If you migrate the workflow... • A scalable linked data implementation workflow design
Channel: LD4
Date: 2021-07-21

If you migrate the workflow, you migrate the cataloger for free (mostly), ​Kevin Ford​​​
When it comes to the process of migrating catalogers from the Voyager environment to the Bibframe environment at the Library of Congress, it has proven effective to focus on identifying workflows, the various steps catalogers follow for each, and then migrating the workflow. It so happens that migrating the workflow a cataloger uses has the happy side-effect of migrating the cataloger too. And workflows, though there are slight differences, cut across cataloging divisions. For example, in a MARC environment, moving image catalogers perform copy cataloging just as those who catalog monographs. This presentation will describe how we are identifying workflows, interviewing catalogers about the steps each takes to fulfill a given workflow, and how we are implementing the workflows in the Bibframe environment. Special focus will be given to the ‘copy cataloging’ workflow as it is the most developed to date and because many of the steps deemed essential to copy cataloging are constituent to other, more complex workflows.

A scalable linked data implementation workflow design​, Bonita Pollock and Xiying Mi​​​
University of South Florida (USF) Libraries have been experimenting with linked data implementation to their digital collections for a couple of years. In this presentation, we want to discuss the attempts that we took to design a scalable workflow so that we could transform all of the digital collections into linked data in a more efficient way. We will share how we examine our collections, come up with data standardization strategies, design a data transformer that can ingest more diversified data, and leverage our collaboration with the Library and Information Science Program to educate and recruit the LIS students. This presentation showcases the USF libraries natural history digital collections, technology design for linked data implementation, and the manpower management for this project.