On 20 July 2011 22:47, Laura Smart <[email protected]> wrote:
> Esme (and all)
>
> Would Jenn Riley & Devin Becker's metadata standards visualization
> have been helpful to you if it had been available back in the day?
> http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/metadatamap/
>
> Perhaps a detailed sub-set thereof?
>
> Perhaps at minimum a glossary of acronyms commonly tossed about by
> catalogers? I'd write one but I think I'd be tempted to be snarky
> when trying to explain RDA in brief...
This reminded me of one more resource that might be useful for
newcomers -- a very short list that I wrote entitled "All You Need to
Know about XML in One Page".
http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/xml.html
And while I am self-publicising, I may as well mention a longer, but
easy-to-read article that several people have liked: "One Man's
Ceiling is Another Man's Floor --- or --- Why your data may not be as
meta as you think it is."
http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/metadata.html
Some of the specific technologies that it mentions are a bit dates,
but the concepts are pretty timeless.
Hope this is useful to someone.
-- Mike.
>
> Laura
>
> PS re: SAGE, I'd heard. That it was useful/used for so long is a
> testament to the your development and programming skills and those of
> Chris Fryman and Brian Tingle. I raise my glass! For the peanut
> gallery - SAGE was UCSD Lib's home-grown database of web resources
> that pub services librarians used to create subject-guides on the fly
> and was a thing of beauty to behold. Would that all software
> developers do use cases, functional requirements, rapid
> prototyping/agile development, and usability testing so well!
>
> PPS: sorry to all for the somewhat personal communications couched in
> a public list discussion. The opportunity to publicly sing the praises
> of the excellent programmers I've been privileged to work with was too
> tempting to pass up.
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Cowles, Esme <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Laura-
>>
>> One of the things I wish someone had explained to me at the beginning is all
>> the different metadata standards we use and how they fit together. I'd been
>> working with MARC metadata for years before anyone explained what AACR2 was,
>> or various other controlled vocabulary content standards. In fact, I think
>> it wasn't until I was in a meeting with librarians explaining our metadata
>> to non-library people that I heard a lot of things spelled out.
>>
>>
>> BTW, you might be interested to know that, after many years of faithful
>> service, Sage is going to be decommissioned this Fall.
>>
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