I could understand paying ~$100 for an 1.5 hour session if there was
some sort of interactive training, or in-person component. But this
seems kind of ridiculous for a webinar. Also, it is unfortunate that
you would need to spend this amount of money to get an update on where
things are at with the transition from MARC to a new bibliographic
framework, which is a matter of general concern to the library
community.

//Ed

PS. I think I got this message 14 times in my inbox.

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 8:08 AM, DCMI Announce <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> ******************Please excuse the cross postings******************
>
> Join NISO/DCMI for our joint January webinar
>
> --Webinar: Translating the Library Catalog from MARC into Linked Data: An
> Update on the Bibliographic Framework Initiative
> --Date: January 23, 2013
> --Time: 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time - UTC 18:00:00) (World Clock:
> http://bit.ly/UQtGdU)
> --Event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/bibframework/
>
> =========================================================================
>
> ABOUT THE WEBINAR:
>
> In May 2012, the Library of Congress announced a new modeling initiative
> focused on reflecting the MARC 21 library standard as a Linked Data model
> for the Web, with an initial model to be proposed by the consulting company
> Zepheira.  The goal of the initiative is to translate the MARC 21 format to
> a Linked Data model while retaining the richness and benefits of existing
> data in the historical format.
>
> In this webinar, Eric Miller of Zepheira will report on progress towards
> this important goal, starting with an analysis of the translation problem
> and concluding with potential migration scenarios for a broad-based
> transition from MARC to a new bibliographic framework.
>
> SPEAKER:
>
> Eric Miller is co-founder and president of Zepheira, which provides
> solutions for managing information across boundaries of person, group, and
> enterprise. Until 2007, Eric led the Semantic Web Initiative for the World
> Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at MIT and was one of the key leaders in the
> development of the Resource Description Framework and other Semantic Web
> technologies.  Prior to his work at W3C, Eric was a Senior Research
> Scientist at OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. in Dublin, Ohio,
> where he served as the co-founder and Associate Director of the Dublin Core
> Metadata Initiative.
>
> Registration closes one hour before the webinar begins.
>
> For more information and to register, visit the event webpage:
> http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/bibframework/