This was posted to AUTOCAT, but is worth forwarding around:
The Subject Analysis Committee will be meeting twice during the ALA
Midwinter Conference in San Diego, CA.
The Committee's first meeting will be on Sunday, January 9, 2011, from 8:00
to 11:00 am in Gaslamp Quarter, Santa Rosa room. The second meeting of the
Committee will take place on Monday, January 10, 2011, from 1:30 to 5:30 pm
in the San Diego Convention Center, room 27 B.
The agenda for the Committee's meetings, along with reports submitted to the
Committee, can be found on the Committee's space in ALA Connect:
http://connect.ala.org/node/64185
The second meeting will feature a presentation by John Mark Ockerbloom,
digital planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, on linked
open subject authority data from the Library of Congress
(http://id.loc.gov/) and how it can be used to improve subject cataloging
and browsing. Mr. Ockerbloom will describe how the LC data is structured
(including a brief overview of RDF and SKOS), and explain how he has used it
to improve The Online Books Page (http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/) and
the Penn Libraries' catalog. He will also show how he augmented and
enhanced the authority data from LC, and discuss how widespread use of
linked bibliographic and authority data may change how we build and use
catalogs in the future.
On behalf of the Subject Analysis Committee,
Deborah Ryszka
Coordinator, Copy Cataloging Unit
University of Delaware Library
Newark, DE 19717
debbie_at_udel.edu
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Rocki Strader, Ph.D., MLIS
Assistant Professor & Catalog Librarian
Library Tech Center
The Ohio State University Phone: 614-688-8091
1165 Kinnear Road Fax: 614-292-2015
Columbus, OH 43212 Email: strader.2_at_osu.edu
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Received on Tue Jan 04 2011 - 11:01:58 EST