Keynote : Working the Data
- Starts at
- Wed, Oct 23, 2024, 09:00 EDT
- Finishes at
- Wed, Oct 23, 2024, 10:00 EDT
- Venue
- Auditorium
- Moderator
- Sam Oh
Working the Data: NLB Singapore’s perspective on moving the needle
It has been said that the first thing about innovation is to understand the pain points of customers. To innovate, a library needs its users wherever they may be. How to make this happen requires us to work with our data, whether metadata or content data to bring the library’s collections to its users, to extend our content reach by transforming data beyond the library’s collections and enable an experience that goes beyond mere transactional data. How have we transformed ourselves post-covid while maintaining trust and keeping touch with our humanity especially in the age of AI? With the world moving to experiential mode, to be relevant a library will need to engage its users in the realm of experience. Deepening knowledge discovery today increasingly means creating memories and enhancing learning with multi-modal presentations of content. From conversations with books to seeing books come to life, we are now working towards exploding the book or the concept of an expanded shelf using linked data. The talk will also include aspects of this change from the ground up looking at data modelling perspectives in creating a knowledge graph to power recommendations and the development of an entity data service.
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Haliza Jailani
National Library Board Singapore
Haliza Jailani is Senior Deputy Director/Senior Principal Librarian for Resource Discovery and Management at the National Library Board Singapore. She oversees a team of cataloguers and information professionals responsible for the bibliographic functions of NLB including cataloguing, metadata and ontology management, linked data and knowledge organisation systems.
In the early days of metadata harmonisation, Haliza created crosswalks based on Dublin Core metadata to enable metadata integration from libraries, archives and museums that formed the bedrock for OneSearch, Singapore’s cultural heritage search platform and the ASEAN Digital Library, an online resource on ASEAN heritage content. She is currently overseeing NLB’s technology refresh of its Linked Data Management System based on BIBFRAME and Schema.org.
Haliza has served in the International Federation of Library Association’s (IFLA) Linked Data Technical Sub-Committee and is now part of IFLA’s Bibliography Section, working in subgroups reviewing the Universal Bibliographic Control document and raising awareness on national bibliographies and new technologies. She is an RDA (Resource Description and Access) Board member, a standard that provides instructions and guidelines on formulating bibliographic data in the library world. She represents NLB in the DCMI Governing Board.
Moderator
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Sam Oh
Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea
Sam Oh is a distinguished professor for global affairs at Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea, and an affiliate professor at University of Washington iSchool. HIS expertise spans data modeling, metadata design, and ontology design. With funded projects and consultancy for various companies and government sectors, he held leadership roles such as a chair of iSchools, had tenure chairing both TC46/SC9 (Identification & Description) and ISO/IEC JTC1 SC34 (Document Description and Processing Languages). He is the executive director of Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI), the ambassador of iSchools, and chairs TC46/SC4 (Technical Interoperability).
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