*Apologies for cross-posting*

The LITA/ALCTS MARC Formats Transition Interest Group invites proposals for
presentations for its session at the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle,
Washington, on Saturday, January 26th from 3pm to 4pm.

The theme of the session will be “Transforming MARC: Repurposing, Reusing
and Reimagining Data from MARC  Records Outside of the Traditional ILS”.
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 (Dublic Core, EAD, VRA,
etc…)
* Using Google Refine (or other tools) to combine data from MARC records
with data from linked data sources

Presentations can be 15 or 25 minutes in length. Proposals should be
e-mailed to Sarah Weeks ([log in to unmask]) by Friday, November 23rd, 2012.
Please include a title, summary, amount of time needed for the
presentation, and the names, titles and contact information for the
presenter(s).



-- 
Sarah Beth Weeks
Head of Technical Services
St Olaf College Rolvaag Memorial Library
1510 St. Olaf Avenue
Northfield, MN 55057
507-786-3453 (office)
717-504-0182 (cell)