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.

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.”

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.

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.

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

Jane Smith, one of the graduate Metadata Research Center research assistants, recently completed an internship with the Policy and Standards Division at the Library of Congress. Under supervisor Geraldine Ostrove, LC Senior Policy Specialist, Jane worked on the development of the Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus (LCMPT). A joint Library of Congress and Music Library Association project, the LCMPT will be used to retrieve music by its medium of performance in library catalogs, and to record the element “medium of performance” of musical works, as represented in individual music resources cataloged according to RDA: Resource Description and Access and linked data methods. The LCMPT project will be published on the Web and will be compatible with Semantic Web standards.

During her time in DC, Jane gave a presentation titled “The Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus: Deployment through the Open Metadata Registry.”

More information about the LCMPT project can be found on the Library of Congress Cataloging and Acquisitions Web site.

Agenda:

• Jane Greenberg: metadata highlights as a Catedrática de Excelencia, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M)…and…a few observations on life-in-Spain.
• Metadata mania: SILS students share about their “amazing” final paper/projects/activities in the metadata class.
• Metadata R&D shout-it-out: from the audience, hoping to have a few attendees “shout-it-out” about a current metadata related R&D activity.

The Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) has announced that Dr. Jane Greenberg, professor at the School of Information and Library Science (SILS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is the recipient of the 2012 Margaret Mann Citation presented by its Cataloging and Metadata Management Section (CaMMS). The Mann Citation will be presented at the ALCTS Awards Ceremony on June 24, 2012 at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Anaheim, Calif.

The Mann Citation, recognizing outstanding professional achievement in cataloging or classification, includes a $2,000 scholarship donated in the recipient’s honor by OCLC, Inc. to the library school of the winner’s choice. Greenberg has chosen SILS to be the recipient of this year’s scholarship award. More information can be found here.

In celebration of the Metadata Research Center’s 5 year anniversary, we will be hosting a Metadata Marathon. Join us for lunch and an afternoon of metadata-focused discussion including lightning talks from metadata experts, breakout groups to discuss the future of metadata research needs, and the opportunity to participate in a published report.