EURIG Annual meeting
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Fiesole 2017
EURIG Seminar
and Members’ Meeting
Programme
Hosted by the University of Florence and Casalini Libri in Florence and Fiesole, Italy
from 8th to 10th May 2017
Monday 8th May
Open Seminar on RDA in Europe: a reality and a challenge
University of Florence, Aula Magna
8:30 – 9:30
Arrival and Registration
9:30 – 9:50
Welcome and introduction
 Luigi Dei, Rector of the University of Florence
 Luca Bellingeri, Director of the Central National Library of Florence and Director of the
Italian National Bibliography
 Michele Casalini, Managing Director of Casalini Libri
 Mauro Guerrini, Professor of LIS, Library and Information Science
9:50 – 11:00 EURIG and RDA Governance
 Gordon Dunsire (Chair RSC), RDA Governance and strategy
 Alan Danskin (Chair EURIG), EURIG Annual Report
 Renate Behrens (DNB), Report of Europe Region representative
 Questions and answers
11:00 – 11:20 Break
11:20 – 12:30 Implementing RDA – lightning talks from Europe
 Giovanni Aldi (Casalini Libri), Highlights of four years RDA production
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 Tolga Çakmak (Hacettepe University), RDA Transition in Turkey: Perspectives and
Experiences of the Libraries
 Paola Manoni (Vatican Library), Report on implementation of RDA
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Stefano Bargioni, Pontificia Università della Santa Croce, Report of RDA implementation in
URBE (Pontifical Libraries’ network)
 Margaret D’Ambrosio (IRIS Consortium), The IRIS Consortium (Florence, Italy) and RDA:
Perspectives and Possibilities from a Loyal (Non!) Opposition
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:30 LRM and RDA Development
 Gordon Dunsire (Chair RSC), Aligning RDA with the LRM
 James Hennelly (ALA Digital Publishing), The RDA toolkit redevelopment
 Questions and Answers
14:30 – 15:00 Translating RDA, Challenges and opportunities (session 1)
 Simonetta Buttò (ICCU Director), Report on RDA Italian translation
 Carlo Bianchini (University of Pavia) and Mauro Guerrini (University of Florence) on the
main topics on RDA Italian translation
15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 16:30 Translating RDA, Challenges and opportunities (session 2)
 Lucia Sardo (Università di Bologna – Campus di Ravenna) and Agnese Galeffi (Scuola
Vaticana di Biblioteconomia) on using the Toolkit in the translation and updating of RDA
text
 Ahava Cohen (National Library of Israel), The problem of translating RDA into Hebrew
 Questions and Answers
16:30 – 17:00 Wrap up
 Gabriele Meßmer (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)
Dinner open / Please make your own arrangements
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Tuesday 9th May
Conference: RDA towards Linked Data
Fiesole, Sala del Basolato
9:30 – 9:50
Welcome and introduction
 Tiziana Possemato (Casalini Libri - @Cult), How RDA is essential in the reconciliation and
conversion processes for quality linked data
9:50 – 11:00 Presentations
 Magda El-Sherbini (Ohio State University), RDA implementation and the emergence of
BIBFRAME
 Gordon Dunsire (Chair RSC), RDA and practical linked open data
11:00 – 11:20 Break
11:20 – 13:00 Presentations
 Anita Goldberga et al. (National Library of Latvia), Identification of entities in the Linked
Data collection “Rainis and Aspazija” (RunA)
 Jackie Shieh (George Washington University), Report from the PCC Task Groups on URIs
in MARC and BIBFRAME mapping
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Philip Schreur (Stanford University), RDA, Linked Data, and the End of Average
 Questions and Answers
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13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30
Bus provided to site visit to Casalini Libri cataloguing department for the
afternoon Workshops
15:00 – 17:00 RDA in action
Workshops in divided thematic groups
How RDA and Linked Data preparation is applied in a production cataloguing
workflow
Afternoon refreshments available as best suits the Workshop timetable
17:00 – 17:30 Discussion and Concluding Remarks
17:30
Bus provided to Evening Reception at Villa La Torrossa
18:00
Evening reception
Casalini Libri cordially invites conference delegates and EURIG members to an
evening reception at the Villa la Torrossa, Fiesole
20:30
Return bus provided to Fiesole and Florence city centre after the reception
departing from 20.30 until 20:45
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Wednesday 10th May
EURIG Members’ Business Meeting
Villa la Torrossa, Fiesole
The Business Meeting is restricted to EURIG members and invited observers only.
9:30 – 11:00 Morning session (part 1)
11:00 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 13:00 Morning session (part 2)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:00 Afternoon session (part 1)
15:00 – 15:30 Break
15:30 – 17:00 Afternoon session (part 2)
An agenda will be distributed in advance of the meeting.
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