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New Issue Alert: D-Lib Magazine (May/June 2012) Now Online
Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, New Issue, News, Resources
|D-Lib Magazine Direct to Complete Table of Contents (Vol. 18, No. 5/6) Direct to Articles and Abstracts An Introduction to the Current Issue by Laurence Lannom, Corporation for National Research Initiatives Implementing DOIs for Research Data Article by Natasha Simons, Griffith University, Australia Metadata Clean Sweep: A Digital Library Audit Project Article by R. Niccole […]
It’s Official! DOI is Now Recognized as International Standard (ISO 26324:2012)
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Data Files, Management and Leadership, News, Publishing, Resources
|From the ISO (International Standards Organization) News Release: A new International Standard that provides a system for assigning a unique international identification code to objects for use on digital networks is expected to bring benefits for publishers, information managers, multi-media distributors, archive and cultural heritage communities, and the internet technology industry. Published by ISO (International […]
New from OCLC (May 2012) Why Review the Bulletin: To learn about changes to OCLC-MARC records, many of which are related to Resource Description and Access (RDA), the proposed successor to AACR2. Direct to OCLC Technical Bulletin 261 (28 pages; PDF)
Video Presentation: Laura Dawson on “Integrating Metadata into the Publishing Process”
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Interviews, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Open Access, Profiles, Publishing, Resources
|Two months ago we shared this interview with metadata expert and Content Chief at Firebrand Technologies Laura Dawson. The interview took place right before her presentation at the BookNet Canada Technology Conference. Now, a video of Laura’s presentation is available (free) online. Librarians will benefit by understanding how publishers view, use, and implement metadata. Plus, as […]
From Thom Hickey’s Outgoing Blog: The VIAF dataset is now available for public consumption! http://viaf.org/viaf/data describes and links to the files involved and describes how we expect the ODC-By license to be applied. Hickey adds: We are not sure just how popular the files will be, so if the site appears slow, please stop downloading and […]
From the Library’s Announcement: Members of the public are being asked to help describe 4,000 music pieces from the Bodleian Libraries’ collections, as part of a new project launched today. What’s the score at the Bodleian? (www.whats-the-score.org) is the first crowd-sourcing project undertaken by the Bodleian Libraries. About 4,000 pieces of popular piano music from […]
Standards: CrossRef Announces FundRef Pilot to Standardize Funding Source Information for Scholarly Publications
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Elsevier, Funding, Journal Articles, Publishing, Resources
|From CrossRef: CrossRef has announced FundRef, a pilot collaboration between scholarly publishers and funding agencies that will standardize the names of research funders and add grant numbers attributed in journal articles or other scholarly documents. The collaboration would allow researchers, publishers, and funding agencies to track the published research that results from specific funding bodies. […]
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, […]
New: OCLC Print Archives Disclosure Pilot Final Report
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Resources
|Direct to Full Text (via California Digital Library) From the Executive Summary: Beginning in late 2010, an ad hoc Coordinating Committee consisting of several individuals who were active in the shared print (print archiving) community began to explore ways in which libraries could use OCLC features and services to disclose retention commitments and support resource sharing […]
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 […]