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Explicit and implicit metadata

On August 17, after I tested a search in our new Aleph OPAC and mentioned my surprise on Twitter, the following discussion unfolded between me (lukask), Ed Summers of the Library of Congress and Till Kinstler of GBV (German Union Library Network): lukask: Just found out we only […]

August 20, 2009January 12, 2020Librarycatalog, controlled vocabulary, fulltext searching, implicit metadata, library systems, metadata, metadata generation, social tagging

Relevance in context

If you do a search in a bibliographic database, you should find what you need, not just what you are looking for, or what the database “thinks” you are looking for. If you find what you are looking for, then you will not be surprised and you will […]

August 11, 2009January 12, 2020Librarycontextual searching, federated searching, library systems, metadata, metasearching, relevance ranking, search systems

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

UMR – Unified Metadata Resources

One single web page as the single identifier of every book, author or subject I like the concept of “the web as common publication platform for libraries“, and “every book its own url“, as described by Owen Stephens in two blog posts: “Its time to change library systems […]

April 12, 2009January 12, 2020Libraryauthority files, frbr, identifiers, metadata, open access, semantic web, uri, web2.0, web3.0