Library Cataloging
In the latest Searcher v. 10, no. 9 (Oct. 2002) (the same one with the article by Jessamyn West) is the paper "A Call to Action: What Every Searcher Should Know -- And Do -- About Domain Names, Standards, and Metadata" by Wallace Koehler. He looks at ICANN, W3C, and other agencies involved in the murky realm of digital documentation management and urges librarians to get involved. I could not agree more. Learn. Watch. Act.
- Institutional Identifier
The NISO Institutional Identifier (I2) Working Group (WG) has released a midterm report and is looking for comments.The NISO I2 WG is soliciting feedback on the report and guidance for the next steps in developing this standard from individuals and groups...
- Standards Poster
What's the term for a lot of standards? A mess? Gaggle? Flock? Whatever it is Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe is a poster of standards in the memory community. The sheer number of metadata standards in the cultural heritage...
- Searching, Pre And Post Web
Mansourian, Yazdan (2004) Similarities and differences between web search procedure and searching in the pre-web information retrieval systems. Webology 1(1).This paper presents an introductory discussion about the commonalities and dissimilarities between...
- Cataloging
Why library catalogs fail - comments from SLA sessions by Kathy Bryce appears in Wired West v. 6 no. 4.I think Roy Tennant summed up the call to action with the phrase "surface the content". Library catalog users are used to searching Google and Amazon...
- Rss
"RSS News Blogging for Searchers" by David Mattison in the latest Searcher is a good introduction to the topic. He provides screen shots of various tools, a glossary and a list of the "Top 12 Blogs for Information Professionals". The only quibble I have...
Library Cataloging
Standards
In the latest Searcher v. 10, no. 9 (Oct. 2002) (the same one with the article by Jessamyn West) is the paper "A Call to Action: What Every Searcher Should Know -- And Do -- About Domain Names, Standards, and Metadata" by Wallace Koehler. He looks at ICANN, W3C, and other agencies involved in the murky realm of digital documentation management and urges librarians to get involved. I could not agree more. Learn. Watch. Act.
- Institutional Identifier
The NISO Institutional Identifier (I2) Working Group (WG) has released a midterm report and is looking for comments.The NISO I2 WG is soliciting feedback on the report and guidance for the next steps in developing this standard from individuals and groups...
- Standards Poster
What's the term for a lot of standards? A mess? Gaggle? Flock? Whatever it is Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe is a poster of standards in the memory community. The sheer number of metadata standards in the cultural heritage...
- Searching, Pre And Post Web
Mansourian, Yazdan (2004) Similarities and differences between web search procedure and searching in the pre-web information retrieval systems. Webology 1(1).This paper presents an introductory discussion about the commonalities and dissimilarities between...
- Cataloging
Why library catalogs fail - comments from SLA sessions by Kathy Bryce appears in Wired West v. 6 no. 4.I think Roy Tennant summed up the call to action with the phrase "surface the content". Library catalog users are used to searching Google and Amazon...
- Rss
"RSS News Blogging for Searchers" by David Mattison in the latest Searcher is a good introduction to the topic. He provides screen shots of various tools, a glossary and a list of the "Top 12 Blogs for Information Professionals". The only quibble I have...