2015 Authority Control Workshop

On January 8, St. Kate's hosted CLIC's annual Authority Control Workshop. This year's topic was "Clean, Clean, Clean (redux)! Authority cleanup projects in preparation for migration."

Mark Ehlert of St. Thomas gave a brief presentation, and participants spent the rest of the workshop working on cleanup projects.

For more photos, see CLIC's Facebook page.

Registration Open for OCLC Member Forum, Oct 22

OCLC is hosting an OCLC Member Forum for Minnesota libraries on Wednesday, October 22, 10am-3pm (includes a free lunch). Catalogers, ILL staff, and others are encouraged to attend. A big thank you to Macalester for providing local arrangements!

The Forum is free, but pre-registration is required. Because space is limited, early registration is recommended.

For online registration and further information, see:
http://registration.oclc.org/reg/?pc=MemberForum_StPaul_141022

CLIC Committees 2014-15

Welcome back! It's a new school year, and CLIC Committees are beginning to reconvene this week.

2014-15 CLIC Acquisitions Committee

2014-15 CLIC Cataloging Committee

CLIC Catalogers Celebrate Jane Shriver's Retirement

The CLIC Cataloging Committee bids farewell to Jane Shriver who is retiring from the University of St. Thomas at the end of this month.

Thank you for many years of dedication and excellent service to CLIC's shared catalog, Jane!

For more photos, see CLIC's Facebook page.

RDA and Authority Control Workshop

Mark Ehlert of Minitex presented an RDA workshop for CLIC's Authority Control Community of Interest on January, 10, 2013, at St. Catherine University Library.

Mark Ehlert's PowerPoint presentation

For additional photos, please see CLIC's Facebook page.

Annual Authority Control Workshop Jan. 10

Time: 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Date: Thursday, January 10, 2013

Location: St. Catherine University Library (Room 110)

CLIC's annual Authority Control Workshop will be on Thursday, January 10, 2013 at St. Catherine’s library, Room 110.   Anyone from a CLIC member library interested in learning more about authority control and participating in hands on authority work is welcome.  In the afternoon there will be time to work independently at a computer station (bring your login information for Millennium and Connexion) on authority headings.  Do not plan to work from your own laptop.  We will periodically break for conversation, to share questions, concerns and/or best practices.

Program:

Mark Ehlert from MINITEX will join us in the morning session to provide us an update and answer our questions regarding RDA and RDA Authority Headings.  In the afternoon, session we will discuss how CLIC institutions will deal with RDA in the ILS.  There is also the opportunity to work on authority headings. 

Parking: A parking permit is required.  Please submit car owner's name, license plate number, and email address to Martha Vest (mrvest@stkate.edu) by Wednesday, January 2, 2013 to receive a parking permit for the event. 

Lunch: Bring your own lunch or purchase one at the cafeteria.

Library Trend: Linked Data

There’s been a lot of talk about Linked Data in libraryland recently.  In response to this growing trend, we’ve gathered the following information for CLIC library staff who are interested in learning more about Linked Data.

A good starting place for basic information is OCLC’s Linked Data Research page which describes Linked Data as “a term which describes an approach to exposing data in a machine-readable form where the data is "de-referenceable" (i.e. URIs are an integral part of the exposed data and external applications can use the URIs to perform various actions such as retrieving data, connecting same/similar/related data from multiple Linked Data stores).”  OCLC has also put together a helpful “Linked Data for Libraries” video on YouTube.  And earlier last week, OCLC provided a downloadable linked data file for the 1 million most widely held works in WorldCat.

Minitex and the Minnesota Library Association are also tackling Linked Data, and they invite Minnesota library staff to join their Linked Data interest group.  If you would like to join the group or learn more about it, please contact either Sarah Weeks at Rolvaag Library, St. Olaf (weekss@stolaf.edu or  507-786-3453) or Sara Ring at Minitex (ring0089@umn.edu or 612-625-6088). There will be a Linked Data dinner at the MLA Annual Conference (tentatively Thursday, October 4) as an informal kick-off for the interest group.  Minitex also plans to host a regional informational session which will be announced later this year.

At the national level, ALA LITA/ALCTS has a Linked Data Interest Group,  and the Digital Library Federation sponsors the LOD-LAM Zotero Group, a shared vehicle for providing links and references to tools and resources about library linked data.

Additional Linked Data Resources

The following Linked Data Projects are from Sara Ring’s and Sarah Weeks’ Linked Data handout from their ARLD presentation earlier this year (thanks Sara and Sarah!).

Schema.org  Google, Bing and Yahoo adoption of the Semantic Web. Use Schema.org’s vocabulary to tag your data in a way that search engines can understand.

CKAN  An open-source data portal. Lists 52 Library Data Sets (such as the British National Bibliography and Cambridge University)

VIAF  Virtual International name authority file. VIAF is hosted by OCLC, and a joint project of several national libraries.

id.loc.gov  Names, places and subjects published as URIs with links to other national libraries.

Europeana  An aggregate of cultural heritage object from through- out Europe, containing 15 million items from 1500 libraries, museums, and archives.

COMET: Cambridge Open METadata project  Converted bibliographic records in catalog to RDF triples, and published the data sets on the web. Also link to FAST and VIAF authority services.