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Reminder – deadline is this Friday, Dec. 5.

The ALCTS Metadata Interest Group seeks presentation proposals for the program “Assessing Metadata Staffing and Workflows” during the ALCTS Virtual Preconference “Planning for the Evolving Role of Metadata Librarians” prior to the 2015 ALA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA. This program is scheduled to take place during the week of June 1st (specific days during the week of June 1st will be determined at a later date in consultation with speaker availability).  Presentations are 30 minutes in total — 20 minutes for the presentation, 10 minutes for questions.

Many metadata programs have moved beyond the beginning stages of developing workflows for digital library content. Planning for future development requires analyzing current costs and workflows. This program will discuss ways in which metadata creators and coordinators gather, assess, and report metrics in order to evaluate staffing and workflows.

Potential topics could include:

• determining adequate staffing needs
• allocating staff time for current and new initiatives (such as data management or linked data projects)
• conducting cost analysis for metadata creation
• streamlining and automating workflows.

Participants will be able to find practical ways to assess staffing needs, to calculate metadata creation costs, and to track and measure workflows.

The deadline for proposals is December 5, 2014. Proposals may be submitted through this form: http://goo.gl/forms/WmW2ImBg64

If you have any difficulties with this form, please feel free to submit your proposals directly by email to sathompson3@uh.edu

Reminder – deadline is this Friday, Dec. 5.

The ALCTS Metadata Interest Group seeks presentation proposals for the program “Metadata Services for Research Data Management” during the ALCTS Virtual Preconference “Planning for the Evolving Role of Metadata Librarians” prior to the 2015 ALA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA. This program is scheduled to take place during the week of June 1st (specific days during the week of June 1st will be determined at a later date in consultation with speaker availability).  Presentations are 30 minutes in total — 20 minutes for the presentation, 10 minutes for questions.

Librarians continue to engage in active partnerships with researchers who seek assistance in describing and organizing their data to meet federal mandates and to promote the discoverability and preservation of their work.  This session will examine different ways that librarians collaborate with researchers to manage and curate research data.

Potential topics could include:

• Creation of metadata workflows or tools for discipline-based metadata schema and repositories (internal and external)
• Utilization of emerging metadata schema, including the semantic web, to describe research data
• Implementation of metadata consultation services for researchers.

Participants will gain awareness of the current issues surrounding metadata services for research data management and identify different methods and approaches for working with researchers and the metadata they generate.

The deadline for proposals is December 5, 2014.  Proposals may be submitted through this form : http://goo.gl/forms/PSd2yrSMof

If you have any difficulties with this form, please feel free to submit your proposals directly by email to sathompson3@uh.edu

The slides are now available for all of the presentations that took place at ALA Annual 2014 Conference in Las Vegas. Here are the links:

Metadata Migration to Islandora: Is There an Easy Way? Presented by Sai Deng, Metadata Librarian and Associate Librarian, University of Central Florida Libraries

http://connect.ala.org/files/metadataMigration_ALAannual2014.pptx

Discovering Isaac Leeser: Improving access to text collections with TEI markup Presented by Nicole Arbuckle, Vice President, Metadata Services, Backstage Library Works, and David McKnight, Director, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, University of Pennsylvania

http://connect.ala.org/files/leeser%20presentation_ala.pptx

Moving Beyond the “Back Room”: The Expanded Role for Metadata and Catalog Librarians On Campus Lisa McFall, Metadata and Catalog Librarian, Hamilton College

http://connect.ala.org/files/McFallL-41650C.pptx

Consultative Metadata Services at Cornell University Library
Jason Kovari, Head of Metadata Services and Web Archivist, Humanities & Special Collections, Cornell University

http://connect.ala.org/files/annual2014_mig_kovari.pdf

Vocabularies for Open Access
Ben Showers, Head of Scholarly and Library Futures, Jisc

http://connect.ala.org/files/ALA_Showers_v4oa.pptx

Update on NISO’s Open Access Metadata and Indicators Working Group
Nettie Lagace, Associate Director for Programs, National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

http://connect.ala.org/files/OAMI-Lagace.pptx

Saturday, June 28, 2014 – 10:30-11:30am
Las Vegas Convention Center, N253

Vocabularies for Open Access
Ben Showers, Head of Scholarly and Library Futures, Brettenham House

Open Access (OA) is an essential part of the scholarly communications ecosystem: From government mandates for publicly funded research through to the increasing reliance on open web searches to find and access scholarly content for students and researchers. For institutions and funding bodies, being able to track these research outputs is increasingly important, for institutional reputation, research enhancement and ensuring compliance with funding mandates. For students, researchers and the general public, it is important they are able to tell whether an article is available to read immediately, and, increasingly, what they can do with that article or content. The Jisc funded Vocabularies for Open Access (V4OA) project has been working with a wide variety of stakeholders such as NISO (National Information Standards Organisation), Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA), Society of College and National University Libraries (SCONUL) and United Kingdom Council of Research Repositories (UKCoRR) to try and achieve a consensus on key vocabularies related to OA. The intention is firstly that V4OA to be, or form part of a standard or recognised international best practice on the description of open access research outputs and secondly that that these agreed vocabularies will be incorporated into key information systems thus allowing institutions and funders to capture and assess the nature and scale of Open Access ‘transactions’ across the scholarly landscape.

Update on NISO’s Open Access Metadata and Indicators Working Group
Nettie Legace, Associate Director for Programs, National Information Standards Organization (NISO)

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) Open Access Metadata and Indicators Working Group was chartered in March 2013 to develop protocols and mechanisms for transmitting the access status of scholarly works, such as individual articles. The intent of the group has been to develop a standardized set of metadata elements in order to share accessibility and potential re-use rights, to clarify an environment where it is currently very difficult for stakeholders (funders, authors, librarians and users) to determine whether a given article is compliant with conditions and policies. The area in which it has worked is a contentious one, with many differing opinions among stakeholders on what constitutes “open access.” These elements developed as part of the group’s recommendations that the elements be machine readable to enable systems to intake the data and re-use it in whatever form is appropriate for its own context. The Working Group’s specification is expected to be finished with its public comment period and formally published in early 2014.