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Peter E. Murray

Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally

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  • W3C Incubator Group Report on Library Linked Data Published

    This morning the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced the publication of the final report of the Library Linked Data Incubator Group. The abstract is reproduced below.

    The mission of the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group, chartered from May 2010 through August 2011, has been "to help increase global …

     Posted on  October 25, 2011
     and last updated October 25, 2011
     ·  3 minutes reading time
  • Defining Metadata and Making Metadata Accessible

    In preparation for the last webinar of the three-part series "Using RDA: Moving into the Metadata Future", I'm reading again Karen Coyle's "Library Data in a Modern Context" -- the first chapter of Understanding the Semantic Web: Bibliographic Data and Metadata. Right at the start she has a clear and …

     Posted on  November 16, 2010
     and last updated November 17, 2010
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: RDF, Digital Document Tampering, and Amazon's Mechanical Turk

    This is definitely becoming a habit...welcome to the fourth edition of DLTJ's Thursday Threads. Feel free to send this newsletter to others you think might be interested in the topics. If you are not already subscribed to DLTJ's Thursday Threads, visit the sign-up page. If you would like …

     Posted on  October 21, 2010
     and last updated October 21, 2010
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • RDA-as-Service Only

    At the ALA Annual Conference exhibit floor I got my first chance to see the RDA Toolkit. RDA is "Resource Description and Access" -- the new standard for bibliographic description of content. So this was the first time I really got to look at the RDA Toolkit. (By the way, you …

     Posted on  June 27, 2010
     and last updated June 27, 2010
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • From “Moby-Dick” To “Mash-Ups:” Thinking About Bibliographic Networks at ALA Annual 2010

    Ron Murray and Barbara Tillett, both from the Library of Congress, are presenting their research in thinking about bibliographic information as networks of interrelated nodes at ALA Annual. This is a continuation of their "paper tool" work which was presented at the Library of Congress last year.

    The title of …

     Posted on  June 24, 2010
     and last updated June 25, 2010
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Mash-Up Request for Submissions

    I'm working with some colleagues at the Library of Congress on the on the description of complex analog and digital resources. In that research, we want to get a better sense of what people who read DLTJ call a “mash-up.” We invite readers to provide examples (in any medium) of …

     Posted on  April 15, 2010
     and last updated April 16, 2010
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Index Data on Z39.50 for Dummies

    Earlier this year, Index Data started a new blog. I wanted to call out a series of posts (parts one and two) their newly started blog called Z39.50 for Dummies. Wolfram Schneider on the Index Data staff wrote these two posts.

    In the introductory posting, Wolfram says:

    Z39.50 …

     Posted on  September 10, 2009
     and last updated September 10, 2009
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Survey Responses Sought from the OCLC Review Board on Shared Data Creation and Stewardship

    The OCLC Review Board on Shared Data Creation and Stewardship is conducting a survey to gather opinions on OCLC's proposed Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records. The survey is 6 pages long and took me about 20 minutes. After the demographic information, the survey asks about your organization's …

     Posted on  March 27, 2009
     and last updated March 27, 2009
     ·  3 minutes reading time
  • OCLC Review Board's Blog

    There is a new page in the Record Use Policy area on the OCLC website with an invitation from Jennifer Younger, chair of the Review Board, inviting members of the community to send e-mail to reviewboard@oclc.org or to post public comments on the Review Board Online Feedback Forum …

     Posted on  February 10, 2009
     and last updated February 10, 2009
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • Members of the OCLC Review Board Announced

    OCLC announced late yesterday the members of the review board. In addition, they announced the establishment of an e-mail address for communicating with the review board (reviewboard@oclc.org).

    Members of the Review Board of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship are:

    • Christopher Cole (FEDLINK): Associate Director for Technical Services, National …
     Posted on  February 07, 2009
     and last updated February 08, 2009
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • On the Role of WorldCat and -Please- Open Up the Discussion

    Nearly a week after it was posted, I came across a posting by Karen Calhoun of OCLC summarizing her impressions of the ALCTS Forum at Midwinter. I thought I had been closely watching the dialog around the policy, so I was surprised when I came across it. That makes me …

     Posted on  February 02, 2009
     and last updated February 02, 2009
     ·  3 minutes reading time
  • Correction Added to Guardian Story on OCLC Record Use Policy

    Last week, The Guardian newspaper in the U.K. published a story on the proposed OCLC record use policy and the controversy surrounding the proposal. As the first story on the controversy to reach the mainstream press, it spawned a flurry of discussion in the blogosphere.

    Yesterday The Guardian posted …

     Posted on  January 31, 2009
     and last updated January 02, 2018
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Further Consideration of OCLC Records Use Policy

    At ALA Midwinter, ALCTS sponsored a panel discussion about sharing library-created data inside and outside the library community, with a particular focus on cataloging data. I was honored to be ask to speak on the topic from the perspective of a consortial office. This is the second and final post …

     Posted on  January 28, 2009
     and last updated January 29, 2009
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Consideration of OCLC Records Use Policy

    At ALA Midwinter, ALCTS sponsored a panel discussion about sharing library-created data inside and outside the library community, with a particular focus on cataloging data. I was honored to be ask to speak on the topic from the perspective of a consortial office. This is the first in a series …

     Posted on  January 27, 2009
     and last updated January 28, 2009
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • ALCTS Forum on Creating and Sustaining Communities Around Shared Library Data

    Community-shared metadata has certainly been a hot topic of late. It is timely, then that ALCTS is sponsoring a panel discussion about sharing library-created data inside and outside the library community at the upcoming ALA Midwinter meeting in Denver. From the panel description:
    Panelists will share a variety of perspectives …
     Posted on  January 16, 2009
     and last updated January 16, 2009
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • For the heart and soul of librarianship -- human description versus fulltext analytics

    A non-librarian colleague forwarded a link to an essay by Mark Pesce called The Alexandrine Dilemma. From the context of one of the comments, I think it might have been the text of a keynote given at New Librarians Symposium in Australia last month. It is a thought-provoking piece that …

     Posted on  January 07, 2009
     and last updated January 07, 2009
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • XML Tower of Structural Metadata

    Jerome McDonough of the Graduate School of Library & Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign presented a paper this summer at the Balisage conference with the title Structural Metadata and the Social Limitation of Interoperability: A Sociotechnical View of XML and Digital Library Standards Development. ((McDonough, J. (2008 …

     Posted on  October 02, 2008
     and last updated October 02, 2008
     ·  3 minutes reading time
  • Thumbgrabber: a metadata augmentation tool

    Blogging on Peer Review ResearchIn reading a background paper for the American Social History Online portal, I was reacquainted with a paper by Muriel Foulonneau, Thomas Habing and Tim Cole from UIUC called "Automated Capture of Thumbnails and Thumbshots for Use by Metadata Aggregation Services." ((Foulonneau, M., Habing, T.G., Cole, T.W. (2006 …

     Posted on  April 29, 2008
     and last updated April 29, 2008
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Would the Real "Dublin Core" Please Stand Up?

    I've been following the discussion by Stu Weibel on his blog about the relationship between Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Dublin Core Abstract Model (DCAM), and I think I'm as confused as ever. It comes as a two part posting with comments by Andy Powell Pete Johnston (apologies, Pete), Mikael …

     Posted on  February 18, 2008
     and last updated February 18, 2008
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Getting On With 'The Future of Descriptive Enrichment

    Roy Tennant is advocating the phrase "Descriptive Enrichment" over "Bibliographic Control" in response to draft report from the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, and I'm stepping up to say -- I'm right there with you, Roy! ((And I would have said so in a comment …

     Posted on  December 13, 2007
     and last updated December 13, 2007
     ·  4 minutes reading time