by Sara Ring
Quick Summary
We're excited to share the news that Metropolitan State University is our co-sponsor for the Minitex Technical Services Symposium: Linked Data and the Future and MarcEdit workshop, and both events will take place on December 6 in the Library and Information Services building, located at 645 7th Street East, Saint Paul, Minnesota. We're also excited to provide you with more information about the keynote speaker, Jean Godby (OCLC Research), and MarcEdit workshop presenter, Terry Reese (creator of MarcEdit). Registration and the full program will be announced soon!
We're excited to share that Metropolitan State University is our co-sponsor for the Minitex Technical Services Symposium and MarcEdit workshop, and both events will take place in the library at this address:
Minitex Technical Services Symposium: Linked Data and the Future
December 6, 2017
Metropolitan State University
Library and Information Services
645 7th Street East
Saint Paul, MN 55106
We're also excited to provide you with more information about the keynote speaker, Jean Godby (OCLC Research), and MarcEdit workshop presenter, Terry Reese (creator of MarcEdit). Registration and the full program will be announced soon!
Keynote: Jean Godby, OCLC Research
Breaking Out of the Walled Garden: Lessons Learned in Moving Library Linked Data from Research to Production
For the past seven years, OCLC has conducted research and participated in standards initiatives whose goal is to pave the way for the adoption of the Linked Data paradigm as a next-generation solution for the description of resources managed by libraries. With this experience as a backdrop, I will try to tell the story of the library sector's experience with Linked Data. In early experiments, the library community’s legacy data stores were re-imagined as inventories of real-world Things, which could be mechanically converted to RDF and published as Linked Data. But we soon learned that the publication of data in a different format is not enough, and progress stalled. To achieve a higher level of acceptance, we are being asked to demonstrate more rigorously how Linked Data is an improvement over the status quo. At the end of this talk, I will describe promising results from new projects now underway.
Jean Godby is a Senior Research Scientist at OCLC, where she has been responsible for directing projects with a focus on semantic analysis that has produced research outputs, improvements to national and international standards, and enhancements to products, services, and data architecture. Since 2016, she has managed OCLC's Linked Data research team. Jean has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Ohio State University. Read full bio.
MarcEdit Workshop: Terry Reese
MarcEdit 7 Advanced Tools
MarcEdit has changed! MarcEdit 7 has been recently released, and it comes with a new set of tools and options. This workshop will provide an overview of what’s changed, as well as take a closer look at some new tools (the MARC Cluster Tools, the XML Profilers, Updated SPARQL Browser) and better understand how existing tools (like task processing) changed to support your workflows. The workshop will assume a basic level of familiarity with the application in order to focus on topics like Linked Data usage, global editing (using regular expressions), and ILS integration with Alma.
Terry Reese serves as the Head of Digital Initiatives for The Ohio State University Libraries, since 2013, to redevelop their digital library infrastructure, and reimagine the Library not only as a destination for collections and services, but as a digital platform that can both support and generate new research. His current research is focused on the ways in which libraries can leverage semantic web techniques to transform legacy library metadata into something new, and exciting. This work intersects with his development of MarcEdit, a metadata suite that is used tens of thousands of librarians annually from around the world. Read full bio.
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