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Item Wikidata for librarians: CAML 2017 preconference(2017-05-25) Scott, DanA presentation on editing Wikidata with a specific focus on musicians, bands, and music festivals. Presented at a preconference of the Canadian Association for Music Libraries, Archives, and Document Centres (CAML) 2017 conference in Toronto, Ontario.Item Microdata: making metadata matter(Evergreen International Conference, 2013-04-12) Scott, DanIn this session, Dan Scott (the contributor of the schema.org microdata enhancement for Evergreen and a participant in the schemabibex effort to extend schema.org to better support bibliographic data) will discuss the origins of the microdata standards, explain how nominally machine-readable cataloguing data can fit into the machine-actionable semantic web, reflect on the impact that a microdata-enabled catalogue has had at Laurentian University to date, and offer some thoughts about the future of microdata – including the schema.org and RDFa Lite standards.Item Project Conifer: Open source academic library system(2008-09-23T16:55:26Z) Scott, DanAn introduction to Project Conifer, the effort to bring the Evergreen open source library system from public libraries into Ontario's academic libraries. Dan Scott, project manager for Project Conifer, demonstrates the rationale behind the collaboration between Algoma University, Laurentian University, McMaster University, the Northern Ontario Health Integration Network (NOHIN), and the University of Windsor, and demonstrates the benefits Evergreen offers over our existing systems.Item Artificially enhanced research : Free software and fantastic research(2008-09-23T16:48:56Z) Scott, DanThe free software community has developed a number of tools that are useful to researchers. This presentation introduces four tools: the LibX toolbar to extend library searching throughout your Web experience; the Zotero plug-in for collecting, organizing, and citing your research materials; the LU|ZONE|UL institutional repository built on DSpace for making your research openly accessible; and the quick lookup Linux laptops that have made quick searches fast and easy for library visitors and saved Laurentian University tens of thousands of dollars in hardware replacement costs.