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+ PREMIS With a Fresh Coat of Paint: Highlights from the Revision of the PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata
+ A Year of Selective Web Archiving with the Web Curator Tool at the National Library of New Zealand
+ Considering the User Perspective: Research into Usage and Communication of Digital Information
+ Adding Value to the Library Catalog by Implementing a Recommendation System
Turner Entertainment is offering a new system intended to pair commercials with relevant moments in the shows they interrupt.
TV in Context involves combing through the thousands of properties in the Turner Entertainment library, cataloging scenes by subject matter and tracking the commercials that agencies deliver to the networks to run. The first placements are available in the fall.
Source: NY Times
Abstract: An explanation of where FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) comes from, given by a look at the work of librarians such as Panizzi, Cutter, Ranganathan, and Lubetzky, and an examination of four themes in the history of library cataloging: the use of axioms to explain the purpose of catalogs, the importance of user needs, the idea of the “work,” and standardization and internationalization.
Source Citation: Denton, William. “FRBR and the History of Cataloging.” Understanding FRBR: What It Is and How It Will Affect Our Retrieval. Ed. Arlene G. Taylor. Westport, Connecticut: Libraries Unlimited, 2007.
+ New Grant Program to Fund Cataloging of Hidden Collections
+ Many More than a Million: Building the Digital Environment for the Age of Abundance
+ Faculty Research Behavior Workshops: A Librarian’s Perspective
+ Who Uses Institutional Repositories and Mass-Digitized Collections?
+ CLIR Names 2008 Rovelstad Scholarship Recipient
+ 2008–2009 Mellon Dissertation Fellows Named
Source: Council on Libraries and Information Resouces
From the Library of Congress:
textMD is a XML Schema that details technical metadata for text-based digital objects. It most commonly serves as an extension schema used within the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Schema (METS) administrative metadata section.
Source: Library of Congress
The Central Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries and for Bibliographic Information (ICCU) is one of the founders of The European Library. As such, it has an excellent track record in partnerships and has considerable experience to pass on to new Full Participants. We have asked Cristina Magliano, Head of the Cataloguing Department, to share her experience and opinion about The European Library and to explain the specific situation of Italy as regards the position of the ICCU, which was founded in order to coordinate the cataloguing activities of the Italian libraries.
Source: The European Library Newsletter
The Integrative Level Classification (ILC) research project is experimenting with a knowledge organization system based on phenomena rather than disciplines. Each phenomenon has a constant notation, which can be combined with that of any other phenomenon in a freely faceted structure. Citation order can express differential focality of the facets. Very specific subjects can have long classmarks, although their complexity is reduced by various devices. Freely faceted classification is being tested by indexing a corpus of about 3300 papers in the interdisciplinary domain of bioacoustics. The subjects of these papers often include phenomena from a wide variety of integrative levels (mechanical waves, animals, behaviour, vessels, fishing, law, …) as well as information about the methods of study, as predicted in the León Manifesto. The archive is recorded in a MySQL database, and can be fed and searched through PHP Web interfaces. Indexer’s work is made easier by mechanisms that suggest possible classes on the basis of matching title words with terms in the ILC schedules, and synthesize automatically the verbal caption corresponding to the classmark being edited. Users can search the archive by selecting and combining values in each facet. Search refinement should be improved, especially for the cases where no record, or too many records, match the faceted query. However, experience is being gained progressively, showing that freely faceted classification by phenomena, theories, and methods is feasible and working.
Source: DLIST
BookChaser.com - Editions Lookup Tool 0.1
This is an experimental tool that lets people find multiple editions of a specific book via ISBN. It uses three underlying services to lookup that information: LibraryThing’s thingISBN, WorldCat’s xISBN and a new service called amazingISBN that is based on Amazon’s web services. Edition data is cached. Covers are provided via Google’s Books API.
Source: FRBR Blog.
Mellon Grants CLIR $4.27 Million for Program to Catalog Hidden Collections
From the announcement:
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) $4.27 million to create a national program to identify and catalog hidden special collections and archives.
Through a national competition, the program will award funds to institutions holding collections of high scholarly value that are difficult or impossible to locate through finding aids. Award recipients will create descriptive information for their hidden collections that will be linked to and interoperable with all other projects funded by this grant, to form a federated environment that can be built upon over time.
CLIR will issue a request for proposals by early June, and decisions will be announced in fall 2008. CLIR expects to award about $4 million in the first cycle. It is possible that the program will be extended for subsequent funding cycles over five years.
“Librarians and archivists have long despaired at the huge amount of intellectually valuable information that, for lack of cataloging, is unknown or inaccessible to scholars,” said CLIR Board Chairperson Paula Kaufman. “This award to CLIR underscores the importance of the hidden collections problem and supports a coordinated, national response. On behalf of the community and the CLIR Board, I want to express my deep gratitude to the Mellon Foundation for its decision to support this important initiative.”
Source: Council on Library and Information Resources
“Just where’s the damn book?,” or, Rediscovering the art of cataloging
Current discussions on the future of cataloging describe a “crisis” that has been going on longer than most realize. However, new challenges posed by the Internet have given increased attention to a more complete transformation of bibliographic control. Contributions by Calhoun and others have shown that much can be gleaned from research in fields beyond library and information science, namely in documenting how people actually react to information and the process they employ in its discovery. While many technical solutions have been offered in these discussions, the author considers the more elusive social and moral dimensions which help explain why what has been described as a “crisis” continues.
+ Full Report (PDF; 84 KB)
Source: E-LIS
International Cataloguing and Bibliographic Control, 37.1 (Subscription, Fee-Based)
January/March, 2008
Articles include:
+ Bibliographic Control in South Africa
Ina Fourie and Marlene Burger
+ The Importance of National Bibliographies in the Digital Age
Ingrid Parent
+ New National Rules for Italian Library Catalogues
Italian Commission for the Revision of Cataloguing Rules
+ IME ICC5 , Pretoria, South Africa, August 14-15, 2007: Report
Barbara B. Tillett
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