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 […]
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New: DDC 23 (Dewey Decimal Classification) Released as Linked Data at Dewey.info
Filed by Gary Price on June 19, 2012
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Two Dublin Core Metadata Element Set Reference Documents Updated
Filed by Gary Price on June 15, 2012
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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Metadata: Preliminary Program for DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) 2012 Now Available
Filed by Gary Price on June 14, 2012
The DCMI Annual Conference and two days of pre-con tutorials about semantic metadata are scheduled to take place in Kuching, Malaysia from 3 through 7 September 2012. Karen Coyle and Dan Bickley are two of the invited speakers at the conference. Coyle will present a tutorial titled, “Metadata for the Semantic Web” and will also […]
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Now Available: An API for EBSCO Discovery Service
Filed by Gary Price on June 5, 2012
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 […]
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OpenMetadata.org Scheduled to Launch on Wednesday
Filed by Gary Price on June 3, 2012
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”
Filed by Gary Price on May 25, 2012
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, […]
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Linked Data: The Library of Congress Announces Modeling Initiative, Will Work With Zepheira
Filed by Gary Price on May 23, 2012
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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New Report from OCLC Research: A Crosswalk from ONIX Version 3.0 for Books to MARC 21
Filed by Gary Price on May 21, 2012
Title A Crosswalk from ONIX Version 3.0 for Books to MARC 21 Author Jean Godby, Ph.D. OCLC Research Summary A Crosswalk from ONIX Version 3.0 for Books to MARC 21 describes the crosswalk developed at OCLC for mapping the bibliographic elements defined in Version 3.0 of ONIX for Books to MARC 21 with AACR2 encoding. […]
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New Article: “Metadata Clean Sweep: A Digital Library Audit Project”
Filed by Gary Price on May 18, 2012
Title Metadata Clean Sweep: A Digital Library Audit Project Authors R. Niccole Westbrook and Dan Johnson University of Houston Libraries Karen Carter Rutgers School of Communication and Information Angela Lockwood Texas Women’s University School of Library and Information Studies Source D-Lib Magazine May/June 2012 Volume 18, Number 5/6 Abstract As digital library collections grow in […]
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Free: Cooperative Cataloging at Library of Congress Launches RDA Cataloger Training
Filed by Gary Price on May 17, 2012
From the LC Announcement: The Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Secretariat staffed by the Library of Congress has launched a free, comprehensive and authoritative web-based training series for catalogers making the transition to the new Resource Description and Access (RDA) protocol. “RDA for NACO Catalogers” on the Library’s Cataloger’s Learning Workshop website is a self-paced, […]
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