Day 1 Workshops – Student Learning Centre (SLC), Ryerson University
| Date/Time | Track 1 | Track 2 |
| 8:00 | Coffee and Registration. Launch Zone, SLC | |
| 8:30-9:30 | Introduction and Opening Talk | |
| 9:30 – 12:30
(concurrent sessions) |
Track 1. Session 1. SLC508
Introduction to LOD: The concepts of LODLAM, graphs, and RDF Workshop Instructor: Alison Hitchens, University of Waterloo |
Track 2. Session 1.SLC514
Micro-publishing linked open data on the Web Workshop Instructor: Dan Scott, Laurentian University |
| 12:30 -1:30 | Lunch on your own | |
| 1:30 – 4:30 | Track 1. Session 2. SLC514
Going from Theory to Practice: Preparing + Leveraging Linked Open Metadata with OpenRefine Workshop Instructor: Christina Harlow, Cornell University |
Track 2. Session 2. SLC514
Querying and linking data with SPARQL Workshop Instructor: Tom Johnson, DPLA |
Day 2: Talks/Community Building – Scott Library, York University
| 9:00 | Coffee |
| 9:30-11:30 | LODLAM discussion sessions |
| 11:30-12:00 pm | Lightning presentations |
| 12:00-1:00 pm | Lunch (provided) |
| 1:00-3:30 pm | LODLAM Cultural data Hackfest |
Session Descriptions:
Going from Theory to Practice: Preparing + Leveraging Linked Open Metadata with OpenRefine
Session Instructor: Christina Harlow, Cornell University
This interactive tutorial will walk you through taking existing metadata, enhancing it, then producing it as RDF. We will use OpenRefine, an open source tool for working with data, and the DERI RDF Extension for OpenRefine, to walk through this work. A little bit of time will be given to the data normalization features of OpenRefine – faceting, Clustering, GREL (Google Refine Expression Language). However, the real focus will be on how to leverage existing and produce your own RDF data. Reconciliation of entities with external SPARQL Endpoints and RDF datasets, along with RDF mapping and production, will be covered in depth. Other RDF data tools and projects of interest will be mentioned. Participants are strongly encouraged to install OpenRefine and follow along. More information here: https://github.com/LODLAM/LODLAMTO16/
Micro-publishing linked open data on the Web
Session Instructor: Dan Scott, Laurentian University
Description: Getting started with publishing linked open data can be easy: if you can edit a web page, you can also publish useful LOD! In this series of hands-on exercises, learn how to publish LOD about your institution just by adding a little extra machine-readable information to your web pages to describe your locations, opening hours, contact information, and events. You’ll also practice describing items in your collections, and linking those items back to your institution. These exercises will focus on the schema.org vocabulary and RDFa markup, although we’ll also touch on JSON-LD and the Open Graph Protocol. Bring a laptop, and get ready to tackle your institution’s web site!