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Developing CALASYS in Celebration of CALA 50th

CALA Academic Resource & Repository System (CALASYS) is the Chinese American Librarians Association (CALA)’s institutional repository. It collects and archives CALA’s programs, documents and history, CALA members’ scholarly and professional…

Tags: CALA, CALA 50th Anniversary, CALASYS, Chinese American Librarians Association, Collection development, Digital Collections, Digital repositories, Institutional Repository, Member engagement, Member participation, Metadata, Omeka, Self-Contribution

Position: 518 (329 views)

Practices, challenges, and prospects of big data curation: A case study in geoscience

This paper discusses the practices, challenges, and prospects of big data curation using the geoscience field as a case study.

Tags: Big data, Data curation, Library metadata, Metadata

Position: 531 (324 views)

Reflections in teaching a LIS course in the changing world

As Catalog/Metadata Librarians and adjunct faculty at the LIS program of a public co-educational research university, we rethink what skills and knowledge LIS students seek to gain from the class Metadata Creation for Information Organization, and…

Tags: Catalogers, Cataloging, Course content, Effective teaching, Information Organization, Library schools, Metadata, Teaching

Position: 508 (336 views)

Transition from the face-to-face to the online lecturing for a LIS course “Metadata Creation for Information Organization”: outlook and preparation

As a Library and Information Science (LIS) lecturer, co-teaching a traditional (face-to-face) course “Metadata Creation for Information Organization”, the lecturer deliberates on moving from traditional to online teaching, lots of changes and…

Tags: Catalogers, Cataloging, Content management system, Course content, Effective teaching, Information Organization, Library schools, Metadata, Online teaching, Teaching

Position: 448 (364 views)

Using Wikidata to Create Knowledge Graphs for Library Collections

As a Linked Open Data (LOD) platform for structured data, and a community-building knowledge base, Wikidata stores people, spaces, times and other entities, and their semantic relationships. Wikidata Knowledge graph is a knowledge base that…

Tags: Digital Collections, Digital library, Knowledge graphs, Linked data in libraries, Linked open data, LOD, LOD visualization, Metadata, Pemberton Correspondence Collection, Theses collection, Wikidata

Position: 185 (446 views)

Uncovering the Loss of Contextual Information in Data Sharing: An Analysis of Missing Metadata in Research Data Repository

Presentation at the 2024 CALA Midwest Annual Conference

Tags: CALA Midwest Chapter, Contextual information, Data repository, Data sharing, Metadata

Position: 1023 (75 views)

Teaching a cataloging/metadata course in a changing world: Experience and reflection

The authors use a case study to discuss their experiences and perspectives in teaching a cataloging and metadata course in a library school.

Tags: Catalogers, Cataloging, Course content, Effective teaching, Information Organization, Library schools, Metadata, Teaching

Position: 553 (316 views)

Metadata Effectiveness in Internet Discovery: An Analysis of Digital Collection Metadata Elements and Internet Search Engine Keywords

This study analyzed digital item metadata and keywords from Internet search engines to learn what metadata elements actually facilitate discovery of digital collections through Internet keyword searching and how significantly each metadata element…

Tags: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Incidence, Information Retrieval, Internet, Metadata, Online Searching, Proximity, Search engines, Search Strategies, Usability

Position: 174 (450 views)