Metadata Standards Committee ALA Midwinter 2018 meeting minutes
by Erik Mitchell on Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 06:23 am
Tags: Meeting Minutes/Reports
When:
Sunday, February 11, 2018
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm, US/Mountain
1:00 pm to 2:30 pm, US/Mountain
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- Date and time: 2/11/2018: 1:00 - 2:30 in Sheraton Tower Court A; Hollow Square room
- Review progress on outreach and profiles
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- The committee reviewed the data collected to date and reviewed the list of poential outreach groups. New potential outreach groups were added to the outreach table (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1obO-ZuUWqSTeG-YBOeylcvDx5QncskrlVZb8...)
- The session discussed completed interviews which are posted on http://metaware.buzz including key findings (e.g. distributed authorities, accessible metadata needs, national authentication/authorization for NLS, role of aggregated LD services like VIAF - key focus on language as a mechanism for inclusivity)
- Group should follow up with Chris Carr (Made metadata field proposal to MARC advisory committee, From the Canadian Committee on MEtadata Exchange - think about the language in which a standard is represented.)
- Discussed Potential for publication of analyzed results in ITAL, LRTS
- Focus on publication following ALA session
- Discuss ALCTS presentation
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- Confirm presenters, topic, scope
- Change presenter to Michael from Erik (Nadine to send in a change)
- Presentation will be 6/24 4pm-5pm.
- Brainstorm approach to presentation
- Risk of discussion non-participation
- You could have pre-determined questions for the panel; could have comm members.
- Marketing plan
- Metadata interest group from ALCTS (sponsor in name only) (http://www.ala.org/alcts/mgrps/ig/ats-nrmc)
- See if we can get a blog post on their blog; announce on the meeting;
- ALCTS/LITA Linked library data interest group ((http://www.ala.org/lita/about/igs/linked/lit-iglld)
- Cataloging research interest group (http://www.ala.org/alcts/mgrps/camms/grps/ats-ccsdgcatr)
- Next steps:
- Reach out to groups and ask to sponsor in name only
- Communicate to ALCTS when done
- Key dates:
- Feb 28: last day to revise program
- March 15: 3 co-sponsors – Action Needed: Brainstorm to list and decide from
- Need to get 3 co-sponsors who will help us market our session
- March ?: receive speaker agreement forms
- April ?: receive document with all agreements
- Discuss overall progress on FY2017-18 work plan
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- Work tasks for FY 2018
- Goal 1: Engage metadata standards bodies to understand the landscape and communicate about MSC efforts
- Goal 2: Foster communication and collaboration across metadata standards groups
- Tactic 2.1: MSC will coordinate a panel at ALA Annual that will educate the library community by bringing agencies, organizations and groups together in a panel to discuss pressing metadata issues.
- Tactic 2.2: MSC will communicate with the metadata community by having a profile published on the ALCTS site
- Tactic 2.3: MSC will establish liaison/reporting relationships with key groups
- Task: Talk more about next steps with this; specifically with Metadata interest group.
- Tactic 2.4: MSC will work to connect with LITA and ALCTS leadership and planning.
- FY2018 potential work tasks or ALA Annual topics
- Write articles out of data gathering / ALA
- How do we deal with document management
- Docs.lita.org?
- Just use connect?
- We should think about the issue of being a joint group; especially if there is a merger of sponsoring groups.
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