One of the things I often do in the weeks following ALA conferences is check out the blog posts about sessions I missed attending. One such was the session on “Recent Trends in Catalog Architecture: ALCTS Catalog Form and Function Interest Group.” I don’t recall what we were doing instead of going to this session, [...]

… 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 [...]

Maybe it’s just me, but I like to be able to look at data “in the raw,” without some developer deciding for me what I’m allowed to see, and how I’m allowed to see it. There was an old story I used to tell about visiting a vendor booth at ALA Exhibits some years ago, [...]