New MARC Usage Data Available
I just finished updating my “MARC Usage in WorldCat” web site that summarizes and reports on how MARC elements have been used in the 333,518,928 MARC records in WorldCat as of …
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Working Together to Clarify Approaches to Library Linked Data
As we announced earlier in the month, we have been communicating and collaborating with the Library of Congress over our different approaches to library linked data. The Library of Congress …
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Are you ready for EAD3? It’s coming soon!
The third version of Encoded Archival Description (EAD) is on the cusp of being released, which prompts me to offer up a quickie history of EAD’s development and to summarize what’s coming …
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Synchronizing metadata among different databases
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Naun Chew of Cornell and Joan Swanekamp of Yale. As libraries have increased collecting commercial …
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The Variation and the Damage Done
Some of you may already know about my “MARC Usage in WorldCat” project, where I simply expose the contents of a number of MARC subfields in ordered lists of strings. The …
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BIBFRAME Testing and Implementation
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers, initiated by Philip Schreur of Stanford. We were fortunate that staff from several BIBFRAME testers participated: Columbia, …
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Libraries Making an Impact on the Web of Data
It has been no secret that we are using a vocabulary developed by Google, Microsoft, and others for exposing structured metadata on the web. Documented at Schema.org, this vocabulary is …
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Challenges posed by translations
I have been doing a lot of editing of worksets datamined from WorldCat to identify the titles of original works (in the original language and script) and all their associated …
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Identifiers / Infrastructure and Standards Support / Libraries Archives and Museums / Metadata / Modeling new services / Renovating Descriptive Practice
The Most Important Thing You Haven’t Heard Of
Many really important things are not recognized as such when they occur. Recognition only dawns slowly, as the implications of what has happened sinks in. I think this is one …
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Authority for Establishing Metadata Practice
That was the topic discussed recently by OCLC Research Library Partners metadata managers. Carlen Ruschoff (U. Maryland), Philip Schreur (Stanford) and Joan Swanekamp (Yale) had initiated the topic, observing that libraries …
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