Article Discussion A month ago I came across an interesting article titled “Schema.org: Evolution of Structured Data on the Web”. In the article, R. V. Guha (Google), Ban Brickley (Google), and Steve MacBeth (Microsoft) talked about Schema.org, the history of Schema.org and other structured data on the Web, design decisions, extending the core Schema.org vocabulary, […]
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Hack Your Calendars? Using Them for More Than Just Appointments
As librari*s one thing we know, and usually know well, is how to do more with less, or at least without any increase. With this mindset, even the most mundane tools can take on multiple roles. For example, our Calendars I had a boss near the beginning of my professional career who leveraged their calendar […]
A Linked Data Journey: Survey of Publishing Strategies
Image Courtesy of Shelly under a CC BY 2.0 license. Introduction Happy Friday everyone! This is part five of my Linked Data Series. You can find the previous posts by going to my author page. Last week I was fortunate enough to attend Mashcat 2016 in Boston. It was a wonderful one-day conference. We had some […]
A Linked Data Journey: Proof of Concept
Courtesy of Alex Berger under a CC BY-NC 2.0 license Introduction This is part two of my Linked Data Series. You can find the first post here. Linked Data is still a very abstract concept to many. My goal in this series is to demystify the notion. To that end I thought “wouldn’t it be […]
A Linked Data Journey: Introduction
retrieved from Wikipedia, created by Anja Jentzsch and Richard Cyganiak Introduction Linked data. It’s one of the hottest topics in the library community. But what is it really? What does it look like? How will it help? In this series I will seek to demystify the concept and present practical examples and use-cases. Some of […]
Dates: Or, the Continuing Frustration of Unnecessarily Ambiguous Metadata
The MARC data structure, and the AACR2 rules that usually accompany it, are strange beasts. Every once in a while I’m asked why I get so frustrated with them, and I explain that there are things — strange things — that I have to deal with by writing lots of code when I could […]
LITA Session: Developing a Sustainable Digital Workflow
Behind the interfaces of the digital libraries and institutional repositories we see today are carefully-planned and proactive processes that ensure that the end user can easily find what s/he needs. With digital libraries and repositories becoming increasingly popular, it is important to know what strategies work well. As a current MLIS student at the University […]
MODS and MADS: Current implementations and future directions
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 […]
Electronic Resources Management Interest Group: Friday, June 27th, 6:30-8:00pm
SUSHI– Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI) update: http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi Adam Chandler presented an overview of what was happening with SUSHI – it’s available at http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi/info/SUSHI_ALA_Annual_2008-nisoupdate.ppt. First he gave some background on SUSHI itself. SUSHI uses the COUNTER schema – it’s a protocol for moving statistics between two systems. Just the exchange – COUNTER actually codifies […]
You Know FRBR, But Have You Ever Met FRAD
Time and Location: Sunday, 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm, Anaheim Convention Center, 210 A-C One would expect for something that old (in Google time) such as Ferber (FRBR), which has been around since 1998, to have spawned some kin. Meet Fred, er, FRAD (Functional Requirements for Authority Data). And they didn’t tell you that in […]