Martin Kalfatovic, MSLS

Associate Director, Smithsonian Institution Libraries
Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Research field: Computer and Information Science - Information Science
Information science; data curation; linked data

Publications

Journal Article (14)
- Constance Rinaldo, Judith Warnement, Tom Baione et al. (2011) Retooling Special Collections Digitisation in the Age of Mass Scanning. In Ariadne 67 (July).
  http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue67/rina...
- Suzanne C Pilsk, Matthew A Person, Joseph M DeVeer et al. (2010) The Biodiversity Heritage Library: Advancing Metadata Practices in a Collaborative Digital Library, 136-155. In Journal of Library Metadata 10 (2).
  http://www.informaworld.com/openurl?g...
- I. Hsieh-Yee, E. Ménard, S.J.S. Chen et al. (2009) Information Organization in Libraries, Archives and Museums: Converging Practices and Collaboration Opportunities. In Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 46 (1).
  http://www.asist.org/Conferences/AM09...
- MRK Kalfatovic (2009) MAGICIAN OF THE MODERN (BOOK REVIEW).. In Library Journal.
  http://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=4956915
- Martin R. Kalfatovic, Effie Kapsalis, Katherine P. Spiess et al. (2009) Smithsonian Team Flickr: a library, archives, and museums collaboration in web 2.0 space, 267-277. In Archival Science 8 (4).
  http://www.springerlink.com/index/10....
- MR Kalfatovic (2009) THE ART OF ARTS (BOOK REVIEW).. In Library Journal.
  http://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=3978295
- MR Kalfatovic (2008) CEZANNE AND PROVENCE: THE PAINTER IN HIS CULTURE. In Library Journal.
  http://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=7714640
- Chris Freeland, Martin Kalfatovic, Jay Paige et al. (2008) Geocoding LCSH in the Biodiversity Heritage Library. In Code4Lib Journal.
  http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/52
- S M Colby, L Normore, B Watson et al. (2001) Library pathfinders, 1-7. In Drexel Library Quarterly.
- MR Kalfatovic (2000) THE MADONNA OF THE FUTURE (BOOK REVIEW).. In Library Journal.
  http://elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=4030735
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Book (3)
- Martin R. Kalfatovic (2002) Creating a Winning Online Exhibition: A Guide for Libraries, Archives, and Museums.. In American Library Association.
- Martin R. Kalfatovic (1994) The Fine Arts Projects of the New Deal: An Annotated Bibliography, 504. In Scarecrow Press.
- Martin R Kalfatovic (1992) Nile notes of a howadji : A bibliography of traveler’s tales from Egypt, from the earliest times to 1918, 427. In Scarecrow.
Book Section (4)
- Martin R. Kalfatovic (2001) Nile Notes of a Howadji: American Travellers in Egypt, 1837-1903, 239-59. In Unfolding the Orient: Travellers in Egypt and the Near East.
- Martin R. Kalfatovic (2000) Web-based Markup Languages: HTML, DHTML, and XML, 68-76. In The Cybrarian’s Manual 2.
- Martin R Kalfatovic, Milton T Wolf, Pat Ensor et al. (1998) Redefining the Library Meme: Memory and Imagination.
- M.R. Kalfatovic (1994) Planning Basics for a Library FTP Site: The" Increase and Diffusion of Knowledge" at Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
  http://si-pddr.si.edu/dspace/bitstrea...
  
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Conference Proceedings (2)
- Martin Kalfatovic (2006) Open Access to Legacy Taxonomic Literature The Biodiversity Heritage Library. In NVC NSDL.
- A.A. Begg, M.R. Kalfatovic (1998) Project Access: Providing Internet Access to the Smithsonian Institution Research Community, 27. In Finding common ground: creating the library of the future without diminishing the library of the past.
  http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cit...

Biographical Information

Martin R. Kalfatovic is the Assistant Director, Digital Services Division at Smithsonian Institution Libraries. The Digital Services Division oversees the Libraries digitization efforts which include digital editions and collections, online exhibitions, and other website content. Current projects include work on metadata, standards, intellectual property issues. As the Smithsonian's coordinator for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), he oversees the Smithsonian's contributions and serves on the BHL Technical Committee.

Current research focuses on the Biodiversity Heritage Library project (www.biodiversitylibrary.org) in terms of linking texts with taxonomic intelligence and other analysis tools; and the data curation and related issues that surround the publication of Smithsonian Contributions and Studies series in an electronic format. He is a frequent contributor of articles and reviews and the author of three books; his M.S.L.S. is from The School of Library and Information Science, The Catholic University of America, in 1990. He has an inordinate fondness for dodos.