#Cataloguing

@cilipmdg.bsky.social

2 days ago

It's #RDAday! And our final day of the MDG #Conference in Bristol #MetaFutures.
The programme is available at tinyurl.com/Cilip-MDG
#metadata #discovery #standards #cataloguing

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Emma Booth (she/her)

@emmabooth.bsky.social

5 days ago

On my way to Bristol for the @cilipmdg.bsky.social #Conference #MetaFutures starting tomorrow.
The train has functioning WiFi hurrah! - Looking forward to connecting with the #metadata & #cataloguing community to talk #MetadataMatters.

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group

@cilipmdg.bsky.social

1 week ago

Next week is the MDG Conference and RDA Day! #MetaFutures
Booking closes today! tinyurl.com/53rfxscr
We are really looking forward to seeing our speakers, sponsors, and delegates in Bristol from Wed 11th - Fri 13th March.
See you there! #metadata #discovery #cataloguing #cataloging

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group

@cilipmdg.bsky.social

1 week ago

This time next week we will be wrapping up Day 1 of the @cilipmdg.bsky.social #Conference #MetaFutures before heading for some networking, socialising, & a pub quiz! 📋🍻
There are only 2 days left to book a place!
Programme & registration at: tinyurl.com/53rfxscr
#metadata #cataloguing #libraries📚

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group

@cilipmdg.bsky.social

1 week ago

Last few days to book! Last few places remaining!

Don't miss out on the @cilipmdg.bsky.social #Conference #MetaFutures & #RDAday in Bristol 11-13 March 2026!
Registration closes on 06/03/26

www.cilip.org.uk/members/grou...

#metadata #cataloguing #libraries #archives #repositories #GLAM 📚

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group

@cilipmdg.bsky.social

2 weeks ago

The MDG Bulletin for February 2026 has been distributed. You can view the web-version at:
email-cilip.org.uk/6WFS-34CCH-4...
In it we look forward to the MDG #Conference & RDA Day #MetaFutures which is only 2 weeks away!
Booking closes on 6th March: don't miss out!
#metadata #cataloguing #libraries

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NLISN

@nlisn.bsky.social

1 month ago

Never not relevant! ⬇️
#Librarian #LibraryScience #Information #Cataloguing #WomenInSTEM #IDWGS #MetaData #IDWGS2026

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group

@cilipmdg.bsky.social

1 month ago

#MetaFutures Day 1: 11th March AM
🔦 Spotlight: #AI #Cataloguing 🤖🐈
Can AI Help Us Catalogue Books We Can’t Read? 📖 Sally Bell & Adam Swann
CILIP Scotland Ian McCracken Innovator Award winning project to investigate the potential for using AI tools to help copy catalogue non-English language books.

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group

@cilipmdg.bsky.social

1 month ago

#MetaFutures Day 1: 11th March AM
🔦 Spotlight: #AI #Cataloguing 🤖🐈
Authentic & Artificial Cataloguing: Machine-Readable Cataloguing Rules as a Bridge to Unified Metadata Practice 🌉 Hannes Lowagie
Metadata strategy that reimagines how cataloguing rules are authored, shared & used by people & machines

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group

@cilipmdg.bsky.social

1 month ago

#MetaFutures Day 1: 11th March AM
🔦 Spotlight: #AI #Cataloguing 🤖🐈
More Time Needed: Using Generative AI to Retrospectively Populate the MARC 648 Field & Improve Discovery by Time Period 🕰️ James Clark & Getaneh Alemu
Retrospective cataloguing project using gen-AI to generate MARC field 648.

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group

@cilipmdg.bsky.social

1 month ago

MDG #Conference #MetaFutures Day 1: 11th March AM
🔦 Spotlight: #AI #Cataloguing 🤖🐈
From Questions to Queries: Using AI to Surface Metadata in Library Search 🔍 Lucy Campbell & Keven Jeffery
Explore a research project to integrate a natural language query to Boolean converter into library discovery.

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group

@cilipmdg.bsky.social

1 month ago

Today is the final day to apply for a funded/bursary place at the @cilipmdg.bsky.social Conference & RDA Day 2026 #MetaFutures.
See our Conference website for full details: www.cilip.org.uk/members/grou...
🐈📚📅
#metadata #discovery #cataloguing #libraries #conference #bursary

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group

@cilipmdg.bsky.social

1 month ago

Recommended reading for #metadata #discovery & #cataloguing practitioners.
Whether you work to enable discovery & access to #openaccess or #paytoread books (or both), this report sheds light on the complex & often idiosyncratic metadata ecosystem for publishers, system providers & libraries.

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Emma Booth (she/her)

@emmabooth.bsky.social

1 month ago

This is a great opportunity for a #LIS student, recent graduate, or early-career professional to learn all about #metadata & #discovery from the @cilipmdg.bsky.social community of practice.
#conferencebursary #cataloguing #CPD
@cilip.bsky.social

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group

@cilipmdg.bsky.social

1 month ago

https://email-cilip.org.uk/6WFS-2YSZQ-48/sv.aspx

The CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group Bulletin for January 2026 has now been distributed to our mailing list.
Read the web-version at: email-cilip.org.uk/6WFS-2YSZQ-4...
#news #events #conference #metadata #discovery #cataloguing 📚🐈
@cilip.bsky.social

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Emma Booth (she/her)

@emmabooth.bsky.social

1 month ago

Looking forward to hearing from the RSC Chair, Renate Behrens, at the @cilipmdg.bsky.social Conference #MetaFutures in March. As #metadata & #cataloguing professionals, it is important to fully understand #standards like #RDA & the implications of different implementation scenarios / applications.

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v_i_o_l_a

@v-i-o-l-a.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy

1 month ago

Artificial intelligence as an instrument for smarter cataloguing: a prospective dialogue Empirical evidence suggests that the hiring, training and retaining of cataloguers is increasingly challenging for libraries. While funding and advocacy with upper management and government agencies that prioritise costs without understanding the intricacies of today’s metadata ecosystem is a factor, a lower interest in the traditional competencies of cataloguers seems to be at play as well. Meanwhile, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related technologies garner interest from decision-makers for their perceived modernity and economic promises, as well as from information professionals who have developed automated metadata processes for decades. In times of economic constraints and a rapidly-changing workforce, apposite use of AI technology is a major factor, and it is incumbent on us to find how best to harness it as an efficient tool addressing the challenges we face. As far as metadata production is concerned, this could mean finding innovative ways of automating “traditional” tasks that production chains still need but cataloguers are less adept at, freeing them for the new tasks that have emerged as the consequence of the evolution of models and standards and where human intervention remains more than ever indispensable. Drawing on French and international experience, this is a dialogue between two seasoned cataloguing and bibliographic models experts who take a prospective look at the recent technological developments and their potential contribution to the challenges faced by cataloguing as a profession. It is our belief that technological progress should be about freeing human intelligence from repetitive and non-meaningful tasks, the better to bring about a world where cataloguers can focus on value-added, smarter tasks. This is how the cataloguing community has used automation in libraries in the past, and there is no reason why this should stop at the newest technologies.

"Artificial intelligence as an instrument for smarter cataloguing: a prospective dialogue"
https://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/6971
#AI #cataloguing #KI #Katalogisierung

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group

@cilipmdg.bsky.social

1 month ago

Interested in further details about the programme for the CILIP MDG Conference & RDA Day #MetaFutures 11-13 March 2026 ?
Check out this thread on Day 1 : bsky.app/profile/cili...
Conference Website: www.cilip.org.uk/members/grou...
#metadata #discovery #cataloguing #conference 📚🐈🧵

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group

@cilipmdg.bsky.social

2 months ago

#MetaFutures Day 1
#AI in #cataloguing 4
"Can AI Help Us Catalogue Books We Can’t Read?" - Sally Bell & Adam Swann
Covering the CILIP Scotland Ian McCracken Innovator Award winning project at University of Glasgow Library which investigated using AI tools to copy catalogue non-English language books

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group

@cilipmdg.bsky.social

2 months ago

#MetaFutures Day 1
#AI in #cataloguing 3
"Authentic and Artificial Cataloguing: Machine-Readable Cataloguing Rules as a Bridge to Unified Metadata Practice" - Hannes Lowagie
Introducing a metadata strategy to reimagine how cataloguing rules are authored, shared, and used—both by people and machines

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group

@cilipmdg.bsky.social

2 months ago

#MetaFutures Day 1
#AI in #cataloguing 2
"More Time Needed: Using Generative AI to Retrospectively Populate MARC 648 Field and Improve Discovery by Time Period" - James Clark & Getaneh Alemu
Retrospective cataloguing project at Southampton Solent University, assessing the accuracy of generative AI

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group

@cilipmdg.bsky.social

2 months ago

#MetaFutures Day 1
#AI in #cataloguing 1
"From Questions to Queries: Using AI to surface metadata in library search" - Lucy Campbell & Keven Jeffery
Explore a research project at San Diego State University Library to integrate a natural language query to Boolean converter into library discovery

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group

@cilipmdg.bsky.social

2 months ago

Over the next few weeks we will be posting further details on BlueSky about the programme for the MDG Conference & RDA Day #MetaFutures 11-13 March 2026 - so stay tuned!
Book your place: www.cilip.org.uk/members/grou...
#metadata #discovery #cataloguing #conference 📚🐈🧵

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group

@cilipmdg.bsky.social

2 months ago

We are looking forward to being part of #CILIPMembersFest26 with an online session "To discovery and beyond! Making metadata practical" on Mon 2nd March at 1pm (GMT)
Details and registration at: www.cilip.org.uk/event/member...
#metadata #cataloguing #discovery

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Belinda D’Alessandro

@bdabooks.bsky.social

2 months ago

Pre-publication Data: Unlock the Power of Early Book Data for Libraries Discover how prepublication data supports libraries, authors, and publishing. Learn why early access to book data supports better cataloguing and improves reader engagement. [caption id="attachment_639" align="alignleft" width="150"] Belinda D'Alessandro[/caption] In a previous post, I discussed why readers should care about legal deposit, a practice in which publishers deposit copies of their works

Pre-publication data helps libraries catalogue sooner and connect readers with new titles. I outline the essentials and tackle common challenges. bdabooks.com.au/Blog/2026/prepublication... #Libraries #PrepublicationData #Cataloguing

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The Digital Orientalist

@digitalorientalist.bsky.social

2 months ago

Cover image of the article showing an open book with connected nodes sitting above it. The title and the magazine name and logo are displayed.

In today’s post, Tiziana Pasciuto discusses how the Semantic Web and its ontologies can be used to challenge and subvert established Orientalist taxonomies and cultural narratives.

🔗 digitalorientalist.com/2025/12/30/f...

#DHingeneral #cataloguing #GLAM #manuscripts

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v_i_o_l_a

@v-i-o-l-a.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy

2 months ago

Artificial intelligence as an instrument for smarter cataloguing: a prospective dialogue Empirical evidence suggests that the hiring, training and retaining of cataloguers is increasingly challenging for libraries. While funding and advocacy with upper management and government agencies that prioritise costs without understanding the intricacies of today’s metadata ecosystem is a factor, a lower interest in the traditional competencies of cataloguers seems to be at play as well. Meanwhile, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and related technologies garner interest from decision-makers for their perceived modernity and economic promises, as well as from information professionals who have developed automated metadata processes for decades. In times of economic constraints and a rapidly-changing workforce, apposite use of AI technology is a major factor, and it is incumbent on us to find how best to harness it as an efficient tool addressing the challenges we face. As far as metadata production is concerned, this could mean finding innovative ways of automating “traditional” tasks that production chains still need but cataloguers are less adept at, freeing them for the new tasks that have emerged as the consequence of the evolution of models and standards and where human intervention remains more than ever indispensable. Drawing on French and international experience, this is a dialogue between two seasoned cataloguing and bibliographic models experts who take a prospective look at the recent technological developments and their potential contribution to the challenges faced by cataloguing as a profession. It is our belief that technological progress should be about freeing human intelligence from repetitive and non-meaningful tasks, the better to bring about a world where cataloguers can focus on value-added, smarter tasks. This is how the cataloguing community has used automation in libraries in the past, and there is no reason why this should stop at the newest technologies.

"Artificial intelligence as an instrument for smarter cataloguing: a prospective dialogue"
https://repository.ifla.org/handle/20.500.14598/6971
#AI #cataloguing #KI #Katalogisierung

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group

@cilipmdg.bsky.social

2 months ago

Photographic image of a Christmas tree decorated with lights and baubles. The Metadata & Discovery Group logo is on the tree's wooden base.

Merry Christmas from the Metadata & Discovery Group Committee to all our members & followers. 🎅🎄✨⛄
We hope you all have a joyful break over the festive period; we will be back in January 2026 with more #metadata & #cataloguing #news #events #training & opportunities to #connect with our community.

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Jens Mittelbach

@jmiba.bsky.social

2 months ago

Vivien Petras: Vivien Petras reviews the edited volume ‘Library Catalogues as Data,’ highlighting its interdisciplinary scope across library science, digital humanities, and AI. The book frames catalogues as dynamic, socio-technical data ecosystems. Ten essays explore methodologies, power structures, and novel research applications—from circulation data and metadata enrichment to gender bias detection and large language model (LLM) processing. Emphasizing the epistemological value of bibliographic data, the volume reveals how catalogues document shifting knowledge production and user behavior. Its broad contributor base and diverse methods showcase the importance of data-driven inquiry in understanding library practices, past and present. A valuable contribution to library and information studies.

Review of Petras on ‘Library Catalogues as Data’ anthology. Cultural memory, metadata ecosystems, and LLMs: This review explores how library catalogues unlock new interdisciplinary research. #librarydata #digitalhumanities #cataloguing #AI

doi.org/10.1515/bfp-...

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group

@cilipmdg.bsky.social

2 months ago

https://email-cilip.org.uk/6WFS-2VZ2W-48/sv.aspx

We've just hit send on the MDG Bulletin for December featuring a festive message from the Chair. 🎄☃️🎅
You can read the online version at:
email-cilip.org.uk/6WFS-2VZ2W-4...
#metadata #cataloguing #news #events #training
🐈📚

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