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Dryad Membership Meeting at St. Anne’s College, Oxford

What: Dryad Membership Meeting
Who: Dryad staff and members
When: 9am-6pm May 24, 2013
Where: St. Anne’s College, Oxford

Dryad Digital Repository will be holding a meeting for members, prospective members, and other interested parties on May 24 at St. Anne’s College in Oxford, England. Coming at the end of a three-day group of symposia on scholarly communication and research data sharing and attribution, Dryad staff, members, and community will discuss current and future plans for the repository itself as well as its members and partner journals. Scheduled topics include models for the technical and peer review of data, ideas for promoting the adoption of data citations, measuring data reuse, funder perspectives on the use of research grants for data management costs, the relevance of larger data networks, and more.

Registration for physical attendance has already closed, but webinar registration is still available.

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MRC Research Assistants appointed to ALCTS and MLA working groups

We are pleased to announce that Metadata Research Center Research Assistants Chelcie Rowell, MSIS ’13 and Jane Smith, MSIS ’13 have recently been appointed as members of working groups in professional organizations related to their interests.

Chelcie will serve as the co-chair of the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) Intellectual Access to Preservation Metadata Interest Group from 2013 through 2015. The purpose of the Intellectual Access to Preservation Metadata Interest Group is to “organize speakers to discuss preservation metadata topics of interest to the group; evaluate and document practices related to preservation metadata standards; and encourage and recognize innovation and motivate practitioners to adopt new and improved practices.”

Jane will serve as a member of the Music Library Association (MLA) Bibliographic Control Committee (BCC) Subject Access Subcommittee beginning this year. The purpose of the subcommittee is “to formulate MLA policy on all matters related to access to music materials via subject, including document classification, thesauri of indexable terms, and capabilities for subject access to online bibliographic records.”

Posted in: Uncategorized / Tagged: ALA, ALCTS, MLA

Shigeo Sugimoto to present on digital environments for manga production

What: Digital Manga: A Metadata-Centric Approach Supporting Access and Use
Who: Shigeo Sugimoto: Director, Research Center for Knowledge and Professor, Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies, University of Tsukuba, Japan
When: March 25, 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Where: Manning Hall, Room 208

Presentation: Digital Manga: A Metadata-Centric Approach Supporting Access and Use

Manga, Japanese comics, are gaining popularity worldwide. Manga follow a late 19th c. style, although new technologies provide novel capabilities for manga publication. Once a manual art form, manga is becoming a digital art and so there are emerging digital libraries of manga. Professor Shigeo Sugimoto will introduce the Manga Metadata Framework, developed to support efficient production and browsing of digital manga. His presentation will highlight bibliographic relationships and characters as intellectual entities, review functional requirements of metadata for manga, and display the project’s visual structure.

Shigeo Sugimoto is the Director, Research Center for Knowledge, and a Professor in the Graduate School of Library, Information and Media Studies, University of Tsukuba, Japan. Professor Sugimoto’s primary research interest is in digital libraries their place in our information/knowledge infrastructure. His research areas include models and technologies of metadata and metadata schemas for digital resources and digital archives. He is a member of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative’s Oversight Committee and co-chair of the DCMI Localization and Internationalization Community. He has been involved in major international conferences on digital libraries in Asia, Europe, and North America as an organizer and program committee member. Professor Sugimoto earned a Ph.D. in Information Science (software engineering and programming languages) from Kyoto University in 1985.

To demonstrate, Dr. Sugimoto has shared a link to a manga created by one of Shigeo’s students.

This event is co-sponsored by the SILS Metadata Research Center and UNC-ASIS&T.

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Open session of Jane Greenberg’s Organizing Information class and linked data presentation by Jane Smith, MRC Research Assistant

What:Open session of INLS-520 Organizing Information
Who: Jane Smith, SILS graduate student, Metadata Research Center research assistant
When: Feb 13, 12:30-1:30 PM
Where: Undergraduate Library, Room 204

Presentation: Toward linked data: the Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus

Jane Smith, Metadata Research Center research assistant and accomplished artist/opera singer, recently completed an internship with the Policy and Standards Division at the Library of Congress. Her work included integral steps for transforming the Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus (LCMPT) to SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System). The LCMPT is a joint Library of Congress and Music Library Association project used to represent and retrieve music by medium of performance for musical works, as represented in individual music resources. Ms. Smith’s work is important for RDA: Resource Description and Access and linked data developments. The LCMPT project will be published on the Web and will be compatible with Semantic Web standards.

Posted in: Uncategorized / Tagged: Library of Congress, Linked data, Music, Open class, Open Metadata Registry, SKOS, Thesaurus

SILS students present on metadata ownership and rights to UNC-CH Scholarly Communication Working Group

Who: Jane Greenberg and students of INLS 720: Metadata Architectures and Applications
What: Metadata Ownership and Rights (UNC-CH Scholarly Communication Working Group Presentation)
When: February 13, 2013 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
Where: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Davis Library, Room 214 (A & B)

Open access and copyright issues can dominate discussions addressing the reuse of digital resources. Metadata reuse has introduced a host of rights questions and challenges. Metadata rights were explored during the course INLS 720: Metadata Architectures and Applications this past fall as part of a student presentation. Our meeting will cover copyright in the context of metadata, plus two case studies (one examining Duke University Press and the other examining open bibliographic data). The presentation wrap up with a series of questions for discussion.

Speakers:

Jane Greenberg, Professor at SILS and Director of the Metadata Research Center
Emily Roscoe, SILS doctoral student
Tim Elfenbein, SILS master’s student & Duke University Press Intern
Chelcie Rowell, SILS master’s student & Research Assistant for the Metadata Research Center & DataONE