Group Co-Conveners:
- Paloma Graciani Picardo, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin / paloma.graciani@austin.utexas.edu (current)
Brittney Washington, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin / brittney.washington@austin.utexas.edu (past co-convener)
- Linda Isaac, Houghton Library, Harvard University / linda_isaac@harvard.edu (past co-convener)
- Audrey Pearson, Beinecke Library, Yale University / audrey.pearson@yale.edu (past co-convener)
Purpose
Several institutions have LD4P projects that involve special collections and rare materials. This affinity group seeks to make use of the collective expertise across the member and cohort institutions to discuss needs and challenges particular to rare materials, and to coordinate the development of resources to support our work.
The Rare Materials Affinity Group will build upon the existing strong relationships among rare materials communities, and will liaise with associated communities as needed.
Projects this group may undertake include:
development of rare materials-specific profiles tailored to the descriptive needs of the collections we have selected for our projects
providing use cases and feedback to the Art and Rare Materials Ontology Joint Task Force
evaluation of data conversion from a rare materials perspective
comparison of the Library of Congress BIBFRAME rare materials profile with profiles created using the ARM extension
examination of work being done by the Library of Congress on a Providers File to reconcile blank node providers (in provision activities)
Communication
LD4P3 / LD4 - as needed
LD4P2 - Monthly calls, 3rd Friday of each month, 1pm EDT, 12pm CDT, 10am PDT (frequency may increase/decrease as needed)
Announce on #general and #rareaffinitygrp
Distribute agendas through Google group
Slack channel in LD4 – #rareaffinitygrp (join LD4 public Slack)
Google group: ld4-rare-materials (previously ld4p2-rare-materials)
Folder in LD4P2 Public Google Drive for working documents and agendas/minutes: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1LzTueiiYI6DLmkbOZTs0X_gCAwWdvo08
Collaborators (LD4P2)
Texas A&M University: Amanda Ros (aros@tamu.edu)
The Frick Art Reference Library of The Frick Collection, New York: Mary Seem (seem@frick.org) and Deborah Kempe (kempe@frick.org)
University of Minnesota: Christine DeZelar-Tiedman (dezel002@umn.edu) and Kalan Knudson Davis (kkdavis@umn.edu @umn.edu)
Cornell University - Jason Kovari
Houghton Library, Harvard University: Linda Isaac (linda_isaac@harvard.edu)
Beinecke Library, Yale University: Audrey Pearson (audrey.pearson@yale.edu)
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin: Brittney Washington (brittney.washington@austin.utexas.edu) and Paloma Graciani (paloma.graciani@austin.utexas.edu)
Library of Congress: Jodi Williamschen
Coordination
The Rare Materials Affinity Group will coordinate and liaise with the following groups as needed:
Art and Rare Materials Ontology Joint Task Force
ACRL/RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee
ACRL/RBMS Controlled Vocabularies Editorial Group
