Resources

This page serves as a centralized compilation of information relevant to current discussion and work of the UT Linked Data Learning Group. Sections below are maintained by group co-facilitators, as informed by group interest and needs.

[Placeholder for near future link: For an introduction to linked data, the semantic web, and recommended readings to understand linked data for libraries and archives, see the Linked Data page on UT Libraries' Metadata Basics LibGuide.]

Linked Data in Alma/Primo Library Services Platform

For current LSP feature information, see the dedicated page Alma/Primo Linked Data Features.

IGeLU/ELUNA Linked Open Data Community of Practice and Working Group

This group focuses on linked data in ExLibris products (including Alma/Primo), hosts community meetings, and maintains a page of resources.

• list-serv: https://exlibrisusers.org/postorius/lists/lod.exlibrisusers.org/

• presentation recordings of IGeLU and ELUNA Show&Tell: https://www.youtube.com/c/IGeLUandELUNAShowTell

• slack channel: igelu-eluna-siwg.slack.com#linked-data (email Xaoli Li if interested to join)

• user story collection form: Google doc

• URIs in Ex Libris Products: Report of current conditions and best practices, May 24, 2022

Updates from the field - resources, presentations, and other links pulled from meeting notes

Experimenting with Excerpt/Insert Excerpt macros

2025-04-23

Updates from the field:

• Getting Started with LC BIBFRAME in Alma session on 4/22, hosted by ELUNA/IGeLU Linked Open Data Community of Practice Working Group.

  • Recording

  • Melanie’s notes from meeting.

  • Several resources shared ahead of the meeting:

    • “Using the Ex Libris API Console: Adding, Updating, and Deleting BIBFRAME records “by the each” (Healther Pretty, Memorial University of Newfoundland) -- [video, 22 minutes]

      • Using the Ex Libris API Console (slides)

    • “Discussion on Importing BIBFRAME with the Alma API Jupyter Notebook” (Jim Hahn, University of Pennsylvania)  -- [video, 15 minutes]

    • “Importing BIBFRAME into Alma with Python” (Stefan Schuh, Austrian Library Network and Service Ltd.) -- [Python code on GitHub]

  • Additionally, if you’d like to explore the features mentioned in the resources above in your own Alma environment, you'll need to:

    • Enable BIBFRAME features following instructions outlined in the “Enabling BIBFRAME Features” document

    • Set up an API Key (instructions are in this slide presentation)

Open data presentation by Michael Shensky and Bryan Gee, UT Libraries Research Data Services

• Slides

• Example of open data: Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

User study on the Primo Person card and page presentation by Irene Sibi, HRC FWS employee and UT iSchool student - Slides

2025-03-26

ALA Core Interest week

• Paloma and Elliot attended Jim Hahn’s session on the BIBFRAMinator

Resources from conversation about Linked Open Data

• https://www.navigating.art/about-us

• https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/lod/index.html

• https://www.ontotext.com/knowledgehub/fundamentals/linked-data-linked-open-data/

• https://linked.art/loud/

• https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/Linked_Data_Getty_Vocabularies.pdf

• https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html?_gl=1*uy2me7*_ga*MTMxMzExNjk3My4xNzQzMDE5NzU3*_ga_HGSKWBWCRK*MTc0MzAyMDM2NC4xLjAuMTc0MzAyMDM2NC4wLjAuMA