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<b id="gmail-m_6812670002501717735gmail-docs-internal-guid-7fce3a1a-d6e1-40e5-fde0-ae0c3cb0dcfc" style="font-size:12.8px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-weight:normal"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear colleagues:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Controlled Vocabularies Group has provisionally partnered with the Library of Congress Linked Data Service (LDS) to host the Rare Books and Manuscripts soon-to-be integrated controlled vocabulary. We are soliciting community feedback about this partnership and the requisite project specifications. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">

<b id="gmail-m_6812670002501717735gmail-docs-internal-guid-7fce3a1a-d6e1-40e5-fde0-ae0c3cb0dcfc" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12.8px;font-weight:normal"></b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><b id="gmail-m_6812670002501717735gmail-docs-internal-guid-7fce3a1a-d6e1-40e5-fde0-ae0c3cb0dcfc" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;white-space:normal;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;font-size:12.8px;font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Additional details and answers to some frequently asked questions have been posted to our blog <a href="http://rbms.info/cv-comments/2018/07/26/frequently-asked-questions-library-of-congress-linked-open-data-hosting-solution/">here</a>.</span></b></p><br><p></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Brief project specifications:</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:11pt;list-style-type:disc;font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CVEG will maintain editorial control of the vocabularies and will provide routine data dumps to LC LDS. The frequency of these updates remains to be determined.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:11pt;list-style-type:disc;font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Data formats and transformation responsibilities are still in process; tentatively, LC has offered to transform our native XML data (exported from MultiTes, the current database maintenance software) with each update</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:11pt;list-style-type:disc;font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">LC LDS will provide hosting, including a searchable interface and a linked data service. The search interface will resemble existing <a href="http://id.loc.gov/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">id.loc.gov</a> vocabularies, such as LCGFT.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:11pt;list-style-type:disc;font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Concurrently, the existing </span><a href="http://rbms.info/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">rbms.info</span></a><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> site will be retired, avoiding confusion about stable URIs.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:11pt;list-style-type:disc;font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Integration and reorganization efforts are continuing (with ample opportunities for community feedback planned). Implementation will necessarily take place after integration is complete.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:11pt;list-style-type:disc;font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(34,34,34);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The CVEG is developing a plan for archiving the un-integrated vocabularies and making them available for download. The group plans to provide mapping spreadsheets for deleted and changed terms, as well as a spreadsheet containing the new term and the previous term + qualifier. This will assist those institutions that have been applying qualifiers according to the existing application instructions with authority control when transitioning to the new resource.</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please let us know what you think either by responding to the list, commenting on the blog, or e-mailing the co-editors at </span><a href="mailto:brownbbz@bc.edu" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">brownbbz@bc.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> or <a href="mailto:rhilde@uoregon.edu" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">rhilde@uoregon.edu</a>.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sincerely,</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Amy Brown & Ryan Hildebrand, co-editors,</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">on behalf of the Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p></b>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Amy F. Brown<div>Special Collections Technical Services, Head</div><div>John J. Burns Library</div><div>140 Commonwealth Avenue</div><div>Chestnut Hill, MA  02467</div><div>617-552-8124</div></div></div>
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