Thursday, November 10, 2005
Be Back Monday
Friday is a holiday here in the states, Veteran's Day. Saturday I give my talk about Free MARC Tools at the TLA District 8 Conference. Hope to see some readers there. So this weblog will be quiet until Monday. I have posted an MP3 of my talk on OurMedia. Other than that have an enjoyable weekend.
MS Office 2003 Research Pane
Anyone have any idea what it takes to configure our resources so they can be added to the MS Office 2003 research pane? Hoovers has instructions on how the user can add their resource to their research pane. What did they have to do on their side to make this possible? This would be just another way we could make our work more widely available.
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Subject Access
Here is a field that was brought to my attention by the talk by Bill Moen at Access 2005, 656. "An index term that is descriptive of the occupation reflected in the contents of the described materials." I've never used this. Not many folks have, it seems. He had a collection of seven million records and it only appeared once. When would this be used rather than a 650?
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Wednesday, November 09, 2005
LISA V
LISA V - Library and Information Services in Astronomy: Common Challenges, Uncommon Solutions
June 18-21, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
The fifth Library and Information Services in Astronomy meeting will be hosted by the Wolbach Library at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries. This First Announcement is meant to provide general information about the meeting. Additional details will be given in the Second Announcement, to be distributed in January 2006. Please forward this information to colleagues who may be interested.
Venue
The meeting will be held at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, which is minutes away from the historic city of Boston.
Proceedings
The proceedings will be published electronically. Further instructions will follow in the Second Announcement.
Fees
Registration: US $300
Early Bird (before March 15, 2006): US $250
Single day: US $100
Student/Retired: US $50/day
Registration opens in January. Registration will be available for the
entire conference or for individual days.
Preliminary Program
Important Dates
Second Announcement: January 2006
Early bird registration and fee due: March 15, 2006
Late registration and fee due: May 15, 2006
LISAV
June 18-21, 2006, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
The fifth Library and Information Services in Astronomy meeting will be hosted by the Wolbach Library at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Libraries. This First Announcement is meant to provide general information about the meeting. Additional details will be given in the Second Announcement, to be distributed in January 2006. Please forward this information to colleagues who may be interested.
Venue
The meeting will be held at Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, which is minutes away from the historic city of Boston.
Proceedings
The proceedings will be published electronically. Further instructions will follow in the Second Announcement.
Fees
Registration: US $300
Early Bird (before March 15, 2006): US $250
Single day: US $100
Student/Retired: US $50/day
Registration opens in January. Registration will be available for the
entire conference or for individual days.
Preliminary Program
- The role of libraries and librarians in the era of the Virtual ObservatoryMetadata and interoperabilityBibliometric studies using the Astrophysics Data System (ADS)Dataset and facility identifiers - easier retrieval of papers based on observational dataPricing aspects:E-only vs. print -- does cancellation of print actually achieve savings?Consortia models -- experiences from astronomy librariesDifficulties in leaving "Big Deals" with major publishersAccess considerations:Are we buying or renting? Access to e-journals after cancellationsCopyright issues
Reasons to keep print; is there a future for print?When is full text not full text?Open access and institutional repositoriesOpen Archive Initiative (and how it differs from open access)Future of traditional journals
Pre-publication vs. post-publication peer-reviewTechnological aspects of electronic preservationDigitization projects in astronomyMigration -- preserving the integrity of the scientific recordPaper copies as backups for e-journalsHow to use e-tools to set up an archiveWho needs commercial databases? Case studies on ISI Web of Science, Scopus, Scitation, et al."Invisible literature" -- what IS NOT indexedARIbib -- where is it and where is it going?Retrieval of non-English language literatureWho's afraid of the big bad Google? Google Scholar, Google Print and moreWhich search engines for which purpose?E-metrics - how to measure library e-resources and servicesBibliomining -- data mining for libraries
Online library catalog -- does it have a future?Blogs and wikis and podcasts, oh my!Widening fields of activities, e.g., public outreach, education
Marketing in the astronomy settingWebpages -- the library's business card
Disaster managementLibraries as publishers / providers
Important Dates
Second Announcement: January 2006
Early bird registration and fee due: March 15, 2006
Late registration and fee due: May 15, 2006
LISAV
Arabic Name Authority
Arabic name authority in the online environment : options and implications Speirs Plettner, Martha (2003)International Cataloguing and Bibliographic Control 32(2).
The article examines the efforts for incorporating non-Roman scripts, notably Arabic, in MARC bibliographic and authority records. Arabic name authority records have been handwritten using Arabic script and filed manually in book or card catalogs since the time that it was considered important to preserve this information. After the adoption of typewriters as tools in library cataloging departments, those who only had Latin script typewriters were forced into using transliteration schemes, a practice that has been criticized for compromising uniformity and accessibility.(Houissa) Later, typewriters fitted with Arabic character keys allowed authority cards to be typed in Arabic. There were also attempts to encode both Latin and Arabic scripts on cards—or in book catalogs, as the first dual-script name authorities; something that was encouraged by the catalog cards distributed between 1902 and 1997 by the Library of Congress.Authority
Monday, November 07, 2005
Graphic Novels
Recently I've read a couple of outstanding graphic novels. Out From Boneville
is a wonderful story, good for all ages. It reminded me, at times of Walt Kelly. Smith has an affection for people and his characters and their foibles. I'm going to be reading the rest in this series.Blankets
is another great story. It concerns first love, the cruelty of parents, and coming of age. All those things I'd not read in a book and my wife would have to drag me to the cinema to watch in a movie. Yet, here the form made it something I picked up, and I'm glad I did. Looking forward to his next work. Due to some sex, this one would be for teens and adults in library collections.
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American Memory COinS-PMH Enabled via Greasemonkey
Dan on his dchud's work log describes the American Memory COinS-PMH Enabled via Greasemonkey.
Tonight I found Simon Willison's greasemonkey script that "fixes" American Memory to look better in various ways. It gave me the idea that the very suggestion we had for adding dynamic access to robust metadata and objects in our paper on this topic (see "Adding a Layer on Top of OpenURL Autodiscovery" section near the end) is not only possible, but doable now. As it turns out, it is, and it does!GreaseMonkey
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I know, it's ugly, but, that's easily fixed. The point is - without even talking to anybody at LoC, American Memory now speaks COinS-PMH, and anybody could use similar techniques to pull robust metadata for these items with just a single click right from the human UI. I've fiddled a bit with attempting to make other American Memory collections work the same way (there are a lot of them!), and it kind of works sometimes, but, you should get the point.
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Access 2005
Many talks from Access 2005 are available as MP3 files. Lots of good stuff here. I'll have to get to that conference at some point. Among the talks are:
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- Introduction to METS by Jerome McdonoughSorting Out Social Classification: Folksonomies and Tagging In Practice by Gene SmithA Radioactive Metadata Record Approach for Interoperability Testing Based on Analysis of Metadata Utilization by William Moen(Grease)Monkeywrenching the Library: utilizing the sloppy underbelly of the web to expose our collections and services by Ross Singer
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Rights Metadata
Following the example of Yahoo!'s CC-search that was released in March 2004 and then incorporated into Yahoo!'s Advanced Search page, Google has incorporated a new element into its Advanced Search page that allows users to filter their search by Usage Rights. By choosing to search for content that "allows some form of reuse" or "can be freely modified, adapted or built upon", search results with be limited to content that is made available under a Creative Commons license.From the Creative Commons news release. Are we identifying CC licenses for Web sites we include in the catalog? How often is field 540 used? Is this something our users want? Google and Yahoo! seem to think so. I know, in my catalog, when I do include rights information it is not is a standard language, so it would make limiting by that field difficult.
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