Monday, January 30, 2006

Resource Description and Access. Medeiros, Norm (2005) The Future of the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. OCLC Systems & Services 21(4):pp. 8-12. "This article discusses the impending update to the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules (AACR) and its potential impact on libraries and other metadata communities." Short introduction to RDA. AACR [Catalogablog] comment []9:06:18 PM     Folksonomies. Folksonomies Tidying up Tags? by Marieke Guy and Emma Tonkin appears in the latest D-Lib magazine. In this article we look at what makes folksonomies work. We agree with the premise that tags are no replacement for formal systems, but we see this as being the core quality that makes folksonomy tagging so useful. We begin by looking at the issue of "sloppy tags", a problem to which critics of folksonomies are keen to allude, and ask if there are ways the folksonomy community could offset such problems and create systems that are conducive to searching, sorting and classifying. We then go on to question this "tidying up" approach and its underlying assumptions, highlighting issues surrounding removal of low-quality, redundant or nonsense metadata, and the potential risks of tidying too neatly and thereby losing the very openness that has made folksonomies so popular. Folksonomies [Catalogablog] comment []9:04:31 PM     Cataloging Costs. How much will it cost to catalog a collection? The MARC Cost Calculator may provide an answer. Cataloging [Catalogablog] comment []9:03:49 PM     Two more OA repositories indexed by Thomson's Web Citation Index. Ulrich Herb has announced on SOAF that [b]oth OA repositories (SciDok the institutional repository at Saarland University, and PsyDok the disciplinary repository for psychological OA content) at Saarland University and State Library (SULB, Germay) will be added to Thomsons Web Citation Index and Current Web Contents. By noemail@noemail.org (Peter Suber). [Open Access News] comment []9:00:48 PM     Web Page Metadata. Google has released a study of metadata use in the pages they spider. They point out the most used ones and the most common errors. The Dublin Core people can take some comfort from the fact that although their keywords didn't appear in the top ten chart above, they were quite well featured in the next few dozen. Here are the ten most used dc.foo values, most popular first: dc.title, dc.language, dc.creator, dc.subject, dc.publisher, dc.description, dc.identifier, dc.date, dc.format, dc.rights. In fact the order maps relatively closely to the frequency of similar metadata in other constructs, like class names or rel values. Nice to know people are consistent! The page discussing the Page Headers is also interesting. Metadata [Catalogablog] comment []8:58:58 PM

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