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More on LC's Bibliographic Framework Initiative: Kevin Ford's presentation

Last week, Kevin Ford (who works in LC's Network Development and MARC Standards Office (NDMSO)) presented on LC's Bibliographic Framework Initiative at the Semantic Web in Libraries conference in Cologne, Germany. Here's the abstract: This presentation will provide a general... Continue reading

Posted Dec 7, 2012 at Cataloging Futures

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LC Bibliographic Framework Transition: Eric Miller's update forum

The Library of Congress recently posted a webcast: Library of Congress New Bibliographic Framework Initiative: Update Forum with Eric Miller. This is LC's initiative to develop a replacement for the MARC format. The new bibliographic framework transition initiative will be... Continue reading

Posted Oct 24, 2012 at Cataloging Futures

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CatalogingPractices website

At a time when we're awash in theory, it's nice to find such a practical project, the CatalogingPractices website. Marielle Veve briefly described the project in a recent issue of Cataloging & Classification Quarterly: CatalogingPractices (http://catalogingpractices.wikispaces.com/) is an open database... Continue reading

Posted Jul 23, 2012 at Cataloging Futures

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The Feral Cataloger blog

One of the newer cataloging blogs I've been reading lately is The Feral Cataloger written by cataloging educator, Cheryl Tarsala. It's thought-provoking and well worth reading! This blog discusses issues of cataloging and metadata from the perspective of cataloging instruction.... Continue reading

Posted Jun 28, 2012 at Cataloging Futures

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The relevance of quality cataloging

Software developer from Harvard's Library Innovation Laboratory, Paul Deschner, writes about the importance of quality cataloging for the development of new library applications. One of the primary challenges in this work is getting data describing books and periodicals (catalog records)... Continue reading

Posted May 28, 2012 at Cataloging Futures

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Cataloging Futures: change of focus a misstep

Back in January (almost five months ago) I thought I was going to take this blog in a new direction. But, you know what, I made a mistake. I realized that the future of cataloging and metadata in libraries is... Continue reading

Posted May 26, 2012 at Cataloging Futures

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Cataloging Futures takes a new direction

Those of you who've been reading this blog know that it's focus has been the future of cataloging and metadata in libraries. I started the blog in April 2007 when this was a "hot topic" and also a personal passion.... Continue reading

Posted Jan 5, 2012 at Cataloging Futures

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Interesting post: CodeYear Catalogers

If you're interested in learning programming, check out Shana L. McDanold's blog post: CodeYear Catalogers. CodeAcademy is offering an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in getting started with coding: Code Year. Each week they'll be emailing out to anyone that... Continue reading

Posted Jan 4, 2012 at Cataloging Futures

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XQuery for library metadata: no. 4

Here's a query that catalogers will love! It leverages Library of Congress Classification numbers from MARCXML records to create subject facets. We used this for a discovery portal for digitized theology books. (This application is not live yet, but I'll... Continue reading

Posted Sep 28, 2011 at Cataloging Futures

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XQuery for library metadata: no. 3

It's been about six months since I shared some XQuery code. Most of the code I write is used to search and manipulate metadata for our digital collections. I have a lot stockpiled, so the next few posts will be... Continue reading

Posted Sep 26, 2011 at Cataloging Futures

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Controlled vocabularies: more than just words

I think this quote from an article titled "More Than Words" nicely describes some of the goals behind library linked data: ... Over the past decade, a bioinformatics specialization called biomedical ontology has grown up around this question. Most biomedical... Continue reading

Posted Jun 29, 2011 at Cataloging Futures

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ALA 2011: Some RDA news

The RDA Toolkit blog has an interesting post on RDA news coming out of the American Library Association Annual Conference. Here's a snippet: It was a busy day at the ALA Conference for RDA and RDA Toolkit. The U.S. Test... Continue reading

Posted Jun 27, 2011 at Cataloging Futures

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From catalogers to information ninjas?

Here's a thought-provoking summary of a presentation from this year's CLA conference: Goodbye Librarians, Hello Information Ninjas! Many of the ideas address a movement away from tradtional cataloging activities. Some excerpts: Models that define information roles and information services based... Continue reading

Posted Jun 24, 2011 at Cataloging Futures

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MARBI and the future of the MARC format?

Yesterday on the MARC listserv, Elizabeth Plantz (National Library of Medicine) and Tina Shrader (National Agricultural Library) raised concerns as to why the Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information Committee (MARBI) has nothing on their agenda on the future of MARC for the... Continue reading

Posted Jun 21, 2011 at Cataloging Futures

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RDA Test Coordinating Committee: full report now available

Last week I commented briefly on the executive summary. Now the full public report is available at the Library of Congress RDA test website: Report and Recommendations of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee [pdf]. It's 192 pages. Continue reading

Posted Jun 20, 2011 at Cataloging Futures

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RDA implementation decison

First leaked on Twitter, Today's announcement marks a watershed moment for catalogers. The long-awaited decision finally came down as to whether or not the Library of Congress, National Library of Medicine, and National Agricultural Library would choose to implement the... Continue reading

Posted Jun 14, 2011 at Cataloging Futures

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Transitioning from the MARC format (it might really happen!)

It's not too often that opening your email becomes a transformational moment, a "Wow" moment. Well, that was yesterday for me when the announcement came down from LC: Transforming our Bibliographic Framework: A Statement from the Libraray of Congress. I... Continue reading

Posted May 24, 2011 at Cataloging Futures

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Revisiting MARC must die

The "MARC must die" meme has resurfaced in several places lately. It refers to Roy Tennant's prescient article by the same title from 2002. So, over the weekend I printed it off to re-read it and then discovered, self-described library-geek,... Continue reading

Posted May 16, 2011 at Cataloging Futures

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Cataloging at its core: the minimum viable record

Cataloging simplification. It's a gospel I preach for a lot of reasons (which I won't tackle here). We can struggle with this issue in the isolation of library land or get out and see what others think. For me, nothing... Continue reading

Posted May 11, 2011 at Cataloging Futures

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Cool cataloging tool: Web2MARC

Found this last week: Web2MARC is a tool designed for school librarians as a way to automatically generate MARC records for resources they find on the web. This cataloging and metadata generation tool also creates MARCXML, MODS, and CSV formats.... Continue reading

Posted May 9, 2011 at Cataloging Futures

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XQuery for library metadata: no. 2

This post is second is a series that I'm hoping will be more regular. I want to try to share XQuery code that I've been writing for the development of digital library projects. This library module (which contains one function)... Continue reading

Posted Apr 4, 2011 at Cataloging Futures

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Maybe we won't be cataloging at all?

Just thinking out loud.... If I had any lingering doubts about the future possibility of automatic metadata extraction, they were banished last week watching Watson, the IBM supercomputer, playing Jeopardy (and beating the humans). So, the computational processing of natural... Continue reading

Posted Feb 24, 2011 at Cataloging Futures

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The cataloger-programmer continuum

Earlier this month, Diane Hillmann gave a keynote address at the Code4Lib 2011 conference [archived video] where she suggested that catalogers and programmers are on a continuum. Well, recently I've moved further down that continuum toward programming and away from... Continue reading

Posted Feb 23, 2011 at Cataloging Futures

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Another metadata-focused blog

Lately, I've really enjoyed reading a relatively new blog, Mod Librarian. Author, Tracy Guza, writes quite a bit on metadata issues in an interesting, engaging style. Since I've been thinking about core metadata elements lately, this post from Tracy's blog... Continue reading

Posted Feb 8, 2011 at Cataloging Futures

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The role of the cataloguer in the 21st century

Here's something that picks up on one of my favorite themes--what catalogers need to do to adjust to the changing information landscape. . . . Over on the High Visibility Cataloguing blog is a guest post worth reading. It links... Continue reading

Posted Feb 7, 2011 at Cataloging Futures

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