Library Databases

Wikidata is a global collaboratively-edited knowledge base created by the Wikimedia Foundation. It was launched in 2012 to contain structured data (in the form of linked data) for use in other Wikimedia projects like Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons. This presentation will outline how Wikidata has been used in GLAM institutions around the world, how UVic Libraries has begun to integrate it into its archival and library metadata workflow, and discuss benefits and challenges related to Wikidata involvement.

The session is an overview of the systems team’s implementation of a full-text search discovery platform for our online BC Government Publications collection using VuFind.

In order to build and maintain a healthy community, members need to understand their past. The Transgender Archives at the University of Victoria Libraries is home to the world's largest collection of trans, nonbinary, Two-Spirit, and gender-diverse history. In December 2019, we proudly launched an online discovery tool to search our collection of publications, which include articles written by trailblazing community members, and historical events that shaped trans activism and history. In this presentation, Michael Radmacher (MLIS, MA) and Shahira Khair (M.Sc, MIS) will tell the story of this project, and will offer a demonstration of the new discovery tool.

Surfacing collections across Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) allows us to tell stories and share otherwise obscure specimens, artifacts, or records. A BC Digital Library has transformative potential to show complexity of people and places, amplify local collections, and to make our past available to help shape social discourse. But it must be built, and maintained into the future. A growing group of GLAM institutions are finding ways to get it done through radical collaboration. Join panelists for tales of prototyping across sectors, looming questions of metadata, and results of a pulse check on how the GLAM sector can collaborate.

Surfacing collections across Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM) allows us to tell stories and share otherwise obscure specimens, artifacts, or records. A BC Digital Library has transformative potential to show complexity of people and places, amplify local collections, and to make our past available to help shape social discourse. But it must be built, and maintained into the future. A growing group of GLAM institutions are finding ways to get it done through radical collaboration. Join panelists for tales of prototyping across sectors, looming questions of metadata, and results of a pulse check on how the GLAM sector can collaborate.

The Legislative Library of BC will share what the library is about, what it offers the public, and what it means to offer services in a special library. The presentations cover:
• an update on GALLOP (Government and Legislative Libraries Online Publications Portal), its recent user survey and future directions.
• a whirlwind tour of the its digital initiatives and systems projects, including projects aimed at its clients and the public.
The session will conclude with a Q&A.