Cataloguing & Indexing Group in Scotland AGM, 10th December

The Cataloguing & Indexing Group in Scotland warmly invites you to its Annual General Meeting, which will take place via Zoom on the 10th December at 2pm.
At this year’s AGM, we will formally endorse the change of name of the group from The Cataloguing & Indexing Group in Scotland to The Metadata and Discovery Group in Scotland, in line with the name change of the UK group earlier this year.
Post-AGM seminar
At this year’s AGM we are delighted to host a talk on the Scottish Ballet Video Archive at the National Library of Scotland. Ann Cameron, Curator at the Library’s Moving Image and Sound Collections in Glasgow, will provide an insight into the project and the role of metadata in bringing this remarkable collection to the public.
Committee elections will take place at the AGM. If you are interested in joining the COmmittee, or wish to raise items for the agenda, please contact CIGS Secretary, Alexandra De Pretto at cigscot@gmail.com.
RegistrationBoth the AGM and the seminar are free and open to members and non-members; however, registration is required. Please register via Eventbrite:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cataloguing-indexing-group-in-scotland-agm-10th-december-2020-2pm-tickets-127479517669
Access details will be sent out to the attendees closer to the meeting.
We look forward to seeing you at this year’s AGM!
All the best,
Natasha.
Natasha Aburrow-JonesCIGS Events Secretary
Systems Librarian
Advocates LibraryEdinburgh.

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RDA Orientation Workshop in Edinburgh in November

The Cataloguing & Indexing Group in Scotland, in conjunction with the UK Committee on RDA (UKCoR) is delighted to present an RDA Orientation Workshop in Edinburgh.

This all day event will follow a part seminar, part practical workshop format. Presentations from Alan Danskin from the British Library and Gordon Dunsire from the RDA Steering Committee, will prepare delegates for the practical hands-on sessions.

The practical element will involve delegates using RIMMF (RDA in Many Metadata Formats) to explore different scenarios using elements and concepts from the RDA beta Toolkit. The aim of the day is to put the RDA theory into practice in a non-MARC environment, and to introduce delegates to the implications of Toolkit restructure and redesign (3R) and LRM.

Due to the practical nature of this workshop, delegates are asked to bring their own laptops with RIMMF version 4 installed. Further information for delegates will be provided following registration, and RDA experts will be available to support delegates in the practical sessions.

Places for delegates are limited to 40, so early booking is recommended.

The event is to be held in the Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation, which is easily accessible from Waverley Station. Directions can be found here:
https://edinburghcentre.org/contact/how-to-get-here

A buffet lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Please register here https://protect-eu.mimecast.com/s/eflJCr2o2twMrNYSzJP7B?domain=eventbrite.co.uk

We look forward to seeing you in Edinburgh in November!

CIG 2018 – pre-conference meet up, 4th September

Hello CIG Conference delegates!

We’re looking forward to seeing everyone at this year’s CIG Conference in Edinburgh, 5-7^th September.   If you’re local or arriving early, and don’t have any plans for the evening before conference starts, you are cordially invited to an informal meet up on the 4^th September from 6 pm.

Join members of the CIG & CIG Scotland Committees, as well as fellow delegates, in the Summerhall bar, which is only ten minutes’ walk from the Conference venue and accommodation (see directions below).  An excellent choice of food and drink is available, plus outdoor courtyard if the weather stays fine.

The café-bar –  which was once the Small Animal Hospital of the Dick Vet School – is surrounded by an eclectic mix of art and business venues, including a micro-distillery and micro-brewery (sorry, these will be closed).  Just head straight into Summerhall, cross the courtyard, and the bar will be right in front of you.  CIGS will be flying a flag to let you know where and who we are.

We’d love to see you there, and welcome you to Edinburgh for the start of CIG 2018!

How to get there

You can find the website at https://www.summerhall.co.uk/the-royal-dick/  with map at https://www.summerhall.co.uk/about/location/

Directions from the conference venue can be found on google maps at https://tinyurl.com/yc2ytb4g

If you have any queries, please get in touch with cigscot@gmail.com

See you at CIG 2018!

CIG & CIG Scotland Committees

CIG Scotland AGM 2018

The Cataloguing & Indexing Group in Scotland warmly invites you to its 2018 Annual General Meeting, which will take place at Kelvin Hall in Glasgow on Friday 17th August, 2018.

Interested parties can contribute to the agenda by contacting CIGS Secretary, Eilidh MacGlone at cigscot@gmail.com.

Find out more information about the event and book your place through Eventbrite: CIG Scotland AGM 2018

When and Where

• Date: Friday 17th August, 2018
• Time: AGM will start at 1:30
• Venue: Activity Space, Kelvin Hall, 1445 Argyle Street, Glasgow, G3 8AW

See you all in August.

Cataloguing and Indexing Group in Scotland

 

Cataloguing & Indexing Group Conference 2018 – Metadata: Create, Share and Enrich

We are pleased to announce that booking is open for the CILIP Cataloguing & Indexing Group’s biennial conference, Metadata: Create, Share and Enrich, which will be held from 5-7 September 2018 at the John McIntyre Conference Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland.

This year’s conference aims to showcase the continued need for quality metadata in a data-dominated world as well as those who create, share, enrich and use it. As always we look forward to welcoming members and non-members and we hope you will enjoy what promises to be a full and varied programme.

Follow us on Twitter @CILIPCIG and with the conference hashtag, #CIG18, for all updates.

More details about the event can be found here: https://bit.ly/2HXoOTL

 

Resource Discovery – from catalogues to discovery services

Organised by the Cataloguing and Indexing Group in Scotland, this all day seminar will present different perspectives on resource discovery for library, archival and other educational and cultural collections.

With the advent of next generation web scale discovery layers supplementing or replacing traditional and in-house catalogues, institutional resource discovery environments are changing beyond recognition.

But what does this mean for our collections, and for our users?

The seminar will seek the views of users, cataloguers, reference services and systems staff, and developers, and explore the impact that these new discovery layers are having on discovery and integration of collections across libraries, archives, universities and other cultural institutions.

This event will be of value to information profesionals with an interest in metadata, user services, resource discovery, discovery systems and integrated use of collections.

Speakers are still being confirmed, but the event will include presentations from the Universities of Durham and St Andrews, the National Library of Scotland and Jisc.

When: Wednesday 21 March, 2018  (10:00 – 16:00 GMT)

Where: National Library of Scotland

Book your place through Eventbrite

 

CIG conference 2018 – Call for proposals

Do you fancy going to Edinburgh in 2018? The Cataloguing and Indexing Group have come up with a very good reason to consider it. Here are some key metadata to get you in the mood:

#Conference #Cataloguing #Metadata #Indexing #September #Edinburgh #Create #Share #Enrich

On a more serious note….

Proposals are invited for the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG) biennial conference “Metadata: Create, Share and Enrich” to be held from 5-7 September 2018 at the John McIntyre Conference Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Conference theme:
This year’s conference aims to showcase the continued need for quality metadata in a data dominated world and those who create, share, enrich and use it.  We encourage submissions from information professionals, data suppliers, data researchers, standards and system developers on this theme and active audience participation.

If you want to find out more about the call for proposals please visit our page discussing in length conference topics, formats, submissions and submissions deadline.

CIG conference 2018 – Call for proposals link: http://bit.ly/2pFRA71

Very best,

The CIG committee

 

 

RDA Update, Edinburgh, 4th August

Join the Chair of the RDA Steering Committee (RSC) for an update on the latest developments in RDA: Resource Description and Access. 

Gordon Dunsire, Chair of RSC, will update attendees on implementation of the new governance model, the redesign of the RDA toolkit via the 3R project, and outcomes of recent meetings with specialist cataloguing communities in the areas of cartographic, A-V, rare materials, and archives cataloguing.  The talk will be followed by an open discussion.

The event will be of relevance to anyone involved in cataloguing and with an interest in international standards for describing library and cultural heritage resources.

The event is free, but registration is essential.  To reserve your place please go to https://www.eventbrite.com/e/rda-update-edinburgh-tickets-35824694626 

Organised by the Cataloguing & Indexing Group in Scotland, in conjunction with RSC

Somewhere over the Rainbow – programme now available

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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Somewhere over the Rainbow : our metadata online, past, present & future, Edinburgh, 5th April

CIG Scotland warmly invites you to the seventh seminar in our Metadata & Web 2.0 series, which takes place at the National Library of Scotland in Edinburgh on the 5th of April.

This year the theme is metadata from the past, the present, and the future … with a sub plot on personal metadata.  Along the way we’ll be exploring metadata gaming, digital rights, web archiving, the emotional analysis of music online, crowdsourcing, transcription of manuscripts online, Rio 2016, the Statistical Accounts of Scotland, and managing your digital footprint, with speakers from the British Library, Strathclyde University, EDINA, the 5Rights Youth Commission, the National Library of Scotland, and Edinburgh University.

More information and details on how to register are available at https://cigs-somewhere-over-the-rainbow.eventbrite.com

We’ll also be running a small competition on the day, involving cupcakes, book tokens and tweets – come to the event to find out more!

Registration will open at 10:00, with the event kicking off at 10:30 and finishing at 16:00

The ticket price includes refreshments and a light buffet lunch.

We look forward to seeing you in April!

Historic note: It’s ten years since our first Metadata & Web 2.0 event ‘Toto, I’ve a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore’.  So we thought it would be a fitting time to return to our roots, look beyond the rainbow, and see where metadata and web 2.0 are now.  For those with an interest in web 3.0 and metadata developments, look out for the next instalment in our linked data series.

#cigsweb2

Image: Ball’s Pyramid, near Lord Howe Island by Jon Clark is licensed under CC BY 2.0