Call for Proposal: ALA ALCTS CaMMS Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group Annual Meeting (Washington DC)
The ALCTS CaMMS Cataloging & Classification Research Interest Group seeks speakers to present at the ALA Annual Conference to be held in Washington, D.C., on Sunday, June 23, 2019., from 10:30am to 11:30am.
Full presentations that are accepted are asked to be about 15 minutes long and the accepted light presentations 5-10 minutes long. Audience questions and discussion after the presentations are encouraged. See below for details:
Theme:
Thinking Outside the Book: Research on Non-traditional Cataloging & Classification
Topics include (but not limited to): research on
o Classification, categorization and clustering in facilitating resource organization, description and retrieval;
o Classification schemes, adapting or developing classification systems for describing and classifying digital documents in the library and the
web;
o Application of bibliographic classification principles in working with digital collections and metadata in institutional and digital repositories;
o Ethical issues in subject analysis and biases in classification schemes, thesauri and other knowledge organization systems;
o Thesauri in modern information retrieval and automatic text classification;
o Collaboration with graduate students, faculty and researchers in digital humanities, science and other fields on data curation related projects
on campus and beyond;
o Transforming library bibliographic data from MARC to BIBFRAME, RDA and the Library Reference Model, and other innovative cataloging and
metadata projects;
o Communications between technical services, digital initiatives and public services;
o Semantic web and LOD technologies in working with library data, and cataloger's responsibilities in the linked data environment.
Please email proposals to the Co-Chairs by Friday, April 26, 2019. In your proposal, please include the following:
• Presentation title
• Abstract: 150-300 words
• Amount of time needed to make the presentation
• Names and positions of presenter(s)
• Email address(es) of presenter(s)
We look forward to hearing from you!
CCRIG Co-Chairs, 2018-2019
Sai Deng [log in to unmask]
Becky Skeen [log in to unmask]
CCRIG Co-Vice Chairs, 2018-2019
Amy B. Bailey [log in to unmask]
Jianying Shou [log in to unmask]
