Emma Booth (she/her)
@emmabooth.bsky.social
Manchester Metadata Maven
UK Librarian & Open Access supporter.
Discovery drives the Collection; Metadata drives Discovery; #MetadataMatters
Opinions my own.
https://linktr.ee/emmabooth
https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1390-2720
UK Librarian & Open Access supporter.
Discovery drives the Collection; Metadata drives Discovery; #MetadataMatters
Opinions my own.
https://linktr.ee/emmabooth
https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1390-2720
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December issue of Catalogue & Index is now live: journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an...
Themed around Resource Description & Access #RDA this issue was curated by members of the UK Committee on RDA #UKCoR with special thanks to Anastasia Kerameos for her work on coordinating the articles
#metadata
Themed around Resource Description & Access #RDA this issue was curated by members of the UK Committee on RDA #UKCoR with special thanks to Anastasia Kerameos for her work on coordinating the articles
#metadata
December 22, 2025 at 10:21 AM
December issue of Catalogue & Index is now live: journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an...
Themed around Resource Description & Access #RDA this issue was curated by members of the UK Committee on RDA #UKCoR with special thanks to Anastasia Kerameos for her work on coordinating the articles
#metadata
Themed around Resource Description & Access #RDA this issue was curated by members of the UK Committee on RDA #UKCoR with special thanks to Anastasia Kerameos for her work on coordinating the articles
#metadata
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And that digitising requires highly-skilled staff (often wildly underpaid) to do a lot of work in arranging, describing and preserving both the OG documents and digital surrogates. Nothing works without good metadata & long-term thinking.
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
December 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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We've just hit send on the MDG Bulletin for December featuring a festive message from the Chair. 🎄☃️🎅
You can read the online version at:
email-cilip.org.uk/6WFS-2VZ2W-4...
#metadata #cataloguing #news #events #training
🐈📚
You can read the online version at:
email-cilip.org.uk/6WFS-2VZ2W-4...
#metadata #cataloguing #news #events #training
🐈📚
December 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
We've just hit send on the MDG Bulletin for December featuring a festive message from the Chair. 🎄☃️🎅
You can read the online version at:
email-cilip.org.uk/6WFS-2VZ2W-4...
#metadata #cataloguing #news #events #training
🐈📚
You can read the online version at:
email-cilip.org.uk/6WFS-2VZ2W-4...
#metadata #cataloguing #news #events #training
🐈📚
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MDG Conference & RDA Day #MetaFutures 11-13 March 2026.
The programme includes papers on AI use in cataloguing; Metadata training & management; Collaborative metadata; Linked data; Metadata for Open Access & Research, & RDA.
Book your place: www.cilip.org.uk/members/grou...
#metadata #conference 📚🐈
The programme includes papers on AI use in cataloguing; Metadata training & management; Collaborative metadata; Linked data; Metadata for Open Access & Research, & RDA.
Book your place: www.cilip.org.uk/members/grou...
#metadata #conference 📚🐈
December 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
MDG Conference & RDA Day #MetaFutures 11-13 March 2026.
The programme includes papers on AI use in cataloguing; Metadata training & management; Collaborative metadata; Linked data; Metadata for Open Access & Research, & RDA.
Book your place: www.cilip.org.uk/members/grou...
#metadata #conference 📚🐈
The programme includes papers on AI use in cataloguing; Metadata training & management; Collaborative metadata; Linked data; Metadata for Open Access & Research, & RDA.
Book your place: www.cilip.org.uk/members/grou...
#metadata #conference 📚🐈
A thread 🧵from today's @cilipmdg.bsky.social Practical Cataloguing webinar on MARC data cleaning using Python.
A way to identify errors/inconsistencies in legacy metadata & automate specific clean-up actions. - A bit like running a MarcEdit Tasklist or an Alma Normalization Rule on a set of records
A way to identify errors/inconsistencies in legacy metadata & automate specific clean-up actions. - A bit like running a MarcEdit Tasklist or an Alma Normalization Rule on a set of records
Today's Practical Cataloguing webinar is on "Enhancing metadata quality : a practical introduction to #MARC data cleaning using #Python and #RDA principles" with Dalia Kbar, Collection Development Librarian at the American University in Dubai.
www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#cataloguing #metadata
www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#cataloguing #metadata
December 9, 2025 at 1:53 PM
A thread 🧵from today's @cilipmdg.bsky.social Practical Cataloguing webinar on MARC data cleaning using Python.
A way to identify errors/inconsistencies in legacy metadata & automate specific clean-up actions. - A bit like running a MarcEdit Tasklist or an Alma Normalization Rule on a set of records
A way to identify errors/inconsistencies in legacy metadata & automate specific clean-up actions. - A bit like running a MarcEdit Tasklist or an Alma Normalization Rule on a set of records
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We're seeking committee members for #CILIP's new Intellectual Freedom Committee. The Committee will work towards everyone's right to read, think, and speak freely, and lead discussions on issues of censorship and access to information. Join us: https://ow.ly/k3I250XwXKR. Apply now!
November 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
We're seeking committee members for #CILIP's new Intellectual Freedom Committee. The Committee will work towards everyone's right to read, think, and speak freely, and lead discussions on issues of censorship and access to information. Join us: https://ow.ly/k3I250XwXKR. Apply now!
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Happy Birthday BNB! 🎉🎂
www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
The British National Bibliography (BNB) records the publishing activity of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland since 1950.
The BNB is currently available on the Share Family beta portal as linked data: bl.natbib-lod.org
#metadata #libraries
www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
The British National Bibliography (BNB) records the publishing activity of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland since 1950.
The BNB is currently available on the Share Family beta portal as linked data: bl.natbib-lod.org
#metadata #libraries
November 28, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Happy Birthday BNB! 🎉🎂
www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
The British National Bibliography (BNB) records the publishing activity of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland since 1950.
The BNB is currently available on the Share Family beta portal as linked data: bl.natbib-lod.org
#metadata #libraries
www.bl.uk/stories/blog...
The British National Bibliography (BNB) records the publishing activity of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland since 1950.
The BNB is currently available on the Share Family beta portal as linked data: bl.natbib-lod.org
#metadata #libraries
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Ready to take your library career to the next level?
Applications are now open for international mid to senior library and archive professionals to join us in July 2026 for the International Library Leaders Programme.
Learn more bit.ly/BL-ILLP
Applications are now open for international mid to senior library and archive professionals to join us in July 2026 for the International Library Leaders Programme.
Learn more bit.ly/BL-ILLP
November 26, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Ready to take your library career to the next level?
Applications are now open for international mid to senior library and archive professionals to join us in July 2026 for the International Library Leaders Programme.
Learn more bit.ly/BL-ILLP
Applications are now open for international mid to senior library and archive professionals to join us in July 2026 for the International Library Leaders Programme.
Learn more bit.ly/BL-ILLP
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Our final Practical Cataloguing Workshop is:
Enhancing #metadata quality: a practical introduction to #MARC data cleaning using #Python and #RDA principles
Tuesday 9th December 2025, 1-2pm
with Dalia Kbar (American University in Dubai)
Register at: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#cataloguing
Enhancing #metadata quality: a practical introduction to #MARC data cleaning using #Python and #RDA principles
Tuesday 9th December 2025, 1-2pm
with Dalia Kbar (American University in Dubai)
Register at: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#cataloguing
November 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Our final Practical Cataloguing Workshop is:
Enhancing #metadata quality: a practical introduction to #MARC data cleaning using #Python and #RDA principles
Tuesday 9th December 2025, 1-2pm
with Dalia Kbar (American University in Dubai)
Register at: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#cataloguing
Enhancing #metadata quality: a practical introduction to #MARC data cleaning using #Python and #RDA principles
Tuesday 9th December 2025, 1-2pm
with Dalia Kbar (American University in Dubai)
Register at: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#cataloguing
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Really good day at the @cilipmdg.bsky.social Worldcafé style meeting on alternatives to LCSH! Excellently organised - lots to think about shelf ready metadata, consortia catalogues, skills and legacy… also very cool to learn of the London institutions (Kings and Wellcome) now using Homosaurus
November 26, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Really good day at the @cilipmdg.bsky.social Worldcafé style meeting on alternatives to LCSH! Excellently organised - lots to think about shelf ready metadata, consortia catalogues, skills and legacy… also very cool to learn of the London institutions (Kings and Wellcome) now using Homosaurus
Reposted by Emma Booth (she/her)
We've just hit send on this month's MDG Bulletin - check it out for news and events for #metadata & #cataloguing professionals. 📚📖🐈
email-cilip.org.uk/6WFS-2U19H-4...
email-cilip.org.uk/6WFS-2U19H-4...
November 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
We've just hit send on this month's MDG Bulletin - check it out for news and events for #metadata & #cataloguing professionals. 📚📖🐈
email-cilip.org.uk/6WFS-2U19H-4...
email-cilip.org.uk/6WFS-2U19H-4...
And the recording of the #NAGWebinarWeek presentation on #Metadata in #Partnership is now available! nag.org.uk/development/...
November 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
And the recording of the #NAGWebinarWeek presentation on #Metadata in #Partnership is now available! nag.org.uk/development/...
Reposted by Emma Booth (she/her)
I've written up the findings from our work with people and organisations who have used AI notetakers in meetings, identified 9 risks and a bunch of mitigation strategies. www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
Nine risks caused by AI notetakers — Careful Industries
AI transcription tools are not currently mature or reliable enough to be regarded as an always on, single-source of truth for meeting notes. Nine common risks, and six possible mitigations.
www.careful.industries
November 21, 2025 at 7:09 AM
I've written up the findings from our work with people and organisations who have used AI notetakers in meetings, identified 9 risks and a bunch of mitigation strategies. www.careful.industries/blog/2025-11...
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Reminder: call for contributions for the December issue of our OA journal 'Catalogue & Index' themed around #RDA: Resource Description and Access www.rdatoolkit.org/about
Deadline for submissions: Monday 1st December 2025
Guidance for contributors: journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an...
Deadline for submissions: Monday 1st December 2025
Guidance for contributors: journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an...
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Reminder: call for contributions for the December issue of our OA journal 'Catalogue & Index' themed around #RDA: Resource Description and Access www.rdatoolkit.org/about
Deadline for submissions: Monday 1st December 2025
Guidance for contributors: journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an...
Deadline for submissions: Monday 1st December 2025
Guidance for contributors: journals.cilip.org.uk/catalogue-an...
Reposted by Emma Booth (she/her)
Not sure where to start strengthening Diamond Open Access?
Over the next 11 weeks, we’ll be sharing the DIAMAS recommendations — clear, practical steps to make scholarly communication sustainable, inclusive, and high-quality.
Over the next 11 weeks, we’ll be sharing the DIAMAS recommendations — clear, practical steps to make scholarly communication sustainable, inclusive, and high-quality.
November 20, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Not sure where to start strengthening Diamond Open Access?
Over the next 11 weeks, we’ll be sharing the DIAMAS recommendations — clear, practical steps to make scholarly communication sustainable, inclusive, and high-quality.
Over the next 11 weeks, we’ll be sharing the DIAMAS recommendations — clear, practical steps to make scholarly communication sustainable, inclusive, and high-quality.
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There's still time to register for our free World Cafe event on Subject Analysis and Subject Headings at the Wellcome Collection London, Wed 26th Nov 11:00-16:00
Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw
Registration open until 25th Nov
#cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics #changethesubject
Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw
Registration open until 25th Nov
#cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics #changethesubject
November 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
There's still time to register for our free World Cafe event on Subject Analysis and Subject Headings at the Wellcome Collection London, Wed 26th Nov 11:00-16:00
Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw
Registration open until 25th Nov
#cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics #changethesubject
Booking essential: tinyurl.com/yc4vzcpw
Registration open until 25th Nov
#cataloguing #metadata #event #critcat #ethics #changethesubject
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Today's Practical Cataloguing Webinar is: Regular Expressions (or #Regex) with Fran Frenzel
An accessible introduction to regular expressions, designed specifically for #librarians and #metadata professionals.
Thursday 20th November 13:00-14:00.
www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#metadata
An accessible introduction to regular expressions, designed specifically for #librarians and #metadata professionals.
Thursday 20th November 13:00-14:00.
www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#metadata
November 20, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Today's Practical Cataloguing Webinar is: Regular Expressions (or #Regex) with Fran Frenzel
An accessible introduction to regular expressions, designed specifically for #librarians and #metadata professionals.
Thursday 20th November 13:00-14:00.
www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#metadata
An accessible introduction to regular expressions, designed specifically for #librarians and #metadata professionals.
Thursday 20th November 13:00-14:00.
www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#metadata
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Our next Practical Cataloguing Workshop is:
Printed music cataloguing: a short introduction
Thursday 27th November 2025, 1-2 pm
with Caroline Shaw & Meg Fisher
Presented in conjunction with iaml-uk-irl.org
Register at: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#metadata #cataloguing #music
Printed music cataloguing: a short introduction
Thursday 27th November 2025, 1-2 pm
with Caroline Shaw & Meg Fisher
Presented in conjunction with iaml-uk-irl.org
Register at: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#metadata #cataloguing #music
November 20, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Our next Practical Cataloguing Workshop is:
Printed music cataloguing: a short introduction
Thursday 27th November 2025, 1-2 pm
with Caroline Shaw & Meg Fisher
Presented in conjunction with iaml-uk-irl.org
Register at: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#metadata #cataloguing #music
Printed music cataloguing: a short introduction
Thursday 27th November 2025, 1-2 pm
with Caroline Shaw & Meg Fisher
Presented in conjunction with iaml-uk-irl.org
Register at: www.cilip.org.uk/events/Event...
#metadata #cataloguing #music
#Metadata never sleeps!
To remain useful and usable it has to evolve and adapt to different uses, users, and systems.
#MetadataMaintenanceMatters
To remain useful and usable it has to evolve and adapt to different uses, users, and systems.
#MetadataMaintenanceMatters
Metadata is no longer done, locked and finished, it needs engagement and reviewing, publishers who in the past may have just looked at the start, the Library can review and show how the discoverability end reaches end users #NAGWebinarWeek
November 20, 2025 at 4:59 PM
#Metadata never sleeps!
To remain useful and usable it has to evolve and adapt to different uses, users, and systems.
#MetadataMaintenanceMatters
To remain useful and usable it has to evolve and adapt to different uses, users, and systems.
#MetadataMaintenanceMatters
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Starting now! Time to logon... What doesn't come shelf-ready and what do cataloguers do with it? #NAGWebinarWeek - We will be live posting so follow along and join the conversation
Tomorrow: NAG Webinar Week -
What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? with @annewelsh.bsky.social from Beginning Cataloguing.
Thursday 20 Nov 12pm
Book now: nag.org.uk/event/welsh/
Free and open to all!
#NAGWebinarWeek
What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? with @annewelsh.bsky.social from Beginning Cataloguing.
Thursday 20 Nov 12pm
Book now: nag.org.uk/event/welsh/
Free and open to all!
#NAGWebinarWeek
November 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Starting now! Time to logon... What doesn't come shelf-ready and what do cataloguers do with it? #NAGWebinarWeek - We will be live posting so follow along and join the conversation
Reposted by Emma Booth (she/her)
That's a wrap! Thank you to everyone who attended or contributed to #NAGWebinarWeek 2025 and we hope to see lots of you in person at NAG Seminar and Forum in Nottingham in May 2026!
- 20th and 21st May 2026
- Albert Hall, Nottingham
More info: nag.org.uk/2026-seminar/
📚 #NAGcd16 #NAGplf26
- 20th and 21st May 2026
- Albert Hall, Nottingham
More info: nag.org.uk/2026-seminar/
📚 #NAGcd16 #NAGplf26
November 20, 2025 at 3:05 PM
That's a wrap! Thank you to everyone who attended or contributed to #NAGWebinarWeek 2025 and we hope to see lots of you in person at NAG Seminar and Forum in Nottingham in May 2026!
- 20th and 21st May 2026
- Albert Hall, Nottingham
More info: nag.org.uk/2026-seminar/
📚 #NAGcd16 #NAGplf26
- 20th and 21st May 2026
- Albert Hall, Nottingham
More info: nag.org.uk/2026-seminar/
📚 #NAGcd16 #NAGplf26
Looking forward to the #CopimConference in February 2026! This free two day hybrid conference will bring together the people and projects shaping the future of equitable, community-driven #openaccess book publishing.
Register at: buff.ly/DhtaOAJ
Register at: buff.ly/DhtaOAJ
Join us next year (26-27 February 2026) to explore the future of community-led open access book publishing 🔮
📍 Loughborough University | London or online
🥳 Registration is now open!
🎫 Get your ticket now! buff.ly/DhtaOAJ
#CopimConference
📍 Loughborough University | London or online
🥳 Registration is now open!
🎫 Get your ticket now! buff.ly/DhtaOAJ
#CopimConference
November 20, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Looking forward to the #CopimConference in February 2026! This free two day hybrid conference will bring together the people and projects shaping the future of equitable, community-driven #openaccess book publishing.
Register at: buff.ly/DhtaOAJ
Register at: buff.ly/DhtaOAJ
Here's the thread 🧵 from the joint @uomlibrary.bsky.social and @manchesterup.bsky.social presentation for #NAGWebinarWeek on #Metadata in Partnership
Starting in the next few mins - get ready to logon!
Metadata in partnership - Manchester University Press & the University Library working together.
19th Nov 14.00 with @emmabooth.bsky.social , @mellordramatic.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social
nag.org.uk/event/mup/
#NAGWebinarWeek
Metadata in partnership - Manchester University Press & the University Library working together.
19th Nov 14.00 with @emmabooth.bsky.social , @mellordramatic.bsky.social @manchesterup.bsky.social
nag.org.uk/event/mup/
#NAGWebinarWeek
Metadata in Partnership – National Acquisitions Group
nag.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Here's the thread 🧵 from the joint @uomlibrary.bsky.social and @manchesterup.bsky.social presentation for #NAGWebinarWeek on #Metadata in Partnership
Reposted by Emma Booth (she/her)
Tomorrow: NAG Webinar Week -
What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? with @annewelsh.bsky.social from Beginning Cataloguing.
Thursday 20 Nov 12pm
Book now: nag.org.uk/event/welsh/
Free and open to all!
#NAGWebinarWeek
What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? with @annewelsh.bsky.social from Beginning Cataloguing.
Thursday 20 Nov 12pm
Book now: nag.org.uk/event/welsh/
Free and open to all!
#NAGWebinarWeek
November 19, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Tomorrow: NAG Webinar Week -
What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? with @annewelsh.bsky.social from Beginning Cataloguing.
Thursday 20 Nov 12pm
Book now: nag.org.uk/event/welsh/
Free and open to all!
#NAGWebinarWeek
What Doesn’t Come Shelf-Ready and What Do Cataloguers Do With It? with @annewelsh.bsky.social from Beginning Cataloguing.
Thursday 20 Nov 12pm
Book now: nag.org.uk/event/welsh/
Free and open to all!
#NAGWebinarWeek
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Save the Date! NAG Seminar and Forum is coming to Nottingham for 2026 and we're making it a two day event 🎉
- 20th and 21st May 2026
- Albert Hall, Nottingham
More info: nag.org.uk/2026-seminar/
📚 #NAGcd16 #NAGplf26
- 20th and 21st May 2026
- Albert Hall, Nottingham
More info: nag.org.uk/2026-seminar/
📚 #NAGcd16 #NAGplf26
November 3, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Save the Date! NAG Seminar and Forum is coming to Nottingham for 2026 and we're making it a two day event 🎉
- 20th and 21st May 2026
- Albert Hall, Nottingham
More info: nag.org.uk/2026-seminar/
📚 #NAGcd16 #NAGplf26
- 20th and 21st May 2026
- Albert Hall, Nottingham
More info: nag.org.uk/2026-seminar/
📚 #NAGcd16 #NAGplf26