Core Metadata Interest Group

  • Private Community
  • Private Community
 View Only
last person joined: 4 days ago 

✉ Send an email to ALA-CoreMetadata@ConnectedCommunity.org to start a discussion or share a file.

About this Group

👐 Anyone can view all content in the group, but only people who join it can post to it. Anyone can join to participate.


Purpose: Provides a broad framework for information exchange on current research developments, tools, and activities affecting networked information resources and metadata; coordinates and actively participates in the development and review of standards concerning networked resources and metadata in conjunction with the divisions' committees and sections, other units within ALA, and relevant outside agencies; and develops programs and fosters and sponsors education and training opportunities that contribute to and enhance an understanding of networked resources and metadata, their identity, content, technology, access, control, and use; and plans and monitors activities using Core's strategic and tactical plan as a framework.

Related Groups:

This interest group is part of Core's Metadata and Collections Section.

Portraits of three Core members with caption Become a Member: Find Your Home: Core.

 

Back to discussions
Expand all | Collapse all

Meeting Agenda for Midwinter 2019

  • 1.  Meeting Agenda for Midwinter 2019

    Posted Jan 22, 2019 06:10 PM
    Hello everyone, I'm including our agenda for our midwinter meeting below. Looking forward to seeing you!





    ALCTS Metadata Interest Group Meeting
    ALA Midwinter 2019 (Seattle)
    Sunday, January 27 | 8:30 am - 10:00 am
    Washington State Convention Center, Room 3A

    Our Scheduler: https://bit.ly/2A7mdFj

    Our Connect Page: https://connect.ala.org/alcts/communities/community-home?CommunityKey=45b67b1a-f188-4e33-988f-a491aae3f94c


    Welcome: Anna Neatrour, Chair  

    Panel Program on Crowdsourcing Metadata, 8:30-9:30

    Please note: more program information is available on the Metadata Interest Group blog:

    https://www.alcts.ala.org/metadatablog/2018/12/program-announcement-alcts-metadata-interest-group-meeting-at-ala-midwinter-2019/

    Presentation 1:

    By Samuel T. Barber, Cataloging & Metadata Librarian, California State University, Fullerton

    Crowdsourcing metadata: the revolutionary cataloging interface and how it can help your library expose and promote hidden collections

     

    Presentation 2:

    By Becky Skeen, Special Collections Cataloging Librarian, Utah State University

            Andrea Payant, Metadata Librarian, Utah State University

    Wisdom of the Crowd: Successful ways to engage the public in metadata creation


    Business Meeting -- 9:30 - 10:00 am

    1. Welcome and introductions of officers
    2. Officers' reports
    • Vice Chair (Darnelle Melvin)
      • Election at Annual, opportunity to volunteer
    • Program Co-Chairs (Anne Washington/Mingyan Li)
    • Secretary (Wendy Robertson)
    • Blog Coordinator (Rachel Tillay)

    1. Review minutes from ALA Annual 2018: https://bit.ly/2EuILT

    1. Liaison Reports:
    • Music Library Association (MLA) -  Jim Soe Nyun
    • Committee on Cataloging: CC:DA - Jessica Hayden  
      • CCDA Liaison Opportunity
    • Metadata Standards Committee (LITA/ALCTS) - Mike Bolam

    1. Open discussion for IG members


    ------------------------------
    Anna Neatrour
    Digital Initiatives Librarian
    University of Utah
    ------------------------------