Library Cataloging
Cutter's functions for the catalog are something we all learned in Cataloging 101. The FRBR functions seem pretty familiar. However, if you let others loose on bibliographic data they come up with some interesting ways to collocate works, say by a person's library. Over at LibraryThing the crowd is entering and tagging the personal collections of famous people. Want to see what Lawrence of Arabia had on his bookshelves? Or maybe Aaron Copland? Just more proof the everything is miscellaneous.
- Open Shelves Classification
LibraryThing is building the Open Shelves Classification (OSC), a free, "humble," modern, open-source, crowd-sourced replacement for the Dewey Decimal System.The vision. The Open Shelves Classification should be:Free. Free both to use and to change, with...
- Librarything
LibraryThing has added RSS feeds. We should take a look at this tool and see what it tells us about what we could be doing. Folks like to share the books they are reading. Maybe we have been so concerned with privacy that we have neglected the social...
- Frbr
The latest issue of D-Lib Magazine has the paper Hierarchical Catalog Records: Implementing a FRBR Catalog by David Mimno, Gregory Crane and Alison JonesMuch work has gone into finding ways to infer FRBR relationships between existing catalog records...
- Cataloging
One of the sites linking to Catalogablog has the description "A cataloging Web log. Not as boring as it sounds" Well, cataloging does not sound boring to me. I think it is a fascinating profession. To take an item and craft a bibliographic description...
- The Good Old Days
Last week at TLA Dr. Fran Miksa's presentation had a slide quoting Charles A. Cutter as saying in 1903, "The golden age of cataloging is over." I have a natural tendency to disbelieve anything about the "good old days". Memory is too selective, so...
Library Cataloging
Interesting Collocation
Cutter's functions for the catalog are something we all learned in Cataloging 101. The FRBR functions seem pretty familiar. However, if you let others loose on bibliographic data they come up with some interesting ways to collocate works, say by a person's library. Over at LibraryThing the crowd is entering and tagging the personal collections of famous people. Want to see what Lawrence of Arabia had on his bookshelves? Or maybe Aaron Copland? Just more proof the everything is miscellaneous.
- Open Shelves Classification
LibraryThing is building the Open Shelves Classification (OSC), a free, "humble," modern, open-source, crowd-sourced replacement for the Dewey Decimal System.The vision. The Open Shelves Classification should be:Free. Free both to use and to change, with...
- Librarything
LibraryThing has added RSS feeds. We should take a look at this tool and see what it tells us about what we could be doing. Folks like to share the books they are reading. Maybe we have been so concerned with privacy that we have neglected the social...
- Frbr
The latest issue of D-Lib Magazine has the paper Hierarchical Catalog Records: Implementing a FRBR Catalog by David Mimno, Gregory Crane and Alison JonesMuch work has gone into finding ways to infer FRBR relationships between existing catalog records...
- Cataloging
One of the sites linking to Catalogablog has the description "A cataloging Web log. Not as boring as it sounds" Well, cataloging does not sound boring to me. I think it is a fascinating profession. To take an item and craft a bibliographic description...
- The Good Old Days
Last week at TLA Dr. Fran Miksa's presentation had a slide quoting Charles A. Cutter as saying in 1903, "The golden age of cataloging is over." I have a natural tendency to disbelieve anything about the "good old days". Memory is too selective, so...