***Please excuse cross-posting *** Call for Proposal: ALA ALCTS CaMMS Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group 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. 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: Theme: Research on Cataloging and Classification and Its Applications within and beyond the Library Topics include (but not limited to): o Classification, categorization and clustering in facilitating resource organization, description and retrieval; o Classification schemes, adapting or developing classification systems for describing and classifying digital documents in the library and the web; o Application of bibliographic classification principles in working with digital collections and metadata in institutional and digital repositories; o Ethical issues in subject analysis and biases in classification schemes, thesauri and other knowledge organization systems; o Thesauri in modern information retrieval and automatic text classification; 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 Transforming library bibliographic data from MARC to BIBFRAME, RDA and the Library Reference Model; o Communications between technical services, digital initiatives and public services; o Semantic web and LOD technologies in working with library data, and cataloger's responsibilities in the linked data environment. Please email proposals to the Co-Chairs by Wednesday, October 31, 2018. In your proposal, please include the following: * Presentation title * Abstract: 150-300 words * Amount of time needed to make the presentation * Names and positions of presenter(s) * Email address(es) of presenter(s) We look forward to hearing from you! CCRIG Co-Chairs, 2018-2019 Sai Deng sai.deng@ucf.edu<mailto:sai.deng@ucf.edu> Becky Skeen becky.skeen@usu.edu<mailto:becky.skeen@usu.edu> CCRIG Co-Vice Chairs, 2018-2019 Amy B. Bailey abbailey@indiana.edu<mailto:abbailey@indiana.edu> Jianying Shou jianying.shou@duke.edu<mailto:jianying.shou@duke.edu>