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September 2, 2011February 14, 2020 Lukas KosterLibrary

Shifting focus from information carriers back to information This blog post is based on a presentation I did at Datasalon 6 in Brussels, January 21, 2011.   Library catalogues have traditionally been used to describe and register books and journals and other physical objects that together constitute the holdings of a library. In an integrated library system (ILS), the public catalogue is combined with acquisition and circulation modules to administer the purchases of book copies […]

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Linked Data for Libraries

June 19, 2009January 12, 2020 Lukas KosterLibrary

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 together to start collecting information about “a topic that will greatly impact on the Library / Information management world“. While reading this post and working my way […]

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Who needs MARC?

May 15, 2009November 3, 2020 Lukas KosterGeneral

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 got talking about bibliographic metadata formats, very exciting of course. The question came up: what on earth could be the reason for storing bibliographic metadata in exchange […]

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