“RDA is being developed as a new standard for resource description and access designed for the digital world.” A webinar/presentation about RDA, which the cataloging world has been abuzz about is located here http://tinyurl.com/yexxlyn Also, a couple of demos out (just demos, not product):A small demo example for what “open development” could do:http://www.biblio.tu-bs.de/db/wtr/content.htm Very no-frills browsing by rule number, rule
Well, this would seem to be a match made in heaven for the goals of the semantic web — because regardless of the schema and mapping, I think there is going to have be some kind of established form/identity…. and considering my cataloger tendencies (lol), well, I can’t help but love this project…. —————The Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) has
Well, this is interesting… some thoughts on a new tool in the google webmaster’s toolbox…. Just goes to show that mining content doesn’t always tell you relevance. Sometimes controlled vocabularies (subject headings) and taxonomies (categories) are a GOOD thing… Sigh… Here is what Google says the keyword significance list is for: Below are the most common keywords Google found when
So, Google announced that: Google uses numerous sources to find new webpages, from links we find on the web to submitted URLs. We aim to discover new pages quickly so that users can find new content in Google search results soon after they go live. We recently launched a feature that uses RSS and Atom feeds for the discovery of
My presentation [Geoff Nunberg @ Language Log] focussed on GB’s metadata — a feature absolutely necessary to doing most serious scholarly work with the corpus. It’s well and good to use the corpus [fulltext/body] just for finding information on a topic — entering some key words and barrelling in sideways. (That’s what “googling” means, isn’t it?) But for scholars looking
I think I may have posted this before but if not, here it is.A cataloging tutorial In order to view the interactive features, LiveWeb must be installed and you must have an internet connection. INSTALLING LIVEWEB DIRECTIONS Click here to download the add-in. Save the file (lwsetup.exe) to your computer (saving it to the desktop makes it easy to locate).
some screen shots of the RDA online product, links to documents giving background information, an RDA FAQ, a link to the Web site for the Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA (JSC) and to the AACR2 Web site. Ooh, ooh — a core record example using Oxygen XML editor! http://www.rdaonline.org/rda_samples/rda_samples.html
We’d love a few more survey participants. Feel free to share.——————Do you do metadata or cataloging training? Are you a trainee or a library or information science student? Archivist? Librarian?We could really use your help — 1 quick survey and help our research. Here is your chance to speak your mind about your training experiences!http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=S6LEGThhanvSpjVMeVzwWw_3d_3d
There’s a favorable review of Radical Cataloging: Essays at the Front, edited by former UGAer K.R. Roberto; introduction by Sanford Berman, with a tiny sliver of a essay by me, and another essay Beth Thornton Serials Cataloger at UGA: http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/cts/olac/newsletters/sept08/review.html#radical As reviewer Douglas King (UC Santa Barbara) notes, it “restate[s] principles and provide[s] innovative examples of user-focused bibliographic access, expressed
Okay, so this will be of little interest to anyone outside of my organization, but here is a little diagram I came up with to help illustrate how the ETD MARC conversion/crosswalk script currently works with the Ultimate db. Just one example of the kind of things I do BESIDES web2.0/emerging technologies.