[metadataLibrarians] Fwd: RE: [amega] need help disseminatingthe annoucmenet

[Brian Surratt]

>>> Mary Woodley <mary.woodley at csun.edu> 3/29/2005 6:44:39 PM >>>
Interesting news

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jane Greenberg [mailto:janeg at ils.unc.edu] 
>Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 10:38 PM
>To: Metadata Research Project
>Cc: Kristina M Spurgin
>Subject: [amega] need help disseminating the annoucmenet
>
>
>Dear AMeGAN's,
>
>i call on you to help us disseminate the below announcement from LC
that
>John Byrum had already sent to Autocat and IFLANET regarding our AMeGA
final
>report.
>
>Kristina Spurgin is keeping track of the lists where the announcement
is
>being sent, and Mary W., Tim, Ed, Amanda and Robin have been recruited
to
>send the announcement to selected lists.
>
>We are in need of someone to send to:
>
>Serialst (SERIALST at LIST.UVM.EDU),
>OLAC listserv (olac at listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu).
>
>Please let Kristina know if you can do this.
>
>Also, it would be great to send the below announcement to GILS! (any
>takers?)
>
>I am in a last minute rush here, as our baby-boy2 is due on thurs.,
and I
>and Kristina would be VERY grateful for any help in getting the below
>announcement out.  Announcement follows.
>
>thanks!
>
>
>>>> John D Byrum 03/28/05 12:08 PM >>>
>The Library of Congress is pleased to announce publications of the
final
>report for the AMeGA (Automatic Metadata Generation Applications)
project.
>
>	Greenberg, J., Spurgin, K., and Crystal, A.  (2005).
>	Final Report for the AMeGA (Automatic Metadata Generation
>	Applications) Project.  Submitted to the Library of Congress
>	February, 17, 2005. Available at:
>	http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/lc_amega_final_report.pdf 
>
>The final report can also be found on the Library of Congress Web site
for
>the Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New
Millennium
>at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/actionplan.html, which seeks
to
>provide leadership to libraries and other information centers in
confronting
>the challenges of networked resources and the Web.
>
>Dr. Greenberg served as Principal Investigator (PI) for the AMeGA
project, a
>research grant which lasted a full year. AMeGA stands for _A_utomatic
>_Me_tadata _G_eneration _A_pplications project and the project had for
goal
>to identify and recommend functionalities for applications supporting
>automatic metadata generation in the library/bibliographic control
>community. The project was conducted in connection Section 4.2 of the
>Library of Congress Bibliographic Control Action Plan.  The Action
Plan's
>charge for section 4.2 is to "Develop specifications for a tool that
will
>enable libraries to extract [and harvest] metadata from Web-based
resources
>in order to create catalog records and that will detect and report
changes
>in resource content and bibliographic data in order to maintain those
>records. Communicate the specifications to the vendor community and
>encourage their adoption."
>
>The AMeGA research project pursed three main goals:
>
>1) Evaluate the current automatic metadata generation applications (in
the
>following categories: document presentation software, tools created
>specifically for metadata generation, and online library cataloging
modules
>for creating metadata);
>
>2) Survey metadata professionals to get a consensus on which aspects
of
>metadata generation are most amenable to automation and
semi-automation; and
>
>3) Compile a final report of recommended functionalities for
automatic
>metadata generation applications. The final report was reviewed and
endorsed
>by the Metadata Generation Task Force (MGTF).
>
>The report acknowledges the contributions of the MGTF members for
their
>participation and their expert advice.  In addition, since the final
report
>was based partially on survey data gathered from a variety of
participants
>that were recruited via a number of listservs, Dr. Greenberg also
expressed
>her gratitude for input of the survey participants, both for the
quality and
>depth of their responses.
>
>To find out more about the AMeGA project, please go to AMeGA Project
Web
>site:  http://ils.unc.edu/mrc/amega.htm 
>
>Please feel free to forward this announcement to other lists.
>Apologies for cross-posting that may occur.
>
>
>
>
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