CIRSS http://illinois.edu/pc/imageList/907 Current News for the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship in the Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Issues of temporal coverage in collection-level and item-level metadata at Metadata Roundtable, July 22, 2008 http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~dcc/mdrt.html General News http://illinois.edu/pc/article/907/14898 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:00:00 CDT CIRSS This Wednesday, July 23, we are meeting in LIS 341 (ISRL "Fishbowl") on the 3rd floor of GSLIS building, from 12:30 to 2:00 pm, to continue started last week discussion on the issues of collection-item metadata relations in temporal coverage metadata. Wu Zheng is going to lead our discussion. Collection-Item Metadata Relations at Metadata Roundtable, July 14, 2008 http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~dcc/mdrt.html General News http://illinois.edu/pc/article/907/14712 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 08:00:00 CDT CIRSS This Wednesday, July 16, we are meeting in LIS 341 (ISRL "Fishbowl") on the 3rd floor of GSLIS building, from 12:30 to 2:00 pm to discuss issues of collection-item metadata relations in temporal coverage metadata of IMLS Digital Collections and Content (IMLS DCC) aggregation of digital content. Wu Zheng will lead our discussion. In his presentation, Wu will examine the temporal coverage metadata extracted from IMLS DCC item repository and collection registry to see how well item-level dates fall within collection-level coverages. Wu will talk about the statistics, possible reasons for exception cases, and possible implications. Internet Public Library on Dublin Core at Metadata Roundtable, June 11 2008 http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~dcc/mdrt.html General News http://illinois.edu/pc/article/907/13970 Tue, 10 Jun 2008 08:00:00 CDT CIRSS Topic: Making the Internet Public Library's metadata Dublin Core compliant Session Leaders: Dr. Sabah Currim, Michael Galloway, Dr. Xia Lin, and Dr. Jung-ran Park from Drexel University Summer Institute on Data Curation http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/oc/news/events/event.html?id=9QpG4BRCvYmRYCG7lPWFGg== Virgil Data Curation http://illinois.edu/pc/article/907/13826 Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:00:00 CDT CIRSS Now in session, Summer Institute on Data Curation, June 2-5 at GSLIS. Cragin presents on data curation at the National Library of Medicine http://illinois.edu/rssManager/imageList/907 Virgil Varvel Data Curation http://illinois.edu/pc/article/907/13177 Thu, 01 May 2008 08:00:00 CDT CIRSS Melissa Cragin presented at the National Library of Medicine on April 15th.; her talk was titled, "Data Curation Services in Research Libraries."