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FRBR and Linked Data
Lukas Koster in his article FRBR Outside the Box, discusses a very similar vision to what I have espoused. He calls the solution “a networked linked data model.” He explains that, while FRBR is a huge...
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Reinventing the Library Catalog – Aaron Tay
I have enjoyed Aaron Tay’s writings for a couple years. I found this tongue-in-cheek observation very insightful about the future of the library catalog, Steve Jobs style… “Well, today, we’re...
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The Ultimate Personalized Search Engine: The Librarian
What Google cofounder Sergey Brin calls “the ultimate personalized search engine: the librarian.” Amazon.com: Search Patterns: Design for Discovery (9780596802271):… Amazon.com: Search Patterns:...
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Building low-cost legal digital collections on the cheap
Reblogged from Doreva Belfiore:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO8C3IRhM_8&w=630&h=473] Today, while surfing the web, I found this YouTube video of Eric Gilson and John Joergensen of...
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SLCA’s Intellectual Freedom Committee and Web Site
I was at the Long Island Library Conference yesterday, and was made aware of the Suffolk County Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee and its website: On the SCLA intellectual freedom web...
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Going to London, where the streets are paved with acronyms...
Reblogged from Thing blogging: Tomorrow I am going to London for a very full day of RDA and FRBR. In the morning, it is the informal RDA discussion for RLUK libraries which I've organised with Helen...
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Data as a Web
This is a very interesting article about data. Approaching data as a graph will help make solutions findable. The biggest conceptual problem learners seem to have is with what we call graph thinking....
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RDA, Cataloging, and OPAC Displays
The problem with the OPAC is not the bibliographic metadata. In this digital information environment, good cataloging is more important than ever, authority work in particular. It is the software that...
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Making our OPACs More Gracious Hosts
An interesting project to make it easier to integrate the records from digital resources into a library public OPAC. I now consider digital resources–OER, images, videos, audio files, slideshows,...
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Do the Discovery and Delivery Solutions Solve OPAC Usability Problems?
Those of you who have been following my thoughts for a long time know that one of my pet peeves is the current state of the library OPAC. While we have seen some improvements since I started blogging...
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