Library Cataloging
Dan on his dchud's work log describes the American Memory COinS-PMH Enabled via Greasemonkey.
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I've been asked to do a poster at the elementary division of the Texas Music Educators Assocation convention this year. Last year I did one on fine art resources at the American Memory Project. Any suggestions for what I should do this year? Thanks....
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Library Cataloging
American Memory COinS-PMH Enabled via Greasemonkey
Dan on his dchud's work log describes the American Memory COinS-PMH Enabled via Greasemonkey.
Tonight I found Simon Willison's greasemonkey script that "fixes" American Memory to look better in various ways. It gave me the idea that the very suggestion we had for adding dynamic access to robust metadata and objects in our paper on this topic (see "Adding a Layer on Top of OpenURL Autodiscovery" section near the end) is not only possible, but doable now. As it turns out, it is, and it does!GreaseMonkey
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I know, it's ugly, but, that's easily fixed. The point is - without even talking to anybody at LoC, American Memory now speaks COinS-PMH, and anybody could use similar techniques to pull robust metadata for these items with just a single click right from the human UI. I've fiddled a bit with attempting to make other American Memory collections work the same way (there are a lot of them!), and it kind of works sometimes, but, you should get the point.
- Poster
I've been asked to do a poster at the elementary division of the Texas Music Educators Assocation convention this year. Last year I did one on fine art resources at the American Memory Project. Any suggestions for what I should do this year? Thanks....
- Greesemonkey Script For Unapi
Alf Eaton has put together a Greasemonkey script for unAPI.unAPI, the lightweight mechanism for retrieving objects or their metadata in different formats, reached version 1 a few weeks ago, and has been implemented in HubMed and other places already....
- Coins In Open Worldcat
OCLC in now using COinS in Open WorldCat.OCLC has added COinS to its Open WorldCat Web pages. COinS, or Context Objects in Spans, is a standardized way to invisibly embed bibliographic metadata into a Web page's HTML, using the OpenURL metadata. This...
- Conferences
I'm getting excited. I just had my poster presentation accepted at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. It is on the NACO and SACO programs. I also have a poster at the Texas Music Educators' Association annual conference. That's on...
- Scatnews
The June issue of SCATNews Newsletter of the Standing Committee of the IFLA Section on Cataloguing is now on-line. Some of the articles are:Finnish Memory Institutions and ontologies by Jyrki SimovaaraMemory Organizations and Digital Resources by Mikael...