Library Cataloging
Tracking changes is important when content becomes fluid, as it does in digital forms. There have been, for quite some time, Web page watchers that send an e-mail message when a page is updated. WatchThatPage is one example. I use this to keep track on some important Web pages such as the MARC Announcements. Other sites providing the same service are ChangeNotes and WebMon.Blogs and Wikis use an automated Ping system to inform Web services that changes have been made. WikiPing and Weblogs.Com are the two examples of those systems. There are many more for 'blogs but a simple Web form is available to easily ping all available services.CVS has been a standard for tracking changes in software. Now there is Subversion, the new publication Version Control with Subversion alerted me to this new tool.These tools can alert us to changes on a page, but how often should we check to see if they are great enough to change our bibliographic record? With content being so fluid, does it matter, should we leave it to the Web services, or find some means of updating our records via ping? Or do we only consider more document-like resources? Just some random thoughts.
- Rss Ping
RSS Ping looks like a useful combination of the RSS/Atom metadata and the Ping function. This work is in progress, so librarians could contribute to the development.RSS Ping combines RSS item metadata with site update information. It enhances the current...
- Trackbacks
So arXive now has trackbacks. I'm wondering what it would take to provide trackbacks in our catalogs. Would links like that to individual bibliographic records be useful? There is Freetag, an open-source tool, that allows tagging in a MySQL database....
- Arxiv Supports Trackbacks
A tool common to weblogs has moved into the e-print arena, arXiv the physics preprint server now supports trackbacks.arXiv.org supports the Trackback standard. By sending a trackback, you can notify arXiv.org that you've created a web page that references...
- Dublin Core
This is the announcement of the publication of the first version (1,0 beta) of DescribeThis, a service designed for the automatic extraction of metadata from online resources. The site offers an easy to use interface where you can indicate the resource...
- Urls
The article Unlocking URLs: Extensions, Shortening Options, and Other Oddities by Greg R. Notess describes some of the more obscure forms of URLs. Understanding URLs can be important; there are enough of them in our catalogs. Once we could catalog an...
Library Cataloging
Changes
Tracking changes is important when content becomes fluid, as it does in digital forms. There have been, for quite some time, Web page watchers that send an e-mail message when a page is updated. WatchThatPage is one example. I use this to keep track on some important Web pages such as the MARC Announcements. Other sites providing the same service are ChangeNotes and WebMon.Blogs and Wikis use an automated Ping system to inform Web services that changes have been made. WikiPing and Weblogs.Com are the two examples of those systems. There are many more for 'blogs but a simple Web form is available to easily ping all available services.CVS has been a standard for tracking changes in software. Now there is Subversion, the new publication Version Control with Subversion alerted me to this new tool.These tools can alert us to changes on a page, but how often should we check to see if they are great enough to change our bibliographic record? With content being so fluid, does it matter, should we leave it to the Web services, or find some means of updating our records via ping? Or do we only consider more document-like resources? Just some random thoughts.
- Rss Ping
RSS Ping looks like a useful combination of the RSS/Atom metadata and the Ping function. This work is in progress, so librarians could contribute to the development.RSS Ping combines RSS item metadata with site update information. It enhances the current...
- Trackbacks
So arXive now has trackbacks. I'm wondering what it would take to provide trackbacks in our catalogs. Would links like that to individual bibliographic records be useful? There is Freetag, an open-source tool, that allows tagging in a MySQL database....
- Arxiv Supports Trackbacks
A tool common to weblogs has moved into the e-print arena, arXiv the physics preprint server now supports trackbacks.arXiv.org supports the Trackback standard. By sending a trackback, you can notify arXiv.org that you've created a web page that references...
- Dublin Core
This is the announcement of the publication of the first version (1,0 beta) of DescribeThis, a service designed for the automatic extraction of metadata from online resources. The site offers an easy to use interface where you can indicate the resource...
- Urls
The article Unlocking URLs: Extensions, Shortening Options, and Other Oddities by Greg R. Notess describes some of the more obscure forms of URLs. Understanding URLs can be important; there are enough of them in our catalogs. Once we could catalog an...