Fantastic! I'm looking forward to this. Thank you for the announcement.

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 9:06 AM, Gretchen Gueguen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
>
>
>
> Please join us for a* free, one-hour webinar *on metadata aggregation at
> scale, and DPLA workflows and our future development in this area.
>
>
> The webinar will take place *on January 22nd, at 2pm Eastern.  *Read on for
> details and registration information.
>
>
> *Description*
>
>
> Metadata is basis of the work of DPLA. We rely on a growing network of hubs
> that aggregate metadata from partners, then we, in turn, aggregate the
> hubs’ metadata into the DPLA datastore.
>
>
> As we continue to grow our hub network, we have found the practical matter
> of how to aggregate partner metadata and deal with quality control over the
> resulting aggregated set becomes our biggest challenge.
>
> The webinar will examine the aggregation best practices at two of our DPLA
> Service Hubs, as the basis of a conversation about metadata aggregation
> practices among our Hubs. In addition, DPLA has been working on some new
> tools for metadata aggregation and quality control that we’d like to share.
> We’ll preview some of our plans and hope to get feedback on future
> directions.
>
>
> *Speakers*
>
>
>
>    -
>
>    Lisa Gregory and Stephanie Williams of the North Carolina Digital
>    Heritage Center <http://www.digitalnc.org/>
>    -
>
>    Heather Gilbert and Tyler Mobley of the South Carolina Digital Library
>    <http://scmemory.org/>
>    -
>
>    Gretchen Gueguen <http://dp.la/info/about/staff/> of DPLA
>
>
> *Registration*
>
> This webinar is offered to the public. Please register
> <https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/561128425722875393> ahead of
> the
> event to ensure that you get a seat. Since we’ll be limited to 100 seats,
> please limit registration
> <https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/561128425722875393> to *no more
> than two seats per organization*.
>
> --
> Gretchen Gueguen
> Data Services Coordinator
> Digital Public Library of America
> http://dp.la
>



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