Seminar follow-up
Documents, links, and more info relating to the Libraries Issues Seminar held on Monday, 6 Feb 2006...
Documents, links, and more info relating to the Libraries Issues Seminar held on Monday, 6 Feb 2006...
Portfolio is an application developed by the university of Minnesota's Office of Information Technology. They recently invited me to come in and give a librarian's perspective on some of the issues and ideas that had come up regarding its taxonomy of information. These issues are of great weight as the application is rolled out to other institutions as an open-source product.
I recently attended an excellent program on metadata issues at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. This program was designed to fulfill multiple objectives: discuss the side-by-side use of MARC with XML-based metadata schemes; introduce MODS (Model Object Data Schema) as a workable, mature standard that is being used in the real world; and discuss strategies of metadata reuse.
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Second in a series of reports from the Digital Library Federation 2005 Spring Forum: a session entitled "METS Profiles."
Just a brief entry to let people know that you can easily search just the "Print" version of Google (scanned books) by one of a few methods...
The Andersen Horticultural Library has a huge collection of nursery catalogs. How best to represent these on University Library systems?
Su Chen at the East Asian Library has several interesting ideas regarding the creation of access to Chinese materials both within the EA Library and without.