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NLM Office Hours Webinar: PubMed, August 23, 2023 at 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT on Zoom

Following the past webinar How PubMed Works: Selection held on July 13, 2023, join the next National Library of Medicine (NLM) Office Hours on Wednesday, August 23, 2023 from 3-4 PM Eastern Time to find out what’s new with PubMed. Amanda Sawyer from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) PubMed team will give an encore presentation of the PubMed Update session offered at the MLA Annual Conference this past May, with a few new updates to reflect the latest developments.

Global Summit on Diamond Open Access, Toluca, Mexico, 23-27 October 2023

The event brings together the global OA Diamond community and is organised by Redalyc, the Autonomous University of the State of Mexico, AmeliCA, UNESCO, CLACSO and the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access.

The Summit combines two events. The first conference of this double agenda, is the 4th Redalyc Journal Editors International Conference, which will also celebrate the Redalyc 20th anniversary and will include the 2nd Meeting of AmeliCA members. The second event will welcome the 2nd Diamond Open Access Conferencewhich brings together signatories of the Action Plan for Diamond Open Access.

The registration is open.

MDG Conference 2023 (6-7 September) and UKCoR RDA Day 2023 (8 September)

The CILIP Metadata and Discovery Group (MDG) biennial conference “ReDiscovery” will be followed by the UK Committee on RDA (UKCoR) at IET Birmingham: Austin Court in Birmingham, England.

The MDG Conference will explore all aspects of metadata and discovery from traditional library and special collections cataloguing to archival description, and from metadata management for research repositories to issues of cataloguing, Linked Data, and Persistent Identifiers (PIDs).

The RDA Day on Friday 8th September will support those wishing to understand the Resource Description and Access content standard and more.

The programme is online.

Committee on Standards at WLIC 2023: Sessions about IFLA Standards (Tuesday, 22 August, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM)

The Advisory Committee on Standards (CoS) welcomes you to its sessions during the World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) in Rotterdam: Standards business meeting, Review Group committee meetings, open sessions will take place from 20-24 August 2023.

During the open session : ISBDM or ISBD Reshaped to LRM: Towards Integrating IFLA Bibliographic Standards to be held on Tuesday, 22 August, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM, the IFLA ISBD Review Group will present the latest developments of the ISBDM, that is an ISBD reshaped to LRM, that is an ISBD that has completed its transformation into a modular, entity-based content standard, implementing and extending LRM, structure wise and modelling wise.

WLIC 2023 Satellite meeting Universal Bibliographic Control at the crossroads: the challenges of unifying IFLA bibliographic standards, KBR, the Royal Library of Belgium, 18-19 August 2023

Universal Bibliographic Control (UBC) was created jointly by IFLA and UNESCO as part of a global effort to ensure better access to information. UBC has long been a fundamental part of the international framework for the bibliographic aspect of libraries’ work. IFLA’s UBCIM Programme has been responsible for the creation of the ISBDs as well as UNIMARC. 20 years after it closed, and about a decade after IFLA’s last collective reflection and declaration on UBC (IFLA Professional Statement on Universal Bibliographic Control and Lyon Declaration), the IFLA Sections on BibliographyCataloguing and Subject Analysis and Access invite metadata specialists from all around the world to convene at KBR in Brussels to start discussing a new framework for the coming decades. At a time when IFLA is re-examining its technical and strategic infrastructure for metadata standards creation and maintenance to take into account the new environment of data exchange for data interoperability, each individual term of the “UBC” concept can be questioned.