Core Catalog Management Interest Group

#1: 

Presenter. Elizabeth York, Electronic Resources Librarian, Rutgers University Libraries

Title: Using & Contributing to the Alma Community Zone

Summary: One of the central features of Ex Libris Alma is the Alma Community Zone (CZ), the e-resources repository shared by all Alma Libraries. This presentation will discuss how Alma community members can contribute to the CZ, how Ex Libris is working to improve the quality of CZ records through improvements such as the AI metadata generator, and how librarians who use Alma and the CZ can guide their development through Ex Libris feedback channels, such as the Idea Exchange and the annual CERV (formerly NERS) enhancements process.

#2: 

Presenters: Cynthia Whitacre & Laura Ramsey, both Senior Metadata Operations Managers at OCLC

Title: OCLC Catalog maintenance efforts using machine learning and human resources

Summary:  WorldCat is an extremely large bibliographic database; multiple approaches are used to do database maintenance.  This talk will focus on the project to add links for WorldCat entities as a preparation for linked data, correcting patterns of incorrect data using human resources combined with automated tools, and the machine learning project to merge more duplicate records.  

#3:

Presenter: Sebastian Hammer, CEO, Index Data & Allen Jones, Director of Digital Libraries & Technical Services, The New School

Title: From Discovery to Delivery: The ReShare Shared Index

Summary: ReShare is a consortial borrowing platform focused on lending to library print and electronic materials within a single consortium.  Recently, the community has begun asking questions about how to share requests between groups. How do you solve the problem of sending requests from one network to another when each network may not share bibliographic identifiers? This talk will focus on the challenges of inter-consortium or inter-vendor lending and the metadata challenges ahead for the access services and interlibrary lending communities. We will outline a community-based approach to build solutions for the ReShare community.