NH Classification

Here is a special classification I'd not meet before, NH Classification Schedule for Artistic Photography. Makes sense, at first glance. Why have some art books in the technology area, just because of the tools used? BTW are the computer art books in art or technology?

The NH schedule is designed for the classification of photography books of an artistic nature. It was initially compiled for the 4th edition of N, which was issued in 1970. When the Library of Congress rejected the proposed subclass for art photography, it was published by ARLIS/NA in 1974. NH has been adopted by a number of libraries with strong collections of artistic photography as an alternative to TR, which emphasizes the technical aspects of photography.

Classification

Tagging and Evaluation

D. Taraborelli at Academic Productivity has posted an interesting article, Soft peer review? Social software and distributed scientific evaluation.

Online reference managers are extraordinary productivity tools, but it would be a mistake to take this as their primary interest for the academic community. As it is often the case for social software services, online reference managers are becoming powerful and costless solutions to collect large sets of metadata, in this case collaborative metadata on scientific literature. Taken at the individual level, such metadata (i.e. tags and ratings added by individual users) are hardly of interest, but on a large scale I suspect they will provide information capable of outperforming more traditional evaluation processes in terms of coverage, speed and efficiency.

Tagging

Connexion Problem Fix

OCLC has developed updates to install to fix the problem in Connexion client caused by Microsoft Windows update KB918118. With KB918118 installed on your workstation, you cannot open and display records from online or local files in the Connexion client.

To fix this problem, go to the OCLC software download page and download and install the Connexion client 1.70 update or the Connexion client 1.60 update, depending on which version of the client you are using. Go to the client known problems page for installation instructions.

Please note: When you are ready to upgrade to the next version of Connexion client, you must first uninstall both your current version and the update program.

Seen on AUTOCAT.

Connexion

Tagging at Amazon and LibraryThing

Tim at LibraryThing has a long post, an article would be a better description, comparing tagging at Amazon and LibraryThing. When tags work and when they don't: Amazon and LibraryThing draws some conclusions based on the differences in the number of tags applied.

This is an extensive post, revealing the results of a statistical comparison between Amazon and LibraryThing tags, and exploring why tagging has turned out relatively poorly for Amazon. I end by making concrete recommendations for ecommerce sites interested in making tagging work.

Tagging

LC RSS Feeds

Beginning with Weekly List 1 for 2007, the Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly Lists and Library of Congress Classification Weekly Lists are now available as free RSS feeds. Users may subscribe to the feeds by clicking on the RSS link in the lower left corner of this page and selecting "Library of Congress Subject Headings Weekly Lists" and/or "Library of Congress Classification Weekly Lists."

Subscribed to both.

RSS

English and Spanish Subject Headings

Here is an interesting service, still in beta, LC Subject Headings in Spanish or Encabezamientos de materia LC en español.

This a preliminary Spanish-English/English-Spanish list of subject headings. Please use it with caution! Much of the data has not yet been checked thoroughly and some of it not at all.

As of January 2007 headings from the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (Spain) have been included along with the two original sources. One these is an English-Spanish list of headings and subdivisions under development at the Queens Borough Public Library. The other is a set of bibliographic records from the catalog of the San Francisco Public Library. These records contain subject headings in both languages and certain patterns made it possible to match Spanish to English with a fair degree of accuracy. Most of the errors in matching were removed through a manual review.

LCSH

TMEA

The rest of the week I'll be in San Antonio at the Texas Music Educators' Association (TMEA) conference. I'll be presenting a poster on the TEKSLink Project. Also, I'll be providing support for my wife since she is the elementary chair, VP, and conference chair. Don't expect I'll do any posting the rest of the week. Last year, it is a two year gig, we worked from 7 a.m. to 2 a.m. most days. Anyone reading this in S.A.?

TMEA

MARC to Solr

There is a preconference on Lucene and Solr before the Code4lib conference. Because of that Andrew Nagy has made available his MARCXML2SOLR XSLT document. If you have some MARC records in XML and want to get them into a format Solr understands, now you can. MarcEdit, among other tools, will get your MARC into MARCXML format. Can't make it to the preconference, use this tool to play along at home.

MARC

WorldCat Identities

Thom Hickey at Outgoing describes a new research project at OCLC, WorldCat Identities. Interesting. I searched for Wright, Austin Tappan and got a page showing classification numbers used, works by him, works about him, a time-line of publications, audience level, and related names. Nice summary. Could be used in NACO work.

Names

CONSER Standard Record Delayed

Good news from LC, the CONSER Standard Record has been delayed.

At the CONSER at large meeting held during ALA Midwinter, consensus was reached to wait for comments from the JSC before proceeding with implementation of the CONSER standard record. The expected date for JSC's discussion would be at their April meeting, or perhaps sooner, if the JSC is able to review the recommendations at an earlier meeting. Although agreement was not unanimous, the importance of CONSER libraries implementing the new standard record in a unified fashion was also supported by meeting attendees. In the event that remaining issues surrounding the full implementation of the standard record are not resolved by May, the CONSER Operations Committee will plan to discuss and recommend next steps at their regularly scheduled spring meeting.

Serials

Revision of LCRI 22.2 for Composers and Perfomers

LC is asking for comments on this change.

A discussion on the NACO-Music e-mail list concerning the current exception not to treat composers and performers as "contemporary authors" under AACR2 22.2B3 and applicable LCRIs has led to a reexamination of the need for the exception.

Before 2000, this exception resided only in the Music Cataloging Decisions (MCDs) [no longer published] and was applied by Library of Congress music catalogers and members of the NACO-Music funnel. NACO contributors unaware of the MCD may have created separate records for contemporary composers and performers under the conditions authorized in AACR2. The placement of the exception in LCRI 22.2 when it was moved from the MCDs has also generated some degree of confusion, misinterpretation, and misapplication (AACR2 itself discusses only "contemporary authors" in 22.2B3).

Given these issues, and the fact that the Cataloging Policy and Support Office has found contradictory information as to the reasons for the exception in the first place, CPSO recommends that the exception be removed from LCRI 22.2.

LCRIs

xISBN Service to Move

Eric Hellman has this announcement about the OCLC xISBN service.

At about 4PM EST on Tuesday, February 13, a switch will be flipped, and traffic aimed at the experimental version of xISBN will begin to be routed to a replacement xISBN service supported by the Openly Informatics Division of OCLC. Any application that follows http redirects- this should be most xISBN client applications- will continue to work without needing changes. The timing of this switch has been dictated by the decommissioning of a server, and we apologize if this short notice seriously impacts anyone.

After the switch, the traffic currently sent to "http://labs.oclc.org/xisbn/[ISBN]" will be redirected to "http://old-xisbn.oclc.org/webservices/xisbn/[ISBN]". This service will respond in almost exactly the same way that the research version has responded; you can change your applications to use the replacement address effective immediately. Of immediate benefit to all users of xISBN is be the drastically improved currency and frequent updates of the xISBN data set.

As you might guess from the replacement system host name, there will soon be a "new" version of the xISBN service. Xiaoming Liu, who has been working on xISBN for 3 months, will unveil the "WorldCat xISBN Service" at the Code4Lib conference at the end of the month.

There is a small difference in the behavior of the replacement service. If you send the replacement service a 13 digit ISBN, the entire result set will be returned with 13 digits.

If you expect your xISBN client service to use more than 1000 queries per day, please let us know (xisbn-support@oclc.org), as the traffic control systems have also changed.

To make sure that you are alerted of all of the coming changes surrounding xISBN, please make sure to sign up for the XIDENTIFIER-L listserv.

xISBN

Yahoo Pipes

Yahoo Pipes looks interesting. No time to play with it now, but how about running the RSS feeds from our catalogs through Flickr, Google Maps or .... Dead simple mash-ups. Accepts XML, so it is not limited to RSS feeds, those just seem to be the most commonly used.

Mash-ups

Video Annotation

Integrating Contextual Video Annotation into Media Authoring for Video Podcasting and Digital Medical Records by I-Jong Lin and Hui Chao is a new HP report.

In this paper, we demonstrate how rich media annotation can enable two new applications for video podcasting and digital medical records. At WIAMIS 2004, we introduced an innovative video annotation technology called Active Shadows, that captures a virtual presence interacting with a displayed image and overlays on top of a digital image. With Active Shadows, we combine the expert opinion and presence (of a professor and doctor) with the informationally rich images (presentation slides and medical images, respectively). We identify current forms of media whose value can be enhanced through this type of annotation, and introduce a basic workflow to produce new forms of media. This paper specifically discusses two experimental media workflows, one for authoring video for portable video devices (video podcasting) and another for integrating diagnoses with medical imaging for digital patient records.

Video

Geospatial Metadata Standards

News from the FGDC community.

The InterNational Committee for Information Technology Standards (INCITS) Technical Committee L1, Geographic Information Systems and the Canadian General Standards Board – Committee on Geomatics (CGSB-CoG) have released a draft of the North American Profile of International Standards Organization Standard 19115: 2003, Geographic information - Metadata (NAP – Metadata) for review. Review and comment from other metadata practitioners are also invited. Comments are invited to assure that the Profile meets the needs of the geographic information community in both the United States and Canada.

The review period began on February 1, 2007 and ends March 16, 2007.

FGDC

ONIX Resource

Here is a go-to place for ONIX Records for Libraries

I am trying to gather information on publishers who make ONIX records available for downloading. Here is what I have so far. If you know of another publisher that freely offers ONIX records for downloading, please contact me.

Provides searching of the records and instructions on getting them for yourself.

ONIX

Public comment for revision of DCMI Abstract Model

The DCMI Abstract Model, which attained the status of DCMI Recommendation in March 2005, has been revised in light of discussion and feedback from the DCMI Architecture Working Group, the DCMI Usage Board, and the broader community. This revised version of the Abstract Model has been posted for a four-week public comment period. A revised DCMI Namespace Policy proposing a new DCMI namespace for Abstract Model entities has been posted for comment at the same time. For more information please consult a longer announcement on the DC-ARCHITECTURE mailing list. Interested members of the public are invited to post comments on these Proposed Recommendations to the DC-ARCHITECTURE mailing list, including "[DCAM Public Comment]" in the subject line. Public Comment will be open from 5 February through 5 March 2007.

DCMI

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