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Minitex News articles tagged with "Linked Data" (40):

New MarcEdit Workshop added and Technical Services Symposium still open!

Due to high demand, we have added a second session of our MarcEdit 7 Advanced Tools workshop, led by MarcEdit’s creator Terry Reese. This session will cover exactly the same material as the previously scheduled workshop and will meet the previous afternoon, Tuesday December 5, at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities campus.

There are also still plenty of seats left for the Minitex Technical Services Symposium: Linked Data and the Future on Wednesday, December 6. Join colleagues to hear Jean Godby of OCLC Research speak on Linked Data, followed by a panel on local practices, and continue the conversation over lunch!

Registration open for Minitex Technical Services Symposium: Linked Data and the Future

Register now for the inaugural Minitex Technical Services Symposium: Linked Data and the Future. The symposium will take place at Metro State University on Wednesday, December 6 from 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., and an advanced MarcEdit workshop will be offered from 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Minitex Technical Services Symposium: Keynote and location announced!

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!

DATE CHANGE: Minitex Technical Services Symposium: Linked Data and the Future

Join us for a half-day technical services symposium and an advanced MarcEdit workshop on Wednesday, December 6th. This inaugural conference will focus on what technical services practitioners face in the near and middle future. Topics will include Linked Data, BIBFRAME, and local practices happening right now in a library near you.

Save the date for the Minitex Technical Services Symposium!

This inaugural conference will focus on what technical services practitioners face in the near and middle future. Topics will include Linked Data, BIBFRAME, and local practices happening right now in a library near you.

Highlights from ASIST webinar: From MARC silos to linked data silos?

In the February 28 ASIST webinar "From MARC silos to linked data silos?" Osma Suominen of the National Library of Finland addressed the more practical aspects of moving from a MARC-based world to a Linked Data one. In discussing the current situation, Suominen notes that there are many different approaches in use, for modeling and encoding data. He points out that the "proliferation of data models limits the reusability of bibliographic data. In effect, libraries have moved from MARC silos to Linked Data silos of incompatible data models." 

Highlights from ALCTS webinar: Linked Data Cataloging Workflows

Linked Data Cataloging Workflows is the sixth and final webinar in the From MARC to BIBFRAME series, presented by Xiaoli Li, and offered by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS). The presenter covered the following topics: Background on the BIBFLOW project, cataloging workflows with BIBFRAME, and skills and training.

Highlights from ALCTS webinar: How to get from here to BIBFRAME

This 4th webinar in the ALCTS From MARC to BIBFRAME series continued discussing how to prepare our MARC data and cataloging departments for transition to BIBFRAME. Carl Stahmer spoke of the transition in two phases: “Have your MARC and eat it too,” in which we work within the MARC format to enhance our data and being to utilize Linked Data; and “Native Linked Data,” in which we operate in a Linked Data environment from start to finish, without conversion of data to and from MARC.

Highlights from ALCTS webinar: Embedding URIs in MARC using MarcEdit

Embedded URI in MARC: An Essential for Linked Data is the 3rd webinar in the From MARC to BIBFRAME series, presented by Jackie Shieh from (George Washington University Libraries), and offered by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS). The speaker continued discussing how to prepare our MARC data for transition to BIBFRAME, covered the benefits and challenges to embedding URIs into our bibliographic resources, suggested workflows for inserting URIs, and demonstrated using the open source software MarcEdit for batch look-up and insertion of URIs in bibliographic records

Highlights from ALCTS webinar: Putting the Link in Linked Data

I attended Putting the Link in Linked Data, the 2nd webinar in the From MARC to BIBFRAME series, offered by the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS). This article summarizes the concept of a URI, how it's related to linked data and BIBFRAME, and possible workflows for getting URIs in our MARC records. Each webinar in the series builds off the one before it, so there will be several more articles published about the series which runs through November, 2016.