Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Working with MaRC
Working with MaRC is a new wiki to record MARC tools. Know of a MARC tool? Add it to the list.
PNLA Quarterly
A couple of articles of possible interest in the latest PNLA Quarterly.
- Virginia Schilling. The Catalogers' Revenge: Unleashing the Semantic Web
- Jill Bauhs Jensen. Folksonomies for Digital Resources
Next-generation Policy for WorldCat Records - Open for Community Review
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The OCLC Record Use Policy Council members have been working for the past few months to develop the next generation of a WorldCat use policy, and we are pleased to announce that the draft document, WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities for the OCLC Cooperative, is open for community review.
This Council, convened by the OCLC Board of Trustees last September, has produced a new draft document that incorporates many suggestions raised by the community over the past year. For example, rather than using legal language, we have drafted the new policy as a code of good practices, intended to outline the rights and responsibilities of OCLC members with regard to the use of WorldCat records.
We intend for this document to help inform the decision-making process for member library leaders as they seek to innovate around the shared resource that is WorldCat. We have sought to encourage the widespread use of WorldCat data while also supporting the viability and utility of WorldCat and the OCLC network of services.
The draft policy is not final. Between now and the end of May, we very much want your feedback. We hope you will take the time to review the draft policy carefully, and let us know your thoughts. You can post comments to the community forum, send an e-mail with your thoughts to recorduse@oclc.org, or register to attend a webinar where you can ask questions and submit feedback to members of the Record Use Policy Council. We will continue to add content to the accompanying FAQas we get more questions from the community review process.
We plan to send a revised version of the draft policy to the OCLC Board of Trustees at the end of May for final review and approval. We anticipate that a final document will be published mid-calendar year 2010.
Standardized Markup for Journal Articles Teleconference
News from NISO about their teleconference on the work of NISO's Standardized Markup for Journal Articles Working Group
Please mark your calendars to attend NISO's upcoming free monthly teleconference call, to be held on Monday, April 12, 2010 from 3-4 p.m. (eastern) to learn about the work of NISO's Standardized Markup for Journal Articles Working Group. This group is developing a standard based on the currently existing National Library of Medicine (NLM) Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite. Join guest speaker Jeff Beck (Technical Information Specialist, National Center for Biotechnology Information [NCBI], U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health), co-chair of the working group, to learn more about this developing standard and its progress.This Open Teleconference conversation is part of an ongoing series of month calls held on the second Monday of each month as a way to keep the community appraised of NISO's activities. It also provides an opportunity for you to provide feedback to NISO on our activities or make suggestions about new activities we should be engaging in. See the full list of 2010 calls at http://www.niso.org/news/events/2010/telecon/
Tuesday, April 06, 2010
WorldaCat
Watch WorldCat grow. Every eight seconds, or so, another record appears. might make for an interesting screen saver, if the text block would move about the screen.
Friday, April 02, 2010
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The Variations/FRBR project aims to provide a concrete testbed for the FRBR conceptual model, and these XML Schemas represent one step towards that goal by prescribing a concrete data format that instantiates the conceptual model. Our project has been watching recent work to represent the FRBR-based Resource Description and Access (RDA) element vocabulary in RDF; however, due to the fact that this work represents RDA data rather than FRBR data directly, and that much metadata work in libraries currently (though perhaps not permanently) operates in an XML rather than an RDF environment, we concluded an XML-based format for FRBR data directly was needed at this time. We view XML conforming to these Schemas to be one possible external representation of FRBRized data, and will be exploring other representations (including RDF) in the future. We define "implementing FRBR," as the conceptual models described in the companion FRBR and FRAD reports; at this time we are not actively working on the model defined in the draft FRSAD report. Perhaps the most notable feature of the Variations/FRBR XML Schemas is their existence at three "levels": frbr, which embodies faithfully only those features defined by the FRBR and FRAD reports; efrbr, which adds additional features we hope will make the data format more "useful"; and vfrbr, which both contracts and extends the FRBR and FRAD models to create a data representation optimized for the description of musical materials and we hope provides a model for other domain-specific applications of FRBR.
Pic2Shop iPhone app
OCLC has announced a library addition to the Pic2Shop iPhone app.
In case you haven't heard the news from earlier this week, the Pic2Shop iPhone app has recently done a new release that now incorporates library results, thanks to the WorldCat Search API and WorldCat Registry APIs.
North Texan
I'm in the article Evolution of a librarian in the North Texan, my alumni magazine. Makes my day.
Thursday, April 01, 2010
TLA and Subscription Agents
Looking forward to the Texas Library Association Conference (TLA). This year I'll be investigating subscription agents. This is new for us. Any suggestions? Anything I should look at that I might not think about?
Peep Research
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Although scientific and health research has been conducted on Peeps, most notably that appearing on the Peep Research website (see http://www.peepresearch.org), we have noted an absence of research focusing on the ability of Peeps themselves to actually do research. To address this lack, we invited a small group of Peeps to visit Staley Library at Millikin University during the week of March 17-21, 2003 so that we could more closely observe their research practices. This was determined to be an ideal week for the Peeps to visit the library, as Millikin University students were on spring break. The research that follows documents their visit to the library and provides some evaluative commentary on our assessment of Peeps and library usage.
MARC for Mark-up
The latest podcast from the Library 2.0 Gang, The Semantic Web and Linked Data by Karen Coyle is well worth a listen. One statement I found interesting, not sure if I agree but it got me thinking, was that MARC is a markup language rather than a data model or schema. One reason it was created was to automate the production of catalog cards. Interesting. Maybe something for a discussion in cataloging class.
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