OLAC Conference

Macon, Georgia will host the next OnLine AudioVisual Catalogers (OLAC) conference, from Friday, October 15, through Sunday, October 17, 2010, at the new Macon Marriott City Center. Registration will be available through September 20, and afterward if space allows.

Dr. Robert Ellett and Mac Elrod will be among our speakers.

The standard registration fee is $150.00 ($100.00 for LIS students), which includes three continental breakfasts and two lunches.

Macon is in central Georgia, approximately 75 miles south of Atlanta; it is easily accessible by shuttle bus from Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport.

A preconference on NACO funnel training will be held on Thursday, October 14; the registration deadline is July 15.

The deadline for poster session applications has been extended to July 15.

To register, or for more information, visit the official conference website: http://www.olacinc.org/drupal/conference/2010/index.html

or the conference blog:

http://macon2010.wordpress.com/


Hotel reservations should be made directly through Marriott: http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/mcnfs-macon-marriott-city-center/. Our group code is OLAOLAA.
Widely posted and distributed.

In other OLAC news, the June 2010 OLAC Newsletter is now available. Always good reading.

Related articles

• Bigwood, David: Genre/Form Headings for Moving Images (catalogablog.blogspot.com)

Creating Linked Data

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The Nodalities blog has the post The Data Publishing Three-Step. Agree completely. Our cataloging already meets common standards, the resources for linking are becoming more common. For example, Ross Singer made this announcement yesterday.

I just wanted to let people know I've made the MARC codes for forms of musical compositions (http://www.loc.gov/standards/valuelist/marcmuscomp.html) available as http://purl.org/ontology/mo/Genres.

http://purl.org/NET/marccodes/muscomp/sy#genre

They follow the same naming convention as they would in the MARC 008 or 047, so it's easy to map (that is, no lookup needed) from your MARC data:

http://purl.org/NET/marccodes/muscomp/sy#genre

etc.

The RDF is available as well:
http://purl.org/NET/marccodes/muscomp/sy.rdf

Now all we have is the last step, just make it available.

One thing the Nodalities blog post neglects to mention is to use tools that make it simple. Druple now makes it very easy to create RDF. The lead article, Drupal: Semantic Web for the Masses in the Nodalities magazine covers that very nicely.

Connecting People and Their Work

BibApp is a tool to connect people and their research interests at an institution.

BibApp is a campus research gateway and expert finder. It matches researchers on your campus or research center with their publication data and mines that data to see collaborations, create visualizations of areas of research, and find experts in research areas. With BibApp, it is easy to see what publications can be placed on the Web for greater access and impact. BibApp can push those publications directly into an institutional repository.
BibApp allows researchers and research groups to promote research, find collaborators on campus, and make research more accessible. It also allows libraries to better understand research happening in local departments, facilitate conversations about author rights with researchers, and ease the population of the institutional repository. Finally, BibApp allows campus administrators to achieve a clearer picture of collaboration and scholarly publishing trends on campus.
BibApp is the result of a collaboration between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The Illinois Informatics Institute at the University of Illinois (https://www.informatics.illinois.edu/icubed/) provided generous funding for the development of the 1.0 release of BibApp.
BibApp is a Ruby on Rails application, coupled with the Solr/Lucene search engine, and either MySQL or PostgreSQL as its datastore. It uses open standards and protocols such as OpenURL and SWORD and automatically pulls in data from third party sources such as Google Books and the Sherpa/Romeo publisher policy database. BibApp imports publication data in RIS, MEDLINE and Refworks XML bibliography formats and exports data in several citation formats (APA, Chicago, IEEE, MLA, more) via CiteProc. BibApp also provides a web services API for delivering data as XML, YML, JSON, and RDF. BibApp is released under a University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/UoI-NCSA.php).
Live installations of BibApp can be found at:

• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — http://connections.ideals.illinois.edu
• The MBLWHOI Library at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — http://bibapp.mbl.edu/
• The University of Kansas Medical Center — http://experts.kumc.edu/