Today's Topics: 1. LITA/ALCTS Linked Library Data Interest Group program at ALA Annual (Elaine Franco) 2. ALCTS Technical Services Managers IG at ALA Annual (Elaine Franco) 3. ALA ANNUAL ALCTS Publisher Library Vendor Relations Panel Monday June 29th 8:30-10 a.m. Convention Center 125 N (Elaine Franco)
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 The LITA/ALCTS Linked Library Data Interest Group invites you to a presentation at the 2015 ALA Annual Conference, San Francisco, California, on Saturday, June 27, 2015, 8:30am-10am, at the Marriott Marquis San Francisco Golden Gate A. Add this session to your calendar: http://alaac15.ala.org/node/29313 There will be two presentations at this session: *Linked Data Love: research representation, discovery, and assessment* *Kristi Holmes, PhD* Director, Galter Health Sciences Library Associate Director of Evaluation, NUCATS Associate Professor, Preventive Medicine-Health and Biomedical Informatics Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine The explosion of linked data platforms and data stores over the last five years has been profound both in terms of quantity of data as well as its potential impact. Research information systems such as VIVO (www.vivoweb.org) play a significant role in enabling this work. VIVO is an open source, Semantic Web-based application that provides an integrated, searchable view of the scholarly activities of an organization. The uniform semantic structure of VIVO-ISF data enables a new class of tools to advance science. This presentation will provide a brief introduction and update to VIVO and present ways that this semantically-rich data can enable visualizations, reporting and assessment, next-generation collaboration and team building, and enhanced multi-site search. Libraries are uniquely positioned to facilitate the open representation of research information and its subsequent use to spur collaboration, discovery, and assessment. The talk will conclude with a description of ways librarians are engaged in this work, including visioning, metadata and ontology creation, policy creation, data curation and management, technical, and engagement activities. ******** *VIVO and BIBFRAME: Understanding People through Linked Data* *Steven Folsom* Discovery Metadata Librarian Cornell University Library Linked Data for Libraries (LD4L) is a collaboration of the Cornell University Library <http://www.library.cornell.edu/>, the Harvard Library Innovation Lab <http://librarylab.law.harvard.edu/>, and the Stanford University Libraries <http://library.stanford.edu/>, and is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The project attempts to illustrate the value of linked data through a number of use cases; the focus of LD4L Use Case 2 is to See and search on Works by people to discover more works and better understand people. To this end, LD4L has experimented with connecting university faculty profiling systems with library data about the intellectual output of the university. This presentation will describe a pilot to preprocess MARC records for Cornell theses for conversion to BIBFRAME with VIVO URIs, ultimately providing greater context to student theses and more fully reflecting faculty service to the university. Sarah Quimby Library Processing Manager Minnesota Historical Society 651-259-3370 [email protected] ------------------------------ Message: 2 The world of technical services is more complex than ever before, presenting challenges to the veteran and new librarian alike. The ALCTS Technical Services Managers in Academic Libraries Interest Group invites you to join us Saturday, June 27th in the Moscone Convention Center room 2012 (W) from 8:30-10:00 am to discuss these challenges and brainstorm solutions. Join your colleagues at roundtables featuring topics such as: ? Technical Services Managers as project managers ? Institutional Repositories: Who, What, When, Where, ?Why? ? The Sudden Acquisitions Librarian: What do I do now? ? What qualities and skills does a leader in Technical Services need today vs ten years ago? ? Are there resources for which it is appropriate to rely on your discovery layer rather than cataloging them? ? What new services/products are challenging the tools and/or talent of Technical Services today? We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco! Amy Lana Chair, 2014-2015 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> ------------------------------ Message: 3 ALA ANNUAL ALCTS Publisher Library Vendor Relations Panel Monday June 29th 8:30-10 a.m. Convention Center 125 N The ALCTS Publisher Vendor Library Relations Interest Group invites you all to attend the popular Monday morning session at ALA. PVLR brings you topics that interest librarians, publishers and vendors. This ALA Annual session is no exception. The topic for annual is book metadata ... its creation, distribution or dissemination and use, but ultimately its optimal discoverability. The panel will be held Monday June 29th . Time and place are below: 8:30am - 10:00am Publisher/Vendor/Library Relations Interest Group<http://alaac15.ala.org/node/29218> Discussion/Interest group<http://alaac15.ala.org/sessions/all?meettype_tid=5> Moscone Convention Center<http://alaac15.ala.org/node/28558> 125 (N) Book metadata will be discussed from a variety of perspectives. The PVLR co-chairs were approached by publishers who wanted to know more on how to provide metadata to any prospective distributor or user. That could include vendors, utilities and libraries with the goal, as expected, to enhance discoverability whether from an OPAC, a vendor database or discovery layer or from a utility or wherever the publisher needs it discovered! This panel will include perspectives on book metadata creation, distribution, use and partnerships from a publisher perspective (Noah Levin from Springer), a librarian speaking about local practice (MJ Han, a metadata librarian from UIUC) and Suzanne Kemperman from OCLC who will talk about metadata partnerships for WorldCat discoverability. Then the Library of Congress with Karl Debus-Lopez and Camilla Williams will review LC's CIP for ebooks and using contributed publisher metadata via ONIX. One of the great things about PVLR is the insight gained from hearing about a tool or service from a different perspective and this is shaping up to do just that. Please mark your calendar and hope to see you there. Lynn Wiley PVLR CO-chair with Bob Nardini and John Reese _______________________________________________ Tsig mailing list End of Tsig Digest, Vol 37, Issue 19 ************************************
