[WLA-All] BCR Workshop Announcement

[Bobbi Navarro]

Cataloging Earth Science Data: Standards and Tools You Can Use!

http://www.bcr.org/training/schedule/programdetail.php?programid=147

Description
What do you do when Professor Smith asks the library to preserve and make available his digital research data? How will you retrieve these data when Professor Smith�s students request access to his data years later? How will the worldwide research community find and access these data? 

There are increasing calls for the library community to manage digital science data. In this class we will specifically discuss cataloging earth science data. What are the differences between traditional library catalog records and digital science data catalog records? What are the differences between earth science data and other kinds of science data? How do you describe earth science data so that reference librarians inside and outside your institution can locate data for their users? What currently available tools allow you to locate existing data records? Come to this workshop for the answers to these questions and many more. 

This one-day workshop introduces librarians to: 

*	Metadata standards in use for cataloging earth science data, including NASA�s DIF, the FGDC CSGDM and ISO 19115 standards 
*	Search tools such as the Global Change Master Directory (GCMD), Geospatial One-Stop (GOS) and more 
*	Metadata authoring for earth science data 

Participants in the workshop will: 

*	Understand the suite of standards, the differences between them and which is most appropriate for their situation 
*	Learn what it takes to create their own metadata records for submission to the GCMD 
*	Understand what steps need to be taken to create earth science metadata records within their existing library catalog systems 
*	Using the standards discussed in class, students will work in teams to create a metadata catalog record using a cryospheric data set 

Who Should Attend
Library staff who want clarity regarding metadata standards, and who want to learn what all these acronyms mean and which standards and tools are best for your collections. 

Instructor: Allaina Wallace

Site & Date:
BCR – Aurora, CO
April 22, 2008  /  9 AM-4 PM 

Fees:
BCR members -- $50.00
Nonmembers -- $50.00 

BCR Registration Form:  http://www.bcr.org/training/workshops/register.html

 

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Bobbi Navarro

BCR

Training & OCLC Services

14394 East Evans Avenue

Aurora, CO 80014

303-751-6277 / 1-800-397-1552 xt. 126

Fax 303-751-9787

bnavarro at bcr.org

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