Library Cataloging
Well worth reading and considering, The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools. Final Report. March 17, 2006. Prepared for the Library of Congress by Karen Calhoun. A Critical Review by Thomas Mann.
- Romanization
The ALCTS Non-English Access Working Group on Romanization invites comment on its draft report. RecommendationsA majority of the Working Group believes that the factors discussed in this report are significant enough to make a general shift to Model B...
- Automatic Metadata Generation Applications
The Library of Congress announces publications of the final report for the AMeGA (Automatic Metadata Generation Applications) project. Greenberg, J., Spurgin, K., and Crystal, A. (2005). Final Report for the AMeGA (Automatic Metadata Generation Applications)...
- Metadata
The busniess community has an interest in metadata. Here is one of their efforts:The future of automated data, application and process integration: The Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) is a cross-industry metadata identification strategy designed...
- Metadata
Review of current practices and state of the art, a report from The European Library (TEL) is available.The report contributes to the general review phase of the TEL project. It combines a review of the state of the art, based on desk research, with a...
- Preservation Metadata
OCLC AND RLG WORKING GROUP RELEASES REPORT ON 'METADATA FRAMEWORK TO SUPPORT PRESERVATION OF DIGITAL OBJECTS'DUBLIN, Ohio, June 11, 2002--The Working Group on Preservation Metadata, an initiative jointly sponsored by OCLC and RLG, has released...
Library Cataloging
The Future of the Catalog
Well worth reading and considering, The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools. Final Report. March 17, 2006. Prepared for the Library of Congress by Karen Calhoun. A Critical Review by Thomas Mann.
According to the Calhoun report, library operations that are not digital, that do not result in resources that are remotely accessible, that involve professional human judgement or expertise, or that require conceptual categorization and standardization rather than relevance ranking of keywords, do not fit into its proposed "leadership" strategy. This strategy itself, however, is based on an inappropriate business model -- and a misrepresentation of that business model to begin with. The Calhoun report draws unjustified conclusions about the digital age, inflates wishful thinking, fails to make critical distinctions, and disregards (as well as mischaracterizes) an alternative "niche" strategy for research libraries, to promote scholarship (rather than increase "market position"). Its recommendations to eliminate Library of Congress Subject Headings, and to use "fast turnaround" time as the "gold standard" in cataloging, are particularly unjustified, and would have serious negative consequences for the capacity of research libraries to promote scholarly research.Cataloging
- Romanization
The ALCTS Non-English Access Working Group on Romanization invites comment on its draft report. RecommendationsA majority of the Working Group believes that the factors discussed in this report are significant enough to make a general shift to Model B...
- Automatic Metadata Generation Applications
The Library of Congress announces publications of the final report for the AMeGA (Automatic Metadata Generation Applications) project. Greenberg, J., Spurgin, K., and Crystal, A. (2005). Final Report for the AMeGA (Automatic Metadata Generation Applications)...
- Metadata
The busniess community has an interest in metadata. Here is one of their efforts:The future of automated data, application and process integration: The Universal Data Element Framework (UDEF) is a cross-industry metadata identification strategy designed...
- Metadata
Review of current practices and state of the art, a report from The European Library (TEL) is available.The report contributes to the general review phase of the TEL project. It combines a review of the state of the art, based on desk research, with a...
- Preservation Metadata
OCLC AND RLG WORKING GROUP RELEASES REPORT ON 'METADATA FRAMEWORK TO SUPPORT PRESERVATION OF DIGITAL OBJECTS'DUBLIN, Ohio, June 11, 2002--The Working Group on Preservation Metadata, an initiative jointly sponsored by OCLC and RLG, has released...