[Metadatalibrarians] Fwd: [CODE4LIB] Mashcat Event Save the Date & Call for Proposals

[Becky Yoose]

**Apologies for Cross-Posting**

We are excited to announce that the first face-to-face Mashcat event in
North America will be held on January 13th, 2016, at Simmons College in
Boston, Massachusetts. We invite you to save the date, and we hope to have
registration and a schedule for this low-cost (less than $10), 1-day event
announced in November.

At present, we are accepting proposals for talks, events, panels, workshops
or other for the Mashcat event. We are open to a variety of formats, with
the reminder that this will be a one-day, single-track event aiming to
support the cross-pollination goals of Mashcat (see more below). We are
open to proposals for sessions led virtually. Please submit your proposals
using this form: http://bit.ly/mashcat15_proposals . All proposals must be
received by November 1st, 2015, midnight, and we will respond to all
proposals by November 8th, 2015.

Not sure what Mashcat is? "Mashcat" was originally an event in the UK in
2012 which was aimed at bringing together people working on the IT systems
side of libraries with those working in cataloguing and metadata. Three
years later, Mashcat is a loose group of metadata specialists, cataloguers,
developers and anyone else with an interest in how metadata in and around
libraries can be created, manipulated, used and re-used by computers and
software. The aim is to work together and bridge the communications gap
that has sometimes gotten in the way of building the best tools we possibly
can to manage library data.

Thanks for considering, and we hope to see you in January.