[Eril-l] ALA Core IG Week : Catalog Management IG “Cataloging, Catalog Management & Sharing Metadata with the Community in an Era of Consortia, Linked Data and Machine Learning“

[Electronic Resources in Libraries discussion list]

(please excuse for cross-posting)

Dear all,

I am pleased to announce that the Catalog Management Interest Group
<https://connect.ala.org/core/communities/community-home?communitykey=c7047171-cc88-4f95-ab89-00f22146ffeb>will
hold a session during the ALA Core IG Week
<https://www.ala.org/core/continuing-education/interest-group-week> on
*Wednesday,
March 5th, at 10am CT / 11am ET / 8am PT.*

*Session Title*: “*Cataloging, Catalog Management & Sharing Metadata with
the Community in an Era of Consortia, Linked Data and Machine Learning* “
*Session Description*: More than ever, we are in the time of transitions
and a shared metadata environment with other institutions, consortia and
various communities. Thus, when we catalog or do catalog management, we do
try to contribute to greater good. Now our shared metadata environments are
more deeply implicated in the broader information ecosystem: resource
sharing, analytics, web via linked data, publisher/vendors’ indexes … AND
as AI/ML learning data. In this session, we will hear some of our
colleagues’ efforts on the latest initiatives or contributions.

#1:
*Presenter*. *Elizabeth York, Electronic Resources Librarian, Rutgers
University Libraries*
*Title*: *Using & Contributing to the Alma Community Zone*
*Summary*: One of the central features of Ex Libris Alma is the Alma
Community Zone (CZ), the e-resources repository shared by all Alma
Libraries. This presentation will discuss how Alma community members can
contribute to the CZ, how Ex Libris is working to improve the quality of CZ
records through improvements such as the AI metadata generator, and how
librarians who use Alma and the CZ can guide their development through Ex
Libris feedback channels, such as the Idea Exchange and the annual CERV
(formerly NERS) enhancements process.


#2:
*Presenters*: *Cynthia Whitacre & Laura Ramsey, both Senior Metadata
Operations Managers at OCLC*
*Title*: *OCLC Catalog maintenance efforts using machine learning and human
resources*
*Summary*:  WorldCat is an extremely large bibliographic database; multiple
approaches are used to do database maintenance.  This talk will focus on
the project to add links for WorldCat entities as a preparation for linked
data, correcting patterns of incorrect data using human resources combined
with automated tools, and the machine learning project to merge more
duplicate records.


#3:
*Presenter*: *Sebastian Hammer, CEO, Index Data & Allen Jones, Director of
Digital Libraries & Technical Services, The New School*
*Title*: *From Discovery to Delivery: The ReShare Shared Index*
*Summary*: ReShare is a consortial borrowing platform focused on lending to
library print and electronic materials within a single consortium.
Recently, the community has begun asking questions about how to share
requests between groups. How do you solve the problem of sending requests
from one network to another when each network may not share bibliographic
identifiers? This talk will focus on the challenges of inter-consortium or
inter-vendor lending and the metadata challenges ahead for the access
services and interlibrary lending communities. We will outline a
community-based approach to build solutions for the ReShare community.


We will record the session and post slides and related materials on our IG
Connect site, but meanwhile please mark your calendar and *register this
session*
<https://ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fgB9vHvJRVqyem7uOBj_6w#/registration>
.


Best wishes,


Keiko Suzuki
(suzukik at newschool.edu)
Catalog Management Interest Group chair


KEIKO SUZUKI
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR FOR METADATA & COLLECTION SERVICES
DIGITAL LIBRARIES & TECHNICAL SERVICES (DLTS)
LIBRARIES, COLLECTIONS & ACADEMIC SERVICES (LCAS)

66 WEST 12TH STREET, RM 705, NEW YORK, NY 10011
suzukik at newschool.edu
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[image: THE NEW SCHOOL]
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