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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 > -- Tod Robbins Digital Asset Manager, MLIS todrobbins.com | @todrobbins <http://www.twitter.com/#!/todrobbins>