MODS and MADS: Current implementations and future directions ALA Annual Conference 2010 Sunday, June 28, 2010 10:30 to noon Intro, Jenn Riley: Metadata Librarian, Indiana U. Digital Library Program MODS 3.4 schema released June 2010. MODS/MADS editorial committee considering overall direction for MODS 4.0. mods 3.4 has support for RDA descriptions better handling of subject vocabularies (specify vocabulary at relevant subject subelements, specify vocabularies and terms by URI. Better support for multilingual cataloging expanded the use of the usage attribute expanded use of the displayLabel attribute. Ability to bind a specific name to a title to create a Uniform title. The ability to mark selected elements as containing cataloger-supplied data (rather than brackets, etc.). Various changes to make the schema itself for consistent, easier to manage and of greater utility to other applications importing elements from the MODS namespace. For mods 4.0 thinking of a more formal data model, maybe…
Author: Gretchen Gueguen
Institutional Repositories: Design and Development, Panel Discussion
Developing and Institutional Repository: Implementation of DigiTool at Colorado State University Libraries Shu Liu, Colorado State University Yongli Zhou, Colorado State University The first panelists, Shu Liu and Yongli Zhou, describe implementing a IR through DigiTool, exLibris’s Digital Repository software and their talk focuses on using an out of the box product. Colorado State used contentdm from 01-present, but will migrate to digitool (which they’ve also been using since 07) by 09. Digitool has a series of web based client for the user and staff to interface with the the database. There are also access and maintenance components.Aspects of the digitool product can be customized, the icons, menu, header and footer, etc. They also did do some work customizing the metadata display and there were automated and manual ways to do these functions. They also implemented handles for their documents, though it was a bit difficult to implement and took…
Participation and Power: Combining Community Features with Existing metadata in NextGen Public Interfaces
Participation and Power: Combining Community Features with Existing metadata in NextGen Public Interfaces Dinah Sanders, Innovative Interface Kelly M. Vickery, University of Kentucky Instead of just talking about encore, Dinah will discuss how metadata is exposed for patrons to leverage, how is it extended to cover gaps in controlled vocabulary. The majority of Americans use the interwebs everyday. This means they are coming in with savvy web skills and we can leverage metadata to give them tools that are powerful and that users recognize. They are trying to bring these patron skills together with the library strengths of good metadata. However, there are limits, particularly as was mentioned in the opening session “cookery†is not a common term. Encore tries to bring together the formal controlled vocabulary and folksonomies to rectify these problems. Searching can be done across library metadata and user-supplied tags. Early attempts at this like penntags, sopac,…