Improving searchability using Natural Language Processing and Wikidata The Python Natural Language Processing Toolkit and FastAPI form the foundation for new, major improvements in the searchability of various...

Longest technical blog post in a long time: using Natural Language Processing and Wikidata to improve searchability in numismatic projects. It is accompanied by slides from Friday's talk. Look for the video on YouTube soon. #classicsbluesky #LODLAM #lawdi numishare.blogspot.com/2026/01/impr...

National Library of Korea Opens 30 Million National Bibliography Records to the Public www.infodocket.com/2026/01/12/n... #libraries #opendata #lodlam

Sampo model, data services, and portals - Semantic Computing Research Group (SeCo)

#SampoSampo linked open data service and Knowledge Graph is used for searching and enriching linked data from related data sources, similar to VIAF.org linking entities (people, places, etc.) in the collections of national #libraries #LODLAM

Department of Classics at Cologne joins Nomisma More than 100 Seleucid and Ptolemaic coins from the Department of Classics at the University of Cologne have been integrated into the Helle...

The Department of Classics at the University of Cologne is the newest member of the Nomisma.org consortium, providing the first 100+ of their 12,000 coin collection to Ptolemaic and Seleucid Coins Online. numishare.blogspot.com/2025/10/depa... #classicsbluesky #lawdi #LODLAM

Art Institute of Chicago joins the numismatic Linked Open Data cloud The Art Institute of Chicago is the latest collection to join the growing international Nomisma.org Linked Open Data ecosystem, providing ...

The Art Institute of Chicago joins the Nomisma #LOD cloud, providing more than 200 Roman coins to Online Coins of the Roman Empire (with #IIIF and public domain licenses). numishare.blogspot.com/2025/07/art-... #lawdi #LODLAM #classicsbluesky

Samarian coinage added to Levantine Coins Online It had gone unannounced on this blog at the time, but in late March, 376 coin types from the upcoming  A Corpus of Samarian Coinage , by Ore...

The American Numismatic Society has added almost 200 coins to Levantine Coins Online. Almost half of all Samarian coin types (published in March) in the project are illustrated with at least one coin in the ANS collection. numishare.blogspot.com/2025/07/sama... #classicsbluesky #lawdi #lodlam

The Getty’s Provenance Index Makes More than 12 Million Records Publicly Available After a decade of redevelopment, the digital database includes records on art dealers, collectors, and the broader art trade.

The Getty’s Provenance Index Makes More than 12 Million Records Publicly Available www.artnews.com/art-news/new... (via ARTnews) ||| Learn More From The Getty www.getty.edu/news/getty-t... @getty.bsky.social #linkeddata #lodlam #libraries

Fascinating: a dive not just into the specifics of Québecois French, but also the practicalities and negotiations of life in a particular bilingual city. Wish I'd heard this before I went there for #LODLAM in 2013.

Nomisma.org Nomisma.org is a collaborative project to provide stable digital representations of numismatic concepts according to the principles of Linked Open Data.

Largest tranche of Greek numismatic data published to the Nomisma.org #SPARQL endpoint in 5+ years. Stay tuned for major announcement. #classicsbluesky #lawdi #LODLAM

Fantastic news: our project is joining the Linked Open Data cloud! Many thanks to @ewg118.bsky.social for making this possible!

#numismatics #lawdi #LODLAM

Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire joins the Linked Open Data cloud In a significant enhancement to the study of Roman imperial coinage, nearly 5,000 coin hoards from the Oxford Coin Hoards of the Roman Empir...

Thanks to an export from @gordien3a.bsky.social, almost 5000 coin hoards of the Roman Empire have been linked to about 14000 coin types in OCRE, greatly expanding geographic visualization, from Hadrian's Wall to India. numishare.blogspot.com/2025/02/coin... #lawdi #LODLAM #classicsbluesky

Vacancy! The #rijksmuseum is looking for a new Head of Collection IT. Do you dream about museum collection technology, linked open data, and AI to connect people with art and history? Check this out - rijksmuseum.nl/en/careers/vaca... 
#musetech #semweb #lod #lodlam #libtech #linkedart #fairglam

ANS Latin American department updated in Mantis Thanks to the hard work of Sami Norling, our contract data cleanup specialist, the Latin American department at the American Numismatic Soc...

The ANS's Latin American department has been migrated to CollectiveAccess and updated in our online database, Mantis. The department sees improved data quality with Geonames and Wikidata integration. Thanks to @saminorling.bsky.social for her work. numishare.blogspot.com/2024/11/ans-... #LODLAM

Harvard Art Museums added to BIGR Thanks to the work of Simon Glenn (Ashmolean Musem, Oxford) and Laure Marest (Harvard Art Museums), 19 coins from Harvard Art Museums have b...

19 Bactrian and Indo-Greek coins from Harvard Art Museums have been added into BIGR. numishare.blogspot.com/2024/11/harv... #LODLAM #lawdi #classicsbluesky

Any #LODLAM people over here yet?

Linked Data: OCLC Creates Uniform Resource Identifiers For Dewey Decimal Classification Numbers From OCLC: OCLC is unlocking the power of the Dewey Decimal Classification system to build an increasingly robust linked data infrastructure by creating uniform resource identifiers (URIs) for Dewey n...

Linked Data: OCLC Creates Uniform Resource Identifiers For Dewey Decimal Classification Numbers
www.infodocket.com/2024/08/15/l... #libraries #lodlam

Synchronising colonial heritage: a linked data approach Authors: Chris Dijkshoorn, Jauco Noordzij, Sjors de Valk Since the seventeenth century, the Netherlands had trading posts and colonies in Asia, Africa and North and South America. Throughout this peri...

Colonial Collections datahub in the Netherlands is being developed to trace the origins of objects and determine their current location. #lodlam #GLAMS
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Exploring Knowledge Graphs for Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts with SPARQL This article reports on research into the use of SPARQL for querying knowledge graphs, in the form of Linked Open Data triple stores, which relate to the history and provenance of medieval manuscripts...

Burrows, T., (2024) “Exploring Knowledge Graphs for Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts with SPARQL”, Open Library of Humanities 10(2). doi: doi.org/10.16995/olh... #lodlam #GLAMS #RDF #SPARQL

Implementing Linked Art in a Multi-Modal Database for Cross-Collection Discovery Yale University has implemented a knowledge graph based discovery system that brings together the various art, natural history, archival, conservation and bibliographic collections using Linked Open U...

Sanderson, R., (2024) “Implementing Linked Art in a Multi-Modal Database for Cross-Collection Discovery”, Open Library of Humanities 10(2). doi: doi.org/10.16995/olh... #lodlam #GLAMS

Reimagine descriptive infrastructure: dreaming and enacting change together - Hanging Together Learn how OCLC has applied principles from Reimagine Descriptive Workflows project to reimagine components of the OCLC linked-data ecosystem.

Reimagine descriptive infrastructure: dreaming and enacting change together via @oclcglobal.bsky.social #lodlam #linkeddata #libraries

OCLC Meridian makes it possible for libraries to create linked data that connect resources to the wider web | OCLC Introducing OCLC Meridian, a web application and set of APIs that libraries and other organizations that manage metadata for knowledge collections can use to create, curate, and connect linked data en...

OCLC Meridian = web application and APIs that libraries and other organizations can use to create, curate, and connect linked data entities #metadata #lodlam

An introduction to library linked data | OCLC We recently announced a comprehensive strategy to bring linked data into mainstream library cataloging workflows.

An introduction to library linked data #LODLAM #LinkedData #libraries

Queer Data Days - Wikidata Gender Diversity Project Event Virtual event welcoming a range of speakers investigating queer approaches to data and technology.

I'll be giving a talk about queering ontologies during #Wikidata WiGeDi Queer Data Days. It's free, but a bit early on the 17th for the PST people. Hope to see you there!!

#linkeddata #lodlam
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Zum Einstand hier die Jahresübersicht 2023 zum Stand der digitalen Objektdokumentation im Münzkabinett Berlin und den dazu verwendeten Normdaten: ikmk.smb.museum/news?lang=de... #LODLAM

this is such a cute explanation for the semantic web #lodlam

the details of which you can see in the contributor fields of individual terms.

Over the next six months we will continue working on more terms are thinking about how several multilingual versions of the Homosaurus will coexist.
#critcat #critlib #lodlam #glams

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Homosaurus 3.4 has been released; you can view it here: https://homosaurus.org/releases/show/2

It has over 500 new and changed terms, including the results of many collaborations (INTERACT, AVEN, Leather Archives and Museum, and more!) #critcat #critlib #lodlam #glams #rbms23

The Homosaurus International LGBTQ+ Linked Data Vocabulary Wants Your Help! Hello everyone! I'm here to introduce Bri, who is working with the The Homosaurus International LGBTQ+ linked data vocabulary. They are looking for help adding asexual and aromantic umbrella vocabulary to the project, and who better to ask than the community itself. The board has talked about thi...

www.asexuality.org/en/topic/259093-the-homo...

#lodlam #critcat #criticalcataloging #libcritcat

History - LC Linked Data Service: Authorities and Vocabularies | Library of Congress

for #2, the real subdivision, the bt's and such all work fine

so what's the deal with https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061212.html ? #askacataloger #lodlam

when I click into any narrower term in #1 like "design and history" the broader term does not go back into #1, it goes to #2.

But when the data is downloaded for #1 there are *no* narrower terms. It's present in skos:narrower but not in the json file #lodlam #cataloging