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Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007
From: Amira Aaron (Brandeis Univ.) <aaaron_at_brandeis.edu>
Subject: ALA Meeting Announcement: LITA President's Program
You are cordially invited to the LITA President's program, Tag! Your
IT!: Online Digital Audio Collections Meet PennTags. The program will
take place Sunday, June 24, 2007, 4-5 pm, following the Top Technology
Trends (1-3pm) and the LITA Awards Reception (3-4pm), at the
Renaissance Mayflower Hotel's Grand Ballroom.
My President's Program is an interesting mash up of two hot topics:
digital libraries, in this case, digital audio libraries, and the social
tagging system PennTags. Historic sound recordings are an important
part of our national heritage. Digitizing historic recorded sound
collections for use on the web requires extensive indexing and access
points. Using social bookmarking and tagging in combination with
standard subject classification and indexing terms to create
folksonomies creates a rich networking of resources that greatly
enhances access to the collection. Chuck Haddix (Marr Sound Archivist
at the University of Missouri Kansas City) presents The Voices of World
War II collection as a case study of the creation of a digital library
rich in historic spoken word and music recordings and the integration
of digital library records into the online catalog for enhanced access.
Michael Winkler (Director of Information Technology and Digital
Development of the University of Pennsylvania) discusses PennTags using
the UMKC digital audio collections to illustrate how it provides
increased access. PennTags is a social bookmarking system that enables
the creation of personalized, shared annotated bibliographies of
resources in the library catalog, licensed databases, digital libraries
and other Web resources using a combination of subject headings, index
terms, and personally assigned tags. PennTags is being enhanced to
provide specialized capabilities for tagging sound recordings.
I hope to see you all at Sunday Afternoon with LITA on June 24!
Bonnie Postlethwaite
President, Library and Information Technology Association
Associate Dean of Libraries
University of Missouri--Kansas City
214 Miller Nichols Library
800 East 51st St.
Kansas City, MO 64110-2499
postlethwaiteb_at_umkc.edu
816-235-1558
816-333-5584 (fax)
UMKC University Libraries: Connecting Learners to the World of Knowledge
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