[Metadatalibrarians] Call for proposals: ALCTS NRMIG program at ALA Annual '09

[Joanna Burgess]

*ALCTS NRMIG (Networked Resources and Metadata Interest Group) invites 
your proposal to participate in a program on workflow tools for digital 
libraries, to take place at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, July 
9-15, 2009. *

With the increasing volume of digital content that libraries are 
creating and maintaining, long-term data curation is emerging as a key 
consideration for the profession. In order to support data preservation 
and re-use on a local level, as well as facilitate resource sharing, 
library professionals need practical tools to help them efficiently 
manage large volumes of data over time. What types of tools and 
techniques do you utilize to automate the creation and maintenance of 
metadata?

Presentations should focus on current practices and new technologies, 
and include concrete demonstrations and/or examples of automated 
workflow tools and techniques employed at a local level or in 
collaborative endeavors. Specific implementations may cover a wide range 
of topics, including but not limited to:

-Digital preservation of assets and collections
-Data production, or validation of metadata, to comply with a particular 
schema or protocol
-Data migration / interoperability across systems or applications
-Interoperability, data harvesting, e.g., for resource sharing
-Data production in distributed environments
-Open source or proprietary software tools
-Tips or techniques for working with particular standards and protocols

The program forum will be a panel, in which each participant has from 
20-30 minutes to present, followed by a Q & A period at the end of the 
program. To submit a proposal for presentation, please email a brief 
description of your proposed topic to Joanna Burgess at burgess at reed.edu 
by November 15, 2008.

Thank you,

Joanna Burgess, NRMIG Program Planning Co-chair
Jennifer Roper, NRMIG Program Planning Co-chair