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eXtensible Catalog & Koha
2008-07-03 09:44:48
News from LibLime about Koha and the eXtensible Catalog.LibLime, the leader in open-source solutions for libraries and the eXtensible Catalog (XC) project-- an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project currently underway at the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries-- have announced a new partnership agreement to ensure future compatibility between the XC project and Koha, the first open-source integrated library system.The XC/LibLime partnership will ensure that the open-source software being developed as part of the XC project and the Koha open-source integrated library system will be fully compatible with each other, enabling current and future users of Koha to take advantage of the added capabilities for managing and distributing metadata that XC will offer. These benefits include facilitating the ability to combine legacy metadata with emerging schemas, and delivering library content to web content management and learning management systems. ...
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Changes to MARC Code List for Languages
2008-07-02 11:48:04
As a result of a formal request from the National Libraries of Serbia and Croatia and those countries' national standards bodies to the ISO 639 Joint Advisory Committee, the MARC language codes for Serbian and Croatian will be changed as below from the ISO 639-2 bibliographic codes (ISO 639-2/B) to the ISO 639-2 terminology codes (ISO 639-2/T). This change also supports established usage in bibliographic databases in Croatia. Because the codes are obsolete, rather than deleted, they may still appear in bibliographic records created before the implementation of this change.New CodeLanguage NamePreviously CodedsrpSerbianscchrvCroatianscrSubscribers can anticipate receiving MARC records reflecting these changes in all distribution services not earlier than September 1, 2008. ...
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Martha Yee Articles
2008-07-02 10:20:54
Some more articles by Martha Yee are now available.Integration of Nonbook Materials in AACR2. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 1983; 3:1-18.Attempts to Deal With the Crisis in Cataloging at the Library of Congress in the 1940's. Library Quarterly 1987 Jan; 57:1-31.What is a Work? In: The Principles and Future of AACR: Proceedings of the International Conference on the Principles and Future Development of AACR, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 23-25, 1997. Ed., Jean Weihs. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association; Chicago: American Library Association, 1998: 62-104.Editions: Brainstorming for AACR2000. In: The Future of the Descriptive Cataloging Rules: Papers from the ALCTS Preconference, AACR2000, American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicago, June 22, 1995. Ed., Brian E.C. Schottlaender. (ALCTS Papers on Library Technical Services and Collections, no. 6) Chicago: American Library Association, 1998: 40-65.Viewpoints: One Catalog or No Catalog? ALCTS Newsletter 1999; 10:4:1 ...
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RDA News
2008-07-01 13:23:00
News from RDA.The Co-Publishers of RDA Online (the American Library Association, the Canadian Library Association, and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) have reached the conclusion that further time is required to complete the development of the new software that will be used for distributing the full draft of RDA for constituency review.The full draft was originally scheduled for release on August 4, 2008. Instead, it will now be issued in October 2008. The three month time period allocated for comments on the full draft is unchanged, and in this new schedule will extend from October into January 2009. More specific dates for RDA's final release will be forthcoming shortly.Members of the Committee of Principals (CoP) and the Joint Steering Committee for Development of RDA (JSC) agree that the importance of distributing RDA content in a well-developed and tested version of the new software is such that a two-month delay is justified. They concluded that ...
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OCLC Terminology Services
2008-07-01 10:03:00
Terminology Services, an Experimental Services for Controlled Vocabularies, a project of OCLC Research is now available.HighlightsSearch descriptions of controlled vocabulariesSearch for concepts/headings in a controlled vocabularyRetrieve a single concept/heading by its identifierView relationships for a concept/heading including equivalence, hierarchical, and associativeRetrieve concepts/headings in multiple representations including HTML, MARC XML, SKOS, and Zthes.Search using SRU CQL syntaxVocabulary Resources include:FAST subject headingsGSAFD Form and genre termsLibrary of Congress AC Subject HeadingsLibrary of Congress Subject HeadingsMedical Subject HeadingsThesaurus for graphic materials: TGM IThesaurus for graphic materials: TGM II ...
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New Union Catalog
2008-07-01 09:05:00
The Avi Chai Foundation has announced a new tool for Judaica librarians — the Avi Chai Bookshelf Union Catalog. The union catalog, contains the MARC bibliographic holdings of 31 Jewish high school libraries in the United States and Canada that have been recipients of Avi Chai's Bookshelf grant. The Avi Chai Union Catalog runs on the OPALS (open source) library automation system. ...
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Discovery at Safari Books
2008-06-30 10:19:00
Jeff Patterson, CEO, Safari Books Online LLC spoke at the O'Reilly Tools of Change Conference on Valuing Content in a Web-enabled WorldTo effectively market their wares, publishers need to understand how their content is valued by the audience. With the web turning traditional distribution models on their head, easy searchability and access to a variety of free and paid resources must be considered. Jeff Patterson shares research on the information seeking habits of his client base of IT professionals. As users weigh the worth of information in exchange for their time, money and attention, publishers must grasp not just what is sold, but what is read, used and reused....Money is one part of the equation, but time, and willingness to share personal details, are also important forms of currency. Patterson's studies posed a number of scenarios which revealed different behaviors depending on the urgency of the information seeking. Subscribers researching a long term question tended to star ...
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Cataloging Principles and RDA
2008-06-27 10:23:00
Cataloging Principles and RDA by Barbara Tillett is the newly available webcast from LC.The second in a series on RDA: Resource Description and Access, the next generation cataloging code designed for the digital environment. This presentation deals with the cataloging principles that have influenced the development of RDA; the challenges they present to the international sharing of bibliographic and authority data; and the challenges they present to the developers of RDA. ...
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Metadata for Resource Discovery
2008-06-25 13:49:15
Metadata to Support Next-Generation Library Resource Discovery: Lessons from the eXtensilble Catalog, Phase 1 by Jennifer Bowen has been published in the June 2008 issue of Information Technology and Libraries (p. 6-19).The slides for her upcoming talk at ALA as part of the ALCTS Program, Creating the Future of the Catalog and Cataloging (Sunday morning, June 29, 8 AM-12 PM, Anaheim Convention Center, Room 204B) are on the XC Shared Results Page.The next time nominations roll around for Movers and Shakers someone should nominate Jennifer. Her work on RDA and the eXtensilble Catalog more than qualify her. ...
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FireFox Problems
2008-06-25 11:41:54
I got the new improved FireFox, version 3, yesterday and now I'm using MS Explorer. FF3 is SLOW. I can't get into Blogger. Several add-ons I liked, TinyURL Creator, Link Evaluator, Persistent URL Bookmarker, and Map+ (opens a map for any address) don't work. I'm going to have to investigate wither it is possible to roll-back to the old version. I sure hope so. My advice, FWIW, wait.It is the portable version of FireFox, maybe the regular version would not be so slow. It still wouldn't have the add-ons.Operator+, an add-on that allows working with microformats is not working properly. I can't seem to export hCal events to Outlook.June 24, I've reverted to an older version of FF Portable. All my tools are working again. At home I plan on moving to FF3. It will not be the portable version and the add-on tools are much less important. ...
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Delay in Publication of 31st Edition of Library of Congress Subject Headings
2008-06-25 10:44:30
News from LC.Delay in publication of 31st edition of Library of Congress Subject HeadingsDue to production problems, the 31st edition of the five-volume printed edition of the Library of Congress Subject Headings, commonly referred to as the Red Books, will not be available until the spring of 2009. The data cutoff date for the 31st edition will now be December 31, 2008. ...
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Open Source OPAC
2008-06-25 10:41:58
Rapi is yet another open-source OPAC project. It uses Lucene and Ruby like most of the projects do.Rapi is an open-source project of the WING group in the School of Computing, National University of Singapore licensed under the MIT license. Rapi provides an OPAC package that allows you to:Build a Lucene index from your MARC filesScreen scrape live circulation data from your own iii OPACWrap your OPAC with a customizable user interfaceThe user interface packaged with Rapi has been tested with Firefox 2 and 3 as well as Internet Explorer 7. The user interface supports a variety of features including tabs, an overview+details view, and a suggestion bar among many others. Note that although the user interface supports query suggestions, the package currently does not provide any suggestion modules. With that said, if you do have query suggestion modules, they can be easily integrated with the package. As an example, our live demo incorporates a spelling suggestion module. ...
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Distributed Metadata Control Systems
2008-06-25 09:51:45
Distributed Version Control and Library Metadata by Galen M. Charlton.Distributed version control systems (DVCSs) are effective tools for managing source code and other artifacts produced by software projects with multiple contributors. This article describes DVCSs and compares them with traditional centralized version control systems, then describes extending the DVCS model to improve the exchange of library metadata.Interesting suggestion. Network theory applied here. Only one node would be useless, two or three nodes interesting depending on the institutions, something like the old Linked System Project. More widespread adoption would make it much more useful. ...
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Approved Books
2008-06-25 09:28:09
The Open Library folks are considering adding information about banning to their bibliographic records. Other than MPAA ratings does anyone add approval by some body to their bibliographic records? I can remember seeing Nihil obstat and Imprimi potest on some books growing up. Is this still useful to some patrons for selecting an item? ...
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Cross-concordances
2008-06-25 09:10:09
Mayr, Philipp and Petras, Vivien (2008) Cross-concordances: terminology mapping and its effectiveness for information retrieval. World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Council, Québec, Canada.The German Federal Ministry for Education and Research funded a major terminology mapping initiative, which found its conclusion in 2007. The task of this terminology mapping initiative was to organize, create and manage ‘cross-concordances’ between controlled vocabularies (thesauri, classification systems, subject heading lists) centred around the social sciences but quickly extending to other subject areas. 64 crosswalks with more than 500,000 relations were established. In the final phase of the project, a major evaluation effort to test and measure the effectiveness of the vocabulary mappings in an information system environment was conducted. The paper reports on the cross-concordance work and evaluation results. ...
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Script Codes
2008-06-25 09:03:28
One of the issues being considered by MARBI, Discussion Paper No. 2008-DP05, is how to indicate the script used in the bibliographic record. There is strong support for using the ISO 15924 Code List, Codes for the representation of names of scripts or Codes pour la représentation des noms d’écritures. ...
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OCLC Group Services
2008-06-18 15:03:55
I've just heard of OCLC Group Services, a way for small libraries to participate in OCLC. Anyone have any experience with a group? Any group willing to have the Lunar and Planetary Institute Library become a member? ...
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The Future of Cataloging: A PALINET Symposium
2008-06-18 15:00:55
MP3s and slides from The Future of Cataloging: A PALINET Symposium are now available. The talks were:Keynote Address, Karen Calhoun "Traveling Through Transitions in Technical Services: From Surviving to Thriving"Response to Keynote, Panel Discussion / Beth Picknally CamdenFunctional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and Current Development and Implementation Plans for Resource Description and Access (RDA) / John AttigOn the Record, One View of the Future – Library of Congress Report on the Future of Bibliographic Control / Nancy FallgrenMaking Special Collections Not So Special? The Implications for Archives and Special Collections of the Report of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control / Christine Di BellaHigh Quality Discovery in a Web 2.0 World: Architectures for Next Generation Catalogs / John Mark OckerbloomSummary & Closing Remarks / Dina Giambi ...
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MARBI @ ALA
2008-06-13 11:42:04
The remainder of the June 2008 MARC Advisory Group proposals have been posted and linked to the agenda for the meeting. ...
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Chopac.org
2008-06-13 09:33:18
Chopac.org has some interesting cataloging tools. There is an Amazon to MARC converter, DDC22 summaries, Amazon review server, and some others. They also have an ILS to download. Runs in the LAMP environment. They seem to have it up and running on their site. It gets additional info from Amazon and Google Books to enrich the records. ...
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On Descript
2008-06-12 14:00:44
When I started this weblog back in 2002 nobody was covering cataloging. There was AUTOCAT, great place for discussion. But no one place was acting as a news source. Now there are plenty of other place to keep current in cataloging, check Planet Cataloging for a good list of weblogs in this space. Now another voice joins the chorus, On Descript, and we are richer for it.On Descript is a forum dedicated to all things description in Library and Information Science (LIS). Here, you'll find information on subjects like cataloging, indexing, abstracting and the foundations of description practices in LIS. Please share your ideas!Not yet covered by Planet Catalog, so visit his site. ...
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Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records
2008-06-10 10:32:07
A German translation of the text of Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) as amended and Japanese translations of the recently published errata and the amendment to the expression entity have been made available through IFLANET. ...
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DCMI Registry Task Group
2008-06-09 13:44:45
From the DCMI page.DCMI Registry Task Group: call for participation.A DCMI Registry Task Group has been set up with the primary aims of developing shared functional requirements and inter-registry interoperability issues. This group is currently recruiting participants. Those with an interest in metadata schema registries, terminology registries, ontology registries and metadata vocabulary management are invited to visit the Task Group's Wiki for further information, news, upcoming events and opportunities to contribute. ...
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OLAC-MOUG 2008 Conference
2008-06-09 13:39:26
Registration for the OLAC-MOUG 2008 Conference is open.The joint conference of OLAC (Online Audiovisual Catalogers) and MOUG (Music OCLC Users Group) will take place in Cleveland, Ohio, between Friday, September 26 and Sunday, September 28, 2008. Attendees will enjoy four workshops on cataloging various non-book materials, keynote speech by Lynne Howarth (former Dean of the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto); closing address by Janet Swan Hill (Associate Director for Technical Services, University of Colorado); and a session on RDA, to name just a few highlights.Preconference: space is limited for Thursday September 25th's Map Cataloging preconference, given by Paige Andrew.Please see the conference website for more information and the registration form.Posted to many distribution lists. ...
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OAI-ORE Resource Maps
2008-06-09 10:32:56
Posted to several lists.The Foresite project is pleased to announce the initial code of two software libraries for constructing, parsing, manipulating and serialising OAI-ORE Resource Maps. These libraries are being written in Java and Python, and can be used generically to provide advanced functionality to OAI-ORE aware applications, and are compliant with the latest release (0.9) of the specification. The software is open source, released under a BSD licence, and is available from a Google Code repository.You will find that the implementations are not absolutely complete yet, and are lacking good documentation for this early release, but we will be continuing to develop this software throughout the project and hope that it will be of use to the community immediately and beyond the end of the project.Both libraries support parsing and serialising in: ATOM, RDF/XML, N3, N-Triples, Turtle and RDFaForesite is a JISC funded project which aims to produce a demonstrator and test of the OAI- ...
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More MARBI News
2008-06-06 14:52:04
Some more MARBI news.The following papers are available for review by the MARC community:Proposal No. 2008-04: Changes to Nature of entire work and nature of content codes in field 008 of the MARC 21 bibliographic formatProposal No. 2008-09: Definition of Videorecording format codes in field 007/04 of the MARC 21 Bibliographic formatProposal No. 2008-10: Definition of a subfield for Other standard number in field 534 of the MARC 21 bibliographic formatAdditional proposals and discussion papers will be posted shortly.The draft agenda for the 2008 ALA Annual MARBI meetings is available online.Please note that there is a strong possibility that MARBI may meet during its Monday afternoon time slot of 1:30-3:30 for continuation of the discussion. ...
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Skype News
2008-06-06 10:23:06
Skype now lets you set your mobile number as your caller-id on outgoing calls. Very nice. I'm set up. ...
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ALA Annual MARBI Meeting
2008-06-06 09:32:04
Posted to many e-mail distribution lists.The following papers are available for review by the MARC community:Proposal No. 2008-06: Adding information associated with the Series Added Entry fields (800-830)Proposal No. 2008-07: Making field 440 (Series Statement/Added Entry--Title) obsolete in the MARC 21 Bibliographic FormatProposal No. 2008-08: Definition of subfield $z in field 017 of the MARC 21 Bibliographic and addition of the field to the MARC 21 Holdings formatsDiscussion Paper 2008-DP06: Coding deposit programs as methods of acquisitions in field 008/07 of the MARC 21 holdings formatAdditional proposals and discussion papers will be posted shortly.The draft agenda for the 2008 ALA Annual MARBI meetings will be made available soon. ...
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Yahoo Search Monkey
2008-06-04 10:42:38
Another step towards the Semantic Web, Yahoo SearchMonkey.SearchMonkey is fundamentally about transforming the way search results are compiled and displayed by leveraging the same structured data that powers the millions of pages indexed by Yahoo! Search. By sharing structured data with Yahoo!, site owners and content publishers can build more useful, relevant and visually appealing search results, which can increase the quantity and quality of traffic from Yahoo! Search....You can share data by embedding microformats, using semantic web standards such as RDF, sharing an XML data feed directly with Yahoo! Search, or using the SearchMonkey developer tool to build custom data services that extract structured data from your pages. ...
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LibriVox
2008-06-04 10:01:36
LibriVox is becoming a valuable resource for free audio books. They just reached 1500 titles in the collection.We’ve had a pretty extraordinary May. We cataloged our 1,500th book, James Baldwin’s children’s history book, Four Great Americans, which was a great accomplishment. (Considering seven months ago we were at 1,000).But we also had an impressively productive month: we released 115 (!) audiobooks into the public domain, almost four per day. Our previous record for monthly production was 77, reached in July 2007.Is anyone cataloging these and adding them to their collection? Burning them to CDs and adding those to the collection? A few months back the Nebraska Library Commission made news by adding a few books licensed under Creative Commons to their catalog. Anyone doing the same for the LibriVox materials? Adding the records to OCLC for sharing or making them available via OAI-PMH? ...
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