FacetMap
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FacetMap


FacetMap: Your Home for Faceted Classification "FacetMap is both a data model and a software package, created to let users browse complex metadata while retaining a simple, familiar, menu interface" Looks a bit complex at the moment, in time there may be tools developed to create the metadata simply and easily.--Seen on Library TechLog, Thanks Matthew.




- Mods Tool
Great news for MODS usersThe University of Tennessee Digital Library Center is proud to announce the release of the DLC-MODS Workbook, version 1.2 under the GNU General Public License version 3. The DLC-MODS Workbook provides a series of web pages that...

- Iwf Metadata Harvester
Posted to Code4lib. I'd like to announce the publication of the IWF Metadata Harvester. This package reads data from servers, writes it to databases, implements various kinds of searches, and writes HTML files to display the results. It currently...

- Problems In The Catalog
The Murky Bucket Syndrome by Roy Tennant appears in the latest Library Journal. He describes the problems of standardization of large historical datasets, like our catalogs. "As we try to do things programmatically, the structure and content practices...

- Metadata For Web Pages
Matthew Eberle at Library Techlog asked if I knew of any search engines that used Dublin Core metadata. The answer is yes and no. The regular search engines we all use can not make use of it, or very limited use. Search Engine Watch has details on how...

- Metadata
Some interesting interfaces to controlled vocabulary schemes including LCSH which might help our users navigate our catalogs are being developed at the Metadata Research Program, School of Information Management and Systems, University of California Berkeley....



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