Library Cataloging
The LibraryThing weblog has a post about their users adding author information.
- Dates In Mads
The MODS Editorial Committee is considering changes to the Metadata Authority Description Schema (MADS).Comments are welcomed. The MODS Editorial Committee is considering changes to MADS. Some of these will be changes to bring it up to date with changes...
- Booktour
Here is a very useful website for book-lovers, BookTour. Shows what authors are speaking in an area.We're a free online service that connects authors and potential audiences of all sorts, from book groups to civic organizations, from bookstores to...
- Revised Name Authority Records
The lists of names being revised by adding death dates or changing the open date to a birth date is way too much for a small library to look through. When the lists first appeared I started to check them with my catalog, but soon stopped. Too few hits...
- Rights Metadata - Pdflicensemanager
PdfLicenseManager is "a simple Java program to insert a Creative Commons License in a PDF document." No need for Acrobat.Embedding licensing info in PDF files is important because it enables specifically designed search engines such as Google and Yahoo...
- Dates In Authority Records
News from LCIn June of 2005, the Library of Congress Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) invited comment on this list (and others) regarding a proposal to allow the addition of death dates to headings in the LC/NACO Authority File. CPSO received...
Library Cataloging
Cataloging Info by the Crowd
The LibraryThing weblog has a post about their users adding author information.
On Thursday we introduced a silly new "meme" page called "Dead or Alive?" which listed your authors by their mortal status--alive, dead, unknown or "not a person." (See the blog post or check out yours.) The feature drew on the birth and death dates of the authors in our Common Knowledge system, a free (Creative Commons) "fielded wiki" for miscellaneous "cataloging" information (think "Wikipedia for book info"). To move an author from the "unknown" column, members had to find their dates and enter them onto into Common Knowledge.What are the implications? Would this be useful in disambiguation? If the links are stable, COOL, PURLS, or something like that would a link here be a useful result return on an author search in our catalog? Just thinking out-loud.Very few of the folks writing on library topics have had their birth dates entered. Hint to Meredith, Terry, Andrew, ....
- Dates In Mads
The MODS Editorial Committee is considering changes to the Metadata Authority Description Schema (MADS).Comments are welcomed. The MODS Editorial Committee is considering changes to MADS. Some of these will be changes to bring it up to date with changes...
- Booktour
Here is a very useful website for book-lovers, BookTour. Shows what authors are speaking in an area.We're a free online service that connects authors and potential audiences of all sorts, from book groups to civic organizations, from bookstores to...
- Revised Name Authority Records
The lists of names being revised by adding death dates or changing the open date to a birth date is way too much for a small library to look through. When the lists first appeared I started to check them with my catalog, but soon stopped. Too few hits...
- Rights Metadata - Pdflicensemanager
PdfLicenseManager is "a simple Java program to insert a Creative Commons License in a PDF document." No need for Acrobat.Embedding licensing info in PDF files is important because it enables specifically designed search engines such as Google and Yahoo...
- Dates In Authority Records
News from LCIn June of 2005, the Library of Congress Cataloging Policy and Support Office (CPSO) invited comment on this list (and others) regarding a proposal to allow the addition of death dates to headings in the LC/NACO Authority File. CPSO received...