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Dear Colleagues,
Thank you to everyone who participated in the March 2024 Bibliographic Conceptual Models Interest Group (BCMIG) session, "Schrödinger's Catalog: Is BibFrame Alive or Dead?"
We are pleased to announce that, due to popular demand, a follow-up session will be held on Friday, May 10th at 2pm Central Time. This discussion-focused session will address some of the many questions received in chat during the previous program, and will be an opportunity to further explore issues related to BIBFRAME modeling and implementation. Tom Dousa, BCMIG co-chair, will again moderate, and we will be rejoined by our panelists from the original session: Yale's Senior Director for Digital Cultural Heritage Rob Sanderson and EBSCO's Senior Product Manager for Linked Data Innovation and Design, Gloria Gonzalez.
Please join us for what we expect to be a lively and wide-ranging community discussion.
The session is open to all and attendance at the previous session is not necessary.
Speaker Bio: Dr Robert Sanderson is Senior Director for Digital Cultural Heritage at Yale University, and works with Yale's museums, libraries and archives to help them to be more connected and consistent in their processes and data. He is the technical architect and visionary for LUX, Yale's cross-collection discovery platform built using the Linked Open Usable Data paradigm and technologies. He is chair of the Linked Art CIDOC committee and long-standing editor for IIIF specifications, and has been co-chair and editor of core W3C specifications in the domain including JSON-LD and Web Annotations. He has previously worked at the Getty in Los Angeles, Stanford University and Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Speaker Bio: Gloria Gonzalez works with knowledge graphs for public, academic, and government libraries at EBSCO, where she is Senior Product Manager for Linked Data Innovation. In this role, she assists libraries in devising innovative methods for enhancing discoverability and access to their collections through linked data technologies/ Her journey with linked data commenced in 2011 when she contributed to developing a visualization tool, Viewshare, at the Library of Congress. After working as a Digital Archivist at UCLA Library, she co-founded the Library.Link Network with Zepheira in 2015. In 2022, she spearheaded the launch of BiblioGraph at EBSCO. Gloria is currently a Linked Data Advisory Committee member for the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC). Her work enables linked data integration into library services platforms such as FOLIO, BiblioGraph, EBSCO Discovery Service, and Locate, demonstrating a forward-thinking approach to library data management and user engagement.
Registration: https://ala-events.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwkfuqrrT8vE9ZthT9Xs3kpj4k0sgbGg1xA#/registration
Hope to see you there,
BCMIG Co-Chairs: Daniel Lovins, Thomas Dousa
BCMIG Co-Vice-Chairs: Emily Baldoni, Benjamin Riesenberg
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Daniel Lovins
Director, Resource Discovery Services
Yale University Library
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