Library Cataloging
Jessamyn West at librarian.net raises an interesting question about our OPACs. Does adding cover art and enhanced records from services like Syndetic Solutions Inc. amount to labeling? Only the most recent books and publishers with the deepest pockets can afford to have their information made available. The small independent publishers are less likely to be included in the service. Older materials are not there at all. I believe, the service only covers materials to the early nineties. Are books without the additional content less visible to our users? Are we morphing into a mega-bookstore?
- Metadata Is Marketing
Increase Sales & Lower Costs: A Step-By-Step ONIX Guide for Publishers. ONIX (Online Information Exchange) is the standard in the publishing industry for computer-to-computer communication about bibliographic data. Basically, it allows you to represent...
- Metadata
'Marketing' with Metadata - How Metadata Can Increase Exposure and Visibility of Online Content by M. Moffat describes the benefits of having metadata visible on your site.There are many advantages of exposing metadata. If you want people to be...
- Catalogs
The Library Link of the Day points to Adding Substance, Not Just Frills, to a Library's Online Catalog by Janet L. Balas in Computers in LibrariesIntegrating enhanced content and electronic resources into the OPAC is a trend that librarians cannot...
- Open Archives Initiative
On behalf of the Institute of Physics, I'm pleased to announce our recent implementation of the Open Archives Initiative technical framework for our Electronic Journals service.As you may know, the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) 'develops and...
- Niso Standards For Comment
These are some of the NISO standards that are currently available for comment.ANSI/NISO/ISO 12083 - 1995 Electronic Manuscript Preparation and Markup Abstract: In complete conformance with ISO 8879 (SGML - Standard Generalized Markup Language), 12083...
Library Cataloging
OPACs
Jessamyn West at librarian.net raises an interesting question about our OPACs. Does adding cover art and enhanced records from services like Syndetic Solutions Inc. amount to labeling? Only the most recent books and publishers with the deepest pockets can afford to have their information made available. The small independent publishers are less likely to be included in the service. Older materials are not there at all. I believe, the service only covers materials to the early nineties. Are books without the additional content less visible to our users? Are we morphing into a mega-bookstore?
I've long believed that the vendors drive too many decisions in our libraries. I often hear that some non-standard technique is used in cataloging since the system does not handle the standard right. This is just another example of that power. We must be careful in our decisions. Maybe content enhancement is for the better, maybe not. However, we should be making the decision not the vendor.
- Metadata Is Marketing
Increase Sales & Lower Costs: A Step-By-Step ONIX Guide for Publishers. ONIX (Online Information Exchange) is the standard in the publishing industry for computer-to-computer communication about bibliographic data. Basically, it allows you to represent...
- Metadata
'Marketing' with Metadata - How Metadata Can Increase Exposure and Visibility of Online Content by M. Moffat describes the benefits of having metadata visible on your site.There are many advantages of exposing metadata. If you want people to be...
- Catalogs
The Library Link of the Day points to Adding Substance, Not Just Frills, to a Library's Online Catalog by Janet L. Balas in Computers in LibrariesIntegrating enhanced content and electronic resources into the OPAC is a trend that librarians cannot...
- Open Archives Initiative
On behalf of the Institute of Physics, I'm pleased to announce our recent implementation of the Open Archives Initiative technical framework for our Electronic Journals service.As you may know, the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) 'develops and...
- Niso Standards For Comment
These are some of the NISO standards that are currently available for comment.ANSI/NISO/ISO 12083 - 1995 Electronic Manuscript Preparation and Markup Abstract: In complete conformance with ISO 8879 (SGML - Standard Generalized Markup Language), 12083...