MORE 'METADATA' POSTS
From a 025.431: The Dewey Blog (OCLC Dewey Team) Post by Michael Panzer: As announced on Monday at the seminar “Global Interoperability and Linked Data in Libraries” in beautiful Florence, an exciting new set of linked data has been added to dewey.info. All assignable classes from DDC 23, the current full edition of the Dewey […]
The following DCMI recommendation docs were updated on June 14, 2012. They were previously updated on October 11, 2010. 1. DCMI Metadata Terms This document is an up-to-date specification of all metadata terms maintained by the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, including properties, vocabulary encoding schemes, syntax encoding schemes, and classes. 2. Dublin Core Metadata Element […]
The DCMI Annual Conference and two days of pre-con tutorials about semantic metadata are scheduled to take place in Kuching, Malaysia from 3 through 7 September 2012. Karen Coyle and Dan Bickley are two of the invited speakers at the conference. Coyle will present a tutorial titled, “Metadata for the Semantic Web” and will also […]
From a Company Announcement: EBSCO Discovery Service API (EDS API) was created for libraries that want to use their own portals or website applications for their discovery service user interface while also providing researchers with the robust metadata, superior content and enhanced search features from EDS. With EDS API, libraries can integrate critical components of […]
OpenMetadata.org Scheduled to Launch on Wednesday
Associations and Organizations, Data Files, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Open Access, Resources
|The OpenMetadata.org launch will take place during the IASSIST (International Association for Social Science Information Services and Technology (IASSIST) Conference in Washington, DC. IASSIST 2012 will also mark the launch of OpenMetadata.org, a new web portal, supported and operated by Metadata Technology and its partner Integrated Data Management Services (IDMS), aiming to provide online access […]
New overview article about the project in May/June 2012 (47.3) issue of EDUCAUSE Review Title Open Researcher & Contributor ID (ORCID): Solving the Name Ambiguity Problem Authors Brian Wilson Head of Architecture for the Intellectual Property & Science Business Thomson Reuters Chairman, ORCID Technical Working Group Martin Fenner Clinical Fellow at Hannover Medical School, Hannover, […]
From an LC Announcement: The Library of Congress is pleased to announce that it has contracted with Zepheira to help accelerate the launch of the Bibliographic Framework Initiative. A major focus of the project is to translate the MARC 21 format to a Linked Data (LD) model while retaining as much as possible the robust […]
Title A Crosswalk from ONIX Version 3.0 for Books to MARC 21 Author Jean Godby, Ph.D. OCLC Research Summary A Crosswalk from ONIX Version 3.0 for Books to MARC 21 describes the crosswalk developed at OCLC for mapping the bibliographic elements defined in Version 3.0 of ONIX for Books to MARC 21 with AACR2 encoding. […]
New Article: “Metadata Clean Sweep: A Digital Library Audit Project”
Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, Open Access, Resources
|Title Metadata Clean Sweep: A Digital Library Audit Project Authors R. Niccole Westbrook and Dan Johnson University of Houston Libraries Karen Carter Rutgers School of Communication and Information Angela Lockwood Texas Women’s University School of Library and Information Studies Source D-Lib Magazine May/June 2012 Volume 18, Number 5/6 Abstract As digital library collections grow in […]
From the LC Announcement: The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Secretariat staffed by the Library of Congress has launched a free, comprehensive and authoritative web-based training series for catalogers making the transition to the new Resource Description and Access (RDA) protocol. “RDA for NACO Catalogers” on the Library’s Cataloger’s Learning Workshop website is a self-paced, […]