Library Cataloging
Accurate Metadata Sells Books by Calvin Reid appears in a recent Publishers Weekly.
- 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...
- 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...
- Metadata
"Creating metadata that work for digital libraries and Google" by Alan Dawson appears in Library Review (2004) v. 53, no. 7, pp. 347-350.For many years metadata has been recognised as a significant component of the digital information environment. Substantial...
- Mets
It's Opening Day for METS by Roy Tennant discusses the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard. He concludes:But whether we use MPEG-21 or METS, a standard that provides a method to encapsulate all the information about an object?whether digital...
- Onix
ONIX: What Is In It for Libraries? at NISO provides links to some papers.ONIX in the Library or, Why This Presentation Should Be Longer by Laura Dawson, SIRSIONIX: What's In It for Libraries? The Technical Services Angle by David Williamson, Library...
Library Cataloging
Accurate Metadata Sells Books
Accurate Metadata Sells Books by Calvin Reid appears in a recent Publishers Weekly.
Now, Dawson said, accurate metadata has become a marketing tool for publishers, a shopping guide for consumers, and an absolute necessity for distributors and retailers. The growth of the importance of metadata, Dawson said, led to the creation of ONIX, or Online Information Exchange, an XML-based standardized format for transmitting information electronically. (XML, or extensible markup language, is a digital format that allows data to be easily reused in other forms.) XML software is said to be easy to use, inexpensive, and its tags or descriptions are easy for people, as well as machines, to read.The metadata for ebooks is also important. Calibre, a popular ebook tool, uses metadata from LibraryThing. Libraries are in this, if not directly. OCLC has a service to enrich ONIX metadata with WorldCat information and authorities. The LibraryThing metadata can come from libraries.
- 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...
- 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...
- Metadata
"Creating metadata that work for digital libraries and Google" by Alan Dawson appears in Library Review (2004) v. 53, no. 7, pp. 347-350.For many years metadata has been recognised as a significant component of the digital information environment. Substantial...
- Mets
It's Opening Day for METS by Roy Tennant discusses the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard. He concludes:But whether we use MPEG-21 or METS, a standard that provides a method to encapsulate all the information about an object?whether digital...
- Onix
ONIX: What Is In It for Libraries? at NISO provides links to some papers.ONIX in the Library or, Why This Presentation Should Be Longer by Laura Dawson, SIRSIONIX: What's In It for Libraries? The Technical Services Angle by David Williamson, Library...