MORE 'INFO-ORGANIZATION-AND-CATALOGING' POSTS
1. University of California Davis Mabie Law Library Moves to SkyRiver 2. OverDrive: Mobile Sites Now Remember Your Library Card Number on Your Device 3. Library of Alexandria Collection Now Available on Espresso Book Machine Network, Hat Tip: ATG
A superb “not to technical intro” that is absolutely worthy or your time and also worth sharing. Direct to Full Text Column: “Linked Data: A Way Out of the Information Chaos and Toward the Semantic Web” by: Michael A. Keller Source: EDUCAUSE Review (42.4; July/August 2011) A new approach to reducing the chaos of the […]
Conference Paper: "Linking to LCSH and LCC: Controlled Subject Headings and Classification Systems through the Web"
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|This paper will be presented at on August 16, 2011, at the World Library and Information Congress : 77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly in San Juan. Title: “Linking to LCSH and LCC: Controlled Subject Headings and Classification Systems through the Web” (28 pages; PDF) Authors: Barbara Tillett, Libby Dechman, and Loche McLean (Library of […]
"Resource Description and Access (RDA) and the Implications of RDA for Federal Depository Libraries"
|From the FDLP Desktop: The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) continues to monitor the discussion of the Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA: Resource Description and Access. RDA is based on FRBR, or Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records, and was released in 2010. It has undergone testing at the Library of Congress, the […]
JISC and Other UK Organizations Call For All UK Metadata to Be Openly Accessible
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|From a JISC Announcement: Unlocking the descriptive information or metadata about digital content, articles, books and research is the key to making it more useful, according to the JISC-funded resource discovery taskforce as it embarks on a new programme of work. If all UK metadata was made openly accessible, the taskforce says, then the resources […]
From Art Daily (News Release): The Art Institute of Chicago announced that the museum has been awarded $400,000 by the Getty Foundation for the implementation of an online catalogue of paintings and drawings by the artists Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The grant supports further work on the prototype developed by the Art Institute of […]
The Dublin Core 2011 Conference is Scheduled to Take Place in The Hague, September 22-23. From the Dublin Core Web Site: The organizing committee of DC-2011 has published the preliminary program of the event. On Wednesday 21 September there will be a full day of Tutorials alongside a special session on Vocabulary Management and Alignment. […]
Harvard Library Lab/The Podcast 003: The Digital Citation (David Weinberger Talks to Dan Cohen)
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|Direct to Podcast Blog Post and Link to Audio It’s the Dave & Dan show! David Weinberger from the Harvard Library Innovation Lab and Dan Cohen, the Co-Director of the Ray Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University discuss Zotero, the free bibliographic reference manager program that is being developed […]
"4 Stars for Metadata: an Open Ranking System for Library, Archive, and Museum Collection Metadata"
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|From a Post on the Open Bibliography and Open Bibliographic Data Blog (Cross-Posted on Open Knowledge Foundation Blog and the Creative Commons Blog) This post was written by participants of the LOD-LAM Summit which was held on June 2nd/3rd in San Francisco and is crossposted on the Creative Commons blog and the OKFN blog. The […]
Full Text of Statement by LC, NAL, and NLM Execs Endorsing Recommendations for Implementation of New RDA
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|From an Announcement: The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the world’s largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, the National Agricultural Library (NAL) and the Library of Congress (LC) announce an agreement regarding the implementation of RDA (Resource Description and Access), new cataloging rules published in June 2010 to replace […]