Join IIC Congress to discuss the LCD policy template
Next week, LCD will be contributing to the IIC Congress with a dedicated session and workshop on Conservation Data Policy. With contributions from the IIC, Icon and AIC we have drafted a policy template and primer for managing conservation data at departmental or institutional level.
The policy template can be found here: Conservation data policy template and primer. It is a short and practical document for which we would welcome feedback. It will be discussed at the IIC Congress next week session 10 on Friday the 6th Nov (see the programme here: https://www.iiconservation.org/congress/sites/iiconservation.org.congre…).
We urge consortium members to invite colleagues with conservation policy-making responsibilities to join the session. Separate registration for the session is required here:
https://forms.gle/N6CiJKoiGzSX5mgH9
Brigitte Hart will be taking over the Ligatus Twitter account during the IIC Congress so please interact online to spread the word as the Congress will be vibrant from a social media perspective.
Board re-attachment pilot
We are making progress with this year’s Linked Data pilot. The pilot working group has been meeting regularly. Colleagues from Stanford, Bodleian and Library of Congress have already done extensive work on analysing the terminology found in their records and aligning that with the Arts & Architecture Thesaurus.
Alberto Campagnolo and Ryan Lieu have been working on modelling records from the participating institutions to the CIDOC-CRM and we should soon be able to push processed records to our instance of ResearchSpace to build customised queries matching our pilot research questions.
The National Archives and the British Library have also joined the pilot with relevant records from their collection care departments. We are currently exploring the level of additional contributions we can process until the end of this phase.
Education workshop report
We have now published the report from the education workshop. This was pivotal in shaping the proposal for phase 3 of the project as it helped us prioritise the level of education support we needed to provide as a first step to the conservation community. The report can be found here: Education report
CIDOC-CRM Special Interest Group meeting
Stephen Stead and Athanasios Velios represented the consortium at the CRM SIG meeting in October. They presented recent work on handling negative statements such as “the book does not have tooling decoration” which have not been extensively explored. We are planning to publish a methodology for handling such statements alongside a dataset that Stephen has produced for testing relevant queries on positive and negative statements.
Linked Art
Continuing our collaboration with our sister project Linked Art, we have now provided some use cases coming from conservation but useful at a broader level to ensure that they are included in the current iteration of the Linked Art model which is also based on the CIDOC-CRM.
Update on phase 3
We are still waiting to hear from the funding bodies on whether our application for phase 3 has been successful. We will update the consortium as soon as we hear.
Thank you very much for your continuing support to LCD!