On several listservs lately, there has been a lively discussion about the need to put MARC to rest. In other words, MARC must die. This is not a new topic. Christine Schwartz, in a recent blog post (http://www.catalogingfutures.com/catalogingfutures/) on Cataloging Futures, brings up the well-known article by Roy Tennant (http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA250046.html). In the Library Journal.com issue …
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Digital Brown Bags from Indiana University Digital Library Program
From what I can tell these digital brown bags began as early as 2003. Basically these are presentations brought to you from the folks in the Digital Library Program at Indiana University on all things metadata (as in non-MARC only and solely). They tend to last an hour. As a result presentations tend to give …
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ALCTS E-Forum: Developing a Library Metadata Policy
Recently, ALCTS hosted another e-forum on developing a metadata policy. The moderators, Susan Massey and Melanie Wacker, provided this summary of the discussions that took place. Thank you all for participating in a very interesting discussion. While going over your messages we really realized how much content has been contributed. Many libraries are at a …
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To Link or Not To Link
Recently there was a video posted on linked data and just the other day a blog post on linked data as the "new Dublin Core". The video by Sandro Hawke is called "An Introduction to Linked Data". There are also slides to accompany the video at: files.meetup.com/1336198/LinkedDataPresentation-SandroHawke.pdf. Sandro's talk provides an easy to follow introduction …
Metadata & Preservation
Back in early June, Mike Shatzkin posted "Metadata is the new most important thing to know about". This post puts into perspective the need to become familiar with metadata as well as why quality metadata is so important. Is it possible to define quality metadata? Is it having a large array of information about the …
Repurposing Metadata
In March, Mark Matienzo gave this presentation on re-purposing metadata. What really caught my attention was how Mark used the idea of linked data to explain how metadata can be used and re-used. This message is especially poignant given RDA's focus on relationships. It has also been discussed in several blogs, quite recently by Karen …
Karen Coyle : New Directions for Metadata
Karen Coyle recently did a presentation called "Directions in Metadata" through ALA Publishing. I have always enjoyed Karen's presentation style. It is directly, easy to grasp and full of examples. This presentation was no different. The presentation was posted and I've included at the end of this summary. Also, if you are interested in continuing …
Webinar: Directions in Metadata with Karen Coyle
This a new free webinar sponsored by ALA Publishing. You can register online now. Directions in Metadata with Karen Coyle Bibliographic data is in the midst of a major transition. With the emergence of the semantic web, the very purpose of this data is evolving from an entity meant for interpretation by humans to one …
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Code4Lib Presentations
Code4Lib has wrapped up. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend this year. But the Code4Lib people are great about posting presentations to their wiki site. Just as in past years, presentations are now being posted at: http://code4lib.org/conference/2010/schedule#conf. Also, check out the "Recent Comments" section where some of the presentations are being posted as PDFs. Some …
New Site on Metadata
Resource Shelf recently posted about a new website that focuses on metadata in repositories. The site is called Metadata in Repositories : An overview. The site is more than just how metadata is used in repositories. It is a good introduction to metadata in general and in particular Dublin Core as seen in the table …