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Worldshare Record Manager: Cataloging With Wms, Ashley L. Smith
Worldshare Record Manager: Cataloging With Wms, Ashley L. Smith
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WorldShare Record Manager is a cataloging tool provided through WorldShare Management Services (WMS). This presentation will primarily focus on creating original records, copy cataloging, and editing bibliographic records with WorldShare Record Manager. The aim of this presentation is to familiarize anyone involved with their institution’s cataloging with the cataloging components of WMS.
Linked Data Via Vivaldi: A Musical Journey From Wikidata To The Library Catalog, Emma Clarkson, Steven Folsom, Huda Khan, Kevin Kishimoto, Astrid Usong, Rachel Evans
Linked Data Via Vivaldi: A Musical Journey From Wikidata To The Library Catalog, Emma Clarkson, Steven Folsom, Huda Khan, Kevin Kishimoto, Astrid Usong, Rachel Evans
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In collaboration with the Music Library Association Linked Data Working Group (MLA LDWG), and as part of the Linked Data for Production: Closing the Loop (LD4P3) grant, Cornell University and Stanford University explored the integration of Wikidata properties describing musical works into a Cornell library catalog prototype. In this presentation, we will briefly describe the MLA LDWG’s project to add thematic catalog codes and other information to musical works represented in Wikidata. We will review the design, development, and usability testing of a Cornell library catalog prototype that integrated these Wikidata properties.
We will also discuss the specific choices we …
Customizing The Connexion Client To Work For You, Rachel S. Evans, Emily Williams, Kelley Ansley
Customizing The Connexion Client To Work For You, Rachel S. Evans, Emily Williams, Kelley Ansley
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OCLC’s Connexion Client has a number of built-in tools to help catalogers save time and energy through customizations that provide controlled automation and ensure consistency. We’ll review a few of these tools, specifically Text Strings, Key Maps, and Macros, along with some resources that provide additional shortcuts.
Linked Data For The Real World: Leveraging Metadata For Cataloging, Rachel S. Evans, Robin Fay, Linh Uong
Linked Data For The Real World: Leveraging Metadata For Cataloging, Rachel S. Evans, Robin Fay, Linh Uong
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Will the promise of linked data actually save us time? How will catalogers and machines work together to streamline recording of data and authority maintenance work, allowing catalogers and metadata practitioners to focus more on data stewardship and less on being data scribes? Will Real World Objects (RWOs) and linked data help bridge the gap between traditional cataloging and the larger semantic web communities of practice, ensuring that library metadata supports our users’ search behaviors, those FRBR User Tasks? Or will it just provide more maintenance work down the road? This session will explore the potential of linked data and …