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Our Networking Names report has just been published! I was pleased to see this morning a number of tweets announcing it – or echoing other tweets. I blogged last November …
Read MoreTry out the enhanced and expanded Virtual International Authority File at viaf.org.. It now contains 7.8 million records built from 9.2 million source authority records from the Library of Congress, …
Read MoreAn RLG Partner working group that I facilitated has completed its analysis of the 134 responses from 67 RLG partners to a survey conducted in October-November 2008. What We’ve Learned …
Read MoreI kicked off a new RLG Partner Working Group this week, on social metadata. (So new, it’s not written up on our Web site yet.) As I’m wont to do …
Read More“Names touch everything” came up early in the series of conference calls held with the Networking Names Advisory Group, prior to our meeting on November 17, 2008 hosted by the …
Read MoreAs 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 MoreI previously blogged about how the May 8, 2008 RLG Programs Metadata Tools Forum all came together, with some photos. We had already added the “summary sheets” created by each …
Read MoreThis was our first try at a forum like this, bringing tool developers and their intended user communities together, and focusing most of the forum on the tool developers showcasing …
Read MoreThree weeks ago my colleague Thom Hickey blogged about a project he started to control names in WorldCat. This is another example of leveraging the work done in WorldCat Identities …
Read MoreDuring Merrilee’s and my visit to the Boston Public Library last Friday, Tom Blake and Maura Marx introduced us to the results of the BPL’s digitization of its fore-edge books—books …
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