Library Cataloging
XML
An interesting article, How Does XML Help Libraries? by Kyle Banerjee from the latest
Computers in LibrariesMany technological innovations relating to libraries have been made over the past decade, but few have generated as much excitement as XML. While many new technologies seem more promising before they are implemented than they are afterward (remember how Java was going to make platform-independent software available everywhere, and Z39.50 was going to let us find and obtain materials stored in libraries around the globe so much more quickly?), XML is already transforming how information is managed and delivered.
Also, check out the comments by Matthew Eberle on XML at Library Techlog.
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Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Access Innovations, information and database management specialists, said today that it has been issued a patent by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for its recently developed MAI Lib software system.MAI Lib automates the process of adding Library...
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Oft Used Forms
This item from Matthew Eberle at Library TechlogPaul Bracke from dLIST has written back to my query to say that they'd welcome the kind of material Library_Geek says we should be collecting (collection development policies, instruction handouts, mission...
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Faceted Classification
Matthew Eberle at Library Techlog has provided a useful set of links on faceted classification and XFML. He has links to examples, articles and the standards. Thanks Matthew....
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Resource Description Framework
OCLC, as part of the Dublin Core project, has made available an open source toolkit for RDF, the EOR toolkit."The EOR toolkit is a collection of extensible Java classes and services which serve as a code base, demonstrating by example functions and services...
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Metadata
Some interesting interfaces to controlled vocabulary schemes including LCSH which might help our users navigate our catalogs are being developed at the Metadata Research Program, School of Information Management and Systems, University of California Berkeley....
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