Library Cataloging
The C&RL News for February 2004 has a profile of David Sleasman, metadata and cataloging coordinator at the Scout Project.
- Pew Report On Tagging
The Pew Internet and American Life Project has released a report on tagging.Just as the internet allows users to create and share their own media, it is also enabling them to organize digital material their own way, rather than relying on pre-existing...
- Cataloging The Net
Christopher Harris at Infomancy has had a good idea, converting RSS into MARC. He had in mind taking the RSS feed for the Librarian's Index to the Internet (LII) and using XSLT to change those records into MARC. It should also work for the Scout Report...
- Scout Portal Toolkit
The Scout Portal Toolkit has a new version, 1.2.1.The Scout Portal Toolkit (SPT) allows groups or organizations that have a collection of knowledge or resources they want to share via the World Wide Web to put that collection online without making a big...
- Scout Portal Toolkit
The Scout Portal Toolkit version 1.2.0 is now available for download.This release incorporates functionality from the Content Workflow Integration System (CWIS) software the Internet Scout Project is currently developing for the NSF's National Science...
- Portals
The Scout Portal Toolkit (SPT) allows groups or organizations that have a collection of knowledge or resources they want to share it via the World Wide Web put that collection online without making a big investment in technical resources or expertise....
Library Cataloging
Cataloger Profile
The C&RL News for February 2004 has a profile of David Sleasman, metadata and cataloging coordinator at the Scout Project.
If the prospect of having the Internet as your special collection and the world as your audience exhilarates rather than intimidates, then working for the Internet Scout Project (ISP) might be your job of lifetime. Since 1994, the Scout Project, housed in the Computer Sciences Department of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has produced one of the oldest and best respected free Internet current awareness publications, the Internet Scout Report. David Sleasman has been metadata and cataloging coordinator for the past three years.
- Pew Report On Tagging
The Pew Internet and American Life Project has released a report on tagging.Just as the internet allows users to create and share their own media, it is also enabling them to organize digital material their own way, rather than relying on pre-existing...
- Cataloging The Net
Christopher Harris at Infomancy has had a good idea, converting RSS into MARC. He had in mind taking the RSS feed for the Librarian's Index to the Internet (LII) and using XSLT to change those records into MARC. It should also work for the Scout Report...
- Scout Portal Toolkit
The Scout Portal Toolkit has a new version, 1.2.1.The Scout Portal Toolkit (SPT) allows groups or organizations that have a collection of knowledge or resources they want to share via the World Wide Web to put that collection online without making a big...
- Scout Portal Toolkit
The Scout Portal Toolkit version 1.2.0 is now available for download.This release incorporates functionality from the Content Workflow Integration System (CWIS) software the Internet Scout Project is currently developing for the NSF's National Science...
- Portals
The Scout Portal Toolkit (SPT) allows groups or organizations that have a collection of knowledge or resources they want to share it via the World Wide Web put that collection online without making a big investment in technical resources or expertise....