Peer Council Meeting—May 30, 2013
SCHEDULE
8:30-9:00
Sign-in and coffee
9:00-9:15
Welcome and Housekeeping
9:15-10:15
WorldShare Metadata Vision
John Chapman, OCLC Product Manager for WorldShare Metadata
Web services promise simpler, more straightforward ways of interacting with data. What does this have to do with cataloging and metadata? How can web services fit into the evolving cataloging environment? Join John for a discussion of how OCLC is making use of these services in new applications and offering them for direct use by the cataloging community.
10:15-10:30
Break
10:30-11:15
An Automated CatalogingWorkflow with Skyriver
Jim Novy and Steve Ohs, Lakeshores Library System
Jim Novy and Steve Ohs will describe an automated cataloging workflow they developed for a public library consortium to work around shortages of staff cataloging time. The workflow uses a series of Perl scripts that hook into features of the SirsiDynix Symphony ILS and the Skyriver bibliographic service.
11:15-12:00
Metadata Retention
Kevin Eliceiri, Director, Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI), UW-Madison
Modern Biological imaging now has the unprecedented ability to track biological phenomena such as cancer cell invasion in high resolution over time and in space. As these imaging technologies mature and become main stream tools for the bench biologist there is great need for improved software tools that drive the informatics workflow of the imaging process from acquisition and image analysis to visualization and dissemination. To best meet the workflow challenges, these tools need to be freely available, open source, and transparent in their development and deployment. Different imaging processing and visualization approaches need access not only to the data but also to each other. There needs to be compatibility not only in file import and export but interoperability in preserving and communicating what was done to the image. There is a great opportunity in achieving this interoperability, tools that can talk to each other not only enable new biological discovery but also efficiencies in sharing approaches and in many cases more precise workflows. We present an informatics infrastructure designed to deal with this challenge of processing digital data of increasing complexity and richness. This includes tools to collect, store, manipulate, analyze, interpret and visualize vast amounts of imaging data and associated metadata in a reproducible manner with the flexibility to refine aspects of their experimental and imaging techniques in a tight iterative loop.
12:00-1:15
Lunch provided at the Pyle Center
1:15-2:15
Taming the Beast: Thoughts on RDA Implementation (presentation links)
Mark K. Ehlert, Coordinator, Digitization, Cataloging & Metadata Education (DCME), Minitex
From AACR3 to RDA to LC implementation, the journey to develop and publish a new cataloging standard has been long, arduous, and frustrating. But getting it out the door is only the first step–it’s now up to individual institutions and consortia to take the written word and apply it to day-to-day work. Mark will address the broader strokes of RDA implementation: training, documentation, workflows, and application of the cataloging rules.
