MORE 'INFO-ORGANIZATION-AND-CATALOGING' POSTS
From Semantic Universe: Ruben Verborgh and Seth van Hooland have launched Free Your Metadata, “a demonstrator site for showing how even irregular metadata can have valued to others and how, if it is released rather than clutched tightly onto (until that mythical day when it is ‘perfect’), it can be cleaned up and improved using […]
Cataloging: SkyRiver Announces Six New Academic Library Customers
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, Resources
|From SkyRiver: Recent additions to the SkyRiver customer base include Alma College (MI), Cameron University (OK), Rhode Island College (RI), San Francisco State University (CA), Utah State University (UT), as well as ARL member, the Kelvin Smith Library of Case Western Reserve University (OH). Read the Complete Announcement
The article appears in the September 2011 Issue of Information Research. Title: “Research: An Examination of Semantic Relationships Between Professionally Assigned Metadata and User-Generated Tags for Popular Literature in Complementary and Alternative Medicine” Authors: Hemalata Iyer and Lucy Bungo University at Albany, State University of New York, Department of Information Studies, College of Computing and […]
New Article: "Digitization Practices for Translations: Lessons Learned from the Our Americas Archive Partnership Project "
Digital Preservation, Journal Articles, Open Access, Resources
|Title: Digitization Practices for Translations: Lessons Learned from the Our Americas Archive Partnership Project Authors: Lorena Gauthereau-Bryson, Robert Estep, and Monica Rivero Affiliations (All Authors): Rice University Abstract The “Our Americas Archive Partnership” (OAAP) is a collaborative effort between scholars, librarians, and information scientists, and provides an integrated approach to discovering, accessing and using scholarly […]
From NPD: The NPD Group [recently announced] the release of its Video Games Industry Taxonomy, providing the foundation for the proper classification and nomenclature within the burgeoning digital games space. [Clip] Developed in conjunction with The NPD Group’s Games Advisory Board, whose inaugural meeting was held in San Diego on May 26 -27, 2011, with […]
A New 24 Page Report From OCLC: "WorldCat Quality"
Data Files, Journal Articles, Libraries, Management and Leadership, National Libraries, Resources
|Title: Principle Contributors: Karen Calhoun, Vice President, WorldCat and Metadata Services Glenn Patton, Director, WorldCat Quality Management From a Summary on the OCLC Web Site: This paper describes OCLC’s steps to make it easier to find items in WorldCat and get them from OCLC member libraries. It begins with a review of WorldCat’s unprecedented growth […]
Interviews With Five Metadata Experts
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, National Libraries, Profiles, Resources
|DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) 2011 Conference gets underway next week in The Hague and the conference web site is home to interviews with DCMI leaders and conference speakers. + Emmanuelle Bermès, Modern Art Museum Centre Pompidou Metadata and semantic web expert Emmanuelle Bermès is a keynote speaker at this year’s Dublin Core conference in […]
EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) Adds HathiTrust Data
Data Files, EBSCO, News, Patrons and Users, Preservation, Publishing, Resources
|A few minutes ago that EBSCO formally announced that HathiTrust data will soon be accessible via the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS). Today’s announcement from EBSCO comes after an OCLC announcement yesterday that HathiTrust data will be directly accessible to users of WorldCat and WorldCat. We will be on the lookout for similar announcements from other […]
New from OCLC Research: "Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums Part 1: Site Reviews"
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, Patrons and Users, Reports, Resources
|Title: Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums Part 1: Site Reviews Authors: Karen Smith-Yoshimura, OCLC Research and Cyndi Shein, Getty Research Institute Metadata helps users locate resources that meet their specific needs. But metadata also helps us to understand the data we find and helps us to evaluate what we should spend our time […]
New Article: "Exhibit 3.0 Part 1 – An Open Source Software Platform for Publishing Linked Data"
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, Publishing, Resources
|The following article was co-authored by MacKenzie Smith, Research Director at MIT Libraries and Eric Miller, Founder and President of Zepheira. It’s Part I of a two-part series published on SemanticWeb.com. Part II will be published later this month. It includes a couple of screenshots of Exhibit in action at LC. Title: “Exhibit 3.0 Part 1 […]