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LYRASIS IT Conference 2009: Open Source in Your Library

Keynote speaker Dan Scott, Systems Librarian from Laurentian University, talks about implementing the open source Evergreen ILS. Library Journal 2009 Mover and Shaker Karen Combs discusses using Drupal for her library's intranet, and LYRASIS Board Chair Joe Lucia, University Librarian at Villanova University, shares his experience with the development of the VuFind open source discovery layer for library catalogs.

From Legacy Data to Linked Data: Preparing Libraries for Web 3.0 (Grassroots Programs - Annual2009)

From Legacy Data to Linked Data: Preparing Libraries for Web 3.0

Presentations from this program are available below:

Eric Miller (Zepheira), "Linked Data and Libraries" [1]

Diane Hillmann (Information Institute of Syracuse; Metadata Management Associates), "Are Libraries Ready for Linked Data?" [2]

Jennifer Bowen (University of Rochester), "Defining Linked Data for the eXtensible Catalog (XC): Metadata on the Bleeding Edge" [3]

Rebecca Guenther (Library of Congress), "Controlled Vocabularies as Linked Data on the Web" [4]

Registering the RDA Vocabularies

Diane Hillmann's slides about RDA and vocabularies

Expanding the Power of the Library's Family of Vocabularies: Genre/Form Headings Webcast (Library of Congress)

SPEAKER: Janis Young
EVENT DATE: 07/02/2009
RUNNING TIME: 53 minutes

DESCRIPTION:

In 2007, the Library of Congress embarked upon a project to create a system of genre/form headings, which describe what a work is rather than what it is about, as subject headings do. This presentation will explain the motivations for undertaking the project, including the need to anticipate the linked data requirements of the new generation of search engines and user interfaces, and also enumerate the authority record distribution channels, which furnish data for both human use and for data mining and computer manipulation. In addition, the presentation will address the practical impacts of this project on LC staff and users alike.

The Death of the Document (PCC Screencast)

The guest at this ALA Annual's Program for Cooperative Cataloging Participants' Meeting was David Lankes, professor at Syracuse University iSchool.

Abstract (from his site): "When a book becomes an ebook it looses more than simply its physical binding - it looses hard boundaries that separate the content of the book from its use. Online journals are not simply pictures of a traditional journal on a screen, but rather the foundations of intellectual communities. While today we hold on to terms such as book, journal, magazine and simply affix "e" to them, in truth, these terms of simply metaphors, an echo of an earlier analog reality. Online narratives, theses, and "how-to's" become living documents bound closer to a multitude of contexts that defy traditional notions of information organization, already strained to the breaking point of scale. What is needed is a new approach to organizing knowledge, one based on context that occurs in the space between artifacts."

The Ethics of Information Organization

Videos now available:

May 22-23, 2009
Milwaukee Central Library, Centennial Hall
Milwaukee, WI

Information organization (IO), like other major functions of the information profession, faces many ethical challenges. In the IO literature, ethical concerns have been raised with regard to, for example, the role of national and international IO standards, providing subject access to information, deprofessionalization and outsourcing of IO, education of IO professionals, and the effects of globalization. These issues, and others like them, have serious implications for quality and equity in information access. The Center for Information Policy Research and the Information Organization Research Group at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee join in presenting this conference to address the ethics of information organization.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Clare Beghtol, Professor
University of Toronto, Canada

José Augusto Chaves Guimarães, Professor
Universidade Estadual Paulista, Brazil

Janet Swan Hill, Professor, Associate Director for Technical Services, University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries, USA

eFoundations: Does metadata matter?

Cataloging Principles and RDA: Resource Description and Access Webcast (Library of Congress)

TITLE: Cataloging Principles and RDA: Resource Description and Access

SPEAKER: Barbara Tillett
EVENT DATE: 06/10/2008
RUNNING TIME: 49 minutes

DESCRIPTION:

The second in a series on RDA: Resource Description and Access, the next generation cataloging code designed for the digital environment. This presentation deals with the cataloging principles that have influenced the development of RDA; the challenges they present to the international sharing of bibliographic and authority data; and the challenges they present to the developers of RDA.

Resource Description and Access: Background / Overview Webcast (Library of Congress)

TITLE: Resource Description and Access: Background / Overview

SPEAKER: Barbara Tillett
EVENT DATE: 05/14/2008
RUNNING TIME: 67 minutes

DESCRIPTION:

RDA (Resource Description and Access), the next generation cataloging code designed for the digital environment, is under development. This presentation provides background on its development and a general overview of the conceptual models, international principles, and structure of this new code.