Dublin Core for Scholarly Works

A Dublin Core Application Profile for Scholarly Works. Julie Allinson, Pete Johnston and Andy Powell describe a Dublin Core application profile for describing scholarly works that makes use of FRBR and the DCMI Abstract Model.

DCMI

Pew Report on Tagging

The Pew Internet and American Life Project has released a report on tagging.

Just as the internet allows users to create and share their own media, it is also enabling them to organize digital material their own way, rather than relying on pre-existing formats of classifying information.

A December 2006 survey has found that 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. On a typical day online, 7% of internet users say they tag or categorize online content.

The report features an interview with David Weinberger, a prominent blogger and fellow at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.

Tagging

Metasearch

Exciting news from Oregon State.

Oregon State University releases LibraryFind® software.

We are pleased to announce the first public release of the LibraryFind metasearch software, developed by Oregon State University Libraries. LibraryFind is free software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

This first public release, version 0.7, has a number of advanced features, such as (but not limited to):

• 2-click user workflow (one click to find, one click to get)
• Integrated OpenURL resolver
• 2-tiered caching system to improve search response time
• Customizable user interface

As this is a pre-1.0 release, there are still a number of features, functions, and efficiencies we plan to add to the software. We encourage involvement from others in the library community who are interested in working on an open source metasearch product.

LibraryFind

MARC21 slim to MODS 3.2 stylesheet

LC has recently revised the MARC21 slim to MODS 3.2 stylesheet.

This revision adds requested functionality for outputting invalid or outdated standard numbers represented in subfields $y or $z in MARC 010, 020, 022, 024, 028, and 037 to the @invalid in MODS.

MARC
MODS

UNT Call Number

Well, it's not Rolling Stone but I got my picture on the cover of Call Number.

Music TEKSLink

The Feb. issue of Southwestern Musician, in the Elementary Division column, has a description of the TEKSLink Project and an invitation to participate. If any Texas school librarians and their music teacher want to team-up just let me know. If you are a Texas school librarian and are not familiar with the project, you might want to get up to speed before your music teacher asks about it.

TEKSLink

Web Directions South

The presentations from Web Directions South are now available as slides and MP3s. I plan to listen on my commute to Microformats and You-biquity. Plenty of other good ones are available.

Web2.0

Metadata and Delicious

Eric Lease Morgan has taken the Alex texts and extracted keywords from them and their metadata and then loaded this on del.icio.us. All automated. Nice for discovery of the texts in the Alex Catalog. However, I wonder, since this is possible, just how soon before spammers set up something like this and destroy the social bookmarking sites.

Tagging

MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions

Addition to the MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions

The code listed below has been recently approved for use in MARC 21 records. The code will be added to the online MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions.

The code should not be used in exchange records until after March 26, 2007. This 60-day waiting period is required to provide MARC 21 implementers time to include newly defined codes in any validation tables they may apply to the MARC fields where the codes are used.Addition to the MARC Code Lists for Relators, Sources, Description Conventions

Other Sources

The following code is for use in subfield $2 in field 886 (Foreign MARC Information Field) in Bibliographic records.

Addition:

bibsysm

BIBSYS-MARC (Trondheim: BIBSYS) [use after March 26, 2007]

MARC

Question

Maybe I should ask this on AUTOCAT but....

When I find a typo or misspelling in an item's title I use "i.e." to supply the correct word and then create 2 246s. One with the title as on the item and the other with the correct spelling. I have not been doing anything other than using "i.e." and supplying the correct word when it occurs in subfield b. Is this enough?

Typos

MARC::Record

Version 2 of MARC::Record is now available.

MARC

New Platform for Catalogablog

Catalogablog has been moved to a new platform by Google. Seems to be OK. If anyone experiences any problems please let me know.

Cataloging Cultural Objects

Lately I've been skimming Cataloging Cultural Objects. So different from AACR2. We think in terms of author, title and subject access so easily. These folks are dealing with items with none of those properties. What is the title of a chair? Who is the author of that chair if the manufacturer is unknown? What is the chair about? I think every intro to cataloging course could benefit from doing a very brief comparison between CCO and AACR. The differences are enlightening.

CCO

Weeding

Lately there have been many posts in library weblogs about weeding issues. I won't comment on them. Each library is unique and must make decisions about what is best for them. However, it does give me the opportunity to point to the Weed of the Month Club. Each month for many years they examined a subject area and then gave some guidelines and pointed out some books commonly in collections that should be considered for weeding. Intended for school libraries, it can be used for public, community college and in some instances academic and special libraries. A great resource.

A book has been published based on the project Less is more : a practical guide to weeding school library collections by Donna J. Baumbach and Linda L. Miller.

Weeding

Koha in the Classroom

LibLime is providing supported hosted Koha software to LIS programs. Now the students can get in there and see how searches change if 505t is added to the title index. What is the effect of indexing series fields in title searches? This kind of hands on experience is invaluable.

They can get the MIT catalog to use as a catalog, just have to convert the MARCXML to MARC. Then convert the MARCXML version of the LC authority files, to have a nice test environment.

Koha

Social OPAC

Another bit of news that is sure to be widespread is the SOPAC by John Blyberg. Based on Drupal, he has released it as open-source. Works on III catalogs. "So what is the SOPAC? It's basically a set of social networking tools integrated into the AADL catalog. It gives users the ability to rate, review, comment-on, and tag items."

OPAC

Authority Records in MARCXML

Seen elsewhere but too pertinent not to mention, is that the LC authority file is now available in MARCXML.

Using a custom agent, we were able to harvest 6.95 million authority records using the publicly accessible interface to the Library of Congress authority files located at authorities.loc.gov.

• Retrieved records have been converted into MarcXML
• Accented characters have been converted into NFC (Composed Normal Form).
• Initial checks against authorities.loc.gov indicate that the retrieved data faithfully reflect that on the original system; however these checks are still only preliminary.

Cross checks against Classification Web have revealed some inconsistencies. For this reason, we are releasing this data for research purposes only. This data is not suitable for production use.

First seen on librarian.net

MARCXML

Criticism of LC

The Library of Congress Professional Guild has posted 2 papers.

• Eliminating Series Authority Records and Series Title Control: Improving Efficiency or Creating Waste? Or, 12 Reasons Why the Library of Congress Should Reconsider Its SARs Decision prepared for AFSCME 2910 by Gary M. Johnson.
  
  
• More on What is Going on at the Library of Congress prepared for AFSCME 2910 by Thomas Mann.

LC

OJAX Federated Search Service Software

An exciting announcement about OJAX, an open-source federated search tool.

OJAX federated search service software is now in Beta release and available for download. Version 0.7 has improved performance, stability and user feedback, as well as additional features such as RSS/Atom feed support. (Atom feeds of stored searches alert users when new content matching their interests is harvested.)

OJAX illustrates how federated search services can respond to new user expectations generated by Web 2.0:

• Rich, dynamic user experience. OJAX uses Ajax technology to provide immediate dynamic response to user input.
• Intuitive interface. The OJAX interface provides the simplicity and familiarity of Google but with the power of advanced search
• Integration, interoperability and reuse. OJAX uses loosely coupled Web Services and supports the OpenSearch RSS standard, thus facilitating integration with a range of virtual library environments, institutional repositories, course management systems and institutional portals.
• Open source standards-compliance. OJAX supports best-practice open source standards and software, including OpenSearch, OAI-PMH, StAX and Apache Lucene.

Features of OJAX:

• Auto-completion of search terms
• Triggering of auto-searches
• Dynamically scrollable search results - no more navigating between pages
• Auto-expansion of search result details
• Rapid sorting of results
• Integrated with the Firefox 2 / IE 7 search feature
• Supports OpenSearch Discovery
• Stored searches as Atom feeds
• Includes an OAI-PMH harvester
• Easy to install in your own institution

Further information, demo and download.

Two alternative packages are available:

1. OJAX GUI, Web Services & Harvester
2. OJAX GUI, Web Services, Harvester & example repository index

--
Dr Judith Wusteman

OJAX

WebDAV

I'm wondering why Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) is not more common. It seems pretty simple and has MS support, yet I never have heard of it being used. Or am I just missing it?

The WebDAV protocol's aim was to make the World Wide Web a readable and writable medium, in line with Tim Berners-Lee's original vision. It provides functionality to create, change and move documents on a remote server (typically a web server or "web share"). This is useful, among other things, for authoring the documents which a web server serves, but can also be used for general web-based file storage that can be accessed from anywhere. Important features in WebDAV protocol include locking (overwrite prevention), properties (creation, removal, and querying of information about author, modified date, etc.), name space management (ability to copy and move Web pages within a server's namespace) and collections (creation, removal, and listing of resources). Most modern operating systems provide built-in support for WebDAV. With the right client and a fast network, it can be almost as easy to use files on a WebDAV server as those stored in local directories.

WebDAV