This is rather comical… sounds like an example of batch editing fail… —————————–Philip Howard discovered something odd about the copy of “War and Peace” he purchased for his new Nook: Every instance of the word “Kindle” had been clumsily replaced with the word “Nook.” I purchased Superior Formatting’s 99-cent edition of the classic novel, too, and Howard’s right: There are some hilarious incidents of butchered ...
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OCLC Reclamation Project – what it is and how it works
Like | robinna | Jun 5, 2012 | Libraries, Library Catalogs (ILS), metadata
Nice little presentation about the OCLC Reclamation Project from Pierce College Library (a Voyager ILS library). What is the reclamation project? It syncs and sets holdings in OCLC. A Reclamation Project on Prezi
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LC Bib Framework (MARC replacement)
Like | robinna | May 20, 2012 | Libraries, linkeddata, metadata, semantic web
from an email via a listserv… Library of Congress Announces Modeling Initiative …. [snip] The Library of Congress has asked Zepheira to provide a model (or models) that can serve as a strong starting point for discussion, and an analysis of related initiatives underway that will be useful to this effort. LC expects that the proposed model(s) will change and be further tuned based on ...
Metadata for images and SEO
Like | robinna | Apr 27, 2012 | metadata, my art
So, some of us on twitter have been talking about images and metadata (you know, one of my fave topics). Anyhow, I realized I was running out of room on twitter, so I thought maybe a blog post was in order. ;-D By the way, I do have a chapter within Semantic Web Technologies and Social Search for Librarians, which covers EXIF data and Flickr ...
Harvard Library releases “big data” metadata
Like | robinna | Apr 25, 2012 | metadata
Ok, this sounds cool, tho a little hard to say what the quality control was like… but it is a big data set… . “This is Big Data for books,” said David Weinberger, co-director of Harvard’s Library Lab. “There might be 100 different attributes for a single object.” At a one-day test run with 15 hackers working with information on 600,000 items, he said, people created ...
Reflections on OCLC (Jay Jordan retires)
Like | robinna | Apr 19, 2012 | Leadership, Libraries, Library Catalogs (ILS), metadata, social media
Some interesting thoughts sprinkled throughout the interview portion… ———-OCLC now serves 72,035 libraries in 170 countries, with more than 260 million records—up from 39 million records in 1998. Its businesses have shifted radically, with an increasing proportion of its revenues derived from the library automation business rather than metadata services. Jordan’s tenure has not been without controversy. Some in the automation field charge that OCLC ...
A history of automation and its impact on staffing (White paper/case study)
Like | robinna | Apr 10, 2012 | History of Technology, Libraries, Library Catalogs (ILS), metadata, my projects
This white paper written by Virginia Feher and I started out as a conversation about the changes brought about by automation within the UGA Libraries. Over the years, I have documented some of the changes in automation (including 5 migrations/conversions of the ILS – Library catalog!) through discussions with colleagues within the Libraries and outside. This article not only provides a good overview of the ...
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Library of Congress RDA “Day 1” will be March 31, 2013
Like | robinna | Feb 29, 2012 | Libraries, metadata, rda, training / tutorials
Big News from LC regarding RDA implementation: As will be seen in the attached plan [on the website via the link below], we have determined that date to be March 31, 2013. LC’s partner national libraries (U.S.: National Agricultural Library and National Library of Medicine; and non-U.S.: British Library, Library & Archives Canada, Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, and National Library of Australia) have been apprised of our ...
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OCLC/WorldCat discussion paper on RDA
Like | robinna | Feb 15, 2012 | Library Catalogs (ILS), metadata, rda
Many points of interest in the OCLC discussion paper on RDA including how catalogers may use OCLC records postRDA implementation: Proposed Future Cataloging Policy for Member Contribution to WorldCat after RDA Implementation Catalogers are not required to update or upgrade existing records to RDA. Catalogers may re-catalog items according to RDA if it is considered useful. Such recataloging should only be done with access to ...
Google’s algorithm changes
Like | robinna | Nov 16, 2011 | metadata, Search engines/browsers
Interesting post on changes to Google’s search algorithms (& an overview of 9 algorithm changes that have been released to the public) “Google is trying to become more open about their search algorithm changes. Beyond the much-discussed “fresh” update, Google discussed recent changes in SERP (Search Engine Results Page) titles and descriptions, date-specified searches, image search signals, and more. While Matt Cutts called this “An ...