Library Cataloging
Presentations from the Canadian Metadata Forum are available on-line. Lots of interesting looking material here. Unfortunately, I can't focus on longer pieces at the moment between the pain and pain killers.Seen on Resource Shelf.
- Accident
Yesterday it was two years since my auto accident. I'm still not fully recovered. I'm still in pain, not so it bothers me much, but it does make it difficult to get a good night's sleep. I'm still building up my strength and endurance....
- Free Speech In The Catalog
Do You Really Want to Be a Forum? by Leonard Hitchcock appears in the current issue of Library Philosophy and Practice.This article examines what a public forum is, and whether or not a library can legitimately claim to be one. Beginning with an imaginary...
- Subject Access
The Information Management Resource Centre (IMRC) of the Canadian government has a page, Classification, Thesauri and Controlled Vocabularies.The resources in this section are directed at persons interested in improving the organization and retrieval...
- Metadata Registries
The Open Forum on Metadata Registries is discussed inn the article 'Metadata Rules' - a report from the Open Forum on Metadata Registries by Alan Kotok. Some of the sessions include:The Dublin Core metadata registryXML tag and schema registration...
- Metadata
At the LITA National Forum this weekend, Clifford Lynch used a definition of metadata that made some sense to me. He said metadata was a statement by someone about a resource. The inclusion of the agent creating the metadata in the definition, is important...
Library Cataloging
Canadian Metadata Forum
Presentations from the Canadian Metadata Forum are available on-line. Lots of interesting looking material here. Unfortunately, I can't focus on longer pieces at the moment between the pain and pain killers.Seen on Resource Shelf.
- Accident
Yesterday it was two years since my auto accident. I'm still not fully recovered. I'm still in pain, not so it bothers me much, but it does make it difficult to get a good night's sleep. I'm still building up my strength and endurance....
- Free Speech In The Catalog
Do You Really Want to Be a Forum? by Leonard Hitchcock appears in the current issue of Library Philosophy and Practice.This article examines what a public forum is, and whether or not a library can legitimately claim to be one. Beginning with an imaginary...
- Subject Access
The Information Management Resource Centre (IMRC) of the Canadian government has a page, Classification, Thesauri and Controlled Vocabularies.The resources in this section are directed at persons interested in improving the organization and retrieval...
- Metadata Registries
The Open Forum on Metadata Registries is discussed inn the article 'Metadata Rules' - a report from the Open Forum on Metadata Registries by Alan Kotok. Some of the sessions include:The Dublin Core metadata registryXML tag and schema registration...
- Metadata
At the LITA National Forum this weekend, Clifford Lynch used a definition of metadata that made some sense to me. He said metadata was a statement by someone about a resource. The inclusion of the agent creating the metadata in the definition, is important...