Catalogablog signale:

"A specification is being developed for distribution of books via a catalog, the OpenPub standard.

OpenPub is an initiative of Lexcycle, Adobe, the Internet Archive, and O'Reilly Media to create an Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) enabling the widespread discovery, description, and access of book and other published material on the open web. OPDS utilizes existing or emergent open standards and conventions such as ATOM with a priority on simplicity and extensibility.

Libraries might have an interest in this. Why are none among the developers?"

METS Tool

"[...] OpenMIC includes a complete METS metadata implementation with structure map, descriptive metadata, source metadata, technical metadata and rights metadata documents. OpenMIC incorporates MODS, Dublin Core, MIX (NISO technical metadata for images) AES (technical metadata for sound recordings) and PREMIS. [...]"

(source: Catalogablog, 09/07/09)

- RDA Online: demo screenshots available

(source: Cataloging Futures, 25/06/09) | lire aussi

- Google and FRBR

(source: The FRBR Blog, 25/06/09)

- Journée de réflexion sur l’avenir du catalogue dans les bibliothèques

(source: BiblioFusion, 25/06/09)

- Library Catalogues are no longer an inventory but a place, and a community

(source: The Cataloguing Librarian, 25/06/09)

Introduction to RDFa

"RDFa (“Resource Description Framework in attributes”) is having its five minutes of fame: Google is beginning to process RDFa and Microformats as it indexes websites, using the parsed data to enhance the display of search results with “rich snippets.” Yahoo!, meanwhile, has been processing RDFa for about a year. With these two giants of search on the same trajectory, a new kind of web is closer than ever before.

The web is designed to be consumed by humans, and much of the rich, useful information our websites contain, is inaccessible to machines. People can cope with all sorts of variations in layout, spelling, capitalization, color, position, and so on, and still absorb the intended meaning from the page. Machines, on the other hand, need some help.

A new kind of web—a semantic web—would be made up of information marked up in such a way that software can also easily understand it. Before considering how we might achieve such a web, let’s look at what we might be able to do with it. [...]"

(source: A List Apart / via Catalogablog, 26/06/09)

"Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD) -- Draft Report" -- Invitation for Review

IFLA Working Group on Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records (FRSAR)

Invitation to participate:

Review of "Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD) -- Draft Report" Available through: http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/FRSAR/index.html or directly from: http://nkos.slis.kent.edu/FRSAR/report090623.pdf (2,800 kb)

Comments deadline: July 31, 2009

(source: Catalogablog, 26/06/09)

Major content metadata vocabularies to be mapped

"Work is under way to create an extensive and authoritative mapping of vocabularies from major content metadata standards, creating a downloadable tool to support interoperability across communities. The work is an expansion of the existing RDA/ONIX Framework into a comprehensive vocabulary of resource relators and categories, which will be a superset of those used in major standards from the publisher/producer, education and bibliographic/heritage communities (CIDOC CRM; DCMI; DDEX; DOI; FRBR; MARC21; LOM; ONIX; RDA – see reference section below for details). The resulting tool will be known as the Vocabulary Mapping Framework (VMF). The new vocabulary is not intended as a replacement for any existing standards, but as an aid to interoperability, whether automatic or human-mediated. The expanded Framework will include mappings of terms from code lists or allowed value sets in the existing standards to the RDA/ONIX vocabulary, enabling the computation of “best fit” mappings between any pairing of standards. The results of the VMF project will be formally presented at an event at the British Library on the morning of November 9th this year, and made available on the Web. The project, which is largely financed by a grant from the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), is being carried out by Godfrey Rust and Steffen Lindek of Rightscom and Gordon Dunsire, Depute Director of the Centre for Digital Library Research at Strathclyde University in Glasgow, Scotland, with input from other domain experts. A virtual Advisory Group drawn from interested parties is being convened. The International DOI Foundation, which fully endorses this work, will provide the web hosting facility as part of its commitment to promoting the wider use of interoperable metadata, and will use the mapping vocabulary wherever possible to support the association of metadata with DOI names. [...]"

(source: JISC, DOI, etc., 15/06/09 / via Catalogablog)

Catalogablog signale que la LoC offre désormais un accès libre (en ligne) aux numéros de son Cataloging Service Bulletin.

Preliminary Report on User Research for eXtensible Catalog

"Use this URL for a report that summarizes the objectives, methods, and major software design findings from the data collected in the user research portion of the eXtensible Catalog (XC) project. A full analysis and interpretation of the data is not included in the present report and will be provided at the conclusion of the project. This report includes edited results from the brainstorming sessions and a list of the features that emerged from the analysis of those results. (See the eXtensible Catalog website for more information about the overall project.)"

(source: Catalogablog, 17/06/09)

New xID features

(source: The FRBR Blog, 12/06/09)

What's New in Cataloging 2009?

"Wayne Sanders and Felicity Dykas presented a session at the MOBIUS Annual Conference 2009 on June 3 entitled “What’s New in Cataloging 2009.” They gave a whirlwind tour of changes and pending changes that have taken place in descriptive and subject cataloging standards and in the MARC format. They also reviewed relevant changes that have occurred at places such as the Library of Congress, OCLC, and GPO."

(source: Cataloging Futures, 11/06/09)