Library Cataloging

New RSS Book

Developing Feeds with Rss and Atom is a new book from O'Reilly I'll have to check out. It covers:

metadata interpretation
the different forms of content syndication
the increasing use of web services
how to use popular RSS news aggregators on the market

RSS is a metadata format that has found wide acceptance. As a news/push metadata format is a bit different than the descriptive metadata we use in MARC and Dublin Core. However, the new version, Atom, can act as a wrapper for the descriptive formats, if I understand it right. Could be useful in distribution of MARC records? A simple alternative to METS?

RSS

- Opds
Add Open Publishing Distribution System(OPDS) to the slew of metadata acronyms to be aware of.Based on the widely implemented Atom Syndication Format, OPDS Catalogs have been developed since 2009 by a group of ebook developers, publishers, librarians,...

- Rss For Tocs
RSS and Scholarly Journal Tables of Contents: the ticTOCs Project, and Good Practice Guidelines for Publishers by Lisa Rogers provides some advise based on experience.Publishers are using various versions of feeds such as RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, RSS 0.91 and...

- Datarss
The latest issue of Nodalities has an interesting article, Anatomy Of A SearchMonkey by Peter Mika. It is a run-down of Yahoo's new Semantic Web search platform. The part that interested me was a flavor of ATOM, DataRSS.These considerations led to...

- The New Cataloger
The New Cataloger by Roy Tennant appears in Library Journal.I've often said librarians should like any metadata they see. This is because we are entering an age where MARC no longer rules, since the 21st-century library will be handling increasing...

- Prism
The announcement yesterday, about the Nature RSS feeds, mentioned that they were using PRISM metadata. Here how PRISM is described:The Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata (PRISM) specification defines an XML metadata vocabulary for...

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