Library Cataloging
What issues are important in a hosted library system? Beyond price and up-time that is. Ones that come to my mind are:
- Oclc Control Number Expansion In 2013
News from OCLC. WorldCat continues to grow! The OCLC Control Number is anticipated to reach one billion after July 1, 2013. At that point, OCLC will increase the length of the OCLC number to accommodate a variable length number string. If you use and/or...
- Extensible Catalog Oai Toolkit Repository
Another tool from the the eXtensible Catalog folkseXtensible Catalog (XC) OAI Toolkit repository is now available to the public for download. This project page, hosted by Google Code, is home to all the up-to-date information about the OAI Toolkit, it's...
- Sharing Classification
Slavic, Aida and Cordeiro, Maria Ines (2005) Sharing and re-use of classification systems: the need for a common data model. Signum 37(8):pp. 19-24.Classifications can help to overcome difficulties in information retrieval of heterogeneous and multilingual...
- Searching, Pre And Post Web
Mansourian, Yazdan (2004) Similarities and differences between web search procedure and searching in the pre-web information retrieval systems. Webology 1(1).This paper presents an introductory discussion about the commonalities and dissimilarities between...
- Persistent Identifiers
My summary of the PURLs/Handles aspect of the creation of persistent identifiers:When deciding on what system to use to help manage collections pointed at with URIs, there are two major systems people use: Handles and PURLs. I have looked at several comparisons...
Library Cataloging
Hosted Library Systems
What issues are important in a hosted library system? Beyond price and up-time that is. Ones that come to my mind are:
- Ability to handle MARC authority recordsZ39.50 or sru/srw searching, the ability for a searcher to download a MARC recordStable, short URLs for each recordRDA complaint
- Oclc Control Number Expansion In 2013
News from OCLC. WorldCat continues to grow! The OCLC Control Number is anticipated to reach one billion after July 1, 2013. At that point, OCLC will increase the length of the OCLC number to accommodate a variable length number string. If you use and/or...
- Extensible Catalog Oai Toolkit Repository
Another tool from the the eXtensible Catalog folkseXtensible Catalog (XC) OAI Toolkit repository is now available to the public for download. This project page, hosted by Google Code, is home to all the up-to-date information about the OAI Toolkit, it's...
- Sharing Classification
Slavic, Aida and Cordeiro, Maria Ines (2005) Sharing and re-use of classification systems: the need for a common data model. Signum 37(8):pp. 19-24.Classifications can help to overcome difficulties in information retrieval of heterogeneous and multilingual...
- Searching, Pre And Post Web
Mansourian, Yazdan (2004) Similarities and differences between web search procedure and searching in the pre-web information retrieval systems. Webology 1(1).This paper presents an introductory discussion about the commonalities and dissimilarities between...
- Persistent Identifiers
My summary of the PURLs/Handles aspect of the creation of persistent identifiers:When deciding on what system to use to help manage collections pointed at with URIs, there are two major systems people use: Handles and PURLs. I have looked at several comparisons...