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Tag: Info Organization and Cataloging

July 10, 2012 by Gary Price

Conference Paper: Metadata With Levels of Description: New Challenges to Catalogers and Metadata Librarians

The following paper will be presented at the upcoming World Library and Information Congress, 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly that will take place in Helsinki during August. Title Metadata with levels of description: new challenges to catalogers and metadata librarians Author Myung-Ja Han Assistant Professor/Metadata Librarian University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Source IFLA General […]

July 7, 2012 by Gary Price

Netflix Employs Human “Taggers” to Add Metadata to Suggestion Database

From Canada.com: Every week, [Jordan] Canning receives a list of movies and TV shows. Usually there are about five, ranging from Quebecois preschool shows to crazy violent Sci-Fi flicks. She watches each with a spreadsheet open on her laptop and notes every detail imaginable in the film. Does it end tragically or have a happy […]

June 20, 2012 by Gary Price

Library of Congress Expanding CIP (Cataloging in Process) Program To Include Ebooks

From an LC News Release: Starting in July, the Library’s Cataloging in Publication (CIP) Program will expand its scope to include electronic books. This moves into production a pilot project begun in October 2011, whereby the Library has provided pre-publication CIP metadata for titles that are published simultaneously in print and electronic format to four […]

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OCLC Adds Linked Data to WorldCat.org Pages, Largest Set of Linked Bibliographic Data on Web

June 20, 2012 by Gary Price

Today’s announcement about WorldCat and linked data follows Monday’s news that DDC 23 (Dewey Decimal Classification had been released as linked data. Now, today’s news. From OCLC: OCLC is taking the first step toward adding linked data to WorldCat by appending Schema.org descriptive mark-up to WorldCat.org pages. WorldCat.org now offers the largest set of linked […]

New: DDC 23 (Dewey Decimal Classification) Released as Linked Data at Dewey.info

June 19, 2012 by Gary Price

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 […]

Two Dublin Core Metadata Element Set Reference Documents Updated

June 15, 2012 by Gary Price

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 […]

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Now Available: An API for EBSCO Discovery Service

June 5, 2012 by Gary Price

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

June 3, 2012 by Gary Price

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 […]

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Metadata: “Open Researcher & Contributor ID (ORCID): Solving the Name Ambiguity Problem”

May 25, 2012 by Gary Price

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, […]

Linked Data: The Library of Congress Announces Modeling Initiative, Will Work With Zepheira

May 23, 2012 by Gary Price

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 […]

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