by Sara Ring
Quick Summary
If you're heading to any of these conferences in South Dakota, North Dakota, and Minnesota, look for the following presentations by Minitex Digital Initiatives and Metadata Education (DIME) staff. See you there!
If you're heading to any of these conferences in South Dakota, North Dakota, and Minnesota, look for the following presentations by Minitex Digital Initiatives and Metadata Education (DIME) staff. See you there!
MN Association of Museums Conference, September 10-11, St. Paul
Do you have the Rights Stuff? MDL, DPLA, and rightstatements.org
September 11, 10:00 a.m. - 10:45 a.m.
Presenter: Molly Huber
Learn about the Minnesota Digital Library’s recent collaborations with their contributors to implement standardized rights statements and how accurate assignment of copyright is important to encouraging use.
SDLA Conference, September 26-28, Sioux Falls
Digital Collections, Rights Statements, and Expanding Access
September 27, 8:15 a.m. - 9:05 a.m.
Presenters: Molly Huber and Sara Ring
Libraries have been building digital collections for years, often aggregating content with other collections from state or regional consortia partners (Digital Library of South Dakota), and with national partners like the Digital Public Library of America and Europeana. While we’ve been successful in expanding visibility and access to our collections, we haven’t been as successful in presenting the copyright status of works in our digital collections in a standard way, so that our users know how they can engage with our content. DPLA recently launched rightsstatements.org, a global approach to describing standardized rights information that can be applied to all types of digital collections. The session will offer an overview of the 12 DPLA rights statements, provide examples of applying rights statements to content from regional digital collections, and explain the difference between rightsstatements.org and Creative Commons licensing. We’ll wrap up by sharing some lessons learned from a pilot project in Minnesota to implement rightstatements.org into the statewide digital collection, Minnesota Reflections.
Success, Failure, and In-Between: a Minitex Cataloging Update
September 27, 3:15 p.m. - 4:05 p.m.
Presenter: Sara Ring
The cataloging and metadata management world has undergone many trials and pilots lately as libraries continue to transition to new ways of interacting with the larger information universe. Libraries are starting to publish and consume linked data, through vendors and on their own. Join Minitex staff for an update as we address successes and failures of linked data in practice, BIBFRAME development work, and other emerging cataloging topics.
NDLA Conference, October 3-5, Minot
Digital Collections, Rights Statements, and Expanding Access
Thursday, October 4, 11:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.
Presenter: Sara Ring
Success, Failure, and In-Between: a Minitex Cataloging Update
Friday, October 5, 9:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.
Presenter: Lizzy Baus and Sara Ring
The Future is Now-ish: a Linked Data Overview
Friday, October 5, 10:45 a.m. - 11:35 a.m.
Presenter: Lizzy Baus
The Library of Congress and other large institutions continue to experiment with next-generation cataloging tools. Vendors are beginning to offer Linked Data services to their clients. And the far-off future is coming closer every day. But what does this all mean for you? Join Minitex staff to learn about what Linked Data is, why you should know about it, and how it might or might not change your daily workflows.
MLA Conference, October 10-12, St. Cloud
Success, Failure, and In-Between: a Minitex Cataloging Update
Friday, October 11, 8:00 a.m. - 8:50 a.m.
Presenter: Lizzy Baus and Sara Ring
Leaders and Legends in Minnesota Libraries
Thursday, October 11, 9:10 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Presenters: Carol Nelson (Minitex Resource Sharing) and Sara Ring
Advocates' Action Plan in a Flash: Know the Details
Thursday, 2:15 p.m. - 3:05 p.m.
Presenters: Sara Ring, Hannah Buckland, Ann Hokanson, Ann Walker Smalley, and Jami Trenam
MDL: A Smorgasbord of Services and Projects
Friday, October 12, 8:00 a.m. 8:50 a.m.
Presenters: Greta Bahnemann and Molly Huber
Leading the Way on Rights
Friday, October 12, 3:35 p.m. - 4:25 p.m.
Presenters: Greta Bahnemann , Molly Huber, Sara Ring, Nancy Sims, Christopher Welter
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