Upcoming IRRT Webinars in June

 Webinar 1: Linked Data and Rare Materials: An Online Discussion

Date/Time: June 10, Thursday at 7 am PT/9 am CT/10 am ET/ 16:00 CEST
Description: This series of 3 webinars from ALA International Relations Round (IRRT) Table Webinar Committee and the Mission Enhancement Project support Croatian Library Association’s interests in linked data projects and work. This webinar will focus on linked data and rare materials and special collections.

Zoom Registration Link: https://ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_FgGH6pejS2W8GkTP3umrxg

Speakers: Paloma Graciani-Picardo is the Metadata Librarian at the Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, where she oversees the creation and management of MARC-based cataloging and develops metadata strategies to enhance access and discovery of rare and unique materials. Working collaboratively across departments, her recent work is focused on getting a better understanding of Semantic Web Technologies implementation in a Special Collections setting.

Tim Thompson is the Librarian for Applied Metadata Research at Yale University Library. As a metadata practitioner, his work focuses on the implementation of linked data standards and technologies in academic libraries. With Christine Fernsebner Eslao, he currently cochairs the Linked Data Advisory Committee of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC). Since 2016, he has been involved in efforts to develop a BIBFRAME ontology extension for the description of art and rare materials (known as ARM).

 

Webinar 2: Linked Data and Ethics: An Online Discussion

Date/Time: June 17, Thursday at 7 am PT/9 am CT/10 am ET/ 16:00 CEST
Description: This series of 3 webinars from ALA International Relations Round (IRRT) Table Webinar Committee and the Mission Enhancement Project support Croatian Library Association’s interests in linked data projects and work. This webinar will focus on linked data and ethics.

Zoom Registration Link: https://ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_okfhOvcdRXKLlEWlJiMN3A

Speakers: Brian (Bri) Watson (@brimwats) is a PhD. student at the iSchool at the University of British Columbia and the Director of HistSex.com, a freely-accessible open access resource for the history of sexuality. Additionally, they are the Archivist-Historian of the Consensual Non-Monogamies taskforce of the American Psychological Association and contribute to Homosaurus, an international linked data vocabulary for LGBTQ terms.

Devon Murphy (they/them) is a metadata and digital collections professional, currently working as the TARO Metadata Analyst at the University of Texas at Austin. Murphy develops new controlled vocabularies and metadata standards for Texas Archival Resources Online (TARO) and previously created Getty Vocabularies records as a Getty Graduate Intern. Their research areas include information ethics, metadata standards, Indigenous knowledge organization, and linked data.

 

Webinar 3: Linked Data and Discovery: An Online Discussion

Date/Time: June 18, Friday at 7 am PT/9 am CT/10 am ET/ 16:00 CEST
Description: This series of 3 webinars from ALA International Relations Round (IRRT) Table Webinar Committee and the Mission Enhancement Project support Croatian Library Association’s interests in linked data projects and work. This presentation will focus on linked data and discovery.

Zoom Registration Link: https://ala-events.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ByMnx1KbSROkJcqjn0u0Tw

Speakers: Huda Khan works in software development at Cornell University.  Her areas of interest and work include linked data and user-centered design. Astrid Usong is a User Experience Designer for Digital Library Systems and Services at Stanford Libraries. She is currently designing the software for cataloging in a linked data environment and the Stanford Digital Repository. Prior to joining Stanford in 2018, she worked in financial services for 20 years.