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Break On Through To The Other Side: The Library And Linked Data, F. Tim Knight Mar 2011

Break On Through To The Other Side: The Library And Linked Data, F. Tim Knight

Librarian Publications & Presentations

This article discusses the barriers that exist between library bibliographic data and other data available on the World Wide Web. The isolation of this bibliographic data is a problem that impacts on the successful integration of the library catalogue into the potential semantic Web of the future. It will look at two available data models for bibliographic data and introduces the Resource Description Framework (RDF) which has emerged as the preferred data model for enabling linked data on the Web. The article concludes with a brief look at some current activities related to linked data that are occurring as part …

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Volume 30, Number 1, March 2010 Olac Newsletter, Kate James, Nathan Putnam, Jan Mayo, Barbara Vaughan, Douglas King, Jay Weitz Mar 2011

Volume 30, Number 1, March 2010 Olac Newsletter, Kate James, Nathan Putnam, Jan Mayo, Barbara Vaughan, Douglas King, Jay Weitz

OLAC Newsletters

Digitized March 2010 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.

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Information Outlook, March 2011, Special Libraries Association Mar 2011

Information Outlook, March 2011, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2011

Volume 15, Issue 2

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Information Outlook, January/February 2011, Special Libraries Association Feb 2011

Information Outlook, January/February 2011, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2011

Volume 15, Issue 1

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Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival, Karen Rowell, The University Of Southern Mississippi, The University Of Southern Mississippi's School Of Library And Information Science Jan 2011

Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival, Karen Rowell, The University Of Southern Mississippi, The University Of Southern Mississippi's School Of Library And Information Science

Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival Programs

The program for the forty-fourth annual Fay B. Kaigler Children's Book Festival held on the campus of The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, Mississippi in 2011.

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Kvug 2011 Minutes, Julene L. Jones Jan 2011

Kvug 2011 Minutes, Julene L. Jones

Ex Libris Bluegrass Users Group Newsletter

Minutes from KVUG 2011 meeting.

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Pcc Training For Copy Catalogers: Is It Worth The Investment? The Columbia University Libraries Experience, Natalia Gelber, Irina Kandarasheva Jan 2011

Pcc Training For Copy Catalogers: Is It Worth The Investment? The Columbia University Libraries Experience, Natalia Gelber, Irina Kandarasheva

Post Library Faculty Publications

This paper presents a case study program implemented at Columbia University Libraries that trains copy catalogers in Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) and Name Authority Cooperative Program (NACO) principles. Under the guidance of the NACO coordinator and cataloging supervisors, copy catalogers create PCC-level records for belles lettres materials, construct name and. uniform title headings, and submit classification number proposals for literary authors in a variety of languages in both roman and nonroman scripts. The benefits of the program include timely and efficient processing of materials, high-quality bibliographic records, better collocation of belles lettres, and upgrade of vendor or member records …

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Digitalcommons Report: 2011, Jean Bigger Jan 2011

Digitalcommons Report: 2011, Jean Bigger

DigitalCommons Documents

No abstract provided.

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Book Review: Describing Electronic, Digital And Other Media Using Aacr2 And Rda, F. Tim Knight Jan 2011

Book Review: Describing Electronic, Digital And Other Media Using Aacr2 And Rda, F. Tim Knight

Librarian Publications & Presentations

No abstract provided.

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Review Of Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways To Deliver Library Data, Megan Tomeo Jan 2011

Review Of Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways To Deliver Library Data, Megan Tomeo

Collaborative Librarianship

No abstract provided.

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Resource Description And Access: From Aacr To Rda, F. Tim Knight Jan 2011

Resource Description And Access: From Aacr To Rda, F. Tim Knight

Librarian Publications & Presentations

The new cataloguing guidelines Resource Description and Access (RDA) have recently been released and are set to replace the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules. An evaluation period led by the Library of Congress is currently underway and it is likely that the implementation of RDA will begin sometime in mid- 2011. This paper looks briefly at the origins of RDA, provides a high level overview of RDA and reviews some of the major differences that cataloguers and library users can expect to find between RDA and AACR2.

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Digital Image Databases: A Study From The Undergraduate Point Of View, Teresa Slobuski Jan 2011

Digital Image Databases: A Study From The Undergraduate Point Of View, Teresa Slobuski

Faculty and Staff Publications

This article investigates current metadata practices in art image databases. Searches were completed in the Bridgeman Education and ARTstor databases using only terms found in introductory art history texts. Details from the search results point to overalltrends in the data and offer comparisons between the databases for particular search sets. The examples reveal tendencies in precision,recall, and consistency, as well as identify some particular issues that may impede successful retrieval for the novice user. A short discussion on the usability of both of the databases' interfaces offers further insight into their respective strengths andpeculiarities.

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