OCLC to conduct next generation cataloging

News  |  www.librarytechnology.org | Jan 3, 2008

(December 13, 2007). OCLC is conducting a pilot project to explore the viability and efficiency of capturing metadata from publishers and vendors upstream and enhancing that metadata in WorldCat, an approach that could provide added value to libraries and publishers by enhancing and delivering data

http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displayarticle.pl?RC=12936

Outgoing

This posting is partly a shameless experiment in manipulating results in search engines. WorldCat Identities normally returns XML pages with an associated style sheet that transforms the page to HTML within your browser.

http://outgoing.typepad.com/

IDPF Urges Adoption of .epub Standard at Forum

News  |  www.libraryjournal.com | May 20, 2008

Many, if not most, publishers today already develop digital versions of their catalog holdings at some point in their workflow, even if those digital editions are not available to end users. Currently, however, these documents take many forms and vary greatly from publisher to publisher.

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6562618.html

Metadata and Heraclitus

Blog  |  orweblog.oclc.org | Sep 1, 2008

I was very struck a couple of years ago by a comment made by my colleague Eric Hellman. He talked about metadata in terms of rivers and lakes. In the library cataloging model we have had lakes - accumulating stores of data that do not change frequently over time and are fed by a few principal

http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001754.html

CILIP | The Five Purposes of Metadata

As well as those responsible for specifying, designing and setting up systems, the professionals operating systems increasingly need to know about metadata. They need to manage metadata.

http://www.cilip.org.uk/publications/updatemagazine/archive/archive2004/july/update0407.htm

BEA's Convention & Education Schedule

News  |  www.publishersweekly.com | Apr 30, 2007

Be sure to note that many of the events and educational programs are alternating between the Hotel ABA, located in Brooklyn, and the trade show taking place at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan. This theme for this year's show is “Expanding Boundaries.”

http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6437638.html

Size Isn't Everything: Sustainable Repositories as Evidenced by Sustainable Deposit Profiles

News  |  dx.doi.org | Jul 16, 2007

The ideal profile for a successful repository is discussed, and a new service that ranks repositories based on these criteria is implemented.

http://dx.doi.org/10.1045/july2007-carr

Archives | Academic Commons

With Academic Commons, we seek to form a community of faculty, academic technologists, librarians, administrators, and other academic professionals who will help create a comprehensive web resource focused on liberal arts education. Learn more.

http://www.academiccommons.org/archives/200711

Golden Retrievers

News  |  www.schoollibraryjournal.com | Nov 1, 1999

Finding things on the Web got you chasing your tail? Bone up on metadata: it gets searchers out of the doghouse.

http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA153030.html

MoinMoin Wiki Syntax for Description Set Profiles

Blog  |  catalogablog.blogspot.com | Oct 7, 2008

This document describes a MoinMoin wiki syntax for a Description Set Profile as defined in the DCMI Working Draft "Description Set Profiles: A constraint language for Dublin Core Application Profiles" of March 2008 [DC-DSP], which in turn is based on the DCMI Abstract Model [ABSTRACT-MODEL].

http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2008/10/moinmoin-wiki-syntax-for-description.html