[XML4Lib] Re: Need advice on program for ALA annual

[Brad Eden]

Hi, Miloche.  I have placed your request on the listserv above, you 
should get some response there.  Hope all is well with you.  Brad

Please contact Miloche Kottman above if you are interested. 


>  
> My committee (Acquisition Section-Technology Committee) is trying to 
> put together a program for the 2009 Annual meeting in Chicago and I 
> need some suggestions for speakers.  We are trying to get two speakers 
> to talk about XML in technical services.  We want the speakers to 
> provide an overview of XML and describe the current uses of XML in 
> libraries.  We then want a speaker to discuss some of the potential 
> future uses of XML.  The program outline can be found below.  Keep in 
> mind that this is an ALCTS program so the speaker has to be willing to 
> speak for free.
>    
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> From acquisition's use of EDI to cataloging's use of MODS, Dublin 
> Core, etc. the use of XML in libraries is becoming much more 
> commonplace.  So much so, that staff may not recognize that they are 
> using XML.  Is XML the "new carrier" called for in /On the Record /the 
> Report of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of 
> Bibliographic Control?
>
> This hour and a half panel program will feature two speakers.  The 
> first speaker will provide an overview of the architecture of XML and 
> the current common applications that employ it -- from acquisitions to 
> online catalogs.  The second speaker will explore the potential of 
> future XML applications to further enhance technical services 
> workflows and provide sophisticated discovery tools to users.  Each 
> speaker will talk for 30 minutes followed by a 30 minute question & 
> answer session.  The outcomes expected for this program is to help the 
> audience recognize that they know more about XML than they think, and 
> give them ideas that will allow them to be creative, not necessarily 
> in writing XML applications themselves, but in collaborating with 
> their colleagues in incorporating new tools built on this schema
>
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> Thanks for your assistance,
>  
> --Miloche

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