Library Cataloging
The ADS is working with the John G. Wolbach Library at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics to digitize microfilms from selected historical publications in astronomy, including observatory reports, bulletins and annals. During the first phase of this project (to be completed by the end of 2001), we expect to make available online the raw scans for over 170 serials, for a total of 300,000 scanned pages. These pages, which eventually become accessible from an interface similar to the ADS article service, represent the sequence of images taken during the microfilming process, and include all front- and back-matter. As a result, the page numbers of all the scanned images are unknown. In addition, in most cases we have no bibliographic records for the contents of these publications (i.e. the list of articles or reports appearing in them). Without this metadata, the collection of full-text scans is of limited use since it's impossible to browse these publications by page number or use the ADS search engine to locate specific bibliographic items in them.We have developed a a software tool to facilitate the entry of this type of metadata by users and librarians willing to work with us to improve access to this valuable collection. All you will need to get involved is a web browser and an internet connection, and data entry can be done incrementally over a period of time. Please feel free to take a look at the interface and let us know what you think! A selected portion of the scanned microfilms is currently available through a page-by-page viewing interface.
- Open Source Institutional Repository Software Platform
The University of Rochester is pleased to announce the 1.0 production version of its new open source institutional repository software platform, IR+. The University has been running IR+ in production since August 2009. The download The website for the...
- Capturing Government Documents
Managing Web Harvested Content: Results from the EPA Harvesting Pilot Project describes the results of a crawl of the EPA site by the GPO. They have questions about thier use of PURLs, keeping local copies of the harvested items and bib level considered...
- Isbd Database
The ISBDdb is an interesting project. As a Web service it could prove very useful.ISBNdb.com gets the data in a unique way - it scans libraries all across the world for book information. The scanning is random and similar in a way to how general purpose...
- Metadata
An older article, I've just found, is The Information Resources in Arcetri Astrophysics Observatory: Between Metadata and Semantic Web by Roberto Baglioni and Antonella Gasperini, in Library and Information Services in Astronomy IV July 2-5, 2002,...
- Gis
I've received the Proceedings of the 36th Meeting of the Geoscience Information Society. Lots of reading, and reason enough to join the society. Not much on cataloging or metadata. The real revelation was that the publications of the USGS are missing...
Library Cataloging
ADS Historical Literature Project
The ADS is working with the John G. Wolbach Library at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics to digitize microfilms from selected historical publications in astronomy, including observatory reports, bulletins and annals. During the first phase of this project (to be completed by the end of 2001), we expect to make available online the raw scans for over 170 serials, for a total of 300,000 scanned pages. These pages, which eventually become accessible from an interface similar to the ADS article service, represent the sequence of images taken during the microfilming process, and include all front- and back-matter. As a result, the page numbers of all the scanned images are unknown. In addition, in most cases we have no bibliographic records for the contents of these publications (i.e. the list of articles or reports appearing in them). Without this metadata, the collection of full-text scans is of limited use since it's impossible to browse these publications by page number or use the ADS search engine to locate specific bibliographic items in them.We have developed a a software tool to facilitate the entry of this type of metadata by users and librarians willing to work with us to improve access to this valuable collection. All you will need to get involved is a web browser and an internet connection, and data entry can be done incrementally over a period of time. Please feel free to take a look at the interface and let us know what you think! A selected portion of the scanned microfilms is currently available through a page-by-page viewing interface.
- Open Source Institutional Repository Software Platform
The University of Rochester is pleased to announce the 1.0 production version of its new open source institutional repository software platform, IR+. The University has been running IR+ in production since August 2009. The download The website for the...
- Capturing Government Documents
Managing Web Harvested Content: Results from the EPA Harvesting Pilot Project describes the results of a crawl of the EPA site by the GPO. They have questions about thier use of PURLs, keeping local copies of the harvested items and bib level considered...
- Isbd Database
The ISBDdb is an interesting project. As a Web service it could prove very useful.ISBNdb.com gets the data in a unique way - it scans libraries all across the world for book information. The scanning is random and similar in a way to how general purpose...
- Metadata
An older article, I've just found, is The Information Resources in Arcetri Astrophysics Observatory: Between Metadata and Semantic Web by Roberto Baglioni and Antonella Gasperini, in Library and Information Services in Astronomy IV July 2-5, 2002,...
- Gis
I've received the Proceedings of the 36th Meeting of the Geoscience Information Society. Lots of reading, and reason enough to join the society. Not much on cataloging or metadata. The real revelation was that the publications of the USGS are missing...