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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="st"><i>***</i></span><em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-style:normal">Please excuse cross-posting</span></em><span class="st"><i> ***<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="st"><b>Call for Proposal: ALA ALCTS CaMMS Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The ALCTS CaMMS Cataloging & Classification Research Interest Group seeks speakers to present at the ALA Midwinter Conference to be held in Seattle, WA on Saturday, Jan 26, 2019 from 3 to 4 p.m.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Full presentations that are accepted are asked to be about 15 minutes long and the accepted light presentations 5-10 minutes long. Audience questions and discussion after the presentations are encouraged. Below are the details:
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Theme: Research on Cataloging and Classification and Its Applications within and beyond the Library<o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Topics include (but not limited to):<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">o Classification, categorization and clustering in facilitating resource organization, description and retrieval;<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">o Classification schemes, adapting or developing classification systems for describing and classifying digital documents in the library and the web;
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<p class="MsoNormal">o Application of bibliographic classification principles in working with digital collections and metadata in institutional and digital repositories;<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">o Ethical issues in subject analysis and biases in classification schemes, thesauri and other knowledge organization systems;
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<p class="MsoNormal">o Thesauri in modern information retrieval and automatic text classification;<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">o Collaboration with graduate students, faculty and researchers in digital humanities, science and other fields on data curation related projects on campus and beyond;<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">o Transforming library bibliographic data from MARC to BIBFRAME, RDA and the Library Reference Model;<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">o Communications between technical services, digital initiatives and public services;<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">o Semantic web and LOD technologies in working with library data, and cataloger's responsibilities in the linked data environment.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please email proposals to the Co-Chairs by Wednesday, October 31, 2018. In your proposal, please include the following:
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:13.5pt">· Presentation title<span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:13.5pt">· Abstract: 150-300 words<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:13.5pt">· Amount of time needed to make the presentation<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:13.5pt">· Names and positions of presenter(s)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We look forward to hearing from you!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>CCRIG Co-Chairs, 2018-2019<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Sai Deng <a href="mailto:sai.deng@ucf.edu">sai.deng@ucf.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Becky Skeen <a href="mailto:becky.skeen@usu.edu">becky.skeen@usu.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>CCRIG Co-Vice Chairs, 2018-2019<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Amy B. Bailey <a href="mailto:abbailey@indiana.edu">abbailey@indiana.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Jianying Shou <a href="mailto:jianying.shou@duke.edu">jianying.shou@duke.edu</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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