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This has already been covered in many places, but just in case you missed it, the new Takling with Talis podcast discusses tagging.
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The October/November 2007 issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology includes a special section on Folksonomies.Introduction: Folksonomies and Image Tagging: Seeing the Future? by Diane Neal, Guest EditorWhy Are...
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Lamson Library at Plymouth State University is now using the Scriblio library catalog. Casey Bisson provides more info in his weblog maisonbisson....
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Library Cataloging
Tagging Podcast
This has already been covered in many places, but just in case you missed it, the new Takling with Talis podcast discusses tagging.
The Library 2.0 Folksonomy GangTagging
In this Library 2.0 Gang discussion, members talk about folksonomies and the role of user-generated tagging alongside more formal methods of classification such as the Library of Congress Subject Headings and Dewey.
Programme participants were drawn, as usual, from the full list of Gang members, and a forum is available for discussion of issues raised during the recording.
Participants in this edition of the Library 2.0 Gang were;Casey Bisson, Library Information Technologist at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire, USA. Casey blogs at maisonbisson.Ian Corns, Business Analyst at Talis. Ian contributes to the Source blog, and writes at The Wonderful World of Mr C.Christina Pikas, librarian in a physics, astronomy, mathematics, computer science & engineering library. Christina blogs at Christina's LIS Rant.Karen Schneider, Director of the Librarians' Internet Index. Karen blogs at Free Range Librarian.Tim Spalding, founder of LibraryThing. Tim blogs at the LibraryThing blog and Thing-ology.
During the conversation, the following sites and resources were cited;CiteULikeConnoteadel.icio.usFictionFinderFlickrLibraryThingLibrarians' Internet IndexPennTagsWorldcat.orgWPopac
- Marc For Mark-up
The latest podcast from the Library 2.0 Gang, The Semantic Web and Linked Data by Karen Coyle is well worth a listen. One statement I found interesting, not sure if I agree but it got me thinking, was that MARC is a markup language rather than a data...
- Podcast Discussing Rdfa
The Nodalities folk at Talis have an interesting podcast on RDFa.In my latest podcast I talk with Mark Birbeck. We discuss the role of RDFa in bringing structure and semantics to HTML web pages, and look at effective examples from the UK Government?s...
- Folksonomies
The October/November 2007 issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology includes a special section on Folksonomies.Introduction: Folksonomies and Image Tagging: Seeing the Future? by Diane Neal, Guest EditorWhy Are...
- Scriblio In Use
Lamson Library at Plymouth State University is now using the Scriblio library catalog. Casey Bisson provides more info in his weblog maisonbisson....
- Blogging
An interview with Rebecca Blood, author of The Weblog Handbook, appeared on Tech TV the other night.Librarians have taken to bloggin in a big way. Steven and Greg have started a 'blog, LIS Blogsource, just to keep up with the new ones appearing. I...