{"id":10,"date":"2021-01-04T10:01:13","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T10:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/reconciliation\/?p=10"},"modified":"2021-01-04T10:01:17","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T10:01:17","slug":"supporting-reconciliation-from-a-library-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/reconciliation\/2021\/01\/04\/supporting-reconciliation-from-a-library-perspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Supporting reconciliation from a library perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve recently had the opportunity to briefly present our Community Group and what we do in a lightning talk at <a href=\"http:\/\/swib.org\/swib20\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">SWIB20<\/a>, this years iteration of the annual (and this year digital) Semantic Web in Libraries conference (<a href=\"https:\/\/slides.lobid.org\/2020-swib-reconciliation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">slides<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_57qdo5Vyek\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">video<\/a>):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"W3C Entity Reconciliation CG\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_57qdo5Vyek?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>OpenRefine, and in particular its reconciliation feature, are widely used in the library world, where <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Authority_control\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">authority files<\/a> are an established part of traditional cataloging workflows. Early reconciliation data sources for <a href=\"https:\/\/journal.code4lib.org\/articles\/11013\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">library use cases<\/a> include <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/lawlesst\/fast-reconcile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">FAST<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/iphylo.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/reconciling-author-names-using-open.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">VIAF<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.lyrasis.org\/display\/VIVO\/Extending+Google+Refine+for+VIVO\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">VIVO<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our <a href=\"http:\/\/lobid.org\/team-en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Open Infrastructure<\/a> team at hbz is offering a <a href=\"https:\/\/lobid.org\/gnd\/reconcile\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reconciliation service<\/a> for the Integrated Authority File (GND). The GND is the main authority file in the German-speaking library field. It contains persons and corporations, subject headings, geographical entities, events, and works. With our reconciliation service, we&#8217;re building a bridge from a traditional library dataset to new applications within and outside the library domain, e.g. in the (German-speaking) <a href=\"https:\/\/slides.lobid.org\/dhc-2020\/#\/100\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">digital humanities<\/a>.  This complements the general development of the GND in recent years, especially within the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnb.de\/EN\/Professionell\/ProjekteKooperationen\/Projekte\/GND4C\/gnd4c_node.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">GND4C project<\/a>, of opening up organizational structures, processes, data models, and tooling of the GND to other cultural heritage institutions like archives and museums.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Besides services, the library world is also the source of new clients that interact with services using the reconciliation API. Two of the <a href=\"https:\/\/reconciliation-api.github.io\/census\/clients\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">known clients<\/a> are from the library domain: <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/jweisman\/alma-refine\/wiki\/Help#introduction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">AlmaRefine<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/coli-conc.gbv.de\/cocoda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cocoda<\/a>. Managing, identifying, and connecting entities is at the very core of librarianship, making it an ideal field for the goals of our Community Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Therefore, I&#8217;m very happy to join Antonin <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.w3.org\/Archives\/Public\/public-reconciliation\/2020Dec\/0003.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">as co-chair<\/a> of our group. I&#8217;m looking forward to help advancing and promoting our goal of a common protocol for data matching on the Web, both in the library field and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently had the opportunity to briefly present our Community Group and what we do in a lightning talk at SWIB20, this years iteration of the annual (and this year digital) Semantic Web in Libraries conference (slides, video): OpenRefine, and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/reconciliation\/2021\/01\/04\/supporting-reconciliation-from-a-library-perspective\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16382,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/reconciliation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/reconciliation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/reconciliation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/reconciliation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/reconciliation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/reconciliation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/reconciliation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/reconciliation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/reconciliation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/reconciliation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}