Library Cataloging
Twitter Markup
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Twitter is getting ready to start testing the markup of the messages. I can't see this becoming wide-spread unless there are apps to make this easy for the user. They do offer some suggestions on types of data to markup, for books it is the 10 or 13 digit ISBN and the year of publication.
This might make for richer data mining for the Library of Congress's archive of Twitter.
BTW the my library is on Twitter. It seems to be working well for us.
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Trying Twitter
I've been doing this weblog for over ten years. It's getting a bit old. I'm going to try posting to <a href="https://twitter.com/Catalogablog">Twitter</a> and see if that revives my interest....
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Twitter
Is anyone using Twitter to distribute cataloging information? I've found a list of catalogers on Twitter, but most are not using it mainly as a way to get news out....
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Twitter
What is happening with Twitter? A week ago almost 400 people were following LPI_Library and I was following about 1/2 of that. Now both those numbers are less than 1/2 of what they were a week ago. It seems folk are leaving in droves. If it were just...
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Markup Languages
STMML. A markup language for scientific, technical and medical publishing in Data Science Journal, Volume 1, Issue 2, August 30, 2002, pp. 1-65 STMML is an XML-based markup language covering many generic aspects of scientific information. It has been...
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Markup
The Rogue Librarian mentioned a markup standard that was new to me, Model Editions Partnership (MEP)This document provides a reasonably non-technical introduction to the SGML-based markup scheme developed by the Model Editions Partnership (MEP) for the...
Library Cataloging