ALCTS webinar: Using Open Refine to Update, Clean up and Link your
Metadata to the Wider World
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ALCTS webinar: Using Open Refine to Update, Clean up and Link your
Metadata to the Wider World
Date: September 18, 2013 -
All webinars are one hour in length and begin at 11am Pacific, noon
Mountain, 1pm Central, and 2pm Eastern time.
Description:
Missspelings, extra spaces, random; punctuation/ and wEird
capitalizaTion: Are any of these issues with your metadata? Open Refine
(formerly Google Refine) is a powerful tool that can solve all of these
problems with a single click. Even more amazing, Open Refine allows you
to transform your data from one format to another, extend it with web
services, and even connect it to linked data sources like Freebase. This
presentation will show just how useful this tool can be for local
database projects like the Minneapolis Community & Technical College
Zine Collection as well as messy MARC records in your ILS. The world of
metadata has been rapidly changing and it's time to get your data out of
the 90's, clean it up and be ready to link to the wider world of
information!
Who should attend? Metadata specialists, systems librarians, and
technical services managers.
Presenters:
Sarah Weeks is Head of Tech Services for the St Olaf College
Libraries. She received her MLS from Clarion University of Pennsylvania
and worked as a systems librarian in public and academic libraries until
2011. She is currently chair of the Technical Services Section for the
Minnesota Library Association and co-chair of the MARC Formats
Transition Interest Group for ALA. In addition she has served as a LITA
representative to ALA's MARBI committee. As someone who is involved in
both cataloging and systems work, she is very interested in how new
technologies and software are changing the way traditional bibliographic
information is used and in how we can connect new types of resources to
the universe of library information.
Elissah Becknell is a Zine Librarian and Instructor at Minneapolis
Community & Technical College Library. She received her MLIS from Saint
Catherine University and has worked as an academic librarian, instructor
and cataloger since 2010. She is the Newsletter Editor of the Twin
Cities Archives Round Table and started a project called the Zine Linked
Data Working Group. Her interest in working with linked data was sparked
by an informal linked data dinner with other cataloging and systems
librarians. The Zine Linked Data Working Group has been conducting
experiments since the Fall of 2012 and she is excited to share her
experience and wisdom.
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Registration Fees: ALCTS Member $43 ; Non-member $59 ; Group rate
(members/non-members) $99/$129 ; International $43
For additional information and access to registration links, please go
to the following website:
http://www.ala.org/alcts/confevents/upcoming/webinar/091813
ALCTS webinars are recorded and registrants receive a link to the
recording shortly following the live event.
For questions about registration, contact ALA Registration by calling
1-800-545-2433 and press 5 or email registration_at_ala.org <about:blank>.
For all other questions or comments related to the webinars, contact
Julie Reese, ALCTS Events Manager at 1-800-545-2433, ext. 5034 or
alctsce_at_ala.org <mailto:alctsce_at_ala.org>.
Posted on behalf of the ALCTS Continuing Education Committee.
Received on Fri Sep 06 2013 - 03:09:08 EDT