Reference at the Metcalfe 2010
Some of the presentations from Reference at the Metcalfe 2010 are available as links from this page
Tim Sherratt blog post on Linked data and (a hopefully fairly painless introduction to) Linked Open Data on slideshare
Pam Langridge on reference collection management presentation here
Kathryn Joss on Council staff and you presentation on Slideshare here
Martin Boyce on Does you library need a website? presentation on Slideshare here
Philippa Johnson on Gosford Library's use of ref-ex presentation here
Geoff Potter on Writing the local studies module on ref-ex presentation here
An update on the ref-ex wiki presentation on Slideshare here
risg2010 and red bubble presentation on Slideshare here
Rose Holley Trove: Collecting, sharing and Improving Data: Changing Roles for libraries and users presentation on Slideshare here
Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program website and Find and get with Trove
Mal Booth Librarians, active content creation; going beyond what is expected
and you can follow the discussion from twitter as well - via Twapper keeper.
The complete program is shown below
#risg2010 Much of the program for 2010 Reference @ the Metcalfe Seminar explores the role of data in libraries. With library collections and services moving away from just the physical and expanding rapidly into digital resources, this year's speakers will explore the library's role in creating, collecting and sharing digital data.
We have presentations that cover the life cycle of digital data - from creating and collecting primary source material - to digitising and sharing library resources (including the potential for getting the public involved in improving the data quality) - to Linked Data, a glimpse of the future possibilities of sharing data and making connections via the web.
Creating and sharing digital resources will become increasingly important to libraries that want to remain service based, surely a key feature of reference work, and not be relegated to just physical store houses. This year's program promises to stimulate your thinking about what that could mean for public libraries.
9.30 Morning tea in the McDonalds Room
10.00 – 10.10 Welcome to the State Library by a member of Executive
10.10 - 11.00 Tim Sherratt on Linked data @Wragge
11.10 - 11.30 Pam Langridge, Central Northern Library and Cathy Johnston, Clarence Regional Library in conversation about reference collection management @langridgep @catyj
11.40 - 12.00 Four lightning talks and discussion
12.00 - 12.45 lunch
12.45 – 1.05 Ref-ex – stories from Gosford Library. Philippa Johnson and Geoff Potter from Gosford Library will talk about how they are using Ref-ex as part of their staff training
1.15 Evaluation of the first year of ref-ex and future developments. Some of the ref-ex team will tell you about what is coming in future modules, and how it is measuring up.
1.35 Rose Holley, Manager of Trove Trove: Collecting, sharing and Improving Data: Changing Roles for libraries and users @nlagovau
2.30 - 3.00 afternoon tea
3.00 – 4.00pm Mal Booth, now the Director Education & Research Services Unit at UTS will talk about a collecting expedition to Iraq. This has application in each public library for how they think about their reference and information services provision. @malbooth
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