CatSIG has the opportunity to bring Kevin Ford to New Zealand after VALA in February 2016. Can you please respond by Tuesday 17 November if you would be interested in hearing Kevin speak to catsigcommittee@gmail.commailto:catsigcommittee@gmail.com. Below is a brief biography. Kevin Ford * Senior Consultant, MarkLogic * Former Digital Projects Coordinator, Library of Congress * Former Digital Collections Librarian, Columbia College, Chicago Kevin Ford is a Senior Consultant for MarkLogic, maker of the only enterprise NoSQL database. Although Kevin works on all aspects of projects, he focuses his energies on semantics to help clients in the cultural heritage sector, health care industry, and chemical engineering field. Prior to recently joining MarkLogic, Kevin was at the Library of Congress where he worked in the Network Development and MARC Standards Office. He was key member of the LC group shepherding the Library's Bibliographic Framework Initiative, which will ultimately replace the MARC Communication Formats with a semantic model. Kevin was also the project manager for the Library of Congress's Linked Data service, http://id.loc.gov. Thanks Joanne Rowan CatSIG Convenor c/o Serials Unit Libraries and Learning Services University of Auckland Private Bag 92019 Auckland Mail Centre Auckland 1142 New Zealand Phone: 649 3737 599 extn 87725 Fax: 649 3737 401 Email: jf.rowan@auckland.ac.nzmailto:jf.rowan@auckland.ac.nz