Library Cataloging
The Internet Search Environment Number (ISEN) intends to catalog catalogs and other databases.
- Improving Subject Searching
Improving subject searching in databases through a combination of descriptors and UDC by Granados, Mariangels and Nicolau, Anna (2008) In Proceedings BOBCATSSS'08: Providing acces for everyone, Zadar (Croatia)Problems with subject access to online...
- Typos In Our Catalogs
This morning I corrected two typos in my catalog, Ethiopia had been misspelled. One time it was in a note field, another time in the subject heading. The note field would just make us look bad, but the subject field can decrease access to the title. (I...
- Metasearching
The is a new service offered by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission that allows users to easily discover and retrieve desired information from multiple library catalogs, databases, and other knowledge collections. Texans no longer need to...
- Opac Access
Jenny, the Shifted Librarian, points to a IE Explorer add-on that allows searching library catalogs. The Searchy tool"with this Search Addon you can upgrade your Internet Explorer to search quickly and directly over the address bar of your Browser in:different...
- Z39.50
"Z39.50 and personal bibliographic software" by John W East in Library Hi Tech (2003) vol. 21 no. 1 pp. 34 - 43Many thousands of researchers are now using personal bibliographic managers such as Reference Manager, EndNote and ProCite to access bibliographic...
Library Cataloging
Database of Databases
The Internet Search Environment Number (ISEN) intends to catalog catalogs and other databases.
You know how the ISBN is assigned to books. Over 1 million books are assigned ISBNs each year. What ISEN plans to do is emulate that system for databases. We would assign over 1 million databases ISEN or Internet Search Environment Numbers once the system is in place in its first year. There may be as many as 5 million in the backlog for cataloging by a social nework of librarians. Life Science databases would be cataloged by life science librarians, law resources by law librarians, etc...Then we would create a database of databases or search engine only for databases. Your hit list would only be databases instead of PDF files, blog postings and random HTML files. We pull out the databases. The hits you get would be the interface to databases which provides access to upwards of 500 to 650 times the amount of information available on the "surface web" indexed by the major search engines. ISEN reveals the what is called the "deep web".They have a weblog and mailing list.
- Improving Subject Searching
Improving subject searching in databases through a combination of descriptors and UDC by Granados, Mariangels and Nicolau, Anna (2008) In Proceedings BOBCATSSS'08: Providing acces for everyone, Zadar (Croatia)Problems with subject access to online...
- Typos In Our Catalogs
This morning I corrected two typos in my catalog, Ethiopia had been misspelled. One time it was in a note field, another time in the subject heading. The note field would just make us look bad, but the subject field can decrease access to the title. (I...
- Metasearching
The is a new service offered by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission that allows users to easily discover and retrieve desired information from multiple library catalogs, databases, and other knowledge collections. Texans no longer need to...
- Opac Access
Jenny, the Shifted Librarian, points to a IE Explorer add-on that allows searching library catalogs. The Searchy tool"with this Search Addon you can upgrade your Internet Explorer to search quickly and directly over the address bar of your Browser in:different...
- Z39.50
"Z39.50 and personal bibliographic software" by John W East in Library Hi Tech (2003) vol. 21 no. 1 pp. 34 - 43Many thousands of researchers are now using personal bibliographic managers such as Reference Manager, EndNote and ProCite to access bibliographic...