Thank you to all those who attended the Conference; from speakers and sponsors to delegates, we really enjoyed meeting together in person to explore so many different aspects of metadata and discovery work across libraries, repositories, museums, galleries and cultural heritage organisations.
We have also uploaded images of the Posters that were on display during the Conference – Posters presented in portrait (rather than landscape) can be found on the ‘documents’ page of our Slideshare account at: https://www.slideshare.net/CILIPCIG/documents
MDG Committee invite all delegates to provide anonymous feedback to help us plan future events. – This survey should take approx. 10 minutes to complete (depending how much feedback you wish to provide!)
We are also interested in your feedback if you did not or could not attend the conference this year.
The full programme for the MDG Conference and the schedule for the UK Committee on RDA (UKCoR) RDA Day is available on the Conference Event Page and will include the Metadata & Discovery Group’s AGM (all delegates welcome to attend).
The theme for this year’s conference is #ReDiscovery in the context of rediscovering and re-establishing the Metadata and Discovery Group at our first in-person event since the Covid-19 pandemic.
Discovery and discoverability are at the heart of the information world and the vital purpose of all metadata work; we will explore all aspects of discovery from traditional library and special collections cataloguing to archival description, and from metadata management for research repositories to issues of cataloguing and metadata ethics, subject headings, Linked Data, and Persistent Identifiers (PIDs).
CILIP members receive a discount so please ensure you are logged in to your CILIP account before booking.
MDG Sponsored Place
We are pleased to announce that we are offering a Sponsored Place to attend the MDG Conference and RDA Day.
This sponsorship covers the registration fee for a Full Programme Ticket* and reimbursement for travel costs up to £110.
*Full Programme Ticket covers full attendance at the MDG Conference and RDA Day (6th-8th Sept), with snacks, teas/coffees and lunches each day. Plus tickets for the Buffet Dinner & Quiz on Wed 6th Sept and the Formal Dinner on Thurs 7th Sept.
Applicants must be currently studying for, or have recently completed a Library and Information Studies/Science, Archives, or Knowledge Management qualification, or be new to the Information Profession (less than 5 years’ experience), and/or be without the financial means to cover the cost of attendance.
How to apply:
Please submit a brief application (200 words approx.) to demonstrate why you would like to attend, how you would use your attendance to highlight or promote MDG’s areas of interest, and why you would not be able to attend without MDG sponsorship.
In this next issue of C&I we’ll be looking at “local practice”.
What does your institution do differently from the norm, metadata-wise? Do you add, or request, more standard MARC fields than would be found on a common record, for example, or do you add your own local fields? Do you (heaven forfend) just discard the standards and do your own thing? Why do you have these local practices? Is it to aid in local workflows, because of specific user groups, or just because it’s how things have always been done? Do any of your local practices make it difficult to share your data – or do you think that everyone could benefit from the way you do things?
Catalogue & Index (ISSN: 0008-7629) is the periodical of CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group. It has been published since 1966 to discuss the organisation of knowledge to enable resource discovery and collection management, including articles on cataloguing, indexing, metadata, national and international standards and formats.
The deadline for this issue is 31st June. Please contact the editors (Philip Keates: P.Keates@kingston.ac.uk and Martin Kelleher: martind@liverpool.ac.uk) with proposed papers, any queries, or if you want to offer a paper that does not fit into the theme mentioned. We are always happy to consider papers on topics unrelated to an issue’s theme, especially if it is the result of some research you have conducted, or a project you have been involved in. We encourage people from all sectors to contribute, and actively welcome international contributions as well. Papers can be up to 2,000 words, and we are happy to include a selection of images. Please check our guidance for contributors:
C&I 195 an issue all about metadata standards, with a particular focus on RDA. RDA stands, of course, for Resource Description and Access, and, as the successor to AACR2, it is intended to provide a means for those involved in bibliographic metadata (and beyond) to describe materials in a standardised, interoperable, and useful way. RDA has divided opinion since its introduction in 2010, but it’s safe to say that it is here to stay, and we thought now would be a good time to look back over the past few years of RDA implementation, and also look forward to what the future will bring for the standard. In an increasingly interlinked metadata world, however, it’s also important to be aware of standards from outside the remit of traditional cataloguing, and we hope that you find the articles on other standards as enlightening as we did.
Ethics, values and trust are important topics in library and information work in 2018, and the position of ethics within our professions is a hotly discussed issue.
What does “ethics” mean for cataloguing, classification and indexing?
What is your ethical stance as a cataloguer, and do you have ideas about what you would like to see as the ethical position(s) of cataloguing?
Do people trust the library catalogue or the classification/indexing of library resources, and more to the point, should they?
Have you encountered a particularly problematic area of a classification scheme or cataloguing issue which you consider to be ethically problematic?
What do you think we could do about it? How do you deal with ethical cataloguing/indexing/classification issues in your own library or information setting?
Who do you think are the custodians of cataloguing ethics?
Do you think our ethical practices and policies need to change as we move from older library cataloguers to a potential linked data future?
We are seeking articles on these or any other topics broadly related to ethics, value and trust within metadata, cataloguing, classification, and indexing.
If you would like to write a paper for this issue we will send you more information. Please contact the editors:
Please also contact the editors if you have any queries or if you want to offer a paper that does not fit into any of the themes mentioned. We are always happy to consider papers on topics unrelated to an issue’s theme, especially if it is the result of some research you have conducted or a project you have been involved in.
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.
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:
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.
Join Backstage Library Works either in London or Edinburgh this September for a half-day seminar on managing collections and metadata in libraries.
The Topic:
Managing an institution’s collections and metadata can be a huge task. Librarians and archivists feel pressure to continually improve workflows, delivering better service to patrons and researchers.
At the same time, many are being asked to create efficiencies, to find new ways to accomplish more with existing resources.
Librarians at leading institutions are tackling these challenges in innovative ways. We’ve invited a few to discuss their current and future plans with you.
Reclassification of library collections can speed up an acquisitions workflow and reduce processing costs for new items. Still, the task of changing class marks in the metadata, then relabeling and juggling the physical location of every book in the library can be overwhelming.
Metadata workflows can be fine-tuned to streamline processes and improve discovery in your catalogue, but changes often require the coordinated efforts of several departments to overcome institutional inertia.
Digital access to archival collections is expanding at a thrilling rate. However, the next fifty thousand images are only as useful as the metadata that patrons will search to find the content they want.
Dates:
Tuesday, 12 September 2017, in London
Thursday, 14 September 2017, in Edinburgh
Cost:
Free
Save the Date:
Mark your calendar and stay tuned for registration details and programme announcements.
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.
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