CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group

Further details and registration for the MDG Conference and RDA Day #MetaFutures at: www.cilip.org.uk/members/grou...

There will be hands-on, interactive workshops to explore building RDA 'bridges' (application profiles), from the very basic upwards.
Facilitators from the UK Committee on RDA will provide the building blocks for each team to create their bridge from non-RDA/original RDA to official RDA. 🌉

There will be sessions on:
- ⚙️Official RDA implementation at @britishlibrary.bsky.social - Thurstan Young
- 🚧Removing the Barrier: The Language of RDA - @annewelsh.bsky.social
- 🛠️Using the Toolkit as a Toolkit - James Hennelly
- 🧭Navigating the Toolkit
- 🪛Which implementation method works for you?

We are thrilled to have Renate Behrens, Chair of the RDA Steering Committee (RSC), as our Keynote speaker to discuss the new Official RDA Toolkit and its impact on our work and our cultural traditions.

MDG #Conference #MetaFutures Day 3: 13th March
🔦Spotlight on: #RDAday
Designed to support those wishing to understand the Resource Description & Access content standard & those wanting to implement RDA, with practical activities & informative sessions programmed & led by the UK’s experts on RDA.

On 19 February 27 indexers and friends from @the-ciep.bsky.social and @cilipmdg.bsky.social met to discuss indexing taboo subjects.

Full programme and registration for #MetaFutures: www.cilip.org.uk/members/grou...

MDG #Conference #MetaFutures Day 2: 12th March PM
🔦Spotlight on: #OpenAccess🔓
Fixing the Leaky Pipeline: Metadata Challenges & Open Community Solutions for Open Access Books 🔧Hannah Hillen Rupert Gatti & Emma Booth
Panel discussion on challenges facing metadata for OA Books & potential solutions

MDG #Conference #MetaFutures Day 2: 12th March PM
🔦Spotlight on: #ParallelSessions 🔀
2b. Experiences Expanding Provision of Open Educational Resources via the Library Catalogue 🎓 Jane Edwards & Alison Hazelaar
Developing & implementing a workflow to identify & ingest high-quality OA & OER titles

MDG #Conference #MetaFutures Day 2: 12th March PM
🔦Spotlight on: #ParallelSessions 🔀
2a. Metadata in Motion: Building Datasets from Library Catalogues 📈 Fran Frenzel
First steps into providing computations access to collections & bibliographic data via a publishable dataset

MDG #Conference #MetaFutures Day 2: 12th March PM
🔦Spotlight on: #ParallelSessions 🔀
1. Collaborative Cataloguing Now 🫵 Amy Staniforth
1 hr interactive collaborative cataloguing exercise to experiment in adapting to a shared brief & collaborating quickly, efficiently, & professionally, in real time

MDG #Conference #MetaFutures Day 2: 12th March PM
🔦Spotlight on: #OpenAccess🔓
What Should Open Archiving look like for Open Access Publications? 📚 Gareth Cole Jenny Mitcham & Rupert Gatti
Interactive session to introduce & gather community input on open archiving solutions for OA publications

MDG #Conference #MetaFutures Day 2: 12th March PM
🔦Spotlight on: #LinkedData ⛓️
A Step Towards Linked Data: University of Southampton’s Metadata Enhancement Project Using OCLC Meridian 👣 Sarah Glaccum & Tricia Hughes
Project to assess benefits of using Meridian to add linked data entities to records

MDG #Conference #MetaFutures Day 2: 12th March PM
🔦Spotlight on: #LinkedData ⛓️
Our BIBFRAME Journey Towards Linked Data at University of Leeds Libraries 🗺️ Alison Hazelaar Kim Taylor & Trevor Hough
Exploring the future of library metadata by using Sinopia to create BIBFRAME records

MDG #Conference #MetaFutures Day 2: 12th March AM
🔦Spotlight on: #Collaborative #Metadata 🤝
Professional Ethics & Inclusive Metadata in Managing Digital Content in University Libraries of Pakistan 💻 Munazza Jabeen
Explore ethical concerns & challenges in metadata practices for digital content

MDG #Conference #MetaFutures Day 2: 12th March AM
🔦Spotlight on: #Collaborative #Metadata 🤝
Unlocking Southeast Asia’s Digital Heritage: Discovery, Partnerships & Engagement 🌏 Chuin Peng Sim & Gandhimathy Durairaj
Transforming access to SE Asian cultural heritage through digitisation & open access

MDG #Conference #MetaFutures Day 2: 12th March AM
🔦Spotlight on: #Collaborative #Metadata 🤝
Metadata in the Margins: Rediscovering Diocesan Libraries through Cataloguing, Collaboration & Community Engagement 🛐 Bláithín Hurley
Explore the role of metadata in revitalising diocesan library collections

MDG #Conference #MetaFutures Day 2: 12th March AM
🔦Spotlight on: #Collaborative #Metadata 🤝
Making the Most of Authority: Enabling a Consortium to Put Subject Headings to Work 🔗 Hannah Prince
Improving workflows for assigning headings; making authority control sustainable for a consortium

"The materials, lent to Stanford University Libraries by Caroline Takahashi, Kaz and Soyo’s daughter, were recently digitized by the Digital Production Group, and cataloged and described by staff of the Department of Special Collections & University Archives"
#MetadataMatters #DiscoverabilityMatters

Please note that, after consultation with our speakers, we have made changes to the original tentative programme & a few sessions have changed day. If you have booked a Day ticket & now want to change it please email treasurer.mdg@cilip.org.uk or chair.mdg@cilip.org.uk
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Helen William's @helskrw.bsky.social 2nd paper explores the important, if sometimes unsung, role that metadata teams play in contributing to increasing research visibility, reach & impact. + explore the role of Wikipedia in disseminating research
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Paula Clarke Bain @baindex.org is Chair of Society of Indexers @indexers.bsky.social - this session will explore the commonalities of the fields of book indexing & library & information science + the shared purpose of helping people to find information in books & other media
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Bethan Ruddock is Senior Product Owner, Library Hub at JISC @jisc.bsky.social she will speak about the UK Print Book Collection initiative to enable UK libraries to make informed decisions about print retention & foster shared stewardship of a national monograph collection
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Jenny Wright @jenniferswright.bsky.social is Chief Metadata Officer at BDS @bibliodataservices.bsky.social
Her session will examine how to bridge the gap between abstract bibliographic models, such as the IFLA LRM & RDA, and daily tasks in entity-based cataloguing.
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Helen Williams @helskrw.bsky.social is Metadata Manager at LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social
Her session uses the model of a ‘Purpose Tree’ to help attendees to define the mission & vision of their metadata or cataloguing team, & develop strategic actions to achieve them
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Sally Bell & Adam Swann are based at University of Glasgow @glasgow.ac.uk Library. They will speak about using AI tools to help tackle a cataloguing backlog of non-English language material to support staff that lack specialist language skills
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Hannes Lowagie is head of the Agency for Bibliographic Information at the Royal Library of Belgium @kbrbe.bsky.social he has developed a modular human & machine-readable metadata ruleset in a structured JSON file as the single source of truth for cataloguing rules at KBR.
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James Clark & Getaneh Alemu are from Southampton Solent University @solentuniversity.bsky.social Library - they will assess the accuracy of generative AI outputs for MARC field 648, with a view to possibly fully automating the addition of this field under certain conditions.
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Lucy Campbell & Keven Jeffery are joining us from San Diego State University (SDSU) Library @sdsulibrary.bsky.social to speak about an integrated natural language query (NLQ) to Boolean converter that aims to enhance metadata visibility & improve search transparency.
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MDG Conference 2026 #MetFutures When 1th March 2026 - 13th March 2026 Where: Engineers' House Bristol Metadata & Discovery Group logo.

Full programme and registration for #MetaFutures: www.cilip.org.uk/members/grou...