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Tuesday, November 1, 2016 9-11:30am Mann Library Seminar Room 160
Contacts for this meeting: Marcie Suzanne Farwell + Christina Harlow
About: First of the working group type meeting of the semester. In Mann Library Room 160.
This is going to be a real working group session where we map our metadata ecosystem – this came out of conversations with folks about how do we know what metadata is where and to start getting folks to realize (and use!) the metadata that exists outside of their particular silo.
So bring your laptop and be prepared to talk about the kinds of metadata you’re collecting, how you're collecting it, and where it lives. We’d love to have as many departments and range of metadata standards represented as possible.
The session is open to everyone, and we hope to see everyone at Mann on November 1, 2016! All are welcome.
Agenda Items
| Name | Metadata (what standard, how it's captured, where it lives) |
| Marcie Farwell | EAD |
Friday, September 16th, 1 PM, Olin Library 2B48 RMC Lecture Room
Contacts for this meeting: Marcie Suzanne Farwell + Christina Harlow
About: To kick off the new year of the Metadata Working Group, we have a Lightning Talks session scheduled for Friday, September 16th, at 1 PM in Kroch Library 2B48 RMC Lecture Room (or via Webex, information below).
Lightning talks are informal, 5-7 minutes (tops) presentations that cover a perspective, idea, project, or question in a short time period. This allows for many different people to present on a variety of topics, in a fun atmosphere - as well as to sign up as late as the day of (as preparation is minimal). We have a number of folks signed up to give lightning talks already (the list is below), but we warmly welcome others to give a further lightning talk. These talks can present on anything to do with metadata defined broadly. As a place to start, we'd love to hear a diverse group of folks talk about:
- what are you working on with metadata right now?
- what annoying metadata issues are you hitting and need help with?
- what pipe dreams for working with or leveraging awesome metadata do you have?
- what questions about metadata are bothering you at midnight while you try to sleep?
To sign up to give a lightning talk, just respond to this email (to Christina or Marcie) and we'll get you set up. You can sign up as late as the day of. We will also give some time for discussion and questions/answers after the talks. We will be using these lightning talks as an opportunity to find areas for the Metadata Working Group to build out during the upcoming MWG sessions.
The session is open to everyone, and we hope to see everyone next Friday the 16th at 1 PM! All are welcome, and Webex information for the session follows.
Person | Possible Topic |
|---|---|
| Keith Jenkins (plus possibly others) | CUGIR |
| Karl Fitzke and Desi Alexander | AV metadata |
| Rhea Garen and Simon Ingall | Imaging metadata |
| Erin Faulder (and Marcie Farwell) | CMS migration |
| Christina Harlow | Metadata Infrastructure across CUL |
| Jason Kovari | LD4All Work in Metadata + Cataloging |
| Jenn Colt | A metadata wishlist |
| YOUR NAME HERE! |
Webex information:
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https://cornell.webex.com/cornell/j.php?MTID=mb851b089c16ba16135b4fe97a4fc5df0
Meeting number (access code): 644 560 248
Meeting password: XbFBkwm3
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1-855-244-8681 Call-in toll-free number (US/Canada)
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Find here a list of Metadata Working Group dates for the 2016-2017 year for planning purposes.
This year, we're approaching the Metadata Working Group in a slightly different manner. Instead of a series of invited speakers, we are aiming to foster a collaborative, working space for metadata issues across the Cornell University Library system. This means workshops, working sessions, and we hope, deliverables from the Metadata Working Group in this academic year. So many of these meetings will be used for workshops or working session style events.
Dates, Times, and where known, Locations for this year's Metadata Working Group meetings:
September 16th (Kroch Library 2B48 RMC Lecture Room, 1:00-2:30 PM)
October 21st (Mann Library Room 102, 1:00-2:30 PM)
November 18th (Uris Hall B05 Computer Lab, 1:00-2:30 PM)
December 9th (Kroch Library 2B48 RMC Lecture Room, 1:00-3:00 PM)
January 20th (TBD, 1:00-2:30 PM)
February 17th (TBD, 1:00-2:30 PM)
March 17th (TBD, 1:00-3:00 PM)
April 21st (TBD, 1:00-2:30 PM)
May 19th (TBD, 1:00-2:30 PM)
Friday, May 20th, 10:30 AM, Olin 106G This ongoing research project is looking at the retrieval rates for subject based searching and the search utility of subject terms. This session will touch on the aims of the study, the research design, and some of the findings.
Hannah's slides: Cornell Only
Thursday, March 17th, 1:30 - 3pm, Mann 102 Please join us for an open, joint session of the Metadata Working Group and RepoExec welcomes Ben Fino-Radin, Associate Media Conservator, Museum of Modern Art. He will be speaking on MoMA’s digital repository solution and ongoing progress with its core elements, Archivematica, Arkivum, and Binder. As we continue to explore digital preservation options here at Cornell University Library, this event is meant to help inspire conversation and continue to expose and discover shared needs across the library and beyond, in regard to digital preservation. Ben's expertise in open-source preservation solutions will help us understand the changing landscape that is critical to our mission of preserving information for the future.
Simeon Warner Friday, January 19, 2016 - Olin 106G Libraries are investing a great deal of effort in exploring the promise of linked data. In this session Simeon Warner and Adam Chandler will take a step back and consider some of the pitfalls and challenges: how linked data changes our assumptions and the way we need to look at problems; what it makes easier and what it makes harder; as yet unsolved problems in representing knowledge as linked data, including ones we didn't have before; how we can understand and assess its impact on our users; and how we know when a linked data strategy has succeeded.
Adam Chandler
Adam's slides: https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/42434
Simeon's slides: https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/42435
Amber Billey Friday, January 29, 2016 - Olin 106G Columbia's Promoting Access to Research and Collaboration (PARC) is a CUL/IS program to enable new forms of interdisciplinary research, promote awareness of University research and increase collaboration within and across disciplines. ColumbiaPARC achieves these goals by providing a single system to aggregate and manage information about the research and scholarship communities, environments, and results at Columbia University, and to facilitate interconnections, cross-communication, and report creation across multiple internal stakeholders within the University ecosystem. ColumbiaPARC supports the University mission by helping the institution to “convey the products of its efforts to the world.
Simone Sacchi
Jon Corson-Rikert
Jason Kovari
Muhammad Javed
Rebecca Younes
December 4, 2015 Olin 106G The Metadata Working Group has sponsored a number of presentations on RDF, ontologies, the Semantic Web, and Linked Data beginning with Carl Lagoze’s presentation on the Harmony Project in 2002. Some of these sessions have focused on theory and many have described the goals and future benefits of semantic technologies including flexibility and data interoperability. This week's session will show you how these technologies work on a practical level. The forum will familiarize participants with some of the semantic technologies being applied today in CUL, using the Vitro software that was developed here as a primary component of VIVO.
Jason Kovari will demonstrate using Vitro as an editor and publisher of controlled vocabularies expressed using the Simple Knowledge Organization System, or SKOS, ontology. He will use an experiment with the Rare Book and Manuscript Section of ACRL (RBMS) Controlled Vocabularies as a framework for this discussion.
Following this walk-through, Muhammad Javed will discuss and demonstrate SKOS as an ontology to represent library authority data - and how our data can link out to the rest of the world's data. Jon Corson-Rikert will demonstrate the RDF graph structure and lead a discussion about semantic applications of authority data.
This forum will be grounded in actual work at CUL and in the library community.
Steven Folsom
Maureen Morris
Frances Webb
November 13, 2015, 10:30am - noon, Mann Library, Room 160
Description
Discovery Metadata -This is a growing topic of interest and necessity and we wanted to shed light on projects and workflows that are unfolding right before our very eyes! More to come in the future.
"A metadata librarian, a public services librarian and a programmer walk into a bar... conversations on discovery." - Join Steven Folsom, Maureen Morris and Frances Webb in a discussion about metadata responses to user discovery needs in Blacklight and beyond.
"A metadata librarian, a public services librarian and a programmer walk into a bar... conversations on discovery." - Join Steven Folsom, Maureen Morris and Frances Webb in a discussion about metadata responses to user discovery needs in Blacklight and beyond.
Jonathan Corson-Rikert
Huda Khan
Darcy Branchini
Ingrid Zabel
October 30, 2015, 10:30am - noon, Olin Library 106G
Description
The Cornell University Library was invited in late 2012 to participate with the Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC) here at Cornell and several outside partners to propose implementation of a Climate Change Science Clearinghouse for New York State (NYCCSC), funded by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, or NYSERDA. The NYCCSC "will compile and coordinate scientific data and literature that will assist New York State in achieving its climate change adaptation and mitigation goals by providing user-friendly, web-based public access to data and literature related to climate change science that is relevant to New York State. The NYCCSC will also serve as an academic climate change data and literature clearinghouse that will support climate change research activities of state agencies, authorities, municipalities, private business and the insurance industry.”
Our successful proposal has now reached beta release status in the second year of a three-year project, and members of the Library and NRCC team will describe our approach to realizing the ambitious goals for the Clearinghouse, demonstrate progress so far, and focus on the extensive metadata work involved in finding, cataloging, and inter-relating diverse content into a coherent user experience. We will discuss extensions to the VIVO ontology to encompass new concepts and relationships inherent in climate change science, present a novel integration of VIVO as a semantic back end to the Blacklight faceted search interface, and describe how the Clearinghouse leverages a spatial database to improve relevance ranking of documents, data, and maps based on a user’s selected geographic scope of interest.
Recorded session: https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/41642
Mary Beth Martini-Lyons
Jenn Colt
September 18, 2015, 9:00am, Olin Library 703
Description
A CUL Digital Collections Portal is currently under development. The goal of the Portal will be to provide a central location to house CUL digital collections, and help de-silo these rich assets and make them more discoverable to users. This session will provide an overview of the Portal, background on how these collections have been served up in the past, information on the technology behind Portal, and what the path forward looks like.
Simeon Warner, et al.
May 15, 2015, 10:30am - 12pm, Olin 106G
Description
Simeon Warner will introduce the project and examine some use cases; Jon Corson-Rikert will briefly discuss ontologies; Lynette Rayle will demo UC1.1 and discuss ORE, scraping, and lookups; Rebecca Younes will discuss UC2, mass conversion, post-processing, entities, and cross-site search; Steven Folsom will discuss BIBFRAME for LD4L; Chiat Naun Chew will give a brief preview of LD4P;
Links
LD4L Forum slides. (2015-05-15) Website
Tre Berney
April 17, 2015, 10:30am - 12:00pm, Olin 106G
Description
Tre Berney will discuss sources, reasons, and challenges in dealing with video and its complexities in regard to metadata. His presentation will touch on a variety of things, including: • Why technical metadata is important to moving images & how it works • The importance of identifying the metadata needs of different kinds of institutions • Applications of video metadata at CUL and the Lab of Ornithology • The technical challenges of our current archive and delivery systems, including our implementation of Kaltura, an open source media streaming solution
Links
Berney, Tre. Metadata for Video: A Primer. (2015-04-17) Recording Tre Berney will discuss sources, reasons, and challenges in dealing with video and its complexities in regard to metadata. His presentation will touch on a variety of things, including: • Why technical metadata is important to moving images & how it works • The importance of identifying the metadata needs of different kinds of institutions • Applications of video metadata at CUL and the Lab of Ornithology • The technical challenges of our current archive and delivery systems, including our implementation of Kaltura, an open source media streaming solution.
NISO Webinar
April 8, 2015, 1pm - 2:30pm, Olin Library 703
Description
Password for Recording: bf_early_experimenters About the Webinar In May 2011, the Library of Congress officially launched a new modeling initiative, Bibliographic Framework Initiative, as a linked data alternative to MARC. The Library then announced in November 2012 the proposed model, called BIBFRAME. Since then, the library world is moving from mainly theorizing about the BIBFRAME model to attempts to implement practical experimentation and testing. This experimentation is iterative, and continues to shape the model so that it’s stable enough and broadly acceptable enough for adoption. In this webinar, several institutions will share their progress in experimenting with BIBFRAME within their library system. They will discuss the existing, developing, and planned projects happening at their institutions. Challenges and opportunities in exploring and implementing BIBFRAME in their institutions will be discussed as well. Agenda Introduction Todd Carpenter, Executive Director, NISO Experimental Mode: The National Library of Medicine and experiences with BIBFRAME Nancy Fallgren, Metadata Specialist Librarian, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) To date, the work the National Library of Medicine (NLM) has undertaken is realm of enhancing understanding of the BIBFRAME model as produced by the Library of Congress and Zepheira and, more recently, trying to change those models. At NLM, tasks are focused on developing a workable, broadly acceptable BIBFFRAME model in an experimental mode -- not a production mode -- so that community buy-in and tool development can begin in earnest. NLM is are planning to do more practical experimentation, including generating new BIBFRAME data with tools developed by others by Spring 2015; however, any data produced is not likely to be stable or useful beyond providing sample data to support NLM's idea of what the BIBFFRAME model should be/how it should work. Nancy Fallgren is currently a Metadata Specialist Librarian in the Cataloging Section of the National Library of Medicine and member of the BIBFRAME Early Experimenters Group. She is also fortunate to have been a consultant to the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. Nancy received her MLS from the University of Maryland in 2006, following many years as a para-professional cataloger in her local public library system. In addition to working at NLM, Nancy held professional positions first as a Cataloger and then a Metadata Librarian at The Sheridan Libraries of Johns Hopkins University, and, as a Graduate Assistant at McKeldin Library, was involved in e-resource licensing for the University System of Maryland. * * * * * * * * Exploring BIBFRAME at a Small Academic Library Jeremy Nelson, Metadata and Systems Librarian, Colorado College This presentation traces the development path taken by the Tutt Library at Colorado College as its explores how BIBFRAME and other Linked-data vocabularies can be used in library systems to improve operations and provide superior access and discoverability of the library's collections. Starting with early experiments modeling bibliographic entities using Google App Engine & Solr, the library moved to using Redis as a bibliographic store for FRBR and BIBFRAME entities. Limitations with Redis lead to further experimental systems with MongoDB and Solr, leading eventually to using Fedora 4 as a Linked Data Platform supported by Elastic Search, Fuseki, and Redis that is being actively developed in the upcoming BIBFRAME Catalog for the Library of Congress. The future plans for the Tutt Library is to use the BIBFRAME Catalog a foundation for a new integrated library catalog and website. Jeremy Nelson is the Metadata and Systems Librarian at Colorado College, a four-year private liberal arts college in Colorado Springs. In addition to working 8 hours a week on the library's research help desk, providing information literacy instruction to undergraduates, and supervising the library's systems and cataloging departments, Nelson is actively researching and developing various components and open-source tools in the Catalog Pull Platform for use by Colorado College, the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries Consortium, and the Library of Congress. Nelson's previous library experience includes jobs at Western State Colorado University and the University of Utah. Prior to becoming a librarian, Nelson worked as programmer and project manager at various software companies and financial services institutions. His undergraduate degree is from Knox College and his Master of Science in Library and Information Science is from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. * * * * * * * * Working with BIBFRAME for discovery and production: Linked data for Libraries/Linked Data for Production Nancy Lorimer, Head, Metadata Dept, Stanford University Libraries This presentation will describe and provide updates on two collaborative and related linked open data projects Stanford is participating in—Linked Data for Libraries and Linked Data for Production. Both projects make use of BIBFRAME to explore and use linked data in the library environment. Linked Data for Libraries (LD4L) is a collaborative project of Stanford, Cornell, and Harvard to create a semantic information store model of scholarly resources. The goal is to bring together three large pools of data—bibliographic data (transformed from MARC to BIBFRAME); person data; and various types of usage data—and link them together through an open source ontology and engineering framework, to capture the intellectual value that librarians and other domain experts and scholars add to information resources. Active since January 2014, the project is in its second year of a two year grant. Linked Data for Production (LD4Prod) is a natural outgrowth of LD4L. The primary goal of this collaboration between 5 academic libraries (Stanford, Cornell, Columbia, Harvard, Princeton) and the Library of Congress is to actively explore metadata creation in the linked data environment using BIBFRAME, and integrating it into our technical services workflows. To that end, we will be defining specifications for tool development and infrastructure, exploring how cataloging rules mesh with BIBFRAME, and creating profiles for various subject domains. Nancy Lorimer has recently become Interim Head of the Metadata Department at Stanford University. Formerly Head of Music Technical Services, she has represented music in the Stanford Metadata Bibframe group, working with her colleagues to test and discuss Bibframe tools and issues within the greater world of linked data, and now leads the group’s discussions. On the more traditional side, Nancy is Chair of the Music Library Association Genre/Form task force, coordinator for the SACO Music Funnel, and has participated in PCC & MLA task forces related to RDA implementation and standards. A former Chair of MLA’s Bibliographic Control Committee, she is also a member of the RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee and represents Music on the Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials RDA committee.
Links
NISO. April 8 NISO Webinar: Experimenting with BIBFRAME: Reports from Early Adopters. (2015-04-08) Recording
Rich Entlich
March 27, 2015, 10:30am - 12pm, Olin Library 106
Description
1) Prospects for enhancing discovery of Voyager records for materials in non-Roman alphabets by adding available vernacular data in key fields Until recently, it was practice in LTS to routinely strip vernacular from MARC records before loading into Voyager, except for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean language material. That policy has changed, but there are still large numbers of Voyager records for items in non-Roman alphabets that have no vernacular data. How prevalent are non-Roman alphabets other than CJK in Cornell's Voyager records? If we wanted to retrospectively enhance existing records by adding parallel MARC fields in vernacular, would WorldCat provide a good source for such data and if so, for which alphabets? Is the available vernacular in WorldCat from trustworthy cataloging sources? 2) Evaluation of the process for improving class-on-receipt and minimal level records in Voyager LTS has established procedures for periodically comparing our less than full cataloging level records against WorldCat records for potential upgrades by pulling in missing fields, especially subject headings. Historically, which records have been getting (or not getting) upgrades in WorldCat, and do they have identifiable characteristics? Does the encoding level provide a reliable indicator of which records have been upgraded? What upgrades are available and which institutions have been responsible for the upgrades? Are any changes in cataloging or batch processing procedures indicated? Rich will also discuss use of WorldCat web service APIs in support of these investigations.
Links
Entlich, Rich. Rich Entlich on Investigations into Technical Services Issues. (2015-03-27)