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Kevin Ford Selected for the Semantic Web.com Spotlight on Library Innovation

Richard Wallis — 2013-05-21T16:34:21

Last month, SemanticWeb.com, supported by OCLC and LITA, put out a call for
work that promoted or demonstrated the benefits of linked data for
libraries.



After receiving a number of excellent nominations, we are pleased to
announce that *Kevin Ford*, from the Network Development and MARC Standards
Office at the Library of Congress, was selected to showcase his work with
the Bibliographic Framework Initiative (BIBFRAME) and his continuing work
on the Library of Congress's Linked Data Service (loc.id). In addition to
being an active contributor, Kevin is responsible for the BIBFRAME website;
has devised tools to view MARC records and the resulting BIBFRAME resources
side-by-side; authored the first transformation code for MARC data to
BIBFRAME resources; and is project manager for The Library of Congress’
Linked Data Service. Kevin also writes and presents frequently to promote
BIBFRAME, ID.LOC.GOV, and educate fellow librarians on the possibilities of
linked data.



Because of previous commitments, Kevi

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P. Kieran Etienne — 2013-05-17T17:27:03

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Carolyn Gutierrez — 2013-05-17T13:20:45

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Re: The Process of Cataloging in the Future

Richard Wallis — 2013-05-17T10:42:06

On this topic, can I draw your attention to the W3C Community Group "Schema
Bib Extend" <http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/>, which I chair.

The mission of this group is to discuss and prepare proposal(s) for
extending Schema.org schemas for the improved representation of
bibliographic information markup and sharing. The group will seek consensus
around, and support for, proposal(s) to the W3C WebSchemas Group. This
Community Group will not, itself, produce technical specifications.


The WebSchemas Group mentioned is the group behind the extension and
enhancement of the Schema.org vocabulary that James uses in his example.

Schema.org is well used across the web - Google/Bing reported last year
that it had already appeared in 7%-10% of the pages they crawl on a daily
basis.

He is right to predict that its use will be important for many
organisations including libraries to register the fact that they have
resources with search engines and others on the web.

The Schema Bib Extend Group has 60+ member

The Process of Cataloging in the Future

James Weinheimer — 2013-05-17T08:23:07

Apologies for cross-posting, but I thought these groups would be interested.

I thought I would share this extremely interesting tool created by
Google for cataloging materials that are online, the "Structured Data
Markup Helper" at
http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&topic=3070267&answer=3070230

This tool allows the webmaster of a page to add structured data to a
page on their site. You put in the URL of the page to code or the HTML
itself, and then you can simply highlight the areas that you want to
code. It is based on the schema.org microdata and is very simple to do.
I find the tool a little clunky and very incomplete but it is brand new.
I tried coding my latest podcast, using the "Article" template.
http://blog.jweinheimer.net/2013/04/cataloging-matters-no-19-library.html and
found it fairly simple, although I was unable to highlight the article
body for some reason. I'll probably use it on my next podcast.

As of now, the tags you can add for articles are very incomplete
http://

Job posting: Head, Metadata Services Department, University of Maryland

Kathy Glennan — 2013-05-14T16:13:05

The following position is now open at the University of Maryland Libraries. Applications are due by July 20, 2013.



Title:                Head, Metadata Services Department

Category:        Librarian

Department:  Metadata Services

Benefits:         22 Days Annual Leave, 15 Days of Sick Leave, 3 Days Personal Leave, 15 Paid Holidays,

                        Tuition Remission, Health, Dental, Vision, and Prescription



As the largest university library system in the Washington D.C.-Baltimore area, the University of Maryland Libraries serve 37,000 students and faculty of the flagship College Park campus. The University of Maryland Libraries share the teaching, learning and research goals of the university. Its role as a key academic resource is evident in its service to the academic community and its actionable strategic plan.



The University of Maryland Libraries is seeking a Head for the Metadata Services Department that will lead a service-centered department in designing, implementing, and assessin

Reminder - Invitation to participate - Learning style of academic librarians survey (closes Monday 5/13)

Kahl, Chad — 2013-05-13T04:00:52

Reminder that the survey closes on Monday, May 13th.  If you have not participated, please consider spending the 15 to 20 minutes.  Thanks!
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Hello Colleagues,

A group of Illinois State University librarians is researching the learning styles of academic librarians. The purpose of this study is to determine what, if any, patterns exist within this group using the Felder-Silverman Index of Learning Styles instrument.

You are invited to complete a brief, voluntary, and anonymous questionnaire that will gather professional demographic data and to take the Index of Learning Styles. It will take approximately 15-20 minutes to finish. You may withdraw at any time. At the end, you will receive your learning style results and information about those results.

Questionnaire is available at http://www.mlb.ilstu.edu/learning/consent.html

The survey will be available until May 13, 2013.

This study protocol was approved by the Illinois State University Institutional Revi

NISO/DCMI Webinar: Semantic Mashups Across Large, Heterogeneous Institutions: Experiences from the VIVO Service

DCMI Announce — 2013-05-07T14:30:22

******************Please excuse the cross postings******************

Join NISO/DCMI for our joint May webinar

--Webinar: Semantic Mashups Across Large, Heterogeneous Institutions:
Experiences from the VIVO Service
--Date: May 22, 2013
--Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time - UTC 17:00:00) (World Clock:
http://bit.ly/157qF2S)
--Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/vivo/

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ABOUT THE WEBINAR:

VIVO is a semantic web application focused on discovering researchers and
research publications in the life sciences.  The service, which uses
open-source software originally developed and implemented at Cornell
University, operates by harvesting data about researcher interests,
activities, and accomplishments from academic, administrative,
professional, and funding sources.  Using a built-in, editable ontology for
describing things such as People, Courses, and Publications, data is
transformed into a Semantic-Web-compliant for

NASIG Conference 2013 Early Bird Registration closing May 3rd!

publicist — 2013-04-29T14:55:03

April is almost over!  Register by May 3rd to get the early
bird rate!

NASIG CONFERENCE  JUNE 6-9 2013
Art of Information, Architecture of Knowledge

Conference Registration:
http://www.nasig.org/registrationcontent.cfm

Dont get closed out of a great conference!  Connect with
members of the serials, e-resource, cataloging, collection
management, and scholarly communication community.  Learn
new developments at the Vendor Expo, engage with attendees
and speakers on hot topics, and relax with new friends at
the many social opportunities.  

Hotel Registration - Early bird rates apply here, too!
Reserve your room before May 3.

Hyatt Regency Buffalo Hotel and Conference Center, Buffalo,
New York
Some rooms are still available for June 6-8.  For
reservations at the conference rate go to
http://www.nasig.org/conference_hotel.cfm

Comfort Inn (two blocks away)--Some rooms are still
available for June 4-9.  Attendees should call 
1-716-854-5500 and say they are with the NASIG conference to
get the discount ro

SemanticWeb.com Spotlight on Library Innovation

Richard Wallis — 2013-04-29T08:37:45

*Help spotlight library innovation and send a library linked data
practitioner to the SemTechBiz conference in San Francisco, June 2-5*



OCLC and LITA are working to promote library participation at the upcoming
Semantic Technology & Business Conference (SemTechBiz)<
http://semtechbizsf2013.semanticweb.com>. Libraries are doing important
work with Linked Data and SemanticWeb.com wants to spotlight that
innovation.


One sponsored presenter will receive a spot on the conference program, paid
travel & lodging costs to get to the conference, plus a full conference
pass.



If you know of someone who has done great work demonstrating the benefit of
linked data for libraries, nominate them for this June 2-5 conference in
San Francisco.   Nominations of 250 words or less are *open through May 10*.
 Any significant practical work should have been accomplished prior to
March 31, 2013 -- project can be ongoing.   Self-nominations will be
accepted.     Nominations<http://bit.ly/11K9uzJ> for the Spotlight are
being a

VuFind 2.0RC1 Released

Demian Katz — 2013-04-26T19:15:01

Apologies for cross-posting...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

VuFind 2.0RC1 Released

Villanova, Pennsylvania - April 29, 2013 - The first release candidate of version 2.0 of the VuFind Open Source discovery software has just been released. This release provides a preview of the functionality and architecture that will be seen in the full 2.0 release, due later this summer.

The new release includes several significant enhancements:

- Significant security improvements, including more secure password storage and protection against spammer abuse.

- A "MultiBackend" driver which allows VuFind to interact with multiple integrated library systems at once.

- A new and flexible search system with more modular, reusable code.

- 2.0 versions of all new features introduced in the 1.4 release, including support for hierarchical records and the Clickatell SMS service.

Additionally, several bug fixes and minor improvements have been incorporated.

Questions about the new release or VuFind in general can be directed to Demi

linked data, the cloud, etc.

Laval Hunsucker — 2013-04-26T12:39:10

This French government announcement which I just ran
across, dated yesterday 25 April, may well, I can imagine,
be of interest to at least some persons on a list like this
one :

http://www.redressement-productif.gouv.fr/investissements-davenir-150-millions-euros-pour-filiere-numerique#xtor=RSS-11

- Laval Hunsucker
  Hampstead, London, U.K.

NASIG 2012 Conference Proceedings now available

publicist — 2013-04-25T19:43:46

NASIG is pleased to announce the publication of its 2012
Conference Proceedings!

Co-edited by Sharon Dyas-Correia and Sara Bahnmaier, the
Proceedings have been published by Taylor & Francis as
volume 64 of The Serials Librarian. The Proceedings provide
a written record of the presentations given at NASIG's 27th
Annual Conference held in Nashville, Tennessee on June 7-10,
2012.

To access the Proceedings online, NASIG members can log in
to the NASIG homepage and then select Publications >
Conference Proceedings. Online access to the Proceedings is
also available to subscribers of The Serials Librarian via
the T&F platform:
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/wser20/current

The editors wish to thank all speakers and recorders for
their contributions to the Proceedings.

job: web services librarian

Eric Lease Morgan — 2013-04-24T13:00:33

[Posted by request. --ELM]

Code4Lib Journal Issue #20 Published

Peter Murray — 2013-04-17T17:13:11

The Code4Lib Journal editors are excited to bring you this latest issue with seven articles.  You can find it at http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issues/issue20; a brief summary of the articles is included below.

The first set of articles show ways to manipulate metadata records.  In Workflow Tools for Digital Curation<http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/8419> Andrew James Weidner and Daniel Gelaw Alemneh describe how they use AutoHotkey and Selenium IDE at the University of North Texas to automate various aspects of manipulating digital objects.  Heidi Frank show how to process MARC records from Archivists Toolkit in Augmenting the Cataloger’s Bag of Tricks<http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/8336>; the techniques – using MarcEdit, Python, and PyMARC – are transferrable to other sources of records as well.  In Keeping up with Ebooks<http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/8375> Kathryn Lybarger introduces a tool for updating batches of vendor-supplied records through a set of normalization routines.

Re: Cataloging Matters no. 19: Library Catalogs and Information Architecture

Bernhard Eversberg — 2013-04-16T05:19:32

Am 05.04.2013 11:21, schrieb James Weinheimer:

And most of the time, it is about the D in RDA, whereas it is the A
that matters by far the most. Only the A relates to, literally as well
as metaphorically, the Architecture aspect of our metadata. Which
should have been taken on and taken seriously ever since Dublin Core
came along and never really got off the ground.
But wasn't Bibframe conceived to change it all? Up until now, I don't
see how it is going to:

   http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/news/faq.html

There's no talk about Information Architecture, though what is being
said there under "Transition" is certainly relevant.
Then, however, you find a puzzling statement:
"But one factor that brings the data together is the new library
cataloging rule set, Resource Description Framework (RDF)"
that makes you wonder how much they have understood.

B.Eversberg

Invitation to participate - Learning style of academic librarians survey

Kahl, Chad — 2013-04-15T16:23:57

please pardon cross-posting

Hello Colleagues,

A group of Illinois State University librarians is researching the learning styles of academic librarians. The purpose of this study is to determine what, if any, patterns exist within this group using the Felder-Silverman Index of Learning Styles instrument.

You are invited to complete a brief, voluntary, and anonymous questionnaire that will gather professional demographic data and to take the Index of Learning Styles. It will take approximately 15-20 minutes to finish. You may withdraw at any time. At the end, you will receive your learning style results and information about those results.

Questionnaire is available at http://www.mlb.ilstu.edu/learning/consent.html

The survey will be available until May 13, 2013.

This study protocol was approved by the Illinois State University Institutional Review Board (IRB). To ensure that this research continues to protect your rights and minimize your risk the IRB reserves the right to examine and evaluate data and

Sign up for a NASIG 2013 Pre-Conference

publicist — 2013-04-15T15:58:33

NASIG 2013 Pre-Conferences
http://nasig2013.sched.org/

The 2013 NASIG Annual Conference is offering 3 exciting
pre-conferences with expert speakers. Kevin Smith, keynote
presenter at the 2012 NASIG Annual Conference, will discuss
the rules and principles of copyright law, focus on library
specific situations, and help attendees learn how to make
informed copyright decisions at their library. Come learn
from Timothy S. Deliyannides and Lauren Collister about how
a library can become their own publisher supporting their
institutions research and teaching faculty while
transforming todays inflationary cost model for serials.
Need hands-on exercises in creating serials RDA records and
making the transition to RDA? Les Hawkins, Hein Nguyen, and
Valerie Bross will conduct a full day workshop split between
two days. 

See below for additional pre-conference information:

Copyright in Practice: A Participatory Workshop 
Thursday, June 6, 8:00 am - 12:00 pm

Kevin Smith, Scholarly Communications Officer, Duke
Un

Deadline is 4/15! Call for Chapters: Top Technologies for 2017 (A LITA Guide)

Ken Varnum — 2013-04-08T19:35:25

*

[Apologies for cross-posting. Please share widely.]



What current technologies are on the cusp of moving from “gee whiz” to
real-life application in libraries? This LITA Guide will explore the
information landscape as it might be in 3-5 years. It will describe the
emerging technologies of today that are likely to be at the core of
“standard” library offerings in the not-distant future. It will introduce
project managers and project doers not just to new technologies, but also
provide an understanding of the broader trends that are driving them.

Chapter-length essays are particularly sought on the following topics:


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   Mobile Technologies
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   Linked Data
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   Web Scale Discovery Environments
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   Technology for Augmented Reality
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   Digital Repositories
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   Digital Preservation
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   Content Management
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   Ereaders & Ebooks
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   Cloud-based ILS
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   Beyond FRBR – metadata formats


Chapters will be in the 4000-4500 word range and address the follow

NISO/DCMI webinar: Deployment of RDA Cataloging and its Expression as Linked Data

DCMI Announce — 2013-04-08T13:08:13

******************Please excuse the cross postings******************

Join NISO/DCMI for our joint April webinar

--Webinar: Deployment of RDA (Resource Description and Access) Cataloging
and its Expression as Linked Data
--Date: April 24, 2013
--Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time - UTC 17:00:00) (World Clock:
http://bit.ly/XySJt0)
--Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/rda/

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ABOUT THE WEBINAR:

A seminar at the British Library in April 2012 marked the fifth anniversary
of a 2007 meeting at which representatives of the Dublin Core, Semantic
Web, and RDA communities jointly recommended that the then-draft cataloging
standard RDA be provided in the form of vocabularies and application
profiles usable for Linked Data.

One year after this anniversary meeting and one year closer to the general
deployment of RDA in libraries, this webinar will take stock of progress
towards developing application profiles based on RDA