Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference

Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference 2010 February 1 - 3, 2010 AT&T Executive Education & Conference Center at The University of Texas Austin, TX, USA

Last chance to register for the Electronic Resources & Libraries Conference is Friday, January 8, 2010

Presentations
ER&L '10 Abstracts and Session Titles

Preconference Details:
Three preconference workshops are planned for Sunday, January, 31, 2010. The morning workshop is "Marketing E-Resources Successfully". The two afternoon workshops are "Processing, Storing, and Viewing Use Data" and "Current Dilemmas in Information Ethics: Changing Rules of the Game". More details

ER&L '10 conference details are online.

I'm registered and looking forward to the conference.

The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate

The Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate will have a library. What fun to be a librarian there. Daydream.

Topic Maps and the Catalog

Topic Maps and Catalogues of Museums, Libraries and Archives by Liliana Melgar.

This case study is about the usage of Topic Maps for catalogues of Museums, Libraries and Archives. The first part describes two projects using Topic Maps by implementing data with the FRBR-model. The second part of the study concentrates on another two projects that uses the Topic Map paradigm to integrate several catalogues.

Semantic Markup of Bibliography

The Academic Bibliography and Institutional Repository of Ghent University is using microformats and linked data. The weblog, TekTok - Digital Library Technology Blog, describes the decisions and formats involved.

In light of our recent study "DRIVER Technology Watch Report", we've started a little experiment adding semantic annotations to all records stored in the Academic Bibliography. With help of minor changes to the application, which are invisible to the human eye but easily readable by machines harvesting our web pages, we hope to gain insight in new models for data exchange.

Lots of APIs to access the data too.

Happy Year of Cataloging Research

The Association of Library Collections and Technical Services and the Cataloging and Classification Section have declared 2010 to be the Year of Cataloging Research.