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"Toto, I've got a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore": metadata issues and
Web 2.0 services.
Seminar organised by the Cataloguing and Indexing Group in Scotland
Fee: £30.00 (including VAT)
10.30-16.00
21 Feb 2008
NLS Causewayside Building
Edinburgh
Programme:
10.30-11.00: Registration and coffee
11.00-11.30: "If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why
can't I?": Introduction and overview of issues (Google maps, wikis, and web
services for cataloguing standards) / Gordon Dunsire (Centre for Digital
Library Research, Strathclyde University)
11.30-12.00: "To confer, converse, and otherwise hob-nob with my brother
wizards": SLIC, SLAINTE and Web2.0 (Flickr for storing and accessing digital
images, and the potential of other Web2.0 services) / Celia Jenkins &
Gillian Hanlon (Scottish Library and Information Council)
12.00-12.30: The Scottish Screen Archive and YouTube / Ann Cameron, Eilidh
MacGlone & Liam Paterson (Scottish Screen Archive)
12.30-13.30: Lunch
13.30-14.00: "It really was no miracle. What happened was just this": NLS
Web2.0 pilots (Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia and Facebook) / Andrew Youngson
(National Library of Scotland)
14.00-14.30: It's all semantics! – New technologies applied to old problems
in controlled vocabularies (Controlling vocabularies with Resource
Description Framework (RDF), Simple Knowledge Organisation System (SKOS),
metadata registries and web services) / Tony Ross (Centre for Digital
Library Research, Strathclyde University)
14.30-15.00: Wikipedia issues / tba (Centre for Digital Library Research,
Strathclyde University)
15.00-15.30: "Lions and tigers and bears! Oh, my!": systems issues with
Web2.0 services (Technical and managerial issues, and tools, tips and tricks
for delivering content via Web 2.0 services and advice on how to avoid the
pot holes on the Yellow Brick Road) / Gill Hamilton (National Library of
Scotland)
15.30-16.00: Plenary discussion
Cost: £ 30.00 (including VAT)
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To register contact Penny Robertson, SLIC, 1st Floor Building C, Brandon
Gate, Leechlee Road, Hamilton ML3 6AU, e:[log in to unmask]
Payments can be made by cheque, made payable to "CIGS", pay on the day or
invoice, please quote full contact name and address.
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