Library Cataloging
Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia by Cory Doctorow is worth a read and consideration. Grand visions of the Symantec Web where everything is easily found and accessed are shown to be a pipe dream. There are a few problems with implementing this scheme -- People Lie, People are Lazy, People are Stupid -- are the first few. A fun read as well as worth considering.
- 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...
- Problems With Names
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names shows the computer folks are finding names a problem. We could have told them that a long time ago.So, as a public service, I?m going to list assumptions your systems probably make about names. All of these assumptions...
- New Book
Announcing new books by people I read on the net is getting to be a common occurrence. Marylaine Block of NeatNew and ExLibris (both worth reading) announces her new book Net Effects....
- Overdue
The daily comic strip about library work, Overdue celebrates it's first birthday.Today we celebrate Overdue's first year of publication! And what a year it has been. Over 3500 people now receive Overdue in their email inbox every day (we're...
- Dublin Core
The Weblog MetaData Initiative (WMDI) had an experimental tool to read WMDI metadata. Since it is based on Dublin Core, it seems to handle that just fine. Catalogablog is marked up with qualified DC and it was read without any problems. If you have DC...
Library Cataloging
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Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia by Cory Doctorow is worth a read and consideration. Grand visions of the Symantec Web where everything is easily found and accessed are shown to be a pipe dream. There are a few problems with implementing this scheme -- People Lie, People are Lazy, People are Stupid -- are the first few. A fun read as well as worth considering.
- 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...
- Problems With Names
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names shows the computer folks are finding names a problem. We could have told them that a long time ago.So, as a public service, I?m going to list assumptions your systems probably make about names. All of these assumptions...
- New Book
Announcing new books by people I read on the net is getting to be a common occurrence. Marylaine Block of NeatNew and ExLibris (both worth reading) announces her new book Net Effects....
- Overdue
The daily comic strip about library work, Overdue celebrates it's first birthday.Today we celebrate Overdue's first year of publication! And what a year it has been. Over 3500 people now receive Overdue in their email inbox every day (we're...
- Dublin Core
The Weblog MetaData Initiative (WMDI) had an experimental tool to read WMDI metadata. Since it is based on Dublin Core, it seems to handle that just fine. Catalogablog is marked up with qualified DC and it was read without any problems. If you have DC...