The Library of Congress has made available a revised stylesheet for transforming MARCXML to MODS version 3.1. Changes are mainly to language and classification elements (enhancements made for MODS version 3.1). There were a few errors that also were fixed.
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Friday, March 10, 2006
Additions to the MARC Code Lists
Additions to the MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions Network Development and MARC Standards Office Library of Congress.The codes listed below have been recently approved for use in MARC 21 records. The new codes will be added to the online MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions.The codes should not be used in exchange records until after May 10, 2006. This 60-day waiting period is required to provide MARC 21 implementers time to include newly defined codes in any validation tables they may apply to the MARC fields where the codes are used. MARC Term, Name, Title Sources & Other SourcesThese codes are for use in subfield $2 in Bibliographic and Community Information records in fields 600-651 and 655 and field 040, subfield $f (Cataloging Source / Subject heading/thesaurus conventions) in Authority records.Additions:
- raam - Register of Australian Archives & Manuscripts Occupations Thesaurus (Canberra: National Library of Australia) [use after May 10, 2006]sgc - Spolsni geslovnik COBISS.SI = COBISS.SI General List of subject headings (Slovenian subject headings) (Maribor, Slovenia: Institut informacijskih znanosti (IZUM)) [use after May 10, 2006]sgce - Spolsni geslovnik COBISS.SI = COBISS.SI General List of subject headings (English subject headings) (Maribor, Slovenia: Institut informacijskih znanosti (IZUM)) [use after May 10, 2006]cct - Zhong guo fen lei zhu ti ci biao (di er ban) = Chinese Classified Thesaurus (Beijing: Guo jia tu shu guan, "Zhongguo tu shu guan fen lei fa" bian wei hui) [use after May 10, 2006]
- rerovoc - Indexation matieres RERO (autorites) (Martigny: Reseau des bibliothèques de Suisse occidentale) [former code: reroa] [use after May 10, 2006]
- sao - Svenska amnesord (Stockholm: Kungliga Biblioteket, LIBRIS-avdelningen) [use after May 10, 2006 in field 073 in Authority records]
Ontologies in Topic Maps
Ontology-Driven Knowledge Organization: Enhancing UDDI Web services in Korea Using Topic Maps by Sam Gyun Oh, Eun Chul Lee, Oknam Park, and Myongho Yi appears in Proceedings 68th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) 42.
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TopicMaps
Effective and efficient publishing and searching for Universal Description, Discovery and Integration (UDDI) Web services is important for the success of Web services. Traditional approaches such as index, thesaurus, and classification have historically dominated information representation and organization; however, they have some limitations. Ontology-driven knowledge organization [An ontology-driven knowledge organization approach] is considered one of keys to the next generation of knowledge management applications because ontology provides structure and meaning to data. This research examines how ontology-driven knowledge organization could provide benefits to current UDDI Web services.UDDI
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Faceted Classification
A Hybrid Approach to Faceted Classification Based on Analysis of Descriptor Suffixes by Aaron Loehrlein, Elin K. Jacob, Kiduk Yang, Seungmin Lee, and Ning Yu appears in Proceedings 68th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) 42
This study explores the construction of a faceted vocabulary that can be used as a mechanism for organizing Webbased resources. After analyzing the manual process of faceted vocabulary construction using existing organizational structures to identify heuristics for automating the construction process, we modeled a hybrid, semi-automatic approach to facet generation that integrates the strengths of manual and automatic methods. This approach is based on the organization of terms according to the meanings of their suffixes. Although this heuristic could not usefully organize the majority of terms of the lexicon bases to which it was applied, it nevertheless shows promise as a component of hybrid classification.Classification
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Thursday, March 09, 2006
E-Prints and Tagging
This from the Connotea folks:
EPrints
We've released a small code collection that enables institutional repositories running on EPrints to easily add tagging, bookmarking, and related article linking to their sites.Tagging
The TaggingTool works by connecting the repository content to either Connotea, del.icio.us, or any service based on Connotea Code. It shows tags that have been used on repository items, allows users to save the item in their own Connotea or del.icio.us accounts, and shows links to related articles.
The tool is quick and easy to install, and requires only minimal changes to an existing EPrints repository. If you're a user of a repository and would like to experiment with the TaggingTool, point your administrator at the summary of its features.
EPrints
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
There is a new version of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP). This version of the CGP is the online public access catalog (OPAC) module of the Government Printing Office's (GPO) new integrated library system. With the availability of the new CGP Phase 1 of a larger modernization plan to replace older legacy systems is complete.
The new and improved CGP currently offers more than 500,000 records to both historical and current Government publications. These records have been created or updated since July 1976. Plans are underway to include records for publications dating back to the late 1800s.
Catalogs
GPO
The new and improved CGP currently offers more than 500,000 records to both historical and current Government publications. These records have been created or updated since July 1976. Plans are underway to include records for publications dating back to the late 1800s.
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GPO
Wednesday, March 08, 2006
MARC Proposals and Discussion Papers
The cover sheets for the proposals and discussion papers presented at the Midwinter meetings of the MARC Advisory Committee have been updated with the results of the discussions. They are available at:
MARC
- Proposal No. 2006-01: Changes to accommodate IAML form/genre codes in field 047 in the MARC 21 Bibliographic FormatProposal No. 2006-02: Adding subfields for relator terms to X11 fields in the MARC 21 Bibliographic and Authority FormatsProposal No. 2006-03: Standardized terminology for access restrictions in field 506 of the MARC 21 Bibliographic FormatProposal No. 2006-04: Technique for conversion of Unicode to MARC-8Proposal No. 2006-05: Changes to holdings data fields to accommodate ONIX for Serials in the MARC 21 Holdings FormatDiscussion Paper No. 2006-DP01: Recording geographic coordinates in the MARC 21 Authority FormatDiscussion Paper No. 2006-DP02: Addition of coded value to 008 for content alerts in the MARC 21 Bibliographic FormatDiscussion Paper No. 2006-DP03: Incorporation of former headings into MARC 21 authority recordsDiscussion Paper No. 2006-DP05: Indicating coverage dates for indexes in the MARC 21 Holdings Format
MARC
Metadata Survey
OCLC is looking for metadata folks to take a survey.
OCLC is working on a project that would allow us to support different types of metadata schemes, not just MARC 21 and Dublin Core. We are currently gathering information about various schemes to determine which to crosswalk or translate. We are interested in gathering information from librarians who are responsible for creating or managing records for digital resources. Attached is a link to a brief survey with some questions concerning metadata schemes and digital resources. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey. If you are not responsible for creating or managing records for digital resources at your library, please feel free to pass this survey on to someone else at your library who handles digital resources. The survey will be open for responses until March 17, 2006.Metadata
Tuesday, March 07, 2006
OPML 2.0
Steven Cohen (Library Stuff) persuaded Dave Winer to create an audio file discussing the 2.0 version of the OPML standard.
OPML
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MARC to XML
The Library of Congress has made an updated version of their MARC to XML Conversion Tool available.
XML
Mrc2xml.pl is a perl program that converts a file of MARC records to XML. The resulting XML markup will reflect the MARC tags and subfields that occur in the input file of MARC records. The output file will be well-formed XML but not necessarily valid XML (i.e valid when parsed against the DTD mrcbfile.dtd). The DTD reflects only the tags present in MARC 21 (including obsolete tags). So, for instance, any 9XX local fields will cause validation to fail.MARC
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Monday, March 06, 2006
Mash-Ups
I posted a few days ago about mash-ups being the next big thing. An informative podcast episoide on the topic is Inside the Net 13: Web Mashups.
Mash-ups
Amber and Leo talk with Michael Arrington of Techcrunch, and PodBop creator, Taylor McKnight, winner of the best of Mashup Camp.Inside the Web is one of my favorite podcasts.
Other mashups we mention:HousingMaps, the Craig's List/Google maps mashupTrulia, the real estate mashupAmazon's Mechanical TurkFrappr mapsThe greasemonkey Firefox extensionEventful the database Podbop is based onChicago Crime (2nd place winner at Mashup Camp)Tagcloud.comSnapshirts makes tag-cloud merchandiseBeer Hunter beer shopping in OntarioPandora music matching serviceprogrammableweb lists many more
Running time: 32:34
Mash-ups
Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday to Catalogablog. Now we are four.I started this back on March 5, 2002 on a whim. What started as an experiment now has over 2,400 posts. It has also recently been added to OCLC, #64549138. Thanks for reading and all the suggestions over the years.
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