Linked Jazz will be hosting a Wikipedia edit-a-thon event with the Jazz Education Network as part of JEN’s 8th Annual Conference in New Orleans. The event will center on New Orleans women in jazz and related styles, working to fill the gaps of Wikipedia’s coverage of musicians who are women. While conference registration is required to attend the event, we welcome contributions from remote editors!
Date: Friday, January 6, 2017
Time: 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
#WomenOfJazz
We are pleased to announce that Hilary Thorsen and Cristina Pattuelli have published a chapter in the recent book Linked Data for Cultural Heritage (edited by Ed Jones and Michele Seikel) titled Linked Open Data and the Cultural Heritage Landscape. The volume includes chapters from an excellent set of contributors focused on linked data in the context of libraries, archives, and museums. See the details from Facet Publishing.
Linked Jazz Director Dr. Cristina Pattuelli has received a grant from the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation to support the development of a core linked open dataset representing Louisiana-based jazz artists.
The work will be undertaken by the Linked Jazz team in collaboration with the Tulane University Digital Library, a unit of the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library of Tulane University, and will include resources from the Hogan Jazz Archives.
This is an exciting opportunity to expand the research of the Linked Jazz Project to the rich history and connections of the New Orleans jazz community.
Dr. Cristina Pattuelli and Matt Miller recently taught an intensive summer school course on Linked Open Data for Cultural Heritage at the University of Bologna, Department for Cultural Heritage, Ravenna Campus – May 16-20, 2016. The course focused on the principles and techniques of Linked Data as applied to cultural heritage institutions. Check out the course website, including an outline of course topics.
We are pleased to announce that Linked Jazz Director Dr. Cristina Pattuelli has been awarded the 2016 Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation-JEN Research Fellowship at the Smithsonian to support the project Women of Jazz: From the Archives to the Web of Jazz Data. The Fellowship will allow our team to build upon and expand our research on the incredible yet often overlooked contributions of women in jazz.
The EFCF-JEN Research Fellowship is generously supported by the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation and the Jazz Education Network.
We’ve been experimenting with new ways to explore our relationship network, adding attributes to musicians the linked data way. The results of our first test launched today with a new gender view. What does gender distribution look like across interviews in our network? Who are the most talked about women and men? What can be gleaned about gender relationships in the jazz world? We hope by adding attributes, users and researchers can begin to pose new questions to our dataset. Take a look.
Read about the three different query techniques used to collect gender data from the LOD cloud, from DBpedia, MusicBrainz, and VIAF.
Project Director Cristina Pattuelli is speaking on a panel at the Radcliffe Workshop on Technology and Archival Processing. The session, entitled Connections and Context: A Moderated Conversation about Archival Processing for the Digital Humanities Generation, explores how new research methods in big data, born-digital, and digitized materials can improve access and context in archives. The workshop is taking placing April 4-5. Follow the conversation at #radtech16.
Karen Hwang, Molly Reese-Lerner, and Hannah Sistrunk will be speaking at the Pratt School of Information Speakeasy, a talk series presented by the Pratt SI student chapter of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) on March 23 (6pm) at the Pratt Manhattan campus in New York City. They will be presenting on their ongoing research as part of the Linked Jazz Project to develop methodologies for working with Linked Data including semantic enrichment of the Linked Jazz social network with gender data and gender-driven visualization views and Linked Data integration with Carnegie Hall jazz performance data.
Our team has published a new paper in the Controlled Vocabularies and the Semantic Web Special Issue of the Journal of Library Metadata — available open access. Authored by Cristina Pattuelli, Alexandra Provo, and Hilary Thorsen, this paper explores the process of creating ontologies in the Linked Open Data landscape and describes the methodological steps in building an ontology as exemplified by the knowledge representation requirements of Linked Jazz.
Check out the Papers & Presentations page of this site for access to more of our work.
Diagram of the Linked Jazz conceptual model.
Karen Hwang will be joining the Practical Application of Linked Data Session at the Music Library Association Conference in Cincinnati, OH on March 4th at 9:00am to talk about Linked Jazz and music-related Linked Open Data.
Watch a video of the session saved from MLA’s live stream of the event.
