Call for Proposal: ALA ALCTS CaMMS Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group Annual Meeting (Washington DC) The ALCTS CaMMS Cataloging & Classification Research Interest Group seeks speakers to present at the ALA Annual Conference to be held in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, June 23, 2019., from 10:30am to 11:30am.
Full presentations that are accepted are asked to be about 15 minutes long and the accepted light presentations 5-10 minutes long. Audience questions and discussion after the presentations are encouraged. See below for details:
Theme: Thinking Outside the Book: Research on Non-traditional Cataloging & Classification Topics include (but not limited to): research on
- Classification, categorization and clustering in facilitating resource organization, description and retrieval;
- Classification schemes, adapting or developing classification systems for describing and classifying digital documents in the library and the web;
- Application of bibliographic classification principles in working with digital collections and metadata in institutional and digital repositories;
- Ethical issues in subject analysis and biases in classification schemes, thesauri and other knowledge organization systems;
- Thesauri in modern information retrieval and automatic text classification;
- Collaboration with graduate students, faculty and researchers in digital humanities, science and other fields on data curation related projects on campus and beyond;
- Transforming library bibliographic data from MARC to BIBFRAME, RDA and the Library Reference Model, and other innovative cataloging and metadata projects;
- Communications between technical services, digital initiatives and public services;
- Semantic web and LOD technologies in working with library data, and cataloger's responsibilities in the linked data environment.
Please email proposals to the Co-Chairs by Friday, April 26, 2019. In your proposal, please include the following:
- Presentation title
- Abstract: 150-300 words
- Amount of time needed to make the presentation
- Names and positions of presenter(s)
- Email address(es) of presenter(s)
We look forward to hearing from you!
CCRIG Co-Chairs, 2018-2019
Sai Deng sai.deng@ucf.edu
Becky Skeen becky.skeen@usu.edu
CCRIG Co-Vice Chairs, 2018-2019
Amy B. Bailey abbailey@indiana.edu
Jianying Shou jianying.shou@duke.edu