Library Cataloging
Metadata
Noticed I've never mentioned EdNA, had to correct that oversight.
The purpose of the EdNA Metadata Standard is to support interoperability across all sectors of education and training in Australia in the area of online resource discovery and management. Adoption of the standard will assist people across education and training engaged in the production and use of well-described digital content.
They have a tool available for creating HTML or RDF metadata to include in documents that runs on every platform I can think of.
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Geospatial Metadata Training
NOAA's National Coastal Data Development Center is offering free online geospatial metadata training. Introduction to Geospatial Metadata - ISO 191** MetadataTransitioning from FGDC Metadata to ISO MetadataIntroduction to Geospatial MetadataCreating...
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Vocabulary Mapping Framework
The Vocabulary Mapping Framework sounds interesting.A new initiative, the Vocabulary Mapping Framework (VMF), has been announced by a consortium of partners. This will create an extensive and authoritative mapping of vocabularies from nine major content...
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Metadata Standards And Applications
Metadata Standards and Applications: An ALCTS/Library of Congress Workshop. I'm so excited this is coming to Houston. I may be able to make it. The budget is very tight next year, there may be nothing for travel/training. I may still pay for it out...
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Podcast Metadata Tool
Greg Schwartz, of Open Stacks fame, in his Sirsi/Dynix Institute talk mentioned a very nice tool for creating metadata for podcasts, the Poderator. It builds both the itunes and standard metadata for your feed. Metadata...
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Cataloging Education
"Training cataloguing students using a mix of media and technologies" by Linda M. Cloete, Retha Snyman, and J.C. Cronje appears in Aslib Proceedings v.55, no.4, p. 223-233 (2003)The appropriateness of utilising a training resource programme consisting...
Library Cataloging