Library Cataloging
Journals via RSS
Ariadne,
D-Lib and
Information Research all have RSS feeds at DoIS (Documents in Information Science, not to be confused with Digital Object Identifiers)
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Persistent Digital Object Identifiers
An open source release of a tool for generating unique persistent digital object names and other identifiers has been made. The tool, called "noid" (nice opaque identifier), can be used as a major piece of an overall identifier strategy no matter which...
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Nato
STARNet, the NATO Science, Technology and Research Network exists:In order to cope with the vast diversity and tremendous amount of information available within the NATO community and the NATO nations, the RTA Information Management Committee (IMC) is...
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Persistence On The Web
On the DC-General mail list there is a discussion going on about persistence identifiers for Web resources. I've always thought the OCLC PURL resolver was an elegant solution and wondered why it was not more widely used. There also exists CNRI's...
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Professional Reading
The latest issue of Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship has some interesting articles."Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe As A Cooperative Archiving Solution for E-Journals" by Victoria A. Reich.The LOCKSS model, based on analysis of the history...
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Digital Object Identifier
Just noticed I've never mentioned the Digital Object Identifier. This is a URN system being developed by most of the large publishers.The Digital Object Identifier (DOI®) is a system for identifying and exchanging intellectual property in the digital...
Library Cataloging