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Linked Data for Libraries

Linked Data and bibliographic metadata models Some time after I wrote “UMR – Unified Metadata Resources“, I came across Chris Keene’s post “Linked data & RDF : draft notes for comment“, “just a list of links and notes” about Linked Data, RDF and the Semantic Web, put […]

June 19, 2009January 12, 2020Libraryaacr2, api's, connectivity, dublin core, foaf, frbr, identifiers, integration, library systems, Library2.0, linked data, marc, mash-ups, metadata, next generation, ontologies, owl, rda, rdf, RDFa, semantic web, skos, sparql, vocabularies, web2.0, web3.0

Who needs MARC?

Why use a non-normalised metadata exchange format for suboptimal data storage? This week I had a nice chat with André Keyzer of Groningen University library and Peter van Boheemen of Wageningen University Library who attended OCLC’s Amsterdam Mashathon 2009. As can be expected from library technology geeks, we […]

May 15, 2009November 3, 2020Generalaacr2, authority files, bibliographic formats, dublin core, exlibris, formats, library systems, mab, metadata, metalib, openurl, pica+, rda, sfx, sru, srw

Replacing our ILS, business as usual

As you may have noticed from some of my tweets, the Library of the Unversity of Amsterdam, my place of work, is in the process of replacing its ILS (Integrated Library System). All in all this project, or better these two projects (one selecting a new ILS, the […]

April 24, 2009January 12, 2020Generalils, library systems, organisation, people

System librarians 2.0

It strikes me that training for and documentation about our new Aleph ILS are aimed at three types of staff: system administrators, system librarians and staff (expert) users. Basically system administrators are supposed to take care of “technical stuff” like installing, upgrading, monitoring, backups, general system configuration etc., […]

October 17, 2008January 12, 2020Librarylibrary systems, next generation, system administration, system librarians

How open are open systems?

In my post “LING – Library integration next generation” I mentioned Marshall Breedings presentation at TICER “Library Automation Challenges for the next generation”.Besides “Moving toward new generation of library automation” one of his other two topics was “A Mandate for Openness”, about Open Source, Open Systems, Open Content.Marshall […]

October 12, 2008January 12, 2020Librarydeveloper platforms, exlibris, library systems, oclc, open api's, open source, open systems

Library Systems and the world of hardware

The project for implementation of Aleph as the new ILS for the Library of the University of Amsterdam started last week (October 2) with the official kick-off meeting. The Ex Libris project plan was presented to the members of the project team, bottlenecks were identified, and a lot […]

October 8, 2008January 12, 2020Generalaleph, exlibris, hardware, library systems

LING – Library integration next generation

End of August I attended the Technological Developments: Threats and Opportunities for Libraries module of TICER – Digital Libraries à la Carte 2008 at the University of Tilburg, The Netherlands. One of the speakers was Marshall Breeding. His presentation “Library Automation Challenges for the next generation” consisted of […]

October 5, 2008January 12, 2020Librarydecoupling, integration, library systems, next generation