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The Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group (NRMIG) would like to announce their sponsored programs at ALA Annual 2009:

Program:

Workflow Tools for Automating Metadata Creation and Maintenance

Saturday, July 11th, from 10:30 a.m. - 12:00 noon. Sponsored by ALCTS, co-sponsored by LITA.

As digital projects become less peripheral and more integral to library operations, institutions must begin to address the implications of this change. With the increasing amount of digital content libraries are expected to create and maintain, data curation has emerged as a key objective. Intended for librarians who are involved with the development and management of metadata, this session will present examples of current work and discussion opportunities for collaborative development of tools among institutions.

Speakers: Jenn Riley, Metadata Librarian, Indiana University; Rhonda Marker, Repository Collection Manager, Rutgers University; Ann Caldwell, Coordinator, Digital Production Services, Brown University

Preconference:

Manipulating Metadata: XSLT for Librarians

Friday, July 10th, from 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Cosponsored by LITA.

This full day workshop is designed to introduce participants to XSLT for manipulation of metadata and other sets of data. Instruction will cover the basics of XML and XSLT as well as more advanced commands and control structures. With particular focus on use of XSLT for working with metadata in a library context, this hands-on workshop will allow participants to practice the principles discussed by the instructors.

Speakers: Frances Knudson, Los Alamos National Laboratory; Christine Ruotolo, University of Virginia Library.

Metadata Standards and Applications: A "Cataloging for the 21st Century" Workshop

Thursday, July 9th - Friday, July 10th, from 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. each day

This two-day preconference explores metadata standards and applications for bibliographic control in the 21st century. The goal is to relate what participants already know about library catalog metadata to digital library metadata, preparing them to apply current knowledge to new areas. Although not primarily a “hands on” workshop for learning how to create metadata, this preconference does include exercises, and it provides a solid foundation in current metadata concepts, standards, and issues for digital libraries.

Speakers: Steven Miller, Senior Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Jennifer Lang, Electronic Resources Cataloging Coordinator, Princeton University Library.

More details of the pre-conference programs are available at: http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/alcts/confevents/upcoming/ala/preconf.cfm

NRMIG Program and Business Meeting:

The NRMIG program and business Meeting will be held at Intercontinental St. Clair on July 12th, Sunday from 8:00 am - 10:00 am.

The title of Metadata Librarian first appeared in the late 1990's in conjunction with developments in information technology and digital library initiatives. Since the title is a relatively new one, the responsibilities and competencies of the position have yet to be clearly defined. This study examined 86 job descriptions for metadata librarian positions and 83 job descriptions for cataloging librarian positions, all posted from 2000 to 2008. The authors focused on three properties common to most of the job descriptions: education, required qualifications, and desired qualifications.

These properties were analyzed, in order to answer following questions: 1. What is the required skill set for a metadata librarian? 2. Are there any changes or differences in job descriptions over time? 3. What are the differences between Metadata Librarians and Cataloging Librarians in terms of competencies and required qualifications?

Speakers: Myung-Ja Han, Assistant Professor, Serials Cataloging, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Patricia Hswe, Project Manager for NDIIPP Partner Projects, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

As a follow-up to the research presentation, we will have a facilitated discussion on the topic of education for metadata librarians. What knowledge and skills do metadata librarians need to enter the job market and to develop while on the job? What do library schools currently offer to support this, and what should they be offering that they currently aren't? What continuing education opportunities are available to metadata librarians, from ALCTS and other sources, and what's not readily available that metadata librarians need? Please join us for an open discussion of these and related topics, led by Steven Miller, Senior Lecturer, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, School of Information Studies.

Below is a list of metadata and digital library-friendly sessions for ALA Annual 2009. Planning to attend a session or already reporting on a session? Think about blogging it here! If you would like to blog any of the sessions, please contact Kristin Martin at kmarti@uic.edu with your name, e-mail address, and preferred session. Fuller descriptions, when available, are linked to. See a section not on here that you think would be of interest? Suggest it!

I've tried to be inclusive as possible with the sessions as metadata is a cross-disciplinary topic within library and information science. Sessions of interest include metadata, digital projects, digital technology, and cataloging, and are from all different groups within and even outside of ALA. Note that many of the sessions are sponsored through LITA, which has its own blog. They are also looking for bloggers. After ALA, I will try to link to as many sessions as I can that have write-ups.

Friday Sessions

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM on 07/10
FRBR Interest Group
Location: Hilton in Northwest 1
Unit: ALCTS

6:30 PM - 8:30 PM on 07/10
Electronic Resources Management Interest Group
Location: Palmer House in Chicago Room
Unit: ALCTS

Saturday Sessions

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM on 07/11
Catalog Form and Function Interest Group discussion forum
Location: Hilton in Continental C
Unit: ALCTS

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM on 07/11
Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group
Location: Hilton in Conference Room 4C
Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CCS

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM on 07/11
Electronic Resources Interest Group
Location: Hilton in Continental B
Unit: ALCTS

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM on 07/11
Workflow Tools for Automating Metadata Creation and Maintenance
Location: McCormick Place West in W-181
Unit: ALCTS/LITA

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM on 07/11
CRS College and Research Libraries Interest Group
Location: Hilton in PDR 4
Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CRS

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM on 07/11
Catalog Management Interest Group
Location: Palmer House in Salon V
Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CCS

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM on 07/11
Cataloging Norms Interest Group
Location: Hilton in Continental C
Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CCS

1:30 PM - 5:30 PM on 07/11
Look Before You Leap: Taking RDA For a Test-Drive
Location: McCormick Place West in W-184
Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CCS

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM on 07/11
Emerging Technology Interest Group
Location: Palmer House in Crystal Room
Unit: LITA

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM on 07/11
MARC Formats Interest Group
Location: Palmer House in Wilson Room
Unit: ALCTS

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM on 07/11
Giving Maps a Second Life with Digital Technologies (description in Program Guide)
Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick in Conf. Ctr. 23
Unit: ALA - Subunit: MAGERT

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM on 07/11
Open Access Digital Initiatives in the Humanities: Creation, Dissemination, Preservation
Location: McCormick Place West in W-474
Unit: ACRL - Subunit: LES
Blogger: Haiyun Cao

Sunday sessions

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM on 07/12
Digital Preservation Interest Group
Location: Hilton in Northwest 1
Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: PARS

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM on 07/12
Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group Discussion and Business Meeting
Location: Hotel Intercontinental in St. Clair
Unit: ALCTS
Blogger: Kristin Martin

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM on 07/12
Continuing Resources Standards Update Forum
Location: McCormick Place West in W-192c
Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CRS

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM on 07/12
Intellectual Access to Preservation Metadata Interest Group
Location: Hilton in Northwest 1
Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: PARS

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM on 07/12
Top Technology Trends
Location: Hotel Intercontinental in Grand BR
Unit: LITA - Subunit: n/a

1:30 PM - 5:30 PM on 07/12
Catalog Use and Usability Studies: What Do They Show and How Should This Evidence Affect Our Decision-Making?
Location: McCormick Place West in W-196c
Unit: ALCTS/RUSA

1:30 PM - 5:30 PM on 07/12
The Future is Now: Global Authority Control (description in Program Guide)
Location: McCormick Place West in W-179
Unit: LITA/ALCTS

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM on 07/12
You Got Me, Do You Like Me? Evaluating Next Generation Catalogs
Location: McCormick Place West in W-190a
Unit: RUSA - Subunit: RSS

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM on 07/12
Collecting for Digital Repositories: New Ways to Disseminate and Share Information
Location: McCormick Place West in W-190b
Unit: ALCTS/ACRL

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM on 07/12
OCLC From ONIX to MARC and Back Again: New Metadata Service Options at OCLC
Location: McCormick Place West in W-196a
Unit: OCLC

Monday sessions

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM on 07/13
Grassroot Program - From Legacy Data to Linked Data: Preparing Libraries for Web 3.0
Location: Hilton in Lake Ontario
Unit: ALA - Subunit: GOVERNANCE

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM on 07/13
Electronic Resource Management Systems: The Promise and Disappointment
Location: McCormick Place West in W-184
Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CRS

8:00 AM - 10:00 AM on 07/13
Resuscitating the Catalog: Next-Generation Strategies for Keeping the Catalog Relevant
Location: McCormick Place West in W-179
Unit: ALCTS/LITA/RUSA - Subunit: n/a

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM on 07/13
Ex Libris: Continuing the Conversation: A Further Exploration of the Brave New World of Metadata
Location: Hilton in Northwest 3
Unit: Ex Libris

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM on 07/13
OCLC Something for Everyone: How New Approaches to Metadata Management Enable Discovery
Location: Hilton in Lake Huron
Unit: OCLC

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM on 07/13
Continuing Resources Cataloging Update Forum
Location: McCormick Place West in W-474
Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CRS

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM on 07/13
The Ultimate Debate: Has Library 2.0 fulfilled its promise? (description in Program Guide)
Location: McCormick Place West in W-181
Unit: LITA

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM on 07/13
The Power of XML to Enhance Work Flow and Discovery
Location: McCormick Place West in W-179
Unit: ALCTS/LITA - Subunit: AS

3:30 PM - 5:30 PM on 07/13
Next Generation Catalog Interest Group
Location: Palmer House in Chicago Room
Unit: LITA

This announcement is courtesy of Laura Cox.

Paris, 20th April 2009, OECD has released a white paper, We Need Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables, which examines the problems with current data discoverability and citations and the remedy in creating industry standards for bibliographic dataset metadata and linking.

Written by Toby Green, Head of Publishing at OECD and an expert in data publishing, the paper details the problems with user ability to locate and reference online data. Datasets are a significant part of the scholarly record and being published much more frequently but with widely inconsistent metadata, links and citations. The paper proposes bibliographic metadata standards that could be implemented to provide users and librarians with data that is as accessible and as easy to find and catalogue as written works like journal articles and book chapters. By following existing scholarly metadata standards, datasets can easily utilise the existing discovery channels that are used by e-journals and e-books, including library systems, cross reference linking, publishing platforms, and search engines.

The paper provides straightforward standards that publishers, librarians and data providers can implement to improve the accessibility and usage of important datasets, both the data that underlies scholarly works and data in that is published in its own right. To access the white paper, We Need Publishing Standards for Datasets and Data Tables, which includes a summary of the standards proposed and an annex with the detailed proposal, please go to: http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/603233448430.

For further information please contact Toby Green at toby.green@oecd.org.

This post contains links to write-ups from this blog and around the Internet that may be of interest to metadata librarians. If I couldn't find anything, there is no currently no link. If you've posted a write-up and want it linked to, email me at kmarti@uic.edu

FRBR Interest Group
Friday, Jan. 23: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM; Colorado Convention Center, RM 205
ALCTS

Cataloging and Classification Section Forum
Link to Presentations from ALA Wiki
"FRBR and RDA: a Glimpse into the Future of Cataloging and Public Displays."
Friday, Jan. 23: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM; Colorado Convention Center, Korbel Ballroom 3C
ALCTS

Electronic Resources Management Interest Group
Friday, Jan. 23: 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM; Ritz Carlton Denver, Salon 3
LITA/ALCTS

Cataloging Issues Disc. Group
Saturday, Jan. 24: 8 AM - 10 AM; Crowne Plaza Denver City Center, Office
ACRL

Intellectual Access to Preservation Metadata Interest Group
Link to Rebecca Guenther's presentation
Saturday, Jan. 24: 8 AM - 10 AM; Sheraton Denver Hotel, Gold
PARS

MARC Formats Interest Group
Saturday, Jan. 24: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM; Colorado Convention Center, RM 501
LITA

Electronic Resources Interest Group Meeting
Saturday, Jan. 24: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM; Ritz Carlton Denver, Salon 3
ALCTS

Catalog Form and Function Interest Group
Saturday, Jan. 24: 10:30-12:00 PM; Grand Hyatt Denver, Maroon Peak
ALCTS

Cataloging Norms Interest Group
Saturday, Jan. 24: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM; Colorado Convention Center, RM 703
ALCTS

Catalog Management Interest Group
Saturday, Jan. 24: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM; The Curtis, Keep-Away
ALCTS

Emerging Technology Interest Group
Saturday, Jan. 24: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM; Sheraton Denver Hotel, Colorado
LITA

Standards Interest Group
Saturday, Jan. 24: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM; Grand Hyatt Denver, Maroon Peak
LITA

Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group
Sunday, Jan. 25: 8 AM - 10 AM: Colorado Convention Center, Korbel Ballroom 4F
ALCTS

Cataloging Issues Disc. Group
Sunday, Jan. 25: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM; Hyatt Regency Denver, Captial Ballroom 7
AFAS

Resource Description and Access (RDA) Update Forum
Sunday, Jan. 25: 10:30 AM–12:30 PM; Colorado Convention Center, Korbel Ballroom 3C.

Authority Control Interest Group Issue Updates & Business Meetings
Sunday, Jan. 25: 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM; Grand Hyatt Denver, Mt. Sopris
ALCTS

Collection Management and Development Section Forum
Focus on collecting free Web resources
Sunday, Jan. 24: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM, Grand Hyatt Denver, Maroon Peak
ALCTS

The Next Generation Catalog Interest Group
Sunday, Jan. 25: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM; Colorado Convention Center, RM 110
LITA

RDA Implementation Task Force
Sunday, Jan. 25: 4:00 - 5:30 PM; Grand Hyatt Denver, Mt. Evans
AlCTS

Program for Cooperative Cataloging Participants Meeting
Sunday, Jan. 25: 4:00 - 5:30 PM; in the Colorado Convention Center, RM 201
PCC

Heads of Cataloging Interest Group
Monday, Jan. 26: 8 AM - 10 AM; Denver Marriott City Center, Denver Ballroom III
ALCTS

Continuing Resources Cataloging Committee Update Forum
Monday, Jan. 26: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM; Colorado Convention Center, Korbel Ballroom 3C
ALCTS