Our NFDI4DS Lecture Series continues with Lecture 13 on 24. February 2026 9:00 online.
Title: Back to basics: cataloguing standards as an enabler for knowledge graphs and AI
Cataloguing methodology relates to the implementation of a suite of standards organised into four layers: principles, models, rules, and formats. Selecting a standard for each layer profoundly impacts the final bibliographic dataset (referred to as a Library Catalogue) affecting its completeness, granularity, consistency, timeliness, and even shareability. This presentation aims to enrich data scientists’ toolkits with long-proven data management practices that have been implemented by the cataloguing community since the late 19th century.
Speaker: Sofia Zapounidou
Dr. Sofia Zapounidou is a metadata specialist currently serving as the Team Leader for Metadata & Identifiers at the Publications Office of the European Union. She is the Chair of the IFLA Bibliographic Conceptual Models Review Group and a member of the IFLA Cataloguing Section. She has also served as a member of the LIBER Linked Open Data Working Group and the University of Washington MARC2RDA Project. Her research interests lie in semantic interoperability, bibliographic models, future-ready library data, linked data, Semantic Web, and exploring the intersection of AI with knowledge graphs. She has contributed to numerous academic publications and participated in national and international conferences sharing her insights on creating future-ready data, effective metadata management, cataloguing policies, transformation of legacy MARC records into linked data, all while fostering semantic interoperability across varied bibliographic models.
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