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Semantic Web: Linking Up Libraries and Beyond

In collaboration with the Library Association of the City University of
New York (LACUNY) and the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO),
NYART is pleased to present this workshop entitled “Semantic Web for
Librarians & Special Collections” with Corey Harper, the Metadata
Services Librarian from New York University.

Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010
Time: 10:30 - 12:00 pm 
In collaboration with the Library Association of the City University of
New York (LACUNY) and the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO),
NYART is pleased to present this workshop entitled “Semantic Web for
Librarians & Special Collections” with Corey Harper, the Metadata
Services Librarian from New York University.

Date: Thursday, April 8, 2010
Time: 10:30 – 12:00 pm 

Place: The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Skylight Room
(9100, 9th Floor), 365    
Fifth Avenue, between 34th and 35th Streets.
Fee: $25.00 for METRO and ART members; $40 for non-members

Registration: http://bit.ly/bcsgII 

Description:
Discovery systems and library web interfaces increasingly need to make
use of metadata in a variety of formats and from myriad sources. With
existing library technology, this is only possible through metadata
harvesting and normalization, federated search, or some combination of
the two. Both of these solutions are post-hoc, and don't scale to the
growing volume of data newly becoming available. Additionally, none of
the standard library methods for metadata interoperability allow
re-combining fragments of metadata at a finer granularity than the
metadata record. This talk will focus on the technologies, philosophies
and data models underpinning the Semantic Web and will demonstrate how
these principles can improve metadata interoperability across library
repositories and beyond. 

Looking at library metadata in a broader context and "web-ifying" it
has the potential to allow libraries to more effectively re-purpose and
re-use their own data and more easily integrate new data sources into
our discovery environments. Additionally, publishing linked data allows
others on the web to make innovative and effective use of
librarian-created metadata such as controlled vocabularies and authority
control schemes to allow for re-combining fragments of metadata at a
finer degree of granularity than the metadata record.

Speaker Bio:
Corey A Harper has been the Metadata Services Librarian at NYU since
early 2007.  Much of that time has been spent on an ILS migration, and
on the implementation and upkeep of a next-generation Enterprise Search
System: ExLibris' Primo. This experience has further convinced him of
the need for more rigorous data modeling and the use of common web
protocols to support metadata interoperability. Prior to coming to NYU,
Corey was nearly-a-cataloger-but-instead-a-Metadata-Librarian, as well
as a Digital Library Developer and accidentally a systems librarian at
the University of Oregon.