Modeling Works in BIBFRAME
BIBFRAME, the works cataloging ontology from Library of Congress, promises to improve catalog accessibility and accuracy by storing metadata as linked data. In the below examples, I show the results of my effort to effectively catalog as BIBFRAME the Hackett Publishing instance of the Tao Te Ching, which is an original translation. The existing entries at id.loc.gov have several problems: a later version of the work, published by Shambala, is listed as a separate work with its own instance rather than a new instance of the same work; several discrepancies exist between the two work entries; neither work refers to the appropriate work hub, that is, the original Chinese text.
My updated work/instance file below more thoroughly describes the work and Hackett instance. The work description would replace the two existing works on id.loc.gov, the LOC Hackett instance would be updated to match mine, and both the Hackett and Shambala instances would be linked to my new work description.
Modeling Name Authority in MADS, SKOS & BIBFRAME
While analyzing the links for my Tao Te Ching entry, it was clear that the authority entry for Stephen Addiss, the artist and translator who worked on the book, needed additional information. In particular, there are no links to his most well-known works, including the Tao Te Ching. I used the BIBFRAME Extension (bflc) vocabulary to record references to these works to enhance description and information retrieval.
Digital Archiving with DACS/EAD
I created this archive of Alan Justad's emails for Seattle Municipal archives. I used ePADD software to initially organize the thousands of emails using machine learning functionality, performed weeding and other manual reorganization activities, and described its series and sub-series prior to publishing using DACS/EAD.
I was on a team of librarians that adapted and refined metadata standards for SDSU's Institutional Data Project, part of the LOC's Program for Cooperative Cataloging. We created proxy authority records for SDSU faculty. I applied the standard to hundreds of Wikidata authority records and made recommendations for modifications based on existing Wikidata property definitions and available source data. The below page also contains links to several SPARQL queries I wrote that extract data and statistics from the Wikidata record set.
Here are some example of resource descriptions I've done using traditional encoding standards.