Join us at METRO on May 5th for the latest installment of our lecture series. Returning instructor Dr. Marcia Zeng will introduce participants to the Linked Data movement and how it can help us make connections to form a much broader data universe. As demands for digital data continue to increase rapidly, Linked Data could drastically change the way we access information on a daily basis. Join us for “Enriching Metadata Services through Linked Data” and gain a better understanding of its possible applications in your library.
Description:
The Linked Open Data project has exceeded 200 very large datasets within two years. Among them are a growing number of datasets provided by libraries and archives, the data.gov dataset of the U.S. government which host the largest open collections of RDF datasets in the world, as well as large media’s resources (e.g., BBC, New York Times), social sciences, publications, and scientific datasets. The Linked Data movement is about using the Web to connect related data formerly isolated in small or large repositories (often called “silos”) and not previously linked. Linked Data is also about using the Web to lower the barriers to linking data currently linked using other methods. This session aims to help open our minds and eyes to reach a much more diverse data universe, and to consider more effectively providing services to library users through enhancing metadata services or digital collections with Linked Data technologies and resources. The workshop will explain the principles, concepts, and the potential usage of the Linked Data in libraries of all sizes. It will not cover technical implementation topics.
To learn more or to register, please visit http://www.metro.org/en/cev/46.
To register for Dr. Zeng’s Introduction to Metadata for Digital Collections workshop (May 3 & 4), please visit http://www.metro.org/en/cev/45.
Some of you may have been following the Lifehacker Night School series, but I wanted to bring links to their "courses" here for librarians and information professionals that might be interested in doing a little self-training in their free time.
Learn to Code: The Full Beginner's Guide:
Basics of Photoshop:
Basics of Video Editing:
Getting Started With Linux:
Digital Painting 101:
[UPDATED] How to Make a Web Site:
METRO is pleased to welcome Anthony Cocciolo, Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute School of Information and Library Science, to the METRO Training Center on March 23 for our "Planning and Managing Digital Library and Archives workshop. The workshop is part of our yearly workshops on essential skills for building digital colllections. Read more about the workshop below and register here.
Is building a digital collection enough? What comes next? How do we guarantee long-term access? Can we afford to do this? These and other issues will be considered in this workshop designed for both librarians and archivists interested in creating or maintaining digitization projects within their institutions. The first part of the workshop will be dedicated to establishing a purpose, perspective and strategy for your digital project so that it has the best chances for community impact and success. How will your digital collection be made meaningful and interesting to patrons? What learning goals motivate your effort? What about born-digital material? The second part will be dedicated to establishing a solid technical, organizational and resource infrastructure needed for the successful execution and maintenance of your digital project. This section will cover issues such as long-range budgeting and funding, ensuring technical elements as well as human resource infrastructure, adopting sensible standards, and ensuring legal and ethical compliance. And lastly, the course will conclude with strategies for evaluating your digital project for its efficacy.
Who should attend:
Librarians, archivists, and students interested in launching or maintaining digitization projectsBy the end of this program, participants will:
- Be able to develop a strategy for a successful digital project
- Have the necessary information to evaluate their technical, organizational, and resource infrastructure for digital project readiness and make adjustments to ensure readiness.
- Be able to evaluate their digital project for effectiveness
- Be able to make legal and ethical judgments related to digitization
We're about to wrap up a summer series of webinars we're calling Trending. The series brings practitioners to the table to discuss projects, best practices,
and case studies for improving library and archives services through technology. This summer we covered new initiatives in digital collection building, mobile site generation software for libraries, and cloud computing for libraries.
Not a bad season, but if the brilliant folks I know here in NYC and follow on Twitter are any indication, there's so many more great ideas we can highlight with our series. That's where you come in. Would you like to have an audience with engaged information pros in NYC? We're looking for practitioners throughout North America to share their expertise, tips, experiences, projects, and bright ideas for the Fall installment of our Trending series, and we're opening it up to you.
Recommend yourself or one of your colleagues for a one-hour webinar by August 16, 2010 by emailing Jason Kucsma with the following information:
Each webinar will be 45 minutes with time left for questions. All presenters will be compensated for their time. Presenters will be chosen by METRO from the recommended options.
Need to know more about METRO first? Read on:
The Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) is a non-profit organization working to develop and maintain essential library services throughout New York City and Westchester County. METRO's service is developed and delivered with broad input and support from an experienced staff of library, museum, and archives professionals, the organization's member libraries, an active board of trustees, government representatives and other experts in research and library operations.As the largest reference and research resources (3Rs) library council in New York State, METRO members reflect a wide range of special, academic, archival and public library organizations. In addition to training programs and support services, METRO also works to bring members of the New York City and Westchester County library and archives communities together to promote ongoing exchanges of information and ideas.
As part of what we intend to be a regular lecture series in and around the metropolitan New York area, METRO is excited to have Meredith Farkas joining us on August 9 from 10:30am-12:00pm to discuss "Achieving Organization 2.0." The lecture will be of particular interest to library administrators, librarians, and students interested in learning best practices for successful technological innovation in the library.Manylibraries are not currently structured to successfully embrace Web 2.0, which requires rapid user-centered change, experimentation, and radical trust. Farkas will discuss why so many 2.0 initiatives fail and what organizations need to do to position themselves to take advantage of the 2.0 technologies in ways that will ensure successful implementation. She will include practical tips, illustrated with examples from libraries that are already on the road to 2.0 through their innovative practices and services.
Register for this program ($30 for METRO and myMETRO members) here: http://bit.ly/cqS4yu
Or contact Laura Forshay at lforshay@metro.org, 212.228.2320 x10 with any questions.
