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*Transforming Our Librares, Ourselves
LITA Preconferences at ALA Annual*
LITA is offering three full-day preconferences, held Friday, June 22,
8:30am - 4:00pm, at the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim.
*Web Content Strategy for Libraries*
/Speakers:/ Nina McHale, Arapahoe Library District, CO; Chris Evjy,
Jefferson County Public Library, CO
Your library’s new website is powered by a high-octane content
management system (Drupal, WordPress, etc.) that gives you more power
than ever to communicate with your patrons. But what are you saying? How
are you saying it? What kind of service are you providing online? How
can you ensure that it’s just as good as in your buildings? Content
strategy to the rescue! Topics will include strategy development,
training & adoption, production control and governance. Sponsored by the
LITA Dupal4Lib Interest Group.
*Creating Library Linked Data: What Catalogers and Coders Can Build*
/Facilitator:/ Debra Shapiro, University of WI-Madison School of Library
& Information Studies
Sponsored by the LITA/ALCTS Linked Library Data Interest Group.
*(Division Member rate available to LITA & ALCTS members)*
This preconference is positioned to take advantage of the growing
interest in the library community to work to transform the wealth of
quality, library-created metadata - billions of bibliographic records,
finding aids, descriptions of digital content - into linked data. Some
of the infrastructure necessary is already in place, such as the
availability of the DDC as linked data, Library of Congress' efforts
making the vocabularies it maintains available in Simple Knowledge
Organization System (SKOS), and the Open Meatadata Registry, where RDA,
Dublin Core, and other element sets are available in Semantic
Web-consumable form. Production level tools to create linked data, as
well as discovery systems to deploy linked data, are yet to be built.
The preconference will be an un-conference style event. We plan to start
with a series of lightning talks from librarians and technologists
involved in a variety of linked data efforts. Afterward, we will break
into work groups, to begin to design linked data systems, and associated
discuss issues. The project work will be followed with reports from each
group, so that everyone can share in the progress being made. Please
join us in this important effort to begin the migration of library data
into linked data, woven into the Semantic Web! Please visit the LITA web
site
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*Building Digital Collections Using Islandora*
/Speaker:/ Kirsta Stapelfeldt, University of Prince Edward Island; Mark
Leggott, University of Prince Edward Island
This session will introduce the key concepts underpinning the Islandora
Digital Asset Management system. Participants will learn the basics of
running this rich repository system and how to utilize common "solution
packs" to create and theme collections in Islandora. Participants will
learn how to begin modeling and curating custom data collections, and
how to migrate from other repository systems, including ContentDM,
DSpace and more. Textbooks and system access will be provided;
participants should bring computers.
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