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Unicode milestone

May 5, 2008 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

Mark Davis blogged today on the Official Google Blog that Unicode passed a new milestone last December: For the first time Unicode became the most frequent encoding found on Web …

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Infrastructure and Standards Support / Libraries / Modeling new services

NLA Unveils “Library Labs”

March 20, 2008March 20, 2008 - by Roy Tennant

The National Library of Australia (an RLG partner institution) has announced a “Library Labs” space “let our colleagues know what we are doing, to invite comments, questions and feedback and …

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Infrastructure and Standards Support / Libraries / Renovating Descriptive Practice

How many WorldCat MARC tags are REALLY used?

March 12, 2008March 12, 2008 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura - 8 Comments.

Answer: Not many. And there are a lot of MARC tags that are rarely used. I recently analyzed the occurrence frequency of MARC tags in a December 2007 WorldCat snapshot …

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Infrastructure and Standards Support

The Importance of Place – an anecdote

January 22, 2008September 18, 2020 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

John Hagel recently blogged about the increasing value of place in shaping talent development and how the density of similar types of companies “increases opportunities for serendipitous encounters and sustained …

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Happy birthday TCP/IP

January 16, 2008 - by Merrilee Proffitt - 3 Comments.

TCP/IP is frequently held up as a model for the type of lightweight standard that libraries and affiliated communities should aim to develop. But what goes into developing a “lightweight” …

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Digital Preservation / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Renovating Descriptive Practice / Web Archiving

Communities of practice in web archiving

October 30, 2007September 4, 2020 - by Merrilee Proffitt

Long, long ago, on October 18th (before I moved offices or went on vacation!) I attended the first day of the Archive-It partners’ meeting at the Internet Archive. Molly Bragg …

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Infrastructure and Standards Support / Renovating Descriptive Practice

Some things are worth waiting for

October 16, 2007 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura - 2 Comments.

The Library of Congress’ CPSO (Cataloging Policy and Support Office) announced today: The major authority record exchange partners (British Library, Library of Congress, National Library of Medicine, and OCLC, Inc., …

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Infrastructure and Standards Support / Renovating Descriptive Practice

What’s in a Name?

October 3, 2007 - by Karen Smith-Yoshimura

I had the pleasure and honor of attending a Names Experts Panel meeting with my colleague Thom Hickey last week hosted by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) in London. The …

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Archives and Special Collections / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Measurement and Behaviors / Renovating Descriptive Practice

More Consensus; Less Controversy

September 4, 2007September 13, 2007 - by Jennifer Schaffner

A graduate student in history from UIUC told an audience of archivists at SAA that, because she begins her research on the web, she wants to know all the collections …

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Collective Collections / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Libraries Archives and Museums / Museums

Bio(and human)diversity

June 28, 2007June 28, 2007 - by Günter Waibel

It’s been too long. Since I’ve last posted on April 16th, I’ve been to Atlanta, Chicago, Augsburg (GER), Bolzano & Venice (IT), Washington DC, Amsterdam (NL), London (UK), and I’ll …

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