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From SemanticWeb.com A recent article reports, “The Leibniz Center for Law of the University of Amsterdam has made all Dutch legislation available as CEN MetaLex and Linked Open Data through the MetaLex Document Server portal (MDS). [Clip] All metadata is published as RDF Linked Data, is linked to the original legislative sources, and uses standard […]
From OCLC: On August 26, 1971, the OCLC Online Union Catalog and Shared Cataloging system (now known as WorldCat) began operation. That first day, from a single terminal, catalogers at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, cataloged 133 books online. Today, WorldCat comprises more than 240 million records representing more than 1.7 billion items in OCLC […]
From Broadcast Engineering Metadata has never really got the juices going at IBC or anywhere else, but now at least it is being much more talked about and taken seriously by all participants in the content value chain. This will be reflected at IBC2011, where the fast expanding role of metadata in search and recommendation […]
Conference Paper: "From Institutional Repositories to Personal Collections of Learning Resources"
Conference Presentations, Journal Articles, Open Access, Preservation, Resources
|Title: “From Institutional Repositories to Personal Collections of Learning Resources” (MS Word Doc) Authors: Julià Minguillón, and Jordi Conesa (2011) In: Proceedings of the The PLE Conference 2011 10th – 12th July 2011, Southampton, UK. Abstract: Institutional digital repositories are a basic piece to provide preservation and reutilization of learning resources. However, their creation and […]
Australian Standard Classification of Languages (ASCL), 2011 From Overview: The first edition of the Australian Standard Classification of Languages (ASCL) (ABS Cat. No. 1267.0) was published in 1997 to meet a statistical and administrative need for a classification of languages. It was designed for use in the collection, aggregation and dissemination of data relating to […]
Reference: Controlled Vocabularies "The Ethnographic Thesaurus (Beta Version) is Added to the Open Folklore Portal"
Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Resources, Scholarly Communications
|From the Open Folklore Blog: The AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus is now available in a beta version on the Open Folklore portal, a collaborative effort of the Society, the Indiana University-Bloomington Libraries, and the Indiana University Digital Library Program. [Clip] The AFS Ethnographic Thesaurus is a searchable online vocabulary that can be used to improve access […]
The International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Application is scheduled to take place from September 21-September 23 in The Hague. DC-2011, the eleventh International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications, will take place at the National Library of the Netherlands in The Hague from 21 through 23 September 2011. The National Library of […]
Metadata: "DublinCore: First RDA Vocabularies Published"
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Publishing, Resources
|Froma Dublin Core Metadata Initiative E-Mail List (via the Web): The Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA(JSC), the DCMI/RDA Task Group, and ALA Publishing(on behalf of the co-publishers of RDA) are pleased to announce that the first group of RDA controlled vocabularies have been reviewed, approved, and their status in the Open Metadata Registry […]
Must See: "Introducing a New App from OCLC Research: the WorldCat Identities Network"
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, News, Patrons and Users, Resources
|We’ve been very quietly hoping that OCLC and OCLC Research would develop something like what you’re going to read about and it’s finally here as an experimental app. From an OCLC Developers Network Blog Post: The WorldCat Identities Network app lets you explore the interconnectivity and relationships between WorldCat Identities. Here’s the official announcement. If […]
From a SemanticWeb.com Article: [The] Bing webmaster help site indicates Microsoft wants to play nice with whatever markup approach webmasters want to implement – microdata, microformats, or RDFa. The site mark-up overview on the page referenced says that Bing’s “crawlers do not prefer one specification over another. It’s entirely up to you to decide which […]