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Peter E. Murray

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

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  • Thursday Threads: Beyond MARC, Library-controlled DRM, Spam Study

    Threads this week without commentary. (It has been a long week that included only one flight of four that actually happened without a delay, cancellation, or redirection.) Big announcements are one from the Library of Congress to re-envision the way bibliographic information travels, one from Douglas County (Colorado) Library's experiment …

     Posted on  May 26, 2011
     and last updated May 27, 2011
     ·  3 minutes reading time
  • Recordings from Code4Lib Virtual Lightning Talks Available

    Thanks to everyone for participating in the first Code4Lib Virtual Lightning Talks on Friday. In particular, my gratitude goes out to Ed Corrado, Luciano Ramalho, Michael Appleby, and Jay Luker being the first presenters to try this scheme for connecting library technologists. My apologies also to those who couldn't connect …

     Posted on  May 02, 2011
     and last updated May 02, 2011
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • What To Do With ISO 2709:2008?

    My employer recently became a member of NISO and I was made the primary representative. This is my first formal interaction with the standards organization heirarchy (NISO → ANSI → ISO) and as one of the side effects I'm being asked to provide advice to NISO on how its vote should be …

     Posted on  April 26, 2011
     and last updated April 27, 2011
     ·  3 minutes reading time
  • Real Life Example of Creative Commons License Applied to MARC Records

    Eric Morgan posted a message to the Next Generation Catalog for Libraries mailing list this morning that points to a announcement by the University of Florida library that they are now applying a Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication statement to MARC records they create. Their announcement says:

    Beginning March 2011 …

     Posted on  March 18, 2011
     and last updated March 18, 2011
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Personal Book Digitizer, Status of Book Piracy, Core Elements of Description

    It wasn't too long ago that the music industry was in an uproar about stories of how easy it was to copy digital audio files and make digital copies with high fidelity. It was predicted that we would see the same thing in other media forms, and this week's DLTJ …

     Posted on  January 20, 2011
     and last updated January 20, 2011
     ·  6 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
  • MARC isn't Dead, but it is a Dead End

    This week I sat in on the first of the three "Using RDA: Moving into the Metadata Future" webinars being hosted by ALA. This one was hosted by Karen Coyle with the title New Models of Metadata where she talked about library-specific efforts such asRDA and FRBR as well …

     Posted on  October 29, 2010
     and last updated October 29, 2010
     ·  2 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
  • Mashups of Bibliographic Data: A Report of the ALCTS Midwinter Forum

    This year the ALCTS Forum at ALA Midwinter brought together three perspectives on massaging bibliographic data of various sorts in ways that use MARC, but where MARC is not the end goal. What do you get when you swirl MARC, ONIX, and various other formats of metadata in a big …

     Posted on  January 27, 2010
     and last updated January 27, 2010
     ·  16 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
  • A Report on Namespaces Used by OAI-PMH Repositories

    I had a need for a survey of the metadata namespaces used by OAI-PMH repositories, so I wrote up a quick shell script and XSLT style sheet to parse through the list of Registered Data Providers at the OpenArchives.org website. The results of this effort are pretty interesting. Some …

     Posted on  March 20, 2007
     and last updated March 20, 2007
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • Just In Time Acquisitions versus Just In Case Acquisitions

    What of a service existed where the patrons selected an item they needed out of our library catalog and that item was delivered to the patron even when the library did not yet own the item? Would that be useful? With the growth of online bookstores, our users do have …

     Posted on  August 02, 2006
     and last updated August 02, 2006
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • The Problem with MARC and AACR: the World Doesn't Disco Anymore

    My undergraduate background is in computer science, and from that perspective I have a great deal of admiration for MARC and AACR as well as their creators and proponents: Henriette Avram and Michael Gorman. At their creation, MARC and AACR propelled library services to new heights of efficiency and usefulness …

     Posted on  May 16, 2006
     and last updated May 16, 2006
     ·  5 minutes reading time