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Flock
2007-12-31 16:40:30
Version 1.0 for Flock, the social Web browser has been released. They also had the smarts to release an API, so others can continue the development. ...

Metadata
2007-12-28 23:00:01
Adding COinS and DOIs to our Contribution pages. Don't look for them yet, not yet live. I've also updated the RSS feed for the pages. This is not cataloging, or is it? The metadata fits some of the activities in FRBR. Find, identify, and acquire are all aided by these bits of info. In any event, anything that makes our work easier to find, use and cite is all good for the Institute. For me it makes a nice change of pace from ISBD/MARC/AACR2. ...

Meeting Tool
2007-12-26 18:32:44
Here is a free tool that might be useful for meeting facilitators or workshop presenters, Qipit.Copy documents, whiteboards and handwritten notes with your camera phone or digital camera to store, fax, email or publish!Turn documents, notes and whiteboards into digital copies (PDFs)Email or fax qipit digital copies via email, your online Qipit account, or right from your phoneStore all of your paper documents and notes as digital documents for easy archiving and sharingTag your qipit documents for easy searching and sortingPublish and share your documents on the webSave those flip-chart notes from the brainstorming meeting, capture the white-board result at the end of the meeting. Sounds useful. ...
Tool

Clustering Tags
2007-12-26 17:47:19
Simpson, Edwin has published HP technical report HPL-2007-190 Clustering Tags in Enterprise and Web FolksonomiesRecently there has been massive growth in the use of tags as a simple, flexible way to categorize resources. Tags are often used collaboratively to help share information using website; such as del.icio.us. However, the number of tags used in such a service is extremely large, so the unstructured nature of tags limits their value when navigating these websites, and prevents users from fully exploiting tags added by others. Clustering similar tags can improve this by adding structure. In this paper we discuss techniques for deriving tag similarity and explain two tag clustering algorithms. We applied the algorithms to two datasets containing tags provided by users with common interests. The first dataset is from a tagging service used by a small group of colleagues and the second is a public, web-based service. The paper examines the effectiveness of both clustering algorithms ...
Tags

Titles in Retail and Publisher Data
2007-12-26 17:18:54
There has been much talk about using metadata from other communities to enrich our catalogs and/or lower the costs of cataloging. Recently there has been quite a flap on AUTOCAT when distributors have dumped minimun level records into OCLC. Now Karen Coyle has looked at Titles in Retail and Publisher Data. Real data. ...
Data Publisher Titles

Library Funding
2007-12-20 16:27:37
In the latest Thinking Out Loud with George and Joan George Needham revealed a startling finding from the next OCLC report. That library use does not correlate with library support. We can't assume that our members will support us in a bond issue. Nor can we assume those not using the library won't support funding. Rallying our members for a tax increase or bond issue is not the best way to get funding. We have to mobilize our supporters, whether members or not. The full report is due in the first part of 2008.For the use of members instead of patrons, users, etc. listen to the podcast. ...
Funding Library

Additions to the MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description
2007-12-19 16:30:08
The codes listed below have been recently approved for use in MARC 21 records. The codes will be added to the online MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions.The codes should not be used in exchange records until after February 18, 2008. This 60-day waiting period is required to provide MARC 21 implementers time to include newly defined codes in any validation tables they may apply to the MARC fields where the codes are used.ClassificationThe following codes are for use in subfield $2 in field 084 in Bibliographic and Community Information records (Other Classification Number), in subfield $2 in field 084 in Classification records (Classification Scheme and Edition) and in subfield $2 in field 065 in Authority records (Other Classification Number).Additions:asbAllgemeine Systematik für Öffentliche Bibliotheken (ASB). (Berlin: Deutsches Bibliotheksinstitut) [use only after February 18, 2008] ghbsGHB-Aufstellungssystematik: HBZ Köln [use only after February 18, 2 ...
Code

MARC Code List for Languages
2007-12-18 17:19:15
The 2007 edition of the "MARC Code List for Languages" is now available from the Library of Congress. This new publication contains a list of languages and their associated three-character alphabetic codes that allow for the designation of the language or languages in MARC records. References from variant forms and specific language names assigned to group codes are included. The list includes all valid codes and code assignments as of September 2007 and supersedes the 2003 edition of the "MARC Code List for Languages." There are 27 code additions and 12 changed code captions in this edition.An XML version of the 2007 edition of the "MARC Code List for Languages" is available for use in applications.HTML and PDF versions of the 2007 edition of the "MARC Code List for Languages" are available online. ...
Code Languages

MARBI Proposals
2007-12-18 16:15:21
The following papers are available for review by the MARC community:Proposal No. 2008-02: Definition of field 542 for facts related to copyright status in the MARC 21 bibliographic formatDiscussion Paper No. 2008-DP01: Identifying headings that are appropriate as added entries, but are not used as bibliographic main entriesThe draft agenda for the 2008 ALA Midwinter MARBI meetings is available. ...
Proposals

Joint Steering Committee Documents
2007-12-17 21:57:58
The following documents were posted on the JSC website on 2007/12/17:5JSC/RDA/Sections 2-4, 9 (This is a large PDF file and may take a few seconds to open)5JSC/RDA/Prospectus/Rev/55JSC/Chair/9/Chair follow-up/5 [Appendices WG]5JSC/RDA/Objectives and Principles/Rev5JSC/RDA/Element analysis/Rev5JSC/RDA/RDA to FRAD mapping5JSC/RDA/RDA to FRBR mapping/Rev5JSC/RDA/Scope/Rev/25JSC/Chair/9/Chair follow-up/4 [Appendices WG] ...
Documents

Code4Lib Journal
2007-12-17 17:35:52
The Code4Lib Journal has released the first issue. Lots of good stuff there.Beyond OPAC 2.0: Library Catalog as Versatile Discovery Platform by Tito Sierra, Joseph Ryan, and Markus WustFacet-based search and navigation with LCSH: Problems and opportunities by Kelley McGrathCommunicat: The Next Generation Catalog That Almost Was… by Ross SingerAre just some of the papers. ...
Code Journal

Christmas Music
2007-12-17 17:26:56
I went to a wonderful preformance of Messiah this week. It is always one of the best parts of the season. However, it really is an Easter piece. There is a Christmas section, but then it goes on to the death and aftermath. Not very Christmas. What I'd like to see is to just have the 1st part and the Hallelujah Chorus (folks would complain if that was missing) and then the Amen Chorus. Then after intermission another work could be presented. Hodie by Vaughan Williams does not get played often enough for my taste. There a plenty of works that could fill a second half. If one was a bit short a nice sing-along could fill the end of the concert.I hope some music director in the Houston area is reading this and takes the suggestion (Ha!). Has anyone heard Hodie live? ...
Christmas Music

PCC Series Policies and Practices
2007-12-14 21:08:07
The PCC Ad Hoc Series Review Task Force seeks your comments on its "Discussion Paper on PCC Series Policies and Practices"The paper is intended to generate comments useful in making recommendations for the future direction of PCC series practices and policies. Any individuals or organizations interested in series control policies, practices, and services are welcome to comment.The task force membership and charges are available. ...
Policies Practices Series

Encoding RDA, Resource Description and Access data in MARC 21
2007-12-14 19:32:16
The following discussion paper is available for review by the MARCcommunity:Discussion Paper No. 2008-DP04: Encoding RDA, Resource Description and Access data in MARC 21. ...
Data Resource

VuFind, New Release
2007-12-14 16:58:57
Version 0.7 of VuFind is now available.VuFind is a library resource portal designed and developed for libraries by libraries. The goal of VuFind is to enable your users to search and browse through all of your library's resources by replacing the traditional OPAC to include:Catalog RecordsLocally Cached JournalsDigital Library ItemsInstitutional RepositoryInstitutional BibliographyOther Library Collections and ResourcesVuFind is completely modular so you can implement just the basic system, or all of the components. And since it's open source, you can modify the modules to best fit your need or you can add new modules to extend your resource offerings.It is Solr powered, which seems to be a trend these days. ...

Study of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
2007-12-14 16:37:26
During spring and early summer of 2007, the School of Library and Information Science at Kent State University conducted a Delphi study on critical FRBR issues as part of an IMLS-funded project concerning the research and development of FRBR-based retrieval systems.The greatest concern was "Need to develop cataloging rules in line with FRBR." A bit further down the list was "Need to verify and validate the FRBR model against real data and in different communities to make sure the model is valid and applicable." ...
Bibliographic Functional Records Requirements Study

Rights Metadta
2007-12-13 16:33:20
Creative Commons has announced that their rights metadata will now be semantically richer.First, the RDF/XML we serve for each license is now considerably more informative. It includes:an explicit pointer to the license legalcodeinformation on when the license was deprecated (for example, the Developing Nations 2.0 metadata)information about what license replaces this one (for example, the Attribution 1.0 Generic metadata)an explicit assertion about the license’s jurisdiction; this was previously encoded only by conventionIn addition to the RDF/XML, we’re starting to encode license information as RDFa on the license deeds. Try using the GetN3 bookmarklet on the Attribution 3.0 Unported deed for an example. We’re also starting to use this metadata to power our own applications. The OpenOffice.org Addin ships with a copy of the RDF and uses SPARQL to determine the license you’ve selected. As we continue to build out the tools around CC licenses we’ll be moving in a similar dire ...
Rights

Object Reuse and Exchange Specs
2007-12-12 20:38:41
Now available, the Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange specification.Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) defines standards for the description and exchange of aggregations of Web resources. This document provides an introduction and lists the specifications and user guide documents that make up the OAI-ORE standards. ...
Exchange Reuse

Response to the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control Report
2007-12-12 20:28:49
A wiki has been put together to respond to the lack of any mention of open date in the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control's report. If you agree with the statement, sign it, it is a wiki after all.The draft report of the Library of Congress's Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control features many interesting suggestions. In particular we wholeheartedly endorse the vision of a bibliographic ecosystem which is "collaborative, decentralized, international in scope and web-based". However, we are concerned that the report lacks any discussion of a key component for any future of bibliographic data: open licensing and access. ...
Bibliographic Future Report Working Group

FRBR Book
2007-12-11 23:31:48
While I might not want to find this under the tree, it is on my must read list. Understanding FRBR : what it is and how it will affect our retrieval toolsWhat is FRBR, and why is everyone talking about it? Is it really going to revolutionize cataloguing? And if so, what form will it take? Taylor and her compadres won't even try to teach you how to construct a hierarchical catalog record. Instead, their efforts are directed towards showcasing what's possible when digital technology and traditional cataloging practice meet. Serials, art, music, moving images, maps, and archival materials are just a few of the formats covered. Not for catalogers only. ...
Book

UMich OAI Toolkit
2007-12-11 20:37:43
The University of Michigan have released their open-source OAI toolkit on SourceForge. This toolkit contains both harvester and data provider, both written in Perl. ...
Toolkit

Video Genre Terms
2007-12-07 20:21:36
Good news from LoC.After hearing from catalogers and deliberating further, CPSO has decided to reinstate "Video recordings for the hearing impaired" and "Video recordings for people with visual disabilities."Happy dance. ...
Video

MARC Code List for Languages
2007-12-07 16:17:23
News from LoCThe 2007 edition of the MARC Code List for Languages is now available from the Library of Congress. This new publication contains a list of languages and their associated three-character alphabetic codes that allow for the designation of the language or languages in MARC records. References from variant forms and specific language names assigned to group codes are included. This edition contains 484 discrete codes, of which 55 are used for groups of languages.The list includes all valid codes and code assignments as of September 2007 and supersedes the 2003 edition of the MARC Code List for Languages. There are 27 code additions and 12 changed code captions in this edition.An XML version of the 2007 edition of the MARC Code List for Languages is available for use in applications. ...
Code Languages

MARBI Proposals
2007-12-07 16:09:07
The following papers are available for review by the MARC community:Proposal No. 2008-01: Representation of the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) System in the MARC 21 formatsProposal No. 2008-03: Definition of first indicator value in field 041 (Language code) of the MARC 21 bibliographic formatAdditional proposals and discussion papers will be posted shortly.The draft agenda for the 2008 ALA Midwinter MARBI meetings is available. ...
Proposals

Unicode and MARC
2007-12-06 20:10:55
News from LC.The revised Character set specifications are now posted on the MARC site. They take into account the use of the full Unicode repertoire, as opposed to only the MARC-8 subset of Unicode, and also include the loss-less and lossy techniques for converting full Unicode to MARC-8 repertoire that were approved this year.The MARC-8 specifications are still part of the document and the MARC-8 character code tables and mappings have some improved formatting, but no changes have been made to the MARC-8 to Unicode character set mappings.The XML (all MARC-8 repertoire) and comma-delimited (East Asian MARC-8 only) files are still downloadable, but we plan to improve the XML file in the near future. We are interested to know whether the comma-delimited file is used, as we may only need to offer the XML for download. ...

FRBR at IFLA
2007-12-06 16:37:53
A new home page has been created on IFLANET for the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR).It includes links to the recently-approved amendment to the expression entity, to the 1998 text in PDF and HTML, to errata that were identified during the review process, and to a new list of basic readings about FRBR. ...

Dublin Core News
2007-12-04 16:08:58
An updated specification for DC-TEXT, a syntax for serializing, or representing, a Dublin Core metadata description set in plain text, has been published as a DCMI Recommended Resource.The "Description Set Model" of the DCMI Abstract Model [DCAM] describes the constructs that make up a DC metadata description set. This document specifies a syntax for serialising, or representing, a DC metadata description set in plain text. The format is referred to as "DC-Text". A plain text format for serialisation of such description sets is useful as a means of presenting examples in a human-readable form which highlights the constructs of the DCMI Abstract Model, and also as a means of comparing the information represented in other machine-processable formats. ...
Core Dublin Dublin Core News

Additions to the MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description
2007-12-03 16:43:39
The codes listed below have been recently approved for use in MARC 21 records. The codes will be added to the online MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions.These codes should not be used in exchange records until after January 30, 2008. This 60-day waiting period is required to provide MARC 21 implementers time to include newly defined codes in any validation tables they may apply to the MARC fields where the codes are used.Term, Name, Title SourcesThe following codes are for use in subfield $2 in fields 600-657 in Bibliographic and Community Information records, and in subfield $f in field 040 (Cataloging Source) in Authority records.Additions:asrcrfcdAustralian Standard Research Classification: Research Fields, Courses and Disciplines (RFCD) classification (Canberra: Australian Bureau of Statistics) [use only after January 30, 2008]asrcseoAustralian Standard Research Classification: Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) classification (Canberra: Australian Bureau of ...
Code

Texas Library Association Annual Conference
2007-12-02 23:21:46
I'm signed up for TLA. Did it too late to get a decent rate on a conference hotel so I'll be staying behind the convention center. From the map it looks close, not a bad walk. I'm on the ballot for councilor for the Digital Library group. So, I'll be going there and to the TRGCC events.Last Spring I suggested they have Cali Lewis on the program. She lives in Dallas and has a video podcast, Geekbrief. Her story is great, two years ago she was working at a u-rent-space place and heard about podcasting. Without any experience she and her husband started one . Now, that is their job. She has been on TV and rubs shoulders with Web 2.0 luminaries. Since I was the one to suggest her, I hope she gets a good turnout. I should be there unless it conflicts with the DL or TRGCC events, or its part of a preconference workshop. Hope not. ...
Annual Conference Library Texas

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