Tag: Metadata
A New Video Series from The Library of Congress: “Conversations About RDA”
The Library of Congress has just released online, “Conversations About RDA”, a new series of five training videos providing, “tips and strategies for working with the RDA.” The videos were recoded on May 20, 2015. Presenter Bios Paul Frank is acting coordinator of the Name Authority Cooperative (NACO) and Subject Authority Cooperative (SACO) programs in […]
New Research Paper: “Towards Understanding User Preferences From User Tagging Behavior”
The following paper was recently made available on arXiv. Title Towards Understanding User Preferences from User Tagging Behavior Authors Amandianeze O. Nwana Cornell University Tsuhan Chen Cornell University Source via arXiv Abstract Personalizing image tags is a relatively new and growing area of research, and in order to advance this research community, we must review […]
Three Major Open Access Repository Networks Commit to Collaborate On Data Exchange, Technological Development, and Metadata
From a Joint Announcement: On July 9 and 10, three major regional open access repository networks and aggregators (OpenAire, LA Referencia, and SHARE), along with the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) and Center for Open Science (COS) met in Charlottesville, Virginia to discuss synergies and potential areas of collaboration. [Clip] The meeting was very […]
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RLUK Members and OCLC Begin Six Month Worldshare Metadata Pilot
From OCLC: Powered by the WorldCat knowledge base, OCLC WorldShare Metadata Collection Manager delivers WorldCat MARC records for electronic materials automatically to libraries and ensures the metadata and access URLs for these collections are continually updated, significantly streamlining the processes of managing eResources. A number of libraries in North America have already worked with OCLC […]
Update on Proposed Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Metadata Policy
The DPLA Board of Directors held their monthly call yesterday. The meeting included a discussion of a new draft of the proposed DPLA metadata policy. This draft was developed by the Berkman Center Cyberlaw Clinic and DPLA Secretariat. We’ve embedded the full text draft policy below. You can access it here as a MS Word […]
GPO Cataloging Update: Full RDA Implementation Expected by April, 2013
From the Federal Depository Library Program Desktop: The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has created a Resource Description and Access (RDA) implementation team to ensure a smooth transition from AACR2 to RDA. GPO cataloging staff are continuing their training efforts, and are now working on sample record creation, the identification of local practices and formal […]
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“What is Metadata? A Christmas Themed Exploration”
Here’s a timely, interesting, educational, useful, and fun (really!) introduction to metadata from Scientific American. It was as written by Bonnie Swoger, a sci-tech librarian at SUNY Geneseo. The article might be a great resource to share at the beginning of a training session or whenever a brief intro to the topic is needed. Well […]
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 […]
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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 […]
OCLC Adds Linked Data to WorldCat.org Pages, Largest Set of Linked Bibliographic Data on Web
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 […]
