A wait that’s (almost) over
As I blogged before, Some things are worth waiting for. And yes, 2008 is indeed the Year of Non-Latin References in LC/NACO Authority Records. The first of the pre-populated name …
Read MoreInfrastructure and Standards Support
Acronyms – fragile and high
For quite awhile Lorcan has commented on the relatively heavy weight of library data and exchange standards. In general our community has opted for high value and low participation choices …
Read MoreUnicode milestone
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 …
Read MoreNLA Unveils “Library Labs”
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 …
Read MoreHow many WorldCat MARC tags are REALLY used?
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 …
Read MoreThe Importance of Place – an anecdote
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 …
Read MoreHappy birthday TCP/IP
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” …
Read MoreDigital Preservation / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Renovating Descriptive Practice / Web Archiving
Communities of practice in web archiving
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 …
Read MoreSome things are worth waiting for
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., …
Read MoreWhat’s in a Name?
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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