Penn Libraries presents the work and research of our Library Staff. Our November 17th event featured:

Clair Johnson, Head of Library Research, and Joe Zucca, Associate University Librarian for Impact Assessment & Organizational Analysis, hosted discussion on the Penn Libraries Annual Unit Reports 2021 analysis.

Jim Hahn, Head of Metadata Research, presented his Semantic Web conference presentation titled, Semi-automated methods for BIBFRAME work entity description.

Describing library resources with the BIBFRAME vocabulary and its core entities of Work, Instance, and Item is a resource intensive process. Cataloging in linked data RDF editors with BIBFRAME involves careful selection of, and referencing to, external authority entities. Creating external authoritative links is essential to produce an accurate context while describing the BIBFRAME Work entity in an RDF editor.
This presentation will report an investigation of machine learning methods for the semi-automated creation of a BIBFRAME Work entity description within the RDF linked data editor Sinopia. ... Semi-automation as a potential integration target is in contrast to completely automated cataloging and is a very specific use of machine learning. In this work automation was used as a way to support, not replace, professional expertise.