Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization of the Metadata Universe

[Tim Spalding]

Jenn,

It's really beautiful. Like a good map or timetable, you can pore over
it for hours. I want a big copy for the office.

Can you explain it to me a little? For example, what does it mean to
say that XML or MPEG-21 has a much stronger connection to the library
community—as defined by uptake, intent and appropriateness—than MARC
and LCSH? That seems literally backwards. One can perhaps argue
"appropriateness" in various ways, but MARC and LCSH are ubiquitous
and intended for libraries in a way the others are not.

I also suggest changing "scholarly texts" to "texts." There are lots
of texts which aren't really "scholarly texts" that libraries—even
academic libraries—care about, aren't there? Also, while putting them
together has virtues, might there be cause to separate book-texts and
article-texts? They certainly differ considerably when it comes to the
update and appropriateness of various standards.

Tim

Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization of the Metadata Universe

[stuart yeates]

Hello Jenn

It's a great diagram, lovely and shiny and clearly the work of someone 
with a creative vision for their work.


Alas I think it's substantially less useful than it could be, because 
that sea of acronyms (we do love our acronyms, don't we?) is a sea of 
dead-ends. The work could be made far more useful by having each of 
those acronyms as a link to a sane explanation of the standard. I 
suggest starting with links to the English language wikipedia which does 
a better job of explaining most standards to a general audience than the 
standards themselves.


Without links a document such as this can only be on the web, not in the 
web or of the web.


cheers
stuart

Riley, Jenn wrote:

(This message is being sent to multiple lists; please excuse duplication.)

The sheer number of metadata standards in the cultural heritage sector is 
overwhelming, and their inter-relationships further complicate the situation. A new 
resource, Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe, 
, is intended to assist 
planners with the selection and implementation of metadata standards. Seeing 
Standards is in two parts: (1) a poster-sized visualization plotting standards based 
on their applicability in a variety of contexts, and (2) a glossary of metadata 
standards in either poster or pamphlet form.

Each of the 105 standards listed is evaluated on its strength of application to defined categories in each of four axes: community, domain, function, and purpose. Standards more strongly allied with a category are displayed towards the center of each hemisphere, and those still applicable but less strongly allied are displayed along the edges. The strength of a standard in a given category is determined by a mixture of its adoption in that category, its design intent, and its overall appropriateness for use in that category. 


The standards represented are among those most heavily used or publicized in 
the cultural heritage community, though certainly not all standards that might 
be relevant are included. A small set of the metadata standards plotted on the 
main visualization also appear as highlights above the graphic. These represent 
the most commonly known or discussed standards for cultural heritage metadata.

Work preparing Seeing Standards was supported by a professional development grant from the Indiana University Libraries. Content was developed by Jenn Riley, Metadata Librarian in the Indiana University Digital Library Program. Design work was performed by Devin Becker of the Indiana University School of Library and Information Science, and soon to be Digital Initiatives & Scholarly Communications Librarian at the University of Idaho. 


I hope this resource proves to be helpful to those working with metadata 
standards in libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage 
institutions.

Jenn


Jenn Riley
Metadata Librarian
Digital Library Program
Indiana University - Bloomington
Wells Library W501
(812) 856-5759
www.dlib.indiana.edu

Inquiring Librarian blog: www.inquiringlibrarian.blogspot.com




--
Stuart Yeates
http://www.nzetc.org/   New Zealand Electronic Text Centre
http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ Institutional Repository

Re: [CODE4LIB] Facebook JSON results and the privacy problem

[Michael J. Giarlo]

Also, MARC is dead.

On Jun 21, 2010 9:04 PM, "Ethan Gruber"  wrote:

All social networks follow the same path.  They become popular and are then
inundated with spam.  Myspace still exists, but it is essentially "dead"
because it fails to grow its population.  When was the last time you saw a
movie trailer that provided a link to its myspace page?  At least three
years, probably.  You may not receive many spam messages through Facebook,
but the forced linking of your interests to official Facebook pages is the
beginning of the end for Facebook.  You may like Dave Matthews Band, and as
of a month or two ago they can send updates to your news feed every day,
regardless of whether you want updates from your interests or not.
Moreover, even if you remove all of your interests, that data is still
stored in Facebook's databases, and you'll still get recommendations to
follow things you used to follow.  Facebook is on the way out.  It's as
simple as that.

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Genny Engel wrote:


> Seems to honor privacy settings, though. Otherwise
> http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=poopines...

Re: [CODE4LIB] Facebook JSON results and the privacy problem

[Ethan Gruber]

All social networks follow the same path.  They become popular and are then
inundated with spam.  Myspace still exists, but it is essentially "dead"
because it fails to grow its population.  When was the last time you saw a
movie trailer that provided a link to its myspace page?  At least three
years, probably.  You may not receive many spam messages through Facebook,
but the forced linking of your interests to official Facebook pages is the
beginning of the end for Facebook.  You may like Dave Matthews Band, and as
of a month or two ago they can send updates to your news feed every day,
regardless of whether you want updates from your interests or not.
Moreover, even if you remove all of your interests, that data is still
stored in Facebook's databases, and you'll still get recommendations to
follow things you used to follow.  Facebook is on the way out.  It's as
simple as that.

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 8:36 PM, Genny Engel wrote:

> Seems to honor privacy settings, though.  Otherwise
> http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=poopiness would retrieve WAY more
> records.
>
> Genny Engel
>
> >>> ranti.ju...@gmail.com 06/21/10 03:31PM >>>
> For example:
> http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=whatever
>
>
> ranti.
>
> --
> Bulk mail.  Postage paid.
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Facebook JSON results and the privacy problem

[Genny Engel]

Seems to honor privacy settings, though.  Otherwise 
http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=poopiness would retrieve WAY more records.
 
Genny Engel

>>> ranti.ju...@gmail.com 06/21/10 03:31PM >>>
For example:
http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=whatever 


ranti.

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Re: [CODE4LIB] Facebook JSON results and the privacy problem

[Nick Ruest]

It is what youropenbook is using: http://youropenbook.org/

-nruest

On 10-06-21 07:40 PM, Bill Dueber wrote:

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Ethan Gruber  wrote:

   

Hmm, interesting.  Facebook is on the way out, anyway.  The question is
what
social network, if any, will replace it.

 

My Geek Ire is as aroused as anyone else's over privacy concerns and such,
but with half a billion users, all but roughly 11 of whom couldn't possibly
care any less about privacy and/or don't know anything about it, Facebook is
hardly "on the way out" any more than Google is. Certainly both will someday
be replaced, but I recommend breathing normally between now and then, as
opposed to holding your breath ...

The fact that something is good doesn't mean people will use it. The fact
that something is bad doesn't mean they won't (thank god, or our OPACs would
be mostly ignored...)

  -Bill-
   


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Digital Strategies Librarian
Vice President - McMaster University Academic Librarians Association

McMaster University
Mills Memorial Library
1280 Main Street West
Hamilton, ON L8S 4L6
Phone: 905.525.9140 ext. 21276
Email: rue...@mcmaster.ca
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particular decade.  It is a personal process embedded in the human spirit." - Abbie 
Hoffman

Re: [CODE4LIB] Facebook JSON results and the privacy problem

[Bill Dueber]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Ethan Gruber  wrote:

> Hmm, interesting.  Facebook is on the way out, anyway.  The question is
> what
> social network, if any, will replace it.
>

My Geek Ire is as aroused as anyone else's over privacy concerns and such,
but with half a billion users, all but roughly 11 of whom couldn't possibly
care any less about privacy and/or don't know anything about it, Facebook is
hardly "on the way out" any more than Google is. Certainly both will someday
be replaced, but I recommend breathing normally between now and then, as
opposed to holding your breath ...

The fact that something is good doesn't mean people will use it. The fact
that something is bad doesn't mean they won't (thank god, or our OPACs would
be mostly ignored...)

 -Bill-

[CODE4LIB] Visualization of the Metadata Universe

[Riley, Jenn]

(This message is being sent to multiple lists; please excuse duplication.)

The sheer number of metadata standards in the cultural heritage sector is 
overwhelming, and their inter-relationships further complicate the situation. A 
new resource, Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Universe, 
, is intended to assist 
planners with the selection and implementation of metadata standards. Seeing 
Standards is in two parts: (1) a poster-sized visualization plotting standards 
based on their applicability in a variety of contexts, and (2) a glossary of 
metadata standards in either poster or pamphlet form.

Each of the 105 standards listed is evaluated on its strength of application to 
defined categories in each of four axes: community, domain, function, and 
purpose. Standards more strongly allied with a category are displayed towards 
the center of each hemisphere, and those still applicable but less strongly 
allied are displayed along the edges. The strength of a standard in a given 
category is determined by a mixture of its adoption in that category, its 
design intent, and its overall appropriateness for use in that category. 

The standards represented are among those most heavily used or publicized in 
the cultural heritage community, though certainly not all standards that might 
be relevant are included. A small set of the metadata standards plotted on the 
main visualization also appear as highlights above the graphic. These represent 
the most commonly known or discussed standards for cultural heritage metadata.

Work preparing Seeing Standards was supported by a professional development 
grant from the Indiana University Libraries. Content was developed by Jenn 
Riley, Metadata Librarian in the Indiana University Digital Library Program. 
Design work was performed by Devin Becker of the Indiana University School of 
Library and Information Science, and soon to be Digital Initiatives & Scholarly 
Communications Librarian at the University of Idaho. 

I hope this resource proves to be helpful to those working with metadata 
standards in libraries, archives, museums, and other cultural heritage 
institutions.

Jenn


Jenn Riley
Metadata Librarian
Digital Library Program
Indiana University - Bloomington
Wells Library W501
(812) 856-5759
www.dlib.indiana.edu

Inquiring Librarian blog: www.inquiringlibrarian.blogspot.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] Facebook JSON results and the privacy problem

[Ethan Gruber]

Hmm, interesting.  Facebook is on the way out, anyway.  The question is what
social network, if any, will replace it.

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Ranti Junus  wrote:

> For example:
> http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=whatever
>
>
> ranti.
>
> --
> Bulk mail.  Postage paid.
>

[CODE4LIB] ALA Session on MODS and MADS: Current implementations and future directions

[Riley, Jenn]

(This message is being sent to multiple lists; please excuse duplication.)

Please join us at the ALA session MODS and MADS: Current implementations and 
future directions, sponsored by LITA.

10:30-12:00, Sunday June 27
Washington Convention Center, Room 143 B/C

Over the last few years, the use of MODS has increased rapidly. In 2008 the 
MODS Editorial Committee was established to work with the community to maintain 
the MODS and MADS standards and to update these so that they work in 
increasingly complex and linked metadata environments. This program will 
include examples of current implementations of MODS/MADS, future directions 
(including how a 4.0 version might work better at the network level), and its 
relation to other metadata standards. This program is intended to elicit 
feedback and discussion with the community.

Speakers:

Jenn Riley, Indiana University: MODS 3.4 is to be released in June 2010, the 
first Schema release guided by an editorial committee. MODS 3.4 makes two 
primary types of changes: those intended to help the Schema be more flexible 
and usable by other communities, and those intended to support RDA-compliant 
metadata. These changes will be discussed, as well as possible new directions 
that MODS 4.0 might take.

Bill Leonard, Library and Archives Canada: Use of MODS and MADS at Library and 
Archives Canada. This presentation will describe the use of MODS within LAC's 
Trusted Digital Repository.  Local extensions were necessary to carry 
descriptive metadata for electronic government records.  It will also touch on 
a separate MARCXML-based system launched earlier this year searches Canadiana 
authorities offering MADS as an export format.

Sally McCallum and Rebecca Guenther, Library of Congress: Using MODS for 
discovery of LC's rich collections: This presentation will describe the use of 
MODS as a common format to provide seamless and integrated access to LC's 
collections from disparate systems and cataloging formats. It will also discuss 
the Metadata for Digital Content Working Group, which is establishing a master 
data element set and format specific profiles for bibliographic descriptions 
based on MODS.

Amanda Harlan, Baylor University: This presentation will focus on Texas Digital 
Library's ETD MODS Guidelines & their ETD submission system, Vireo.  It will 
give an overview on why MODS was chosen to describe ETDS, who was in charge of 
writing the guidelines, why it was a priority for TDL to develop Vireo, and how 
much of MODS was incorporated into the Vireo System.  Next the presentation 
will be covering where TDL is right now in relation to the guidelines and 
Vireo.  It will give an overview of how many institutions are implementing it 
currently, how those institutions are dealing with exporting the metadata to 
their local systems, and who is continuing the development of Vireo and 
troubleshooting of it.  Lastly it will give an overview of future projections 
for TDL's Vireo and guidelines.  The presentation will give an overview of why 
the Vireo's Users Group was formed and its charge, the push to review the ETD 
MODS Guidelines to see if there is a need for any editing, an!
 d how institutions are working with developers of Vireo for enhancement 
recommendations for all parties involved: graduate school, library, and 
students.

Karen Miller, Northwestern University: Northwestern University Library's 
digital repository stores digital resources and metadata in a variety of 
formats. Metadata schemas are chosen based on their suitability to the type of 
materials being described, with MARCXML being used for monographs and serials, 
EAD for archival materials, VRA Core for visual images, and so on. In order to 
facilitate cross-collection searching, each of these metadata schemas has been 
crosswalked to MODS, which functions as a "lingua franca" for indexing and is 
particularly well suited for web display.  In the case of EAD, crosswalking to 
MODS is straightforward at the archival description level, but once subordinate 
components become involved, translating a hierarchical structure into a flat 
one presents challenges. This presentation describes the obstacles encountered 
and solutions implemented at NUL.

Jenn Riley
Chair, MODS/MADS Editorial Committee


Jenn Riley
Metadata Librarian
Digital Library Program
Indiana University - Bloomington
Wells Library W501
(812) 856-5759
www.dlib.indiana.edu

Inquiring Librarian blog: www.inquiringlibrarian.blogspot.com

[CODE4LIB] Facebook JSON results and the privacy problem

[Ranti Junus]

For example:
http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=whatever


ranti.

-- 
Bulk mail.  Postage paid.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Get together in DC during ALA?

[Joshua Gomez]

+1

>>> Cary Gordon  6/21/2010 2:02 PM >>>
+1

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Bryan Baldus
 wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 16, 2010 11:55 AM, Joe Hourcle wrote:
>>We had pretty good turn out the last time we had a code4lib dinner during an 
>>ALA meeting in DC a few years back.
>>Are there enough code4lib people either going to ALA or local to make it 
>>worth trying to organize again?
>
> If the timing works out, I'd be interested in participating (perhaps Monday 
> evening, which I believe is when it took place last time [1])
>
> Talk to you later,
>
> Bryan Baldus
> Cataloger
> Quality Books Inc.
> The Best of America's Independent Presses
> 1-800-323-4241x402
> bryan.bal...@quality-books.com 
> eij...@cpan.org 
> http://home.comcast.net/~eijabb/ 
>
> [1] Message from last time:
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Jonathan Rochkind [mailto:rochk...@jhu.edu] 
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 11:33 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu 
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Informal get together Monday of ALA
>
> Some of us have spontaneously decided to have an informal Code4Lib get 
> together the Monday of ALA in DC.
>
> We will meet on Monday the 25th of June at 8pm, at "RFD", which reccomended 
> by anarchivist, which appears to be a pub and "Washington's Largest 
> Multi-Tap".  It's located just a couple blocks from the convention center.
>
> http://www.lovethebeer.com/rfd.html 
>
> Some of the Talis crew have said they will be there. I will be there.
> Anarchivist and edsu have said they'll be there. (I forget if I just made up 
> edsu).
>
> Please join us! Any and everyone interested in meeting code4lib folks or 
> other assorted library technologists and library geeks and hangers on are 
> welcome.
>
> No, I wasn't planning on making a reservation or anything. No, I have no idea 
> how we'll all find each other. I think it'll work out.
>
> Jonathan
>



-- 
Cary Gordon
The Cherry Hill Company
http://chillco.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] Get together in DC during ALA?

[Cary Gordon]

+1

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Bryan Baldus
 wrote:
> On Wednesday, June 16, 2010 11:55 AM, Joe Hourcle wrote:
>>We had pretty good turn out the last time we had a code4lib dinner during an 
>>ALA meeting in DC a few years back.
>>Are there enough code4lib people either going to ALA or local to make it 
>>worth trying to organize again?
>
> If the timing works out, I'd be interested in participating (perhaps Monday 
> evening, which I believe is when it took place last time [1])
>
> Talk to you later,
>
> Bryan Baldus
> Cataloger
> Quality Books Inc.
> The Best of America's Independent Presses
> 1-800-323-4241x402
> bryan.bal...@quality-books.com
> eij...@cpan.org
> http://home.comcast.net/~eijabb/
>
> [1] Message from last time:
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Jonathan Rochkind [mailto:rochk...@jhu.edu]
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 11:33 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Informal get together Monday of ALA
>
> Some of us have spontaneously decided to have an informal Code4Lib get 
> together the Monday of ALA in DC.
>
> We will meet on Monday the 25th of June at 8pm, at "RFD", which reccomended 
> by anarchivist, which appears to be a pub and "Washington's Largest 
> Multi-Tap".  It's located just a couple blocks from the convention center.
>
> http://www.lovethebeer.com/rfd.html
>
> Some of the Talis crew have said they will be there. I will be there.
> Anarchivist and edsu have said they'll be there. (I forget if I just made up 
> edsu).
>
> Please join us! Any and everyone interested in meeting code4lib folks or 
> other assorted library technologists and library geeks and hangers on are 
> welcome.
>
> No, I wasn't planning on making a reservation or anything. No, I have no idea 
> how we'll all find each other. I think it'll work out.
>
> Jonathan
>



-- 
Cary Gordon
The Cherry Hill Company
http://chillco.com

[CODE4LIB] PDF: Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition

[Charles W. Bailey, Jr.]

This June is the twenty-first anniversary of PACS-L, an
early mailing list. PACS-L facilitated the establishment in
August 1989 of The Public-Access Computer Systems Review
(PACS Review), one of the first open access journals
published on the Internet. In turn, a PACS Review experiment
resulted in the establishment of the Scholarly Electronic
Publishing Bibliography in October 1996, which led to the
establishment of Digital Scholarship in April 2005. See "A
Look Back at 21 Years as an Open Access Publisher" for
details.

http://digital-scholarship.org/cwb/21/21years.htm

To commemorate these events, Digital Scholarship has
released a free PDF version of the Scholarly Electronic
Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition.

http://www.digital-scholarship.org/sepb/annual/sepb2008.pdf


-- 

Best Regards,
Charles

Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Publisher, Digital Scholarship
http://digital-scholarship.org/