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Please join the ALCTS Metadata Interest Group in Boston for the Midwinter
Meeting for the following programs.

Place: Boston Convention Center, room 107AB
Date: Sunday, January 10th
Time: 8:30 am
ALA Schedule Link:
http://www.eventscribe.com/2016/ALA-MidWinter/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=127147


We will have a business meeting at 8:30, followed by these exciting
programs at 9:00:

*Principles for Evaluating Metadata Standards*
Presenters: Jennifer Liss and Kevin Clair
Program Description:

Jennifer Liss and Kevin Clair of the ALCTS/LITA Metadata Standards
Committee (MSC) will be presenting the draft document, Principles for
Evaluating Metadata Standards. The document is intended for use by
libraries, archives, and museum (LAM) communities for the development,
maintenance, governance, selection, use, and assessment of metadata
standards. The MSC welcomes feedback on the draft Principles document at
the Metadata Interest Group meeting, the Metadata Standards Committee
meeting, or at http://metaware.buzz

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*Rightsstatements.org: An International Framework for Standardized Rights
Statements for Cultural Heritage*
Presenters: Emily Gore
Program Description:

An international committee with representatives from the Digital Public
Library of America, Europeana and Creative Commons have developed a set of
standardized rights statements for digital cultural heritage materials to
be available as URIs along with additional technical requirements for
implementation.  The work of the committee, the recommended statements and
the upcoming launch of rightsstatements.org

 will be discussed.  It is anticipated that a first-look preview of the
rightsstatements.org

 site will be demonstrated for the audience.  Rightsstatements.org is
expected to launch in early 2016.

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*Also, there are two more days to submit your proposals for the ALCTS
Metadata Interest Group pre-conference!*

The ALCTS Metadata Interest Group seeks presentation proposals for the
two-day ALCTS Virtual Preconference "Faster, Accurate, and More Reflective:
Assessment and Automation of Descriptive Metadata" prior to the 2016 ALA
Annual Meeting in Orlando, FL. This preconference is scheduled to take
place online during late May or early June (specific days will be
determined at a later date in consultation with speaker availability).

This virtual preconference will feature two programs:

Program Topic 1: We can do it, you can too! Metadata Automation for Everyone

Descriptive metadata creation is the most time consuming task, yet it
provides the greatest access to digital content.  Automating aspects of
this work can lead to greater efficiency and accuracy. This program will
feature brief presentations on metadata format transformation, repurposing
formats like EAD or MARC, reconciliation through Open Refine, or clean-up
of legacy data to be followed by breakout group sessions led by the
presenters to help attendees work through potential scenarios at their
institutions.

Potential topics could include:

- Creation of metadata workflows or tools for discipline-based metadata
schema and repositories (internal and external)
- Demonstration of home grown tools, workflows, procedures
- Demonstration of open source tools

Participants will gain awareness of data conversion tools and processes
(such as XSLT, OpenRefine, MarcEdit, and others) and be able to translate
that information into their own institutions and workflows.

Program topic 2: Assessing the Impact of Metadata Reuse

The case has been made for opening metadata for reuse.  But what is being
done with metadata?  What are the methods for assessing the reuse of
metadata?  How is it being used?  Has it impacted research and
discoverability?  This program will look at case studies and meta studies
about the impact of metadata reuse and what that means for the future of
metadata creation.

Potential topics could include:

- Case studies measuring metadata reuse
- Tools and techniques for measuring metadata reuse
- Impact of metadata creation on discoverability
- Metrics for assessing discoverability

Participants in this program will be able to identify ways to assess the
impact and reuse of their metadata and maximize their metadata creation
efforts in the futures.

Presentation details:

There will be two presentations for each program.  Presentations will be 30
minutes in total -- 20 minutes for the presentation, 10 minutes for
questions. The deadline for proposals is January 6, 2016.  Proposals may be
submitted through this form : https://goo.gl/hM5X0T

If you have any difficulties with this form, please feel free to submit
your proposals directly by email to [log in to unmask]<mailto:
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Thank you!

ALCTS Metadata Interest Group Programming Chairs:

Liz Woolcott, Utah State University
Anna Neatrour, University of Utah