Linked Data for Cultural Heritage

Ed Jones (MLS, Kent State University; PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) has been active in serials cataloging during the whole of his professional career. Over this time, he has represented various institutions on the CONSER Operations Committee and has served on many CONSER and Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) committees and task groups, including as CONSER representative to the PCC Policy Committee and cochair of the PCC Standing Committee on Standards (SCS). He is currently cochair of the SCS Task Group on CONSER Policies for Official RDA in MARC. He has spoken extensively on RDA and its underlying conceptual models over the years, serving as an RDA advisor for the Original RDA Toolkit and more recently chairing the Serials Task Force of the RSC Aggregates Working Group during the RDA Toolkit Restructure and Redesign (3R) Project. In 2019, in recognition of his professional contributions, he received the Ulrich’s Serials Librarianship Award from the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS).

Michele Seikel is a tenured professor on the library faculty at Oklahoma State University. She has held positions at Norman Public Library, the University of Oklahoma, and Stanford University, and served as a professional librarian at Oklahoma Panhandle State University and at Oklahoma State University. Her primary professional focus is in cataloging, and she has published several research papers in technical services journals. In the ALA, she has cochaired the Cataloging Norms Interest Group and the Cataloging and Metadata Management Section's Policy and Planning Committee. Currently, she chairs the ALCTS Planning Committee, and is a member of the editorial board of the journal Library Resources and Technical Services.

The former Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), the Library Information Technology Association (LITA), and the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA) are now Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures, a new division of ALA. Its mission is to cultivate and amplify the collective expertise of library workers in core functions through community building, advocacy, and learning.