2000 Preconference Planning Task Force

CC:DA/TF/2000 Preconference/1

September 3, 1999

Charge

The 2000 Preconference Planning Task Force is charged with developing and publicizing a preconference on metadata for the 2000 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago.

CC:DA/TF/2000 Preconference/2

September 3, 1999

Roster

Task Force Members

Agenda

Saturday, June 26, 8:30 - 9:30 a.m. — Sheraton New Orleans, Ponchartrain B

1. Call to order
2. Introductions
3. Finalize program content, agenda, and faculty
4. Vendors

Agenda

Friday, January 14, 2000, 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. — CC-213B (Convention Center)

1. Call to order
2. Introductions
3. Presentation of schedule of preconference
4. Timeline
5. Possible sponsorship by vendors of lunches, reception
6. Other
7. Close of meeting

Preconference on Metadata for Web Resources
ALA Annual Conference
July 6-7, 2000

Schedule

[Erik Jul does introductions and time-keeping in the morning;
Matthew Beacom does introductions and Mary Larsgaard does time-keeping in the afternoon.]

Registration   (8:00-9:00 AM)

Welcome; housekeeping   (9:00-9:15 AM)

Keynote Speaker: Jennifer Younger   (9:15-9:45 AM – 25 minutes; 5 minutes for questions)
Title: Metadata and Access to Information Resources

Session 1: Methods of Providing Access to Web Resources, part 1: The Party Line – AACR, ISBD(ER) and MARC 21   (10:30 AM-noon with appropriate breaks)

1. AACR: The Delsey report, AACR 0.24, and ISBD(ER)   (50 min. plus 10 min. break)
   Speaker: [To be announced]
   Title: [to be determined]

   Speaker: Matthew Beacom   (30 min.)
   Title: Using AACR to Catalog Web Resources

2. MARC 21   (40 min.)
   Speaker: Rebecca Guenther
   Title: MARC 21 for Web Resources

LUNCH   (noon-1:00 PM)

End of Session 1   (1:00-2:15 PM)

3. Seriality (ongoing resources)   (65 min. plus 10 min. break)
   Speaker: Jean Hirons
   Title: Seriality and AACR2

   Speaker: Regina Reynolds
   Title: ISSN: Link and Cross-Link for Data and Metadata

   Speaker: Sheila Intner
   Title: Struggling toward Retrieval: Can Alternatives to Standard Operating Procedures Help?

Session 2: Methods of Providing Access to Web Resources, part 2: Other Approaches, Other Standards

1. Alternative approaches   (50 min.; 2:15-3:05 PM)
   1. CORC/Dublin Core
      Speaker: Erik Jul   (20 min.)
      Title: CORC and Dublin Core: New Methods of Minimal-Level Cataloging

      Speaker: Norman Madeiros   (10 min.)
      Title: Visionary or Lunatic: One CORC Participant’s Psychiatric Evaluation

   2. TEI (Text Encoding Initiative)
      Speaker: Lynn Marko   (20 min.)
      Title: Working toward a Standard TEI Header for Libraries

BREAK   (3:05-4:05 PM)

2. Other general standards of use for dealing with accessing Web resources   (40 min. plus 10 min. break; 4:05-4:55 PM)
   1. Resource Description Format (RDF) and its markup language, eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
      Speakers: Eric Miller and Dianne Hillmann
      Title: Libraries and the Future of the Semantic Web: RDF, XML and Alphabet Soup

   2. ISO standards
      Speaker: Carlen Ruschoff
      Title: ISO Standards Development for Metadata

3. Cooperative development of subject-oriented Webpages and Web pages created from catalog records (and vice versa)   (40 min.; 4:55-5:35 PM)
   
   1. INFOMINE
      Speaker: Carols Rodriguez
      Title: Anticipating the Deluge: The INFOMINE Project and its Approach to Metadata

   2. MARCit
      Speaker: Laura Bayard
      Title: MARCit Magic: Abracadabra! From a Web Site to a MARC Record


DAY 2

[Brad Eden does introductions and Ellen Crosby does time-keeping.]

Session 3: Growing Your Own Digital Library at Home   (9:00-11:30 AM)

Presentations from libraryland where libraries have scanned hardcopy items and created their own metadata.

• images/images + text
  Speaker: Elizabeth Mangan
  Title: Navigating LC’s Cartographic Treasures

• sound
  Speaker: Constance Mayer
  Title: VARIATIONS: Creating a Digital Music Library at Indiana University

• moving image
  Speaker: Beth Camden
  Title: Dublin Core for Digital Video Clips

• text
  Speaker: William Fietzer
  Title: Interpretive Encoding of Electronic Texts Using TEI-Lite

Session 4: Metadata Farther Afield   (1:00-3:00 PM)

30 min. introduction explaining what the session is about, and then sessions in breakout rooms – 15 min. presentations by each presenter in each group. This means that each person could attend 5 or 6 sessions. We’ll have on the registration form a place where attendees express interest in breakout sessions.

• archives
  Speaker: Kris Kiesling
  Title: Archival Finding Aids as Metadata: Encoded Archival Description

• text
  Speaker: Wendy Treadwell
  Title: DDI, the Data Documentation Initiative: An Introduction to the Standard and its Role in Social Science Data Access

• government data, state efforts
  Speaker: Bill Garrison
  Title: The Colorado Digitization Project: An Overview

• instructional materials
  Speaker: Brad Eden
  Title: The Instructional Management System (IMS) Standard: Solutions for Interactive Instructional Software and Dynamic Learning

• medicine
  Speaker: Diane Boehr
  Title: Developing the Use of Metadata at the National library of Medicine: From Decision-Making to Implementation

• museums of natural history
  Speaker: Stanley Blum
  Title: Integrating Bio-Collection Databases: Metadata for Database Semantics

• museums of art
  Speaker: Murtha Baca
  Title: A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Metadata for Art Objects and their Visual Surrogates

BREAK   (3:00-3:30)

Looking Toward the Future: What’s Ideal? What’s Next?   (3:30-5:00)

Panel, to be composed of ... (3:30-4:30 PM)
Speaker: Clifford Lynch (CNI)
Title: Vision for the Future: Accessing Webpages

Speaker: [To be announced]

Speaker: Michael Gorman (CSU-Fresno)
Title: Metadata: Hype and Glory

Closing of preconference (4:45-5:00 PM)




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