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2019-02-08

Cohen, Adam

Introduction: Video games are becoming increasingly important items in library collections but this has not been accompanied by metadata and cataloguing practices that sufficiently describe games in ways that are relevant to video gamers. This research asks: to what extent do the Edmonton Public...

2001

Stehling, Renato, Falcao, Alexandre, Nascimento, Mario

Technical report TR01-03. In this paper, we present a new Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) approach which is based on cluster analysis. A distinguishing aspect of CBIR is that it relies on a visual content representation (metadata) of the images. In order to produce such metadata, we propose...

2016-04-07

Roark, Kendall, Farnel, Sharon, Harrigan, Amanda, Vashishtha, Saurabh

This poster for the NADDI 2016 conference shows the processes we implemented to pre-populate parts of our DDI-compatible metadata schema with publicly and locally available information. We have developed in-house scripts to export and import the metadata from resources such as NCBI,...

2016-03-10

Vashishtha, Saurabh , Harrigan, Amanda, Farnel, Sharon, Roark, Kendall

This presentation was an update to library staff on the progress that has been made on the CLIR-funded "Bridging the Research Data Divide." It outlines the initial processes taken to describe maternal, infant, and child health research data and engage researchers.

2016-04-07

Farnel, Sharon, Vashishtha, Saurabh , Novak Gustainis, Emily, LaFountain, Amber, Harrigan, Amanda, Roark, Kendall

This presentation for NADDI 2016 gives an overview of the processing work that has gone into research data description for the two types of collections being described in the "Bridging the Research Data Divide" project: special collections and contemporary research collections.

2023-11-22

Parikka, Susanna

This is a report by the Lead of the DALAM Thematic Network of her attendance at the 2023 World Library and Information Congress (WLIC), where she presented information about the work of the thematic network.

2022-01-01

Campbell, Sandy

Describes the activities of the University of the Arctic Thematic Network on Decolonization of Arctic Library and Archives Metadata (DALAM) to January 2023.

2024-05-01

Campbell, Sandy

This article reports activities of the University of the Arctic Decolonization of Arctic Library and Archives Metadata (DALAM) Thematic Network for October 2023 - April 2024.

2018-04-01

Farnel, Sharon, Laroque, Sheila

This presentation provides an overview of the work of the University of Alberta Libraries to examine and revise its descriptive metadata practices to more accurately, appropriately, and respectfully represent Indigenous peoples and contexts. This was presented on April 24, 2018 as part of the SLA...

2017-10-01

Laroque, Sheila, Carr-Wiggin, Anne, Bigelow, Ian, Koufogiannakis, Denise, Farnel, Sharon, Lar-Son, Kayla, Feisst, Debbie

This presentation provides an overview of the work of the University of Alberta Libraries to examine and revise its descriptive metadata practices to more accurately, appropriately, and respectfully represent Indigenous peoples and contexts. The presentation was given at the Netspeed Library...