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The Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science has made available 3 podcasts of recent talks on the next generation catalog.The cataloger in me wants to see title / statement of responsibility, it just looks backwards.

This is part of a larger podcasting series by GSLIS at Simmons. All are well worth a listen, even if they are out of scope of this weblog.





- Semantic Web Podcast
The Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science has a podcast by Rober Wolfe, The Semantic Library: RDF in Practice. Some of the topics he discusses are:SIMILE, Semantic Interoperability of Metadata in unLike EnvironmentsBabel, Format Converter...

- Ipod
I sent this idea off to the Next Generation Catalog list but decided to post it here are well. Why not take a look at MP3 players for ideas on access to content? I've got about 3000 songs and podcasts on my player. I can get to the specific item by...

- Ngc4lib -- Next Generation Catalogs For Libraries
A mailing list has been created called NGC4Lib -- Next Generation Catalogs for Libraries. NGC4Lib is open to anybody in the world, and its purpose is to discuss things including but not limited to:Who are the primary intended audiences for a library's...

- Smoking The Podcasting Dope, A Little Bit
This week I got an FM transmitter for my car. Now I can listen to my MP3 player as I drive and have started listening to podcasts. Greg Schwartz of Open Stacks has been making my commute time less tedious. He has a good speaking voice and interesting...

- Metadata Survey
Some interesting work is being done by the Automatic Metadata Generation Applications Project. Help them (and users and creators of metadata) by participating in their survey.The Center for Metadata Research at the School of Information and Library Science...



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