Discovery at Safari Books- June 30, 2008 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...http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2008/06/discovery-at-safari-books.html 2008 Midwinter MARBI Meeting Minutes- June 27, 2008 The 2008 Midwinter MARBI Meeting minutes are now available online.http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2008/06/2008-midwinter-marbi-meeting-minutes.html Cataloging Principles and RDA- June 27, 2008 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.http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2008/06/cataloging-principles-and-rda.html Metadata for Resource Discovery- June 25, 2008 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..http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2008/06/metadata-for-resource-discovery.html FireFox Problems- June 25, 2008 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..http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2008/06/firefox-problems.html Delay in Publication of 31st Edition of Library of Congress Subject Headings- June 25, 2008 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.http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2008/06/delay-in-publication-of-31st-edition-of.html Open Source OPAC- June 25, 2008 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...http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2008/06/open-source-opac.html Distributed Metadata Control Systems- June 25, 2008 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...http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2008/06/distributed-metadata-control-systems.html Approved Books- June 25, 2008 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 itemhttp://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2008/06/approved-books.html Cross-concordances- June 25, 2008 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...http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2008/06/cross-concordances.html |