Organised by AUB University Libraries and AMICAL Consortium 

April 21, 2020

10:00 - 11:00: Proposed Method to Link Bibliographic Data to Open Linked Data/ Guest Speaker, Esraa el-Sayed (Bibliotheca Alexandrina)

11:00-11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 -12:30 Toward Smarter Libraries and Digitizing Collective Intelligence / Dr. Joe Tekly (LAU)

12:30 -1:30 Linked Data Tools for Libraries (1), MARCedit, XML/ Omar Farhoud Library Information Systems Manager, Ghenwa Wehbeh Senior Assistant Librarian - Acquisitions (LAU Libraries)

1:30-2:30 Lunch Break

2:30-4:00 Linked Data search using SPARQL / Dr. Shady El-Bassiuni (AUB Department of Computer Science)

April 22, 2019

9:00-10:00: A Discovery Layer for the Library OPAC: Supporting Linked Data and Web Visibility / Wajdi Tahmoush (Arabian Advanced Systems for Knowledge Management and Information Technology).

10:00-10:30 Coffee Break

10:30-12:30 Linked Data Tools for Libraries (2), RDF in Libraries / Omar Farhoud Library Information Systems Manager, Ghenwa Wehbeh Senior Assistant Librarian - Acquisitions (LAU Libraries)

12:30-1:00 Library tour

1:00-2:00 Lunch Break

2:00- 3:00 Q&A session by Esraa el-Sayed

3:00-4:00 (remote presentation) Link Data Tools MarcEdit (very briefly), oXygen, OpenRefine, and a couple of script languages/ Professor MYUNG-JA (MJ) K. HAN Head, Acquisitions and Cataloging Services University Library | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign