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L.P. Coladangelo

PhD Candidate, Communication and Information, Kent State University
Catalog Project and Data Manager, Digital Scriptorium

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Brief Biography

L.P. Coladangelo (he/him) is a doctoral candidate in the College of Communication and Information at Kent State University in Kent, Ohio. He also currently serves as Project and Data Manager of the Digital Scriptorium (DS) Catalog, a project to redevelop a national union catalog of premodern manuscripts in North American collections as Linked Open Data. He holds an MLIS from Kent State University’s School of Information and a BA from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York. His current research interests include knowledge organization of cultural heritage, metadata, information representation of folk traditions, digital humanities, semantic technologies, and the information and organizational behaviors of cultural heritage and leisure communities of practice. He currently serves as a doctoral student representative on the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Education Committee, the Kent State University Libraries Faculty Senate Advisory Council and the Kent State University Libraries Student Advisory Council. He is also a member of the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO), the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), the American Library Association (ALA), the Ohio Library Council (OLC), and the Kent State Communication Graduate Student Association (CGSA). He is formerly a member of the Kent State Graduate Student Senate (GSS), the Kent State iSchool Curriculum Committee, and the Kent State iSchool Graduate Student Advisory Council (GSAC).

In 2021, L.P. was selected as an LIS Education And Data Science Integrated Network Group (LEADING) Fellow, developing and implementing a semantic enrichment project for the Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts (SDBM) Name Authority. This research created a linked data network between named entities in the SDBM and Wikidata to leverage both knowledge bases simultaneously, aiding scholars studying the trade of premodern manuscripts. Portions of this work have been presented at the 2021 Metadata and Semantics Research (MTSR) Conference and the 2022 American Philosophical Society (APS) Open Data Conference.

Disclosure related to Paid Editing and Conflicts of Interest

As a researcher of semantic technologies and linked data and a developer of knowledge organization systems affiliated with Kent State University, Digital Scriptorium, and the University of Pennsylvania, I acknowledge that my academic institutions and their researchers are also consumers/users, and thus beneficiaries, of Wikidata. While these institutions benefit from my work, they do so alongside all other academic institutions and the general public. When editing to make contributions to Wikidata, it is with the general improvement of the knowledge base in mind as the goal. Because my research and work is supported by the above institutions, in the interest of transparency, I am disclosing their relationship to me, although I believe their general support for my work does not constitute a conflict of interest for my contributions to Wikidata.