Category Archives: News

Improvements to our Network Visualization Tool

We recently made some big improvements to our Network Visualization Tool and we’re excited to share them.

API Powered

The visualization tool is now hooked up to our API, which means data from the Transcript Analyzer and the 52nd Street crowdsourcing tool are automatically pulled in to the network graph. So far this has resulted in the addition of over 700 names to the network.

Persistent URLs

You could always click on an individual in the network to see that person’s web of relationships. But now you can link to that person’s network through a persistent URL. Jane Jarvis’s network, for example, is located at http://linkedjazz.org/network/?person=Jane_Jarvis

Relationships in Context

The relationships in our network are defined by analyzing interview transcripts. You can now read the section of the interview transcript where one musician talks about another by simply hovering over a connected individual and clicking the View Transcript Text link. If that particular relationship was further defined through the crowdsourcing tool, you will see that information as well. And the Transcript Source link takes you to the institutional home of that particular oral history interview.

Hovering over Roy Eldridge in the Jane Jarvis network brings up this info box with a link to the relevant section of the interview transcript.

Gephi Links

To download any Linked Jazz graphs as GEXF network file for use in the Gephi network analysis program, look for the Gephi icon in the bottom right corner of your browser window.

Linked Jazz at the 48th Annual ARSC Conference

On May 16, Linked Jazz team member Bill Levay gave a presentation at the 48th Annual Conference of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections in Chapel Hill, NC.

UPDATE: This presentation is available as a PDF and as an MP3 audio recording.

Bay Area Digital Humanities

Team member Hilary Thorsen will be doing a lightning demonstration of the Linked Jazz 52nd Street crowdsourcing tool at the first meetup for Bay Area Digital Humanities at Stanford University.

NISO Webinar: Library Linked Data: From Vision to Reality

Linked Jazz’s Matt Miller will be presenting a talk during the NISO Webinar. This talk will review how the Linked Jazz Project converted oral history transcripts into a linked open dataset and the applications that process enabled. Matt will discuss the next steps of the project as the project begins linking its data with other institutions.

Linked Jazz at Digital Humanities 2013

Linked Jazz will be presenting at the Digital Humanities Conference in Lincoln, Nebraska on July 17. The presentation Linked Jazz 52nd Street: A LOD Crowdsourcing Tool to Reveal Connections among Jazz Artists will focus on the Linked Jazz 52nd Street crowdsourcing tool.

Linked Jazz at ALA

Team member Hillary Thorsen will be presenting on Linked Jazz at the Program of Cooperative Cataloging’s Participants Meeting at ALA on June 30th from 4:30-6pm at McCormick Place Convention Center E351. The presentation new and innovative projects featuring Linked Jazz, UPenn’s video catalog, future plans for the International Standard Name Identifier (ISNI), and web archiving as collection development at Columbia University.

Presentation on Linked Jazz at the Center for Jewish History

Linked Jazz team member Leanora Lange presented an introduction to Linked Jazz and Linked Open Data to staff and partners of the Center for Jewish History during the <em>Access and New Technologies Committee Session.</em>

Presentation on Linked Open Data for Digital Heritage at Columbia University

Linked Jazz Project Director Dr. Cristina Pattuelli presented her talk Linked Open Data for Digital Heritage: Opportunities and Challenges, at the Butler Library at Columbia University. The talk was sponsored by The Columbia Libraries Digital Humanities Center and the Digital Program Division and discussed the principles and methods of linked open data as well as the advantages and challenges of adopting a linked data approach to cultural data.

Linked Jazz is a finalist for the LODLAM Summit 2013 Challenge!

Linked Jazz has been selected among the three finalists from Heat 1 of the LODLAM Challenge. The finalists earn travel grants to the LODLAM Summit June 19-20, 2013 in Montreal. Our entry video is featured below:

Linked Jazz featured on the SemanticWeb.com Blog

Jennifer Zaino for the SemanticWeb.com Blog interviewed Christina Pattuelli on the process, purpose and future of the Linked Jazz project. The article focuses on the project’s tools with an emphasis on the powerful combination of crowdsourcing and Linked Data to illuminate meaningful connections between jazz musicians.