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June 2013

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Backstage - Authority Control for Digital Content (archived webinar)
by Nate Cothran 13 Jun '13

13 Jun '13

As an update from yesterday's quick post about a webinar that Jeremy Myntti (University of Utah) and I co-presented at this morning, I have another update. This is from Sandra McIntyre who was gracious enough to host the webinar, record it, and make it immediately available for those who may not have attended this morning. ------------------ From: Sandra McIntyre [mailto:sandra.mcintyre@utah.edu] Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 12:42 PM To: UALC Committee; MWDL Partners Cc: UALC-announce(a)lists.utah.edu Subject: [ualc-announce] Archived recording of webinar on Thu., June 13: "Authority Control for Digital Library Metadata" The archived recording of today's webinar is now available online. Jeremy Myntti from the University of Utah Marriott Library and Nate Cothran from Backstage Library Works gave a well-organized presentation on "Authority Control for Digital Library Metadata," discussing their joint project exploring how to automate the standardization of names and subjects within digital library metadata. The page also includes links to resources shared during the webinar. http://mwdl.org/events/authcontrol.php Please join us for future webinars and/or take a look at the archived recordings of other previous webinars from our Events page at http://mwdl.org/events/events.php. Thank you for your interest in the Mountain West Digital Library webinars! Sandra Nate Cothran Vice President, Automation Services 25 East 1700 South Provo, Utah 84606 Phone: +1.800.288.1265, ext. 697 Direct: +1.801.342.5697 nate(a)bslw.com <mailto:nate@bslw.com?subject=Automation%20Services%20-%20Inquiry> * www.bslw.com <http://www.bslw.com>

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FW: Digital Tech Topics webinar on Thu., June 13: "Authority Control for Digital Library Metadata"
by Nate Cothran 12 Jun '13

12 Jun '13

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(a)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(a)utah.edu

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