Question for the Group— Would you include Integrated Library Systems in this topic?
Articles to Read
Understanding Metadata
Future of Cataloging - a compilation of 11 articles
The Information Universe: Will we have chaos or control?
People to Know
Michael Gorman — co-author of AACR2, ALA president
Arlene Taylor — professor emerita, University of Pittsburgh, author of several books, including our 551 text.
Topics
Metadata
From Understanding Metadata:
- Descriptive metadata describes a resource for purposes such as discovery and identification. It can include elements such as title, abstract, author, and keywords.
- Structural metadata indicates how compound objects are put together, for example, how pages are ordered to form chapters.
- Administrative metadata provides information to help manage a resource, such as when and how it was created, file type, and other technical information, and who can access it.
- Rights management metadata deals with intellectual property rights
- Preservation metadata contains information on how to archive and preserve a resource.
Future of MARC
Will RDA Be DOA? A short tech article in LJ that sums up some of the problems the RDA joint steering committee is encountering.
Social Tagging
Tags helps Make Libraries Del.ic.ious - Library Journal Article recommended by Dr. Hsieh-Yee
Folksonomies
Chief Thingamabrarian - Library Journal Article on Librarything and its melding of taxonomy and folksonomy
Taxonomies
Webcasts
LC Digital Future and You Webcasts
- Solr Powered Libraries, Erik Hatcher
- NCSU's Faceted Catalog, Andrew Pace
- Zotero, Dan Cohen, Trevor Owens
- LibraryThing: A Social Cataloging Web Site,Tim Spalding
- Using METS and MODS, Morgan Cundiff, Nate Trail
- The Digital Data Universe, Chris Greer
- It's All about Access, Dave Reser,Regina Romano Reynolds
- You might also want to look at everything under Science, Technology including:
- Ambient Findability, Peter Morville