MORE 'INFO-ORGANIZATION-AND-CATALOGING' POSTS
New from the Library of Congress: A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age
Associations and Organizations, Conference Presentations, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, Management and Leadership, National Libraries, Resources
|From LC: The Working Group of the Future of Bibliographic Control, as it examined technology for the future, wrote that the Library community’s data carrier, MARC, is “based on forty-year-old techniques for data management and is out of step with programming styles of today.” The Working Group called for a format that will “accommodate and […]
Title: “Knowledge Organization Research in the Last Two Decades: 1988-2008” Authors: Fidelia Ibekwe-SanJuan (Elico – University of Lyon 3, France) Eric SanJuan (LIA, University of Avignon, France) Abstract: We apply an automatic topic mapping system to records of publications in knowledge organization published between 1988-2008. The data was collected from journals publishing articles in the […]
Just Released: W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group Final Report
Data Files, Libraries, National Libraries, Preservation, Reports, Resources
|From the Report Intro: The mission of the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group, chartered from May 2010 through August 2011, has been “to help increase global interoperability of library data on the Web, by bringing together people involved in Semantic Web activities — focusing on Linked Data — in the library community and beyond, […]
From an Appmarket.tv Column by Richard Kastelein There are, essentially two ways to tag video entertainment. Curated and automated. And both have their pros and cons. Manually tagging millions of programmes and shows is going to take a decade of Mechanical Turks but this really offers up the best metadata. There are companies that are […]
New Article: "Publisher Names in Bibliographic Data: An Experimental Authority File and a Prototype Application"
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, Profiles, Publishing, Resources
|From OCLC Research: The research project presented in this article by Lynn Silipigni Connaway, Ph.D., and Timothy J. Dickey, Ph.D., built an experimental database of authorized names for major publishers worldwide. The cataloging community has long acknowledged the value of investing in authority control; as bibliographic systems become more global, the need for authority control […]
NISO Launches New Initiative to Develop Standards for Digital Bookmarking and Annotation Sharing
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Patrons and Users, Resources
|From a NISO Announcement: The National Information Standards Organization voting members have approved a new work item to develop a standard syntax for how bookmarks and notes should be located in digital texts and shared with others, especially in online environments that might be continually updated or mutable. The ability to accurately refer to a […]
From a BBC R&D Blog Post: As John Zubrzycki mentioned yesterday, this project is running as part of BBC R&D’s Archive Research Section, is developing new ways in which to open up the BBC’s archive to the public. The aim of the project is to allow people to search and browse the archive to find content […]
New Article: "Transcendental Metadata: A Collaborative Schema for Electronic Resource Description"
Academic Libraries, Journal Articles, Libraries, New Issue, Reports, Resources
|Article: “Transcendental Metadata: A Collaborative Schema for Electronic Resource Description” Authors: Charlene Sorensen (University of Saskatchewan), Craig Harkema (University of Saskatchewan), Karim Tharani (University of Saskatchewan) Source: Collaborative Librarianship (Vol. 3. No.3, 2011) From the Abstract: Academic libraries are attempting to manage growing collections of diverse electronic resources in a chaotic environment of evolving standards […]
Dublin Core 2011 Keynote Presentation: Towards Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Funding, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Resources
|Title: Towards Linked Data for Libraries, Archives and Museums Author/Presenter: Emmanuelle Bermes Presented at DC-2011, The Hague (September 2011) Abstract: Convergence is a major issue for cultural heritage organisations: libraries, archives and museums face the growing need to provide their users with seamless access to their data. This challenge is not new, and the Dublin […]
From the FDLP Desktop: The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has been keeping track of the upcoming implementation of the new cataloging standards, Resource Description and Access (RDA). The RDA project page has been updated with new information about changes to the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP) as a result of RDA implementation at […]