Thompson 6-jun15-final
- 1. Deframing Derrida
Tim A. Thompson
Princeton University Library
@timathom
NISO Virtual Conference: BIBFRAME & Real World
Applications of Linked Bibliographic Data
June 15, 2016
Encoding Annotations from Rare Books and
Special Collections
- 2. Outline
1. Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
2. The Jacques Derrida Library at Princeton
3. Princeton’s LD4P project
4. Next steps with LD4P
- 4. Linked Data for Production (LD4P)
• Part of the LD4* family, under the Linked Data for Libraries
(LD4L) umbrella
• Multifaceted collaboration among six institutions:
• Led by Stanford, with Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, the Library of Congress, and
Princeton
• Connected to the LD4L Labs project (Cornell, Harvard, Iowa, and Stanford)
• Goals:
• Develop a new, distributed model for data exchange
• Extend core standards like BIBFRAME to cover specific domains
- 5. Linked Data for Princeton (LD4PUL)
• Four-person core group in Cataloging and Metadata Services,
plus two members from Rare Books and Special Collections
• Joined BIBFRAME Implementation Testbed in May 2014
• Participated in LD4P planning grant meetings in 2015
• Submitted subproject as part of LD4P project grant
- 7. Background
• In March 2015, Princeton
acquired the personal library
of Algerian-born French
philosopher Jacques Derrida
(1930-2004)
• Reflects a lifetime of
scholarship, intellectual work,
and active reading
• “I use a pencil to ill-treat the
book, to scribble, to underline,
to draw arrows” (p. 15)
Jacques Derrida.
Copyright ©2009 Pablo Secca. CC-BY 3.0.
- 8. Scope and content
• Nearly 19,000 published books and other items
• 5,897 items annotated by Derrida
• 6,770 items with personal dedications to Derrida
• Far-reaching pedagogical value:
• Literary criticism
• Translation theory
• Philosophy
• Religion (extensive and extensively annotated collection of works on Judaism)
- 9. Arrangement
• Original order was preserved to the extent possible
• Collection finding aid is divided into series and subseries based
on physical location in Derrida’s residence
• Items have been assigned a decimal identifier that indicates
their original shelf order in Derrida’s studio:
Maurice Blanchot. The Step Not Beyond
Identifier: 2.5.5.25 (M)
2 = Wall
5 = Case
5 = Shelf
25 = Position on shelf
(M) = Mezzanine
- 11. Dedications
“Downstairs were the books
I started being sent,
dedicated books. I don’t
throw any books away, and
I’m being sent quite a few,
more and more, in fact. So
all the dedicated books
stand together in
alphabetical order. There
are now many rooms full of
dedicated books” (p. 18)
- 13. Project goals
• Select 500 items with dedications, prioritizing selection of items
whose dedicators are deceased
• Create original metadata for each item using Linked Open Data
standards and vocabularies
• Convert related bibliographic data to BIBFRAME
• Integrate item-level entities with instance/manifestation-level
entities
• Produce a data set that can be used by students and scholars
- 15. Preproject and initial steps
• Selected 45 items with personal dedications
• Hand-coded (artisanal) RDF data using W3C Web Annotation
Model and Vocabulary as framework
• Developed exploratory queries
• Met with faculty stakeholder to discuss use cases
- 16. Modeling Annotations
• BIBFRAME 1.0 bf:Annotation class (removed from BF 2.0):
Resource that asserts additional information about other BIBFRAME resource.
• W3C Web Annotation Data Model (uses Open Annotation
vocabulary/namespace):
An Annotation is a web resource. Typically, an Annotation has a single Body,
which is a comment or other descriptive resource, and a single Target that the
Body is somehow “about”. The Annotation likely also has additional descriptive
properties.
- 18. Sample RDF for a dedication
<http://princeton.edu/derrida/resource/3.1.2.9>
a <http://www.w3.org/ns/oa#Annotation> ;
<http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator>
<http://viaf.org/viaf/66483274> ;
<http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/u/P60455>
<http://viaf.org/viaf/88958529> ;
<http://www.w3.org/ns/oa#hasBody>
<http://princeton.edu/derrida/resource/3.1.2.9/body1> ;
<http://www.w3.org/ns/oa#hasTarget>
<http://princeton.edu/derrida/resource/3.1.2.9/pageX> ;
<http://www.w3.org/ns/oa#motivatedBy>
<http://example.org/dedicating> .
# J. Hillis Miller
# has dedicatee
# Jacques Derrida
# has creator
- 19. Sample RDF in English
The resource identified by http://princeton.edu/derrida/resource/3.1.2.9
is an Open Annotation resource. It was created by J. Hillis Miller
(identified by http://viaf.org/viaf/66483274). The dedicatee of the
annotation is Jacques Derrida (identified by
http://viaf.org/viaf/88958529). The annotation has a body identified by
http://princeton.edu/derrida/resource/3.1.2.9/body1. The annotation has
a target identified by
http://princeton.edu/derrida/resource/3.1.2.9/pageX. The motive of the
annotation is dedicating.
- 20. Sample Query 1: link to DBpedia
SELECT ?anno ?creator2 ?label ?desc
WHERE
{
{
?anno dcterms:creator ?creator .
?creator skos:prefLabel ?label .
FILTER(?creator != <http://library.princeton.edu>)
}
{
SERVICE <http://dbpedia.org/sparql>
{
?creator2 owl:sameAs ?creator .
?creator2 dbp:shortDescription ?desc .
FILTER(regex(?desc, "philosopher", "i"))
FILTER(lang(?desc) = "en")
}
}
} ORDER BY ?label
# Find dedicators who were also philosophers.
- 21. Sample Query 1 results (partial)
anno creator2 label desc
http://library.princeto
n.edu/derrida/resourc
e/4.1.3.2
http://dbpedia.org/resour
ce/Louis_Althusser
Althusser, Louis,
1918-1990
French political
philosopher
http://library.princeto
n.edu/derrida/resourc
e/4.1.3.4
http://dbpedia.org/resour
ce/Louis_Althusser
Althusser, Louis,
1918-1990
French political
philosopher
http://library.princeto
n.edu/derrida/resourc
e/1.2.14.5
http://dbpedia.org/resour
ce/Pierre_Bourdieu
Bourdieu, Pierre,
1930-2002
French
anthropologist,
sociologist and
philosopher
http://library.princeto
n.edu/derrida/resourc
e/4.2.9.22
http://dbpedia.org/resour
ce/Jürgen_Habermas Habermas, Jürgen
German
philosopher
http://library.princeto
n.edu/derrida/resourc
e/4.2.9.26
http://dbpedia.org/resour
ce/Jürgen_Habermas Habermas, Jürgen
German
philosopher
- 22. Sample Query 2: link to GeoNames
SELECT ?anno ?title ?geo ?placeName ?dedication
WHERE
{
?anno oa:hasBody ?body .
?body oa:text ?dedication .
?anno oa:hasTarget ?page .
?page dcterms:isPartOf ?item .
?item bf:itemOf ?instance .
?instance schema:sameAs ?bfInstance .
?bfInstance bf:titleStatement ?title .
?bfInstance bf:publication ?provider .
?provider bf:providerPlace ?place .
?place bf:hasAuthority ?geo .
?place bf:label ?placeName .
}
ORDER BY ?placeName
# Find places of publication reconciled against GeoNames.org.
- 23. Sample Query 2 results (partial)
anno title geo placeName
http://library.princeto
n.edu/derrida/resourc
e/1.2.7.13
In the time of the
nations
http://sws.geonames.
org/4254679
Bloomington
http://library.princeto
n.edu/derrida/resourc
e/3.1.4.5
Daimon life :
Heidegger and life-
philosophy
http://sws.geonames.
org/4254679
Bloomington
http://library.princeto
n.edu/derrida/resourc
e/3.1.4.4
Barbarolexis :
medieval writing and
sexuality
http://sws.geonames.
org/4931972
Cambridge, Mass.
http://library.princeto
n.edu/derrida/resourc
e/3.1.2.22
Victorian subjects http://sws.geonames.
org/4464368
Durham
http://library.princeto
n.edu/derrida/resourc
e/1.1.11.24
Issues in
contemporary culture
and aesthetics
http://sws.geonames.
org/2751283
Maastricht
- 25. Sample Query 3: search for subjects
SELECT DISTINCT ?anno ?title ?subject ?dedication
WHERE
{
?anno oa:hasBody ?body .
?body oa:text ?dedication .
?anno oa:hasTarget ?page .
?page dcterms:isPartOf ?item .
?item bf:itemOf ?instance .
?instance schema:sameAs ?bfInstance .
?bfInstance bf:titleStatement ?title .
?bfInstance bf:instanceOf ?bfWork .
?bfWork bf:subject ?topic .
?topic bf:authorizedAccessPoint ?subject .
FILTER(regex(?subject, "literature", "i"))
}
ORDER BY ?title
# Find works about “literature.”
- 26. Sample Query 3 results (partial)
anno title subject dedication
http://library.princeto
n.edu/derrida/resourc
e/3.1.4.4
Barbarolexis :
medieval writing and
sexuality
French literature A Jacques Derrida,
dont la pensée me
nourrit, avec
affection. Alexandre
Leupin Baton Rouge,
le 24 avril 92
http://library.princeto
n.edu/derrida/resourc
e/3.1.4.4
Barbarolexis :
medieval writing and
sexuality
French literature--To
1500--History and
criticism
A Jacques Derrida,
dont la pensée me
nourrit, avec
affection. Alexandre
Leupin Baton Rouge,
le 24 avril 92
http://library.princeto
n.edu/derrida/resourc
e/3.1.4.4
Barbarolexis :
medieval writing and
sexuality
Latin literature,
Medieval and
modern
A Jacques Derrida,
dont la pensée me
nourrit, avec
affection. Alexandre
Leupin Baton Rouge,
le 24 avril 92
- 27. Web Annotation Model: Challenges
• Designed for Web resources, not “Real World Objects”
• Creator of oa:Annotation cannot be distinguished from the
creator of a physical annotation that’s being transcribed
• Levels of description:
• Original (handwritten) annotations
• Meta (cataloger-assigned) annotations
- 29. Next steps with LD4P
• Digitize cover, title page, dedication page(s):
• Surrogates for metadata creation
• Future demos or presentation platforms
• Collaborate with stakeholders and build on work done by
others:
• LD4P Rare Materials Ontology Extension group
• Princeton Digital Humanities project
• Archaeology of Reading project
- 30. LD4P Rare Materials Ontology group
• Participants from Columbia, Cornell, Princeton, and the Rare
Books & Manuscripts Section (RBMS) of ACRL
• Working to create a BIBFRAME-compatible extension for rare
materials and special collections
• Addressing different levels of description:
• Collection
• Item
• Page
- 31. Princeton Digital Humanities project
• Princeton Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) project
• First phase will focus on a selection of materials related to
Derrida’s 1967 work Of grammatology (De la grammatologie)
• Goals:
• Make related annotations available online
• Develop protocols and workflows for all of Derrida’s annotations
- 32. Archaeology of Reading project
• Collaboration among Johns Hopkins, University College
London, and Princeton
• Focused on early modern annotations and reading practices
• Has developed a detailed XML schema for encoding
annotations
• Schema includes terms for specifying physical characteristics
of annotations
- 33. References
Citation:
Derrida, Jacques. “Between the writing body and writing . . .” Interview with Daniel
Ferrer. In Origins of deconstruction. Edited by Martin McQuillan and Ika Willis.
Basingstoke, Great Britain: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Princeton LD4P project homepage:
http://library.princeton.edu/tsd/cams/ld4p
- 34. Image links
1. “Image from page 107 of ‘The Bell System technical journal’ (1922).”
https://www.flickr.com/photos/126377022@N07/14753502421/
2. “Jacques Derrida’s room of his published books in his home in Ris Orange,
France, 2001.”
http://andrewbush.net/Derrida%20Searle/pages/Jacques%20Derrida.html
3. “Image of the deceased French philosopher Jacques Derrida.”
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Derrida-by-Pablo-Secca.jpg
4. “Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library.”
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Firestone_Library_Princeton_front.jpg
5. Diagram from the Web Annotation Data Model specification.
https://www.w3.org/TR/annotation-model/
6. “Apollo 11 astronaut prepares to step onto the Moon.”
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/14391730544/