hahn
Vanderbilt University
Dajin Sun
Yale University
Youn Noh
Working Group Leads
Abigail Sparling, University of Alberta Library, UI/UX WG co-lead
Kayt Ahnberg, University of Alberta Library, UX-UI WG co-lead
Erik Radio, University of Colorado-Boulder, AIMS Lead
Ian Bigelow, University of Alberta Library, SEI WG CO-Lead
Jim Hahn, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, SEI WG CO-Lead
Martin Knott, University of Michigan Libraries, CKBE WG Lead
PCC representative
Nancy Fallgren, National Library of Medicine
Liaisons from Share family projects
Kubikat-LOD
Cora Molloy, Max-Planck-Institute
Share-Catalogue
Roberto Delle Donne, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Claudio Forziati, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Casalini/@Cult
Tiziana Possemato, @Cult-Casalini Libri
Michele Casalini, Casalini Libri
Anna Lionetti, Casalini Libri
SVDE-AC Authority/Identifier Management Services working group (AIMS)
The Authority/Identifier Management Services WG defines guidelines and best practices for Authority/Identifier management in the linked data environment; defines scope and data-flow for creation and implementation of services connected with the SVDE system based on preliminary documentation.
Among the latest outcomes:
- new generation of services for the authority control;
- definition of use cases;
- functional analysis;
- analysis of interaction with Wikidata and ISNI (joint work with CKBE WG to design J.Cricket functionalities);
- pilot of MARC-based authority services with Stanford University Libraries (see chapter above);
- initial analysis of services for authority control in linked data workflows.
Current AIMS members
Duke University
Rich Murray
National Library of Finland
Matias Frosterus
New York University
Charlene Chou
Everett Allgood
Stanford University
Vitus Tang
The British Library
Andrew MacEwan
Emma Rogoz
University of Alberta Library
Amanda Nagyl
University of Colorado-Boulder
Erik Radio, Chair
University of Michigan Libraries
Matt Carruthers
University of Pennsylvania
Jim Hahn
Yale University Libraries
Eva Bolkovac
Timothy Thompson
Liaisons from Share family projects
Share-Catalogue
Tania Maio, Università degli Studi di Salerno
Casalini Libri/@Cult
Anna Lionetti, Casalini Libri
Tiziana Possemato, @Cult-Casalini Libri
Alessandra Moi, @Cult
SVDE-AC Cluster Knowledge Base Editor working group (CKB editor)
An essential part of the MARC to RDF conversion process is the maintenance of metadata that have been produced and registered on the Cluster Knowledge Base (CKB); the group analyses how libraries interact with the CKB and their use of the Editor for modifying (correcting / enriching), deleting, merging and separating clusters; the same approach will be applied on the data originally created in BIBFRAME.
Among the latest outcomes:
- back-end developments for J.Cricket entity editor are completed, front-end features will follow;
- definition of use cases;
- design of manual editing features;
- analysis of interaction with Wikidata and ISNI to be incorporated into J.Cricket and authority dataflows that feed the Cluster Knowledge Base (joint work with AIMS WG to design J.Cricket functionalities).
Current CKBE members
National Library of Finland
Osma Suominen
National Library of Norway
Oddrun Ohren
New York University
Alexandra Provo
Everett Allgood
Stanford University
Vitus Tang
University of Alberta Library
Abigail Sparling
University of Chicago Libraries
John Jung
University of Colorado-Boulder
Erik Radio
University of Michigan Libraries
Martin Knott, Chair
University of Pennsylvania
Katia Strieck
Jim Hahn
Yale University Libraries
Eva Bolkovac
Timothy Thompson
Youn Noh
Casalini Libri/@Cult
Anna Lionetti, Casalini Libri
Tiziana Possemato, @Cult-Casalini Libri
Alessandra Moi, @Cult
Samhæng
Filip Jakobsen
SVDE-AC Sapientia Entity Identification working group (SEI)
The Sapientia Entity Identification WG reviews the identification and clustering process of Share-VDE entities and submits feedback on potential improvements or optimizations; reviews the use of primary resource identifiers in Share-VDE dataset and provides feedback as appropriate; engages with the PCC to identify and/or develop best practices for use of these identifiers in BIBFRAME and MARC data.
Among the latest outcomes:
- 4 layers in SVDE entity model: svde:Opus | svde:Work | svde:Instance | svde:Item;
- svde:Opus and svde:Work are types of bf:Work → this ensures interoperability;
- consolidating the definition of svde:Instance entity properties;
- review of clustering and conversion rules;
- focus on cooperation also in the IFLA context: the mapping UNIMARC-BIBFRAME is being prepared and a formal liaison with SVDE has been approved by the IFLA Bibliography Section Standing Committee.
Current SEI members
Berkeley Law Library
Michael Colin Lindsey
Maria Vidal-Manou
Joe Cera
Library of Congress
Kevin Ford
Nate Trail
National Library of Finland
Marja-Liisa Seppälä
National Library of Medicine
Nancy Fallgren
National Library of Norway
Oddrun Ohren
Trine Adolfsen
New York University
Charlene Chou
Everett Allgood
Matthew Wise
Alexander Whelan
Smithsonian Institution
Jackie Shieh
Stanford University Libraries
Nancy Lorimer
The British Library
Alan Danskin
Corine Deliot
University of Alberta Library
Danoosh Davoodi
Ian Bigelow
University of Chicago Libraries
Thomas Dousa
University of Pennsylvania
Jim Hahn, Chair
Vanderbilt University
Alicia C. Zalusky
Yale
Youn Noh
Liaisons from Share family projects
Share-Catalogue
Remo Rivelli, Università degli Studi di Salerno
Walter Stefano, Università del Salento
Casalini Libri/@Cult
Anna Lionetti, Casalini Libri
Tiziana Possemato, @Cult-Casalini Libri
SVDE-AC User Experience/User Interface working group (UX-UI)
The User Experience/User Interface WG re-designs Share-VDE user interface to respond to both patrons and library staff requirements and expectations, to reflect the components of the Share-VDE data model infrastructure, and to provide an intuitive user experience.
The new interface:
- reflects the components of the Share-VDE data model infrastructure;
- harnesses the potential of linked data and deliver wide-ranging and detailed search results;
- provides an intuitive user experience hiding the complexity of the underlying data model;
- embeds partner APIs for the interoperability with local library services (e.g. lending);
- allows dedicated skin portals (e.g. Penn the branding of the institution.
Among the latest outcomes:
- Share-VDE 2.0 Entity Discovery https://svde.org
- new Entity Discovery Portal and new back-end infrastructure for the Linked Data Management;
- other Share Family discovery portals supported by the same technology;
- review and enhancements of portal features, in conjunction with the National Bibliographies Working Group.
Current UX-UI members
Berkeley Law Library
Joe Cera
Shelly Mclaughlin
National Library of Finland
Serafia Kari
National Library of Norway
Oddrun Ohren
New York University
Michael Tighe Haag
Princeton University
Kayt Ahnberg, co-chair
Smithsonian
Jackie Shieh
Kristen Bullard
Stanford University
Nancy Lorimer
The British Library
Corine Deliot
University of Alberta Library
Abigail Sparling, co-chair
University of Pennsylvania
Beth Picknally Camden
Vanderbilt University
Sarah Calise
Casalini Libri/@Cult
Anna Lionetti, Casalini Libri
Tiziana Possemato, @Cult-Casalini Libri
Samhæng
Filip Jakobsen
Among the Share Family of library driven initiatives a new working group has started dedicated to the practical cooperation among the National Bibliographies. Considering the important presence of several National Libraries in the Share-VDE community and in the broader network of institutions that follow the progress of this initiative and of other Linked Open Data projects, this working group has been launched in order to study and address the needs of National Libraries and institutions that hold National Bibliographies in the framework of the shared entity discovery environment https://natbib-lod.org/. Read the Executive summary of the National Bibliographies initiative.
Latest outcomes
After the initial discussion phase opened in the first months of the group’s work, we are now structuring the use cases for a tenant hosting a collective global catalogue of national bibliographies in linked open data, thanks to the input of the participating libraries. Starting from this input, we have distilled a first set of high-level use cases that the group is analyzing; the next step is for the group to define priority use cases, that is, those that will be transformed into functions that libraries want to be developed first in the National Bibliographies tenant.
It’s important to note that participation in Share-VDE environment and related tenant is not in conflict with the participation in the National Bibliographies tenant: while SVDE ingests the whole catalogue of bibliographic and authority data of any contributing libraries, the Natbib tenant ingests only the national bibliographies datasets, thus supporting a dedicated discovery environment and prospect ad hoc features for national bibliographies data that typically have specific requirements.
Summary of updates:
- involvement of SVDE / Share Family members and external institutions;
- IFLA Bibliographic Section liaison (Maud Henry from KBR - Royal Library of Belgium);
- discussion around topics of interest for an ad hoc tenant hosting national bibliographies;
- main tenant of the shared discovery environment for national bibliographies: https://natbib-lod.org/; implementation of the skin portal for the BNB - British National Bibliography https://bl.natbib-lod.org (this is a preview of a beta site)
- analysis of use cases for specific features;
- joint work with the SVDE UX-UI working group to design end user services and user interface/discovery features.
Current Natbib members (list in progress)
Berkeley Law Library
Michael Colin Lindsey
Joe Cera
Concordia University
Pat Riva
DNB - German National Library
Jochen Rupp
Reinhold Heuvelmann
Renate Behrens-Neumann
KBR - Royal Library of Belgium
Ann Van Camp
Hannes Lowagie
Maud Henry, IFLA bibliography section liaison
LAC - Library and Archives Canada
to be appointed
Library of Congress
Beacher J. Wiggins
Judith Cannan
Paul Frank
Sally McCallum
National Library of Finland
Osma Suominen
National Library of Norway
Oddrun Pauline Ohren
New York University Libraries
Nina Servizzi
Smithsonian
Jackie Shieh
Suzanne Pilsk
Stanford University
Philip Schreur
The British Library
Andrew MacEwan, Chair
Corine Deliot
University of Alberta Library
Ian Bigelow
University of California Davis
Xiaoli Li
University of Colorado Boulder
Erik Radio
University of Pennsylvania
Beth Picknally Camden
Jim Hahn
US National Library of Medicine
Nancy Fallgren
Casalini Libri/@Cult
Michele Casalini, Casalini Libri
Anna Lionetti, Casalini Libri
Tiziana Possemato, @Cult-Casalini Libri
