Metadata : 2003 Dublin Core Conference Summary. Professional Reading Shelf Metadata 2003 Dublin Core Conference Summary (via Boxes and Arrows) You can also browse/search and view online many of the conference presentations and papers. [ResourceShelf]  2:01:21 PM   [Feedback ]  

Libraries : Amazon. The UK's Amazon has added records from the British Library to their catalog. Seems like Amazon appreciates the value of cataloging metadata.

The British Library has added details of over 2.55 million unique bibliographic records to the Amazon.co.uk books catalogue, with 1.7 million of these dated before the 1970 introduction of ISBN.

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Scholarly Communication : Open Access : Reuters covers OA. Patricia Reaney, Scientists Push for Open Access, Reuters, November 24, 2003. Excerpt: "Scientific publishing may never be the same again if a group of crusading researchers have their way. Just as the Internet transformed the way the public get information, the founders of the non-profit Public Library of Science (PLoS) want scientific research to be freely available to everyone....Dr Pritpal Tamber, of the London-based open access publisher BioMed Central, agrees. He argues that much of scientific research is publicly funded so it should be freely accessible to everyone." [Open Access News]  8:32:33 AM   [Feedback ]