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Are EAD content headings associated with controlled vocabularies, or can they be? For names of people, families, organizations, subjects, places, and genre forms, the EAD Tag Analysis conducted by OCLC …
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In November, we shared information with you about the Building a National Finding Aid Network project (NAFAN). This is a two-year research and demonstration project to build the foundation for a (US) national …
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Last week I attended Google’s annual 3-day developer conference, Google I/O, held in Mountain View, California. This event has frequently been a showcase for new Google products and ventures, some …
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I had the good fortune to attend the Code4Lib 2015 conference in Portland OR last week. It was a great event as usual, but it’s an event that I don’t always …
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Earlier this month I had the good fortune to attend the “Fonds & Bonds” one-day workshop, just ahead of the DC-2014 meeting in Austin, TX. The workshop was held at …
Read MoreOne of the contributions made by OCLC Research to its Museum Data Exchange project was the OAICatMuseum OAI-PMH repository software. OAICatMuseum is an extension to OCLC’s OAICat software that included …
Read MoreMeanwhile, The San Francisco Public Library A guide to the SFPL by the great Wendy MacNaughton. Absolutely beautiful. Nice quote from “D”, a guard: One thing I’ve stopped saying here …
Read MoreSmithsonian Crowdsourcing Since 1847! | The Bigger Picture Given our interest in social metadata, interesting that one of our partners (Smithsonian) has been at “crowdsourcing” for such a long time! …
Read MoreLike, Share, Discover: Facebook For Scientists : NPR This is more like “what we’re listening to” but I was struck by how ResearchGate has all of the characteristics necessary for …
Read MoreLower Costs and Better Care for Neediest Patients : The New Yorker Open data plus big data analysis to produce a health care heatmap finds the “worst of the worst” …
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