Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Call for Proposals: MARC Formats Transition Interest Group at ALA Annual


Call for Proposals: MARC Formats Transition Interest Group at ALA Annual


The LITA/ALCTS Marc Formats Transition Interest Group invites proposals for presentations for its session at the 2013 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago, Illinois. The meeting will take place on Saturday, June 29, from 3pm to 4pm.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

* Harvesting bibliographic data from MARC records for use in discovery tools, next-gen catalogs and other applications
* Transforming MARC data to other metadata schemes (Dublin Core, EAD, VRA, etc…)
* Using data from MARC records with data from linked data sources
* Applying RDA in metadata schemes other than MARC.

Proposals should be e-mailed to Stacie Traill (trail001@umn.edu) by Friday, May 24, 2012. Please include presentation title, summary, amount of time needed for the presentation, and the names, titles and contact information for the presenter(s).