Breaking Open the ILS Silos
In 2007-2008, the Digital Library Federation (DLF) convened a Task Group to recommend standard interfaces for integrating the data and services of the Integrated Library System (ILS) with new applications …
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Next-Gen Harvesting
Metadata harvesting (collecting metadata from others and aggregating it in a collection) is not new. Although there are any number of ways to do this, the OAI-PMH protocol for metadata …
Read MoreORCID and ISNI: Author, Swineherd, Taxman, Alcohol Researcher
At recent meetings I attended in Washington D.C. there was significant hallway discussion about the Open Researcher Contributor Identification (ORCID) initiative. Given the science orientation of the meetings this initiative …
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The Straight Dope on OAIster
As many of you are probably aware, OCLC and the University of Michigan announced last January that OCLC was taking over the OAIster aggregation of metadata harvested from OAI-compliant repositories. …
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Context for Metasearch
Last Friday the Encoded Archival Context (EAC) standard for archival authorities was released to the international community for review. Warning: an EAC record is not your grandmother’s MARC authority record. …
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Networking names
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 MoreAnalysis Methodology for Museum Data
In a previous post, I’ve shared some background about the data analysis phase of our Museum Data Exchange Mellon grant, and posted some of the questions our museum participants wanted …
Read MoreMuseum Data Exchange: Tools for Sharing
As all good things in life, this took a little longer to see the light of day than I had thought it would, which means I am doubly delighted to …
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Repositories and library cultures
When is a repository not a repository? When it’s an OPAC? Are OPACs in reality a species of repository, however reluctantly, given that the genus is usually used with a …
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Herbert’s Adventures In Linking
The title of this post is my homage to another famous Belgian. I have been posting from the 9th International Bielefeld Conference in Germany. In yesterday’s closing keynote, Herbert Van …
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