Library Cataloging
The Beer Topic Map is a fun project.
- Topic Maps And The Catalog
Topic Maps and Catalogues of Museums, Libraries and Archives by Liliana Melgar.This case study is about the usage of Topic Maps for catalogues of Museums, Libraries and Archives. The first part describes two projects using Topic Maps by implementing data...
- Mash-ups
I posted a few days ago about mash-ups being the next big thing. An informative podcast episoide on the topic is Inside the Net 13: Web Mashups.Amber and Leo talk with Michael Arrington of Techcrunch, and PodBop creator, Taylor McKnight, winner of the...
- Topic Maps
Published Subjects for practitioners of RDF, Semantic Web, Topic Maps, Ontologies and Business Vocabularies! The OASIS Published Subjects TC is holding a nocturne, Monday, November 15th, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, Taft Room in the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel...
- Topic Maps
Topic Maps are something I find difficult to grasp. That, is seems, is because they are very different from our normal approach in cataloging. In cataloging (and RDF) a resource is described by using a collection of defined fields (or triples). As I begin...
- Cybercasts
Dr. Gloriana St. Clair, Dean, University Libraries, Carnegie Mellon University, visited OCLC Dublin (Ohio) recently to discuss the Million Book Digital Library Project. This international library project strives to create a free-to-read, searchable collection...
Library Cataloging
Ontologies
The Beer Topic Map is a fun project.
This is a collaborative project to create a topic map about beer. The idea is to first create an ontology for describing beer, and then allow people to provide their own content using that ontology. The topic maps provided by different people can then be merged together to yield larger data sets.Sometimes using an example from a subject a user knows is a good way to introduce new ideas. This should be a good introduction to topic maps for some of folks.
- Topic Maps And The Catalog
Topic Maps and Catalogues of Museums, Libraries and Archives by Liliana Melgar.This case study is about the usage of Topic Maps for catalogues of Museums, Libraries and Archives. The first part describes two projects using Topic Maps by implementing data...
- Mash-ups
I posted a few days ago about mash-ups being the next big thing. An informative podcast episoide on the topic is Inside the Net 13: Web Mashups.Amber and Leo talk with Michael Arrington of Techcrunch, and PodBop creator, Taylor McKnight, winner of the...
- Topic Maps
Published Subjects for practitioners of RDF, Semantic Web, Topic Maps, Ontologies and Business Vocabularies! The OASIS Published Subjects TC is holding a nocturne, Monday, November 15th, 7:30 PM - 9:00 PM, Taft Room in the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel...
- Topic Maps
Topic Maps are something I find difficult to grasp. That, is seems, is because they are very different from our normal approach in cataloging. In cataloging (and RDF) a resource is described by using a collection of defined fields (or triples). As I begin...
- Cybercasts
Dr. Gloriana St. Clair, Dean, University Libraries, Carnegie Mellon University, visited OCLC Dublin (Ohio) recently to discuss the Million Book Digital Library Project. This international library project strives to create a free-to-read, searchable collection...