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Plenary April 2026

Agenda

  1. Attendees and Apologies
  2. Previous minutes
  3. Welcoming and introduction to new members
  4. Action Items
  5. General business
  6. Presentations
    • Dr Rob Sanderson: Linked Open Usable Data and Lessons Learned from Yale's LUX
  7. Next meeting details

Minutes

1. Attendees and Apologies

Chair: Nick
Scribe: Nick

Attendees:

Nicholas Car
Rob Sanderson
Ben Norton
Andrew Fitzgerald
Anne Goldsack
Anurag Katariya
Enzhen Luo
Grant White
Javier Sanchez Gonzalez
Joseph Guiiaume
Len Smith
Les Kneebone
Margie Smith
Megan Wong
Melindia Hodkiewicz
Melroy Almeida
Mieke Strong
Philip D'Rosario
Sergioa Rodriguez Mendez
Steven De Costa

2. Previous minutes

See https://github.com/AGLDWG/meeting-minutes/blob/master/plenary-2026-03-05.md

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3. Welcoming and introduction to new members

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4. Action Items

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5. General business

6. Presentations

Dr Rob Sanderson: Linked Open Usable Data and Lessons Learned from Yale's LUX

Abstract: Over the past five years, Yale University has built an innovative knowledge graph that connects its libraries, archives and museums into a single discovery platform, advancing the university’s core missions of teaching and research excellence. Without changing data creation practices or introducing new systems of record, we were able to put into production a freely accessible graph of more than 2.5 billion triples, around 42 million records, using existing semantic standards for interoperability. However, in doing so, we had to call into question some of the core principles of linked open data and focused on practical solutions through data and platform usability. Expectations around usability are rapidly changing in the current environment, and Yale is investing in AI-powered solutions that provide additional functionality and ease of use.  

This discussion will introduce LUX and how we built it, delving into some of the lessons learned around data transformation and enrichment, how documents and the graph can coexist, and how generative AI can improve end user access to the knowledge that we manage and preserve. While Yale’s system manages cultural knowledge, the implications and best practices can be easily applied across domains and technologies. Beyond the technology and functional improvements, working together across previously siloed databases and teams dramatically improved internal culture from competition to one of collaboration.

Bio: Dr Robert Sanderson is the Senior Director for Digital Cultural Heritage at Yale University, where he works with the libraries, archives and museums to ensure that data and other digital efforts are coherent and connected. He is the principal architect for Yale’s cross-collection discovery system, LUX, which is built on the Linked Art specifications, for which he is an editor. He is also an editor for the IIIF specifications, was the co-chair and editor for JSON-LD and the Web Annotation data model in the W3C. He has previously worked at the Getty in Los Angeles, Stanford University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the University of Liverpool. His current areas of work and research are at the intersections of cultural heritage, knowledge graphs, data usability and generative AI.

LUX online at https://lux.collections.yale.edu

7. Next meeting details

  • Thursday, 7th of May
  • Possible extra event meetings