Today's Topics:
1. PCC Standing Committee on Training and CAMMS CE ALA
Preconference on Ontology Development (Elaine Franco)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Message: 1
Beyond the Looking Glass Real World Linked Data ? What Does It Take to Make
It Work?
Friday, June 26, 2015, 8:30 am-4:30pm
Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco
Current discussion puts undue emphasis on the philosophy and technology of
linked data. Yes, it's cool and demands to be played with. And yes, the
library community is late to the party. But what is required for success
besides an interesting idea?
This preconference is intended for non-IT library staff, that have a general
understanding of linked data, and are ready to engage further in learning
and applying data modeling concepts that are central to using/creating
linked data in a production environment. Some knowledge of XML and HTML will
be assumed (although not required).
8:30-8:45 Introduction, Announcements, & Attendees? Desired Take Aways
Moderator: Laura Dawson, ISNI; with attendee participation.
8:45-9:45 Designing the Garden: Getting Grounded in Linked Data
Presenter: Jenn Riley, McGill University Library
Re-envisioning library metadata as Linked Data will require far more than
data migration and implementation of new technical tools. Our community must
re-design itself--working towards a shared understanding of what systems and
people working with library metadata do, what success looks like, and how we
work with other communities. This presentation will lay the groundwork for
the remaining preconference speakers through discussion of high level
functions for library metadata staff in a Linked Data environment, metadata
pipelines within the library community and with external communities, and
the value that cultural heritage organizations can bring to information both
digital and analog.
9:45-10:00 Attendee Thoughts & Questions
On Jenn?s presentation, as well as how this impacts desired take aways.
Hopefully, these Q&A periods at the end of each presentation will help us
create a conversation throughout the day, that is summed up and connected in
the final take away session.
10:00-10:15 Break
Refreshments provided by ALA.
10:15-11:15 An OCLC Perspective on What It Takes to Make Linked Data Work
Presenter: Karen Smith Yoshimura with assistance from Jean Godby, OCLC
>From OCLC's experiences in data mining WorldCat to identify entities that
can be exposed to the semantic Web, we've learned there's a lot of data that
can be parsed easily and made into statements, and sadly, a lot that cannot
be without much more effort. Karen and Jean offer some examples from OCLC
Research's multilingual bibliographic structure and performers extraction
adventures of what metadata specialists can do now to make it easier to
transform text strings in MARC data into the entity-things we later expose
as linked data that others can consume.
11:15-11:30 Questions
On Karen's presentation, as well as how this impacts desired take aways.
Hopefully, these Q&A periods at the end of each presentation will help us
create a conversation throughout the day, that is summed up and connected in
the final take away session.
11:30-1:00 Lunch Break
1:00-2:00 Modeling, Money, & Metrics Or How to NOT Re-Invent the Wheel
Presenters: Nannette Naught, Information Management Team (IMT), Inc; with
Laura Dawson, ISNI
Are you wondering what the business case for linked data looks like? Are you
asking yourself where to look for working models? Are you uncomfortable
justifying modeling activities? Or explaining the real world benefits of
this total change in approach? You are not alone. These questions are on
Library's mind today. As experienced resource developers and product
managers, Nannette and Laura have learned to answer similar questions in the
publishing, standards, and knowledge management worlds. They will share
their their thoughts about how to answer questions simply in a way that
speaks across discipline and skill level. They will introduce some
experience-driven best practices to take back to your institution.
2:00-2:15 Questions
On Nannette and Laura's presentation, as well as how this impacts desired
take aways. Hopefully, these Q&A periods at the end of each presentation
will help us createconversation throughout the day, that is summed up and
connected in the final take away session.
2:15-2:45 Break
Refreshments provided by ALA.
2:45-3:45 Lessons Learned from a Greenhorn Ontologist, Or How I Couldn't
Have Given This Presentation a Year Ago
Presenter: Steven Folsom, Cornell University
Are you a library technical services professional and ever felt
uncomfortable about writing to the BIBFRAME list (or other linked data
conversation) with a question? This presenter has too. As a member of the
Linked Data for Libraries project (LD4L, a Mellon funded grant between
Cornell, Stanford, and Harvard) Steven has had to quickly develop a command
of linked data principles and ontology best practices. He will introduce
core ontology concepts and recommend strategies for skills building in order
for library technical service professionals to participate comfortably in
the development and use of ontologies.
3:45-4:00 Questions
On Steven's presentation, as well as how this impacts desired take aways.
Hopefully, these Q&A periods at the end of each presentation will help us
create conversation throughout the day, that is summed up and connected in
the final take away session.
4:00-4:30 The Take Aways
Moderator: Laura Dawson. Group discussion with attendee and panelist
participation.
Register through the ALA Annual Conference web
site<http://alaac15.ala.org/register-now>. Add the preconference to your
conference registration, or register for the preconference alone. The price
of this full-day preconference is: $219 for ALCTS members (use special code
ALCTS2015); $269 ALA for members, $319 for non-members. Event Code: ALC3
See the ALCTS conference website<http://www.ala.org/alcts/events/ac> for
information about other ALCTS events, including preconferences on best
practices for cataloging videos, real world linked data, coding for
efficiencies for cataloging and metadata, and challenges with managing
streaming media for academic libraries.
This preconference is co-sponsored by the ALCTS Cataloging and Metadata
Management Section's (CaMMS) Continuing Education Committee and the PCC?s
Standing Committee on Training (SCT).
ALCTS is the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services, a
division of the American Library Association. The PCC is an international
cooperative effort aimed at expanding access to library collections by
providing useful, timely, and cost-effective cataloging that meets
mutually-accepted standards of libraries around the world.
George Prager
Head of Cataloging
New York University Law School Library
Phone: 212-998-6340
-------------- next part --------------
End of Tsig Digest, Vol 37, Issue 12
************************************
