Library Cataloging
Holdings Standards
The Feb. issue of
Computers in Libraries has the article "An Introduction to Holdings Standards by Shirley Lincicum.
It used to be that you didn't need to know much about standards for holdings data unless you were a cataloger. That's all changing now. This overview explains what you need to know, and what these standards have in common with electricity.
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Metadata For All Memory Institutions
Metadata for All: Descriptive Standards and Metadata Sharing across Libraries, Archives and Museums by Mary W. Elings and Günter Waibel appears in the March issue of First MondayIntegrating digital content from libraries, archives and museums represents...
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Niso Newsletter
The August issue of the NISO Newsletter is now available. Articles include:Register Now for NISO's OpenURL & Metasearch WorkshopsTechnical Images Data Dictionary Standard Available for CommentProduction Version of Serial Online Holdings Format ReleasedISO...
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Metadata
Metadata and cataloging practices by Magda El-Sherbini and George Klim appears in The Electronic Library (2004) vol. 22 no. 3, pp 238-248.Metadata standards existing today range from very complex to very simple. Relative simplicity or complexity of metadata...
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Geo Standards
The geodata.gov site has a useful selection of links to FGDC (Federal Geographic Data Committee) standards, data models, and tools.The FGDC is currently undertaking an open data standards development process. The purpose of the development of Framework...
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Conser Survey
The purpose of the Survey on Electronic Serials Holdings is to investigate how libraries manage their electronic serials holdings data, and how they view the potential need for holdings and pattern data for electronic serials. Please send in your response...
Library Cataloging