The following Mashcat event seems more than apropos to our group:

  We are excited to announce that the second face-to-face Mashcat
  event in North America will be held on January 24th, 2017, in
  downtown Atlanta, Georgia, USA. We invite you to save the date.
  We will be sending out a call for session proposals and opening
  up registration in the late summer and early fall.

  Not sure what Mashcat is? “Mashcat” was originally an event in
  the UK in 2012 aimed at bringing together people working on the
  IT systems side of libraries with those working in cataloguing
  and metadata. Four years later, Mashcat is a loose group of
  metadata specialists, cataloguers, developers and anyone else
  with an interest in how metadata in and around libraries can be
  created, manipulated, used and re-used by computers and software.
  The aim is to work together and bridge the communications gap
  that has sometimes gotten in the way of building the best tools
  we possibly can to manage library data. Among our accomplishments
  in 2016 was holding the first North American face-to-face event
  in Boston in January and running webinars. If you’re unable to
  attend a face-to-face meeting, we will be holding at least one
  more webinar in 2016.

  http://bit.ly/29FuUuY

Actually, the mass-editing of cataloging (MARC) data is something that is particularly interesting to me these days. Hand-crafted metadata records are nice, but increasingly unscalable.

—
Eric Lease Morgan