From janeg at email.unc.edu Sun Nov 3 09:57:48 2013 From: janeg at email.unc.edu (Greenberg, Jane) Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 14:57:48 +0000 Subject: [sigCR] all welcome/updates--SIG/CR Business meeting Message-ID: <672DA93E2CFAE64AA033720211A2617F33917035@ITS-MSXMBS5M.ad.unc.edu> Greetings everyone, First, a kudos to Grant Campbell for running an outstanding workshop yesterday. The theme was "Big Data, Linked Data: Classification Research at the Junction" SIG/CR Classification." The agenda is @: http://sigcr.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/sigcr-workshop-preliminary-schedule/; and presentation slides are being mounted. Papers will be published in Advances in Classification Research online (ACRO), hosted at the University of Washington, so stay tuned. For folks @ ASIST, please remember the SIG rush is this evening @ 7:00 PM in Salle de Bal Quest. Please come by our table to connect with friends and colleagues, and welcome and reach out to new members. We have 'new' magnets w/our platypus logo as the give away!!! Tomorrow evening, @ 6:00-7:00 PM is the SIG/CR business meeting. Room 1 at Le Centre Sheraton. Everyone is welcome (members and curious folks scoping) !!! Draft Agenda SIG/CR business meeting: 1. Introductions (around-the-room) 2. Review of year's activities a. Accomplishments b. Outstanding business c. Recommendations for next year's cabinet 3. Review of SIG/CR workshop, comments and applause ! 4. Brainstorming a. SIG/CR in general b. ASIST 2014, it's never too early 5. Action items 6. Around the room Reminder, the SIG/CR website is @: http://sigcr.wordpress.com/ for up-to-date-news. Thank you to Melissa Adler and Emma Tonkin for their talent in keeping it up-to-date. We will add notes from the business meeting to the website too. Have a great ASIST conference!! Best wishes, jane Jane Greenberg Professor, School of Information and Library Science Director, Metadata Research Center University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill janeg at email.unc.edu; tel: +1-919-962-8066 : http://ils.unc.edu/mrc/ From janeg at email.unc.edu Sun Nov 3 10:43:19 2013 From: janeg at email.unc.edu (Greenberg, Jane) Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2013 15:43:19 +0000 Subject: [sigCR] FW: all welcome/updates--SIG/CR Business meeting Message-ID: <672DA93E2CFAE64AA033720211A2617F3391704F@ITS-MSXMBS5M.ad.unc.edu> Pardon if this is a re-send. There are also a number of SIG/CR sponsored and co-sponsored panels!! Enjoy.... From: Greenberg, Jane Sent: Sunday, November 03, 2013 9:58 AM To: 'sigCR-l at asist.org' Subject: all welcome/updates--SIG/CR Business meeting Greetings everyone, First, a kudos to Grant Campbell for running an outstanding workshop yesterday. The theme was "Big Data, Linked Data: Classification Research at the Junction" SIG/CR Classification." The agenda is @: http://sigcr.wordpress.com/2013/09/24/sigcr-workshop-preliminary-schedule/; and presentation slides are being mounted. Papers will be published in Advances in Classification Research online (ACRO), hosted at the University of Washington, so stay tuned. For folks @ ASIST, please remember the SIG rush is this evening @ 7:00 PM in Salle de Bal Quest. Please come by our table to connect with friends and colleagues, and welcome and reach out to new members. We have 'new' magnets w/our platypus logo as the give away!!! Tomorrow evening, @ 6:00-7:00 PM is the SIG/CR business meeting. Room 1 at Le Centre Sheraton. Everyone is welcome (members and curious folks scoping) !!! Draft Agenda SIG/CR business meeting: 1. Introductions (around-the-room) 2. Review of year's activities a. Accomplishments b. Outstanding business c. Recommendations for next year's cabinet 3. Review of SIG/CR workshop, comments and applause ! 4. Brainstorming a. SIG/CR in general b. ASIST 2014, it's never too early 5. Action items 6. Around the room Reminder, the SIG/CR website is @: http://sigcr.wordpress.com/ for up-to-date-news. Thank you to Melissa Adler and Emma Tonkin for their talent in keeping it up-to-date. We will add notes from the business meeting to the website too. Have a great ASIST conference!! Best wishes, jane Jane Greenberg Professor, School of Information and Library Science Director, Metadata Research Center University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill janeg at email.unc.edu; tel: +1-919-962-8066 : http://ils.unc.edu/mrc/ From gcampbel at uwo.ca Tue Nov 5 17:23:07 2013 From: gcampbel at uwo.ca (Grant Campbell) Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2013 17:23:07 -0500 Subject: [sigCR] SIG/CR: Update on the Workshop and Plans for the New Year In-Reply-To: <735082b23ddb.52796f74@uwo.ca> References: <73d0fa8f7316.527965d2@uwo.ca> <7360d8b13dea.5279660e@uwo.ca> <7340f6d87f06.5279664b@uwo.ca> <7340eeb815f7.52796687@uwo.ca> <73c0f4331e15.527966c4@uwo.ca> <7400eb38bcb.52796700@uwo.ca> <73e0efcc3b94.5279673d@uwo.ca> <73c0e28a36ed.52796779@uwo.ca> <7360b1622498.527967b5@uwo.ca> <74409f0d729e.527967f2@uwo.ca> <73c0fa6a54f1.5279682e@uwo.ca> <73c09cc55adc.5279686b@uwo.ca> <74608298d1f.52796f38@uwo.ca> <735082b23ddb.52796f74@uwo.ca> Message-ID: <7360ad864074.5279297b@uwo.ca> Good afternoon, everyone. As the incoming Chair of the SIG/CR, I'd like to send a few messages along to SIG/CR members. First, I'd like to thank all who made the Classification Research Workshop a success on Saturday, Nov. 2: speakers, registrants and the Program Committee. The Proceedings will be mounted at Advances in Classification Research Online later in the year, and I'll pass on the URL when they're up and ready to read. We had 11 presentations, and 39 attendees, and we all had an interesting and productive day. Second, I'd like to relay some of the issues that are facing SIG/CR this year, and to ask for your feedback. At our meeting yesterday, two ideas were presented as real options for SIG/CR in the future: 1. That we extend the term of the SIG officers from 1 year to 2 years. This gives the members more time to implement fresh ideas and see them through; it also limits the amount of arm-twisting we have to do within our small community to get people to serve on the committee. 2. That we hold the Classification Research Workshop every 2 years rather than annually, and that we schedule the workshop in even-numbered years, to prevent overlap with ISKO-Canada/US. This would hopefully prevent the two events from draining each other, particularly during times when getting funds for conference travel is becoming more difficult; it would also mean that the same executive does not have to plan two consecutive workshops. Opinion around the table yesterday was decidedly in favour of keeping things the way they are. But I wanted to solicit feedback from the SIG as a whole, to get your thoughts, particularly on Item #2. Feel free to relay your thoughts, either to the group, or to me individually. Third, I'd also like your thoughts on other activities that the SIG might do, not just at the ASIST meetings but throughout the year. If we opt not to do a workshop every year, we should consider alternative activities that involve our members, feed into the classification research community, and also hopefully promote ASIST and ASIST membership. We had suggestions around the table that included teaming up with another SIG to do something together; putting a greater kick into our Web presence, and making classification-related resources available through the website. Finally, we're probably committed to doing the Classification Research Workshop in 2014, since it's an even-numbered year. So I'd love to get your ideas on a theme. Please send it along. Many thanks once again to those who have worked so hard in the past to make SIG/CR work, and who have steered the SIG through the various changes through the years. And a special cyber-hug to Jane Greenberg, for her dedication and enthusiastic leadership over the past year. All the best, Grant -- ------------------- D. Grant Campbell Associate Professor Faculty of Information and Media Studies University of Western Ontario London, Ontario N6A 5B7 519-661-2111 ext.88483 From mpereira at istar.ca Wed Nov 6 13:44:07 2013 From: mpereira at istar.ca (Infoman Inc.) Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 13:44:07 -0500 Subject: [sigCR] SIG/CR: Update on the Workshop and Plans for the New Year In-Reply-To: <7360ad864074.5279297b@uwo.ca> References: <73d0fa8f7316.527965d2@uwo.ca> <7360d8b13dea.5279660e@uwo.ca> <7340f6d87f06.5279664b@uwo.ca> <7340eeb815f7.52796687@uwo.ca> <73c0f4331e15.527966c4@uwo.ca> <7400eb38bcb.52796700@uwo.ca> <73e0efcc3b94.5279673d@uwo.ca> <73c0e28a36ed.52796779@uwo.ca> <7360b1622498.527967b5@uwo.ca> <74409f0d729e.527967f2@uwo.ca> <73c0fa6a54f1.5279682e@uwo.ca> <73c09cc55adc.5279686b@uwo.ca> <74608298d1f.52796f38@uwo.ca> <735082b23ddb.52796f74@uwo.ca> <7360ad864074.5279297b@uwo.ca> Message-ID: <527A8DF7.1060803@istar.ca> Grant, Thank you for your e-mail. I do agree that officers should serve two year ( I would prefer 3 as this provides some continuity and the ability to see things through) With respect to the scheduling of the Workshops and "conflict" with ISKO-Canada/US, perhaps this could be solved through coordination of scheduling so that one meets on different days. trust this is of some help - Jake Knoppers On 05/11/2013 5:23 PM, Grant Campbell wrote: > Good afternoon, everyone. > > As the incoming Chair of the SIG/CR, I'd like to send a few messages along to SIG/CR members. > > First, I'd like to thank all who made the Classification Research Workshop a success on Saturday, Nov. 2: speakers, registrants and the Program Committee. The Proceedings will be mounted at Advances in Classification Research Online later in the year, and I'll pass on the URL when they're up and ready to read. We had 11 presentations, and 39 attendees, and we all had an interesting and productive day. > > Second, I'd like to relay some of the issues that are facing SIG/CR this year, and to ask for your feedback. At our meeting yesterday, two ideas were presented as real options for SIG/CR in the future: > > 1. That we extend the term of the SIG officers from 1 year to 2 years. This gives the members more time to implement fresh ideas and see them through; it also limits the amount of arm-twisting we have to do within our small community to get people to serve on the committee. > > 2. That we hold the Classification Research Workshop every 2 years rather than annually, and that we schedule the workshop in even-numbered years, to prevent overlap with ISKO-Canada/US. This would hopefully prevent the two events from draining each other, particularly during times when getting funds for conference travel is becoming more difficult; it would also mean that the same executive does not have to plan two consecutive workshops. > > Opinion around the table yesterday was decidedly in favour of keeping things the way they are. But I wanted to solicit feedback from the SIG as a whole, to get your thoughts, particularly on Item #2. Feel free to relay your thoughts, either to the group, or to me individually. > > Third, I'd also like your thoughts on other activities that the SIG might do, not just at the ASIST meetings but throughout the year. If we opt not to do a workshop every year, we should consider alternative activities that involve our members, feed into the classification research community, and also hopefully promote ASIST and ASIST membership. We had suggestions around the table that included teaming up with another SIG to do something together; putting a greater kick into our Web presence, and making classification-related resources available through the website. > > Finally, we're probably committed to doing the Classification Research Workshop in 2014, since it's an even-numbered year. So I'd love to get your ideas on a theme. Please send it along. > > Many thanks once again to those who have worked so hard in the past to make SIG/CR work, and who have steered the SIG through the various changes through the years. And a special cyber-hug to Jane Greenberg, for her dedication and enthusiastic leadership over the past year. > > All the best, > Grant > > -- > ------------------- > D. Grant Campbell > Associate Professor > Faculty of Information and Media Studies > University of Western Ontario > London, Ontario > N6A 5B7 > 519-661-2111 ext.88483 > _______________________________________________ > sigCR-l mailing list > sigCR-l at asist.org > http://mail.asis.org/mailman/listinfo/sigcr-l > From announce at dublincore.net Wed Nov 13 06:35:38 2013 From: announce at dublincore.net (DCMI Announce) Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 03:35:38 -0800 Subject: [sigCR] NISO/DCMI Webinar with Thomas Hickey: Cooperative Authority Control Message-ID: ***Please excuse the cross-posting*** =============================================================== NISO/DCMI Webinar: Cooperative Authority Control PRESENTER: Thomas Hickey, OCLC Research DATE: December 4, 2013 TIME: 1:00pm - 2:30pm Eastern (18:00-19:30 UTC) World Clock: http://bit.ly/1aRZlbz INFORMATION & REGISTRATION: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/authority/ =============================================================== ABOUT THE WEBINAR: Libraries around the world have a long tradition of maintaining authority files to assure the consistent presentation and indexing of names. As library authority files have become available online, the authority data has become accessible -- and many have been published as Linked Open Data (LOD) -- but names in one library authority file typically had no link to corresponding records for persons and organizations in other library authority files. After a successful experiment in matching the Library of Congress/NACO authority file with the German National Library's authority file, an online system called the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) [1] was developed to facilitate sharing by ingesting, matching, and displaying the relations between records in multiple authority files. VIAF has grown from three source files in 2007 to more than two dozen files today. The system harvests authority records, enhances them with bibliographic information and brings them together into clusters when it is confident the records describe the same identity. Although the most visible part of VIAF is a HTML interface, the API beneath it supports a linked data view of VIAF with URIs representing the identities themselves, not just URIs for the clusters. It supports names for person, corporations, geographic entities, works, and expressions. With English, French, German, Spanish interfaces (and a Japanese in process), the system is used around the world, with over a million queries per day. The service harvests some 30 million authority records, enhances them with information from 100 million bibliographic records to produce a file of 20+ million clusters, each representing a person, organization, jurisdiction, work, or expression. In addition to supporting a Web browser HTML interface, the API to VIAF supports content negotiation for other views, such as RDF-XML and MARC-21. Bulk dumps of the VIAF clusters are available under the ODC-By attribution license. The Webinar will cover some of the challenges VIAF meets in dealing with many different formats and approaches to describing identities, the relationship of VIAF to the source authority files, to other identity systems such as ORCID and ISNI, VIAF's approach to sustainability, governance and persistence, and how ambiguity is recognized and managed. ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Thomas Hickey [2] is Chief Scientist at OCLC where he helped found OCLC Research. Current interests include metadata creation and editing systems, authority control, parallel systems for bibliographic processing, and information retrieval and display. In addition to implementing VIAF, his group looks into exploring Web access to metadata, identification of FRBR works and expressions in WorldCat, the algorithmic creation of authorities, and the characterization of collections. He has an undergraduate degree in Physics and a Ph.D. in Library and Information Science. REGISTRATION: Registration is per site (access for one computer) and closes at 12:00 pm Eastern (17:00 UTC) on December 4, 2013. Discounts are available for NISO and DCMI members and students. For more information and to register, visit the event webpage: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2013/dcmi/authority/ =============================================================== [1] http://viaf.org/ [2] http://www.oclc.org/research/people/hickeyt.html From aida at acorweb.net Tue Nov 26 09:40:18 2013 From: aida at acorweb.net (Aida Slavic) Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2013 14:40:18 +0000 Subject: [sigCR] Slides and recordings available: Classification & Visualization - UDC Seminar (23-24 October The Hague) Message-ID: <5294B2D2.5030606@acorweb.net> Hi, Colleagues may find the following information of interest. Slides (pdf) and talks (mp3) from the International UDC Seminar 2013 - "Classification and Visualization" are available from http://seminar.udcc.org/2013/programme.php. The conference proceedings are published by Ergon Verlag (see table of content and more information at http://www.udcc.org/index.php/site/page?view=visualization). The International UDC Seminar entitled "Classification & Visualization: Interfaces to Knowledge" took place in Koninklijke Bibliotheek in The Hague, on 24-25 October 2013. This was another successful and well attended UDC Seminar with 115 delegates from 24 countries. The 2013 conference was devoted to exploring advances and techniques in the visualization of knowledge across various fields of application and their potential impact on developments in the more main stream bibliographic and documentary classifications. The keynoted address by Prof. W. Boyd Rayward was followed by 18 talks. The poster exhibition consisted of four conference posters (http://seminar.udcc.org/2013/posters.php) and a selection of posters from "Places & Spaces: Mapping Science" (http://scimaps.org/). -- --- Dr Aida Slavic Editor-in-Chief, UDC UDC Consortium The Hague, The Netherlands ______________________ --> New! Free trial UDC Online:http://www.udc-hub.com/index.php --> Proceedings: International UDC Seminar 2013: Classification& Visualization:http://seminar.udcc.org/2013/ The Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is the world's foremost multilingual classification scheme for all fields of knowledge, a sophisticated indexing and retrieval tool ______________________