Library Cataloging
Jeff Patterson, CEO, Safari Books Online LLC spoke at the O'Reilly Tools of Change Conference on Valuing Content in a Web-enabled World
- Metadata Is Marketing
Increase Sales & Lower Costs: A Step-By-Step ONIX Guide for Publishers. ONIX (Online Information Exchange) is the standard in the publishing industry for computer-to-computer communication about bibliographic data. Basically, it allows you to represent...
- Rda: Resource Description And Access
RDA: Resource Description and Access is a new cataloguing code for the digital world. Built on the foundation established by AACR2, RDA will provide a comprehensive set of guidelines and instructions on resource description and access covering all types...
- Isbn
The Nov. issue of the NISO Newsline has the article The 13-Digit ISBN: There's Time, But Act Fast!Worldwide, the industry will move to from a 10-digit to a 13-digit ISBN on January 1, 2007. Experts from NISO and counterpart organizations, working...
- New Books Project
LC is looking for comments on the New Books Project.Participating publishers provide information about forthcoming books to the Library of Congress. New Books records are created by computer programs from this information and made available on the Library...
- Opacs
Jessamyn West at librarian.net raises an interesting question about our OPACs. Does adding cover art and enhanced records from services like Syndetic Solutions Inc. amount to labeling? Only the most recent books and publishers with the deepest pockets...
Library Cataloging
Discovery at Safari Books
Jeff Patterson, CEO, Safari Books Online LLC spoke at the O'Reilly Tools of Change Conference on Valuing Content in a Web-enabled World
To effectively market their wares, publishers need to understand how their content is valued by the audience. With the web turning traditional distribution models on their head, easy searchability and access to a variety of free and paid resources must be considered. Jeff Patterson shares research on the information seeking habits of his client base of IT professionals. As users weigh the worth of information in exchange for their time, money and attention, publishers must grasp not just what is sold, but what is read, used and reused....
Money is one part of the equation, but time, and willingness to share personal details, are also important forms of currency. Patterson's studies posed a number of scenarios which revealed different behaviors depending on the urgency of the information seeking. Subscribers researching a long term question tended to start with paid resources such as online subscriptions or print books. Those with urgent business questions were more likely to use search engines as their first tool. These different behaviors bring home the point that products must be discoverable within a sea of available options. Information consumers will place a value on different resources depending on their context. The burden is now on the publishers to understand how their information is being used.
- Metadata Is Marketing
Increase Sales & Lower Costs: A Step-By-Step ONIX Guide for Publishers. ONIX (Online Information Exchange) is the standard in the publishing industry for computer-to-computer communication about bibliographic data. Basically, it allows you to represent...
- Rda: Resource Description And Access
RDA: Resource Description and Access is a new cataloguing code for the digital world. Built on the foundation established by AACR2, RDA will provide a comprehensive set of guidelines and instructions on resource description and access covering all types...
- Isbn
The Nov. issue of the NISO Newsline has the article The 13-Digit ISBN: There's Time, But Act Fast!Worldwide, the industry will move to from a 10-digit to a 13-digit ISBN on January 1, 2007. Experts from NISO and counterpart organizations, working...
- New Books Project
LC is looking for comments on the New Books Project.Participating publishers provide information about forthcoming books to the Library of Congress. New Books records are created by computer programs from this information and made available on the Library...
- Opacs
Jessamyn West at librarian.net raises an interesting question about our OPACs. Does adding cover art and enhanced records from services like Syndetic Solutions Inc. amount to labeling? Only the most recent books and publishers with the deepest pockets...