ALA Annual in Chicago has been a blur—I did three presentations (which I hope to talk about and link to slides as time permits). But one issue has been rolling over in my mind ever since I blurted something about it at my first presentation on Friday of Annual, when I was last up on [...]
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Today I got a very disappointing note in my inbox, from the US National Libraries RDA Test Project. I guess I’d call it a “ding” letter, and I have to say it was more than a bit surprising. I had volunteered to help with the testing, not by creating records, mind you, but in analyzing [...]
This week I’ve been on the road, doing presentations at the New Jersey Library Association meetings on Wednesday, and Five Colleges in Western MA Friday morning. I’ve been doing all this travel in the faithful MetadataMobile, increasingly an object of interest, amusement and (almost) veneration by those who have heard about her. It’s been a [...]
Some of you may know that a few years ago (2005 actually, as I look at my files) I worked with the ALCTS Continuing Education group to set up a “Metadata Standards and Applications” workshop, as part of the series of workshops they were developing with LC funding. At the time, I was intrigued by [...]
Yes, it was laughable to imagine that I might blog from Midwinter—silly me. My schedule was insanely full and I didn’t even get to peek into the exhibit hall, much less visit and pick up some swag for the grandchildren. As things move along with RDA, and as I become even more convinced that despite [...]
Some of you will already have seen the blog post by Patrick Hogan on the ALA Tech Source blog. This is an exciting new collaboration for us, and in some ways represents the culmination of the DCMI/RDA Task Group efforts to register the RDA Elements, Roles, and value vocabularies. We figured that seeing the vocabularies [...]
… and I say that not just because Jon and I have been working with the Project on their metadata planning. It’s an excellent paper, and we’re delighted it’s out, so we can tell people about it, and encourage them to read it and talk about it. We’ve been talking up the XC Project as [...]
The library blogosphere is reacting with shock [1, 2], anger [3], and disappointment [4, 5, 6, 7] at the news that LC has asked (as in “ordered”) Ed Summers to take down his wonderful experimental LCSH.info service. It’s not entirely clear why they did this, and Ed has been carefully circumspect about the reasons. LCSH.info [...]
As I mentioned in my first blog post, I’ve been doing a regular column for Technicalities, entitled “View from a Parallel Universe” for the past couple of years. It’s been useful, and I’ve enjoyed it, but clearly the kinds of things I like to talk about need, um, a less leisurely publication schedule (I just [...]