Library Cataloging
The Extractor is "software for automatically summarizing text, developed by the Interactive Information Group. Extractor takes a text file as input and generates a list of key words and a list of key sentences as output." What you get is a list of keywords. I tried it on Catalogablog. It gave fair results. It did list "comments" and "links" as important. Those words appear at the end of each item so they appear to have some importance. This could be useful if someone had to apply keywords to lots of Web pages or e-mails. It does show that it is not time for catalogers to be replaced if quality is desired.
- Typos
Typos in the catalog can be a problem for our users. More Typographical Errors in Library Databases, a listing of typos found by a group out to correct these errors has been updated. This list contains more subtle errors. "The words in this list are correctly...
- Spelling
Spelling errors prevent access to materials and our catalogs do contain typos. I've not recently mentioned the work by Terry Ballard and others, so it is worth listing these again.Typographical Errors in Library Databases by Terry Ballard. Revised...
- Writing
The Plain Text Gazette has a new issue out. This is a newsletter with tips on writing for business, but they often apply to other situations as well. The current issue has two articles:Order, order! The importance of structure in business writingWords...
- Metadata
Death Of A Meta Tag by Danny Sullivan discusses the keywords tag use on Web pages. The issue of trust has led to search engines not supporting it.Now supported by only one major crawler-based search engine -- Inktomi -- the value of adding meta keywords...
- Autocat
After posting about the Radical Cataloging List it is only fair to mention the most important list for catalogers AUTOCAT "AUTOCAT is a semi-moderated international electronic discussion list running on LISTSERV(R) software. It serves as an electronic...
Library Cataloging
Keywords
The Extractor is "software for automatically summarizing text, developed by the Interactive Information Group. Extractor takes a text file as input and generates a list of key words and a list of key sentences as output." What you get is a list of keywords. I tried it on Catalogablog. It gave fair results. It did list "comments" and "links" as important. Those words appear at the end of each item so they appear to have some importance. This could be useful if someone had to apply keywords to lots of Web pages or e-mails. It does show that it is not time for catalogers to be replaced if quality is desired.
- Typos
Typos in the catalog can be a problem for our users. More Typographical Errors in Library Databases, a listing of typos found by a group out to correct these errors has been updated. This list contains more subtle errors. "The words in this list are correctly...
- Spelling
Spelling errors prevent access to materials and our catalogs do contain typos. I've not recently mentioned the work by Terry Ballard and others, so it is worth listing these again.Typographical Errors in Library Databases by Terry Ballard. Revised...
- Writing
The Plain Text Gazette has a new issue out. This is a newsletter with tips on writing for business, but they often apply to other situations as well. The current issue has two articles:Order, order! The importance of structure in business writingWords...
- Metadata
Death Of A Meta Tag by Danny Sullivan discusses the keywords tag use on Web pages. The issue of trust has led to search engines not supporting it.Now supported by only one major crawler-based search engine -- Inktomi -- the value of adding meta keywords...
- Autocat
After posting about the Radical Cataloging List it is only fair to mention the most important list for catalogers AUTOCAT "AUTOCAT is a semi-moderated international electronic discussion list running on LISTSERV(R) software. It serves as an electronic...