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I will present a work in progress, the âBIBFRAMINATORâ browser plugin designed to enrich the Penn Libraries Catalog by integrating author knowledge cards. This plugin leverages the Share-VDE APIs to populate data about authorsâ BIBFRAME works, providing users with a comprehensive view of an authorâs contributions. Inspired by the SQID appâs framework, the plugin also incorporates biographical information from Wikidata, offering a succinct view of the authorâs background along with the authorship clusters. The plugin is intended to support user tasks of author disambiguation in the Find catalog.
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I will present:
Chatbot assistant for searching the Finna.fi LAM discovery portal
authors: Unni Kohonen, Saga Jacksen, Osma Suominen
Finna.fi is a search service that collects material from hundreds of Finnish cultural heritage organisations under one roof. It is a heavily customized version of VuFind and provides a faceted search user interface for accessing the nearly 19 million records currently in Finna. It is very widely used, with several millions of visits per year.
However, the advanced search facilities available in Finna may not always be intuitive especially for new users. We have created an experimental chatbot-style user interface that translates natural language questions such as âwhat kind of mittens are in finnaâ or âcan you find reports related to carbon sequestrationâ into search queries and facet selections for Finna using a large language model (currently OpenAI gpt-4o-mini) and shows the results within the same user interface. The current prototype system can translate such questions into search queries with some success. We are currently analyzing the results of the experiment and in the next phase, assuming we receive additional funding, we will start planning how such a facility could be deployed to at least a subset of Finna users.
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I would like to speak about âNorthwestern Universityâs Wikidata Workflow Experiment,â where in September 2024 we decided to try making 2-4 hours a week of Wikidata work a regular part of our NACO catalogersâ workflows. Iâll touch on our reasoning for this experiment, how it was implemented, how the first 3 months have gone, and future goals.
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Here are my slides: link
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The experimental plugin is available here for anyone who would like to try it out: BIBFRAMinator â Get this Extension for đŚ Firefox (en-US)
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