I don't usually publish my individual comments on things sent out for review within our community, but I've decided to make an exception for the FRSAD report. I'm actively working with a FRBR implementation (and trying to take in as much of…
Good thoughts--I wish I could be more productive in my non-waking hours. Along these lines, I was reading an article about the difference between public sector work and private sector work. The gist is: Those of us (esp. the managers) who w…
Hi Jenn,Awesome diagram and the glossary is a great resource.You might want to add the Data documentation Initiative (ddi) And the SDMXStandards to these diagrams.Euan This is great!I would be very interested to receive a printed 1:1 versio…
I don't usually publish my individual comments on things sent out for review within our community, but I've decided to make an exception for the FRSAD report. I'm actively working with a FRBR implementation (and trying to take in as much of…
I believe the Semantic Web, and Google's evolving efforts are not mutually exclusive. The vision of the SW, IMHO is to improve data's ability to describe itself and its relationship to other entities. This concept is not new, either to the
Welcome to my world. I've long been crawling out of bed and registering my impressions of the most recent quake while waiting for the data from the pinheads in Menlo Park to be refreshed online so I can see exactly how close it was. We had
I’ve been staying on the outskirts of the flurry of activity the last few months surrounding RDA and the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control. Various things have been swimming around in my brain during t…
Discussion on the future of library catalogs is common today. In these conversations, I often hear an argument something like this: “Catalogs and search engines have different goals; are trying to accomplish different things. Therefore we s…
I wouldn't rule LCSH out; there are some issues that need to be resolved in converting it to SKOS.Nothing's broken that isn't just as broken in the original (circular definitions, and related terms incorrectly used as broader terms), but SK…
Discussion on the future of library catalogs is common today. In these conversations, I often hear an argument something like this: “Catalogs and search engines have different goals; are trying to accomplish different things. Therefore we s…
Forgive the hyperbole—of course it’s not everything. But hear me out. In celebration of meeting a major deadline and milestone in my career, I took some time for myself this weekend and watched the original Star Wars trilogy. (Yes, the good…
In a recent issue of Educause Review, Robert Kieft describes work at the Tri-Colleges outside Philadelphia to plan for adding tables of contents and sample text to a prototype library catalog. The impetus behind these experiments is to prov…