Library Cataloging
I've just received my copy of the proceedings of the Geoscience Information Society's annual conference. This is another talented and active group of librarians. If you are involved in the geosciences, check them out.
- Awards
This past year I had the pleasure of serving on the Texas Library Association's Award Committee. I have two observations after the experience. First, there are a lot of very talented, hard-working, innovative people in our profession. And not just...
- Functional Requirements For Bibliographic Records
Renear, Allen H. and Dubin, David (2007) Three of the Four FRBR Group 1 Entity Types are Roles, not Types. In Grove, Andrew, Eds. Proceedings 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) 44, Milwaukee, WI...
- Conference Proceedings
New paper at E-LIS, Nabar, Geeta W. and Kalyane, V.L. and Kumar, Vijai (2003) A typical classification and cataloguing practice for managing conference proceedings in a library.This paper describes the practices used in managing an important Information...
- Geography Markup Language
Geography Markup Language (GML) is a new (to me) metadata standard. Wonder how it fits in with FGDC metadata?GML or Geography Markup Language is an XML based encoding standard for geographic information developed by the OpenGIS Consortium (OGC). It is...
- Gis
I've received the Proceedings of the 36th Meeting of the Geoscience Information Society. Lots of reading, and reason enough to join the society. Not much on cataloging or metadata. The real revelation was that the publications of the USGS are missing...
Library Cataloging
GSIS
I've just received my copy of the proceedings of the Geoscience Information Society's annual conference. This is another talented and active group of librarians. If you are involved in the geosciences, check them out.
- Awards
This past year I had the pleasure of serving on the Texas Library Association's Award Committee. I have two observations after the experience. First, there are a lot of very talented, hard-working, innovative people in our profession. And not just...
- Functional Requirements For Bibliographic Records
Renear, Allen H. and Dubin, David (2007) Three of the Four FRBR Group 1 Entity Types are Roles, not Types. In Grove, Andrew, Eds. Proceedings 70th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST) 44, Milwaukee, WI...
- Conference Proceedings
New paper at E-LIS, Nabar, Geeta W. and Kalyane, V.L. and Kumar, Vijai (2003) A typical classification and cataloguing practice for managing conference proceedings in a library.This paper describes the practices used in managing an important Information...
- Geography Markup Language
Geography Markup Language (GML) is a new (to me) metadata standard. Wonder how it fits in with FGDC metadata?GML or Geography Markup Language is an XML based encoding standard for geographic information developed by the OpenGIS Consortium (OGC). It is...
- Gis
I've received the Proceedings of the 36th Meeting of the Geoscience Information Society. Lots of reading, and reason enough to join the society. Not much on cataloging or metadata. The real revelation was that the publications of the USGS are missing...