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 r...
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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...
Thursday Threads: RDF, Digital Document Tampering, and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
Enter your email address to receive DLTJ Thursday Threads: Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> This is definitely becoming a habit...welco...
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 bi...
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 i...
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 ...
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 Dum...
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 Wor...
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 o...
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...
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...
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 f...
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 ...
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 ...
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-creat...
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 mig...
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 ...
Thumbgrabber: a metadata augmentation tool
In 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...
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 Mod...
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 G...
Open Library Demonstration Screencast
Earlier this week, Aaron Swartz of the Internet Archive announced the demonstration website of the Open Library project, a new kind of book catalog that brin...
Article-Level OAI-PMH Harvest Available from DOAJ
Earlier this year the DOAJ began offering a new schema for registered articles that significantly improves the value of OAI-PMH harvested article content. P...
Resources for Describing Visual Materials
A recent thread on describing visual materials from the IMAGELIB mailing list sparked the descovery of these resources. First was this bibliography of thesa...