Linked Data Enlightenment: Lessons Learned through LUX

Presentation given for the UC Berkeley School of Information on March 1st, 2024 about the linked data lessons learned through the design and implementation of LUX, Yale's discovery portal, that provides unified digital access to the collections of its museums, libraries and archives. It features 12 lessons learned, in the categories of data usability, technology and data modeling. Several of the lessons run counter to popular theory, including not having a SPARQL endpoint, that inference is dangerous, and that reuse of predicates across ontologies is both illogical and impractical.

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