Library Cataloging
RSS Tool
Planet looks like a useful tool. No library related Planet sites yet.
Planet is a flexible feed aggregator. It downloads news feeds published by web sites and aggregates their content together into a single combined feed, latest news first.It uses Mark Pilgrim's Universal Feed Parser to read from RDF, RSS and Atom feeds; and Tomas Styblo's templating engine to output static files in any format you can dream up.Planet may be used, modified, copied and distributed under the same terms as Python.
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Collocate And Disambiguate
Here's a new weblog of interest to catalogers, Collocate and Disambiguate. Not yet on Planet Cataloging, so grab the RSS feed for your reader.Created by Lois Reibach, this blog will discuss news and trends in authority control, and new uses of authority...
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On Descript
When I started this weblog back in 2002 nobody was covering cataloging. There was AUTOCAT, great place for discussion. But no one place was acting as a news source. Now there are plenty of other place to keep current in cataloging, check Planet Cataloging...
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Tagging
Disambiguation of terms, to some extent, seems possible even in a free-tagging environment. One of the drawbacks often heard about just letting folks put whatever term they lake is that the English language has too many words that are spelt the same but...
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Planet
Kevin points out in a comment on the Friday posting about Planet, that there is at least one library related planet, code4lib. Since so may folks only get the e-mail or RSS feed and would miss the comment I'm posting it here. code4lib RSS Planet...
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Rss
A couple of nice articles on RSS found through LLRX. RSS For Non-Techie Librarians by Steven M. Cohen (of Library Stuff) lives up to what title promises. He has some screen shots and a bibliography.Personal RSS Aggregators by Jon Udell describes many...
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