ALA Midwinter Boston 2016 FRIDAY – January 088:30-4:00 BCEC – 104BC ALCTS SymposiumRe-envisioning Technical Services to Transform Libraries: Identifying Leadership and Talent Management Bes t Practices – presenter bios at endHow can libraries enhance and reposition their “technical services” operations to drive ongoing library transformation? Scholarly communications, data curation, digital humanities, cooperative preservation, library publishing, collaborative collection management: all of these new functions require a talented staff with significant technical services expertise, regardless of their titles and reporting structure. This symposium will explore how libraries can recruit and cultivate staff who can serve as both leaders and contributors and provide insight into talent management, including identifying and nurturing leaders; succession planning; promoting diversity; and connecting staff with the best training options throughout their careers.

Technical Services is becoming part of the collaborative open environment in libraries. Do not hide in the back room.

Keith Webster – Leading the library of the futureThe world is bypassing libraries. Students crowd the library but don’t use it or its services. Researchers are using web-based tools they buy themselves. Open access has shaped the policy agenda and transforming scholarly communication. Collaborative knowledge, learning commons, etc. are now in libraries. Each generation of change is additive not a substitute. China is about to become the largest producer of scholarly journals. There could be a whole symposium on how to kill the “big deal” Convergent media services – we need to fit into along with Amazon, Netflix, etc. Elsevier is permeating the researcher’s tools. Traditionally the library licensed everything for researchers. Now they are self-sufficient. Out tools don’t fit in. Researchers are using Twitter, blog, etc. and talking with each other and creating more multi-author papers – a challenge for institutional repositories. They want their research exposed and reproduced. We need to support open access for federally supported research. Research results in all sorts of outputs beyond the article. Percentage of expenditures on libraries has dropped from nearly 4% to 2%. So where are we going? Reposition library expertise and resources to be more closely embedded in research and teaching enterprise outside the library; extend focus of collection development from external purchase to local curation, continue to repurpose the library as a primary learning space; review location of lesser-used collections; continue to migrate to online resources. Moving from owned collection to facilitated collection. The spectrum in between is borrowed, demand driven, licensed, shared print. Technical services has typically looked at science citation like products to assess use. At Carnegie Mellon – measuring your libraries impact.

http://guides.library.cmu.edu/c.php?g=215635&p=1421969 Some thoughts: we still need to solve discovery! We need to solve e-books, respond to shifting patterns of demand, address mobile platforms, improved metadata. All levels of the library need to be embedded in research process. How sustainable are costs of local catalog especially when users are using the discovery tool to our catalog [is it the metadata or poor development of the discovery tool?]. How do people on campus see us? Are we relevant? We well are we functioning? How do demonstrate an impact on recruitment, progress and achievement, a researcher getting a grant, etc. [good slides too fast – look for post after conference]

Meredith Taylor – Talent managementAn integrated set of processes, programs and cultural norms in an organization designed and implemented to attract, develop, deploy, train, retain talent to achieve strategic objectives and meet future business needs. You need an organizational, proactive strategy. Libraries landscape: moving from collections-based organization to services-centered organizations, work in libraries is driven by technology and becoming increasingly complex, more competition for technology/information workforce, libraries becoming integrated in campus initiatives a round student success, teaching/learning and research, difference needs in 21st century library which require different jobs and different skill sets, budget cuts and constraints. In 2000 a high percent of librarians were around 65 and now 5 years later it is closer to 40. Technical services landscape – the nature of the work is

changing, technology requires more IT skills – need data curation skills, work is more distributed, work is becoming either simple or complex i.e. might outsource 1 thing but the other work is very complex and can’t be outsourced. Changes is staffing depending on if you are doing more IR then more professionals needed. Talent management is tough to do because it is customized to your library and not scalable generally to other libraries. It can be disruptive to the organization and requires change management. Talent management ARL survey in spec kit 344.

Sylvia Hall-Ellis – Invest in me – succession planningYoung librarians are very high-tech and tech-savvy. Loyalty in employees is not as strong as in the past. The MLIS is no longer sufficient. We need more micro-credentials are more important [e.g. Stephen] There is a shift to competency-based education. Strategy 1: anticipate challenges, identify knowledge, experience, technical skills and competencies; conduct job analysis, write new position descriptions and align with initiatives and tasks and consider restructuring – don’t just post the job ad you did last time. High performance work team is what you are recruiting for.Strategy 2: conduct a talent a: domains of the profession (theoretical knowledge, technical skills, core competencies, soft skills) high performance work teams – if you can’t meet the team’s needs, you will have to find work elsewhere; Strategy 3: incorporate annual review: assess performance and potential, integrate succession planning with performance management, recruitment, selection, development and rewards, recognize individual and team contributions, invest in resources to build technical competencies, leadership potential, and communication skills. Do up-skilling.Strategy: institute development program: make a series commitment to develop the organizational workforce – time regularly scheduled and financially support staff – should be 8% spent of organizational budget on special training; identify and recognize opportunities for development – digital badging, MOOCS, industry credentials, apprenticeships

Amira Aaron – research on leadership developmentShe discussed an ALCTS survey that is still underway. It covers training, skills, etc. needed Look for final data.

The 3 afternoon sessions were to address new, middle, and long term support.

Jacob Nadal – Residencies and early career successHe discussed peer cohorts and residencies with mentors. Focusing on even little things that make them feel welcome is important. It is important to have well designed specific projects to complete and be successful. At his institution they build in continuing education prior to starting, some more intense than others. The continuing education can sometimes be chosen by the resident. They found smaller cohorts work better, usually about 5. In his location there are a variety of libraries so they try to have time in more than one environment. He discussed incorporating various approaches to addressing diversity, rather than as a “problem” but a way to encourage variety in cohorts and in experiences. Every reader their book and every book its reader is still core in addressing diversity. Technical services needs people who can excel as specialists outside the administrative ladder, bring a diverse set of skills, knowledge, and expertise to bear on a wide array of library collections.

Elyssa Gould – Cultivating CollaborationShe had taken the Strengths Finder assessment and realized she is naturally a collaborator. She is trying to develop her position into one that supports collaboration. Phases of collaboration: 1. Problem setting, 2. Direction setting, 3. Implementation, 4. Assessment. See: Gray, B (1989) Collaborating : finding common ground for multiparty problems.Internal/external impacts: change management, management practices, personalities, work cultures. Soft skills: adaptability, communication, conflict resolution, critical observations, emotional intelligence, problem solving, time management, teamwork. It is good to start with personality tests to find out your strengths and weaknesses within your team. Reading fiction increases emotional intelligence. Find someone who excels at something you want to learn and learn from them. Susan King’s book on introversion is interesting. Try assigning tasks and devising possible solutions and bring back to the group/team. OhioLinks toolbox – a place to keep collaboration future ideas. Conflict resolution and communication skills are key in working in committees – a type of collaboration. Be aware of and considerate of the people around you.

Angela Kinney – Lead by exampleBest practices for leading change [Handout]. Be proactive, build teams to manage change, establish external collaborations, included stakeholders representing diverse groups, provide clarity and transparency. Effective leaders: balance staff expectations is-vis institutional mandates, learn when to make decisions unilaterally or with groups, engender a sense of ownership and empowerment, recognize generational differences and approaches to work, understand the importance of listening and coaching. Evaluate and assess: align strategic/succession plan with institutional goas, prioritize strategies, share information widely, seek consensus, be open to criticism and suggestions. Create a multi=level learning infrastructure: classroom training, on the job cross training, mentoring, staff pairing.

Jenica Rogers – Bringing the back room forwardEven though technical services should be forward facing, she has never forgotten what the services are built on. As director, she is working on credit-bearing information literacy course, redesigning user spaces to drive innovation in teaching and learning, refining EBSCO Discovery (no it doesn’t work out of the box), testing PDA, etc. Had to restructure after 4 librarians left. Wrote down everyone’s duties on post-its and rearranged them. They got approval to hire 2. They decided tech services would be advertised as Metadata and subscription resources librarian. It is crucial to keep data clean. Metadata is broadly construed from a regular catalog to digital creation and curation. They couldn’t fill the job. Input she got was: it doesn’t say e-resources (really!), either metadata or subscription but not both (that is what we do!), I prefer not to work reference (libraries provide service!), maybe I don’t have enough experience (we must be too insecure), the market is saturated with metadata-type jobs. Changed the title to coordinator of technical services and discovery. The title changes to something that sounds like management and all but one applicant were men. Why not women? Do they think they can’t manage? She believes her job ad pushed tech services forward into the future. Recruiting – language use, change vs. traditional, we need to be supporting: cross-boundary exploration and experimentation; collaboration that honors expertise. We have to learn to collaborate in ways that make people feel good and appreciated. Transforming: graduate education, professional literature, broad cultural change, succession planning. Why don’t people want to take cataloging? Our professional literature doesn’t make it exciting. Our profession doesn’t push in graduate school. The way tech services works is what makes the flashy stuff usable and clear, and discovery services need to make better use of it. SUNY is looking at a single bib for the consortia you just attach your holdings to [ – but what if the records are inadequate, what does that do for discovery?] They removed dollar allocations to departments. The faculty have to tell the library what they are going to teach and why the need the book. There is no buying something that doesn’t circulate. They check the SUNY system – anything held by 3 libraries, they don’t buy.

Cataloging is a public service ! – My motto

10:30-12:00 BCEC – 105 OCLC Enhance SharingNotes – Registered – look for noteshttp://mailman13.u.washington.edu/pipermail/enhance/attachments/20160120/1f90183d/attachment.docxhttp://mailman13.u.washington.edu/pipermail/enhance/attachments/20160120/1f90183d/attachment-0001.docx 5:30-7:00 Exhibits open – all conference receptionFilled out a survey at the Proquest booth; challenged rep Andrew French to provide more stability and better documentation

At the Ex Libris booth as asked for info on FAST genre option; she said I don’t have to link bibs to the CZ – just packagesOCLC – said I would be at the SCS meetingNote: Proquest ExLibris Roadmap webinar Jan. 13 insists all products will continue. They discussed bringing features from one to the other which makes them sound equal (why would they continue separately forever?) Generally it sounds like Summon indexing may be working better and Alma as an ILS is more developed. (Notes on PC)

7:30-9:00PM CANCELLED - waiting for ISBD SAC RDA At Annual the SAC Subcommittee on RDA presented a proposal to SAC on coding subject and genre/form relationships in work and expression records and recommended that it be sent to the PCC Policy Committee by SAC. SAC approved this. The proposal was sent to the Policy Committee as well as to the Secretariat at LC and no response has been received.

The Subcommittee had intended to develop subject related designators as its next project, decided to postpone that project given the RSC moratorium on relationship designator proposals.

7:30-9:00PM CAPC

Check CC:DA blog for RSC notes after November meetingRSC will have a North American rep not just ALA or US.RSC is developing "representative expression" as kind of a founding expressionRSC has communities rather than constituencies and will represent 6 world-wide areasManifestation statement will be added. RSC feels there is some creator aspects for expressions and manifestations.Nomen was assigned by agent is a new idea.Relationship designator in pipeline may go thru but no new onesFRBR-RLM (FRBR reference library model) will have world-wide review early 2016FRBR is taking out library management aspects, but FRBRoo does include itFRAD’s justify and contextual use will go awayGroup 2 agent is Corp and family and person is a subclass of agent, and it is only for living humansGroup 3 deprecated as are the 2 chapters held open in RDA ... subject still there. Res is for subject ... it is anythingNomen is name by which anything is known. An access point is a nomenAn ISBN is also a nomen.Place can be associated with anything Entities have hierarchical relationships.Anything that applies to an agent applies to a person but not the reverse.

MARC Advisory Committee http://connect.ala.org/node/248108 Had 2 proposals and the rest are discussion papers. Looking at 007 for remote sound. Working on 382 which has LCMPT to include total soloists and ensembles and if same kind. Discussion papers:Subfield 3 and 5 for 382Fixed field for format of music ... trying to align better with RDA028 distributor numbers ... subfield 6 to distinguish publisher and publisher numbersGames ... trying to identify platforms in 753257 would allow semi-autonomous regions so Hong Kong could be included046 k a date of release ... could always add release date here

347 add to holdings record too so whether you have pdf or html for resource the bib would work and the holing could specify

Janis Young - SACOLibrarian of Congress limited to 10 year termReport: http://alcts.ala.org/ccdablog/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/LC-2016-01.pdfLC catalogers are cataloging in both BIBFRAME and voyagerGenre manual will be in LC desktop (I put on my page)LC Finished literature and religion genresDemographic LCDGT - finished phase 2. Now accepting proposals and non-NACO can use survey monkey 

SATURDAY – January 098:30-10:00 BCEC – 151B LITA/ALCTS Linked Library Data IGNotes – techy data stuff – see abstract at end2 presentations on: curation, data modeling, ontology development; challenges in learning and teaching Linked DataEagle-i: help researchers and universities create, store, and search semantically rich data about research resources ; (DCMI) is undertaking the Linked Data for Professional Educators (LD4PE) project to develop an open data competencyNotesThis committee will co-sponsor a program at annual with International Relations to include Linked Data in museums

Tenille Johnson – Connecting researchers and resources with eagle-iGoal is to support resource discovery. There has been traditional services – library buys or does ILL. Their model is publish, curate, capture on one side and search on the other (IR). Eagle-I is open-source web based platform allowing cross-institutional sharing, freely accessible and allows all kinds of documents. Each entity that joins in eagle has their own node but everything is indexed centrally with a centralized ontology. With central management updates to software, ontologies, vocabularies can be made quickly. Each node can set permission levels, allows different staff to manage ingest and metadata and publishing to eagle-i. Search allows anonymous contact in the public interface so researchers can contact each other. SPARQL or friendly interface is available to searchers to construct own search, which is federated across the network. There is an ontology browser which is more like a natural language browse so you don’t have to know the ontology. If a document or service is no longer available, it will be unindexed except by an identifier. Ontology driven (ERO) – terms are defined, in hierarchy, shows relationships between terms, stored in language computers understand, data can easily be published in Linked Open Data. They have e4061 classes in the owl core file. They have leveraged a number of other registries. ERO is fully integrated with VIVO-ISF ontology supported by the open Research Information Framework (OPEN RIF). This allows seems integration with published articles. Ontology drives the software – i.e. can see the vocabulary (classes annotated with primary resource type, or primary property, or embedded classes). The application profile drives the functionality, but that foundation is class groups, e.g. one that allows borrowing. Benefits: controlled vocabulary ensures consistency, enables resources to be linked to other kinds of data, fosters system flexibility and data interoperability, facilities data sharing, retrieval and validation. There are challenges in granularity, interfacing with outside resources or networks. Yet they are part of large network. They are able to convert the RDF from eagle-I to XML which allows incorporation in their OPAC. It is automated so appears to be instantly updated. They link to author profiles (including images). As this is a medical service, they have projects to link to pluripotent stem cells, e.g. You don’t have to be a member to search

it. When adding new member, they guide: data curation that is consistent, accurate, and relevant; there is a suite of maintenance queries can be used to find records in need of updates, a centrally-based curation teams guides institutional curators with help extensive data curation guidelines.

Mike Lauruhn (Disruptive Technology Director) – Dublin Core’s Linked Data for Professional Educators Competency Index and Explorationm.lauruhn@elsevier.comLinked Data competency index. In draft format.This is a project under the jurisdiction of DCMI.

Competency index- for learning Linked Data to help learners and instructors identify and priority skills for proficiency in Linked Data (i.e. what do you have to learn and know to be a linked data “professional”)

Exploratorium of educational resources for learning the competencies.

They are trying to address: do you know what you don’t know, can’t you find resources to help?There are competencies in a browse list: fundamentals of RDF, creating and transforming RDF, etc.Example: Fundamentals of RDF

RDF data modelCompetency: formulates qNames, a shorthand mechanism in writing prefixes

for long URIsBenchmark: uses prefixes for URIS in RDF specifications and data

There will be videos and links to books, websites, etc. to learn

The Exploratorium is up but still being worked on: http://explore.dublincore.net/linked-data-learning-resources/There will be a google doc posted on the listserv (which?) There is also something at the above web site. Library linked data interest group listserv – sign up for - sympa

David Miller (Curry College) – moving to alma as single customer – they feel good about it but it is taking a lot of customization

There will be a 4-part ALCTS webinar on Linked Data this spring 10:30-11:30 BCEC - 204AB OCLC Linked Data Roundtable Notes – Registered

GND and URI’s: integration and identificationGemeinsame normdatei – integrated authority file – 11 million records they just threw together. Includes subjects, works, corporate, conference, geographic and personsYou can interrelate everything to everything else. They are working in MARC. 024 for GND record ID URI. They are using $0 for uri links. http://d-nb.info/gnd/####The URI’s are persistentGND ontology is used to describe it in linked data. He is calling MARC embedded with $0 uri’s “neo-marc”Next week their bibs records will start including URIs. There will be an actionable URI

Kirk Hess – LC

Bibframe editing – later ALA programLC bibframe pilot: profile editor implementation, profile development, local namespace (bf-lcp – a testbed)BIBFRAME 1.0 (bf:)With local properties (bf-lcp:)BIBFRAME editor v.03 preview – new release will come out in about a monthTo import you will need some sort of rest service. Code repository https://github.com/lcnetdev

Steve Folsom (at Cornell moving to Harvard)Developing use cases with OCLC’s person identityhttp://worldcat.org/entity/person/id/2643040000It will show same URI that could be pulled into the projectIn phase 2 they were able to enter a name without knowing a URIThen they tried allowing exact match, fuzzy, string type searchesAt Cornell they have Blacklight Open Source Library Catalog; they use VIVO data for information on faculty; use OCLC work ID’s to collate print and electronic versions of worksThey are looking how to disambiguate persons with same/similar names. They are using data from the NACO record and creating an INFO button with natural language labels. It also shows a link to individual titles. Cornell is considering using other kinds of name authorities than just NACO records.What kinds of other data do we actually want to link to? Example Wayne Brady was the voice of a rabbit Sophia in a movie on princesses. Do we want to “princesses” on a screen for Wayne Brady? At first, it seems odd, but otherwise you may not know he had that role.He would like to see more from vendors looking at reconciliation like OCLC is doing in its Identities“The best thing to do with your data will be thought of by someone else”

Jeff MixterEstimating trustworthiness of dataKnowledge pipeline: extraction, graph-based matching, knowledge fusion as result of the comparisonOCLC is evaluating a similar model for bibliographic and authority data sources, in combination with user-contributed content and linked data from other providers, to evaluate knowlege vaults for statements about entities and their relationships Creating knowledges triples from record-oriented data to create a knowledge vault: triples provide opportunities for developers to work with.Testing a subset with ArchivGrid and WorldCat MARC records. On top of this they put canned SPARQL queries. From it, you can go to WorldCat, VIAF, etc. You can interact with the data and give feedback. They pull from Wikipedia, Wikidata, person entities same as links, but keep users in the knowledge card interface without them having to click out to Wikipedia. They take the visualization of triples, weighted the relationships and create a user-friendly interface with relationships. They are working on same as between FAST wiki…If users do follow suggest links when the same as isn’t clear, they are caching, reviewing and probably enhancing the knowledge vault.mixterj@oclc.orgStephen Hearn asked about same as assertions for people using multiple names - the links would start to match up similar publishers, times frames, topics written about and not make a same as assertion to provide the question of is the person related?

We need to be able to match as same as heterogeneous data across languages so the BIBFRAME classes, etc. not the labels need to be semantically interoperable.

It is important to show provenance/source. The matching shouldn’t try too hard to match and force a same as match.

10:30-11:30 BCEC – 102B RDA ForumRDA progress on governance and strategy. (RDA Forum): http://www.gordondunsire.com/pubs/pres/RDAForum1601.pptxRDA data capture and storage. (CC:DA): http://www.gordondunsire.com/pubs/pres/RDADataCap.pptx

11:30-1:00 BCEC – Ballroom East, Ballroom level EBSCO luncheonRSVPd

They realize there is a disconnect between various terms different vendors are using for the term. They are trying to disambiguate those to get  better search results. They are doing autocomplete based on selected language. Providing did you mean suggestions using fuzzy matches and tracking click-throughs. They are working on auto correct but will allow users to opt out.They will also show related searches. 

EBSCO is speeding up the publishing of metadata. Ebooks ordered through YBP will be available in an hour. Adding 50,000 trade publications, including Penguin. Changed scrolling for displaying an ebook ... new viewer. 140,000 academic ebooks. 

YBPVision to expedite services. YBP has new inventory control to show if really available. For every dollar spent with YBP you get credit for GOBIi, subscriptions, ebooks, etc 

PlumHow do we gather data about researcher data. How did they use the resource ... save, export, bookmark, did they share or come back. Benchmark 5 categories. Did a study comparing which institutions used nih grants.

Plum can get analytics on use of institutional repository and open resources including all authors. Can show citation advantage, can show it is reaching more people

1:00-2:30 BCEC – 204AB Catalog Management IGNotesUniversity of Denver – merging data and migrating to Ex Libris. Moved to ArchivesSpace – took about 9 months. They were able to improve data exporting efficiency and build connection to the ILS. Can push a button and export to whatever. They create a record in ArchivesSpace then push to a file for using MarcEdit to then add to Sierra loader. It took a bit of work to convert out of ArchivesSpace and U of D has documentation in github. Merging bibs was so much a problem as contracts with III, permissions for access, etc. Will keep Iliff records separate and that allows Alma to create a collection. Will be on shibboleth. They have too many systems that don’t work with other: archivesSpace, Islandora, Summon, Serirals Solutions Encore and classic with a lot of homegrown worksflows. They also participate in a local shared Colorado catalog. Migration team is catalogers, circulation, serials/acq etc. and for Primo will add Reference. Need to have script to move archivespace data to Alma, then once there is a record ID, push that back to ArchivesSpace. They are going to be using BlackLight to incorporate the ArchivesSpace records or other open source (IR)

GMD no GMD – RDA conversionhttp://slideshare.net/jkalwara

Nastia Guimaraes – University of Notre Dame – moving a lot of stuff to off-site storage. Library has 4.5 million books, 1 million journals, more ejournalsBuilding is being renovated. Moving to a storage facility in chunks – the Annex but it can store only 1.6 million volumes. Contacted 6 libraries and visited 2 before starting and developed guidelines. They will keep only 1 good copy of a title. Hired company to pull and shelve in Annex. What did they transfer? Non-currently received journasl, monographs in sciences with no circs in last 10 years, humanities 1830-1865 to sort of rare, ran reports to identify exclusions. Hired 6 people for short-term work to update barcodes/items – did 217,000 items in 6 months. Various catalogers were assigned to do recataloging and record updating projects (but bib doesn’t have to be perfect, just egregious errors). Could have used a lot more staff. Developed a custom-made inventory management system for shelving. They didn’t even advertise that the books had moved – they just deliver to patrons. They had set a process status to identify which to pull, but once shelved the process status was removed. There were problems to address: multiple bibs in bound-with, titles not in catalog, titles requested a lot so brought back. Next phase they are going to have barcodes check simple bib issues. (Apparently all their books didn’t have barcodes on them). Measured thickness of each item to help them know how much space a tray had left, created special field to identify condition, in bib (in Aleph item would be better). Conditions: detached cover, missing cover, torn cover, loose or detached spine, other problems – we could use process status but if we migrate we might something like a 945 field that is already local in Aleph. Their process: https://github.com/ndlib/annex-ims .They are allowing search by condition so 945 would make more sense. Would hire more people. Measure well first! Keep the inclusion/exclusion criteria simple – they had too many exclusions – for what goes in annex (same for compact shelving). Communication is important and so is public recognition of work done. Figure out way to keep stats when from storage.

1:00-5:30 BCEC 109 CCDANotesAgenda: http://alcts.ala.org/ccdablog/?cat=33

3:00-4:30 Seaport – Constitution OCLC Cataloging/Metadata User CommunityNotes – Registered – Reception followsJohn Chapman, OCLC; Steve McDonald, Tufts; Adolfo Tarango

OCLC is working with LC on BIBFRAME modeling; developing production visualization, experimenting with visualizationAlso working with Schema.org. Working with early adoptersSchema.org is rather shallow whereas BIBFRAME includes more library management featuresBF 2.0 work/expression, manifestation, item matches up to OCLC’s model creative work (work/expression), creator work production model (instance), item (a copy)OCLC working on updating API for person entities which have a lot of identifiers – again shallow and don’t show much for relationships. Users can find an identify persons with common IDS, users can enter text, information s returned including other IDS, birth/death dates, roles etc. The person entity lookup API uses NACO and FAST and some other data. It can be searched by identifier, text string, and can use a variety of script forms. There are we demos that actually use the API so you can see how it works. Demonstrated the autocomplete. Relevance is primarily based on number of connections. Will show alternate names, probable same as, family relationships. Theoretically bring back into your system to enable search. Pilot will run about 3 months. VIAF is just authority files; person identities pulls in other data, e.g. ISNI, dbpedia, bib records. OCLC trying to find a way to accurately identify persons that could remain “stable” while cataloging environments are

changing. Assist with remediation and reconciliation and disambiguation especially for record cleanup.

OCLC community center. Works with WMS collection manager login. You can subscribe to news. Enhancement suggestions can be made. People can vote on them or comment on them.

WorldShare and WorldCat discover global release calendar coming out in several oclc.org/community – login. Rather than using a listserv you will see via email or via the community center and give inputs to development as WMS cataloging comes out replacing CONNEXION – NOT YET

The knowledge base is a way to get marc records. Automate ebook and ejournal holdings management. So if you buy or do DDA the holdings get updated and you get records. EBL, ebrary, EBSCO, FDLP, JSTOR, TD, Ingram Elsevier. OCLC actually does the cataloging for EBSCO. Benefits: automatic holdings maintenance and MARC record delivering with ongoing updates; customized record editing and delete records. Knowledge base, WorldCat query collection will look for new titles (still don’t get), WorldCat updates (formerly bibnote), cataloging partners now being incorporated like the old promptcat. WorldCat data synchronization collection will support batch load process. This will start March/April.

[I wonder if I will be able to get ebsco ebook bib records via WMS now rather than current file download method.]Merged records don’t generate a delete file record. You get a new record in the update file, not the new. You will lose your 856 with an overlay (unless like Aleph – existing is retained; however the new one may be the one you want so in Aleph you have to manually review these records), So, you have to look at the files to see what happened.

If you use WMS and select 3 vendor packages you will be 1 record with 3 URLs. You will still have problems if you get records from another source and add both in your catalog. An obvious solution is to use OCLC WMS and add local collections. Or you could be sneaky and use MarcEdit to move 856 field data to a different field to preserve, bring in the new record, review the result to identify which you need to keep. In WorldShare you can add a textual fields $x or $z to the URL field. Adolfo Tarango – University of California, San Diego.Early American imprint series 1 and II. If we bought it, we can arrange with vendor to use records UC Davis has in the KBNational Academies Press – UC Davis created a collection for this and because open access you don’t need any vendor agreement. Creating a collection – create it, do the more options to download a kbart file, save that, get your data into a file formatted similarly then copy that into the kbart file and upload it.

4:30-5:30 BCEC 106 FAST IG Simplified cataloging for non-catalogers through FAST - Joelen Pastva, Metadata/Catalog Librarian & Interim Database Maintenance Librarian, University of Illinois at Chicago ; “I need help and FAST!”:  Immediate Guided Search with the assignFAST Gadget - Allison Jai O’Dell, Metadata Librarian, University of Florida

Discussion paper 9 - Look for MAC report which if approved could change fast – REVIEW!OCLC has asked for changes to address how to deal with events; also changing in RDAhttps://www.loc.gov/marc/mac/2016/2016-dp09.html

There will be a new fast oclc listserv ... look for attendees might be automatically added

REPORTFAST (Faceted Application of Subject Terminology) is an enumerative, faceted subject heading system derived primarily from the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). It is a general subject vocabulary that is easy to learn and apply and is faceted-navigation friendly

Recent Developments FAST geographic headings are searchable in VIAF (Virtual International Authority File) FAST Form/Genre headings are being aligned with Library of Congress Genre/Form

Terms (LCGFT) A FAST Changes page provides access to change files published between updates of

FAST downloadable fileso http://fast.oclc.org/fastChanges/

WorldShare Record Manager employs the assignFAST API in a feature to apply FAST headings

FAST in WorldCat About 76 million bibliographic records have been enhanced with FAST headings. Tools for Application and Use

searchFAST http://fast.oclc.org/searchfast/ searchFAST is a user interface for identifying and accessing FAST authority records

and retrieving WorldCat records that have FAST headings.

assignFAST http://experimental.worldcat.org/fast/assignfast This service implements autosuggest technology to facilitate the manual selection of

FAST headings. The service enables the integration of FAST assignment into other applications.

The following table provides the composition of the FAST authority file by facet in October 2015.

Facet MARC Tag Count

Persons 100 693,057

Organizations 110 360,671

Events 111 12,441

Titles of Works 130 63,078

Chronological/Time periods 148 676

Topics 150 407,096

Places 151 176,936

Form/Genre 155 2,610

Total 1,716,565

FAST as Linked Data http://id.worldcat.org/fast/ This experimental Linked Open Data service provides access to the FAST data set

under the Open Data Commons Attribution License. FAST contains links to the following data sets:

o Library of Congress Subject Headings (~300,000 links)*o VIAF & NACO (~1.2 million) o DbPedia/Wikipedia (~160,000)o GeoNames (~85,000)

*One-to-One only, not including references to partial or pattern headings The FAST data set is available for download at:

http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/fast/download.html

5:30-7:30 Harborside State Room Thomson 6:00-8:00 Cheers Faneuil Hall 3M & Bibliotheca

SUNDAY – January 10

7:30-8:30 Westin – Ballroom III IEEE Xplore breakfastCollaboratec – a way to communicate with other researchers (obviously avoiding the library)IEEE indexes Google authors – does this mean google docs or something else?

8:30-10:00 BCEC – 107AB ALCTS Metadata Interest GroupDiscussing Principles for Evaluating Metadata StandardsNotes Draft principles for evaluating metadata standardsLast year they published a checklist for measuring metadata standards but it needed a more fundamental foundation. Metadata and metadata standards should be part of the network, i.e. linkedMetadata and metadata standards should be open and reusable and able to be mixed with other standards; therefore, communicate with other standards bodiesMetadata creation should benefit user communitiesMetadata standards should support new research methodsMetadata standards should have an active maintenance and governance community; vocabularies being maintainedStandards should be extensible, embeddable, and interoperableMetadata standards should follow the rules of “graceful degradation” and “responsive design”

It seemed they are trying to allow for core standards that would work in the main environment for which a standard is designed and in which content is very robust, but at the same time be able to interact (because there are standards) with at least the basics of another resource.

Asked: should a resource be available in JSON but a user could choose to get it in another format, xmlrdf. Have they considered web standards (W3C) to make it beneficial for IT developers.

[This still seems very drafty]

Digital Public Library of America - Emily GoreGetting it right on rights – this is often free text and not standardizedStandards will be published at a web site – http://rightsstatements.orgContent hubs work one to one; service hubs represent many libraries, partners, etc.Center of country isn’t participating in DPLA – western plains but the West is probably the western digital group that started years ago. At the moment there are 26,000 different rights statements in DPLA, some very wordy and don’t always say what you can do. A few actually say copyright or creative commons.Currently 45% are copyrighted; 5% are public domain.If the author died before 1945 with no further copyright activity it is in public domainEuropeana Licensing Framework – it took them 3 years to develop a standard. They have now documented whether public domain or creative commons for about half their resources. They have a faceted identifying public or copyrighted.http://rightsstatements.org – expected launch Oct 2016; goal is to be internationally interoperable. There will be codes/icons for each.

In copyright – known copyright, orphan work, un-locatable to decide, educational permitted, noncommercial use only [to use creative commons you have to be the creator, i.e. rights holder

No copyright – out of copyright, noncommercial use only, no copyright but contractual restrictions, or other restrictions; no copyright U.S. (i.e. we didn’t check outside U.S.)

Undetermined – no known copyright, copyright not evaluated

Result: Rights statements and creative commons licenses to be used as tools for digital resources in in DPLAConsidering in the design of Rightsstatements.org – clear that these are rights statement, common vocabulary, linked data – able, http://bit.ly.rights-data-model ; Rights statements should be expressed in URIs with version numbers.These needs to be able to be used in multiple metadata schemas.

Asked: who updates statements - partnersAccuracy is critical but hard to do in creating digital resources that can become part of DPLA. … really for anything including institutional repository.Asked about expiration dates – i.e. this date the copyright ends and turns into public domain – automatically happen? Important but complicated to figure out yet.

10:30-12:00 BCEC – Ballroom East OCLC Update Brunch Notes - Registered

WMS reports and report designer ... show overlaps in collections, highest or least usage, cost of materials compared to use.

Big data has plateaued. It just is.

A group of libraries have been developing shared print policies for collections ... maybe this would work without a storage facility.

User behaviorLibraries not the only gameConvenience is based on their situation. Question point shows a person is using it even though they are in the library. Don't want to leave pc, table, reference librarian looks grumpy.

We need to know what people actually do. 

We have to become part of social networks 

Evaluating online behaviorshttp://www.oclc.org/research/news/2014/07-21.htmlhttp://Oc.lc/digitalEval

Reordering Ranganathan Library = booksMarket they don't know what we offerKnow your communityDevelop relations online and face to faceEmbed services in existing workflows

1:00-3:00 BCEC – 104BC ALCTS By-laws & ConstitutionNotesWe voted to recommend dissolution of the Code Year IG. We will each be contacting various committees. Santi will send template to use. We will be reviewing the Continuing Resources Section and my role will be to review the draft report between Feb 12 and Feb 19. The PARS review is due May 27 to ALCTS, and will need to review by May 18. For the PARS review, I will need to contact Jennifer Bowen for the Leadership Committee comments on the value of PARS first by Jan. 29. If no response, ask again Feb. 15. There will be a phone call with PARS 1st 2 weeks in Feb - should get doodle from Santi. For the 2016/17 year, we need to contact groups to alert them they need a review, first by Feb. 12; second reminder, July 15. I need to contact the Public Library Technical Services IG that has never done a review before.

This year’s review: International Relations and Fund raising committees- we want more information. Linked Library Data and Scholarly Communications and FRBR we okay. Next year: Committees: Advocacy and Policy, Membership, Metadata Standards Committee; IG: Public Library Technical Services, Creative Ideas in Technical Services, and Electronic Resources Management; and Section: Collection Management

1:00-2:30 BCEC – 107AB CaMMS forumCaMMS Forum: “Authority Work of the Future: Taking Controlled Vocabulary and Authority Control Beyond the Library Catalog"; http://connect.ala.org/node/249295Wanted to go to but had committee meeting – follow up on

UCLA is taking a systematic approach to obtaining an ORCID for each researcher on campus, to facilitate harvesting of citations of scholarly output and to achieve other anticipated benefits. - See more at: http://connect.ala.org/node/249295#sthash.snLRE0K3.dpuf

Amber Seely, Database & Metadata Management Coordinator, will discuss an ongoing plan to embed Library of Congress name authority record URIs into new and existing catalog records using subfield 0, originally a space to deposit authority record control numbers. Scott Carlson, Metadata Coordinator, will discuss the transformation of a locally-created

thesaurus of over 3,000 names and subject headings into a SKOS-RDF environment, which is then used to automatically verify digital collections metadata. The presentation will finish with the speakers discussing their newest project: a publicly-searchable headings database. - See more at: http://connect.ala.org/node/249295#sthash.snLRE0K3.dpuf

4:30-6:00 BCEC – 107AB PCC Participants Kate Harcourt will give an update on PCC's Vision, Mission and Strategic Directions Report Michelle Durocher, Head of Metadata Management/Metadata Creation for Harvard Library, will describe early experimentation underway at Harvard Library to reimagine local authority work as identity management, with unique identifiers shared globally through ISNI.  She will be joined by Harvard colleagues in a panel discussion exploring the need for identifiers in a variety of use cases. The group will discuss ideas coming out of their internal exploration of developing a NACO Lite proposal and how those ideas focused onto the need to expand participation in the PCC. NotesMissed most of because of long Bylaws and needed to go to SCS. Shift in authority control – from based on fixed strings to identity management

5:30-7:30 Renaissance Boston WaterfrontSCS GreenGlass Users Registered 606 Congress Street Pacific Ballroom, Salons A-B Typically, libraries need to downsizeUsually start with scarcely heldLC classification is common among libraries, comparisons also possible by Dewey, by collection, by comparisons to state.There are 12 categoriesCan add another layer like HathiTrustCan build queries and they adjust in real time

NewScores, nonbooks, languages, dates in before or between, and more granularity in data.Remediation lists: no oclc number and they will try add, Multi-edition titles can be viewed togetherAble to do known item search

OCLC Sustainable Collection Services (SCS) now supports shared-print projects through its GreenGlass application. The new GreenGlass group features extend collection visualization and interactivity to consortial or regional collections, enabling participating libraries to better understand and manage their shared collections.

Group key issues: uses, date added, date last used, who holds, hathitrust, edition overlap vs any edition tally, GreenGlass is trying to create more visualizations 

There is a model builderModels are retention focused(For even a policy to work in ND, would require statewide data ... to they all need to be customers?) For a group, after you make decisions, you upload and register as retention or not for shared print.

MONDAY January 11

8:30-10:00 BCEC – 107AB Heads of Cataloging

Notes1. Nancy Lorimer, Head of Metadata Services at Stanford University, will be discussing “Authorities, Entities, Real World Objects, and ... Cats?: Moving from authority creation to identity management2. Katherine Wisser, a professor of library and information science at Simmons College, will be discussing developments in Encoded Archival Context: Corporate Bodies, Persons, and Families (EAC-CPF). 

Our authorities are remaining hidden in ILS and researchers miss out from the value of our valuable research. Linked data may begin to improve that but it has been slow going. Linked data gives us the ability to link together we will be able to link many resources (various authority resources ISNI, etc.)

Nancy Lorimer (Stanford) – Authorities, entities, real-world objects and cat: moving from authority creation to identity management

http://j.mp/ALA2016MW-HoC-Lorimer

LC Stanford and others are working on a 2-year project to bring linked data cataloging to production. BIBFRAME (BF) is on constant flux. How to link to reali world identifiers and entities outside the bibliographic realm is the challenge. An entity that exists in itself, actually or potentially, concretely or abstractly… there is also no presumption that an entity is animate (Wikipedia)

Bibframe:EntitiesWorksInstancesItems

To model these we use ontologies outside BFAgents Corporate bodiesGeographic locationsConceptsEventsThese all need identities. We called them access points.

We say our records are surrogates for the real thing. For the computer it IS the thing. When you click a URI it goes to THAT web page.

BF:Agent is the name; bf:Authority is a subclass of fb:Authority

With BIBFRAME 2.0

Person is subclass of bf:agent (there is no bf:authority anymore – gone)

Our cat however is not person so an additional identifier is needed to point out the name is not human. The cat can be a foaf. In the example the cat had a name and another name (nickname) and an identifier http://id.loc.gov.....

In Stanford’s catalog there are millions of entities identified only by text-strings – i.e. no authority record – for books they buy. Then there are package records, digital collections, local art museum, an article database of faculty research, and journal articles – most of these with no authority records.

MARC will continue for a while with all its interdependencies. One way to enhance MARC is to add $0 URLs to entries in MARX records. If present, these will convert directly to BF.

There could be failures with links and you won’t know. You have to watch services that bring in overlaying records.

[If I add them will the PNX do something different?]

Stanford is adding the URIs to authority records and these easily move to BF. Libraries have been testing various scenarios and a few have found fairly simple programming can take URIs and add to bib or authorities records.

Cascading control of strings – usually ends up matching only $a as the remaining subfields fail – even when they are correct.

Copy matching (acquisitions simple check and add), copy cataloging looks at more of the work. It would be neat if vendors would include identifiers which when then sent to their authority vendor (e.g. backstage), could be matched if possible.

In original cataloging, catalogers excel at authority record creation. We could create a traditional NACO record; we could also create and ORCID/ISNI (orcid won’t be option from not own and you have to join ISNI) or some local identifier (faculty database). Once you have identifiers you are prepared for BF.

Real world objects may become the “new thing” and the URI’s you added will need to be reconciled yet again.

If you make local identifiers, someone else may make a different identifier for the same person (e.g. viaf)

Id.loc.govVIAFISNIOrcidulanLocalLCSHLCGFTLCDGTAATTGMERICRDAESHLCMPTGNDCshMore

So we get identifiers, there may be multiple identifiers for one entity, there may be problems with reconciliation, but they are better than nothing.

nlorimer@stanford.edu

Katherine Wisser (Simmons College) – Developments in encoded archival context: corporate bodies, persons, and family

http://j.mp/ALA2016MW-HoC-Wisser

Encoded archival context – corporate bodies, persons and families - (EAC-CPF) standard

Archival description and context control

Principle 8: the various archival collections placed in a depository must be carefully kept separate; respect de fonds: connection to administrative body of official to whom the documents belong i.e. provenance is important

What is EAC-CPF ISAD(G) and 3.2 context area

ISAAR (CPF) gives general rules for the establishment of archival authority records that describe the corporate bodies, persons, and families that may be name as creators in descriptions of archival documents ISAD(G) 1.14

http://www2.archivists.org/groups/technical-subcommittee-on-eac-cpf/encoded-archival-context-corporate-bodies-persons-and-families-eac-cpf

DACS is similar – creators are as important as the materials

ISAAR (CPF)5.1 identity area5.2 description5.3 relationships area5.4 control area6 relating corporate bodies, persons and families to archival materials and other resources

Development of the standard EAC-CPFBegan work on the standard in 1998; fully adopted by SAA in 2011

Entities and identitiesEntity – anythingIdentity – describes it – information about it, creation, maintenance, status and rules and authorities used to create the record. Requires: recorded, maintenanceStatus, maintenanceAgency, maintenanceHistory, etc.

Single identities are most common, but there may be multiple identities (one in many, many in one), or a collaborate identity. In NAF Bill Clinton has several records; in EAC there is one.

cpfDescription: identity – name or names related to the identity…….

Trove (in Australia) http://trove.nla.gov.au/

APEx: http://www.archivesportaleurope.net

NAAC: http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.eud/NAAC_index.html - building a national archival authorities structure

Snac – social networks and cooperative project http://www.SNACcooperative.org

All of this is based on EAC-CPF and identities – there are tons of links to resources that are displayed together; they don’t do EAD. National Archives will be the secretariat. SNAC@nara.gov

One library is using EAC-CPF in Digital Commons

10:30-11:30 BCEC – 253C OCLC ResearchNoteshttp://www.oclc.org/research/events.htmlOCLC Membership and Research is the new name.Includes: research collections and support, understanding the system-wide library, data science, user studies, and ? …New publications to check out:

Library in the life of the user Shaping the library to the life of the user If you build it, will they find it?

Because what is known must be shared

[presentations more in depth than OCLC update]

Lynn Silipigni Connaway. Library in the life of the user: engaging with people where they live and learnWe thought of the user exclusively using the library – they never really did. When we ask them things like to you like the library they will say yes. Ask why or what. Convenience and context switching is important. Fragmentation is a deterrent. We don’t market in the terminology they use – they don’t know what virtual reference vs. you can chat with a librarian (maybe even a better word?). They aren’t so carrying about authoritative resources about themselves than their studies, at least at the first few years of college. They just want an answer and the library’s web site is just too complicated. I go to an ATM, put in a card, and money comes out. I go to the library, type something and I don’t know what came out. Young students aren’t into email – they are at Facebook, snapchat, their friends they trust, not library services; once they are at research levels and need to cooperate with other researchers email or other document sharing sources are used. Interviews with high school students show there is a rule of 3 – if there are 3 they communicate with each other but if more than 3 it is totally permissible in the group social context to text, etc. even though you are with a group. They don’t want a librarian to point, but instead walk with them to the place; librarians make them feel stupid, I don’t know what they are pointing at and I am afraid to ask. If a reference librarian isn’t good in person, they probably aren’t in chat either – chat needs to be engaging and alive – not robotic. Ranganathan – follow the reader. Use what you know, learn what you don’t know, engage in new ways.

Estimating trustworthiness and finding the truth – Jeff MixterA series of Google Research papers describe the use of probabilistic models to identify truthful resources. They use a knowledge vault. OCLC is evaluating a similar model for bibliographic and authority data source, in combination with user-contributed content and linked data from other providers, evaluate the veracity of the knowledge vault. They are using Worldcat, VIAF, FAST, extracting data and creating knowledge triples, do a “fusion” process (mathematically-based) to provide a scored triple (valid). As they do this, the perform FRBR clustering, do string matches with controlled vocabularies, and add standard identifiers. They are put in Ref entities – persons, organizations, places, concepts, events, works – then create triples [subject predicate object]. So how can you use this? Example: used ArchiveGrid triples, then looked out in WorldCat, VIAF, FAST, dbpedia, wikidata which can flow back into the knowledge vault. Each of these resources contain information that is brought into your formatted knowledge card. Allows input by user, OCLC can review and update information.

Karen Smith-Yoshimura

Working on organization identifiers. How do you estimate impact factors? There are several methods – university rankings some of which is dependent on numbers citations by researchers.Identifier is a unique persistent and public uri associated with a digital object, resolvable globally over networks, unambiguous to use, find, a nd identify the resource. EX: id.loc.gov, isni.org, viaf.org, wikidata.org. OCLC has a task force on organizations in ISNI. They have examined 13 use case, produced examples, created 23 recommendations, search guidelines for organizations, outreach document for institutions and why the institutions should become a member of ISNI.

Jisc publication: – Registering researchers in authority filesInstitutes want to track their scholarly output, track research groups with some from own institution, tracking funding, disambiguate researcher names by affiliation.

ISNI draws from trade sources, archives and museums, libraries, music rights, text rights, encyclopedias. There are over 500,000 organizations with pubic ISNIs. There are links to and from VIAF, there are links in WikiData. For any wiki that uses an authority block you will see the same ISNI

ISNI needs to augment relationship types and display, eg. Acquired by, is governed by, etc. You can indicate which is the organization’s preferred form of name. It already publishes in RDF but want to publish an ISNI ontology and add turtle, JSON, etc. options.

ALA will publish a video of this session.

1:00-2:30 Seaport – Seaport Ballroom A & B Subject AnalysisSpeaker – Janis Young LCDGT; MARC, Music, Genre/form NotesAgenda - http://connect.ala.org/node/248907

Look for slides on ALA connect - http://connect.ala.org/node/249212

Intended audience does not have to be stated on the book. How do we say films for children. Make more use of inverted references in LCDGT. Not every term has BT. They are very strict about it being hierarchical. Collocation takes place at the category level. Age, educational level, ethnic/cultural, gender, language, medical/psychological/disability, national/regional, occupation field of activity, religion, sexual orientation, socialIf in doubt, don’t do it. Audience is implicit but it must jump out at you – don’t agonize. [She has a couple tags wrong] Conundrums: cultural assumptions and technical design of vocabularies.You always have to be part of a group. If there is a term used outside U.S. that doesn’t really have an equivalent, it can be proposed. Gender has to be self-identified. Gender is never a broader term. demonyms – people from a place with the same name have the same demonym. There is a paper on the LC website by she would like a response. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcdgt-demonyms.pdf

There are a few places in the NACO record that LCDGT could be used, e.g. occupation. However the purpose of the LCDGT is for resources, not NACO i.e. you would not use the LCDGT term men for gender in NACO which should be male. In anthology, you wouldn’t pick out every author and try to get a term for each – instead use the intent behind why the editor created to the anthology. She doesn’t want to develop really deep hierarchies because determining it can be very complex. Demonyms in linked data should be linked to place it is subordinate to. Therefore there can be a whole bunch of demonyms that in Linked Data you can select which to link to.

LC Genre Forms terms manual --- up in draft. Test the manual when you need a new entry for new cataloging.

LCDGT isn’t working on id.loc.gov; it is in classification.net/lcdtg; First PDF will be on an LC web page.

FAST report WMS uses the AssignFast’s APIContinuing to add FAST headingsIf a subject needs changing and hence FAST – right now easiest to delete FAST heading and OCLC will eventually recreate the correct entry TribesTrying to determine what the tribe calls itself.

Illegal aliensIt is pejorative yet does exist in US Code.Do we want to be welcoming to all users or continue to be legal and use a pejorative term?There was a suggestion to make it a subcategory which would keep the term in the code, but allow assigning the Undocumented immigrantsWhat is literary warrant?How can we decide guilt or innocence?Vote supported the resolution but they are not really clear on the process of Council. It was strongly supported by the person Tina Gross who brought it to SAC and a non-member. Other SAC members were not convinced but acquiesced assuming they will be studying it further.They will be forming a task group to look at the term illegal aliens and other pejorative terms.

MAC – Marc Advisory CommitteeBroaden use of 257 – country of production, primarily for film industry, to include autonomous areasDP09 preferred x47 for events. Agent-events (conference) should have dates and place subfielded. Definition requested by Germans – probably won’t come backGermans proposed a 075 for topical terms that hierarchically have a different type of categoryStephen wondered about the effect of spreading subject-ness stuff in fields other than 6XX and Music purposely chose 382 and uses a vocabulary for the terms there but it isn’t the subject

AALLMany law catalogers are applying law genre terms.

See agenda links

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LITA/ALCTS Linked Library Data Interest Group Meeting Time: Saturday, January 9, 2016, 8:30-10am Location: Boston Convention & Exhibition Center (BCEC) 151B

 Please join us for two presentations on the theme of curation, data modeling, ontology development and challenges in learning and teaching Linked Data.  1. Connecting Researchers and Resources with eagle-i Tenille Johnson, Lead Data Curator, Harvard Medical School  Abstract: Groundbreaking biomedical research requires access to the right scientific tools and resources, many of which can be shared. But researchers are often unaware of what’s available at the lab next door, much less across the country. This leads to wasted time and effort, and makes reproducing results more difficult. eagle-i is a national network and ontology-driven, RDF-based discovery tool developed in 2009 to help researchers and universities create, store, and search semantically rich data about research resources of all kinds. The open source eagle-i software platform is built around Semantic Web technologies; information in eagle-i is available as Linked Open Data and can be queried via public SPARQL endpoints and repurposed to fit different needs. Although organizing information about resources such as cell lines, antibodies and core facilities has not been the traditional purview of libraries, librarians can provide invaluable expertise with curation and data modeling, and help with training and outreach efforts at their institutions. This presentation will describe the current eagle-i work and underlying data structure, and discuss the ways libraries can get more involved.

 

Bio: Tenille Johnson is Lead Data Curator for the eagle-i Network at Harvard Medical School. She gained experience with structured vocabularies and the development of new software systems in a variety of commercial libraries before joining Harvard Catalyst’s Biomedical Informatics Program in 2010, where she currently works on data quality, ontology development, and annotation guidelines for the eagle-i and SHRINE projects. She has an MLIS from Simmons College and a BA in Religion from Bates College.

 

2. Dublin Core’s Linked Data for Professional Educators Competency Index and Exploratorium

 Mike Lauruhn, Disruptive Technology Director, Elsevier Labs

 Abstract: The Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) is undertaking the Linked Data for Professional Educators (LD4PE) project to develop an open data competency index and using it curate a collection of learning resources relevant to learning and teaching Linked Data. The intent is that this Exploratorium will be sustained by DCMI and its members as part it's larger education and outreach activities.

In this session we will give an update on the Linked Data Competency Index and the Exploratorium of learning resources. We will engage the audience in a discussion to identify their priorities and challenges in learning and teaching Linked Data and talk about favorite resources. This session will aid the project as we make iterative improvements to our products.

 

Bio: Mike Lauruhn is a librarian working as Disruptive Technology Director at Elsevier Labs. His current research areas include Linked Data, taxonomies and ontologies, mark-up and annotation, research data lifecycles, and other issues affecting research communications. Before joining Labs in 2010, he held consulting and technical positions helping large companies and organizations define and implement taxonomies and metadata schemas. Mike's earlier work experience includes cataloging for the California Newspaper Project at the Center for Bibliographic Studies and Research at the University of California, Riverside.

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Keith WebsterDean of Libraries and Director of Emerging and Integrative MediaCarnegie Mellon Universitykwebster@andrew.cmu.edu

Meredith A Taylor, Ph.D. Director of Administrative Operations, Enrollment and Curriculum ManagementUniversity of Texas at Austinmeredith.taylor@austin.utexas.edu

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Jenica RogersDirector of Libraries and College Archives,Dorf Endowed Director of Applied LearningState University of New York at Potsdamrogersjp@potsdam.edu

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