Call for proposals: MARC Formats Transition Interest Group (ALA Midwinter)
The LITA/ALCTS Marc Formats Transition Interest Group invites proposals for presentations for its session at the 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting in Seattle, Washington, on Saturday, January 26th from 3pm to 4pm.
The theme of the session will be “Transforming MARC: Repurposing, Reusing and Reimagining Data from MARC Records Outside of the Traditional ILS”. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
* Harvesting bibliographic data from MARC records for use in discovery tools of all types
* Transforming MARC data to other metadata schemes (Dublin Core, EAD, VRA, etc…)
* Using Google Refine (or other tools) to combine data from MARC records with data from linked data sources
Presentations can be 15 or 25 minutes in length. Proposals should be e-mailed to Sarah Weeks (weekss@stolaf.edu) by Friday, November 23rd, 2012. Please include a title, summary, amount of time needed for the presentation, and the names, titles and contact information for the presenter(s).
