Group items tagged

Includes one of the best brief descriptions of metadata that I've found. The author also, using example photos, illustrates the importance of metadata and its relevance to a material being used.

Nice! Thanks for sharing Jennifer.

An article I found interesting both for how the Douglas County Libraries was trying to own rather then license much of their e-resources and store it on a server, but also how they were working with the metadata for those resources, converting it bu a crosswalk from the publication industry's XML-based ONIX (ONline Information eXchange) or simple Excel into Marc.

I'm very heartened by this development, and by the implication that libraries are taking control of their own metadata in order to make the items within their collections more findable, and more easy to integrate with other mediums.

The Handle System "A digital object may incorporate not only informational elements, i.e., a digitized version of a paper, movie or sound recording, but also the unique identifier of the digital object and other metadata about the digital object." It is the larger group that DOI belongs to and helps with providing electronic resources not only with a persistent link but metadata associated with that resource.

Creative Commons weighs in on OCLC's recommendation that its members adopt the Open Data Commons Attribution license (linked in the article) for the catalog metadata they share in OCLC.  While CC commends OCLC for encouraging the sharing of data, it points out that a license, even an open data license, can prove problematic when it comes to reusing and recombining data found within OCLC with other sources.  

CrossRef is the official DOI registration agency of the international DOI Foundation. It was launched in 2000 and includes over 900 voting members and publishers who represent over 3000 societies and publishers. The organization includes metadata services and on the front page a resolver so DOI strings that are not hyperlinked will connect directly to the resource to determine what it is.

Interestingly enough, III seems to use it for WebBridge (which I know little about): http://csdirect.iii.com/webbridge/index.php?n=LinkSyntax.DOI-CrossRef

An article that brings up what we lose by having everything recorded, Some points are made in how our memories change over time and instead seeing an optimized or idealized memory we would see out past differently. Also, our methods of interaction and learning will change as things get broken down more and more by probabilities and assessments based on metadata from recorded conversations.

Karen Coyle's answer is, "Yes, but it can't be an end of itself."  She gives a very nice imaging of what linked library data could possibly do.

Hmm.  Justin, you're our R&D person.  What say you?

Completely agree.