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ALA Core IG Week Recording+ for Catalog Management IG : “Cataloging, Catalog Management & Sharing Metadata with the Community in an Era of Consortia, Linked Data and Machine Learning“

  • 1.  ALA Core IG Week Recording+ for Catalog Management IG : “Cataloging, Catalog Management & Sharing Metadata with the Community in an Era of Consortia, Linked Data and Machine Learning“

    Posted Mar 12, 2025 08:06 AM
    Dear colleagues, 

    I am pleased to share the recording link, the presentation slides and the QAs from the Catalog Management Interest Group  session during the ALA Core IG Week.

    Again special thank you to our presenters, Elizabeth York, Laura Ramsey, Cynthia Whitacre, Sebastian Hammer and Allen Jones. Also thanks to Tom Ferren and Julie Reese from ALA Core and Daniel Lovins, AND many of you who attended the session live last week.


    Lastly, our Interest Group is looking for a few volunteers to serve as co-chair and co-vice-chairs for the 2025-2026 term. I will send out the call for volunteers in the next few weeks, but please contact me directly if you are interested in working with the IG. I look forward to hearing from you!


    Best wishes, 



    Keiko Suzuki 
    Catalog Management Interest Group chair

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    Session Title: "Cataloging, Catalog Management & Sharing Metadata with the Community in an Era of Consortia, Linked Data and Machine Learning "
    Session Description: More than ever, we are in the time of transitions and a shared metadata environment with other institutions, consortia and various communities. Thus, when we catalog or do catalog management, we do try to contribute to greater good. Now our shared metadata environments are more deeply implicated in the broader information ecosystem: resource sharing, analytics, web via linked data, publisher/vendors' indexes ... AND as AI/ML learning data. In this session, we will hear some of our colleagues' efforts on the latest initiatives or contributions.

    #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.


    KEIKO SUZUKI
    ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR METADATA & COLLECTION SERVICES
    DIGITAL LIBRARIES & TECHNICAL SERVICES (DLTS)
    LIBRARIES, COLLECTIONS & ACADEMIC SERVICES (LCAS)

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