Cataloging and Metadata Commons^™

Digitalcommons Report: 2011, Jean Bigger

DigitalCommons Documents

No abstract provided.

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

Librarian Publications & Presentations

No abstract provided.

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.

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

Collaborative Librarianship

No abstract provided.

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.

Information Outlook, December 2010, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2010

Volume 14, Issue 8

Volume 30, Number 4, December 2010, Kate James, Nathan Putnam, Jan Mayo, Barbara Vaughan, Katie Eller, Jay Weitz

OLAC Newsletters

Digitized December 2010 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.

Xpath-Based Template Language For Describing The Placement Of Metadata Within A Document, Vijay Kumar Musham

Computer Science Theses & Dissertations

In the recent years, there has been a tremendous growth in Internet and online resources that had previously been restricted to paper archives. OCR (Optical Character Recognition) tools can be used for digitalizing an existing corpus and making it available online. A number of federal agencies, universities, laboratories, and companies are placing their collections online and making them searchable via metadata fields such as author, title, and publishing organization. Manually creating metadata for a large collection is an extremely time-consuming task, and is difficult to automate, particularly for collections consisting of documents with diverse layout and structure. The Extract project …

Information Outlook, October/November 2010, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2010

Volume 14, Issue 7

Describing Reproductions: A Series Of Decisions, Kevin Furniss, Morag Boyd

OLAC Research Grant

Research results of the OLAC Research Grant awarded in 2008, presented at the 2010 OLAC Conference held on October 14-17 in Macon, Georgia.

Electronic Resources, Robert L. Bothmann

Library Services Publications

Emphasis will be on coding of electronic monographs and on the provider-neutral versus single-record approach.

Strategic Planning For Sustaining User-Generated Content In Digital Collections, Cory K. Lampert, Su Kim Chung

Library Faculty Presentations

• Should there be an overarching philosophy for user-generated content in the organization?

• Who in the management or leadership determines this philosophy or guides the organization to come up with a shared vision?

•What technical considerations are there for these projects? Are there staff that need to be consulted for software choices and technical customization?

•Is there are point person for the project and does this person have the authority and appropriate expertise to moderate content and respond to user’s contributions?

•Should there be appropriate guidelines for communicating an institutions’ brand or message in these new venues?

•And ultimately, …

Information Outlook, September 2010, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2010

Volume 14, Issue 6

Volume 30, Number 3, September 2010, Kate James, Nathan Putnam, Jan Mayo, Barbara Vaughan, Katie Eller, Jay Weitz

OLAC Newsletters

Digitized September 2010 issue of the OLAC Newsletter.

Information Outlook, July/August 2010, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2010

Volume 14, Issue 5

Frbr, Facets, And Moving Images: A Literature Review, Laura Jenemann, Thelma Ross, George Wrenn

OLAC Publications and Training Materials

Annotated bibliography on resources related to FBRB, facets and moving images.

Guide To Cataloging Slotmusic Based On Aaacr2 Chapters 6 And 9, Marcia Barrett, Jim Alberts, Cyrus Ford, Steve Henry, Michi Hoban, Jay Weitz

OLAC Publications and Training Materials

A typical slotMusic card may come pre-loaded with images, video, text, MIDI files, etc. Each card contains 1 GB of memory (well more than what is required for the pre-loaded content). Many early media responses questioned whether there would be a market for slotMusic, reasoning that music consumers interested in MP3s generally are comfortable with downloading them through computer network connections. But a more recent report in the Los Angeles Times argues that the format is doing better than many expected. Still, in April 2010, a search for “slotmusic” in WorldCat retrieves only the record created by this task force …

Guide To Cataloging Slotmusic Based On Aacr2 Chapters 6 And 9, Marcia Barrett, Jim Alberts, Cyrus Ford Zarganj, Steve Henry, Michi Hoban, Jay Weitz

Library Faculty Research

In September 2008 SanDisk announced it would begin making music available for purchase on its microSD flash memory card format.1 The audio files on a slotMusic card are in MP3 format and are offered free of any digital rights management controls. In addition to containing an "album's" worth of music (i.e., a slotMusic release generally corresponds to a collection of music issued on other formats such as compact disc), a typical slotMusic card may come pre-loaded with images, video, text, MIDI files, etc. Each card contains 1 GB of memory (well more than what is required for the pre-loaded content) …

The University Of Louisville School Of Music Guest Book : From Local Treasure To Online Resource., James Procell, Rachel Howard

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

A collaboration between the University of Louisville’s Dwight Anderson Music Library and Digital Initiatives Department has resulted in the digitization of the University of Louisville School of Music Guest Book. Begun in 1949, the book contains signatures and handwritten messages from many of the most well-known musicians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This article describes the approach to scanning, cataloging, indexing, and providing full-text searchable online access to the guest book using CONTENTdm digital media management software. It addresses resource and technical challenges encountered and overcome.

Information Outlook, June 2010, Special Libraries Association

Information Outlook, 2010

Volume 14, Issue 4