Thanks, Nate. This looks interesting. EDT is not included;) but it should be 1 pm here, on the East coast, but in any case, it will be good to have access to the archive. Thank you for forwarding this! Éva From: bslwac-bounces@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:bslwac-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of Nate Cothran Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 2:35 PM To: bslwac@mailman.xmission.com Subject: [BSLWAC] FW: Digital Tech Topics webinar on Thu., June 13: "Authority Control for Digital Library Metadata" Hello Everyone, We have been looking for opportunities to present our discoveries with applying authority control to a digital collection recently. This engagement (please see below) represents our first opportunity. I apologize for the short notice as this was one that came about rather quickly for us and we jumped at the chance to show you where we are with this potential service. The webinar is free to attend, open to all, and will be made available via a recording at a later date should you not be able to attend tomorrow morning. Jeremy & I touch briefly (towards the end) on linked data, though most of the presentation details our efforts with updating headings in CONTENTdm and providing greater access to those digital records. We hope to see you at the webinar tomorrow! Nate Cothran Backstage Library Works From: Jeremy Myntti [mailto:Jeremy.Myntti@utah.edu] Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 2:33 PM To: Nate Cothran Subject: FW: Digital Tech Topics webinar on Thu., June 13: "Authority Control for Digital Library Metadata" From: Sandra McIntyre [mailto:sandra.mcintyre@utah.edu] Sent: Monday, June 10, 2013 2:26 PM To: UALC Digitization Committee; MWDL Partners Cc: UALC-announce@lists.utah.edu<mailto:UALC-announce@lists.utah.edu> Subject: [ualc-announce] Digital Tech Topics webinar on Thu., June 13: "Authority Control for Digital Library Metadata" Mountain West Digital Library partners and other interested UALC library employees, Our next webinar in the series on "Digital Tech Topics" will be this Thursday, June 13. The webinar will be held online via Wimba web-conferencing. Those of you who have been wondering, "How do we start implementing Linked Open Data in our digital libraries?" will find this especially interesting. Please join us for this informative session! "Authority Control for Digital Library Metadata" Thu., June 13, 2013 11:00 am-12:00 noon MDT / 10:00-11:00 am PDT Via Wimba at http://my.uen.org/myuen/215484/ Presenters: · Jeremy Myntti, Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services, University of Utah, J. Willard Marriott Library · Nate Cothran, Vice President, Automated Services, Backstage Library Works The University of Utah's J. Willard Marriott Library<http://www.lib.utah.edu/> has been working with Backstage Library Works<http://www.bslw.com/> to come up with an automated solution for authorizing fields in digital library metadata to provide consistency and to improve access to collections. In addition to standardizing headings, this process will add links in the metadata records to the Library of Congress Linked Data Service (http://id.loc.gov) in order to incorporate some linked data best practices. This presentation will consist of an overview of the need for authority control in metadata records, the process that Backstage Library Works and the Marriott Library are working to implement, and a detailed look at the changes that can be automated through this process. Jeremy and Nate have suggested some background resources about Linked Open Data and authority control, which are linked from the MWDL web page about this event<http://mwdl.org/events/authcontrol.php>. Bring your questions about what this means for your digital library, or simply lurk and learn! Either way, we hope to "see" you on Thursday. Please feel free to forward this invitation to others. Sandra =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Sandra McIntyre | Program Director Mountain West Digital Library | Utah Academic Library Consortium http://mwdl.org<http://mwdl.org/> | +1-801-585-0969 | sandra.mcintyre@utah.edu<mailto:sandra.mcintyre@utah.edu>