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• Let’s Dance! : Representing dance materials in RDA cataloging, NACO authorities, and Wikidata projects

  • When
    12 Jun 2025
  •  
    5:30 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Location
    Room 745, NYU Bobst Library, 70 Washington Square S, New York, NY 10012
  • Spaces left
    35

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  Dance is an ephemeral art that appears in library and archival collections in a variety of forms: documentary video, performance photography, written notation, and more. The presenters, who work in different units within Special Collections Processing at the New York Public Library, will discuss several aspects of cataloging and increasing discoverability of dance materials. Samie Konet, a dance audio and moving image cataloger, will describe RDA cataloging of born-digital video recordings of dance productions from the Dance Original Documentation series, an ongoing preservation initiative of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division; Emma Clarkson, a metadata specialist for the Library for the Performing Arts, will describe her ongoing work in the NACO Choreographic Works Project. Both presenters will share ongoing Wikidata projects that mirror their library work into a publicly accessible linked data ecosystem, expanding the reach of cataloging and authority control work beyond the library catalog. The presentation will include time for a conversation with attendees about dance materials and description at other institutions, as well as a brief demo of how editing Wikidata can increase discoverability for the performing arts.

  Speaker Bios:

  Emma Clarkson is a Metadata Specialist at the New York Public Library, where she works to enhance discoverability and improve description of digitized special collections materials from the Library for the Performing Arts. She is a member of the Music Library Association's Linked Data Working Group and a contributor to the NACO Choreographic Works Project. She has a BA in English from Yale and an MLIS from the University of Washington.

  Samie Konet is the Dance Audio and Moving Image Cataloger for the New York Public Library. Konet stewards the Dance Original Documentation collection, a long-standing archival initiative to preserve and record dance performances in New York City. Konet primarily catalogs performances captured as born-digital video, creating original catalog records with a focus on creating robust descriptions of diverse and artistically significant works ensuring researchers and patrons can more easily experience dance history and current practice in all forms. Konet is also a co-convener for the LD4 Art & Design Affinity Group, which meets monthly to discuss new technologies, workflows and case studies for using Linked Data for arts and design projects.

  Masks recommended and provided.

  Click here for directions to Room 745 in the NYU Bobst Library.

  *Registration closes on Wednesday, June 11th at 12:00 p.m. (noon) EST.

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