Library Cataloging
There is lots of legislation being proposed to extend the interests of copyright holders. The right to shut down your computer and the ability to decide what electronic devices will be manufactured, for example. The Electronic Freedom Foundation makes it easy to let Congress hear another side. After registration, you can send e-mails or FAXes based on their letters to you congressperson. Simple, quick and important. Information policy is too important to be left in the hands of one segment of our society.
- Rights Metadata
Not sure how I missed this earlier, but I did see it in the latest American Libraries Direct. The Choose a License from Creative Commons enables building a license in four easy steps. It provides an offline (text) version, a XMP version for embedding...
- Copyright Gone Crazy
This sounds too crazy to be true.As part of a ploy to squeeze more money out of mobile phone companies, the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) has told a federal court that each time a phone rings in a public place, the phone...
- Copyright
News from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.EFF LAUNCHED THE "TEACHING COPYRIGHT" CURRICULUM THIS WEEK to counter misleading educational materials produced by the entertainment industry -- materials that typically try to scare students into believing...
- Worldcat Copyright Evidence Registry
OCLC is conducting a beta test of the WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry.The WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry (CER) is a community of people, libraries, and other organizations working together to discover and share information about the copyright...
- 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....
Library Cataloging
Copyright
There is lots of legislation being proposed to extend the interests of copyright holders. The right to shut down your computer and the ability to decide what electronic devices will be manufactured, for example. The Electronic Freedom Foundation makes it easy to let Congress hear another side. After registration, you can send e-mails or FAXes based on their letters to you congressperson. Simple, quick and important. Information policy is too important to be left in the hands of one segment of our society.
- Rights Metadata
Not sure how I missed this earlier, but I did see it in the latest American Libraries Direct. The Choose a License from Creative Commons enables building a license in four easy steps. It provides an offline (text) version, a XMP version for embedding...
- Copyright Gone Crazy
This sounds too crazy to be true.As part of a ploy to squeeze more money out of mobile phone companies, the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) has told a federal court that each time a phone rings in a public place, the phone...
- Copyright
News from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.EFF LAUNCHED THE "TEACHING COPYRIGHT" CURRICULUM THIS WEEK to counter misleading educational materials produced by the entertainment industry -- materials that typically try to scare students into believing...
- Worldcat Copyright Evidence Registry
OCLC is conducting a beta test of the WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry.The WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry (CER) is a community of people, libraries, and other organizations working together to discover and share information about the copyright...
- 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....