[Metadatalibrarians] ALCTS/LITA Authority Control IG Meeting at ALA Annual 2015

[Nathan Putnam]

Good morning,

Just a reminder that ACIG is looking for volunteers for several
member-at-large positions as well as Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect and Secretary.
More information can be found here: http://connect.ala.org/node/240667


If you won't be attending ALA Annual, but would like to participate, please
send me an email (nbputnam at umd.edu).


Thanks!



Nathan Putnam

Chair, ACIG (2014-2015)

On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 8:46 AM Nathan Putnam <nbputnam2 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> Please join us for the ALCTS/LITA Authority Control Interest Group (ACIG)
> at ALA Annual in San Francisco (full program information below).
>
> Sunday, June 28
>
> 1:00-3:30 (business meeting to follow)
>
> Room 124 (N) in the Moscone Convention Center
>
> ALA Conference Scheduler: http://alaac15.ala.org/node/29319
>
> ALA Connect: http://connect.ala.org/node/239804
>
>
>
> We are also looking for volunteers to for several member-at-large
> positions as well as Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect and Secretary. More information
> can be found here: http://connect.ala.org/node/240667
>
>
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
> Nathan Putnam
>
> Chair, ACIG (2014-2015)
>
>
>
> *Paul Frank* (Library of Congress), *Shana McDanold* (Georgetown
> University), and *Bob Maxwell* (Brigham Young University) will discuss
> their thoughts on authority control. The hope is to spark ideas and
> discussions for future ACIG meetings (as we go into the next 30 years!).
>
>
>
> *Janis L. Young* (Library of Congress) will be giving her regular
> semi-annual and very popular report from the Library of Congress, including
> updates on authorities projects, staffing changes at Library of Congress,
> and updates to tables and documentation.
>
>
>
> *Nancy Lorimer* (Stanford University and Chair of MLA’s Genre/Form Task
> Force) will discuss the February 2015 release of 600 genre/form terms for
> musical works, a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the
> Music Library Association. This is part of the larger project to expand the *Library
> of Congress Genre/Form Terms for Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT)*
> to new domains,  She will review the music vocabulary, its origins, the
> decision-making processes during its development, the interaction of LCGFT
> terms with those of the *Library of Congress Medium of Performance
> Thesaurus for Music (LCMPT)*, and explain areas of the vocabulary that
> are still being developed or are otherwise in flux. She will also provide
> several examples on its use of LCGFT music terms and provide an
> introduction to *Provisional Best Practices for Using LCGFT for Music
> Resources, *a document created by the Music Library Association
> Vocabularies Subcommittee and Genre/Form Task Force to provide temporary
> guidelines until official documentation is completed.
>
>
>
> *Jeremy Myntti* (University of Utah), *Anna Neatrour* (University of
> Utah), and *Nate Cothran* (Backstage Library Works) will discuss the
> University of Utah’s J. Willard Marriott Library work with Backstage
> Library Works to develop an automated solution for authority control in
> fields for digital library metadata to provide consistency and improve
> access to collections. An early version of this project was originally
> presented at ALA Annual 2013, and they have continued on to make
> improvements and refinements based on the initial work. They completed
> processing the metadata for several digital collections with Backstage.
> After this processing was completed, they started looking at ways to
> standardize the metadata values that Backstage was unable to match to an
> existing LC authority by using OpenRefine to add further improved values.
> This presentation will show the results from this project, including
> lessons learned and future directions for the project to prepare this
> metadata for a linked data environment.
>
>
>
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>
> Nathan B. Putnam | Head, Metadata Services | Acting Head, Digital
> Programs & Initiatives <http://www.lib.umd.edu/digital>
>
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>
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>