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a flows metaphor applied to metadata and info objects

Posted Mon, 05/31/2010 - 07:14 by Richard Adler
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http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/000663.html

The OCLC's Lorcan Dempsey applies a flows metaphor to metadata and information objects. Seems like there could be common ground here between the Flows developed by the Future Forward Institute/Forward Foundation and what he's talking about:

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After MARC

Posted Tue, 04/13/2010 - 00:41 by Richard Adler
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http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2010/04/after-marc.html

From Karen Coyle's blog:

We seem to be reaching a point of consensus in our profession that it is time to move beyond MARC. When faced with that possibility, many librarians will wonder if we have the technical chops to make this transition. I don't have that worry; I am confident that we do. What worries me, however, is the complete lack of leadership for this essential endeavor.

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Open eBook and Dublin Core

Posted Thu, 03/11/2010 - 00:21 by Richard Adler
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_eBook

Open eBook (or OEB), or formally, the Open eBook Publication Structure (OEBPS), is a legacy e-book format "based primarily on technology developed by SoftBook Press"[2] and on XML; it has been superseded by the EPUB electronic publication standard.

Open eBook is a ZIP file plus a Manifest file. Inside the package a defined subset of XHTML may be used, along with CSS and Dublin Core metadata. The default file extension is .opf (OEB Package Format).

While I haven't absolutely confirmed this, my understanding is that DC support carried over into EPUB.

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data in social networks

Posted Mon, 11/23/2009 - 02:04 by Richard Adler
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http://jodischneider.com/blog/2009/11/20/what-types-of-data-do-social-ne...

A post related to Bruce Schneier's post offering a 'taxonomy of social networking data.'

Schneier's list :

1. Service data. Service data is the data you need to give to a social networking site in order to use it. It might include your legal name, your age, and your credit card number.

2. Disclosed data. This is what you post on your own pages: blog entries, photographs, messages, comments, and so on.

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the perils of insufficient metadata

Posted Tue, 09/08/2009 - 08:58 by Richard Adler
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http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/09/07/2046243/Google-Books-As-Train-Wr...

Google Book Search is having some trouble with metadata that is limited and, in some cases, outright bad. Also, there's an interesting question raised here whether Google made a deal with OCLC, and if so, whether that deal gave them access to the metadata they would need to get the job done.

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