Library Cataloging
A few interesting articles in the current issue of RLG DigiNews.
- Character Sets
Michael Doran has put together Coded Character Sets: A Technical Primer for Librarians. If you, like I am, are trying to get a handle on character encoding, this is an excellent starting point....
- Professional Reading
The December issue of D-Lib Magazine has these articles that may be of interest:A Repository of Metadata Crosswalks by Carol Jean Godby, Jeffrey A. Young, and Eric ChildressMetadata Development in China : Research and Practice by Jia LiuResource Harvesting...
- Unicode
It's coming to MARC. This is a gentle introduction. The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) by Joel Spolsky.Before I get started, I should warn you that if you are...
- Metadata
The Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building (CLiMB) is an interesting research project.The techniques to be developed in the CLiMB project thus offer the promise not only of improving the creation of descriptive metadata, but also of increasing...
- Writing
The Plain Text Gazette has a new issue out. This is a newsletter with tips on writing for business, but they often apply to other situations as well. The current issue has two articles:Order, order! The importance of structure in business writingWords...
Library Cataloging
Articles
A few interesting articles in the current issue of RLG DigiNews.
- Computational Linguistics Meets Metadata, or the Automatic Extraction of Key Words from Full Text ContentCharacter Sets and Character Encoding: A Brief IntroductionLEADERS: Linking EAD to Electronically Retrievable Sources
- Character Sets
Michael Doran has put together Coded Character Sets: A Technical Primer for Librarians. If you, like I am, are trying to get a handle on character encoding, this is an excellent starting point....
- Professional Reading
The December issue of D-Lib Magazine has these articles that may be of interest:A Repository of Metadata Crosswalks by Carol Jean Godby, Jeffrey A. Young, and Eric ChildressMetadata Development in China : Research and Practice by Jia LiuResource Harvesting...
- Unicode
It's coming to MARC. This is a gentle introduction. The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) by Joel Spolsky.Before I get started, I should warn you that if you are...
- Metadata
The Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building (CLiMB) is an interesting research project.The techniques to be developed in the CLiMB project thus offer the promise not only of improving the creation of descriptive metadata, but also of increasing...
- Writing
The Plain Text Gazette has a new issue out. This is a newsletter with tips on writing for business, but they often apply to other situations as well. The current issue has two articles:Order, order! The importance of structure in business writingWords...