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Passover. (Celebrations in My World). Molly Aloian. Review by Gail Hamilton. Grades 2-3 / Ages 7-8. Thanksgiving. (Celebrations in My World).
News | www.umanitoba.ca | Nov 20, 2009
Lynn Peppas. Review by Gail Hamilton. Grades 2-3 / Ages 7-8. Zoopoesies: An Illustrated Book of Educational Animal Poems for Young Readers. Bernell MacDonald. Review by Linda Ludke. Grades 2-5 / Ages 7-10. Osemo: The Rainbow Zebra. K.E. Olsen. Review by
http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/vol16/no12/celebrationsinmyworld.html
The New York Times and Its 30,000 Tags (You Can Call Them Subject Headings)
News | www.resourceshelf.com | Nov 10, 2009
A few weeks ago we posted about a new prototype from the New York Times named Custom Feeds. It allows users, for free, to create custom built RSS feeds of NY Times content that make use of the actual tags (aka descriptors, subject headings) that humans use when
NYT Kicks out 5,000 Subject Headings to Data Clouds
News | www.researchbuzz.org | Nov 9, 2009
I love the RSS feed for New York Times Open. The blog doesnt update very often but whenever it does I know Im going to have something good to read. At the end of October the blog announced the release of 5,000 of its person name subject headings as Linked Open Data.
http://www.researchbuzz.org/wp/nyt-kicks-out-5000-subject-headings-to-data-clouds/
OCLC Releases Top Levels of Dewey as Linked Data
News | www.libraryjournal.com | Sep 15, 2009
Dewey is getting new life as linked data. OCLC has released the top three levels (including 1100 classes) of the Dewey Decimal Summaries (DDS) as part of an interlinked scheme of uniform resource identifiers (URI). This release is the latest effort by library organizations to connect broad
Walt
News | waltshiel.com | Sep 14, 2009
Newcomers to any business can quickly become overwhelmed by the industry-specific acronyms. Publishing is not much different ISBN, EAN, CIP/PCIP, LCCN, PCN, SAN, GTIN, ARC, ad nausem.So what the heck is BISAC? First, lets consider what the Book Industry Study Group (BISG)is, as they
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Google Book's Biggest Liability
News | www.conversationalreading.com | Sep 4, 2009
Google Book's data is highly unreliable, the Journal of Higher Education is claiming in this article. They make a convincing argument that Google Book's metadata is full of errors: To take Google's word for it, 1899 was a literary annus mirabilis, which saw the publication of Raymond Chandler's
http://www.conversationalreading.com/2009/09/google-books-biggest-liability.html
SKOS and Linked Data
Blog | catalogablog.blogspot.com | Sep 1, 2009
Today W3C announces a new standard that builds a bridge between the world of knowledge organization systems - including thesauri, classifications, subject headings, taxonomies, and folksonomies - and the linked data community, bringing benefits to both.
http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2009/09/skos-and-linked-data.html
Canadian Subject Headings now part of OCLC Terminologies Service
Blog | xrefer.blogspot.com | May 15, 2009
The Canadian Subject Headings (CSH) list is the 11th controlled vocabulary to be included in the OCLC Terminologies Service, which provides access to multiple thesauri to help librarians create consistent metadata for library, museum or
http://xrefer.blogspot.com/2009/05/canadian-subject-headings-now-part-of.html
OA to LOC subject heading data, take two
News | www.earlham.edu | May 4, 2009
If you recall, last December the Library of Congress asked Ed Summers to take down his OA Library of Congress Subject Headings linked data service. At the time, Summers thought that the LOC might be considering offering a similar service of its own in the future.
http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/05/oa-to-loc-subject-heading-data-take-two.html
Participation and Power: Combining Community Features with Existing metadata in NextGen Public Interfaces
Blog | litablog.org | Oct 20, 2008
Participation and Power: Combining Community Features with Existing metadata in NextGen Public InterfacesDinah Sanders, Innovative Interface Kelly M. Vickery, University of KentuckyInstead of just talking about encore, Dinah will discuss how metadata is exposed for patrons to leverage, how is it
