MORE 'INFO-ORGANIZATION-AND-CATALOGING' POSTS
Title Harnessing Folksonomies for Resource Classification Author Arkaitz Zubiaga Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia Madrid Source via arXiv Abstract In our daily lives, organizing resources into a set of categories is a common task. Categorization becomes more useful as the collection of resources increases. Large collections of books, movies, and web pages, for instance, […]
Data Bonanza: Harvard Library Making Nearly 100% of Their Catalog Records Open Access, More than 12 Million Records Released
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, Maps, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries, Publishing, Resources
|Full Text of the Harvard announcement below. Below that, coverage from The NY Times. The Harvard Library announced it would make more than 12 million catalog records from Harvard’s 73 libraries publicly available. The records contain bibliographic information about books, videos, audio recordings, images, manuscripts, maps, and more. The Harvard Library is making these records […]
Final Two Reports in OCLC’s Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums Series Released
Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, National Libraries, Reports, Resources, Video Recordings
|Part Three and the Executive Summary were released today by OCLC Research. Links to Part One and Part Two of the series are available at the bottom of this post. Part Three Social Metadata for Libraries, Archives, and Museums. Part 3: Recommendations and Readings (78 pages; PDF) by Karen Smith-Yoshimura, OCLC Research and Rose Holley, National […]
From the CrossTech Blog: CrossRef Labs is happy to announce the first public release of “pdf-extract” an open source set of tools and libraries for extracting citation references (and, eventually, other semantic metadata) from PDFs. We first demonstrated this tool to CrossRef members at our annual meeting last year. See the pdf-extract labs page for […]
Controlled Vocabularies: 17 New Terms Added to ERIC Thesaurus
Academic Libraries, Interviews, Management and Leadership, Patrons and Users, Resources, School Libraries
|17 new terms (descriptors) were added to the ERIC Thesaurus today. Here’s the list. From the ERIC (Education Resources Information Center): Ambiguity (Context) Ambiguity (Semantics) Capacity Building Comorbidity Computer Games Critical Literacy English Language Learners Information Security Knowledge Economy Leadership Role Mixed Methods Research Naming Neoliberalism School Turnaround Semi Structured Interviews Structured Interviews Web 2.0 […]
From the EPSIplaform Site: Wikidata is a proposed new project for the Wikimedia Foundation: a free, collaborative, multi-lingual, secondary database, collecting structured data to provide support for Wikipedia, Wikimedia Commons, the other Wikimedia projects, and beyond that. (Excerpt of Wikidata introduction page) Wikidata, the project web page states, “aims to create a free knowledge base […]
From BERNAMA.com: National Library of Malaysia] director-general, Datuk Raslin Abu Bakar said with the influx of digital resources or linking metadata from multiple formats like hardcover, print books and audio books, there was a need for the library to change its current standard of cataloguing the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2) to a more user friendly […]
The European Library's Opening to Research Libraries
Academic Libraries, Data Files, Libraries, National Libraries, Resources
|From a Europeana Blog Post: The European Library is approaching the end of its two-year project Europeana Libraries, by which it started to expand its membership from national libraries to include research libraries in Europe. As the project draws to a close, The European Library will start to put its business plan into action. The […]
From the In Custodia Legis (Law Library of Congress Blog): As part of the Law Library of Congress’ Law.gov project, we are consulting with the great minds behind the id.loc.gov linked data service of the Library of Congress to research whether a linked data version of the Law schedule of the Library of Congress Classification system, […]
Video: Columbia U. Libraries "Free Your Metadata" Seminar Now Available
Data Files, Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Publishing, Resources, Video Recordings
|The program, “Free Your Metadata: A Concrete Action Plan” runs 73 minutes and was recorded on February 10, 2012 Direct to Video (via YouTube) Presenters Seth van Hooland Chair in Digital Information at the Information and Communication Science Department of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium Max De Wilde PhD student and teaching assistant […]