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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 […]
Paper — The Metadata Coverage Index (MCI): A Standardized Metric for Quantifying Database Annotation Richness
Data Files, Journal Articles, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Resources
|The Metadata Coverage Index (MCI): A Standardized Metric for Quantifying Database Annotation Richness Variability in the extent of the descriptions of data (metadata) held in public repositories forces users to assess the quality of records individually, which rapidly becomes impractical. The automatic scoring of records on the richness of their description enables sorting by quality. […]
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 […]
Video: Crowd Sourcing Metadata (Briefing Session from CNI Fall 2011 Meeting)
Data Files, Libraries, Public Libraries, Resources, Video Recordings
|The video is of a presentation by Barbara Taranto, Digital Program Director, New York Public Library, at the CNI (Coalition for Networked Information) Fall 2011 Membership Meeting held in Arlington, VA. The video was recorded on December 12, 2011 and made available on March 26, 2012. Direct to Video (via YouTube) Runs about 38 minutes. […]
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 […]
Research Paper: Analyzing Tag Distributions in Folksonomies for Resource Classification
Data Files, Journal Articles, Management and Leadership, Resources
|Title Analyzing Tag Distributions in Folksonomies for Resource Classification Authors Arkaitz Zubiaga, Raquel Martınez, and Victor Fresno NLP & IR Group @ UNED (National Distance Education University) Madrid, Spain Source Via arXiv Paper was Presented at KSEM 2011, 5th International Conference on Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management December, 2011 Abstract Recent research has shown the […]
More Open Data Online: Cooper-Hewitt Releases Dataset to Broaden Access to Online Collection
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|From the Smithsonian Institution: The Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum today announced the release of its collection dataset, which will broaden access and allow for increased analysis of the museum’s object holdings. Basic museum data for more than 60 percent of the collection (more than 120,000 records) is now available as a single downloadable file […]