The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries is hosting a series of webinars on Digital Preservation in April.  You are invited to join colleagues in Ellis 4F51A to view them.

Preservation Planning and Overview of PREMIS for Beginners
Tuesday, April 2, 10:00-11:00 am
Ellis 4F51A

Topics:

* Formulating a digital preservation plan

* What to consider during planning and first steps for implementation

* Basic introduction to PREMIS, the Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata

Forbearing the Digital Dark Age: Capturing Metadata for Digital Objects
Tuesday, April 9, 10:00-11:00 am
Ellis 4F51A

Topics:

* Metadata for digital photos, documents, audio-video, tabular data, and GIS data

* Categories of metadata, metadata standards, metadata capture strategies, and metadata software tools

Management of Incoming Born-Digital Special Collections
Tuesday, April 16, 10:00-11:00 am
Ellis 4F51A

Topics:

* Getting started with managing born-digital archives

* Assessing collection

* Developing a management plan

* Putting basic policies in place

* Setting up an accessioning workflow

Using FITS to Identify File Formats and Extract Metadata
Tuesday, April 30, 10:00-11:00 am
Ellis 4F51A

Topics:

* Introduction to file formats and technical metadata

* Demo of the File Information Tool Set (FITS)

Role of Long-Term Storage in Digital Curation
Sponsor: ALA Association for Library Collections and Technical Services
November 14. 1:00-2:00 pm
Ellis 4F51A

Introduces considerations for the long-term storage of digital content selected for preservation. This content must be stored in ways that align with good practice. The session addresses issues related to the development of storage management policies, including file formats for deposit and preservation, the preservation of multiple copies, the locations of those copies, the characteristics of those locations, and the means for meeting long‐term storage requirements.  (Description from website)

More information:  http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/pres/111412

Text Mining Opportunities and Challenges
Sponsor:  Center for Research Libraries
Wednesday, December 5, 10:00-11:00 am
Ellis 4F51A

Text mining enables researchers to extract valuable information and data from large bodies of text, but also presents formidable technical and intellectual property challenges for libraries. This CRL webinar explores recent trends in text mining, and how publishers and libraries are responding to those challenges. Presenters from Elsevier and Gale Cengage, as well as collection development experts, will discuss:

• * the types of resources being “mined”, including e-journal databases and digitized newspapers and archives
• * recent text-mining projects
• * the challenges and issues these present for database publishers
• * what role, if any, libraries can play to support these activities
• * what new services are envisioned and what is in the pipeline.
• (Description from website)

More information:  http://www.crl.edu/events/8391

 

Catalogers throughout the United States (and beyond) are changing the cataloging rules they use from AACR2 to RDA (Resource Description and Access).  We are already adding RDA records from WorldCat to MERLIN and the Catalog Department is preparing to transition to the new rules, too, following the Library of Congress which has announced its target date for RDA implementation as March 31, 2013.  These webinars will give all an introduction to the new cataloging rules.

RDA for the Non-Cataloger: What’s In It for You?
October 31, 2012 – 1:00-2:00
Ellis 4F51A

Many libraries will be implementing Resource Description & Access (RDA) early in 2013. What will this mean for technical services and other library staff? How are RDA records different from AACR2 records? This webinar provides a general overview of the changes in RDA, particularly those affecting staff in technical services and those noticeable in the OPAC. No knowledge of current cataloging standards or MARC required! This session does not teach how to catalog with RDA, but it can be a useful foundation for catalogers new to RDA as well as other library staff and administrators.

 

RDA in 10 Easy Steps
November 28, 2012 – 1:00-2:00
Ellis 4F51A

Resource Description and Access (RDA) is the successor to the cataloging rules, AACR2. RDA completely revamps the structure of the cataloging instructions by closely following the entity-relationship model used to construct databases. However, as complex as these changes are, they can be reduced to ten easy steps. Join in on a walkthrough of the new structure. A demonstration of how a simple book can be cataloged with RDA helps catalogers understand the new structure and makes it easier to navigate RDA and find related instructions for other resources.

–Felicity

Please let me know if you would like to attend the following ALA online workshop. I will register at the group rate if enough people are interested.
Thanks,
Shannon

A More Effective Social Media Presence: Strategic Planning and Project Management
A Workshop with Sarah Steiner and Cliff Landis
A 90-Minute Workshop on September 12, 2012 at 1:30pm (Central)

Building a presence for your library on sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn is a great idea, but how do you ensure that you’re doing so in a strategic way that maximizes the benefit to your library and effectively organizes staff time and responsibility? In this workshop, Sarah Steiner and Cliff Landis will show you how to design and implement a social media plan that meets the needs of your patrons and also fits the capacity of your staff. With guidance for assessing your library users’ needs and getting stakeholders on board, you’ll be able to build a strategy from the ground up. You’ll also learn how to manage projects effectively and keep your plan flexible so your library can keep up with the constantly changing social media landscape.

Sarah Steiner is the Social Work and Virtual Services Librarian at Georgia State University Library in Atlanta.
Cliff Landis is Technology Librarian at Valdosta State University’s Odum Library in Valdosta, Georgia.

SISLT is hosting the following NISO webinar and we’re invited:

Schema.org and Linked Data: Complementary Approaches to Publishing Data
April 25, 2012
Noon- 1:30 p.m.
Place TBD (check with Felicity if you haven’t heard before the date)

From the website:  Schema.org — a collaboration of the Google, Yahoo!, and Bing search engines — provides a way to include structured data in Web pages. Since its introduction in June 2011, the Schema.org vocabulary has grown to cover descriptive terms for content such as movies, music, organizations, TV shows, products, locations, news items, and job listings. The goal of Schema.org is “to improve the display of search results, making it easier for people to find the right web pages.” The Schema.org initiative has emerged as a focal point for publishers of structured data in Web pages, especially but not exclusively in the commercial sector.

This webinar will explore how the publication methods of Schema.org relate to the methods used to publish Linked Data. Must data providers commit to one or the other, or can the two approaches exist side-by-side, even reinforcing each other?

More information:  http://www.niso.org/news/events/2012/dcmi/linked_data/