The programme for CIG Scotland’s seventh Metadata & Web 2.0 seminar is now available, please see below.
Title: Somewhere over the Rainbow : 0ur metadata online, past, present & future Venue: National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
Date 5th April 2017
PROGRAMME
10:00 Registration & coffee
10:30 Welcome
10:35 Crowdsourcing at the National Library of Scotland / Ines Byrne & Steve Rigden (National Library of Scotland)
Bringing the past to life will unfold as Ines Byrne and Steve Rigden from the National Library of Scotland describe standards and issues in crowdsourcing the transcription of historic handwritten texts
11:10 Can web archiving the Olympics be an international team effort? Running the Rio Olympics and Paralympics project / Helena Byrne (British Library)
Managing metadata from the present will be explored by Helena Byrne from the British Library, as she describes the global co-ordination of metadata required for harvesting websites for the 2016 Olympics, as part of the International Internet Preservation Coalition’s Rio 2016 web archiving project
11:45 Statistical Accounts of Scotland / Vivienne Mayo (EDINA)
Vivienne Mayo from EDINA describes how information from the past has found a new lease of life in the recently re-launched Statistical Accounts of Scotland
12:20 Lunch
13:20 Beyond bibliographic description: emotional metadata on YouTube / Diane Pennington (University of Strathclyde)
Diane Pennington of Strathclyde University will move beyond the bounds of bibliographic description as she discusses her research about emotions shared by music fans online and how they might be used as metadata for new approaches to search and retrieval
13:55 Our 5Rights: digital rights of children and young people / Dev Kornish, Dan Dickson, Bethany Wilson (5Rights Youth Commission)
Young Scot, Scottish Government and 5Rights introduce Scotland’s 5Rights Youth Commission – a diverse group of young people passionate about their digital rights. We will hear from Dev, Dan and Bethany what their ‘5Rights’ mean to them, and how children and young people can be empowered to access technology, knowledgeably, and fearlessly.
14:30 Break
14:45 Playing with metadata / Gavin Willshaw and Scott Renton (University of Edinburgh)
Learn about Edinburgh University Library’s metadata games platform, a crowdsourcing initiative which has improved descriptive metadata and become a vital engagement tool both within and beyond the library. Hear how they have developed their games in collaboration with Tiltfactor, a Dartmouth College-based research group which explores game design for social change, and learn what they’re doing with crowd-sourced data. There may even be time for you to set a new high score…
15:20 Managing your digital footprint / Nicola Osborne (EDINA)
Nicola Osborne will give tips on how to manage our digital footprint
16:00 Close
For more information and details on how to register, please go to https://cigs-somewhere-over-the-rainbow.eventbrite.com
We look forward to seeing you in Edinburgh on Wednesday the 5th of April
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