LibWorm.com provides a librarian RSS filtering service. Over 1500 RSS librarian sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest headlines from journals and sites in the FRBR interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:53:25 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/05/spalding-speaks-librarythings-tim-spalding-delivers-a-keynote-at-lianza-conference/ Via Clyde Smith at Cultural Research, we learn of a video of LibraryThing Founder and Developer, Tim Spalding, talking about LibraryThing and social cataloging at the LIANZA (Library & Information Association New Zealand Aotearoa) Annual Conference Closing Keynote Address. It took place at the end of 2009 in Christchurch, NZ. The presentation is titled, “What is Social Cataloging?” and runs about 55 minutes. It’s an insightful and interesting presentation full of both facts and ideas to consider. Additionally, Spalding is an excellent speaker. What follows is a NON-COMPREHENSIVE LIST OF a Few Facts and Discussion Points from the keynote. It’s well worth the 50-some minutes to listen for yourself. We think LIS students will also find this presentation worthy of their time. LT and Social Cataloging: + Started in 2005 + 850K Members + Members Have Cataloged More than 44 Million Books + Social Cataloging Will Become More Important to Libraries + The Social Cataloging Ladder + LibraryThing is More About the Content and Less About Pictures, etc. + Largest Tag on LT is Cyberpunk + Comparing LT Tags to LCSH + Explains TagMashing + Collaborative Cataloging + Brings Various Editions of Books Together [Not FRBR but FRBR Like] + Members Adding Value by Adding Metadata and More Not Provided by the Publishers + Legacy Cataloging + Flash Mob Cataloging + LibraryThing for Libraries (A Fee-Based Service) + Traditional Cataloging Will Remain + Still Believes in Structured Data + End of Intellectual Structures Rooted in the Limited of the Physical World–David Weinberger + Humanizing the Catalog (ie. recommendations) + Library Catalogs are Not Links or Search Engines + LibraryThing Gets Twice as Much Traffic as WorldCat.org + Consider Open Source Products + Social Cataloging Can be a Way for Libraries to Join Web 1. ... Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:41:39 +0100 823887 http://www.frbr.org/2010/03/05/last-week-in-frbr-17 This was a quiet week in FRBRville, as far as I know. If you know different, do speak up! upstream.openlibrary.org upstream.openlibrary.org is public. It’s the new look for Open Library. Have a look at, for example, the work The Maltese Falcon, which links to 27 editions (or Manifestations), including this 1989 Vintage printing. If you want to grab the data about that edition, you can get it in JSON or get it in RDF. DAISY news A news note from the Digital Accessible Information System (DAISY) Consortium about funding supported by the Ulverscroft Foundation “to assist the development of library services for print disabled people worldwide and to foster cooperation between library services serving these persons.” Kathy Teague and Wendy Taylor, Librarians, RNIB National Library Service, UK Kathy and Wendy are responsible for coordinating the Cataloguing Working Group of the IFLA LPD’s Global Accessible Library Project and are involved in the acquisition of a new library management system by RNIB NLS. They wish to visit the Celia Library in Helsinki, Finland to study their implementation of the new FRBR bibliographic model [Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records] which permits the assigning of relationships between different accessible formats of the same work. Celia belongs to the Finnish DAISY Consortium and is the first specialist library in this field to implement this model. Their visit has clear potential to enhance the DAISY Consortium member RNIB’s services and worldwide developments. Ulverscroft has offered 2,700 to fund this visit. (Source: The FRBR Blog) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 823989 http://www.betabib.org/2010/03/04/intresse-for-api-workshop/ Med stöd från Kungl. biblioteket planerar Högskolebiblioteket i Jönköping, Göteborgs Universitetsbibliotek och Chalmers bibliotek att genomföra en workshop på temat : ”Att använda LIBRIS öppna infrastruktur”. Syftet är att sprida och tillgängliggöra dokumenterade exempel på hur LIBRIS öppna infrastruktur kan användas av svenska bibliotek, att informera om komponenter som ingår i LIBRIS öppna infrastruktur, sprida idéer om vad denna kan användas till och att skapa förutsättningar kring samarbete kring LIBRIS öppna infrastruktur. Det finns idag ingen definition av denna infrastruktur men vi planerar att behandla: Uppsök SRU, LIBRIS (webbsök) – Xsearch, stavningsapi, FRBR, LIBRIS linked data, SwePub, SFX/bX API och MetaLib X-server. Nämnda är alla tjänster som utvecklas eller underhålls av LIBRIS. En del av tjänsterna finns tillgängliga i andra sammanhang som Bibliotek24 och EIRA. Erfarenheterna av att använda API:erna är så generella att oavsett om man använder Samsök, Bibliotek24 eller EIRA så borde det finnas intresse för erfarenhetsutbyte. Planen är att genomföra en workshop från lunch -> lunch i maj. Preliminärt datum (och det är verkligen preliminärt är den 20-21 maj) antingen i Göteborg eller i Jönköping. Vi tittar på olika lokaler. Vår ambition är att deltagande i workshop är kostnadsfri, men detta beror helt och hållet på vilka lokaler vi kan använda. För att kunna boka lämpliga lokaler behöver vi veta ungefär hur många som är intresserade av att medverka. Så om du tycker att ovanstående workshop är något som du troligen skulle vilja vara med på, skriv till daniel.forsman@chalmers.se och uttryck det. Ange även om kostnad för deltagande spelar stor roll för din ev. medverkan. Inget i detta läge är bindande – detta är en ren undersökning av behov och intresse. ... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 09:01:37 +0100 824410 http://www.frbr.org/2010/02/28/last-week-in-frbr-16 Bram Stoker’s Dracula in FRBR Terms From Melvin Yabut. Dunsire on FRBR and RDF In Re: FRBRer & FRAD in Registry Gordon Dunsire gives a good long answer on the DC-RDA mailing list about how FRBR, RDA and RDF are fitting together and where things are at. Coyle asks about relations On RDA-L, Karen Coyle asked a Question about RDA relationships (App. J): I’m pondering the RDA relationships, as defined in Appendix J. I need clarification … A relationship is between two “things”. FRBR has lists of Work-Work relationships, Expression-Work relationships, etc. Appendix J lists relationships as either Work, Expression, Manifestation or Item relationships. So… 1) are all relationships in Appendix J between equivalent entities? e.g. are they all Work-Work, Expression-Expression? 2) If not, how can one tell what the two “things” are that are being related? 3) I don’t find some relationships that seem to be key: Expression of; Manifestation of; Item of; Translation of (Expression as translation of Work) I have other questions, but don’t want to muddy the waters … yet. Lengthy and informative discussion ensued. Hammond, Is FRBR the OSI for Web Architecture? Following up on Does a CrossRef DOI identify a “work?” we have Tony Hammond’s Is FRBR the OSI for Web Architecture? FRBR is a useful reference model to clarify some of these concepts. But not one that we are overly concerned with at this time. Nor even whether DOI maps one to one onto a given FRBR layer. What we are more concerned with on a pragmatic level is how DOI maps onto the Web architecture and especially how it plays along with Linked Data concepts. (Aside: A propos FRBR we might be in danger of repeating the OSI mistake for standardizing the network layer model. ... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 822705 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/15887 Amigos has scheduled web-based training in our live online classroom. Available courses include the following titles. All times below are Central Time. Digital Imaging for Photographic Collections March 9-12, 2010, 1:00pm - 3:00pm http://bit.ly/4mOpCL <http://bit.ly/4mOpCL> FRBR: What is it and how it can help you prepare for RDA March 9, 11, 2009, 10:30am - 12:30pm http://bit.ly/7EjBh6 <http://bit.ly/7EjBh6> METS: The Basics June 23-24, 2010, 10:30am - 12:30pm http://bit.ly/7cpW0I <http://bit.ly/7cpW0I> PHP: Interacting with the World April 5, 12, 19, 26, 2010, 10:30am - 12:30pm http://bit.ly/67QwnF <http://bit.ly/67QwnF> Project Management for Digital Imaging May 11-14, 2010, 10:30am - 12:30pm http://bit.ly/21mWOc <http://bit.ly/21mWOc> Tools for the Reference Desk May 10, 17, 2010, 10:30am - 12:30pm http://bit.ly/2EH5Eq <http://bit.ly/2EH5Eq> <http://bit.ly/2EH5Eq <http://bit.ly/2EH5Eq> > Web Publishing: Introduction to Style Sheets I March 30-April 3, 2010 (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Tue, 23 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 820842 http://www.figoblog.org/node/1980 Dans le dernier Dlib, on peut lire un article très intéressant de Karen Coyle, Diane Hillmann, Jon Phipps et Gordon Dunsire sur l'expression de RDA en RDF. Il rend compte d'un travail effectué dans le cadre du groupe de travail DCMI/RDA qui comme son nom l'indique travaille sur le rapprochement entre Dublin Core et RDA. Pour mémoire, les RDA (Resource Description and Access) sont un ensemble de nouvelles règles de catalogage en cours d'élaboration dans la communauté anglo-saxonne, dont le principal caractère novateur est de prendre acte de la modélisation définie par les FRBR. En fait ce qu'ils présentent dans l'article c'est un premier travail pour exprimer les RDA sous la forme d'une ontologie en RDF, qui est disponible en ligne dans le répertoire de métadonnées de la NSDL. L'article rappelle qu'il s'agit d'un premier travail, qui arrive en avance de phase par rapport à la version définitive de RDA (prévue en juin). Pourtant, ils ont apparemment couvert sinon tout, du moins une grande partie des concepts et des éléments de description prévus. Ce qui leur a posé plusieurs problèmes... Le premier étant l'alignement avec les FRBR. Ils ont redéclaré des principales classes des FRBRer en attendant qu'une ontologie digne de ce nom soit publiée par l'IFLA. Mais les FRBRer n'étant pas tout à fait prévus pour cela, ils ont rencontré différents problèmes : - ils ont dû utiliser une classe des FRBRoo, la classe Agent, sans quoi ça ne tenait pas la route (!) - pour pas mal d'éléments RDA, le rattachement aux entités FRBR peut être discuté et on ne peut pas rattacher de façon univoque une propriété des RDA à une seule entité FRBR. Pour pallier ce problème ils ont déclaré les propriétés concernées deux fois, une fois de façon générique, puis une deuxième fois sous la forme d'une sous-propriété rattachée à l'entité FRBR choisie. ... Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:25:05 +0100 819131 http://figoblog.org/node/1980 Dans le dernier Dlib, on peut lire un article très intéressant de Karen Coyle, Diane Hillmann, Jon Phipps et Gordon Dunsire sur l'expression de RDA en RDF. Il rend compte d'un travail effectué dans le cadre du groupe de travail DCMI/RDA qui comme son nom l'indique travaille sur le rapprochement entre Dublin Core et RDA. Pour mémoire, les RDA (Resource Description and Access) sont un ensemble de nouvelles règles de catalogage en cours d'élaboration dans la communauté anglo-saxonne, dont le principal caractère novateur est de prendre acte de la modélisation définie par les FRBR. En fait ce qu'ils présentent dans l'article c'est un premier travail pour exprimer les RDA sous la forme d'une ontologie en RDF, qui est disponible en ligne dans le répertoire de métadonnées de la NSDL. L'article rappelle qu'il s'agit d'un premier travail, qui arrive en avance de phase par rapport à la version définitive de RDA (prévue en juin). Pourtant, ils ont apparemment couvert sinon tout, du moins une grande partie des concepts et des éléments de description prévus. Ce qui leur a posé plusieurs problèmes... Le premier étant l'alignement avec les FRBR. Ils ont redéclaré des principales classes des FRBRer en attendant qu'une ontologie digne de ce nom soit publiée par l'IFLA. Mais les FRBRer n'étant pas tout à fait prévus pour cela, ils ont rencontré différents problèmes : - ils ont dû utiliser une classe des FRBRoo, la classe Agent, sans quoi ça ne tenait pas la route (!) - pour pas mal d'éléments RDA, le rattachement aux entités FRBR peut être discuté et on ne peut pas rattacher de façon univoque une propriété des RDA à une seule entité FRBR. Pour pallier ce problème ils ont déclaré les propriétés concernées deux fois, une fois de façon générique, puis une deuxième fois sous la forme d'une sous-propriété rattachée à l'entité FRBR choisie. ... Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:25:05 +0100 818329 http://www.frbr.org/2010/02/12/last-week-in-frbr-15 Fairly slow this week in FRBRland. Here are some links. Bilder, Does a CrossRef DOI Identify a Work? Geoffrey Bilder asked the question Does a CrossRef DOI Identify a Work? (A DOI is a digital object identifier, often something rather cryptic-looking such as 10.1038/nature02999, that identifies an article in Nature). An article in a journal is a work (to be exact: what you hold in your hand, if it’s in print, is an item exemplifying a manifestation of an expression of that work) and if a DOI identified a work then that would be extremely useful. But: Tony’s recent thread on making DOIs play nicely in a linked data world has raised an issue I’ve meant to discuss here for some time- a lot of the thread is predicated on the idea that CrossRef DOIs are applied at the abstract “work” level. Indeed, that it what it currently says in our guidelines. Unfortunately, this is a case where theory, practice and documentation all diverge. … CrossRef DOIs should be probably assigned at the expression level and different expressions should be assigned different CrossRef DOIs. This is because assigning a CrossRef DOI at the higher “work” level is generally not granular enough to guarantee that a reader following the citation will see what the author saw when creating the citation. For example, one translation of a work might be substantially different from another translation of the same work. Ronald Murray lecture at British Library Ann Chapman’s FRBR Lecture at BL describes the talk that the Library of Congress’s Ronald Murrary gave at the British Library. So how might this work in practice? Typing in ‘cats’ as a search term in my public library catalogue today brings up 500 results. There is no order to the list, it includes both fiction and non-fiction titles and it doesn’t separate out different forms of resource. ... Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 817657 http://blogs.ala.org/nrmig.php?title=recent_trends_in_catalog_architecture_al&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 Apologies for being a tardy blogger, but the good news is that by now, all of the powerpoints for these fine presentations are posted and linked to from the CFFIG wiki page ALCTS Catalog Form and Function Interest Group Recent Trends in Catalog Architecture Saturday Jan. 16 2010 10:30 a.m. Chair Richard Guajardo introduced 4 presenters who described applications that draw metadata from the ILS and other sources for use in discovery interfaces. These presentations were varied but all concerned the architecture and functionality of multiple layers - "what happens (or needs to happen) in between" to transform, combine, and synchronize metadata. LENS: Catalog records and Additional Data Sources in the Aquabrowser Implementation at the University of Chicago, presented by Frances McNamara, University of Chicago. This was a technical overview of what happens between metadata sources and the Aquabrowser discovery interface. McNamara described the aggregation of resources as "stone soup": in addition to 5.7 million MARC records from the catalog, they combine SFX and Metalib exports, Hathi Trust records, EAD finding aids, Dublin Core for digital image collections, results of library website crawls, and others, plus enhancements (summaries, tables of contents, etc.), plus "user lists" from the discovery system, and item availability information from the catalog (updated dynamically). Everything is transformed into a common format in an "interim database". Merging of records between print and electronic versions takes place (use of identifiers such as OCLC number and ISSN in bib records is important). U. of Chicago is able to avoid synchronization issues by recreating the database nightly. ... Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:52:23 +0100 816166 http://blogs.ala.org/nrmig.php?title=ala_midwinter_2010_write_ups_from_around&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 Below is the round-up of write-ups around the Internet for ALA presentations that might be of interest to Metadata and Digital Librarians. Did I miss your write-up or presentations? Email me at kmarti@uic.edu and I will add it. Would you like to share your write-up of a conference on the blog? It's not too late! Contact me about that too. Friday 1/15 FRBR Interest Group 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in 156 A/B Unit: ALCTS No write-up yet CCS Forum 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM on 01/15 Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in 104A/B Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CCS No write-up yet New CCS Interest Group 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM on 01/15 Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in 203 Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CCS No write-up yet Electronic Resources Management Interest Group 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM on 01/15 Location: Hyatt Regency Boston in Duxbury Unit: LITA No write-up yet Saturday Electronic Resources Interest Group 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM on 01/16 Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in 253A Unit: ALCTS No write-up yet Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM on 01/16 Location: Renaissance Boston Waterfront in Pacific F Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CCS No write-up yet Catalog Form and Function Interest Group 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM on 01/16 Location: Hyatt Regency Boston in Grand BR A Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CCS Link to presentations and abstracts on ALA Connect Link to presentations on ALA Presentation Wiki JPEG2000 Interest Group 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM on 01/16 Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in 157B Unit: LITA Link to meeting report on ALA Connect Cataloging Norms Interest Group 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM on 01/16 Location: Hyatt Regency Boston in Grand BR B Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CCS Link to presentations on ALA presentation wiki Catalog Management Interest Group ... Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:21:39 +0100 815881 http://www.frbr.org/2010/02/06/last-week-in-frbr-14 Hi. I usually get this out on Fridays, but I hope you don’t miss it because it’s coming out on Saturday this week. Seems like it was a slowish week in FRBRania. The first couple of pieces involve the RDA-L mailing list archives (RDA being, of course, the new cataloguing rules Resource Description and Access) and also Karen Coyle . Mix and Match: Mashups of Bibliographic Data Mix and Match: Mashups of Bibliographic Data at the recent American Library Association conference had people from Google talking about Google Books metadata, OCLC talking about ONIX, and the Open Library talking about the Open Library. Eric Hellman was there and wrote it up in Google Exposes Book Metadata Privates at ALA Forum, which a lot of people have been pointing out, including on RDA-L. Karen Coyle, who was the Open Library person at the session, brought the four FRBR user tasks into talk about alphabetical ordering of titles: In FRBR we have the four user tasks: find, identify, select, obtain. These are fully imbued with the assumption of user knowledge. “to find entities that correspond to the user’s stated search criteria (i.e., to locate either a single entity or a set of entities in a file or database as the result of a search using an attribute or relationship of the entity);” This seems to eliminate the possibility that the user could be successful in the library catalog with a need like: “I just finished Twilight and loved it. What else might I like?” Yet that is a legitimate query to bring to the library, and even to the library catalog. Perhaps we should spend some time re-writing the FRBR user tasks, expanding them to meet a wider variety of user needs. Then we could look at our catalogs and say: “What does this mean in terms of catalog functionality?” I maintain that alphabetical order will not be at the top of our list, but will probably appear along some user tasks. ... Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 815845 http://www.frbr.org/2010/01/29/last-week-in-frbr-13 Assunção, FRBR and Music Uniform Title Maria Clara Assunção has a paper called “FRBR and Music Uniform Title” in Páginas a & b 2:4 (2009), pp. 143-153. The concepts of “work” and “expression” introduced by FRBR model, have particular implications for the rationale behind the construction of music uniform titles and can help to significantly improve the identification of musical works through this cataloguing resource. This study results from the practical need to establish a set of effective criteria in the development of uniform titles for musical works of a diverse nature, mostly of doubtful identification, often handwritten and sometimes anonymous. This paper aims to contribute to clarify this vital resource in the cataloguing of music but often avoided or misapplied. LibraryThing, A FRBR Model of Publishers I spent some time cleaning out my inbox. At work I’ve been doing Inbox Zero for a long time and it’s an enormous help, but my personal mailbox had a bunch of stuff in it that was dragging me down, so I started deleting. One thing I found was from Tim “Mr. LibraryThing” Spalding, sent in May 2009, pointing out a discussion on the LT site: A FRBR Model of of Publishers. As many know, LibraryThing has a concept of “works” being composed of editions. And we have author and tag aliases. Together, these concepts resemble what librarians call the FRBR model, and its siblings FRAR, FRSAR, FRBRoo, and FR-lama-lama-ding-dong. Now, I want to do publishers. That is, I want to have pages for publishers. This requires some model of how publishers are. An ideal model would understand that HarperCollins used to be called Harper Collins, that Collins is an imprint of HarperCollins, but was an independent company, etc. Truly publishers and imprints are much worse than authors or works. ... Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 813306 http://dltj.org/article/mashups-of-bib-data/ This year the ALCTS Forum at ALA Midwinter brought together three perspectives on massaging bibliographic data of various sorts in ways that use MARC, but where MARC is not the end goal. What do you get when you swirl MARC, ONIX, and various other formats of metadata in a big pot? Three projects: ONIX Enrichment at OCLC, the Open Library Project, and Google Book Search metadata.Below is a summary of how these three projects are messin’ with metadata, as told by the Forum panelists. I also recommend reading Eric Hellman’s Google Exposes Book Metadata Privates at ALA Forum for his recollection and views of the same meeting. ONIX Enrichment at OCLCRenee Register, Global Product Manager for OCLC Cataloging and Metadata Services, was the first to present on the panel. Her talk looked at a new and evolving product at OCLC on the enhancement of ONIX records with WorldCat records, and vice versa. 1As libraries, Renee said “our instincts are collaborative” but “our data and workflow silos encourage redundancy and inhibit interoperability.” Beyond the obvious differences in metadata formats, the workflows of libraries differ dramatically from other metadata providers and consumers. In libraries (with the exception of CIP and brief on-order records) the major work of bibliographic production is performed at the end of the publication cycle and ends with the receipt of the published item. In the publisher supply chain, bibliographic data evolves over time, usually beginning months before publication and continuing to grow for months and years (sales information, etc.) after publication. Renee had a graphic showing the current flow of metadata around the broader bibliographic universe that highlighted the isolation of library activity relative to publisher, wholesaler, and retailer activity. ... Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:14:52 +0100 814461 http://figoblog.org/node/1976 Le 9 novembre dernier, il y a presque une éternité, j'étais à Londres pour assister à la présentation des résultats du projet VMF : Vocabulary Mapping Framework. Ils ont attendu presque aussi longtemps que moi pour mettre leurs résultats en ligne, ce qui me donne l'occasion de revenir un peu sur ce projet et ce qui en a résulté dans la première phase, qui vient donc de se terminer. D'abord, rappelons les objectifs du projet : annoncé en juin 2009, le projet VMF se donnait pour objectif de réaliser un mapping de tous les formats de métadonnées majeurs, au moyen d'une ontologie en OWL. Vous vous souvenez peut-être que ce projet m'avait à l'époque laissée un peu songeuse... Oui, c'est vrai, cela me semblait un objectif ambitieux (trop) et je ne voyais pas très bien où ils voulaient en venir, surtout en si peu de temps. Mais maintenant les choses me semblent plus claires et je pense arriver à comprendre ce que ce projet peut apporter. Ce n'est pas un mapping universel de tous les formats de métadonnées, mais plutôt un outil d'aide à la conception de mappings entre des formats de métadonnées deux à deux. Dans les grandes lignes, le principe est le suivant : - imaginons qu'on veuille faire correspondre les formats W, X, Y et Z (soit, les mappings W--X, W--Y, W--Z, X--Y, X--Z et Y--Z) - on crée une ontologie générique, qui s'appelle la Matrice (the Matrix, fallait l'inventer ;-) - on crée ensuite le mapping de chaque format vers la Matrice (W--Matrice, X--Matrice, Y--Matrice, Z--Matrice) - on requête la Matrice pour qu'elle propose des équivalences entre deux formats (W--Matrice--X, W--Matrice--Y, etc.) - on a ainsi obtenu les correspondances entre les formats souhaités en faisant 4 mappings au lieu de 6. ... Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:15:04 +0100 813914 http://www.figoblog.org/node/1976 Le 9 novembre dernier, il y a presque une éternité, j'étais à Londres pour assister à la présentation des résultats du projet VMF : Vocabulary Mapping Framework. Ils ont attendu presque aussi longtemps que moi pour mettre leurs résultats en ligne, ce qui me donne l'occasion de revenir un peu sur ce projet et ce qui en a résulté dans la première phase, qui vient donc de se terminer. D'abord, rappelons les objectifs du projet : annoncé en juin 2009, le projet VMF se donnait pour objectif de réaliser un mapping de tous les formats de métadonnées majeurs, au moyen d'une ontologie en OWL. Vous vous souvenez peut-être que ce projet m'avait à l'époque laissée un peu songeuse... Oui, c'est vrai, cela me semblait un objectif ambitieux (trop) et je ne voyais pas très bien où ils voulaient en venir, surtout en si peu de temps. Mais maintenant les choses me semblent plus claires et je pense arriver à comprendre ce que ce projet peut apporter. Ce n'est pas un mapping universel de tous les formats de métadonnées, mais plutôt un outil d'aide à la conception de mappings entre des formats de métadonnées deux à deux. Dans les grandes lignes, le principe est le suivant : - imaginons qu'on veuille faire correspondre les formats W, X, Y et Z (soit, les mappings W--X, W--Y, W--Z, X--Y, X--Z et Y--Z) - on crée une ontologie générique, qui s'appelle la Matrice (the Matrix, fallait l'inventer ;-) - on crée ensuite le mapping de chaque format vers la Matrice (W--Matrice, X--Matrice, Y--Matrice, Z--Matrice) - on requête la Matrice pour qu'elle propose des équivalences entre deux formats (W--Matrice--X, W--Matrice--Y, etc.) - on a ainsi obtenu les correspondances entre les formats souhaités en faisant 4 mappings au lieu de 6. ... Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:15:04 +0100 812468 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/15567 Amigos has scheduled web-based training in our live online classroom. Available courses include the following titles. All times below are Central Time. Digital Imaging for Text-Based Collections March 23-26, 2010, 1:00pm - 3:00pm http://bit.ly/5UWN8A <http://bit.ly/5UWN8A> Digital Photography Basics March 2-5, 2010, 1:00pm - 3:00pm http://bit.ly/38vcNf <http://bit.ly/38vcNf> FRBR: What is it and how it can help you prepare for RDA March 9, 11, 2009, 10:30am - 12:30pm http://bit.ly/7EjBh6 <http://bit.ly/7EjBh6> METS: The Basics June 23-24, 2010, 10:30am - 12:30pm http://bit.ly/7cpW0I <http://bit.ly/7cpW0I> PHP: Interacting with the World April 5, 12, 19, 26, 2010, 10:30am - 12:30pm http://bit.ly/67QwnF <http://bit.ly/67QwnF> Project Management for Digital Imaging May 11-14, 2010, 10:30am - 12:30pm http://bit.ly/21mWOc <http://bit.ly/21mWOc> Tools for the Reference Desk February 16, 23, 2010, 10:30am - 12:30pm http://bit.ly/2EH5Eq <http://bit.ly/2EH5Eq> Too (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Mon, 25 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 811647 http://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/celebrating-15-year-of-dublin-core.html Making Metadata Work Harder: Celebrating 15 Year of Dublin Core is the international conference on Dublin Core and metadata applications which will take place on 20-22 October 2010, in Pittsburgh. This event’s topics include: metadata principles, guidelines, and best practices, metadata quality, normalization, improvement and mapping, conceptual models and frameworks (e.g., RDF, DCAM, OAIS), metadata interoperability across domains, languages, time, structures, and scales, cross-domain metadata uses (e.g., recordkeeping, preservation, curation, institutional repositories, publishing), domain metadata (e.g., for corporations, cultural memory institutions, education, government, and scientific fields), bibliographic standards (e.g., RDA, FRBR, subject headings) as Semantic Web vocabularies, accessibility metadata, metadata for scientific data, e-Science and grid applications, social tagging and user participation in building metadata, Knowledge Organization Systems (e.g., ontologies, taxonomies, authority files, folksonomies, and thesauri) and Simple Knowledge Organization Systems (SKOS), ontology design and development, integration of metadata and ontologies, metadata generation (methods, tools, and practices), search engines and metadata, semantic Web metadata and applications, and finally vocabulary registries and registry services. (Source: The Invisible Web Weblog) Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 811166 http://www.frbr.org/2010/01/22/last-week-in-frbr-12 Hillmann et al, RDA Vocabularies: Process, Outcome, Use Diane Hillmann, Karen Coyle, Jon Phipps, and Gordon Dunsire have a paper in the new D-Lib: RDA Vocabularies: Process, Outcome, Use. Definitely look at this. ABSTRACT: The Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard, due to be released this coming summer, has included since May 2007 a parallel effort to build Semantic Web enabled vocabularies. This article describes that effort and the decisions made to express the vocabularies for use within the library community and in addition as a bridge to the future of library data outside the current MARC-based systems. The authors also touch on the registration activities that have made the vocabularies usable independently of the RDA textual guidance. Designed for both human and machine users, the registered vocabularies describe the relationships between FRBR, the RDA classes and properties and the extensive value vocabularies developed for use within RDA. Karen Coyle, RDA Vocabularies for a Twenty-First-Century Data Environment Karen Coyle’s been busy. She had an excerpt from her upcoming issue of Library Technology Reports posted at the ALA Tech Source blog: RDA Vocabularies for a Twenty-First-Century Data Environment. They explain: “Karen Coyle is in the putting the finishing touches on the February issue of Library Technology Reports, titled “RDA Vocabularies for a Twenty-First-Century Data Environment”. In the following excerpt, she addresses the difficulty that many librarians have in understanding the basic concepts of FRBR, and offers some diagrams to clarify them. Though understanding FRBR may be tricky, she argues, it is essential to a transformation to a modern, workable data environment.” RDA pricing Speaking of Resource Description and Access, the cost of this new cataloguing standard was announced. It starts at $325 for the first user and then it’s about $50 for each extra user. ... Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 810900 http://blogs.ala.org/nrmig.php?title=metadata_interest_group_meeting_at_ala_m_2010&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 eXtensible Catalog: Metadata Services Toolkit Jennifer Bowen, University of Rochester Jennifer Bowen presented on the Metadata Services Toolkit (MST), one of three modules under development by the University of Rochester as part of the eXtensible Catalog (XC – http://www.extensiblecatalog.org). There is also a new non-profit being developed to support eXtensible catalog: the eXensible Catalog Organization. Three main categories of XC: User interface Metadata management tools – this presentation focused on the MST Connectivity Bowen displayed a diagram showing the different layers of architecture of the XC. It uses different toolkits for its different functions. The OAI toolkit allows MARC records to be extracted out of an ILS via OAI (many ILSs are not OAI harvestable on their own). The NCIP toolkit works for circulation data, and the Drupal toolkit works for the user interface. OAI-PMH was selected as the method to pull records out of ILSs because it is a standard protocol, in wide use, and can be synchronized to automatically pull in updates, new records, and deletes—-in general easy to use and easy to replicate Bowen provided some background on the MST It is based on idea of Diane Hillman, Stuart Sutton and Jon Phipps. It enables libraries to automatically process batches of metadata. It can be used by other front-end systems, e.g., Summon, Primo-—is designed to serve as a middle layer for any system that can harvest data. It’s a pipeline—-will continue to feed data and keep changes current. It has services to clean up and normalize inconsistent metadata—-current focus on MARC and DC, but ultimately can be extended to any XML metadata. It has its own faceted interface. But it’s not a metadata editor, cannot edit/change records using it. Problems can be cleaned up in original repository and then reimported. ... Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:53:35 +0100 809960 http://www.betabib.org/2010/01/19/att-anvanda-libris-oppna-infrastruktur/ Idag fick jag äntligen beslutet från KB på Högskolebiblioteket i Jönköping och Göteborgs UB ansökan ”Att använda LIBRIS öppna infrastruktur”. Ur ansökan: LIBRIS – nationella bibliotekssystem tillhandahåller idag flera system med alternativa gränssnitt för systeminteraktion. Utöver de traditionella webbaserade gränssnitten avsedda för en person att söka och använda LIBRIS systemens tjänster finns det även gränssnitt avsedda för maskin till maskin kommunikation. Dessa möjliggör att LIBRIS systemens tjänster kan integreras i andra tjänster och göras tillgängliga i en annan kontext. Det finns ett stort intresse bland Sveriges Högskole- och Universitetsbibliotek kring hur man kan använda LIBRIS centrala tjänster integrerat med sina egna. Främst planerar vi att dokumentera och sprida våra erfarenheter kring användandet av Uppsök (SRU), LIBRIS webbsök (xsearch, stavningsapi, FRBR verktyg, LIBRIS linked data), SFX/bX (API) och MetaLib (X-server). Genom att arrangera en två dagars workshop i Jönköping hoppas vi uppnå följande: Att det skall finnas dokumenterade exempel på hur LIBRIS öppna infrastruktur kan användas av svenska högskole- och universitetsbibliotek. Att det skall finnas ett löst nätverk mellan bibliotek som vill använda LIBRIS öppna infrastruktur. Att det skall finnas idéer kring hur LIBRIS öppna infrastruktur kan användas i en lokal kontext. Även om jag inom kort börjar på Chalmers och Rolf Johansson utvecklare från GUB, som även han börjat på Chalmers, så räknar vi båda med att kunna dedikera oss till projektet. Så håll ögonen öppna om ni är intresserade. (Source: betabib) Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:12:50 +0100 811504 http://dltj.org/article/alamw10-record-use-policy/ On Saturday morning of ALA Midwinter 2010, Dr. Jennifer Younger moderated a session on the progress of the OCLC Record Use Policy Council. The meeting started with an introduction to the reasons behind the creation of the Record Use Council, the charge of the Council from the board of trustees, and how the framing of the discussion of the policy is guided by the values and history of OCLC the cooperative. There wasn’t much new here for those that have been following the progress of the policy discussion, so I am skipping over it most of it with the exception of a few notable topics. After that, I’m focusing on the lengthy question and answer session that followed Dr. Younger’s background presentation.Highlights of the Background PresentationDr. Younger said that the review council is on track to get the proposed policy to the OCLC Board of Trustees in May in time for it to be reviewed at the Board’s June meeting. They haven’t started putting pen to paper on a draft policy statement, but are close; next week the members of the Council will be in Dublin for a two day meeting, and coming out of that will be a draft of the policy. From there, the draft policy will be reviewed by the various governance bodies of OCLC — the regional council, the global council, and the board of trustees — and there will be an extensive discussion about the draft policy at the global council meeting in April.WorldCat itself is now made up of 170 million bibliographic records and 1.5 billion statements of holdings from libraries. A policy is needed to create a viable business plan for sustaining this resource. ... Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:04:08 +0100 809802 http://michaelgolrick.blogspot.com/2010/01/january-links.html I need to read and understand this better, but Char Booth has written an article in Library Journal about data visualization which I just can's seem to get my head around ... yet.I found a new, interesting blog: Go To Hellman. It was brought to my attention in the discussion about ebooks. Here is the second post. And here is a third one.The wonderful Jenny Levine wrote a great post about Twitter and policies (oh, and ALA). I am thinking I should find the time to consolidate all that I have learned into a new post.In a really "library geek" vein, there is a post on ALA Techsource about RDA and FRBR -- which are supposed to replace AACR2. This post has some diagrams which help explain. (The bottom line for the non library geeks is that it should make our catalogs/access systems much more user friendly, and theoretically even better than Amazon or Google!)And finally in this list, and to bring it back full circle, Ryan Deschamps has written about the future of the library and Seth Godin's comments. Read it here. [I have an issue with the title, it should not be "Neither Libraries Nor Information is Free" but "Neither Libraries Nor Information Are Free." Grammatically, both "libraries" and "information" are plural nouns, and the conjunction compounds the pluralness.] (Source: Thoughts from a Library Administrator) Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 808933 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechsourceBlog/~3/SWMh_QN-fvo/rda-vocabularies-for-a-twenty-first-century-data-environment.html Karen Coyle is in the putting the finishing touches on the February issue of Library Technology Reports, titled "RDA Vocabularies for a Twenty-First-Century Data Environment". In the following excerpt, she addresses the difficulty that many librarians have in understanding the basic concepts of FRBR, and offers some diagrams to clarify them. Though understanding FRBR may be tricky, she argues, it is essential to a transformation to a modern, workable data environment. Some of our misconceptions of FRBR may arise because of the starkness of the diagrams in the FRBR document. Visualization of abstract concepts is a fine art and can make all the difference in how or whether readers understand the ideas being presented. The diagrams in the FRBR document, while correct, are deceptive in their simplicity. Robert Maxwell, in his 2007 book FRBR: A Guide for the Perplexed, chooses to represent FRBR with an equally accurate but different choice of ER diagramming techniques. These diagrams may make FRBR clearer, as the figure below shows. Source: Robert L. Maxwell, FRBR: A Guide for the Perplexed (Chicago: American Library Association, 2007), p. 9. This style of diagram makes it easier to see the relationships, and it also makes it easier to visualize a variety of cases. One aspect of FRBR as it is described and diagrammed is that it gives the impression of being a linear, hierarchical model from Work to Item. This is not the viewpoint of library cataloging, which has necessarily at its center a Manifestation. Without disturbing the meaning of FRBR, we can visualize it with the manifestation as the focus (see figure below). Caption: FRBR from a cataloger point of view. The user view of library data differs from that of the cataloger. Users seeking information on a topic could visualize the library’s holdings as shown in the figure below. Caption: Possible view of FRBR entities from a user point of view. ... Tue, 12 Jan 2010 15:26:32 +0100 808360 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=14218 Coordinator of Library and Information Services (Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania) Position Description: The Coordinator of Library and Information Services is responsible for visioning, leading, developing, implementing, and evaluating efficient and effective operations and management of the Library, Archives, Digital Library and related projects. The incumbent will lead strategic planning, outreach, facilities planning, and other initiatives designed to promote public and internal access to the information resources maintained by the Library, Archives, and Digital Library of Longwood Gardens. ... Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:45:01 +0100 807522 http://blogs.ala.org/nrmig.php?title=ala_midwinter_2010_best_bets_for_metadat_1&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 Below is a list of metadata and digital library-friendly sessions for ALA Midwinter 2010. Planning to attend a session or already reporting on a session? Think about blogging it here! If you would like to blog any of the sessions, please contact Kristin Martin at kmarti@uic.edu with your name, e-mail address, and preferred session. Fuller descriptions, when available, are linked to. See a section not on here that you think would be of interest? Suggest it! I've tried to be inclusive as possible with the sessions as metadata is a cross-disciplinary topic within library and information science. Sessions of interest include metadata, digital projects, digital technology, and cataloging, and are from all different groups within and even outside of ALA. Are you blogging a session on another venue? Let me know and I'll add that information and a link. After ALA, I will try to link to as many sessions as I can that have write-ups. ... Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:47:11 +0100 805668 http://blogs.ala.org/nrmig.php?title=blog_roll_of_metadata_related_blogs&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 These are various blogs that may be of interest to metadata and digital technologies librarians. Content created in the blogs may not be endorsed or created by ALA or ALCTS. Have suggestions or additions? Contact Kristin Martin at kmarti at uic.edu. ALCTS Electronic Resources Interest Group Catalogablog at http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/ Cataloging Futures Coyle's Information at http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/ E-Foundations The FRBR Blog Inkdroid LITABlog Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog Metadata Matters Metalogue Outgoing (Thom Hickey's Blog The Registry blog Terry's Worklog (MarcEdit) Thing-ology (Library Thing) Weibel Lines (Source: ALA Weblog Service) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:26:58 +0100 805669 http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2010/01/topic-maps-and-catalog.html Topic Maps and Catalogues of Museums, Libraries and Archives by Liliana Melgar.This case study is about the usage of Topic Maps for catalogues of Museums, Libraries and Archives. The first part describes two projects using Topic Maps by implementing data with the FRBR-model. The second part of the study concentrates on another two projects that uses the Topic Map paradigm to integrate several catalogues. (Source: Catalogablog) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 805529 http://dltj.org/article/questionable-twitter-posts/ Okay, I know this is starting to seem like an obsession, but I can’t figure out why someone(s) would be constructing tweets that consist of my blog post headlines and links back to my postings. I’m wondering how wide spread this problem is, so I constructed a list of URLs to blog posts based on the Planet Code4Lib Atom feed and pointed them to the Ubervu service. Ubervu has a view into the Twitter firehose, and constructs reports of Twitter mentions of URLs. For instance, I can see all of the odd headline tweets for my previous postings through this service. I can then easily scan through the list for other people that seem to be affected by this strange phenomenon.Here are the results. In all cases except for one, the ‘twitterfeed’ service was used as the bridge between some feed of blog postings into individual tweets.Ubervu service view of scienceblogs.com/bookoftrogool/2009/12/making_author_authority_easier.phpUbervu service view of elibtronic.ca/content/20091229/anatomy-pown-pownd-part-2Ubervu service view of dltj.org/article/twitter-spam/ [Me -- 7 questionable tweets, described in previous post]Ubervu service view of people.oregonstate.edu/~reeset/blog/archives/805Ubervu service view of peterbrantley.com/reality-dreams-for-libraries-213Ubervu service view of commonplace.net/2009/12/old-library-new-library/Ubervu service view of orweblog.oclc.org/archives/002040.htmlUbervu service view of catalogablog.blogspot.com/2009/12/marbi-meeting-minutes.htmlUbervu service view of people.oregonstate.edu/~reeset/blog/archives/804Ubervu service view of www.lisnews.org/librarian_h_o_p_e_hackers_planet_earth_conferenceUbervu service view of orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001392.htmlUbervu service view of scienceblogs.com/bookoftrogool/2009/12/top-down_or_bottom-up.phpUbervu service view of dltj.org/article/alamw10-schedule/ [Me again -- 5 questionable tweets, described in previous post]Ubervu service view of infomotions. ... Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:44:29 +0100 805338 http://www.frbr.org/2009/12/20/last-week-in-frbr-11 A couple of days late this week. My Internet access is apparently broken in three different ways, and the phone company can’t even explain how it could have been working last week. Zhang and Salaba, Implementing FRBR in Libraries: Key Issues and Future Directions There’s a new FRBR book! Implementing FRBR in Libraries: Key Issues and Future Directions by Yin Zhang and Athena Salaba, published by Neal Schumann. Here’s the publisher’s description: This book is ideal for anyone who aims to obtain an overview of the current status of Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) development. It helps identify the key FRBR issues that need to be addressed and investigates the future directions of FRBR development. Implementing FRBR in Libraries: Key Issues and Future Directions is the first book to address the theory and implementation of FRBR in a unified discussion. Authors Yin Zhang and Athena Salaba, winners of the 2009 ALISE/Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Competition Award, give readers a clear framework for understanding FRBR’s current and potential implications on library catalogs. They provide a thorough introduction to the history of FRBR and its possible benefits, a detailed description of the FRBR model and its components, and a discussion of its practical influence in transforming description standards, cataloging and metadata practices. The book includes examples of how professionals are successfully applying FRBR in real-life library settings, and explores various methods for effectively implementing the FRBR model. Each chapter includes illustrations to help reinforce fundamental concepts. The book contains a comprehensive appendix of key terms and acronyms to aid readers new to the field and a list of projects and software to showcase practical FRBR applications. ... Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100 802302 http://www.frbr.org/2009/12/14/frbr-aggregation-searching-and-browsing-a-case-study Sent by José Borbinha <jb@ist.utl.pt> to the FRBR mailing list today.) This is an invitation to take part in an evaluation of an experiment in the TELplus project (http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/telplus) Please evaluate the system described below and fill the questionnaire, according to the instructions. The questionnaire is anonymous, and we estimate it can be answered in less than 5 minutes. However, it has to be preceded by a “test drive” with the system, which can take as long as you want… We appreciate the answers to the questionnaire until the end of the day of December 16 (Wednesday), please! For any further clarification, please feel free to email to nuno.freire@bnportugal.pt [or] nuno.freire@bnportugal.pt. Brief introduction The aim of this task is to explore possible improvements for search in The European Library (http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org), under the assumption that a presentation of the results, following the general ideas of the FRBR model, could help. Considering that The European Library amounts to about 150 million records in 32 different languages, this might have the potential to narrow down the search results by clustering similar records (including of multiple languages). In order to evaluate that, we developed a case with a sample collection of the works of the Literature Nobel Prize winners. For that, we used records extracted from 11 libraries, thus with a high number of works with many translations in multiple languages. We are now inviting you to evaluate this system and answer to the questionnaire available at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/TELplus_FRBR_Prototype Description of the system The system to experiment is available here: http://digmap2.ist.utl.pt:8080/lgteFrbr/indexFrbrClustering. ... Mon, 14 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100 800602 http://www.frbr.org/2009/12/11/last-week-in-frbr-10 Update on Ronald Murray and Paper Tools Murray followed up on last week’s post by pointing out his 2008 paper The FRBR-Theoretic Library: The Role of Conceptual Data Modeling in Cultural Heritage Information System Design (197 KB PDF), “the paper that presents the conceptual data model that jump started the paper tool.” ABSTRACT: The use of digital technologies in support of Cultural Heritage missions has highlighted the need to create information modeling systems different from those that are used in conventional business and government. In addition, the practice of data modeling – and especially of the conceptual data modeling that engages cataloging theory and practice – must be urgently be brought up to date in order to develop the data models required to represent the desirable characteristics of both print and digital media. Regarding the 472 slides in Reimagining the Bibliographic Universe: FRBR, Physics and the World Wide Web, he said readers should use the bookmarks inside the PDF to jump right to the sections that interest them most, and that “the slides with the blue band are attended to provide supplementary information and were not shown during presentation.” Ockerbloom, Some Concepts and Their Catalogs In Some Concepts and Their Catalogs John Mark Ockerbloom uses FRBR in his discussion of “concept-oriented catalogs” that “go beyond the bibliographic record.” IFLA Cataloguing Section Strategic Plan 2009-2011 From the 2009-2011 strategic plan of the Cataloguing Section of IFLA: Continue development and use of IFLA’s FRBR family of conceptual models.  Pillar: Profession; Professional priorities: (f) Promoting resource sharing; (h) Developing library professionals; (i) Promoting standards, guidelines and best practices) 2.1. ... Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100 800603 http://www.frbr.org/2009/12/04/last-week-in-frbr-9 RDA Delayed The release of Resource Description and Access (the new FRBR-based cataloguing rules) has been delayed until June 2010. Mary Ghikas sent a message: RDA: Resource Description and Access will be published in June 2010. While we regret this delay in release of RDA, the transition from publication of AACR2 as a printed manual to release of RDA as a web based toolkit is a complex process with many interdependencies. The updated text of RDA incorporates recommendations from constituencies and other stakeholders approved at the JSC meeting earlier this year. The revised text has been successfully loaded into the RDA database. The product is currently undergoing thorough quality review and testing in preparation for release. We recognize that customers and prospective users of RDA need reliable and timely information for planning and budgeting. We are confident that this revised deadline is a realistic target for publication of RDA. November 2009 had been the planned release date. It doesn’t surprise me that something so huge as RDA would go late, especially since they’re turning it into a customizable online system. Ronald Murray and Paper Tools I mentioned last week that Ronald Murray was giving a talk on 30 November at the Library of Congress, where he works. Now he’s made available a PDF with his slides: Reimagining the Bibliographic Universe: FRBR, Physics and the World Wide Web (24.4 MB ZIP with 472-slide PDF inside). A screencast of the talk will be up on the LC web site soon, so watch out for the link. Open Library In An Update on Open Library, someone (George Oates?) posts about a number of big things going on at the Open Library, including this: Works Open Library (and a lot of other library systems out there) deal with books at the edition level. ... Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100 798849 http://wislisjobs.com/academic.htm#lawrenceu Director of Technical Services, Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin Lawrence University Seeley G. Mudd Library Position Description Title: Director of Technical Services Reports to: University Librarian Department: Library, Technical Services Department Appointment: Assistant Professor, full-time, 12 months Last revised: 20091014 Purpose of Position: The Director of Technical Services plans, organizes, manages and guides all processes essential to accomplishing departmental objectives -- which include acquiring needed resources in a timely and economical manner and effectively organizing and presenting library collections. Manages overall operations of the Technical Services Department, which include acquisitions, cataloging, periodicals, and government documents. Supervises four support staff and several student workers. Researches and identifies promising new approaches to the acquisition, management, organization and delivery of traditional and digital collections. Participates in campus discussion and planning regarding development of digital collections and digital archiving needs and solutions. Through on-campus consulting, contributes expertise to faculty, staff and student projects involving the acquisition, organization and retrieval of information. Actively contributes to library-wide planning, policy-making, goal setting and development of new services and initiatives. Participates in departmental, library, and University committees/meetings. Responsibilities: Cataloging, Acquisitions, and Licensing Manages all activities in acquisitions, cataloging, periodicals, and federal and state documents, and, as the only professional librarian in Technical Services, performs all original cataloging of monographs, videos, and text CDs, including Lawrence-produced honors projects, theatre and opera performances, and speeches. Assigns Library of Congress Classification numbers as needed. ... Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:20:01 +0100 796991 http://www.frbr.org/2009/12/03/morbus-iff-mental-model Morbus Iff took an interest in FRBR a few years ago and began some work on it, making a start on a Drupal (a web site content management system) module that would use it: LibDB. As the datestamps show, he abandoned it, as often happens. But he says, “I never stopped thinking about it.” In Drupal 7 and FRBR: A Mental Model, he puts down what he’s been thinking about regarding getting FRBR into the newest version of Drupal. (Which from what little I know is going to be really good.) It’s Drupal-heavy, so if you don’t use Drupal you might get confused. Drupal 7 is “nearing” release and I’m once again thinking about FRBR. 7 now has the ability to add custom fields to its content types, functionality that previously required the contributed module CCK. While CCK, as a framework, had tons of additional third-party modules that mocked up different types of fields, Drupal 7 doesn’t, solely because it isn’t in the wild yet. I don’t consider this bad news, really, because I’ve always been of the opinion that most of the contributed modules available to Drupal are crap. They scratch itches, certainly, but very few of them are what I’d consider quality productions. So, for me, thinking about Drupal 7 and FRBR is thus constrained to “core” and “my own custom code”. Primarily, I’m interested to see just how much of FRBR could be modeled without custom code at all, so I’ve made some odd decisions to accentuate this. One could even accuse me of “just” making a boring old cataloguing system: regardless, I’m doing it with FRBR’s model fully in mind. (Source: The FRBR Blog) Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100 797020 http://www.frbr.org/2009/11/27/last-week-in-frbr-8 This is the last two weeks in FRBR, actually. Lots of stuff to point out to you. (I just realized I don’t get notified when there are comments waiting for approval, so a few have been sitting in the queue. Sorry about that. I’ll change it.) Alison Carlyle says 2010 is the Year of Cataloguing (or something like that) and FRBR is involved. Of course! Next Monday Ron Murray is giving a talk called Re-Imagining the Bibliographic Universe — FRBR, Physics and the World Wide Web. The abstract: In response to dramatic increases in the quantity and types of culturally significant resources in libraries, cataloging theories like FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) have become more complex when compared to traditional cataloging theories. The need to re-conceptualize and justify bibliographic resource description theories is now critical, due to the emergence of the World Wide Web – whose structure and content is more varied and more dynamic than that of libraries. To support the argument that the “commonsense imagery” of analog materials limits our thinking about cataloging and about resource description in general, the speaker will review how for atomic physicists, the “commonsense imagery” of physical processes had to be abandoned in the early 20th Century because the mathematics that explained the measurements of physical processes could no longer be related to any perceivable object or event. The diagrams that have fueled physicist’s imagination since 1945 correspond to nothing in the physical world – but were instead generated by the theories created by the physicists. The speaker suggests that the complexity of analog and digital Cultural Heritage resources warrants a similar approach to their description. This approach – “Paper Tool” creation and use – applies equally well to bibliographic descriptions of library content as well as to the emerging Semantic Web. ... Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0100 795452 http://dltj.org/article/frbr-paper-tool-presentation/ Add this event to your desktop calendar program.Next Monday (November 30, 2009) a colleague at the Library of Congress will be giving a presentation on modeling bibliographic information based on a “Paper Tool” technique adopted from physics. The title of the talk is “Re-Imagining the Bibliographic Universe: FRBR, Physics and the World Wide Web and will be presented by Ron Murray (no relation), Digital Conversion Specialist in the Preservation Reformatting Division of LC. The presentation is open to the public, and will be from 10am to noon in the Mumford Room (6th floor of the LC Madison Building). The abstract of the talk is:In response to dramatic increases in the quantity and types of culturally significant resources in libraries, cataloging theories like FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) have become more complex when compared to traditional cataloging theories. The need to re-conceptualize and justify bibliographic resource description theories is now critical, due to the emergence of the World Wide Web – whose structure and content is more varied and more dynamic than that of libraries. To support the argument that the “commonsense imagery” of analog materials limits our thinking about cataloging and about resource description in general, the speaker will review how for atomic physicists, the “commonsense imagery” of physical processes had to be abandoned in the early 20th Century because the mathematics that explained the measurements of physical processes could no longer be related to any perceivable object or event. The diagrams that have fueled physicist’s imagination since 1945 correspond to nothing in the physical world – but were instead generated by the theories created by the physicists. ... Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:31:01 +0100 802507 http://www.frbr.org/2009/11/13/styles-bringing-frbr-down-to-earth Lots of people have been linking to Rob Styles’s Bringing FRBR Down to Earth. Wuthering Heights is a work by Emily Bronte, realized in a written expression of the same name. The written expression is embodied in several different manifestations each of which is exemplified by many items, one of which I hold in my hand. … The difficulty I, and I suspect many others, have is that I don’t ever use any of those words. They’re too abstract to be useful. FRBR generalises its model and in that generalisation loses a great deal. Let’s talk about it using more natural language. Wuthering Heights is a story by Emily Bronte. It was originally published as a novel in 1847 and has subsequently been made into a movie (several times) and re-published in many languages beyond its original English. It has been republished in many editions and as a part of many collections. It features several fictitious people including Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff. The author, Emily Bronte, had sisters who authored several other novels, though she authored only this one. Emily Bronte is also the subject of several biographies. I have the paperback in my hand right now. I don’t have any of those problems and think FRBR as it is, with extra labels for things, handles the situation quite clearly. Rob’s more human-readable version could easily be modelled by FRBR and using those words without the WEMI structure would confuse things. But then, I edit this blog, and I’m definitely not one of the many others who don’t ever use those words, so who knows? (Source: The FRBR Blog) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0100 791769 http://www.frbr.org/2009/11/11/rick-block-the-battle-of-rda-victors-or-victims Rick Block of Columbia University gave a talk on 4 November: The Battle of RDA: Victors or Victims. (It’s quite similar to an April talk I linked to: RDA: Boondoggle or Boon? And What About MARC?) Even with just the slides I think it’ll give you a good idea of what’s going on with Resource Description and Access and the debate over it, which I must admit I haven’t been following much. (Question: Why is there a link to upgrademaster.com at the bottom of the RDA home page? Did they get hacked? Strange.) (Source: The FRBR Blog) Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0100 790990 http://www.frbr.org/2009/11/10/last-month-in-frbr-3 Hi. I was on vacation there for a little while. Now I’m catching up on what happened while I was offline. That huge long NGC4LIB thread I mentioned on 20 October is still going! Have a look at the (Source: The FRBR Blog) Tue, 10 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0100 790991 http://caslisottawainformation.blogspot.com/2009/11/lancrabrcn-and-oalt-abo-event-oh-brave.html LANCR/ABRCN and OALT / ABO are pleased to present:Oh, brave new RDA world! What the new cataloguing standard will mean for all library workersResource Description and Access (RDA), the new cataloguing standard and successor to AACR2, is due for release in late 2009, signalling a new direction for cataloguing rules and catalogue records. This information session will: Talk about the background and development of RDAGive a brief introduction to FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) and FRAD (Functional Requirements for Authority Data), the conceptual models that underpin RDAOffer an examination of the major differences between RDA and AACR2Discuss planning for implementationFor more details including RSVP information see:Oh Brave New RDA World  Oh le Brave Nouveau Monde de la DRA  (Source: Special Info) Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0100 790369 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/s-Rzx7rl5O4/ Here’s the September update to the weblog.  More details are after the break. Aslib Proceedings 61, no. 5 (2009): Includes “Institutional Repositories in Canadian Post-Secondary Institutions: User Interface Features and Knowledge Organization Systems” and other articles. Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 1. Houston: Digital Scholarship, 2009. Collection Building 28, no. 4 (2009): Includes “The Current Scenario of Open Access Journal Initiatives in India,” “Lending Kindle E-Book Readers: First Results from the Texas A&M University Project,” and other articles. College and Research Libraries News 70, no. 8 (2009): Includes “What’s The Opposite of a Pyrrhic Victory?: Lessons Learned from an Open Access Defeat” and other articles. The Electronic Library 27, no. 5 (2009): Includes “Smart Client Approaches to Digital Archiving of E-Journals” and other articles. International Journal of Digital Curation 4, no. 2 (2009): Includes “Comparison of Strategies and Policies for Building Distributed Digital Preservation Infrastructure: Initial Findings from the MetaArchive Cooperative,” “A Compound Object Authoring and Publishing Tool for Literary Scholars Based on the IFLA-FRBR,” “Data Stewardship: Environmental Data Curation and a Web-of-Repositories,” “DCC DIFFUSE Standards Frameworks: A Standards Path through the Curation Lifecycle,” “One for Many: A Metadata Concept for Mixed Digital Content at a State Archive,” and other articles. The Journal of Academic Librarianship 35, no. 3 (2009): Includes “An Exploratory Usability Evaluation of Colorado State University Libraries’ Digital Collections and the Western Waters Digital Library Web Sites” and other articles. ... Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:43:23 +0100 785661 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/talis/panlibus/~3/fMoHeuySHXo/will-linked-data-mean-an-early-end-for-marc-rda.php For the uninitiated, NGC4LIB is a library focused mailing list which has a reputation for often engaging in massive discussions and disagreements around the minutiae of future cataloguing and library focused metadata practices.  They have recently been involved in one of these great debates stimulated by the comments of Sir Tim Berners-Lee in a recent interview.    As is often is the case on this list, the debate wandered well off topic in to the realms of FRBR and it’s alternatives before being brought back on topic by Jim Weinheimer, who started the conversation in the first place. A statement in Jim’s contribution caught my eye: Implementing linked data, although it would be great, is years and years away from any kind of practical implementation Implementing linked data is already well underway with many groups across the Globe.  For instance there are couple that we at Talis are closely involved with.  Following on from Sir Tim’s interview comments, the British Government are currently running a, soon to be opened, closed beta of data.gov.uk.  Through this site they are not only opening up data in many forms such as CSV, like their American cousins at data.gov, but they are also starting to encode in RDF and publishing it via the Talis Platform which provides a SPARQL (the query language of the Linked Data web) end point.  This approach not only lets anyone download the raw data, but also enables them to query it for whatever they have in mind. If you want a sneak preview of how such data is queried, take a look at some of theses examples.   In a similar vein, metadata from BBC programmes and music is being harvested in to Talis Platform stores.  Again these are open to anyone to innovate with – check out these screencasts  to see some of the early possibilities. ... Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:13:23 +0100 786492 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/15142 Please excuse cross-postings: ALCTS CCS Cataloging Norms Interest Group invites speakers for its meeting at the ALA Midwinter Conference in Boston on Saturday, January 16, 2010, from 1:30 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Presentation topics should be of current interest to catalogers, cataloging managers and administrators. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * evolution, definition, and functions of the catalog and cataloging norms; * emerging concepts and implementations of "next generation catalogs"; * RDA and FRBR; * cataloging in hybrid and digital libraries; * changes in catalogers' workflows; * emerging perceptions of cataloging quality; * how end users' expectations and behaviors affect cataloging norms; * metadata records and elements in different contexts; * the impact of web norms on cataloging norms from the perspectives of web developers and catalogers. Presentations should be approximately 15-20 minutes in length, with additional time allowed for questions and answers. Please send a (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Fri, 23 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0100 784796 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss/~5/0-DKClgtfgs/rli-265-kirchner.pdf Next Weblog update on 11/18/09. Aslib Proceedings 61, no. 5 (2009): Includes "Institutional Repositories in Canadian Post-Secondary Institutions: User Interface Features and Knowledge Organization Systems" and other articles. Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 1. Houston: Digital Scholarship, 2009. Collection Building 28, no. 4 (2009): Includes "The Current Scenario of Open Access Journal Initiatives in India," "Lending Kindle E-Book Readers: First Results from the Texas A&M University Project," and other articles. College and Research Libraries News 70, no. 8 (2009): Includes "What’s The Opposite of a Pyrrhic Victory?: Lessons Learned from an Open Access Defeat" and other articles. The Electronic Library 27, no. 5 (2009): Includes "Smart Client Approaches to Digital Archiving of E-Journals" and other articles. International Journal of Digital Curation 4, no. 2 (2009): Includes "Comparison of Strategies and Policies for Building Distributed Digital Preservation Infrastructure: Initial Findings from the MetaArchive Cooperative," "A Compound Object Authoring and Publishing Tool for Literary Scholars Based on the IFLA-FRBR," "Data Stewardship: Environmental Data Curation and a Web-of-Repositories," "DCC DIFFUSE Standards Frameworks: A Standards Path through the Curation Lifecycle," "One for Many: A Metadata Concept for Mixed Digital Content at a State Archive," and other articles. The Journal of Academic Librarianship 35, no. 3 (2009): Includes "An Exploratory Usability Evaluation of Colorado State University Libraries' Digital Collections and the Western Waters Digital Library Web Sites" and other articles. The Journal of Academic Librarianship 35, no. ... Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:02:06 +0100 785485 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2009/10/cfp-alcts-continuing-resources-section.html CFP: ALCTS Continuing Resources Section College and Research Interest GroupThe ALCTS Continuing Resources Section College and Research Libraries Interest Group (CRS C&RL IG) requests presentation proposals for our Midwinter Meeting in Boston on Sunday, January 17, 2010 from 10:30am-12:00pm.Potential topics include, but are not limited to:- Pay per view pricing for journal articles- Withdrawing print when libraries also have online access- Regrouping after serials cancellations: have / how have your workflows changed?- RDA and FRBR, as they pertain to serials- MARC Format for Holdings Data- KBART and knowledge base management- Next generation OPACs and serial displays- Other topics?Each presentation should be approximately 20 minutes. There will be time for discussion.Please e-mail proposals by to Beth Bernhardt, Beth_Bernhardt@uncg.eduPlease include in your proposal:- Title of presentation- Brief summary of proposed presentation- Name(s) and position(s) of presenter(s)- E-mail address(es) of presenter(s)Many thanks. We hope to see you in Boston!Sincerely,Beth Bernhardt, Co-chair, ALCTS C&RL IGElectronic Resources Librarian, Jackson LibraryUniversity of North Carolina at GreensboroBeth_Bernhardt@uncg.eduRebecca Kemp, Co-chair, ALCTS C&RL IGSerials Coordinator Librarian, Randall LibraryUniversity of North Carolina Wilmingtonkempr@uncw.edu (Source: A Library Writer's Blog) Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0100 784692 http://www.frbr.org/2009/10/21/pocataligo The Difference Between AACR, LOC, DDC, FRBR, CCO, MARC and RDA, a blog post by Suzie Pocatligo at her blog How to Catalog a Hiccup. (”How to Catalogue a Hiccough”?) It does what it says on the tin. (Source: The FRBR Blog) Wed, 21 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0100 784522 http://www.frbr.org/2009/10/20/ngc4lib-thread James Weinheimer’s post Tim Berners-Lee on the Semantic Web kicked off a very interesting discussion on the ngc4lib mailing list about the FRBR user tasks, the Semantic Web, the RDA vocabulary that will let people use RDA on the Semantic Web, and more. Check out the archives to read it and don’t miss where Shawne Miksa starts a new thread on User Tasks–Outdated? Why? Jonathan Rochkind, Karen Coyle, Diane Hillmann, Eric Lease Morgan are all there, so you know it’s going to be informed, opinionated, lively, intelligent, and just the kind of thing where you wish everyone was sitting together over a drink. If you’re not on ngc4lib, consider joining. (Source: The FRBR Blog) Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0100 784523 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/talis/panlibus/~3/QXJBLaIByvk/pode-the-crafty-catalogue.php Librarians are better at enhancing the end-user experience in physical libraries than in virtual services. This was the intriguing opening to an engaging presentation by Anne Karine Sandberg at Internet Librarian International, and the second half of the next generation OPAC session, the first half of which has been previously blogged. Anne and her colleagues at Oslo Public Libraries wanted to explore the potential reuse of cataloguing data and to create library mashup applications to make use of open content, with the ultimate objective of…  you guessed it, enhancing the end-user experience. They agreed that the mashups created should not favour one system, but should make use of SRU, MARC and Z39.50. And because Koha is the best known Open Source integrated library management system in Norway right now, they installed Koha, imported their cataloguing data, and used it as a basis for their work. Anne demonstrated one of their mashups – Trip Planner. By mashing up data from the catalogue, GeoNames, Google Maps, Encyclopaedia Norvegua, Open Library and weather forecast data, they’ve created a nice application whereby users can search for a location (London was used as the example) and get a broad sweep of information from diverse sources – population; currency; language courses; travelogues; fiction; cultural history; today’s weather; Google Map. In their next phase of work, Oslo Public Libraries will be focusing on converting the cataloguing data from MARC to FRBR. This isn’t just about creating further mashups, although it introduces the possibility of mashups in the realm of fiction, which would certainly work in a public library context. It’s also about seeing what difference that makes to the catalogue display, and to the search experience. It would be interesting to find out more about how Oslo’s users are benefiting from the work, especially as this was the starting point of this initiative. (Source: panlibus) Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:16:58 +0100 784431 http://www.frbr.org/2009/10/19/happy-fun-time Resource Description and Access Happy Fun Time Companion. Yeah. I know. (Source: The FRBR Blog) Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0100 784524 http://www.frbr.org/2009/10/12/niso Bibliographic Control Alphabet Soup: AACR to RDA and Evolution of MARC is a 90-minute “webinar” (I hate that word) on Wednesday 14 October 2009. Starts at 1:30 pm Eastern (18:30 UTC). I thought it was free but it costs about $100, so there you go. If you can’t make it Wednesday you can still pay to watch it later. Barbara Tillett is talking about AACR2, RDA, VIAF, and linked data; William Moen is talking about his research into MARC usage; and Diane Hillmann is talking about RDA elements and vocabularies and gets a bit FRBRy: As the lynchpin of hugely successful efforts by libraries to provide information on their holdings to both local and remote users, MARC has had an illustrious presence. However, the format is beginning to fail libraries as many of our partners and potential partners in a greatly enriched information ecosystem do not “speak” MARC but handle their data in very different ways. RDA elements and vocabularies represent the distillation of library descriptive knowledge, optimized for use within an environment that speaks XML, RDF, and linked data, and which seek to express that knowledge in an FRBR-aware manner. This webinar will provide a brief overview of RDA elements and vocabularies. (Via Christine Schwartz’s Cataloging Futures.) (Source: The FRBR Blog) Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0100 782463 http://www.bibliotecarios.cl/noticias/charla%e2%80%93taller-sobre-rda-y-frbr-en-la-udec-chillan-16-de-octubre La Universidad de Concepción Campus Chillán, invita a todas las bibliotecólogas (os) y en especial a las unidades de catalogación, de la zona del Bio-Bio, a la Charla–Taller “Encuentro de aproximación a las normas de Catalogación Resource Description and Access (RDA) con la inclusión del estudio sobre FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records – IFLA)”, dictada por la colega Sra. Patricia Lillo Montecinos, Jefa del Departamento de Análisis de Información y Estándares Bibliográficos de la Biblioteca Nacional de Chile. Lugar: Auditórium de Agronomía. Universidad de Concepción Campus Chillán. Fecha: Viernes 16 de Octubre 2009. Horario: 10:30 a 12:30 y 14:30 a 16:30 hrs. Expositora: Sra. Patricia Lillo M. Los colegas que deseen participar y necesiten invitación dirigida, como apoyo para autorización, hagan llegar su solicitud al correo ycatalan@udec.cl. Por favor efectuar su inscripción con anticipación a los siguientes correos: cpenaranda@udec.cl y bibliochillan@udec.cl. Esperando contar con la asistencia de todos los colegas de la zona del Bio-Bio, Saludos cordiales, Yasna Catalán Chávez Bibliotecóloga Licenciada en Tecnología de la Información Jefe de Biblioteca Universidad de Concepción-Campus Chillán Av. Vicente Méndez # 595 Chillán. Chile Fono.56-42-208729 Fax. 56-42-275297 http://www.bibliodigital.udec.cl (Source: infoesfera.com) Fri, 09 Oct 2009 19:32:32 +0100 781177 http://www.frbr.org/2009/10/09/open-library-furburrization Hi. I’m a month behind with this one. You know how it goes sometimes. On Friday 4 September on the ol-discuss mailing list Lee Passey posted FurBurrization: There are two things that continue to make OpenLibrary less than useful for me: 1. lack of links to source materials outside of Internet Archive (e.g. Google) and 2. the tremendous amount of unreconciled duplicate date in the OL archive. Given the home-grown database management system used by OpenLibrary, it seems to me that the best way to solve problem #2 will probably be to FRBRize the existing data. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen any update on this effort; how’s it going? There was a short thread following with some back and forth. Karen Coyle replied: Lee, FRBR-ization is in test at the moment. The hardest part is figuring out a good user experience when only a few items have multiple editions. But that is in progress. Yes, there are duplicates. Those will be removed by re-running the duplicate detection on the database, and that will be more efficient once the WorKs are gathered together because that pinpoints a lot of the duplicates. The algorithm will only take us so far, however, so there are plans to provide support for merging of items and authors by users. It all has to be coordinated with re-directing from previously used IDs so that no linking is broken. I’m not sure about your #1 — there are links to Google on the Edition pages when a Google item is detected, and the link states whether it is a snippet, full view or now view. http://openlibrary.org/b/OL2873790M/Raintree-County [with ISBN] http://openlibrary. ... Fri, 09 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0100 781113 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/freerangelibrarian/~3/JFQWuivUByU/ In Iowa I’m giving a talk which feels almost too up-close and personal to me: “perspectives on present and future library trends.” Care to chime in? I’m feeling a little blurry, between packing and trying to finish my slides before I hit the road. I thought rather than simply labeling something a trend, I’d talk about what’s waxing and what’s waning. There’s a nifty angle to this where I provide “their potential impact on libraries and library services.” I’m trying to stay big picture… so that when I talk about “potential impact,” I can discuss broader themes. Here’s what I have so far: Waxing: Centralized mass storage (paper and digital) Ubiquitous computing Cloud-based applications User experience (focus on, thereof) Large-scale cloud catalogs Open software/standards/access Social engagement Service integration (such as discovery layers that tie together different formats; FRBR; federated search) Waning: Paper production (literally) The locally-installed standalone catalog Waxing and waning: Print circulation (depending on the type library) …. I think I know where I’m headed with my suggestions… the “experience library,” flexible and user-focused, with loads of examples of what this library looks like/feels like, what we need to be/do to provide these services. Still mulling over the big issues. I have 90 minutes. Bookmark to: (Source: Free Range Librarian) Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:48:35 +0100 779920 http://www.frbr.org/2009/10/06/olac-help-wanted Passing this on from Kelley McGrath (co-author of Identifying FRBR Work-Level Data in MARC Bibliographic Records for Manifestations of Moving Images in Code4Lib 5). Get in touch with her if you’re interested in this project. OLAC (Online Audiovisual Catalogers) has been investigating ideas for improving access to moving image works for some time (see http://www.olacinc.org/drupal/?q=node/27). I am hoping to apply for a grant for a demonstration project. I have put together an overview of what I hope can be done at http://ilocker.bsu.edu/users/kmcgrath/world_shared. The basic goals I see for this experiment at this point are: 1. Import and convert current MARC manifestation-level bibliographic records into FRBR-based records, including both work/primary expression records (similar to an IMDb record) and records with expression- and manifestation-level limiters linked to items in libraries or archives to help users find the particular item(s) that meet their needs. 2. Create an end-user interface for searching, browsing, and obtaining moving image materials that leverages facets based on structured data to improve browsing and navigation. 3. Develop a back-end maintenance module that supports adding new records, editing and merging existing records, and deleting records in single record and batch mode. I am looking for people who would be interested in brainstorming and fleshing out the details of a grant proposal and possibly being involved in an eventual grant. If you would like to participate in this discussion, please send me an email at kmcgrath@bsu.edu by Monday, October 12, stating why you’re interested in this project and what you think you could contribute. We need all sorts of perspectives, including cataloging/metadata, database design, web design, user needs assessment, user interface construction, budgeting, etc., etc. Or even if you’re just interested in taking part in the discussion. Thank you. ... Tue, 06 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0100 780662 http://laurenpressley.com/library/?p=959 Mobile Access to E-Books at Yale Lisa Carlucci Thomas from Yale University Ebooks increased more than 110% in four years (until 2009) Asked what percentage of ebook collections can be accessed using mobile devices? (Kindle 2.0, Sony Reader PRS-500, iRex Iliad 2nd edition, iPod Touch) Tested: could you access ebook using the device? Could you use additional method to access Yale licensed ebook (for example, bookmark, email, etc)? What was the format type? Rate of ability to access using the following scale? iTouch could access 84% of  Yale licensed ebook and do something useful with it. The other 3 could access 24 percent, but needed additional work arounds. Beginning of examination, must build local knowledge, expand research, improve services. Little Budget, Big Sandbox Sean Fitzpatrick, Editor with American Libraries Soft launch of American Libraries Magazine, looking for beta testers Not on ALA official site Spends $10 a month for the space, used free software, develop now & ask forgiveness later, googling for answers works, has a supportive boss IT nervous about support contracts, etc, but self supported the project with Drupal forums Open & Mobile Equipment Tim Rowley from Utah Valley University Library inherited old administrative building Moved into a new building to be called the Digital Learning Center Have a catalog of equipment they check out to students. 3 netbooks: students can check them out and take them to class to take notes. buy 8 or 9 of them for the price of a toughbook. Check out plastic bag with barcode. Barcode has list of all items in the bag (item, cables, instructions, etc). Demoed a tiny projector. I want one! Showed images from their library illustrating technology areas of the library. ... Sat, 03 Oct 2009 18:02:53 +0100 779198 http://walt.lishost.org/2009/10/commonalities-and-generalizations/ This is a two-part post: A question today, the answer in a day or two (or three…) The question: What do each of these lists have in common, other than all being liblogs, and what could you reasonably generalize from each of them taken in isolation? Catalogablog, Commentary from Carl Grant, The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics, Information Literacy Weblog, OA Librarian, Open Access News, CogSci Librarian, Coyle’s InFormation, Digitization 101, Filipino Librarian, The Handheld Librarian, The Information Literacy Land of Confusion, It’s all good, Killin’ time being lazy, The Laughing Librarian, A LIBRARIAN AT THE KITCHEN TABLE, Librarian on the edge, Library Marketing-Thinking Outside the Book, Library Stories: Libraries & Librarians in the News, LibraryThing, Museum 2.0, OPL Plus (not just for OPLs anymore), Out of the Jungle, Peter Scott’s Library Blog, Rambling Librarian :: Incidental Thoughts of a Singapore Liblogarian, ricklibrarian, School Librarian in Action, Stephen Gallant Review, UK Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Blog, User Education Resources for Librarians, AbsTracked, Baby Boomer Librarian, BookBitchBlog, Borderland Tales, Carolyne’s pages of interest, The Centered Librarian, A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy, Connie Crosby, The Cool Librarian, DigiCMB, Eagle Dawg Blog, Friends: Social Networking Sites for Engaged Library Services, frontier librarian, Game On: Games in Libraries, Gather No Dust, The Gypsy Librarian, Heretical Librarian, The In Season Christian Librarian, info NeoGnostic, Information Junk Stephen’s Lighthouse, 025.431: The Dewey blog, ©ollectanea, Academic Librarian, beSpacific, Confessions of a Science Librarian, The Days & Nights of the Lipstick Librarian!, eFoundations, explodedlibrary.info, The Good Library Blog, Government Info Pro, Hectic Pace, Law Librarian Blog, Library 2. ... Fri, 02 Oct 2009 19:17:38 +0100 779283 http://www.frbr.org/2009/10/02/adventure “Twisty Little Passages Not So Much Alike: Applying the FRBR Model to a Classic Computer Game” was presented by Matthew Kirschenbaum, Doug Reside, Neil Fraistat, Jerome McDonough, and Dennis Jerz at Digital Humanities 2009 in June. (The classic computer game is Adventure.) The conference program is only available as humungus 52 MB PDF and isn’t on the readable web, so to read the full abstract of the paper you’ll have to download it and look on page A22. I can’t even easily copy and paste a sample paragraph, I’m afraid, so you’re on your own. (Thanks to Kevin Hawkins for telling me about this.) (Source: The FRBR Blog) Fri, 02 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0100 778965 http://www.frbr.org/2009/09/30/johannesen Alexander Johannesen, who’s often on about topic maps, the other day “ranted on the NGC4LIB (Next-generation catalog 4 libraries) mailing-list about, uh, something or other.” He turned it into a blog post called Library Pontifications, and he mentions FRBR: FRBR defines work, expression, manifestation, item, and these are semi-philosophical definitions that we’re supposed to attach semantics and knowledge to. There’s primarily two ways to do that; define entities of knowledge, or create relationships between entities. (Note these two basic ways of doing knowledge management; entities and relationships, as they spring up in all areas of knowledge representation) Now, can you without looking stuff up tell me the difference between a work and an expression? Or between manifestation and an item? Sure, we can discuss if this or that thing is an item or something else, back and forth, but is that a good foundation upon to lay all future library philosophy? Because that’s just what it is; a philosophical model we use to make sense of the real world. FRBR is confusing, even if it is a great leap forward in epistemological thinking, for example when it comes down to identity management (persistent identifiers for one thing can be expressed through a multitude, like a proxy, which FRBR fails at miserably, for example) it is right there in the centre of it, but a lot of it focuses on the wrong part of it, the part that involves human cognition to make decisions about identity. Anyway, I guess at this point all I’m trying to say is that there are glimpses of what I’m talking about in the library world, and I was attracted to it, I wanted to dedicate parts of my life to fixing a lot what was broken in the real-world. I came to the library because they are the shining beacon of light in our society. (Source: The FRBR Blog) Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:00:00 +0100 778386 http://www.kevenlw.name/archives/1913?utm_source=subscriber&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss 出处：Best Links for RDA 来自MARS Authority Control by Chad http://www.rda-jsc.org/rda-redirect.html RDA官网，当然是最重要的（以前是这里：http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/jsc/rda.html），包含RDA的草案文本、背景信息等，其中“范围与原则(Scope and Principles)”尤其重要，还有权威的“映射(mapping)”。FAQ也非常有用。 http://www.rdaonline.org/ 将发布RDA的演示，敬请关注。 http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/ IFLA的FRBR官网（千万别忘了FRBR是IFLA正宗的孩子）。 http://www.ifla.org.sg/VII/d4/FRANAR-ConceptualModel-2ndReview.pdf IFLA的FRAD草案（另一个孩子）. http://www.bn.gov.ar/archivos/anexos_proyectos_especiales/encuentro/ponencias/ponencia_Patton_ingles.pdf 作于2007年的文章，提供了有关FRAD很好的背景介绍。 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/rdawebcasts.html 包含美国国会图书馆RDA权威 Barbara Tillett的两个重要演讲（视频，每个一个多小时，可下载）。 http://courses.unt.edu/smiksa/documents/4_Hello%20RDA,%20Goodbye%20AACR2!_15April2008.pdf 非常好的演示，通俗易懂。 http://nla.gov.au/lis/stndrds/grps/acoc/documents/Walls2008.ppt 澳大利亚图书馆关于FRBR和RDA的所作所为，末尾还奉送很多有用的链接。 http://www.nelib.org/netsl/conference/2009/RickBlock.pdf 对于RDA和MARC全面透彻的讲解，虽然“盗”自很多他人的演示，但是组织得很好，值得参考。 http://www.loc.gov/marc/development.html 关于MARC21格式的建议和讨论( MARC Proposals 和 MARC Discussion Papers)，存档在这里。其中2009年的内容大多是关于RDA的。 http://www.libraries.psu.edu/tas/jca/ccda/marbi0806.html ALA仲冬会议上相关问题的讨论和结论。 http://www.libraries.psu.edu/tas/jca/ccda/marbi0901.html 这里是2009年仲冬ALA MARBI会议上的讨论。 http://wikis.ala.org/midwinter2009/index. ... Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:36:54 +0100 776391 http://ddc.typepad.com/025431/2009/09/forty-five-librarians-from-seventeen-countries-attended-the-dewey-translators-meeting-at-the-world-library-and-information-co-1.html Forty-five librarians from seventeen countries attended the Dewey Translators Meeting at the World Library and Information Congress (75th IFLA General Conference and Council) in Milan on August 25. We started the Dewey Translators Meeting in 2003 at IFLA in Berlin as a forum to discuss issues of interest to DDC translation teams (hence the name), but the focus of the meeting has broadened over the years to embrace topics of interest to a wide range of attendees beyond the core group of translation partners. The first speaker at this year’s meeting, Marie Baliková (Czech National Library), discussed a UDC/DDC crosswalk developed by the Czech National Library for the purpose of collection assessment. The Czech National Library uses the UDC as its primary knowledge organization tool, but makes use of a UDC/DDC crosswalk to enable use of a DDC-based tool for collection assessment. Marie also touched more general issues in knowledge organization—challenges in the creation of crosswalks, identification of weaknesses in classification systems, and problems in the presentation of captions to end users. Julianne Beall discussed the use of Dewey in the World Digital Library (WDL) project with a focus on the draft guidelines for classifying photographs for the project. We developed the guidelines in consultation with Dewey Section classifiers involved in classifying photographs for WDL. Diane Vizine-Goetz presented an update on two OCLC Office of Research initiatives, Classify, a prototype web service designed to support the assignment of classification numbers, and WorldCat work pages, a project to create rich descriptions from catalog data resulting in a page for every work. Sample WorldCat work pages are available at http://frbr.oclc.org/research/pages/000021759.html. Finally, I presented a brief update on the some changes in the representation of the DDC in MARC 21 formats, design plans for WebDewey 2.0, and the launch of DDC linked data. ... Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:00:00 +0100 775898 http://www.frbr.org/2009/09/22/riva-doerr-zume A paper given by Pat Riva, Martin Doerr and Maja Žumer at the 2008 IFLA conference in Quebec City was published this spring: FRBRoo: Enabling a Common View of Information from Memory Institutions (900 KB PDF) (International Cataloguing and Bibliographic Control 38:2, April/June 2009). The PDF is page images so I can’t copy in the abstract, but it’s just five pages and the title explains it. (More on FRBRoo is available online; it’s an object-oriented approach to FRBR.) (Source: The FRBR Blog) Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:00:00 +0100 775721 http://www.frbr.org/2009/09/21/david-hay Gary Price posted about this in June and pointed it out to me but I’m just getting to it now: Describing the World: Data Model Patterns, a 102 minute Library of Congress webcast done in March 2009. (I still haven’t watched it yet due to technical problems.) Description: “When an organization is planning to develop or revise the automation of information processing, a typical first step is to analyze the underlying structure of its business. The ‘entity/relationship’ (or simply ‘data’) model is a good vehicle for doing this. What has been discovered over the years is that there are a number of structures that are universal and applicable to all kinds of organizations, both private and public. There are four fundamental categories: People and Organizations, Geography, Physical Resources and Activities and Events. Overlaying all of these are the topics of Accounting and Information Resources. This webcast will also relate this model to the Library of Congress Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR).” The speaker, David Hay, works at Capgemini Financial Services, not the sort of background one usually finds in people talking about FRBR. (Source: The FRBR Blog) Mon, 21 Sep 2009 04:00:00 +0100 775125 http://www.frbr.org/2009/09/16/renear-and-dubin While browsing the Zotero Code4Lib group I found this paper added by Mark Matienzo: FRBR as an Interdisciplinary High-middle-range Theory for Information Science — A Theoretical Perspective, by Allen Renear and and Dave Dubin. It was given at a conference last year but I hadn’t come across it before. ABSTRACT: We suggest that IFLA’s Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records is an interesting, if unexpected, example of Merton’s “theories of the middle range” and show how theoretical analysis and refinement of such theories can illuminate the deep interdisciplinarity of information science. … At the very heart of the notion of a middle range theory is the view that they guide empirical research by providing hypotheses for exploration, and by explaining empirically observed phenomena. A full account of FRBR as a middle range theory would therefore naturally focus on these hypotheses, the resulting research, and the effectiveness of the theory in explaining empirical observations. However this topic, as important as it is, and as timely as it is, will not be taken up in here. We focus on a different, and somewhat neglected, aspect of middle-range theories: the role of theoretical analysis and refinement in their conceptual evolution. I hadn’t heard of Robert K. Merton either, but now I have some good reading ahead and perhaps you do too. (Source: The FRBR Blog) Wed, 16 Sep 2009 04:00:00 +0100 774326 http://www.frbr.org/2009/09/14/jeni-tennison Naming Properties and Relations is a Semantic Webby post from Jeni Tennison. This post is about how to name properties and relations in RDF schemas. Or rather, about how different ontology developers use different conventions and how this can sometimes be confusing. … We’re making an explicit distinction within the service between the idea of an item or section of legislation (such as the Criminal Justice Act 1993 Section 67), versions of that legislation (such as the Criminal Justice Act 1993 Section 67 as it was in force on 1st December 2001) and that version formatted in XML, HTML or some other format (such as the XML version of the Criminal Justice Act 1993 Section 67 as it was in force on 1st December 2001). These three ways of thinking about legislation correspond to the FRBR Work, Expression and Manifestation. So to talk about them in RDF, we use the FRBR vocabulary created by Ian Davis and Richard Newman, in which these classes are called frbr:Work, frbr:Expression and frbr:Manifestation. Ian Davis left a clarifying comment about his RDF schema, too. (Source: The FRBR Blog) Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:00:00 +0100 773041 http://www.frbr.org/2009/09/09/skim-read A Skim-Read Introduction to Linked Data, a presentation by Yves Raimond and Michael Smethurst of the BBC, is a good introduction to linked data. It’s just the slides, and the talking would help a lot, but you’ll make do. It’s moderately technical, so it’s not the best introduction for beginners, but have a look. FRBR is mentioned on slide 92. (Source: The FRBR Blog) Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:00:00 +0100 771542 http://www.kevenlw.name/archives/1883?utm_source=subscriber&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss 本不看好FRBR的。然而随着国际编目界越来越紧密地团结在JSC周围，高举RDA旗帜，国会图书馆也一片和谐，FRBR通过RDA而得到最终落地（应用），随着年底RDA正式文本和工具的推出，即将成为既成事实了。 顺势而为，方能安身立命。好东西不一定能流行，流行了一定是好东西。近日仔细看了看RDA，虽然依旧带有老祖宗的毛病：复杂了点，但瘌痢头儿子自家好，月刊越看越喜欢。罗列了6大特点（主要是与AACR2相比），大家看看是不是这么回事： 1、适应了全球化浪潮，加强了国际性，消除了英美国家特有的内容，是第一部真正全球大同的编目规则。 2、扩展了适用对象，不只是针对纸质资源，而定位于描述和检索所有资源，从而能够作为复合型图书馆的“大一统”的元数据规范，并适用于互联网环境。 3、首次全面实践了FRBR，突破了传统MARC数据的的扁平结构，为MARC数据进入互联网，以及Web时代的信息资源描述和规范控制提供了概念模型。 4、不再仅仅是一套文本，同时也是一套Web工具；不仅具有方便的、“事件敏感”型查索功能（包含词表登记注册管理等功能），同时支持开发商集成到管理系统中，提供各类商业性的Web服务。 5、独立于编码和数据格式，定位于“内容”规范，从而能支持MARC、DC、MARCXML、MODS、RDF/XML等等众多输出格式。 6、成为连接过去与未来的桥梁。吸收了大量DC元数据的研究成果，使它能够“兼容”互联网，把遗留系统中的书目数据，带入到互联网时代，并为互联网提供一套经典的“书目控制”手段。 Tags: FRBR, RDA, 专业评论 Related posts 规范控制向何处去 (3) FRBR批判 (8) 网络资源如何规范控制 (3) 到达彼岸 (7) 关注“编目工作研讨会” (1) 关于FRSAR的问题 (1) (Source: ... Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:14:36 +0100 770969 http://www.frbr.org/2009/09/03/last-month-in-frbr-2 OK, this catches up on what I know of from August. Let me know if there’s something I missed. Lorcan Dempsey: Worldcat Local usability results and FRBR points to Some Findings from WorldCat Local Usability Tests Prepared for ALA Annual, July 2009 (2.2 MB PDF). Mark Matienzo and Jonathan Rockind discuss things FRBRy in the comments on Mark’s blog post “Must Contextual Description Be Bound To Records Description?” Two posts from Karen Coyle: FRSAD and What is a (FRBR) Work? Robert Ellett, Cataloging Future: FRBR and RDA (940 KB PDF), a talk given at Cataloguing Digital Media: Back to the Future, an ALA preconference in July. (Source: The FRBR Blog) Thu, 03 Sep 2009 04:00:00 +0100 770024 http://www.frbr.org/2009/09/02/frbr-at-ifla Hi. Sorry about the delay there. What with a vacation and launching a new home page and site template where I work things got busy. My stored Bloglines search for mentions of FRBR etc. went wonky and showed me a bunch of ancient stuff, so I probably missed some things, but I’ll catch up on what I did see over August. First, IFLA had their annual conference in Milan. Here’s a mix of links thereform: FRBR Review Group Meetings FRBR Review Group Report of Activities 2008-2009 (40KB PDF). Namespace report from Gordon Dunsire. Definitely read this if you’re interested in FRBR and linked data and the Semantic Web. FRBR Working Group on Aggregates meeting agenda, with some material for the people there, like this table of differences of the two aggregate models I reported on at the meeting last year. FRBR Review Group Wiki. Password-protected. FRBR Information Discovery in Traditional Catalogues: The TelPlus Experience (115KB PDF), a talk by Nuno Freire, Rosa Galvão, and Margarida Lopes. From FRBR to FRAD: Extending the Model (261KB PDF), a talk by Glenn Patton. Frbrisation: Towards a Bright Future for National Bibliographies (100KB PDF), talk by Jan Pisanski, Maja Zumer, and Trond Aalberg. Third Edition of UNIMARC Manual: Authorities Format: Implementing Concepts from the FRAD Model and the IME ICC Statement of International Cataloguing Principles (100KB PDF), talk by Mirna Willer. (Source: The FRBR Blog) Wed, 02 Sep 2009 04:00:00 +0100 770025 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Blogjunction/~3/PzSx2bKwqR8/ We all know that self-paced, anytime, anyplace learning has many advantages, and because they are the best cost effective way to get the most learning to the most people, those courses will always make up the bulk of WebJunction’s course catalog. But we also know that self-paced courses are not the only way to learn, and many of us really miss the social interaction of an instructor and classmates. So we are trying out some new, instructor-led, live-online courses that we hope you will really like. We are pleased to announce we have just added five such new courses to  our catalog. These courses are exclusively offered for WebJunction members by Amigos Library Services - the largest library consortia in the southwest, and one of the top providers of quality continuing education for library staff in the country. They are all on library-specific topics, and our initial focus this fall is on Technical Services. The first classes start just after labor day, so now is a good time to take a look and sign up. You can see all the course listings together, read the full descriptions and enroll in the Amigos category of our Course Catalog. But as always - if you are a member of any of our State or Provincial Partners, make sure you go to the catalog on that Partner’s site instead to take advantage of some steep discounts. Here are titles, dates and short descriptions of the courses. You can find more info in the catalog. MARC 101 - September 8 & 9 A beginner level introduction to MARC format; this course is intended for participants who are new to MARC. Topics covered include a brief history of MARC, organization and structure of a MARC record, definition of common MARC terminology, MARC formats and use of OCLC’s Bibliographic Formats and Standards for help with understanding MARC code. ... Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:23:07 +0100 765423 http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001997.html August 16, 2009 • dempsey Categories: Analytics and measurement• Books, movies and reading ...• Identity management, IPR and e-commerce The proposed Google Books settlement has created a strong interest in quantifying publications and authors, to get a better sense of the scale of impact. We have been looking at Worldcat and hope to publish an analysis later this year. Here is an issue that came up this week: how many print books were published in the US since 1923, and how many authors were associated with those books? Here are some numbers, acknowledging that they provide good indications based on the data we have and what we can do with it, not definitive answers. Print books published in the US in 1923 or later: 12,582,962 Unique personal authors: 3,685,778 Unique corporate authors: 977,679 Now, 'book' is a pretty vague term. This analysis uses the definition we used in the Anatomy of Aggregate Collections paper we published a few years ago, which analyses the collections of the orginal Google 5 libraries, which was as follows: Although there is no unambiguous bibliographic definition of a book, libraries have often used monographic language materials as a proxy for books, and this practice is adopted for this study. More specifically, in the context of a MARC21 record, a book is defined as a language-based monograph, identified by the codes "a" and "m" in bytes 6 and 7 of the leader, respectively. For the purposes of this study, theses/dissertations and government documents are excluded from the analysis, since these materials are usually acquired and managed as separate segments of the library collection. Records describing books in print format were identified by eliminating all non-print formats, such as digital, microform, Braille, and so on.) What we are counting are 'manifestations' (in FRBR terms), which might relate to 'title' in common usage. ... Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:10:43 +0100 764853 http://www.figoblog.org/node/1964 Martha Yee nous a proposé dernièrement une intéressante réflexion : Can bibliographic data be put directly onto the semantic Web ? Dans cet article, elle relate une expérimentation qu'elle a réalisée sur la FRBRisation et RDFisation de données bibliographiques, et qui débouche sur une liste de 13 questions qu'elle se pose sur l'utilisation de RDF pour exprimer des données bibliographiques. Son article est intéressant même si à mon avis il part parfois sur des malentendus (par exemple, l'idée que RDF a été conçu pour l'intelligence artificielle ou encore la nécessité de "réguler" l'attribution des URI au niveau global). Toutefois beaucoup des questions qu'elle se pose me semblent plutôt relever de la modélisation de nos données en tant que telle (et de faiblesses dans le modèle FRBR et autres) plutôt que de l'utilisation de RDF. De même, à différentes reprises, les problématiques liées à la modélisation sont mêlées avec celles qui relèvent plutôt des applications qui vont utiliser les données, ce qui ne simplifie pas la lecture de l'article. On retrouve ces considérations chez Karen Coyle, qui a rédigé une série de réponses extrêmement pertinentes sur son blog : - introduction - réponse aux questions : 1 et 2, - réponse aux questions : 3, 4 et 5, - réponse aux questions : 6, 7 et 8, - réponse aux questions : 9, 10 et 11, - et enfin réponse aux questions : 12 et 13. Je conseillerais pratiquement de lire ces réponses plutôt que (ou au moins, en même temps que) l'article original. Elles contribuent à clarifier extrêmement les choses et soulèvent plein de défis passionnants sur ce qu'il faudra remettre en cause dans nos pratiques à l'heure de passer les formats MARC en RDF. ... Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:40:04 +0100 765358 http://figoblog.org/node/1964 Martha Yee nous a proposé dernièrement une intéressante réflexion : Can bibliographic data be put directly onto the semantic Web ? Dans cet article, elle relate une expérimentation qu'elle a réalisée sur la FRBRisation et RDFisation de données bibliographiques, et qui débouche sur une liste de 13 questions qu'elle se pose sur l'utilisation de RDF pour exprimer des données bibliographiques. Son article est intéressant même si à mon avis il part parfois sur des malentendus (par exemple, l'idée que RDF a été conçu pour l'intelligence artificielle ou encore la nécessité de "réguler" l'attribution des URI au niveau global). Toutefois beaucoup des questions qu'elle se pose me semblent plutôt relever de la modélisation de nos données en tant que telle (et de faiblesses dans le modèle FRBR et autres) plutôt que de l'utilisation de RDF. De même, à différentes reprises, les problématiques liées à la modélisation sont mêlées avec celles qui relèvent plutôt des applications qui vont utiliser les données, ce qui ne simplifie pas la lecture de l'article. On retrouve ces considérations chez Karen Coyle, qui a rédigé une série de réponses extrêmement pertinentes sur son blog : - introduction - réponse aux questions : 1 et 2, - réponse aux questions : 3, 4 et 5, - réponse aux questions : 6, 7 et 8, - réponse aux questions : 9, 10 et 11, - et enfin réponse aux questions : 12 et 13. Je conseillerais pratiquement de lire ces réponses plutôt que (ou au moins, en même temps que) l'article original. Elles contribuent à clarifier extrêmement les choses et soulèvent plein de défis passionnants sur ce qu'il faudra remettre en cause dans nos pratiques à l'heure de passer les formats MARC en RDF. ... Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:40:04 +0100 764928 http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001994.html By: dempseyCategories: Knowledge organization and representation• OCLC• User experienceI posted a while ago about the potential benefits of sharing usability results between libraries, and there was some interest in Worldcat usability testing at the time. In that context, some readers may be interested in the following report which OCLC prepared for distribution at ALA: Some Findings from WorldCat Local Usability Tests Prepared for ALA Annual, July 2009 [pdf] There is a lot of interesting material in the report (which is a readable 8 pages). I was especially interested to read the section on FRBR given my post the other day on how different services handle the presentation of works. Here are some snippets: We found that in general work-level granularity for search results based on FRBR rather than edition-level granularity fit the expectations of both academic and public library test participants. Undergraduate test participants, primarily in the humanities and social sciences, reported that they seldom (seven participants of ten participants) or never (three participants) looked for a specific edition of a book. We repeatedly heard editions sometimes matter to scholars--the last, the first, the last during the author's lifetime. Historians expressed a preference for the first edition of primary sources and the most recent edition of secondary sources. (Source: Lorcan Dempsey) Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:24:11 +0100 762480 http://www.frbr.org/2009/08/04/call-for-nominations-to-frbr-review-group E-mail sent out by Patricia Riva, chair of the FRBR Review Group. This is a really interesting opportunity. Note that you have to pay your way to the meetings, and they’re all over the world (recently they’ve been in South Africa, South Korea, and Canada; this year it’s Italy), so that will get expensive. Get in touch with Pat quickly if you’re interested. She mentions that if a vote is needed it’ll be on 22 August. Call for Nominations : FRBR Review Group The FRBR Review Group is presently accepting nominations for members to serve from 2009-2013. The current terms of reference (below) were adopted in 2007, and will be revised in 2009 to take the completion of the FRAD model into account: 1) Review and maintain the FRBR conceptual model on an ongoing basis, incorporating revisions when needed, in both entity-relationship and object-oriented forms; 2) Develop and make available guidelines and interpretative documents to assist those applying FRBR; 3) Promote the model and encourage its use in all appropriate information organising communities and maintain links with relevant groups both within IFLA and in other communities. FRBR Review Group members serve 4-year terms, and new members are eligible for one renewal of an additional 4 years. Two positions are available to replace two members whose non-renewable terms end in 2009. Three members complete their first terms in 2009; Pat Riva and Maja Zumer have expressed interest in being renewed. So far two new nominations have been received: Gordon Dunsire (UK), Miriam Sofstrom (Sweden). Roster 2007-2009: Anders Cato (Kungl. ... Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:00:00 +0100 761587 http://lisnews.org/impact_digital_world_cataloging_systems An Essay of the LISNews Summer Series I was recently asked to speak to a class at the Wayne State University School of Library and Information Science about “The Impact of the Digital World on Cataloging Systems.”  I was excited to talk about a topic that connects all of “my library world” together so I thought I would also blog about what we covered in the class. I work at the Detroit Area Library Network (DALNET), where our core service is running an integrated library system (ILS) for most of our member institutions.  Naturally I like to keep track of the ILS market and where library catalogs (OPACs in particular) are headed.  As we consider how the digital world has impacted (library) cataloging systems I would like to start with my perceptions of what environment we are currently in. If you have followed any of the links I have provided above you will see that I have used Wikipedia.org as my resource.  I have obviously already been impacted by the Internet even though I work for libraries.  A few years ago most libraries and other academic institutions saw Wikipedia.org as an unsubstantiated information resource.  Many still do, but informally, it is a major source of information for the digital world’s inhabitants.  So, as I look to define the world we are in today, I think it is fitting to cite from Wikipedia.org: The Information Age (in which our digital world exists) provides “ . . . the ability of individuals to transfer information freely, and to have instant access to knowledge . . . ” If only it were so easy!  Some of us well know that not all information is transferred freely, or freely accessible.  And contrary to popular belief, not all information can be found in digital form on the Internet (just a lot of it!). ... Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:53:01 +0100 761139 http://www.frbr.org/2009/08/03/oclc-work-work Some example ‘work’ level bib displays, says Lorcan Dempsey giving a link on Twitter, also posting Working on Works to his blog. There is a significant – if little read – literature of cataloging theory. A recurrent theme is the balance between gathering like items, and discriminating between them. Managing similarity and difference in this way, and making sensible user interface choices, is not straightforward. The FRBR model represents a recent approach to a part of this question: how to gather things that are in some way instances of the same intellectual work (a discretionary decision*), and how to distinguish sensibly between these things (critical editions, for e.g, or translations, etc). … More recently, OCLC Research has been experimenting to see what data is available for display in a consolidated way at the work level. See a sample set of pages here, and some background detail here [pdf]. Sample work pages links has lots of things to examine, for example this Work-level view of To Kill a Mockingbird. (That’s on frbr.oclc.org, an interesting hostname, but there’s no home page there.) (Source: The FRBR Blog) Mon, 03 Aug 2009 04:00:00 +0100 761588 http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001992.html August 2, 2009 • dempsey Categories: Knowledge organization and representation• OCLC• Search • User experience There is a significant - if little read - literature of cataloging theory. A recurrent theme is the balance between gathering like items, and discriminating between them. Managing similarity and difference in this way, and making sensible user interface choices, is not straightforward. The FRBR model represents a recent approach to a part of this question: how to gather things that are in some way instances of the same intellectual work (a discretionary decision at the edges*), and how to distinguish sensibly between these things (critical editions, for e.g, or translations, etc). We now have a variety of online systems which present data about 'book-like objects'. They have to make user experience decisions about how best to represent works and their instances. Interestingly, Goodreads and LibraryThing seem to default to a work-based view: the entry is at the work level. See for example Dr Zhivago and Dr Zhivago. Amazon seems to default to a particular 'manifestation' or 'expression' (to use FRBR terms) as in Dr Zhivago. Google Books seems to do something similar - Dr Zhivago. In each case, though, there is an attempt to link to other editions etc from a particular page. Worldcat.org is more like Amazon and Google. At the moment, it aims to show the most highly held member of a work set in a result, and then link to other editions from that, as in Dr Zhivago. There are reasons for taking these various approaches and each service make decisions based on what it is trying to do, and the view it takes of its user interests. Now, although the idea of a work has been a library concept for some time, the 'manifestation' level has tended to dominate practice, and this has carried forward into online catalogues. ... Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:24:47 +0100 761361 http://blogs.ala.org/nrmig.php?title=ala_annual_2009_write_ups_from_around_th&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 Below is the round-up of write-ups around the Internet for ALA presentations that might be of interest to Metadata and Digital Librarians. Did I miss your write-up or presentations? Email me at kmarti@uic.edu and I will add it. Would you like to share your write-up of a conference on the blog? It's not too late! Contact me about that too. Friday Sessions 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM on 07/10 FRBR Interest Group Unit: ALCTS no write up yet 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM on 7/10 "Hot Topics" Forum: The Future of MARC Unit: ALCTS Links to Presentations from Cataloging Futures 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM on 07/10 Electronic Resources Management Interest Group Unit: ALCTS LITA Blog write-up Saturday Sessions 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM on 07/11 Catalog Form and Function Interest Group discussion forum Unit: ALCTS Presentations posted at ALA Wiki 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM on 07/11 Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CCS No write-up yet 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM on 07/11 Electronic Resources Interest Group Location: Hilton in Continental B Unit: ALCTS 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM on 07/11 Workflow Tools for Automating Metadata Creation and Maintenance Unit: ALCTS/LITA Write-up on Metadata Blog 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM on 07/11 CRS College and Research Libraries Interest Group Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CRS No write-up yet 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM on 07/11 Catalog Management Interest Group Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CCS No write-up yet 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM on 07/11 Cataloging Norms Interest Group Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CCS Presentations on ALA Wiki 1:30 PM - 5:30 PM on 07/11 Look Before You Leap: Taking RDA For a Test-Drive Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CCS Presentations on the ALA Wiki 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM on 07/11 Emerging Technology Interest Group Unit: LITA Presentation from the OLE Project 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM on 07/11 ... Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:08:43 +0100 761303 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechsourceBlog/~3/hNAaXfm0YmM/annual-2009-catalogers-look-to-the-future.html ALA Publishing staff working on RDA:Resource Description and Access are watching for library innovation building on bibliographic records.  Shirley Lincicum has offered some fantastic coverage of a technology that had catalogers excited at this year's annual conference. Shirley has been a professional cataloger in academic libraries for 15 years. She currently serves as Librarian/Associate Professor at Western Oregon University in Monmouth, Oregon. She is currently on sabbatical and will be researching and writing about nest-generation cataloging systems and institutional repositories. You can read about her findings at http://shirley.alptown.com/blog/. Shirley received her Library and Information Science degree from the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science. To contact her, visit her page at http://www.wou.edu/~lincics/.-Dan Freeman Resource Description and Access (RDA) is scheduled for release in November 2009 and was the hot topic of discussion for catalogers attending the 2009 ALA Annual Conference. One session at annual also discussed RDA, but it did so within a broader context, which made it a conference highlight. Bringing together four recognized leaders to discuss the emergence of linked data on the Web and the role that the library community can play in realizing the Semantic Web, the event drew a standing room only crowd, and offered a compelling glimpse at what is likely to be the future of cataloging.  Eric Miller, President and co-founder of Zepheira opened things up with an overview of the current state of linked data development. Miller defined linked data as "a term used to describe a recommended best practice for exposing, sharing, and connecting pieces of data, information, and knowledge on the Semantic Web using URIs." He emphasized sharing and connecting data as the key elements of this concept. ... Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:58:43 +0100 760881 http://www.kevenlw.name/archives/1610 那边三牛兄发了一个“第二届全国文献编目工作研讨会会议通知”，很好奇，去查了第一届的情况，做一个资料贴。 第一届主题（2006年4月*武汉） 1. 文献编目的理论和实践 2. AARC/RDA、ISBD和《中国文献编目规则》等的比较和发展研究 3. FRBR, FRAR等最新进展 4. MARC21, UNIMARC, CNMARC等的比较和应用 （来自编目精灵博客，官网已不可考，倒是顾犇主任的博客，承担了官网的职能，不错！） 第二届主题（预计2009年12月，北京？） （一）文献编目的理论和实践 （二）AACR/RDA、ISBD和《中国文献编目规则》等的比较和发展研究 （三）FRBR, FRAD, FRSAR等最新进展 （四）MARC21, UNIMARC, CNMARC等的比较和应用 （五）分类法、主题法和知识组织其他领域的最新进展 有点意思，三年前我们就已经关注RDA/FRBR等问题了，非常先进啊！时隔三年之后的第二届有了第五点的进步，增加了一个主题：分类主题和知识组织。 查了下第一届的论文集目录（附后），很好很强大，这些论文如果进行成果查新，应该有不少国际先进国内一流的吧？相信有不少同学藉此晋升了职称。 我一点没有bs的意思，我只是好奇我们的实践到底如何？在一个实践性很强的领域，难道就这样一年又一年地“人文”下去吗？编目精灵汇总的这些“语言碎片”（这里和这里），看看很有意思哈！ 附：《21世纪的信息资源编目——第一届全国文献编目工作研讨会论文集》目录（北京图书馆出版社.2006年8月. ... Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:27:36 +0100 760949 http://www.frbr.org/2009/07/31/last-week-in-frbr-7 Welcome to the Registry, RDA Online users! “This page provides quick links for the Registered RDA Element Sets and Value Vocabularies. Each set of elements or vocabulary concepts has a link to the general description as well as a link to a list of elements or concepts. FRBR Entities for RDA has a note: “Provisional registration of FRBR entities for use in RDA. Official FRBR entity registrations with working URIs will be substituted when available.” If you need an RDA metadata schema I think this is what you want. Jenn Riley’s Thoughts on FRSAD. “In short, I think good work has been done here but it doesn’t meet my needs as someone working diligently (and actively implementing FRBR and FRAD) to re-imagine discovery systems in libraries.” I posted a link about this before, but Karen Coyle has continued to post her thoughts on Martha Yee’s Can Bibliographic Data Be Put Directly Onto the Semantic Web? See her posts Yee on RDF and Bibliographic Data, and answers to questions 1-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-11, 12-13, with FRBR mentioned in all of them, I think. Non-ISBN Matching from LibraryThing’s Thingology blog is about how they do a better job now in their LibraryThing for Libraries service of identifying items that don’t have ISBNs, which, after all, have only been around for 40 years. Anything that helps with this helps with identifying Manifestations, Expressions, and Works. Catching up after some connectivity problems. (Source: The FRBR Blog) Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0100 760833 http://inquiringlibrarian.blogspot.com/2009/07/thoughts-on-frsad.html 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 FRAD as we can), and anything I can do to help push FRSAD (FRSAR? what's in a name? ha - there's got to be a FRAD joke in there somewhere...) to be useful to the work I'm doing I see as a good thing. So here are the comments I sent in through official channels.-----------------In short, I think good work has been done here but it doesn't meet my needs as someone working diligently (and actively implementing FRBR and FRAD) to re-imagine discovery systems in libraries.While I am a great believer in the power of user studies to inform metadata models, I believe inappropriate conclusions have been drawn here. It doesn't surprise me at all that users had trouble sorting actual subjects into categories such as concept, object, event, place. But that doesn't mean our models shouldn’t make that distinction. Users wouldn't be able to distinguish between Work/Expression/Manifestation/Item, either, but those are still useful entities for us to use underlying our systems.The draft report rightly notes that the concept/object/event/place division is only one way of looking at it, that other divisions such as those outlined by Ranganathan and the framework (which seems to be basically abandoned?). But that's the very essence of a *model* - to pick one of many possible representations and go with it, in order to achieve a purpose. The fact that competing interpretations are possible is not a rationale for abandoning selecting one that can advance the purpose of the model (even taken together with user studies showing users don’t gravitate to any one specific division). ... Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0100 760103 http://www.frbr.org/2009/07/21/hillmann-frbr-vs-frbr-ization Diane Hillmann posted FRBR vs. FRBR-ization on the blog she does with Jon Phipps: … In contrast, FRBR-ization only exposes what we can assert based on a mapping from MARC to FRBR (or RDA), which is at best the relationships between the FRBR Group 1 entities: the Work, Expression, Manifestation and Item. With the RDA array of identified relationships, we have a whole lot more. I suppose one could say that these are not necessarily part of the FRBR panoply, but if you consider them the “horizontal” relationships that fill in between the “vertical” relationships that Work, Expression, Manifestation and Item provide, then it’s possible to see how these relationships are enabled by the way the FRBR model has allowed us to rethink our world. This is one of the issues that makes my head hurt when I think about the RDA “testing” regime that we keep hearing about. Are we wedded to the notion that if it can’t be crammed into MARC we aren’t going to use it? Can’t we start to think about MARC as a fairly lossy output format and move on to something that expresses the relationships we know will help us maintain some important functionality and credibility in the broader data world? MARC as “a fairly lossy output format.” Preach it. (Source: The FRBR Blog) Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0100 757243 http://www.kevenlw.name/archives/1448 一朋友放假了，希望我分享一些经常阅读的国外博客，我订阅的东西太杂太乱，一直没工夫去整理更新，就在这里罗列一些吧，利用假期充充电，说不定可以整几篇论文什么的。 驯服万维网：Michael Stephens的博客 网址：http://tametheweb.com/ RSS：http://tametheweb.com/feed/ “Library 2.0”一词的提出者，不用多说了吧？ OCLC主管科研的副总裁Lorcan Dempsey的博客 网址：http://orweblog.oclc.org/index.html RSS：http://orweblog.oclc.org/atom.xml 几乎就是OCLC的智库，代表行业发展方向。有时比较啰嗦。 元数据和编目大师Karen Coyle的博客（要翻墙） 网址：http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/ 个人网站：http://www.kcoyle.net/ RSS：http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default 搞元数据、研究未来编目，以及关注RDA，必看。 未来编目Cataloguing Future 网址：http://www.catalogingfutures.com（要翻墙） RSS：http://www.catalogingfutures.com/Fcatalogingfutures/atom.xml 很多关于编目的动态、资料。 海外著名图林博客，无界图书馆员Free Range Librarian K.G. Schneider 网址：http://freerangelibrarian.com/ RSS：http://freerangelibrarian.com/feed/ 有时杂七杂八的信息都有 The FRBR Blog 网址：http://www.frbr.org/ RSS：http://www.frbr.org/feed/ 关于FRBR信息的聚合博客 英国电子教育基金会 网址：http://efoundations.typepad.com/（要翻墙） RSS：http://efoundations.typepad.com/efoundations/atom.xml 关于网络信息组织、语义网、元数据、资源整合方面的帖子。Andy Powell 和Pete Johnston为主的群体博客。 David Lee King的blog 网址：http://www.davidleeking.com RSS：http://www.davidleeking.com/feed/ 著名博客，但有时博的不认真。 另一个David的Catalogablog 网址：http://catalogablog.blogspot.com（要翻墙） RSS：http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/rss/catalogablog. ... Sat, 18 Jul 2009 04:55:36 +0100 756719 http://blogs.ala.org/memberblog.php?title=notes_on_annual_conference_2009_by_james&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE—Chicago, Illinois. July 10-15, 2009. Notes by James B. Casey Despite extremely difficult economic conditions facing libraries, the attendance at this Annual Conference in Chicago reached what could be a record high at 28,941. The prior three Annual Conference final attendance reports were 22,047 for Anaheim (2008), 28,499 for Washington (2007) and 16,784 New Orleans (2006). Future Mid-Winter Meetings (January) will be held in Boston (2010), San Diego (2011), Dallas (2012), Seattle (2013) and Philadelphia (2014). Future Annual Conferences (June) will be held in Washington, D.C. (2010), New Orleans (2011), Anaheim (2012), Washington (2013) and Las Vegas (2014). Oak Lawn Public Library Trustees Richard Gast and Marian Sullivan attended this Annual Conference. My wife Diane Dates Casey completed her fourth year as Division Councilor for the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS). I continued my fourth term (twelfth year) as a member at-large of ALA Council, and completed my second and final year as a member of the ALA Committee on Organization (COO). GODORT (Government Documents Round Table) sponsored an excellent program of small group discussions and re-evaluation of issues facing government documents access in libraries. Several different types of libraries were represented. The concerns ranged from shifting of records to electronic from print format, the lack of interest by government entities in the preservation and accessibility of their own records – especially prior to and after they are out of office – and the vast types of government records ranging from minutes of local government meetings to important documents concerning the founding of our Republic. It was an interesting discussion, but plagued by poor acoustics (five small group breakout sessions in one room simultaneously). ... Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:05:16 +0100 755978 http://www.frbr.org/2009/07/16/call-for-papers-at-cataloging-and-classification-quarterly Cataloging & Classification Quarterly sent out this call for papers. You’ll recall they did a special issue on FRBR in 2004 which you’ve probably already read. Send them more papers about FRBR, FRAD, or FRSAD! (Edited down slightly from what was sent out.) /CCQ/ welcomes the submission of research, theory, and practice papers relevant to the broad field of bibliographic organization. This journal, published now 8 times a year by Taylor & Francis, LLC, is respected as an international forum that emphasizes research and review articles, description of new programs and technologies relevant to cataloging and classification, and considered speculative articles on improved methods of bibliographic control for the future. Articles are particularly welcome in areas dealing with research-based cataloging practice, including user behavior, user needs and benefits. Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts via email with attached word document to the Editor, Sandra K. Roe, Bibliographic Services Librarian, Illinois State University (email: <skroe@ilstu.edu>). *_Annual Best Paper Award_* Taylor & Francis sponsors an annual prize for CCQ with a small financial stipend for the Best Paper of the Year. *_Complimentary Print Sample_* A free print specimen copy may be obtained by sending an email to Jason McAndrew <jason.mcandrew@taylorandfrancis.com> *_For More Details_* Further details may be found at the CCQ home page: http://catalogingandclassificationquarterly.com/ (Source: The FRBR Blog) Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0100 756179 http://www.frbr.org/2009/07/14/knowlton-how-the-current-draft-of-rda-addresses-the-cataloging-of-reproductions-facsimiles-and-microforms New article in Library Resources and Technical Services 53:3 (July 2009): “How the Current Draft of RDA Addresses the Cataloging of Reproductions, Facsimiles, and Microforms,” by Steven A. Knowlton. Abstract: The cataloging of microforms and other reproductions has been difficult throughout the history of cataloging codes, particularly due to the “multiple versions problem.” The proposed new cataloging code, Resource Description and Access (RDA), seeks to clarify the relationship between reproductions and originals by applying the principles of Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) to cataloging. While the use of FRBR principles does help to identify the relationships between works in the catalog, RDA as currently designed is challenging for the cataloger and includes many data that may prove to be difficult for catalog users to understand. (Source: The FRBR Blog) Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0100 755433 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/PdhyKgai_Gw/ Here is part of the press release from Bowker. You can find more details at the Bowker site: Bowker (a provider of bibliographic information management solutions, announced the beta release of Books In Print 2.0 (BIP 2.0), an enhanced version of the company’s flagship book discovery and collection development platform, Books in-Print. The official global market release of BIP 2.0 is scheduled for early 4Q 2009. BIP 2.0 is a new dynamic book search and discovery platform that provides librarians, researchers, and library patrons with access to the richest set of book information available in the reference market. The platform combines comprehensive content with powerful visual discovery interfaces from AquaBrowser, Bowker’s popular search platform utilized by more than 500 libraries worldwide. This enables users to discover relevant book information through a variety of cutting-edge collection development capabilities, including edition-grouped search results (FRBR), "word cloud" search visualization, and Web 2.0 tools such as rating, tagging, and other social networking features. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:19:00 +0100 754909 http://www.frbr.org/2009/07/11/oclc-exposes-work-identifiers OCLC Exposes Work Identifiers is how OCLC put it on Thursday and I couldn’t put it better. OCLC has extended the xOCLCNUM API to include the OCLC work identifiers (OWIs) in addition to OCLC record identifiers (OCNs) that correspond to manifestations. For several years now, WorldCat has been organised according to the FRBR model[1] that allows grouping of various editions of publications (e.g. reprints, translations, performances, digitized copies) into works. Sometimes users require particular manifestations and sometimes not, so it is desirable to cater for both needs by allowing navigation from works to manifestations and vice versa. Here’s the xOCLCNUM API for more. (Source: The FRBR Blog) Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0100 754621 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/07/10/presentations-from-the-second-international-m-libraries-conference-are-now-online/ The M-Libraries (Mobile Libraries) conference took place in Vancouver, BC at the end of June, 2009. Presentations available online include: + Mobile technologies and their possibilities for the Library, University of the South Pacific (USP) + Keynote speech by Lorcan Dempsey + Enhancing Library Access through the use of Mobile Technology: Case Study of Information Services Provided by Six Mobile Companies in Bangladesh + QR Codes and their Applications: a case study + Why m-libraries? Making the Case for Innovation + Ask Us Upstairs: Bringing roaming reference to the Paley Stacks + M-Library in an m-University: Changing Models in the Open University of Catalonia + UK Academic Library Users’ expectations of m-library services + Where Books are Few: The Role of Mobile Phones in the Developing World + Mobilising the development of information skills for students on the move and for the workplace - two studies of mobile delivery in practice + Information Literacy gets Mobile + Mobile GPS Devices and Geospatial Collection Development in the Library + NYU Results of an Analysis of More Than 300 SMS Transactions Conducted in the Spring, Summer, and Fall Semesters 2008 + Encouraging Library Usage among Students in African University Libraries: The Case of Emerald Group Publishing and the University Library of Swaziland + Evolution of Modern Library Services: The Progression into the Mobile Domain + The Library’s Place in a Mobile Space + Providing Virtual Library Service to the Global Online Student + The library on the phone: assessing the impact of m-phone access at UNISA library + Bibliographic Ontology (FRBR) for e-Books: a Guide for Mobile Digital Library Collections Developers Source: M-Libraries Conference Web Site (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:22:24 +0100 754206 http://www.frbr.org/2009/07/10/coyle-on-yee-on-rdf Quick pointer to Karen Coyle’s blog post Yee on RDF and Bibliographic Data. (That’s Martha Yee.) The difficulty that I am having at the moment is that it appears to me that there are some fundamental misunderstandings in Yee’s attempt to grapple with an RDF model for library data. In addition, she is trying to work with FRBR and RDA, both of which have some internal consistencies that make a rigorous analysis difficult. (In fact, Yee suggests an improvement to FRBR that I think IFLA should seriously consider, and that is that subject in FRBR should be a relationship, and that the entities in Group 3 should be usable in any relevant situation, not just as subjects. p. 66, #6. After that, maybe they’ll consider my similar suggestion regarding the Group 1 entities.) (Source: The FRBR Blog) Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0100 754622 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechsourceBlog/~3/seeTg0EplII/implementing-rda-call-for-the-alpha-geeks-of-library-metadata.html "Forget Silicon Valley," writes publisher Tim O'Reilly in a Forbes.com article: It turns out that many of the great waves of creative destruction that have reinvented Silicon Valley didn't start there. More important, they didn't even start with the profit motive. Rather, they started with interesting problems and people who wanted to solve them, exercising technology to its fullest because exploring new ideas was fun. I call these people "alpha geeks." They are smart enough to make technology do what they want rather than what its originator expected.   The managers of established organizations in mature industries are naturally inclined to identify operational efficiencies and control costs. As libraries and their vendors deal with the constraints of the recession and declining budgets, controlling costs is imperative. "Wait and see" is the reasonable default. Therefore, the innovative breakthroughs in implementing RDA are most likely to come from the fringes of the cataloging community, the mythical garages of libraryland. The most visible test of RDA will be seen in the testing of the national libraries; that is the United States national libraries. Even from my vantage point within the project, it is unclear what, if any, testing will be conducted in national libraries outside of the U.S. The viability of RDA has been challenged most vehemently here. The testing led by Library of Congress is a byproduct of its Working Group Report, which was critical of RDA. The methodology for testing is described here. My impression is that cataloging communities outside of the U.S. are more receptive to RDA. Presumably, testing will happen, but less formally. As co-publishers of RDA, ALA Publishing is just beginning to reach out to library systems vendors to explore ways that can incorporate the tools and perhaps the content of RDA. Part of the product will include schemas (.xsd files) made available at no cost. ... Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:32:44 +0100 753745 http://www.frbr.org/2009/07/07/rda-frbr-frad-mappings-back-and-forth Some FRBR and FRAD-related stuff was posted by the Resource Description and Access people that you’ll want to look at. First, in the Scope and Principles section of the RDA site there are updated mappings from FRBR and FRAD to RDA and back. They go through all of the RDA elements and tell you which FRBR entities, attributes and/or relationships they match. Important stuff. Second, at RDA Online, which is where the actual commercial online RDA system will be, they’ve posted a new set of entity-relationship diagrams for the FRBR entities that are more visual: look up Manifestation or Concept, for example, and they’ll tell you all of the attributes those entities have, where they come from in FRBR, and what RDA elements those match. These diagrams don’t cover the relationships betweem the different entities, but there’s a placeholder so I expect they’ll come along soon. Combined, extremely useful stuff for anyone digging into RDA, and also for anyone thinking about FRBR implementations and piggybacking on what RDA is putting in place. RDA will be a commercial product, though, and I worry about that and what effect it will have. (Source: The FRBR Blog) Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0100 753464 http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2009/07/marc-in-germany.html Powerpoint slides and videos for "Umstieg auf MARC 21" Symposium MARC-ing a new landscape in data exchange are now available.In June 2009, the project "Internationalisierung der deutschen Standards: Umstieg auf MARC 21" completed the groundwork for the full implementation of the data exchange format MARC 21 in Germany and Austria.To mark the successful conclusion of this migration project, the German National Library hold a symposium on June 2, 2009 in Frankfurt am Main. The objective of this meeting was to exchange expertise and ideas with the aim of promoting the use of MARC 21 as a foundation of international interoperability in the library world.We are in the game - German and Austrian libraries in the international MARC community / Reinhold HeuvelmannMAB, UNIMARC und MARC 21 - use of three standards in BSZ / Cornelia KatzThe challenge of cataloguing in a MARC-based system / Gabriele MeßmerAfter thoughts / Sally McCallumMARC 21, RDA, and the FRBR and FRAD models ... making the connections / Tom DelseyMapping RDA to MARC 21 / Margaret StewartExpectations / Sally McCallumThe talks are in English. How many conferences in the USA could be held in another language? It always impresses me that others are so competent. (Source: Catalogablog) Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:00:00 +0100 752848 http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001981.html By: dempseyCategories: Analytics and measurement• OCLCI thought I would post some numbers here which were prepared by my colleague Brian Lavoie for another purpose. The question was: how many of the books in US libraries are in English? First of all, what is a book? Deciding what a book is involves some choices (are theses in or out, for example?). This analysis uses the definition of 'print books' given in the Google 5 analysis published in DLib Magazine a while back [1]. a. All of WorldCat (Apr 09): 135.3 million records Cataloged as "eng": 46 percent (so 54 percent non-English) b. Print books only (Apr 09): 91.2 million Cataloged as: "eng": 40 percent (so 60 percent non-English) c. Print books in US libraries (Jan 09) 42.5 million Cataloged as "eng": 57 percent (so 43 percent non-English) d. Print books representing combined collections of three academic research libraries participating in GBS (April 2009): 7.2 million Cataloged as: "eng": 54 percent (so 46 percent non-English) Note - c is calculated on a slightly earlier version of the database as we had already pulled out US library holdings. The data in d is being looked at for another purpose: hence the slightly arbitrary selection of 3 libraries. Note - these numbers are for records in the database, which represent 'manifestations' in FRBR terms. If one were to count holdings or actual copies the numbers would be different. The proportion of 'eng' would go up as English titles will be more widely held and in greater numbers of copies. [1] Here is how the definition of a 'print book' was decided upon and operationalised for the Google 5 analysis. "Although there is no unambiguous bibliographic definition of a book, libraries have often used monographic language materials as a proxy for books, and this practice is adopted for this study. ... Thu, 02 Jul 2009 23:28:26 +0100 751870 http://dilettantes.code4lib.org/2009/07/linked-open-librarything/ For Ian Davis‘ birthday, Danny Ayers sent out an email asking people to make some previously unavailable datasets accessible as linked data as Ian’s present.  It was a pretty neat idea.  One that I wish I had thought of. Given that Ian is my boss (prior to about a month ago, Ian was just nebulously “above me” somewhere in the Talis hierarchy, but I now report to him directly) one could cynically make the claim that by providing Ian a ‘linked data gift’ that I would just be currying favor by being a kiss-ass.  You could make that claim, sure, but evidently you are not aware of how I hurt the company. Anyway, as my contribution, I decided to take the data dumps from LibraryThing that Tim Spalding pretty graciously makes available [whoa, in the time that I first started this post until now, the data has gone AWOL, I suppose I did this just in time].  The data isn’t always very current and not all of the files are terribly useful (the tags one, for example, doesn’t offer much since the tags aren’t associated with anything — it’s just words and their counts), but it’s data and between ThingISBN and the WikipediaCitations I thought it would be worth it. I wanted to take a very pragmatic approach to this: no triple store, no search, no rdf libraries, minimal interface.  Mostly this was inspired by Ed Summers‘ work with the Library of Congress Authorities, but, also, if Tim (or, whoever at LibraryThing) saw that making LibraryThing linked data was as easy as a few template tweaks (as opposed to a major change in their development stack) this exercise was much more likely to actually make its way into LibraryThing. What I ended up with (the first pass released before the end of Ian’s birthday, I might add) was LODThing: a very simple application written in Ruby’s Sinatra framework, DataMapper and SQLite. ... Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:39:04 +0100 751675 http://pintini.blogspirit.com/archive/2009/06/29/frasd-draft.html "Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD) -- Draft Report" -- Invitation for Review IFLA Working Group on Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR) Invitation to participate: Review of "Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD) -- Draft Report" Available through: http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/FRSAR/index.html or directly from: http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/FRSAR/report090623.pdf (2,800 kb) Comments deadline: July 31, 2009 (source: Catalogablog, 26/06/09) (Source: pintiniblog) Mon, 29 Jun 2009 19:21:00 +0100 751213 http://www.frbr.org/2009/06/29/tillett-sharing-standards-for-bibliographic-data-worldwide Catching up on something from last month: Sharing Standards for Bibliographic Data Worldwide: An Overview of Changes in Cataloguing Practices, a talk by Barbara Tillett at the Atlantic Provinces Library Association Conference 2009 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Built on foundations established by the Anglo-American CataloguingRules (AACR), RDA (Resouce Description and Access) will provide a comprehensive set of guidelines and instructions on resource description and access covering all types of content and media. The new standard is being developed for use primarily in libraries, but consultations are being undertaken with othercommunities (archives, museums, publishers, etc.) in an effort to attain an effective level of alignment between RDA and the metadata standards used in those communities, increasing the ability to share metadata among diverse communities. Cataloguers aren’t the only professionals who will be affected by these new rules. Increasing the ability to share metadata outside of our own organizations and changing description and access rules will impact the entire information profession. Along with providing an overview of RDA and its underlying conceptual model (FRBR- Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records), examples of how FRBR can benefit circulation, reference and serials will be explored. Laurel Tarulli says it was a very good talk: Not only did she explain RDA and FRBR in a way that made complete sense (and I’ve been to other RDA sessions), but she also touched on how this is something the entire profession needs to be paying attention to, not just cataloguers. This is interesting because, up until now, many librarians have brushed it aside as a cataloguing issue. Not so! How information is retrieved, what it will retrieve and how it is presented will all change. The relationship gathering is what really excites me. And, it should excite all librarians in and out of the cataloguing department. (Source: The FRBR Blog) Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0100 750828 http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2009/06/functional-requirements-for-authority.html IFLA has a new book available, Functional Requirements for Authority Data: A Conceptual Model.This book represents one portion of the extension and expansion of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. FRBR has been published as Nr 19 in the present Series. It contains a further analysis of attributes of various entities that are the centre of focus for authority data (persons, families, corporate bodies, works, expressions, manifestations, items, concepts, objects, events, and places), the name by which these entities are known, and the controlled access points created by cataloguers for them. The conceptual model describes the attributes of these entities and the relationships between them. (Source: Catalogablog) Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0100 750486 http://www.frbr.org/2009/06/27/frsad-draft-frad-book Seen on David Bigwood’s Catalogablog, quoting something else: IFLA Working Group on Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR) Invitation to participate: Review of “Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD) — Draft Report” Available through: http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/FRSAR/index.html or directly from: http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/FRSAR/report090623.pdf (2,800 kb) Comments deadline: July 31, 2009 FRSAD is the new name for FRSAR, just as FRAD started as FRANAR, Functional Requirements and Numbering of Authority Records. Which you can now hold in your hands, because Functional Requirements for Authority Data is finished and now in book form. This book represents one portion of the extension and expansion of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. FRBR has been published as Nr 19 in the present Series. It contains a further analysis of attributes of various entities that are the centre of focus for authority data (persons, families, corporate bodies, works, expressions, manifestations, items, concepts, objects, events, and places), the name by which these entities are known, and the controlled access points created by cataloguers for them. The conceptual model describes the attributes of these entities and the relationships between them. It costs €69.95 or USD $84 for North Americans. There are no links on IFLA’s site to a downloadable FRAD, and there’s no mention of the FRSAD draft. The FRSAD group is hosting the draft on their own web site. Neither group announced their news on the FRBR mailing list. I’m bewildered. I assume the final FRAD text will be available to download soon. Open access to FRBR was a major contributor to its success. (Source: The FRBR Blog) Sat, 27 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0100 750129