Rome, Italy 27-28 February 2014
in cooperation with the Italian Library Association AIB (Associazione Italiana Biblioteche) and the Vatican Library
---Call for papers and posters is closing on Friday 15th November---
The value of cataloguing and “real” library data is a crucial issue in a time when the growing number of electronic publications and some significant developments in the field of digital libraries are changing the scenario in which traditional libraries act by bringing into question the goals of the services they provide.
General areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the following topics:
Working with new standards
Cataloguing in the semantic web
MARC vs. non MARC
RDA: pros and cons, opportunities and disadvantages
Describing secondary digital resources
Controlled vocabularies vs. tagging
Bibliographic data integrity (single catalogue, national systems)
Working together
Organising authority data management
Cooperating with publishers and e-commerce agents
Libraries and educational programmes
One record, many users. Many producers, one record
ALM: innovative models and tools for cooperation
Cooperation among academic library systems: organisational models and achievements
New challenges for cataloguers / data managers (and for catalogues / data storage systems)
Meta-cataloguing, federated search, what else?
Implementing a new standard: organisational issues, costs, priorities, training
Speaking to / with users. Working for / with users
Learning from use: the functions of data mining
Faceted search
Bridging resources
Opacs for children
Are online publications at risk of opacity?
Professional education for cataloguers
Learning to link resources
Digital curation
New roles and profiles for libraries
Multimedia, multiculturalism, multidomain
Managing bibliographic systems and efficient and intelligible / intuitive interfaces
Creating professional (self)training resources
New practices in cataloguing
Metadata and traditional cataloguing
From shared / derived cataloguers to metadata creators
Promoting reading through cataloguing
Describing and indexing fiction
Semantic interoperability
Describing the virtual
We invite submissions of:
· Research papers presenting theoretical solutions, but with a clear illustration on how these solutions can be applied
· Position papers presenting opinions on some aspect of practice, or describing work that is still in progress, but sufficiently mature to warrant attention
· Experiences and case studies specifying requirements, challenges or opportunities
· Best practices
Instructions for submitting abstracts
Please submit the abstracts of your paper or poster by email at <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.;. Deadline for submission of abstracts is 15 November 2013.
Accepted contributions will be limited to one paper and/or poster abstract per author. Abstract length should not exceed 500 words.
Please note that the language of the conference will be English, and therefore the committee will only accept submissions in this language (an abstract in Italian is optional).
All submitted abstracts will be peer-reviewed.
Papers publication
Selected papers will be considered for publication in Cataloging & Classification Quarterly <
If chosen, authors will have to obtain permission from the copyright holder to publish any work that is not their own (e.g. screenshots from databases), and submit their papers for peer review by April 1, 2014.
Submissions
Language: English (an abstract in Italian is optional)
Text length: max. 500 words
Keywords: max. 3
Bio: 5 lines (or link to own site)
Working group presentation: 10 lines (or link to site)
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Important dates
Submission deadline for extended abstract and poster proposals: 15th Nov. 2013
Notification of acceptance: 10th Dec. 2013
Camera-ready due for papers and posters: 20th Jan. 2014
Doctoral Consortium
The FSR Conference will be hosting a Doctoral Consortium on 26th February 2014.
More info at <
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Perla Innocenti
Research Fellow
History of Art
School of Culture and Creative Arts
University of Glasgow
8 University Gardens
Glasgow, UK, G12 8QH
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