Functioning at 50% power at the moment but @Columbia you are a sight for sore eyes! Great view for the #BudLOD19 workshop with Tsadra Foundation and BDRC #Tibet #CollectionsDocumentation 
What a treat to have @alexisrossi from @internetarchive give the keynote. What an inspirational model for Tibetan and Buddhist collections. My research has been made possible by the many early 20th colonial travelogues / ethnographies scanned and made freely available by this org
Now @alexisrossi talking through author data and how #LOD can help with accurately matching and locating authors who have multiple ways of being referenced #BudLOD19
“Open is better” @alexisrossi shows how #LOD brings more people to you data but also ... start now don’t wait for perfect
#LOD makes new research possible. Make data open to new creative networks you do not even know exist right now. Thanks @alexisrossi #BudLOD19
Great question from @AndrewQuintman how do you future proof? @alexisrossi Critical point, protect your media (keep it with the metadata) so it is future proofed @internetarchive had to reformat 1 million films when iPhone 4 released so could be watched on phone
Yay for @alexisrossi -3 questions from men in the audience and Alexis asked if any women in the room have a question (learning some chairing tools too) and guess what they do!
Now Melanie Wacker going through the basic terminology and I am so grateful for this Record vs Graph .. now in museum world we use/think about relational databases but not with this terminology, interesting for me to think how library / museums can come together #BudLOD19
Yes to all this, especially the breaking out of silos and helping audiences make sense of us as a field of study #BudLOD19
V. Important point - how do we link collectors and collections across the world so they are mapped and visible in Google searches for eg.
Wacker gives us a framework for getting there, so much to churn over this afternoon
Now some case studies: @Translate84000 first up who at an early stage already translated 1.2 words into English Challenges not just translating but the declining numbers of those learned in classical languages and able to do the transmission work #BudLOD19
Now @treasuryoflives an exemplar in the field at the moment Alex Gardener presenting on this #BudLOD19
Shows how working with BDRC data is supporting @treasuryoflives and linking and updating between the two sites #BudLOD19
Mapping out Bio Data which builds potential to build new vocational networks
With visual culture data embedded into images. Amazing mapping work undertaken by the team. 🤔 I really need to rethink @World_Museum Tibet collection data 😬
Really important question, who decides on the authority of the data who decides if data is accurate. Lots to think about in terms of contested histories and biography #BudLOD19
Looking closely at Place & Gazetteers in the after lunch lecture with Karl Grossner @kgeographer and the work of Linked Pasts Network and how #BudLOD19 links to this work
Also @kgeographer thinking about how we can ‘temporally scope’ a Place critical for #Tibet This is a question I have been battling with for several year with @NML_Muse collections database #BudLOD19
