Ms June Tomlinson

Ms June Tomlinson

Metadata Lead

Department: Library and Archives
Division: LA Researcher Services and Digital Delivery

Summary

I joined the Museum in January 2017 with a qualification in librarianship and experience of working in museum and university libraries. Originally a law librarian, I moved on to specialise in cataloguing and metadata standards and have a particular interest in improving discovery of library resources through linked data technologies.

Qualifications

    Degrees

  • MA Librarianship, University of Sheffield, Sheffield

Publications

Tomlinson JA, Savage-Jones M (2013) Challenging metadata: improving access to hybrid collections at the Wellcome LIbrary. Catalogue and index: periodical of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), 50 - 55.

Guest lectures

Invited speaker, From MARC to LOD: preparing Wellcome Library metadata for discovery on the Web, Cataloguers' and Indexers' Group biennial conference: Swansea University, Swansea, Swansea, United Kingdom, 5/9/2016.

Invited speaker, Preparing MARC records for linked data, EIUG/IIIG Conference: Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 7/7/2015.

Introduction

Summary

I joined the Museum in January 2017 with a qualification in librarianship and experience of working in museum and university libraries. Originally a law librarian, I moved on to specialise in cataloguing and metadata standards and have a particular interest in improving discovery of library resources through linked data technologies.

Qualifications

    Degrees

  • MA Librarianship, University of Sheffield, Sheffield
Publications

Publications

Tomlinson JA, Savage-Jones M (2013) Challenging metadata: improving access to hybrid collections at the Wellcome LIbrary. Catalogue and index: periodical of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP), 50 - 55.

Impact and outreach

Guest lectures

Invited speaker, From MARC to LOD: preparing Wellcome Library metadata for discovery on the Web, Cataloguers' and Indexers' Group biennial conference: Swansea University, Swansea, Swansea, United Kingdom, 5/9/2016.

Invited speaker, Preparing MARC records for linked data, EIUG/IIIG Conference: Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 7/7/2015.