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This page includes publicly available resources about Share-VDE.
Initiated in 2016 as a Research and Development project, in 2019 the Share Virtual Discovery Environment in Linked Data initiative has moved progressively into production. This extraordinary collaboration among the institutions involved - over thirty - and the intense dialog with the Linked Data for Production (LD4P) project has permitted the Casalini Libri and @Cult teams to reach significant milestones in this library community driven initiative.
Below is an outline of the major achievements made in 2019.
Announcements
- The National Library of Finland will be joining Share-VDE from 2020 and has committed itself to the initiative for three years. Following the adhesion of the National Library of Norway, we are very happy that another important European institution has joined the Share Family.
- The University of Pennsylvania has established a partnership with Share-VDE to develop a customized skin that will embed a number of APIs to allow interoperability with BorrowDirect, Alma and Summon. An ad hoc skin of the new version of Share-VDE user interface is being designed with the partner company Samhæng.
- The bibliographic data of Share-VDE full members are online on the Share-VDE portal www.share-vde.org, with the only exception of newer members, the National Libraries of Norway and of Finland. The analysis of the NLN data is in an advanced phase and we are currently working on the ingestion of the NLN catalogue. A summary of the institutions whose data is published on the portal is available at the Info page http://www.share-vde.org/sharevde/info.vm.
- As part of the work on various deliverables for the institutions involved, Share-VDE has recently enhanced its triplestore capabilities in order to index the bibliographical datasets not only of the full members, but also of the LD4P Cohort libraries in order to facilitate the Sinopia dataflow. In total, as of March 2020 the data of 23 libraries are currently represented: 100 million records, which have become approx. 24 billion quads (triples + provenance).
- The Share-VDE Sapientia Cluster Knowledge Base has been released earlier this year and now includes around 400 million triples.
- Both the bibliographical datasets and the Cluster Knowledge Base triplestore databases can be queried via the SPARQL endpoint (see http://bit.ly/SVDE_CKB_Stardog_and_queries) and via API through Stardog Studio, which is freely downloadable at https://www.stardog.com/studio. Advanced and customized API layers will be developed at a later stage.
- The Kubikat-LOD (Share-ART) prototype has been concluded. This is an important step for developing the application of Share-VDE in the domain of art libraries.
Technical developments
- Work is underway to create a revamped user interface that will increase the discovery potential of the Share-VDE infrastructure; a demo of the work undertaken is available at http://bit.ly/SVDE_prototype_20191202.
- The initial model of the J.Cricket Cluster Knowledge Base Editor is being analysed from a functional perspective, along with the design of its user interface. The result will be a collaborative module enabling the editing of the clusters of entities managed in Share-VDE (works, authors etc.). Further details can be found below.
- The Share-VDE SuperWork entity level has been correlated with the very recent Library of Congress Hub property. Analysis of similarities and possible interoperability layers is ongoing in the Sapientia Entity Identification Working Group. Further details can be found below.
- The management of the updates of Share-VDE library data has been completed as far as set-up of internal procedures. Before switching the whole process into production, we are running a testing phase that is being carried on together with a dedicated sub-group of Share-VDE members.
- Continuous improvements to, and bug fixing for the Share-VDE conversion tool and processes have been continued. The up-to-date status of the Share-VDE deliverables can be consulted here.
- Share-VDE and LD4P are working together to optimize the interaction between the Share-VDE and Sinopia/Questioning Authority infrastructure, in order to make Share-VDE an authoritative source of data for the Sinopia linked data editor. A graphic summary of the interaction model is available at http://bit.ly/SVDE-Sinopia-QA_20191004.
Updates from the Working Groups
