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What Is A Metadata Librarian?, Karen Miller, Kristin Martin, Ellen Kathryn Corrigan

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

Panel discussion on the role of the metadata librarian in academic libraries. Drawing from their own experiences, three Illinois academic librarians address topics including the training and skills needed, as well as the duties and challenges of the position. Part of the DCUG "Metadata Matters" webinar series.

Webinar recording available via http://www.carli.illinois.edu/mem-serv/mem-train/10falldcug.html. Presentation was recorded on: Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 10:00am – 11:00am

What Is A Metadata Librarian?, Karen Miller, Kristin Martin, Ellen Corrigan

Faculty Research & Creative Activity

Panel discussion on the role of the metadata librarian in academic libraries. Drawing from their own experiences, three Illinois academic librarians address topics including the training and skills needed, as well as the duties and challenges of the position. Part of the DCUG "Metadata Matters" webinar series.Webinar recording available via http://www.carli.illinois.edu/mem-serv/mem-train/10falldcug.html. Presentation was recorded on: Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 10:00am – 11:00am

After Digitization: Tools And Ideas For Improving Digital Collection Services, Jonathan Mcglone, Adrienne Aluzzo

Library Scholarly Publications

Turning the attention of librarians and technologists away from digitization and implementation of digital projects, this program will examine development trends after a digital project has been launched. Arguing that a digital project is never "complete", the presenters explore and demonstrate recent library initiatives to develop services that improve a digital collection's visibility and value. Whether harnessing the power of the social web, taking on in-house web development, improving metadata, or tying digital collections to the classroom, the end-goal is to make digital collections used and useful. To reach this goal, the presenters will demonstrate simple web services libraries can …

Scaling Down: How Small To Medium-Sized Cultural Heritage Institutions Can Make Sizeable Contributions To Larger Digital Projects, Michael J. Bennett

UConn Library Presentations

Presentation made for the Connecticut State Library-hosted "Decision Points in Digitization" panel discussion, Hartford, CT October 21, 2010.

Strategic Planning For Sustaining User-Generated Content In Digital Collections, Cory K. Lampert, Su Kim Chung

Library Faculty Presentations

• Should there be an overarching philosophy for user-generated content in the organization?

• Who in the management or leadership determines this philosophy or guides the organization to come up with a shared vision?

•What technical considerations are there for these projects? Are there staff that need to be consulted for software choices and technical customization?

•Is there are point person for the project and does this person have the authority and appropriate expertise to moderate content and respond to user’s contributions?

•Should there be appropriate guidelines for communicating an institutions’ brand or message in these new venues?

•And ultimately, …

Metadata For Digital Audio Collections, Eben English

University Libraries: Faculty Publications and Other Works

Slides from a webinar presented on October 12, 2010 as part of the "Metadata Matters" educational series sponsored by the Digital Collections Users' Group (DCUG) of the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois (CARLI).

This session covered how standard metadata schemas such as Dublin Core and METS can be applied to digital audio collections, as well as the embedded metadata fields in digital audio file formats such as WAV, BWF, and MP3. The session also discussed how the unique characteristics of archival audio materials – such as oral histories, lectures, radio broadcasts, and musical performances – can best …

Why Purchase When You Can Repurpose? Using Crosswalks To Enhance User Access, Teressa M. Keenan

Mansfield Library Faculty Publications

The Mansfield Library subscribes to the Readex database U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994 (full-text historic reports of Congress and federal agencies). Given the option of purchasing MARC records for all 262,000 publications in the Serial Set or making use of free access to simple Dublin Core records provided by Readex, the library opted to repurpose the free metadata. The process that the Mansfield Library used to obtain the Dublin Core records is described, including the procedures for crosswalking the metadata to MARC and batch loading the bibliographic records complete with holdings information to the local catalog. This report shows that …

Reaping A Rich Harvest From Contentdm: Using Primo And A Dublin Core Application Profile, Cheryl D. Walters, Sandra Mcintyre

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

Explains how Mountain West Digital LIbrary (mwdl.org) is using a new discovery platform (Primo) in tandem with a new Dublin Core Application Profile to improve search and display of digital objects. The Mountain West Digital Library is a central search portal for digital collections about the Mountain West region. It provides free access to over 300,000 resources in 350 collections from universities, colleges, public libraries, museums, archives, and historical societies in Utah, Nevada, and other parts of the U.S. West.

Mountain West Digital Library Dublin Core Application Profile, Utah Academic Library Consortium. Digitization Committee. Metadata Task Force, Cheryl D. Walters

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

This Dublin Core application profile supersedes the Metadata Guidelines for the Mountain West Digital Library (2006). It is intended to guide the creation of new metadata (i.e., created after June 1, 2010) by members and contributing partners of the MWDL. The Mountain West Digital Library (MWDL) provides a portal (http://mwdl.org) to digital resources in universities, colleges, public libraries, museums, archives, historical societies, government agencies, and other entities in Utah, Nevada, and other parts of the U.S. West.

Cheryl Walters served as Chair of the Metadata Task Force that wrote this profile.

2010 New England Technical Services Librarians Spring Conference: Crosswalks To The Future: Library Metadata On The Move, Andrée J. Rathemacher, Martha Rice Sanders, Michael A. Cerbo Ii

Technical Services Department Faculty Publications

Report on the 2010 New England Technical Services Librarians (NETSL) Spring Conference, held on April 15, 2010 at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts.

Batch Editing Marc Records With Marcedit And Regular Expressions, Kathryn Lybarger, Julene L. Jones

Library Presentations

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Dublin Core Application Profiles And The Oclc Digital Gateway: New Tools For Improving Discoverability Of Digital Collections, Cheryl D. Walters, Allyson Mower, Sandra Mcintyre

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

Discusses how some new tools such as Dublin Core application profiles and the OCLC Digital Collection Gateway can improve discoverability of digital collections.

The Mass. Memories Road Show: A State-Wide Scanning Project, Joanne M. Riley, Heather Cole

Joseph P. Healey Library Publications

The Mass. Memories Road Show (http://blogs.umb.edu/massmemories) is a public scanning project based at the University of Massachusetts Boston which partners with local communities to digitize family photographs and stories at public events with the goal of creating a digital portrait of all the 351 cities and towns in the Commonwealth. This article describes how the project works to ensure broad participation in the planning and execution of the project, as well as a detailed description of the logistics of a Road Show event, which could be replicated in other communities.

Skos And The Semantic Web: Knowledge Organization, Metadata, And Interoperability, Eric A. Robinson

Other Topics

The Simplified Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) is a Semantic Web framework, based on the Resource Description Framework (RDF) for thesauri, classification schemes and simple ontologies. It allows for machine-actionable description of the structure of these knowledge organization systems (KOS) and provides an excellent tool for addressing interoperability and vocabulary control problems inherent to the rapidly expanding information environment of the Web. This paper discusses the foundations of the SKOS framework and reviews the literature on a variety of SKOS implementations. The limitations of SKOS that have been revealed through its broad application are addressed with brief attention to the proposed …

[Rd] Prism Library: Patient Registry Item Specifications And Metadata For Rare Diseases, Rachel L. Richesson, Denise Shereff, James E. Andrews

School of Information Faculty Publications

Patient registries are important for understanding the causes and origins of rare diseases and estimating their impact; and they may prove critical developing new diagnostics and therapeutics. This paper introduces the [RD] PRISM resource , an NIH-funded project to develop a library of standardized question and answer sets to support rare disease research. The paper presents a project case-driven plan for creating a new registry using questions from an existing related registry, revising and expanding an existing registry, and showing interoperability of data collected from different registries and data sources. Each of the use cases involves the retrieval of indexed …