The ALCTS Cataloging and Metadata Management Section (CaMMS) would like to
invite you to a forum on the Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME)
to be held on Sunday, June 29, 2014, 1:00-2:30, at the Las Vegas Convention
Center, N111

 

Please join us to learn about developments on this exciting project!

 

Title: Translating BIBFRAME, or, What is all this #$%!?: Making its
potential mutually intelligible to catalogers and coders alike

Date, time and location: Sunday, June 29, 1:00-2:30, Las Vegas Convention
Center-N111 

Presentations include:

 

Storming the Semantic Web. How will libraries, archives, and other
cultural-heritage organizations take the Semantic Web by storm? Dorothea
Salo will lay out the landscape, demonstrate promising projects, and suggest
ways to get involved.

 

Presented by: Dorothea Salo, Faculty Associate, School of Library and
Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

 

Currently a Faculty Associate in the School of Library and Information
Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dorothea Salo teaches about
library technology, digital curation, database design, organization of
information, and the changing landscape of publishing. She also serves on
UW-Madison's Research Data Services team. In 2009 Library Journal named her
a Mover and Shaker for her open-access advocacy. She has written and
presented internationally on linked data, data curation, scholarly
communication, social media, and user-centered design. She holds an MA in
Library and Information Studies and another in Spanish from UW-Madison.

 

LC's MARC to BIBFRAME Converter: Practical, Fast, and Fun! Linked Data for
Libraries and working with the BIBFRAME converter. Philip Schreur will
candidly discuss what they discovered about the converter and the model
itself in their recent work.

 

Presented by: Philip Schreur, Head, Metadata Department, Stanford
University. 

Currently the Head of the Stanford University Metadata Department, Philip
Schreur has previously worked for the University of California (Berkeley and
Davis campuses) and as the Knowledge System Developer for HighWire Press.
He holds an MLIS from the University of California, Berkeley and a PhD in
Medieval music theory from Stanford.  He serves as the past-chair of the
Program for Cooperative Cataloging and on the editorial board of Library
Resources & Technical Services (LRTS).  He is responsible for Stanford
University Library's linked-data efforts and has been focused on the use of
linked data for authority control in the Digital Repository and the
transition from MARC to BIBFRAME, both for descriptive metadata
transformation and creation.

Toy Stories: The State of Semantics in a Semiotic World. Old paradigms
versus totally new adventures. How might we come together, across
disciplines, to use linked data in real world solutions? Nannette Naught
will present a simple metaphor for cross discipline discussion and suggest
potential points of convergence.

 

Presented by: Nannette Naught, Vice President Strategy & Implementation,
Information Management Team (IMT), Inc.


Currently lead analyst and knowledge system designer at IMT, Nannette Naught
has worked on information, knowledge, content, and document management
systems in the Niche Publishing, Manufacturing/Technical Documentation,
Association, and Library marketplaces. Within the Library marketplace, she
currently serves as CoChair of the CaMMS Continuing Education Committee,
served as an active member of the RDA Conference Forums and Programs Task
Force, and as ALA's technical lead for RDA Toolkit development beginning in
late 2006. She continues to learn about, advocate for, and develop
applications for multi-version, multi-lingual, multi-encoding Library as
Publisher solutions. 

 

We hope to see you there

 

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Rebecca L. Mugridge 

Associate Director for Technical Services and Library Systems 

University Library, LI-B34E 

University at Albany 

1400 Washington Avenue 

Albany, NY 12222

Phone: 518-442-3631

Email: [email protected]

Blog: www.libraryresearchandreviews.blogspot.com
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Blog: www.bookshighandlow.blogspot.com 

 

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