Author: David Procházka

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Electronic Services General Interest UAL Technical Services Committee

Webinar on Linked Data–June 2

Join OCLC’s Ted Fons and colleagues
for a free webinar:

Tracing the Evolution of Linked Data

An OCLC Collective Insight Event: Tracing the Evolution of Linked Data
Monday, June 2, 1:00 – 2:00 pm, Eastern Time

Five years ago linked data was introduced to the library community as a powerful technology with great promise for libraries, visionary but abstract. In the years since, what was a buzzword has become a fixture in our lexicon. Yet as our understanding of the technology has progressed and solidified, we still struggle to identify the specific benefits of linked data within our individual institutions. Join OCLC’s Ted Fons, Corey Harper of New York University, and Phil Schreur of Stanford University as they trace the evolution of linked data technology over the years, and demonstrate practical applications of the latest linked data technologies being utilized in libraries today.

Ted will introduce the topic and provide a brief overview on the evolution of linked data; Corey and Phil will dig deeper with specific examples that will help illustrate this evolution.

Corey will discuss next steps for LOD-LAM (Linked Open Data for Libraries & Museums), exploring tools and techniques to process, enrich and aggregate metadata. He will touch on recent developments, especially focused on efforts within the Hydra and Blacklight community and in the user groups for the Ex Libris product suite. Corey will give special attention to the need for use cases and experimentation.

Phil will speak on Linked Data for Libraries, a promising new grant created through a partnership among Cornell, Harvard and Stanford universities. The project goal is creation of a Scholarly Resource Semantic Information Store (SRSIS) model that works both within the individual institutions and through a coordinated, extensible network of linked open data. Phil will discuss the choice of BIBFRAME as the common data format for this project and conversion to BIBFRAME from MARC data.

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Electronic Services Professional Development

New training opportunities from OCLC

OCLC has just posted a new list of upcoming training opportunities for:

  • Cataloging and metadata
  • Digital collection management
  • Resource Sharing and delivery
  • Maximizing
  • Reference and discovery.

Follow this link for details on courses:  http://visit.oclc.org/dm?id=41FF215F3069BA2D080A280BE39D3562B99A427DD10DD538.

 

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Electronic Services General Interest

New browse feature in Sierra update 1.1.2

For those of you who don’t like the lengthy big-box display of results in Sierra, there’s a new option in version 1.1.2 called compact browse display.  It’s explained at http://csdirect.iii.com/sierrahelp/Default.htm#sril_compact_browse_display.html#kanchor1878.

To activate it in Sierra, go to Admin, Settings, and select the ‘Display’ tab.  Check the box for Compact Browse, then click on OK and Save Settings.  I had to exit Sierra and then relaunch it to get the feature to work properly.  In addition to getting single-line results lists, large sets of results display much more quickly than in Sierra’s standard browse display.

If you’re working on a laptop, you might have to move the taskbar to save the setting changes; Susan reported having this problem.  She also suggested that folks might want try the new Glacier Point skin for Sierra that became available in update 1.1.1.  If you have any trouble changing these settings, just let Susan know.

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General Interest

New sculpture on campus

I haven’t seen a press release yet, but there’s a new sculpture on campus.  Designed by David Tonnesen, it’s on Carroll Avenue between Auburn Science & Engineering Center and the student union.  Check it out when you have a chance.

A photo blog is available at http://publicartohio.blogspot.com/.  The artist’s blog also has some pictures, along with snaps of some earlier, related sculptures:  http://tonnesenwork.blogspot.com/.