Library Cataloging
Re: Recommendation and Ranganathan
I hope everybody here is also reading
Lorcan Dempsey's weblog. However, just in case there are some who don't, begin with the excellent post Recommendation and Ranganathan. I thought the description of the four types of metadata a very good place to start thinking and discussion.
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Dublin Core In Xml
The Dublin Core folks are looking for comments."Expressing Dublin Core description sets using XML (DC-DS-XML)" by Pete Johnston and Andy Powell has been published as a DCMI Proposed Recommendation for public comment from 1 to 29 September 2008. A related...
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Metadata, Beyond Description
On Lorcan Dempsey's weblog he discusses our metadata needs in a digital environment where DRM, licenses and other metadata will be used for more than description and discovery.[M]uch of our metadata discussion still focuses on refining descriptive...
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Marc Authority Records
Over on AUTOCAT there has been much discussion about the Guidelines on Subject Access to individual works of Fiction, Drama, etc. lately. As I've mentioned before, the MARC authority records for these terms are freely available. Would encoding them...
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Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog
Lorcan Dempsey, VP of Research for OCLC, has weblog....
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