Month: July 2021

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conference conference presentations Data visualization Linked Data

Recording Available: Telling Stories with Library Data: Visualization Projects and Tools

ARLIS/NA has now made recordings available of eight sessions from the 49th Annual Conference, held virtually in May 2021. One of the available sessions is Cataloguing II: Telling Stories with Library Data: Visualization Projects and Tools, linked here. This session took place on May 11, 2021, as part of the ARLIS/NA Virtual Conference hosted by the ARLIS/NA MOQ Chapter. Presenters include William Blueher, Michael Cummings, Catherine Derose, Lindsay King, and Alex O’Keefe. The presentations focus on how libraries can leverage their data to create meaningful visual narratives and gain new insights about themselves. Blueher and Cummings shared a case study from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Watson Library. In their presentation, they explore how Power BI can be used to analyze a library’s data and tell a compelling story. Transforming numbers into narratives gives stakeholders a deeper insight into the impact of the library. Derose, King, and O’Keefe share a second case study on Ensemble@Yale, which is a crowdsourced transcription project that enlists volunteers to generate structured metadata from digitized performance programs in the archives. Both case studies include demonstrations of tools for data collection, cleaning, visualization.

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conference conference presentations RDA

Recording Available: The Cataloging Manual Reinvented: the New RDA Toolkit and the 3R Project

ARLIS/NA has released recordings of eight sessions from the 2021 ARLIS/NA Virtual Conference, including the session Cataloguing III: The Cataloging Manual Reinvented: the new RDA Toolkit and the 3R Project. This session took place on May 12, 2021, as part of the ARLIS/NA Virtual Conference hosted by the ARLIS/NA MOQ Chapter. Presenters include Sherman Clarke, Liz O’Keefe, Alex Provo, Andrea Puccio, and Karen Stafford. In the presentation, members of the ARLIS/NA Cataloging Advisory Committee give a general overview of the changes to RDA and the major conceptual and functional changes made to the Toolkit with a focus on the needs of art catalogers. RDA and the RDA Toolkit have undergone a substantial revision known as the 3R project (RDA Toolkit Restructure and Redesign). Panelists present on the CAC’s efforts to propose changes to RDA, on the potential creation of an RDA Toolkit application profile for cataloging art material, and the committee’s ongoing revision of the “Cataloging exhibition publications: best practice” document (published by ARLIS/NA in 2010) to comply with RDA standards.

View the recorded session at this link, and check out the official RDA 3R Learning Resources site for information, presentations and tutorials on the new RDA Toolkit.