A Library Writer's Blog: CFP: ALA ALCTS CaMMS Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group (ALA Midwinter - Seattle

Tuesday, September 25, 2018

CFP: ALA ALCTS CaMMS Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group (ALA Midwinter - Seattle - January 26, 2019)

Call for Proposal: ALA ALCTS CaMMS Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group

The ALCTS CaMMS Cataloging & Classification Research Interest Group seeks speakers to present at the ALA Midwinter Conference to be held in Seattle, WA on Saturday, Jan 26, 2019 from 3 to 4 p.m.

Full presentations that are accepted are asked to be about 15 minutes long and the accepted light presentations 5-10 minutes long. Audience questions and discussion after the presentations are encouraged. Below are the details:

Theme: Research on Cataloging and Classification and Its Applications within and beyond the Library

Topics include (but not limited to):

Classification, categorization and clustering in facilitating resource organization, description and retrieval;
Classification schemes, adapting or developing classification systems for describing and classifying digital documents in the library and the web;
Application of bibliographic classification principles in working with digital collections and metadata in institutional and digital repositories;
Ethical issues in subject analysis and biases in classification schemes, thesauri and other knowledge organization systems;
Thesauri in modern information retrieval and automatic text classification;
Collaboration with graduate students, faculty and researchers in digital humanities, science and other fields on data curation related projects on campus and beyond;
Transforming library bibliographic data from MARC to BIBFRAME, RDA and the Library Reference Model;
Communications between technical services, digital initiatives and public services;
Semantic web and LOD technologies in working with library data, and cataloger's responsibilities in the linked data environment.