I spent some time checking it out and made a few postings. It is interesting to see how each of these different forms of communication each have their own rules and etiquette. IM and chat allow the worst spelling and grammar and have a whole world of abbreviations, none of which would be acceptable anywhere else. Even though forums have been around quite some time, I first looked at them on Fidonet, I'm not used to the ethos. Just how it will fit into my overall effort to communicate and keep current remains to be seen. Another issue is the technology, I've not played with it yet. Can there be RSS feeds from topics? Would be nice. How about receiving postings via e-mail? Could I post using e-mail? If not on this software, how about another? Or would these techniques ruin the purpose of a common meeting place?
Friday, November 08, 2002
Library On-Line Forum
Thursday, November 07, 2002
Dewey
Dewey Cutter Software. Software program that automatically provides cutter numbers from the OCLC Four-Figure Cutter Tables (Cutter Four-Figure Table and Cutter-Sanborn Four-Figure Table) upon input of text. Works with Windows 95, 98, NT, XP, and 2000.
Dewey Screen Saver A screen saver to load on your PC to view the ten main classes of the DDC. Works with Windows NT, 95, 98, and 2000.
MARC21
- Addition of field 748 (Index term -- Chronological)
- Updated examples
- Improved descriptions of content designators
Keeping Up with Changes
WatchThatPage is a service that enables you to automatically collect new information from your favorite pages on the Internet. You select which pages to monitor, and WatchThatPage will find which pages have changed, and collect all the new content for you. The new information is presented to you in an email and/or a personal web page. You can specify when the changes will be collected, so they are fresh when you want to read them. The service is free!
Wednesday, November 06, 2002
Marc21
- Addition of field 026 (Fingerprint identifier)
- Addition of subfield $u (Uniform resource identifier) in fields 506 and 540
- Addition of the second indicator values in field 655
- Updated examples
- Improved descriptions of content designators
MARC21
- Addition of field 065 (Other classification number)
- Addition of subfield $u (Uniform Resource Identifier) in field 670
- Updated examples
- Improved descriptions of content designators
MARC21
- Addition of field 563 (Binding information)
- Addition of subfields $n (Pattern note) and $p (Number of pieces per issuance) in fields 853-855
- Updated examples
- Improved descriptions of content designators
MARC21
- Addition of field 648 (Subject added entry -- Chronological term)
- Improved descriptions of content designators
- Updated examples
Dewey
- Plain Planes
- Standing Room
- Amazing Grace
- Swimming Upstream
- Good Grief
- Time Periods
- Significant Expansion
- Medical Research
Tuesday, November 05, 2002
Faceted Classification
Serials
Type of Material
Monday, November 04, 2002
CONSER
Information
Libraries and our catalogs tend to be "just the facts" places. There is no place in a MARC record for an opinion. Amazon has a place for reviews and comments. Maybe, we should consider this for our catalogs. It would be messy, but maybe richer and more interesting.
Serials
A NISO White Paper released in September 2002 reported that libraries, content aggregators, publishers, and third party service providers are increasingly exchanging information about serials subscription. The White Paper indicated that a standard exchange format would be beneficial to all parties in the supply chain and identified ONIX for Serials as a good foundation for such an exchange format.
The NISO/EDItEUR group will begin work in November 2002 and will be tasked to:
- Recommend specific enhancements to the ONIX for Serials schema and documentation to support exchange of serials subscription information
- Recommend how the query/response scenarios can be accommodated within the emerging EDItEUR framework for transaction-based exchange
- Plan, organize and coordinate a pilot project involving publishers, intermediaries, and libraries to demonstrate the feasibility of using ONIX for Serials as an exchange format for serials subscription information
The Joint Working Party will be co-chaired by Priscilla Caplan, a member of the NISO Standards Development Committee and Assistant Director of the Florida Center for Library Automation, Gainesville FL and Richard Gedye, Journals Sales and Marketing Director, Oxford University Press, Oxford UK.
Thanks Ian for passing this on.
OCLC
Writing
National Novel Writing Month is a fun, seat-of-your-pants approach to novel writing. Participants begin writing November 1. The goal is to write a 175-page (50,000-word) novel by midnight, November 30.
OPML
The purpose of this format is to provide a way to exchange information between outliners and Internet services that can be browsed or controlled through an outliner.The design goal is to have a transparently simple, self-documenting, extensible and human readable format that's capable of representing a wide variety of data that's easily browsed and edited. As the format evolves this goal will be preserved. It should be possible for a reasonably technical person to fully understand the format with a quick read of a single Web page.