[CODE4LIB] Call for Proposals and Vice-Chair for the MARC Formats Transition Interest Group
** Please Forgive Cross-Posting** The LITA/ALCTS Marc Formats Transition Interest Group invites proposals for presentations for its session at the 2014 ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. The meeting will take place on Saturday, June 28th, from 3pm to 4pm. It will be held in the Las Vegas Convention Center Room N111. Proposals may be between 15 to 30 minutes in length. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Harvesting bibliographic data from MARC records for use in discovery tools, next-gen catalogs and other applications * Transforming MARC data to other metadata schemes (BIBFRAME, Dublin Core, EAD, VRA, etc…) * Using data from MARC records with data from linked data sources * Discussions of recent MARC changes, RDA in MARC or ongoing problems or complexities of the standard. * Other unconventional projects using MARC data. Proposals should be e-mailed to Sarah Weeks (wee...@stolaf.edu) or Stacie Traill (trail...@umn.edu) by Friday, May 9, 2014. Please include presentation title, summary, amount of time needed for the presentation, and the names, titles and contact information for the presenter(s). Our interest group is also looking for a vice chair to serve a two-year term (transitioning to chair in their second year) to start immediately following this year's annual meeting. Candidates should have a strong interest in the evolution of data formats for library and archival metadata. It is preferred that the vice-chair be able to attend both ALA Midwinter and ALA Annual during their term. Please contact Sarah or Stacie if you would like to be considered for this position. -- Sarah Beth Weeks Head of Technical Services St Olaf College Libraries 1510 St. Olaf Avenue Northfield, MN 55057 507-786-3453 (office) 717-504-0182 (cell)
[CODE4LIB] Call for Proposals: MARC Formats Transition Interest Group at ALA Midwinter
**Apologies for cross posting** -- The LITA/ALCTS Marc Formats Transition Interest Group invites proposals for presentations for its session at the 2014 ALA Midwinter Conference in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania. The meeting will take place on Saturday, January 25th, from 3pm to 4pm. Proposals may be between 15 to 30 minutes in length. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Harvesting bibliographic data from MARC records for use in discovery tools, next-gen catalogs and other applications * Transforming MARC data to other metadata schemes (BIBFRAME, Dublin Core, EAD, VRA, etc…) * Using data from MARC records with data from linked data sources * Discussions of recent MARC changes, RDA in MARC or ongoing problems or complexities of the standard. * Other unconventional projects using MARC data. Proposals should be e-mailed to Sarah Weeks (wee...@stolaf.edu) by Monday, November 11, 2013. Please include presentation title, summary, amount of time needed for the presentation, and the names, titles and contact information for the presenter(s). -- Sarah Beth Weeks Head of Technical Services St Olaf College Rolvaag Memorial Library 1510 St. Olaf Avenue Northfield, MN 55057 507-786-3453 (office)
[CODE4LIB] MARC Formats Transition Interest Group Program at ALA
**Apologies for cross posting** -- The LITA/ALCTS MARC Formats Transition Interest Group is pleased to host two presentations on transitioning MARC metadata to other formats and environments at ALA Annual in Chicago, IL. Date: Saturday, June 29, 2013 Time: 3:00-4:00 PM Location: E351 McCormick Place *"On BIBFRAME Instance"* ** Presenter: Kevin Ford, Digital Project Coordinator, Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress This presentation will explore the nature of a BIBFRAME Instance within the BIBFRAME Model which is currently being developed to replace the MARC Bibliographic communication format. Defined as "an individual, material embodiment of a BIBFRAME Work that can be physical or digital in nature," a BIBFRAME Instance is understood to be an atomic unit of a specific BIBFRAME Work. The Library of Congress's Network Development and MARC Standards Office has been experimenting with this definition by way of transforming MARC Bibliographic records to BIBFRAME resources, an exercise that invariably raises the question: "How do we best identify, and create, BIBFRAME Instances from MARC records?" A number of data elements in MARC - such as provider information, physical details, and publisher identification numbers - present themselves as good starting points, but no one data point is perfect. A number of them, in fact, must be used as part of a complicated calculus to identify and create BIBFRAME Instances. This presentation will look closely at the equation behind identifying BIBFRAME Instances from MARC data points, LC's current experimentation with transforming MARC records, and it will review future implications stemming from a more atomic approach to bibliographic description. *"Redesigning the English Short Title Catalog: From MARC to Data Agnostic Triplets." * Presenters: Brian Geiger, Co-Director of the English Short Title Catalog for North America, and Carl Stahmer, Associate Director of the English Broadside Ballad Archive The English Short Title Catalog is the most comprehensive guide available to the output of the press in the English-speaking world before 1801. The project is both a bibliography that aims to record every distinct item printed during the “hand-press era” in England and its territories, and a union catalog that lists both copies of those items held by libraries and, more recently, digital reproductions of those copies. Begun in the late 1970s, the database currently contains about 500,000 records and more than 3 million holdings. The ESTC is co-managed by the British Library (BL) and the Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research at the University of California, Riverside, and is freely available at http://estc.bl.uk. Although the ESTC is an exemplar scholarly research tool, over the last few years it has become increasingly clear that the project needs to be updated and enhanced in order to capitalize on the latest available technologies. Hundreds of thousands of records from contributing libraries and an ever-growing metadata collection from online archives need to be matched against the ESTC to enrich and improve the file, a number that is prohibitively expensive to process with the traditional means of student matchers and professional catalogers. Researchers, no longer content to simply search for and download records, increasingly want both to edit and comment on ESTC data and to harvest and manipulate ESTC data for their own research. Traditional library catalog records and access software, however, make this kind of data curation, mining and acquisition cumbersome at best and, in many cases, impossible. Data transformation will help to ensure that the ESTC meets the changing needs of its users and partners and, by harnessing their energy and enthusiasm, continues to grow in size and accuracy and remains the central organizing tool of the printed history of the early modern era. We hope you will join us. Stacie Traill, trail...@umn.edu Sarah E. Weeks, wee...@stolaf.edu Co-chairs, MARC Formats Transition Interest Group -- Sarah Beth Weeks Head of Technical Services St Olaf College Rolvaag Memorial Library 1510 St. Olaf Avenue Northfield, MN 55057 507-786-3453 (office)
[CODE4LIB] Call for Proposals: MARC Formats Transition Interest Group at ALA Annual
**Apologies for cross posting** -- The LITA/ALCTS Marc Formats Transition Interest Group invites proposals for presentations for its session at the 2013 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois. The meeting will take place on Saturday, June 29, from 3pm to 4pm. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Harvesting bibliographic data from MARC records for use in discovery tools, next-gen catalogs and other applications * Transforming MARC data to other metadata schemes (Dublin Core, EAD, VRA, etc…) * Using data from MARC records with data from linked data sources * Applying RDA in metadata schemes other than MARC. Proposals should be e-mailed to Stacie Traill (trail...@umn.edu) by Friday, May 24, 2012. Please include presentation title, summary, amount of time needed for the presentation, and the names, titles and contact information for the presenter(s). -- Sarah Beth Weeks Head of Technical Services St Olaf College Rolvaag Memorial Library 1510 St. Olaf Avenue Northfield, MN 55057 507-786-3453 (office)
[CODE4LIB] MARC Formats Transition Interest Group Program at ALA Midwinter
*apologies for cross-posting* Please join us for the LITA/ALCTS MARC Formats Transition Interest Group at the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington. Time: Saturday, January 26th from 3pm to 4pm Place: Renaissance Seattle Hotel, Compass South room The theme of the session is “*Transforming MARC: Repurposing, Reusing and Reimagining Data from MARC Records*". Our speakers will be Roy Tennant of OCLC Research, Diane Hillmann of Metadata Management Associates, and Sally McCallum of the Library of Congress. Descriptions of their presentations follow: Roy Tennant - OCLC Research *MARC and the Trouble With Online* Due to some basic ambiguities in MARC, it is presently very difficult to tell if a URL in an 856 field will lead the user to the full item online, let alone whether it is openly available. This presentation will reveal some work by OCLC Research to tackle this problem, and lead the way forward to an unambiguous declaration regarding URLs, whether encoded in MARC or some other metadata scheme. Diane I. Hillmann - Metadata Management Associates *A Lossless Method to Map MARC Data* Summary: Many of those who seek to map or crosswalk data from MARC to other schemas believe that the elderly MARCXML is the only option. However, another option exists, in a more modern package: http://marc21rdf.info. These 'level zero' elements allow MARC21 data to be represented without loss in RDF; subsequently, semantic mappings can be used to interoperate the data with other linked data based on Dublin Core, ISBD, RDA, etc. This resource is open to use by anyone, and will be available in the mapping service being built by the Open Metadata Registry ( http://metadataregistry.org). Diane Hillmann, one of the principals in the consulting firm Metadata Management Associates, will describe how the service will work, what its products will be, and respond to any feedback or ideas from the audience. Sally McCallum - Library of Congress *Bibliographic Format Initiative (BFI) - Data from MARC* The high level model for the BFI has been published and there are 7 Early Experimenters and probably more institutions investigating how it might work. LC's NDMSO has been working on an experimental pipeline for converting its MARC records into a new framework where they might sit better with RDA data. McCallum will describe choices LC has made for transformation of data and show what they are looking like from the BFI side. -- Stacie Traill (University of Minnesota) and Sarah Weeks(St. Olaf College), interest group co-chairs
[CODE4LIB] Call for Proposals (ALA Midwinter - MARC Formats Transition Interest Group)
*Apologies for cross-posting* The LITA/ALCTS MARC Formats Transition Interest Group invites proposals for presentations for its session at the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington, on Saturday, January 26th from 3pm to 4pm. The theme of the session will be “Transforming MARC: Repurposing, Reusing and Reimagining Data from MARC Records Outside of the Traditional ILS”. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Harvesting bibliographic data from MARC records for use in discovery tools, next-gen catalogs and other applications * Transforming MARC data to other metadata schemes (Dublic Core, EAD, VRA, etc…) * Using Google Refine (or other tools) to combine data from MARC records with data from linked data sources Presentations can be 15 or 25 minutes in length. Proposals should be e-mailed to Sarah Weeks (wee...@stolaf.edu) by Friday, November 23rd, 2012. Please include a title, summary, amount of time needed for the presentation, and the names, titles and contact information for the presenter(s). -- Sarah Beth Weeks Head of Technical Services St Olaf College Rolvaag Memorial Library 1510 St. Olaf Avenue Northfield, MN 55057 507-786-3453 (office) 717-504-0182 (cell)
[CODE4LIB] Position Announcement: Electronic Resources Librarian
St Olaf College in Northfield, MN is seeking a full-time Electronic Resources Librarian to provide leadership to the Libraries in the rapidly developing realm of electronic collections and to manage the Libraries' electronic resources. This is a new position and the successful candidate will be involved in developing policies and procedures for electronic collections and will participate in the review and creation of e-resources workflows. Essential education and experience include an ALA-accredited master's degree in library or information science (or equivalent) and experience working with and managing electronic resources. Experience using a link resolver/link server, ERM, and knowledge of COUNTER/SUSHI is also desirable. The salary range will be in the 40's depending on qualifications, and the start date is flexible, though preferably in the next 2 months. Review of applications will begin immediately. For more details, a complete job description, or to apply, please visit: https://jobs.stolaf.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=51240 > > -- > Sarah Beth Weeks > Head Librarian of Technical Services and Systems > St Olaf College Rolvaag Memorial Library > 1510 St. Olaf Avenue > Northfield, MN 55057 > 507-786-3453 (office) >
Re: [CODE4LIB] usability question: searching for a database (not in a database)
Thanks so much for the great advice everyone! Web design is definitely not my specialty so I really appreciate the ideas. And, yes, I expect we'll definitely be doing some usability testing once things are a little further along. -Sarah Beth -- Sarah Beth Weeks Interim Head Librarian of Technical Services and Systems St Olaf College Rolvaag Memorial Library 1510 St. Olaf Avenue Northfield, MN 55057 507-786-3453 (office)
[CODE4LIB] usability question: searching for a database (not in a database)
Long time lurker, first time poster. I have a little usability question I was hoping someone could give me advice on. I'm updating the databases page on our website and we'd like to add a search box that would search certain fields we have set up for our databases (title, vendor, etc...) so that even if someone doesn't remember the first word in the title, they can quickly find the database they're looking through without having to scroll through the whole A-Z list. My question is: if we add a search box to our main database page, how can we make it clear that it's for searching FOR a database and not IN a database? Some of the choices we've considered are: Seach for a database: Search this list: Don't remember the name of the database? Search here: I'm not feeling convinced by any of them. I'm afraid when people see a search box they're not going to bother reading the text but will just assume it's a federated search tool. Any advice? -Sarah Beth -- Sarah Beth Weeks Interim Head Librarian of Technical Services and Systems St Olaf College Rolvaag Memorial Library 1510 St. Olaf Avenue Northfield, MN 55057 507-786-3453 (office) 717-504-0182 (cell)
