CMC Chair: ALA Annual Report 2019
ALA Annual 2019 Washington, DC Report by Tracey Snyder, Chair, MLA Cataloging and Metadata Committee (CMC) Linked Library Data Interest Group (abstract and bios available at this link) Saturday, June 22, 2019 Speakers: Erin Dobias, Metadata Librarian, Google Books; Jackie Shieh, Descriptive Data Management Librarian, Smithsonian Libraries; Robert Chavez, Senior Content Applications Architect, New England Journal of Medicine, and instructor of RDF and Linked Data courses for Library Juice Academy. The panelists (with some contributions from audience members) answered questions about their experiences interacting with and teaching about linked data. Question: How do you interact with linked data? Erin works with incoming metadata that is mostly MARC (but also some ONYX), with URIs showing up in some MARC. Jackie works with MARC for the most part, and some non-MARC, looking for URIs and writing scripts for SPARQL queries to transform the data to RDF and get it ready for BIBFRAME.