Unicode 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 …
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How 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 MoreMay 8 Metadata Tools Forum Inspirations
We announced our May 8, 2008 RLG Programs Metadata Tools Forum earlier today. What inspired Roy, Merrilee, and me to put this together? Participants loved the 2006 RLG Forum on …
Read MoreCongratulations to U. Michigan for Its 1 Millionth Digitized Book Milestone!
Paul Courant wrote in his Au Courant blog on February 2 that the University of Michigan achieved a significant milestone: it had just put the one millionth book digitized from …
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 More2008:The Year of Non-Latin References in LC/NACO Authority Records
We’ve seen lots of forecasts for 2008, the Year of the Rat. Here’s mine, which I have lots of confidence will indeed happen: We will see Arabic-, Chinese-, Cyrillic-, Greek-, …
Read MoreBrowsing audio
Recently I realized that I’m spending almost as much time in “professional listening” as I am doing “professional reading”. So many interviews, Webcasts, TED talks, Google Tech Talks, and the …
Read MoreApproaches to metadata creation: Our survey results!
The RLG Programs Descriptive Metadata Practices Survey results are now out! The report is divided into two documents: RLG Programs’ interpretation of the results and the issues we identified to …
Read MoreLots of Data on Metadata Practices!
OK, so I was overly optimistic when I predicted that the report on the RLG Descriptive Metadata Practices Survey results would be out in October. I had anticipated that a …
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., …
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