- Marie Kennedy is the Serials & Electronic Resources Librarian at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. This blog is about organization, librarianship, and sometimes monkeys and/or bananas.
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Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control
watching the hearing via the web. join in: http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/live.html note: you’ll need realplayer to view beacher wiggins is on right now, talking about vendor-supplied metadata…
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e-lis, the open archive for library and information science
you all probably already know about e-lis, right? it’s an open archive for library and information science. a simple search at the site for the term metadata retrieved 335 results. bliss. i chuckled at the directions on the complicated-looking advanced … Continue reading →
semantic web browser
has anyone out there used the semantic web browser called disco or employed its firefox bookmarklet? if so, leave a comment about how you’ve found its use and give an example of a search you’ve done.
metadata, not crap
i’m working on an article about assigning metadata and happened upon the old corey doctorow comment, “metacrap.” i bump into this work every once in a while when googling something metadata-ish. it’s a humorous piece in which doctorow points out … Continue reading →
tagcrowd
jeff pomerantz’s blog pointed me to a site called tagcrowd. i pasted in the text of my forthcoming chapter, The impact of locally developed electronic resource management systems (in the book Electronic Resource Management in Libraries: Research and Practice). Here … Continue reading →
i write like a man?
i dumped my blog post commenting on expertise in pictorial perception into the “gender genie,” and it thinks i am a man. what is surprising about this, you ask? i am a woman. here’s the metadata it logged from the … Continue reading →