from an email via a listserv… Library of Congress Announces Modeling Initiative …. [snip] The Library of Congress has asked Zepheira to provide a model (or models) that can serve as a strong starting point for discussion, and an analysis of related initiatives underway that will be useful to this effort. LC expects that the proposed model(s) will change and
So, some of us on twitter have been talking about images and metadata (you know, one of my fave topics). Anyhow, I realized I was running out of room on twitter, so I thought maybe a blog post was in order. ;-D By the way, I do have a chapter within Semantic Web Technologies and Social Search for Librarians, which
Ok, this sounds cool, tho a little hard to say what the quality control was like… but it is a big data set… . “This is Big Data for books,” said David Weinberger, co-director of Harvard’s Library Lab. “There might be 100 different attributes for a single object.” At a one-day test run with 15 hackers working with information on 600,000
Some interesting thoughts sprinkled throughout the interview portion… ———-OCLC now serves 72,035 libraries in 170 countries, with more than 260 million records—up from 39 million records in 1998. Its businesses have shifted radically, with an increasing proportion of its revenues derived from the library automation business rather than metadata services. Jordan’s tenure has not been without controversy. Some in the
This white paper written by Virginia Feher and I started out as a conversation about the changes brought about by automation within the UGA Libraries. Over the years, I have documented some of the changes in automation (including 5 migrations/conversions of the ILS – Library catalog!) through discussions with colleagues within the Libraries and outside. This article not only provides
Big News from LC regarding RDA implementation: As will be seen in the attached plan [on the website via the link below], we have determined that date to be March 31, 2013. LC’s partner national libraries (U.S.: National Agricultural Library and National Library of Medicine; and non-U.S.: British Library, Library & Archives Canada, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, and National Library of Australia)
Many points of interest in the OCLC discussion paper on RDA including how catalogers may use OCLC records postRDA implementation: Proposed Future Cataloging Policy for Member Contribution to WorldCat after RDA Implementation Catalogers are not required to update or upgrade existing records to RDA. Catalogers may re-catalog items according to RDA if it is considered useful. Such recataloging should only
Interesting post on changes to Google’s search algorithms (& an overview of 9 algorithm changes that have been released to the public) “Google is trying to become more open about their search algorithm changes. Beyond the much-discussed “fresh” update, Google discussed recent changes in SERP (Search Engine Results Page) titles and descriptions, date-specified searches, image search signals, and more. While
Video to be available at RDA Cafe on Facebook Presenters for Emory Theology Library (Emory was a RDA test participant), University of Georgia, GPLS (Georgia Public Library System) and UGA’s Law Library. Overview: Advantages of RDA – benefits to electronic reproductions in that there is no reproduction note, no GMD; benefits for theses & dissertations; granularity for increased searching Disadvantages
This may also be of interest to those with semantic web interests: ——— “Transforming our Bibliographic Framework<http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/news/framework-051311.html>,” a statement from the Library of Congress (LC). A web site has been established for the Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative<http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition/index.html> (http://www.loc.gov/marc/transition) and that will be the central place for plans, news, and progress.