crisis or opportunity? cataloging, catalogers, rda, and change
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Crisis or Opportunity?Cataloging, Catalogers, RDA, and Change
Five Colleges Seminar 2
It’s All About Perspective …
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” – Rahm Emanuel
The crisis can be personal, professional, national (or all of the above), but the strategy for moving forward is similar
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Part 1: Whither Cataloging?
Libraries are no longer the first place people come for information The Internet has changed the way people
(including us) behave when seeking information Our former “granularity consensus” is coming
apart
To compete effectively for user attention, we must: Join the larger world of information, where our
users are Learn how the competition attracts users, draws
them in, and takes good advantage of their interest in participating
Find a better balance between protecting privacy and capturing usage behavior
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And Why Must We Do This?
The comfortable certainties we know are coming undone, whether we’re ready or not
We have much experience and insight to offer the larger information world (but not everything we’ve learned is relevant)
We are collectively about the size of the Queen Mary, unable to turn on a dime—this change will take time, and each of us has a role to play
Resistance is futile—we are not in charge of this new world, and our options are two: adapt or retire
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The Map of ChangeCharting Our Course
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What We Must Leave Behind
A view of metadata based on catalog cards
Library software that can’t sort search results better than “random” or “alphabetic”
Search interfaces even Librarians hate (and we know the data)
Clunky static HTML pages that don’t attract our user’s interest, or guide them well
One silo for books, others for journal articles, images, digitized books, etc. (explain that to a user!)
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Starting to Move Forward
A Starting Point: The Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (Library of Congress) “On the Record”—final report, January 2008
http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/ A good, comprehensive overview of our new
world and what we need to do Recommendations for LC, OCLC, ALA, library
educators and all of us Extensively discussed at the Library of Congress
and within the profession at large
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“The Web is our platform”
1.2.4.2 All: Explore tools and techniques for sharing bibliographic data at the network level using both centralized and non-centralized techniques (e.g., OAI-PMH).
3.1.2.1 All: Express library standards in machine-readable and machine-actionable formats, in particular those developed for use on the Web.
3.1.2.2 All: Provide access to standards through registries or Web sites so that the standards can be used by any and all Web applications.
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A New Look at Library Systems
4.1.1.1 All: Encourage and support development of systems capable of relating evaluative data, such as reviews and ratings, to bibliographic records.
4.1.1.2 All: Encourage the enhancement of library systems to provide the capability to link to appropriate user-added data available via the Internet (e.g., Amazon.com, LibraryThing, Wikipedia). At the same time, explore opportunities for developing mutually beneficial partnerships with commercial entities that would stand to benefit from these arrangements. 5/1/09 9Five Colleges Seminar
Enriching Library Data4.1.2.1 All: Develop library systems that
can accept user input and other non-library data without interfering with the integrity of library-created data.
4.1.2.2 All: Investigate methods of categorizing creators of added data in order to enable informed use of user-contributed data without violating the privacy obligations of libraries.
4.1.2.3 All: Develop methods to guide user tagging through techniques that suggest entry vocabulary (e.g., term completion, tag clouds).
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Exploring Our New World
Avoiding the Traps of Wrongovia
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Taking a Look AroundWhat’s this Semantic Web thingy all about, and
why do we care?
Is RDA really going to happen? Is it that different from AACR2? Why can’t we use RDA with MARC?
How will RDA implementation affect cataloging?
How can we best prepare for all this?
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Standards Upgrade!Type of Standard
Old Standard New Standard(s)?
Bibliographic Model
None FRBR, FRBRoo
Metadata Content AACR2 RDA
Metadata Structure
MARC21 Bibliographic
RDVocab
Name Authority MARC21 Authority FRAD
Subject Authority MARC21 Authority FRASAR, SKOS
Encoding MARC21 XML, XML/RDF
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Acronymia, We Are HereRDA: Resource Description and Access
RDF: Resource Description Framework (a W3C standard)
FRBR: Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records FRBRoo: Object Oriented FRBR (harmonized with
CIDOC CRM)
FRAD: Functional Requirements for Authority Data
FRASAR: Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Records
SKOS: Simple Knowledge Organisation System (a W3C standard)
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The RDA You’ve Heard About …
4th quarter calendar 2008 – Full draft of RDA available for constituency review (ending in early February 2009) http://www.collectionscanada.ca/jsc/rdafulldraft.html
2nd quarter calendar 2009 – RDA content is finalized
3rd quarter calendar 2009 – RDA is released
3rd and 4th quarters calendar 2009, possibly into 1st quarter calendar 2010 – Testing by national libraries
1st and 2nd quarters calendar 2010 – Analysis and evaluation of testing by national libraries
3rd-4th quarters calendar 2010 – RDA implementation ?5/1/09
We are here
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What You Might Not Have Heard
JSC has gradually backed away from their original stance that RDA could be expressed easily in MARC21 Full integration of FRBR entities into RDA has
made that problematic
RDA has been developed explicitly to take advantage of the Semantic Web (although there are still residues of past practice)
Well supported rumors indicate that LC is considering discontinuing update of MARC21 sometime in 2010
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Under the RDA HoodRDA is a FRBR-based approach to structuring
bibliographic data
It’s contains more explicitly machine-friendly linkages (preferably with URIs)
There’s more emphasis on relationships and roles …
… and less emphasis on cataloger-created notes and text strings (particularly for identification)
Also, there’s less transcription (important in an increasingly digital world) 5/1/09
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JSC ScenariosScenario 1: separate records for all FRBR
entities with linked identifiers
Scenario 2: composite bibliographic records (with authority records representing each entity)
Scenario 3: one flat record, with all Group 1 entities on a single record This is the only scenario that MARC can handle Not really a viable option, and as far as I know, no
one is explicitly planning for it
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The Rest of the Story RDA elements, roles and vocabularies have been
provisionally registered The vocabularies and the text will be tied together in the
RDA online tool (and in freely available RDA XML schemas)
Some efforts have begun to consider how MARC21 data can be parsed into FRBR entities and RDA eXtensible Catalog Project moving strongly in this direction Unfortunately, we don’t know what OCLC is planning
Discussions about long term maintenance of both RDA and the vocabularies have yet to occur
The push is already on for a multi-language RDA Vocabulary
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RDA & FRBR: Registered!RDA Elements:
http://metadataregistry.org/schema/show/id/1.html
RDA Roles: http://metadataregistry.org/schema/show/id/4.html
RDA Vocabulary: Base Material http://metadataregistry.org/vocabulary/show/id/35.
html
FRBR Relationships (Sandbox version) http://sandbox.metadataregistry.org/vocabulary/sho
w/id/90.html
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RDA Elements Listing
334!
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RDA Elements Listing
334!
Base material
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Detail: Base Material
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Detail: Base Material
URI
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RDA Roles Listing
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RDA Roles Listing
Author
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Detail: RDA Role Author
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RDA WEMI Relationships
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Detail: RDA WEMI Relationship
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RDA Base Material Vocabulary
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RDA Base Material Vocabulary
Skin
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RDA Base Material: Skin
No definition?
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Who’s Doing This?DCMI/RDA Task Group
See: http://dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/ Set up during the April 2007 London meeting
between JSC and DCMI Gordon Dunsire and Diane Hillmann, co-chairs Karen Coyle & Alistair Miles, consultants
IFLA Classification and Indexing Section Gordon Dunsire, Centre for Digital Library
Research, University of Strathclyde, will be registering FRBR entities and relationships
Possible inclusion of ISBDs, FRAD, etc., in future
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How Soon Will All This Happen?
The bad news: This isn’t like 1981, when there was a “start date” and we knew exactly when to change gears
More bad news: This transition is likely to be a pretty messy one, and last longer than we would like
One unknown is OCLC’s role—at present they seem to be focused on consolidating control over library data and promoting WorldCat Local
The good news: library vendors are starting to wake up and smell the coffee!
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What Are the Challenges?
Coordination with JSC (or it’s successor, given the need to move beyond “Anglo-American”) on long-term maintenance planning Need for lightweight process, where change is
not a multi-year marathon
Continuing development towards a more Semantic web-friendly RDA (less reliance on transcription, for instance)
Tool development (at all levels, including ILS vendors)
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Yet More ChallengesApplication profiles that express more than one
notion of “Work” and more than one community point of view JSC still seeing the process through the lens of a text
cataloger Their “core elements” make most sense for traditional
books, serials, and other text-based objects
Moving the MARC legacy data into RDA OCLC’s silence is worrisome, makes planning difficult
Multi-lingual and specialized extensions Non-Anglo-American communities eager to participate
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Multi-lingual Dublin CoreThe DCMI Registry approach:
Translations of labels, definitions and comments within separate versions of the entire vocabulary
URIs stay the same, as do relationships Responsibility for updating translations rests with
translation “owner”
Disadvantages Translations tend to become outdated over time
without sophisticated notification services to flag new areas needing attention
Communication with translation “owners” is managed loosely by a committee—support needs still unknown
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Multi-lingual RDAThe NSDL Registry approach:
Translations of labels, definitions and comments reside within the save vocabulary, with separate language attributes
URIs stay the same, as do relationships Responsibility for updating translations rests with
translation “owner”—who is enabled as a maintainer in the main vocabulary
Disadvantages Unsure how extensively this strategy will “scale” Requires a “web of trust” and organizational
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Part 2: Whither Catalogers
What Happens When The Revolution Comes?
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Focus on CatalogersWhat do we anticipate will be different about
our changed working environment?
How will workflow change?
How will the data look?
What will the library vendor systems do with it?
How will we integrate user data? What kinds of user data?
What do we need to know to operate in this new environment?
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Approaching ChangeCatalogers will need to separate what they
know about information based on their current systems from what is more general in nature Much of the knowledge is portable, but needs
updating The new environment is not as well organized
(yet), so much learning will need to be self-directed
Catalogers’ role may become closer to that of Metadata Librarian Managing data at a more abstract level (not as
creators) Understanding the goals of changes anticipated
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Walking through a concrete example …
From the Cataloger Scenarios
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A Cataloger Scenario
Jane Cataloger is assigned to work on a gift collection. Her first selection is a Latvian translation of Kurt Vonnegut's "Bluebeard: a novel." She searches the library database for the original work, and finds:
*Author: Kurt Vonnegut *Title of the work: Bluebeard: a novel *Form of work: Novel *Original language of the work: English
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<frbrWork ID="rda.basic/01”>
<rdarole:author>Kurt Vonnegut</rdarole:author><titleOfTheWork>Bluebeard: a novel</titleOfTheWork><formOfWork>Novel</formOfWork>
<originalLanguageOfTheWork>English<originalLanguageOfTheWork></frbrWork>
Translated to RDA/XML:
Upgraded to RDA/XML with Links:<frbrWork ID="rda.basic/01”>
<rdarole:author>http://lcnaf.info/79062641</rdarole:author><titleOfTheWork>Bluebeard: a novel</titleOfTheWork><formOfWork>http://RDVocab.info/genre/1008</formOfWork>
<originalLanguageOfTheWork>http://marclang.info/eng </></frbrWork>
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with links to the following expression information:
*Language of expression: English *Content type: Text
and one manifestation:
*Statement designating edition: 1st trade edition *Place of publication: New York *Publisher’s name: Delacorte Press *Date of publication: 1987 *Extent of text: 300 pages *Identifier for the manifestation: [ISBN]0385295901
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<frbrExpression ID="rda.basic/07”>
<contentType>Text</contentType><languageOfExpression>English<languageOfExpression></frbrExpression>
Translated to RDA/XML:
Upgraded to RDA/XML with Links:
<frbrExpression ID="rda.basic/07”>
<formOfWork>http://RDVocab.info/termList/RDAContentType/1020</><languageOfExpression>http://marclang.info/eng </>
</frbrExpression>
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<frbrManifestation ID="rda.basic/09”>
<statementDesignatingEdition>1st Trade Edition</><placeOfPublication>New York<placeOfPublication>
<publishersName>Delacorte Press</publishersName><dateOfPublication>1987</dateOfPublication><extentOfText>300 pages</extentOfText><identifierForTheManifestation>[ISBN]0385295901</>
</frbrManifestation>
Translated to RDA/XML (with links below):
<frbrManifestatiion ID="rda.basic/09”>
<statementDesignatingEdition>1st Trade Edition</><placeOfPublication>http://www.getty.edu/tgn/7007567</>
<publishersName>http://onixpub.info/2039987</><dateOfPublication>1987</dateOfPublication><extentOfText>300 pages</extentOfText><identifierForTheManifestation>urn:ISBN:0385295901</>
</frbrManifestation>
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Work
Exp: eng
Man: eng
FRBR Group 1
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Jane begins her description by linking to the existing Work entity. She then creates an expression description:
*Content type: text*Language of expression: Latvian*Translator: Grigulis, Arvīds
She creates an authority record for the translator since none yet existed. She continues by creating a fuller description for the new manifestation, linking to the authority record for the Latvian publisher (what luck, it already existed!).
*Title: [in Latvian]*Place of publication: Riga*Publisher’s name: Liesma*Date of publication: 1997*Extent of Text: 315 pages
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<frbrExpression ID="rda.basic/11”>
<contentType>text</contentType><languageOfExpression>Latvian<languageOfExpression>
<rdarole:translator>Grigulis, Arvīds</rdarole:translator></frbrExpression>
Translated to RDA/XML:
Upgraded to RDA/XML with Links:<frbrExpression ID="rda.basic/11”>
<formOfWork>http://RDVocab.info/termList/RDAContentType/1020</><languageOfExpression>http://marclang.info/lav </><rdarole:translator>http://lcnaf.info/83219993
</frbrExpression>
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<frbrManifestation ID="rda.basic/09”>
<title>[in Latvian]</><placeOfPublication>Riga<placeOfPublication><publishersName>Liesma</publishersName><dateOfPublication>1997</dateOfPublication><extentOfText>315 pages</extentOfText>
</frbrManifestation>
Translated to RDA/XML (with links below):
<frbrManifestatiion ID="rda.basic/09”>
<placeOfPublication>http://www.getty.edu/tgn/7006484</><publishersName>http://onixpub.info/6770094</><dateOfPublication>1997</dateOfPublication><extentOfText>315 pages</extentOfText>
</frbrManifestation>
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Work
Exp: eng
Man: eng
Exp: lav
Man: lav
FRBR Group 1
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Work
Exp: eng
Man: eng
Exp: lav
Man: lav
Author
Publisher
Translator
FRBR Group 1 FRBR Group 2
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Work
Exp: eng
Man: eng
Exp: lav
Man: lav
Author
Publisher
Translator
FRBR Group 1 FRBR Group 2
FRBR Group 3
Subjects
ConceptsObjectsEventsPlaces
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Work
Exp: eng
Man: eng
Exp: lav
Man: lav
Author
Publisher
Translator
FRBR Group 1 FRBR Group 2
FRBR Group 3
Subjects
ConceptsObjectsEventsPlaces
Content Vocabularies
Media Vocabularies
Other InformationIn the “Cloud”
RelationshipVocabularie
s
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Examining the GeneticsRDA’s model is primarily FRBR and FRAD, but
also takes some of its DNA from Dublin Core
DC’s Abstract Model de-composes traditional metadata “records” and re-composes them with additional levels above and below what we’ve traditionally thought of as our “atomic level”
The DCAM also talks about “statements” in ways that help connect RDA to the Semantic Web
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A Dublin Core View of the World
DCMI Abstract Model: http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model/
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A Dublin Core View of the World
DCMI Abstract Model: http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model/
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Anatomy of a Statement
Place of Production: New York
Property Value
ValueString
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Anatomy of a Statement
Place of Production: http://www.getty.edu/tgn/7007567
Property Value
RelatedDescription
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A Related Description
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Description Sets a Key Concept!
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Description Set=“A set of one or more descriptions, each of which describes a single
resource.”*
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*DCAM Definition
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Work
Exp: eng
Man: eng
Exp: lav
Man: lav
Author
Publisher
Translator
FRBR Group 1 FRBR Group 2
FRBR Group 3
Subjects
ConceptsObjectsEventsPlaces
Content Vocabularies
Media Vocabularies
Other InformationIn the “Cloud”
RelationshipVocabularie
s
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New Tools, New Knowledge
Getting There From Here
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What’s This Semantic Web?
RDF: Resource Description Framework Statements about Web resources in the form of subject-
predicate-object expressions, called triples E.g. “This presentation” –“has creator” –“Diane Hillmann”
RDF Schema Vocabulary description language of RDF
SKOS: Simple Knowledge Organisation System Expresses the basic structure and content of concept
schemes such as thesauri and other types of controlled vocabularies
An RDF application OWL (Web Ontology Language)
Explicitly represents the meaning of terms in vocabularies and the relationships between them
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Semantic Web Building Blocks
Each component of an RDF statement (triple) is a “resource”
RDF is about making machine-processable statements, requiring A machine-processable language for representing
RDF statementsExtensible Markup Language (XML)
A system of machine-processable identifiers for resources (subjects, predicates, objects)Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) For full machine-processing potential, an RDF
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Things Requiring Identification
Object “This presentation” e.g. its electronic location (URL)
Predicate “has creator” e.g. http://purl.org/dc/terms/creator
Object “Diane Hillmann” e.g. URI of entry in Library of Congress Name
Authority File (real soon now?) NAF: nr2001015786
Declaring vocabularies/values in SKOS and OWL provides URIs—essential for the Semantic Web
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What Happened to XML?Nothing: XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is
most likely how library systems will evolve after MARC It makes sense to use XML to exchange data
between libraries, and some external services But RDF is gaining ground, and libraries will need
to be able to accommodate it, and understand it
An XML record is essentially an aggregation of property = value statements about the same resource RDF triples can also be aggregated using XML,
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User ParticipationBringing Users (and Usage) Into the Circle
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User Data “R” UsSources of ‘active’ user data
Tagging, etc. Review and rating systems Courseware systems
Sources of ‘passive’ user data Logs of user activity Circulation or download data
“Making data work harder …” –Lorcan Dempsey Collaborative filtering Data mining
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Active User DataUser tagging and description
Ex.: The LC Flickr Project Ex.: LibraryThing
Review and rating systems Ex.: Penn Tags Ex.: Amazon
Courseware Systems Making connections so that courseware can reuse
catalog information; catalogs can know what has been used in courses, when, and who assigned it
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LC-Flickr ProjectLibrary of Congress and Flickr--“In a very elegant
way, Flickr solves the authority conundrum of exposing collections content to social process. No need to worry if some comments or tags are misleading, arbitrary or incorrect - it’s not happening on your site, but in a space where people know and expect a wide variety of contributions. On the other hand, LC selectively reaps the benefit of these contributions.”
(http://hangingtogether.org/?p=401)
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Link to NYTimes article
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“This is a book that deserves to be compared with Milton's Areopagatica. Like Milton 350 years earlier, Lessig makes an emotional and passionate, yet calm and well reasoned argument against the system that aims to limit creative freedom. A very important read.”
nuwanda | Sep 10, 2008 |
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LibraryThing Most Reviewed Books
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What is PennTags?
“PennTags is a social bookmarking tool for locating, organizing, and sharing your favorite online resources. Members of the Penn Community can collect and maintain URLs, links to journal articles, and records in Franklin, our online catalog and VCat, our online video catalog. Once these resources are compiled, you can organize them by assigning tags (free-text keywords) and/or by grouping them into projects, according to your specific preferences. PennTags can also be used collaboratively, because it acts as a repository of the varied interests and academic pursuits of the Penn community, and can help you find topics and users related to your own favorite online resources.
PennTags was developed by librarians at the University of Pennsylvania. “
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Passive User DataLogs of user activity
Usually locally maintained and analyzed Services like Google Analytics can provide
important aggregate information
Circulation or download data Tricky in library settings, where user privacy an
important value Anonymized data can be stored and used for
relevance ranking
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Hard Working DataCollaborative filtering
Wikipedia: “ … the process of filtering for information or patterns using techniques involving collaboration among multiple agents, viewpoints, data sources, etc.”
Ex.: Amazon (people who bought “X” also bought “Y”)
Data mining Wikipedia: “ … statistical and logical analysis of
large sets of transaction data, looking for patterns that can aid decision making.”
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User Data IssuesPrivacy
Being able to use information about a contributing user without violating personal privacy
Complicated by differences in generational ideas about what privacy is
Authority (who said?) Librarians have traditionally valued “objectivity,”
but there’s no evidence that users see this as a value
Management Keeping spammers out Filtering language and malicious intent
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Sharing User Contributions
Note how LibraryThing pulls Amazon descriptions Amazon has an API that allows other services to
use its data Positioning Amazon data in other sites drives
users back to Amazon
As libraries move more of their unique data to the Web, they need to be aware of the marketing value of sharing data and allowing other services to combine it in new ways
To do this, libraries will need to be able to package the data in ways hat others can capture it Ex.: XC Project is planning to share Courseware
information
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Preparing OurselvesFiguring Out What We Need To Know
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Learning Strategies Group Learning
Seminars (like this one!) Conference presentations Local study groups
Self-directed learning Tutorials Blogs
Keeping up with the discussion--You need a plan!
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Self-directed LearningWeb tutorials:
http://www.w3schools.com/
Blogs Get a Bloglines account (free) Start with a few, and expand:
Lorcan Dempsey (http://orweblog.oclc.org/) Karen Coyle (http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/) The FRBR Blog (http://www.frbr.org/) Catalogablog (http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/) Cataloging Futures (
http://www.catalogingfutures.com/) Metadata Matters (http://managemetadata.org/blog/)
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Mailing listsEvaluate your current reading habits
Are you spending too much time on lists that focus on MARC and AACR2 problem solving?
Do you hear too much whining about change?
Migrate to some of the lists discussing newer ideas
web4lib@webjunction.orgmetadatalibrarians@lists.monarchos.com RDA-L@INFOSERV.NLC-BNC.CADC-RDA@JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Ask questions! Network!5/1/09
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Thanks & Acknowledgements
Thanks for your attention!
Slides and ideas from Karen Coyle, Gordon Dunsire, and too many others to count!
Contact for Diane: Email: metadata.maven@gmail.com Website: http://managemetadata.com/
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