Library Cataloging
I'm still thinking about the best way to put Easy News Topics (ENT) to use. It seems Radio Userland can create OPML files. The outliner is not the ideal thesaurus construction tool, but it could work. k-collector is an interesting application using ENT.
- Opml
I like OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language). Today I was checking out OPMLworkstation.com and it occurred to me we could make MARC so much richer if we could include OPML files inside a MARC record. Field 505, contents, for example. Often a book will...
- Blogging
An interview with Rebecca Blood, author of The Weblog Handbook, appeared on Tech TV the other night.Librarians have taken to bloggin in a big way. Steven and Greg have started a 'blog, LIS Blogsource, just to keep up with the new ones appearing. I...
- Library 'blogs
Blake Carver and Steven M. Cohen have teamed up to provide LISFeeds. This is a one-stop-site for library related RSS feeds. There are about 25 sites so far. Just click on the 'blog title in the left hand pane and read postings in the right. Then click...
- Rdf
A variation of FOAF is being used to link 'blogs, Blog RDF. Dave Bryson has created a tool to generate an RDF file to include in the head of a Web log showing other sites of a similar nature. Blog RDF does not have the drawback of FOAF, spam, since...
- Information Organization For 'blogs
Sounds interesting.liveTopics is a tool that enhances the Radio Userland knowledge-logging application making it an ideal personal knowledge sharing platform. In it?s initial release liveTopics provides the ability to attach meta data or topics to each...
Library Cataloging
'Blogs
I'm still thinking about the best way to put Easy News Topics (ENT) to use. It seems Radio Userland can create OPML files. The outliner is not the ideal thesaurus construction tool, but it could work. k-collector is an interesting application using ENT.
This is an experimental RSS/ENT aggregator. Clicking on the links below you will enter into different clouds of topics or jump right into one topic.Each cloud has been dynamically generated parsing RSS feeds from various weblogs and sites.If many sites used the same controlled vocabulary in a cloud, say library sites, one could group items by topics across all the sites. A useful structure. Does k-collector read OPML files created in Radio Userland? Or is that not what they mean by sites?A major question is, just what is a library 'blog? Is it something like this where issues of concern to librarians are discussed? Is it a 'blog at a library with postings about local meetings, new arrivals and local contact information? Do they include 'blogs by MLS students which are often more about their life than library issues? On one level, I'd have to say yes, but constructing a cloud (thesaurus) for such a diverse group could lead to reinventing the LCSH. Just musing on the issue. Comments, clarifications and suggestions welcomed.Maybe this would be a good project for an MLS student. A SLIS would be a good place to host the thesaurus and maybe some supporting documentation, tools, and links. Or it could be hosted on LISHost, which seems to be a de facto LIS gathering place.
- Opml
I like OPML (Outline Processor Markup Language). Today I was checking out OPMLworkstation.com and it occurred to me we could make MARC so much richer if we could include OPML files inside a MARC record. Field 505, contents, for example. Often a book will...
- Blogging
An interview with Rebecca Blood, author of The Weblog Handbook, appeared on Tech TV the other night.Librarians have taken to bloggin in a big way. Steven and Greg have started a 'blog, LIS Blogsource, just to keep up with the new ones appearing. I...
- Library 'blogs
Blake Carver and Steven M. Cohen have teamed up to provide LISFeeds. This is a one-stop-site for library related RSS feeds. There are about 25 sites so far. Just click on the 'blog title in the left hand pane and read postings in the right. Then click...
- Rdf
A variation of FOAF is being used to link 'blogs, Blog RDF. Dave Bryson has created a tool to generate an RDF file to include in the head of a Web log showing other sites of a similar nature. Blog RDF does not have the drawback of FOAF, spam, since...
- Information Organization For 'blogs
Sounds interesting.liveTopics is a tool that enhances the Radio Userland knowledge-logging application making it an ideal personal knowledge sharing platform. In it?s initial release liveTopics provides the ability to attach meta data or topics to each...