Category: libraries
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rdf:about=”Linked MARC Codes”
I have been slowly taking the MARC codes lists and modeling them as linked data. I released a handful of them several months ago (geographic area codes, countries and languages) and have added more as I get inspired or have some free time. Most recently, I’ve added the Form of Item, Target Audience and Instruments…
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Where is the outrage?
For a couple of months this year, the library world was aflame with rage at the proposed OCLC licensing policy regarding bibliographic records. It was a justifiable complaint, although I basically stayed out of it: it just didn’t affect me very much. After much gnashing of teeth, petitions, open letters from consortia, etc. OCLC eventually…
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Comment from an Alternate Universe
In a world where library management systems are sophisticated and modern… I was doing some Google searches about SKOS, trying to figure out the exact distinction between skos:ConceptScheme and skos:Collection (it’s much more clear to me now) and I came across this article in XML.com: Introducing SKOS The article is fine, but it’s not what…
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Dear Innovative Customers
Why do you put up with this crap? Maybe it’s about time you all started to explore this idea again.
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Filing an extension on my fifteen minutes
I was reading Brian’s appeal for more Emerils in the library world (bam!), noticed Steven Bell’s comment (his blog posting was a response to one by Steven in the first place) and it got me thinking. First off, I don’t necessarily buy into Brian’s argument. Maybe it’s due to the fact that he’s younger than…
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Tales from the Open Content Alliance
San Francisco is a truly miserable town to try to recuperate from a sore throat. Not that anyone would consider a place with the nickname ‘Fog City’ to be a good place to convalesce, especially since walking around in the wet and cold is so desirable given the charms of the city. And so I…
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HACK IS NOT A CRIME
…although LinuX_Xploit_Crew, with all due respect, I think it actually is. Oh well, we’re back with a new theme (which nobody will see except to read comments, since I’m pretty sure all traffic comes from the code4lib planet) and an updated WordPress install. Look out, world! So, in the downtime here’s a non-comprehensive rundown of…
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Union Card
Can anyone give a rational explanation as to why a job with a description like this: DESCRIPTION: Provides technology and computer support for the Vanderbilt Library. The major areas of responsibility include developing, maintaining and assisting in the enhancement of interfaces to web-enabled database applications (currently implemented in perl, PHP, and MySQL). The position also…
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In search of… Bigfoot
Before I left for Guatemala, Ian Davis at Talis asked if I could give him a dump of our MARC records to load into Talis Platform. I had been talking in the #code4lib channel about how I was pushing the idea of using Talis Source to make simple, ad-hoc union catalogs; we could make one…
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A proposal to Endeavor Voyager customers
If YPOW, like MPOW, is an Endeavor Voyager site, you’ve got some decisions ahead. Francisco Partners, naturally, would like you to migrate to Aleph, and I have no doubt that Ex Libris is, as I write this, busily working on a means to make that easy for Voyager libraries to do. But ILS migrations are…