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Hear from a team tasked with cataloging 150,000 public records for the State of Massachusetts - a librarian, a programmer, a GIS specialist and a small army of data scientists have been building the Mass Docs Repo since November. Using an open source data portal, working with limitations and extending the tools, balancing the rich expressiveness of the metadata with user-friendliness of the data entry tools, ensuring a usable search experience, and enabling thousands of machine-readable documents to be released on the web.
Meeting Type: Conversation Starter
Interests: Archives, Cataloging, Collection Development, Community Engagement, Digitial Libraries, Equity of Access, Geospatial Data and Services, Government Documents & Information, Institutional Repositories, Intellectual Freedom, Legislation, Librarianship, Metadata, Organizational Change, Partnerships, Project Management, Resource Sharing, Serials, Technology, Transforming Libraries
Type of Library: Government, Nonprofit, Public, State Library
Sponsors: ALA
Cost: Included with full conference registration.
Open/Close: Open
Jacqueline Ford, MSLIS
Librarian
Massachusetts IT
Sienna Svob
GIS Analyst
Massachusetts IT