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The Changing Face of Cataloging: Presentations from the 2012 Annual Meeting...
I wasn’t able to go to ALA annual this year and am just getting around to the presentations posted online on ALAconnect. At every annual, ALCTS interest group, MIG, or the Metadata Interest Group,...
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Thanks Managing Metadata
I have to give a shout out to Laura Smart at Caltech libraries and her recent post on her blog Managing Metadata. She writes about her current experience of moving beyond AACR2/RDA/MARC, DC and EAD....
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Gathering Statistics: Measuring the Value of Technical Services
Recently, ALCTS e-forum held a forum on “Turning Statistics Into Assessment: How Technical Services Measure the Value of Their Services.” If you missed the discussion, you should be able to see the...
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The Functions of (Meta) Data
I attended the NISO webinar entitled, “Metadata for Managing Scientific Research Data” presented by Jane Greenberg. I was pleasantly surprised by the presentation. The slides are freely available and...
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The HIVE
In the realm of controlled vocabularies, there are a large number out there. The Library of Congress has gathered commonly found authority data and presented it as linked data so that it is readable...
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Using RDA as a data content standard for your digital collections
The other day I attended a NETSL program called AACR2 and RDA: Key Differences, presented by Steven Arakawa from Yale University. It was a wonderful presentation. Steven had a session on theory...
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Blog on RDA
The rise of more RDA resources on the web remind me that the “deadline” is fast approaching. Don’t some still use the phrase Retirement Day Approaching? The other day a colleague told me that one of...
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Updated Transformations from LC for MODS
This is actually funny. I just saw today that the Library of Congress has updated transformations for MODS on its MODS web site (http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods). For a very long time, the...
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Metadata experts
Have you noticed that everyone these days seems to be a metadata expert? About two years ago, several at my institution participated in the ARL eScience Institute. This institute was a chance to...
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Learning About Metadata
In my last post, I talked about the rise of metadata experts and how instead it was important to grow and learn about metadata as it is an ever evolving discipline. I have to say that being a part of a...
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What is Metadata?
Recently I have been asked this question many times. By coincidence, Bonnie Swoger wrote an article in Scientific America Online and asked that same question. And so … what is metadata? Well, the most...
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Metadata Consultation Services
I just finished reading Laura Smart’s new post, “What the heck is a metadata service?” This is something that I’ve also had to come to terms with. I was hired to be primarily the audiovisual cataloger...
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Underthinking for a change
There are times when you have a project and it seems like the fancy tools are just out of reach. If only your department had a software engineer or if you had time to learn python and perl! With the...
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Google Refine
In my last post, I talked about using mail merge and excel to do data cleanup. Mail merge and excel are good tools for data cleanup. But like many tools they have their limitations. Another tool that...
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A Translation of the Big Heads at ALA MidWinter
I enjoy attending brown bags to hear my colleagues’ summarize their trips to various conferences. The other week, I attended a colleague’s brown bag about the Big Heads at ALA Midwinter 2013. This...
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The Dog Ate My Metadata
Have you heard the story of “Legacy Metadata” or “Legacy Data”? I heard it again the other day and it went like this…. Now we’re moving to a new and improved digital platform. After we test the system...
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METS Is As Easy As Sliced Apple Pie
I recently heard from a colleague that the Metadata Encoding Transmission Standard (http://www.loc.gov/mets) is easy. Let me backup and provide some context to this assertion. My colleague works...
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Going from A Traditional to Hybrid Cataloging Department
I recently attended the ACRL New England Conference. It was a very good conference, especially since I was able to connect with a couple of my colleagues in cataloging. We got to talking about how to...
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Metadata: Being Discussed Beyond The Realm of Catalog/Metadata Librarians
Just the other day I attended the ACRL/NEC SCIG conference entitled, “New Roles for Supporting Digital Scholarship in Academic Libraries”. The program included Nick Shockey from the Right to Research...
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My Shiny New Metadata
I almost named my last post the “Shiny New Metadata That Could”. Instead I focused on some of the highlights of the ACRL NE get together at Northeastern. But I kept thinking about the increase of the...
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