http://managemetadata.org/blog It's all about the services Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:42:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As one who entered college in 1966 and experienced the sixties from the front lines, I sometimes wonder how I got to be so old and stodgy. I particularly think of this when I pass plate glass windows while walking on the street and glimpse my reflection in them. ... http://managemetadata.org/blog/2010/02/17/sex-drugs-and-rock-roll/ One of the things I often do in the weeks following ALA conferences is check out the blog posts about sessions I missed attending. One such was the session on “Recent Trends in Catalog Architecture: ALCTS Catalog Form and Function Interest Group.” I don’t recall what we were ... http://managemetadata.org/blog/2010/02/10/mulling-midwinter/ One of my favorite aphorisms is “Time flies, whether you’re having fun or not.” I’m not sure where I heard it, but for sure I’m not creative enough to make it up on my own. The truth of it has been reinforced by the realization that here it is ... http://managemetadata.org/blog/2010/01/27/the-rda-vocabularies-continued/ A few weeks ago I attended the opening of an amber exhibition at our wonderful Museum of the Earth which is only about 6 miles from my house. The exhibit had a little of everything: science, history, geography … and jewelry. I have to admit (and this will surprise no ... http://managemetadata.org/blog/2009/11/24/bugs-in-amber/ ...in the RDA Ontologies. Do we? After all, they're a big part of the 'Access' in Resource Description and Access (RDA). But they're not particularly semantically meaningful, especially if you have the component parts available. An Access Point is just a structured string. For instance a 'Publication Statement' Access Point ... http://managemetadata.org/blog/2009/11/03/we-dont-need-no-stinking-access-points/ Last week I was in the UK, primarily to attend a DCMI Registry Community Workshop organized by UKOLN, scheduled for Friday, July 24th. Early the following week we found out that as we were gathered in York discussing distributed registries, Rachel Heery passed away after a long battle with ... http://managemetadata.org/blog/2009/08/04/rachel-heery-in-memoriam/ One of the most interesting programs at ALA Annual that I was involved with was the Linked Data grassroots program. Here's the blurb: From Legacy Data to Linked Data: Preparing Libraries for Web 3.0. “How can library cataloging data be transformed to function within 'Web 3.0' and be understood ... http://managemetadata.org/blog/2009/08/03/linked-data-at-ala-annual/ ALA Annual in Chicago has been a blur—I did three presentations (which I hope to talk about and link to slides as time permits). But one issue has been rolling over in my mind ever since I blurted something about it at my first presentation on Friday of Annual, when ... http://managemetadata.org/blog/2009/07/18/frbr-vs-frbr-ization/ Today I got a very disappointing note in my inbox, from the US National Libraries RDA Test Project. I guess I’d call it a “ding” letter, and I have to say it was more than a bit surprising. I had volunteered to help with the testing, not by ... http://managemetadata.org/blog/2009/05/29/testing-testing/ This week, Karen Coyle wrote a post about LCSH as linked data: beyond "dash-dash" which provoked a discussion on the id.loc.gov discussion list. It seems to me that there are several memes at play in this conversation: LCSH and SKOS As Karen points out, LCSH is more than just a simple thesaurus. It's ... http://managemetadata.org/blog/2009/05/20/lcsh-skos-and-pre-coordinated-headings/