This is still a work in progress, so I would love to hear more suggestions for improvement from anyone who can afford the time to look it all over. James Weinheimer is helping me work on a wiki site for the cataloging rules, so keep your eye on this space (smile)...
Friday, February 22, 2008
Yee's Cataloging Rules
Martha M. Yee has updated her suggested cataloging rules and RDF model.
Labels:
Cataloging,
RDF
Thursday, February 21, 2008
CONSER/BIBCO ALA At-Large Meeting Summary
The CONSER/BIBCO ALA At-Large Meeting Summary is now available. Topics discussed include:
- CONSER standard recordTitle presentation on e-resource web sitesPCC Series discussion paperIntegrating resource cataloging manual issues
Omeka Now Public
Omeka 0.9.0 is now available to the public.
Omeka is a web platform for publishing collections and exhibitions online. Designed for cultural institutions, enthusiasts, and educators, Omeka is easy to install and modify and facilitates community-building around collections and exhibits. Omeka is free and open source.Here is the news release.
The Omeka team has worked very hard over the past few months to bring you the public beta, Omeka version 0.9.0, which is now available for everyone to download.Lots of metadata there, COinS, tags, and RSS.
Here’s what you get bundled in your installation:Basic themes that are easy to adapt with simple CSS changes
Find additional functionality by downloading plug-ins :
Exhibit building with 12 basic page layouts
Tagging for items and exhibits
RSS feed for new items
COins plug-in making all Omeka content readable by Zotero (zotero.org);Bilingual plug-in for adding language fields to item metadata
Contribution plug-in for collecting items from visitors
Dropbox plug-in for batch adding items
Geo-location plug-in for displaying items on a map
Sitenotes plug-in for administrators to leave instructions for users
Tag Suggest plug-in for suggesting tags based upon their frequency in the item text areas
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COinS,
RSS,
Semantic Web,
Tagging
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Work Begins on the RDA Vocabularies
The DCMI/RDA Task Group was formed in April of 2007, when members of the Joint Steering Committee for the Development of RDA, Dublin Core and the W3C Semantic Web Deployment Working Group met in London. At that meeting, two tasks relating to RDA vocabularies were identified:
The work will be lead by the DCMI/RDA Task Group chairs: Gordon Dunsire of the University of Strathclyde and Diane Hillmann of Cornell University (with support from Tom Baker of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative). Other participants working closely with the project are:
Public information on the progress of the project is available on the DCMI/RDA Task Group wiki. Continuing discussion on the work of the Task Group will take place on the public mailing list maintained by the task group and available for open subscription. Feedback, comment and experimentation with the products that the group will be presenting is both welcome and essential to the success of the work.
- definition of an RDA Element Vocabulary
disclosure on the public web of RDA Value Vocabularies using RDF/RDFS/SKOS technologies
The work will be lead by the DCMI/RDA Task Group chairs: Gordon Dunsire of the University of Strathclyde and Diane Hillmann of Cornell University (with support from Tom Baker of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative). Other participants working closely with the project are:
- Karen Coyle (independent consultant well known in the library world)
Alistair Miles (editor for the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) and member of the W3C SWDWG)
Mikael Nilsson (researcher in the Knowledge Management Research Group, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and co-chair of the DCMI Architecture Forum)
Public information on the progress of the project is available on the DCMI/RDA Task Group wiki. Continuing discussion on the work of the Task Group will take place on the public mailing list maintained by the task group and available for open subscription. Feedback, comment and experimentation with the products that the group will be presenting is both welcome and essential to the success of the work.
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
MARC and RDF
Semantic MARC, MARC21 and the Semantic Web by Rob Styles, Danny Ayers, and Nadeem Shabir is available as a preprint.
The MARC standard for exchanging bibliographic data has been in use for several decades and is used by major libraries worldwide. This paper discusses the possibilities of representing the most prevalent form of MARC, MARC21, as RDF for the Semantic Web, and aims to understand the tradeoffs, if any, resulting from transforming the data. Critically our approach goes beyond a simple transliteration of the MARC21 record syntax to develop rich semantic descriptions of the varied things which may be described using bibliographic records. We present an algorithmic approach for consistently generating URIs from textual data, discuss the algorithmic matching of author names and suggest how RDF generated from MARC records may be linked to other data sources on the Web.
Labels:
MARC,
RDF,
Semantic Web
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