Nancy Lorimer
Stanford University
Head, Metadata Dept
nlorimer@stanford.edu
Nancy Lorimer is Head of the Metadata Department at Stanford University, where she oversees original metadata creation, data control, and e-resources, and participates in linked data projects and planning. She has been active in all the Linked Data for Production (LD4P) Projects and is currently co-chair, with Paloma Graciani, of the Sinopia Profiles Affinity Group. Formerly, a music metadata librarian for close to 20 years, Nancy participated in the development of RDA, the Library of Congress Medium of Performance Thesaurus for Music (LCMPT), and led a project to add music terms to the LC Genre Form Thesaurus for Library and Archival Materials (LCGFT), before moving into the world of linked data. Nancy is currently also a member of the Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Policy Committee, the PCC Standing Committee on Training, and is co-chair of both the LC-PCC Task Group on Aggregates in Beta RDA Toolkit and the newly formed Task Group on PCC Sinopia Application Profiles.