Community-building through international collaboration on multilingual LOD vocabulary
Title: Community-building through international collaboration on multilingual LOD vocabulary: Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging
Presented by: Nathalie Guénette and Trang Dang, Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN)
Date: Monday November 4, 2024.
Abstract - The Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) will present the Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging project, a LOD vocabulary used by museums to index and access their collections. We will describe how Nomenclature has leveraged LOD to enhance the dataset through co-referencing with other LOD vocabularies, and has developed LOD features to make it easier for museums to implement the vocabulary within their collections management systems. Development is driven by the museum community, with Nomenclature users continuously making submissions to the Nomenclature Committee for the addition of new terms and alterations to existing terms. We will describe the community-building aspects of this multilingual, international project: the governance, and how the various committees and language communities work together to include terminology in Spanish, French, Inuktitut (an Inuit language), and Canadian regional terms. Nomenclature will continue to respond to the needs of the community, through terminology review, modernized conventions, technological improvements, and inclusion of terms for Indigenous concepts and in Indigenous languages.
Speaker Bios:
Nathalie Guénette obtained her diploma in Museology Techniques from Montmorency College in Laval in 1997. She worked at the Cinémathèque québécoise, where she documented and digitized photographs, posters and archive records. In 1999, she joined the Canadian Museum of Civilization (now the Canadian Museum of History), where she held various positions in photographic archives and documentation of objects. There, she developed her expertise in cataloguing and in developing documentation standards.
She joined the Canadian Heritage Information Network in 2017. Previously, she was responsible for the French translation of the Spectrum 5.0 standard. She is also the Chair of the Canadian for Nomenclature and the Senior Editor of the Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging standard.
Trang Dang holds a Bachelor of Applied Finance from Macquarie University (Australia) and a Master of Library and Information Studies from the University of British Columbia. Before joining the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN), she was an intern in the Department of Collection and Content Management Systems of the J. Paul Getty Trust. During this time, she developed a keen interest in information architecture and data management in the cultural heritage sector. Since she joined CHIN in 2020, her work has mainly focused on the documentation, technology and implementation of a semantic model for cultural heritage data.