2010 New England Technical Services Librarians Spring Conference: Crosswalks to the Future: Library Metadata on the Move

Andrée J Rathemacher,Martha Rice Sanders,Michael A Cerbo

doi:10.1016/j.serrev.2010.05.005

Abstract

This report discusses the program of the 2010 New England Technical Services Librarians (NETSL) annual spring conference, held on Thursday, April 15 at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, M...

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2010 New England Technical Services Librarians Spring Conference: Crosswalks to the Future: Library Metadata on the Move Andrée J
This report discusses the program of the 2010 New England Technical Services Librarians (NETSL) annual spring conference, held on Thursday, April 15 at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts, entitled “Crosswalks to the Future: Library Metadata on the Move.”
As an example of building blocks, Tillett began with a general review of linked data using DBpedia, a community effort to extract structured information from Wikipedia and to make this information available on the Web, highlighting the participation of the National Library of Sweden in this initiative. She discussed how important it is that libraries participate in such experiments. With this importance in mind, she explained the objectives of VIAF, which are to facilitate sharing of authority data, reduce cataloging cots, simplify authority control internationally, and provide authority data in multiple forms, languages and scripts so that many communities may help to maintain and enhance authority data without the barriers of language or script

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Introduction

2010 New England Technical Services Librarians Spring Conference: Crosswalks to the Future: Library Metadata on the Move Andrée J. Caprio (digital services and cataloging librarian, Providence College) and Martha Rice Sanders (knowledge management librarian, HELIN Consortium) explored the assertion that the work of traditional catalogers has changed as formats have multiplied and collections have become distributed, the fundamental intellectual content of the work of bibliographic description remains the same. The second half of the breakout session was an open discussion relating the data structures of the semantic Web to the work of librarians and the activities of library users.

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