Keynote : Working the Data

Haliza Jailani is Senior Deputy Director/Senior Principal Librarian for Resource Discovery and Management at the National Library Board Singapore. She oversees a team of cataloguers and information professionals responsible for the bibliographic functions of NLB including cataloguing, metadata and ontology management, linked data and knowledge organisation systems.
In the early days of metadata harmonisation, Haliza created crosswalks based on Dublin Core metadata to enable metadata integration from libraries, archives and museums that formed the bedrock for OneSearch, Singapore’s cultural heritage search platform and the ASEAN Digital Library, an online resource on ASEAN heritage content. She is currently overseeing NLB’s technology refresh of its Linked Data Management System based on BIBFRAME and Schema.org.
Haliza has served in the International Federation of Library Association’s (IFLA) Linked Data Technical Sub-Committee and is now part of IFLA’s Bibliography Section, working in subgroups reviewing the Universal Bibliographic Control document and raising awareness on national bibliographies and new technologies. She is an RDA (Resource Description and Access) Board member, a standard that provides instructions and guidelines on formulating bibliographic data in the library world. She represents NLB in the DCMI Governing Board.