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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group

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A @cilip.bsky.social Special Interest Group. The UK information profession's voice in #metadata #cataloguing and #discovery. Create, Share, Enrich, Maintain. #MetadataMatters www.cilip.org.uk/mdg

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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A thread from today's RLUK Digital Shift Forum event on #LinkedData #RLUKDSF #metadata #discovery 🧵
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Did you miss the MDG Conference 2026 #MetaFutures in March? Or did you attend but want to remind yourself of the great papers & sessions from our speakers? Good news: you can catch up on recordings of Day 1 of the conference on our YouTube channel 🎞️ www.youtube.com/@CILIP_MDG #metadata #conference
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
📢📰The MDG Bulletin for September 2026 is now live. Read it at: email-cilip.org.uk/cr/AQi40xMQ1... #metadata#cataloguing #news #events
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group Bulletin - September 2026
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CILIP @cilip.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
From the latest issue of Information Professional magazine: Negotiating a ceasefire with the bots. John Sheridan (The National Archives) explores why blocking bots isn’t enough—and what better solutions are emerging. Read the full article: ow.ly/s1R450ZRl2a
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Joining our friends at @mdgscotland.bsky.social for a #MDGSBites webinar on Linked Open Data in practice. Looking forward to hearing two different perspectives of #LinkedOpenData from Rob Smith @natlibscot.bsky.social and Jason Evans @librarywales.bsky.social #metadata #PIDs #URIs
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Beginning and Beyond:2 views on LOD in practice: MDGS Bites no. 13
This seminar provides two different perspectives of Linked Open Data from the National Library of Scotland and the National Library of Wales
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
📢New issue of Catalogue & Index! 📰 Sept 2026 issue (216) features papers from the MDG Conference 2026 #Metafutures, held at Engineers’ House, Bristol. Further papers will be published in the December issue (217). journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an... #metadata #cataloguing #journal
Catalogue & Index
Periodical of the Metadata & Discovery Group, a
Special Interest Group of CILIP, the Library and
Information Association ISSN 2399-9667
September 2026, Issue 216
Editorial, The Editors
More time needed, James T. Clark and Getaneh Alemu
Authentic and artificial cataloguing, Hannes Lowagie
Can AI or Python help us catalogue books we can’t read? Adam Swann and Sally Bell
"All our wisdom is stored in the trees" Helen K. R. Williams
The Metadata Team and institutional research visibility, Helen K. R. Williams
Metadata as cultural stewardship, Bláithín Hurley
Unlocking Southeast Asia’s digital heritage, Chuin Peng Sim and Gandhimathy Durairaj
Linked data and OCLC Meridian, Sarah Glaccum
Collaborative cataloguing now!, Amy Staniforth
Metadata in motion, Fran Frenzel
Book Review: Information Science, Sergio Alonso Mislata
Minutes of the 230th MDG Committee Meeting 12 March 2026
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NLISN @nlisn.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
✨Call for speakers! ✨ Deadline 22/9/26✨ We're looking for speakers for our in person event 'Intersections: Identity, #Neurodivergence & Library/Information Work' City St George's, London, 21/10/26 Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #LibraryWorker #Librarian #Neurodiverse
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Intersections: Identity, Neurodivergence, and Library & Information Work - Call for Speakers
We are inviting proposals for contributions to an in-person one-day event exploring intersectionality and neurodivergence in library and information work, taking place at City St George's University i...
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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026
BIBFRAME in Europe Workshop 2027 will be 8-9 Sept at Trinity College Dublin in Ireland! - Stay tuned to www.bfwe.eu for more details #bfwe2026
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BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe
The aim of the BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe is to be a forum for sharing knowledge about the practice of, production with, and planning of BIBFRAME implementation.
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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026
Entity-first production workflows are the end goal - but it will take time to get there #bfwe2026
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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026
We have to think about production continuity - sustaining MARC21 cataloguing for daily acquisitions alongside competency development that shifts mindset to graph-based linked data concepts in BIBFRAME #bfwe2026
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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026
Transition is not just technical - it is human too; requiring investment in skills development. Early movers who invest in BIBFRAME today will lead the next generation of metadata-driven library workflows - partnerships & collaborations are needed at global scale to ensure equity of access #bfwe2026
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
#AI & #automation influences on #metadata creation and enrichment #libraries #cataloguing #trust #provenance #dataintegrity
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Cataloguing in a #LinkedData #Entity environment means a shift in mindset #metadata #libraries #cataloguing #thingsnotstrings
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Of interest to #metadata professionals wondering about #BIBFRAME implementation alongside adoption of #OfficialRDA with the retirement of Original RDA Toolkit occurring in May 2027 #libraries #cataloguing #LinkedData
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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 09/09/2026
#bfwe2026 Day 2 begins with Matias Frosterus National Library of Finland on "RDA Aggregates in BIBFRAME: Two Approaches" - methods for fully implementing RDA in BIBFRAME in Finland (BFFI)
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#BIBFRAME in practice
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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
One achievement not on the original plan for the year was a BIBFRAME Primer: bibframe.org/docs/view/do... A user guide for those who would like to represent “bibliographic resources,” (collection resources managed by a cultural organization, mainly libraries) using BIBFRAME. #bfwe2026
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Documentation Tool
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Adrian @acka47.openbiblio.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
Nancy Lorimer presents the Blue Core MVP (minimum viable product) at the Bibframe Workshop in Europe (#bfwe2026). Blue Core aims to produce "a community-operated, shared BIBFRAME datastore" (bluecore.info). Nancy also shared a link to the dev environment: dev.bcld.info
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Blue Core Vision
The Blue Core Project envisions a new library metadata environment with linked data at its core that is cooperatively shaped and owned, eliminating the need for every institution to establish linked data tooling locally.
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
#MetadataMatters #DataQualtyMatters
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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026
Had a bit of a break from posting on BlueSky over the summer - now back and looking forward to joining the BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe online tomorrow #bfwe2026 - especially as I'll be doing some BIBFRAME training in October with @libjuiceacademy.bsky.social #libraries #metadata #LinkedData
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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 08/09/2026
Ian Bigelow points to the ICOLC statement on the Metadata Rights of Libraries icolc.net/statements/i... and articles such as Courtney et al.'No One “Owns” That Metadata, Copyright, and the Problems with [Library] Vendor Agreements' nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.IN... #bfwe2026
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
An interesting presentation at #bfwe2026 on #Open #Metadata and #BIBFRAME
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Lyn Robinson @lynrobinson.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The transition from MARC records to linked data can seem to be a slow process to many in LIS. Those interested in metadata should find the posts from this conference insightful. #BIBFRAME
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Interested in practical implementations of #LinkedData in #Libraries ? Check out posts from the #BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe 2026 at #bfwe2026 www.bfwe.eu/barcelona_2026 #metadata #cataloguing
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BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe
The aim of the BIBFRAME Workshop in Europe is to be a forum for sharing knowledge about the practice of, production with, and planning of BIBFRAME implementation.
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
📢 @mdgscotland.bsky.social webinar! MDGS Bites: "Beginning and Beyond: Two Perspectives on Linked Open Data in Practice" with Rob Smith @natlibscot.bsky.social & Jason Evans @librarywales.bsky.social Wed 23rd Sept '26 13:00-14:00 Register: tinyurl.com/ykejxkxs #metadata #cataloguing #LinkedData 📚🐈
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Beginning and Beyond:2 views on LOD in practice: MDGS Bites no. 13
This seminar provides two different perspectives of Linked Open Data from the National Library of Scotland and the National Library of Wales
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The MDG Bulletin for August 2026 is now live. Read it at: email-cilip.org.uk/6WFS-4FZ08-4... #metadata #cataloguing #news #events
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News from CILIP's Metadata & Discovery Group
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
📢 @mdgscotland.bsky.social webinar! MDGS Bites presents "Implementing Open #BIBFRAME with the Blue Core MVP" with Jeremy Nelson & Kalli Mathios of @stanforduniversity.bsky.social Tues 25th Aug '26 15:00-16:00 BST Via Zoom Register: tinyurl.com/4w7h55hs #metadata #cataloguing #LinkedData 📚🐈
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Implementing Open BIBFRAME with the Blue Core MVP : MDGS Bites no. 12
This seminar provides an overview of Blue Core, a shared Linked Data environment to bring BIBFRAME cataloguing to production at scale.
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
You may have noticed that there has been no @cilipmdg.bsky.social email Bulletin for July 2026 - we hope to restart in August 2026.
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Facet Publishing @facetpublishing.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Don't miss our latest blog post from Tiziana Possemato, in which she discusses how new developments in data and cataloguing across the GLAM sector emphasise the importance of Entity Modelling, a concept she explores in more detail in her new book. Read here: ow.ly/iKSP50Z9maQ
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
New issue of 'Catalogue and Index' #C&I June 2026 (no. 215) is a special issue focusing on countdown to the retirement of the Original RDA Toolkit in May 2027 and the transition to Official RDA. Read it at: journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an... #RDA #metadata #discovery #cataloguing 🐈📚
Catalogue & Index ISSN 2399-9667 Periodical of the Metadata and Discovery Group: https://journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-and-index/index
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
The MDG Bulletin for June 2026 has just been distributed to registered email addresses. You can read the online version and hear about #cataloguing #metadata and #discovery #news #events and the latest issue of our OA Journal #CatalogueAndIndex at: email-cilip.org.uk/6WFS-47PU5-4...
Screenshot fo CILIP MDG Bulletin for June 2026 access full-text at: https://email-cilip.org.uk/6WFS-47PU5-48/sv.aspx
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Rubbish in = rubbish out When people are using #LLMs to search for information, the quality of the #metadata that describes information resources becomes more important than ever. If that metadata is itself AI-generated, with no or low human quality-control, we risk degradation of search & discovery
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mdgscotland.bsky.social @mdgscotland.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The Metadata and Discovery Group in Scotland, in collaboration with the Metadata and Discovery Group, warmly invite participants to a World Café to be held in the Boardroom of the National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh. Please register at the Eventbrite Link below: tinyurl.com/476ed8x4
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World Cafe on Subject Analysis
Discussion on subject analysis and authorities within the current metadata landscape.
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
📢The @cilipmdg.bsky.social Bulletin for May 2026 has been distributed to our mailing list. 📰🐈 You can read the online version at: email-cilip.org.uk/6WFS-44OZA-4... Don't miss out on #news and #events for #cataloguing and #metadata professionals across the #GLAM sectors. #MetadataMatters
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Mylee Joseph @mylee.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Librarians do an extraordinary amount of intellectual, instructional, and community work… with #AI becoming part of research, education, public services, and everyday information seeking, their role is becoming even more important. overcast.fm/ABFuO6MjEKY
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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 22/05/2026
"Cataloguers have one of the most challenging professions in the modern information ecosystem. They are charged with describing any resource that may exist in today’s ever-evolving world, whether it be tangible or intangible....
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
To jump to the session 'Metadata Quality as a Shared Effort: Collaborative Innovation for Discoverability & Bibliodiversity' on the YouTube recording, got to 6 minutes 30 seconds. #metadata
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OAPEN Foundation @oapenbooks.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
One of the final panel sessions of OPERAS 2026, Anna Wałek (Head of Tech) & Wiktor Florian (Metadata & Systems Specialist) talk about 'Metadata Quality as a Shared Effort: Collaborative Innovation for Discoverability & Bibliodiversity'. Watch them live today at 15:15 CEST 👇
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OPERAS 2026 & SCIROS Conference | 21 May 2026 | Mickiewicz Hall
Live stream from Mickiewicz Hall. Conference programme: https://operas-eu.org/news-and-events/calendar-2/operas-2026-sciros-conference/conference-programme/
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Helmholtz Metadata Collaboration @helmholtzhmc.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Want to know more about the new projects? helmholtz-metadaten.de/inf-projects #HMCprojects #HMCprojects2025 #HMC2026 #Metadata @helmholtz.de @geomarkiel.bsky.social @helmholtzosoffice.bsky.social @helmholtzimaging.bsky.social @helmholtzai.bsky.social
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HMC Funded Projects – Overview of Metadata & FAIR Data Projects
Explore all projects funded through the HMC Project Call. Discover interdisciplinary metadata and FAIR data initiatives across Helmholtz.
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CILIP @cilip.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
ᝰ Entity Modelling: The Third Generation of Cataloguing by Tiziana Possemato is out now! This is an essential practical and theoretical introduction to entity modelling, an innovative contribution to third generation cataloguing. ᝰ Order your copy here: ow.ly/u8aK50YYV3J
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Thoth Open Metadata @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social · 21/05/2026
We've been busy these past couple of years! This blog post recaps recent platform development, metadata research, engagement with publishers, library collaborations, multiple #OpenInfrastructure partnerships, & collective work with others active in the @copim.bsky.social community & beyond 🚀
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
#RDA Countdown Clock Webinar today 19th May at 17:00 UK Time 🕰️🐈 www.rdatoolkit.org/news/rsc/reg... This session will be recorded and the recording shared afterwards on the RDA Toolkit YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/c/RDAToolkit...) #libraries #metadata #cataloguing #cataloging @cilip.bsky.social
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Register Now: Countdown Clock Webinar Today
RSC Chair Renate Behrens (pictured), RDA publisher James Hennelly and RSC Chair Elect Robert L. Maxwell are looking forward to welcoming you to the first of the Countdown Clock webinars today.
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mia ridge @miaout.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Sharing stats from the UK's museumdata.uk on #InternationalMuseumDay #IMD2026 @icomuk.bsky.social We're doing our part to unite museum records to help researchers, cataloguers and museum lovers find objects across collections. Right now, MDS has c7.6 million object records from 129 museums!
A line chart showing the number of 'Museums with object records in MDS', starting from about 20 in September 2024 to over 120 in May 2026Line chart showing an increase in the number of 'Object records in MDS', starting about 3 million in September 2024 and around 7.6 million in May 2026
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Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Our May newsletter is out! In this issue: • RBS Reveals Summer 2026 Lecture Series • A Few RBS Summer Courses Still Have Space! • New RBS Exhibition to Explore Poetry as Material Artifacts • RBS Ripples conta.cc/49wuBPf
An audience sits in a red-carpeted auditorium listening to a lecturer at a podium speak about manuscripts that he is projecting images of onto a large screen above the stage.
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Copim @copim.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Members of #CopimCommunity are heading to @operaseu.bsky.social conference! 📆 18-21 May 2026 📍 Warsaw, Poland @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social #operas2026sciros Full programme 👉 buff.ly/0CvDZVL 1/2
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OPERAS 2026 & SCIROS Conference: One Network, Many Possibilities: Strengthening the OPERAS Community - Sciencesconf.org
Registration is open from March 18 to April 10, 2026
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Amelia Haire @ahaire.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
🚨 Exciting news! 🚨 We’re hosting the first ever NLISN Conference 🎉 📍 Leeds 📅 17–18 July Join us for two days of connection, ideas, and inspiration with people passionate about learning, inclusion & support networks. #NLISN #Conference #Leeds #Inclusion #Learning #Neurodiversity #Autism #ADHD
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NLISN Conference
Our first 2 day conference for neurodivergent library and information workers, held in person in Leeds, UK. 16th/17th July 2026.
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National Acquisitions Group (NAG) @uklibrariesnag.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
It's Seminar and Forum week! Badges, lanyards and delegate lists have been dispatched and we're ready to roll. Who's joining us in Nottingham on Wednesday? With huge thanks to our Gold sponsors @vitalsource.bsky.social and @kortext.bsky.social #NAGcd16 #NAGplf26
People Powered: Human-centred innovation.  NAG Public Library Forum, Nottingham, 20th May 2026 https://nag.org.uk/event/forum-2026/People Powered: Human-centred innovation. 16th NAG Collection Development Seminar, Nottingham 20-21 May 2026 #NAGcd16 https://nag.org.uk/2026-seminar/
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CILIP Metadata & Discovery Group @cilipmdg.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Funding cataloguing = funding discovery #metadatamatters
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Emma Booth (she/her) @emmabooth.eurosky.social · 11/05/2026
Excellent opportunity to learn #datawrangling techniques & skills with @cilipmdg.bsky.social's Fran Frenzel facilitating a Library @carpentries.carpentries.org 2-day workshop: Practical Skills for Working with Data: 5th & 12th June #metadata #collectionsdata #training Register: tinyurl.com/22au9z2m
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Thoth Open Metadata @thoth-metadata.eurosky.social · 11/05/2026
👏 That's also why contributor affiliation metadata and PIDs play a key role in our proposed two-tiered metadata framework for books and chapters - which also provides publishers with clear pathways to adopting good #metadata practice in their day-to-day workflows doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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