Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH and Linked Data [cataloging]
On Apr 17, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Bill Dueber wrote: OK, so I've been trying to follow all of this, and have to say, I'm finding it all very interesting. I want to give a special shout-out to the cataloger who have joined in; I (and, I think, much of code4lib) need this kind of input on a much more regular basis than we've been getting it. I concur. It is nice to have the balance of traditional cataloging mixed with 21st Century hacking. At the same time, it behooves some of us Code4Libbers to be a part of hardcore mailing lists like AUTOCAT. Think Hillmann's talk at the most recent conference. -- Eric Needs To Practice What He Preaches Morgan University of Notre Dame
[CODE4LIB] Fwd: [dm-l] Postdoctoral Fellowship at MARGOT, University of Waterloo
-- Forwarded message -- From: Christine McWebb cmcw...@uwaterloo.ca Date: Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 7:36 AM Subject: [dm-l] Postdoctoral Fellowship at MARGOT, University of Waterloo To: d...@uleth.ca University of Waterloo – Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Digital Humanities With apologies for cross-posting; please redistribute: Postdoctoral Fellowship at MARGOT The MARGOT Annotation Tool project (imageMAT), funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation – Scholarly Communications and Technology Program (2011-2012), invites applications to its 2011 competition for a postdoctoral fellowship. imageMAT offers a one-year postdoctoral fellowship valued at $31,500 + 14% vacation pay and benefits to PhD students in the final year of their program and recent graduates. Applicants must have knowledge in medieval iconography and/or literature and manuscript culture/production. Applicants must also have solid computer skills. The postdoctoral fellow will provide scholarly leadership and, more generally, add scholarly content to the project site such as manuscript descriptions and blog posts. He/she will consult on content creation, and assist the developer and McWebb with the training of graduate students in content creation and be responsible for site moderation. Knowledge of French would be an asset, but is not required. The award is tenable at the University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, and is supervised by Christine McWebb. The start date is September 1, 2011. Applicants must not hold a tenure or tenure-track position or other full-time employment. Fellows are expected to engage in full-time postdoctoral research during the term of the award. Preference will be given to recent graduates, that is, to graduates applying within five years of receiving their doctoral degree. The awards are not renewable beyond the first year. Please send a cover letter, current c.v., and the names of three referees by email to: Christine McWebb cmcw...@uwaterloo.ca Application deadline: 1 June, 2011 Christine McWebb Associate Professor Associate Chair, Graduate Studies Département d'études françaises ML 337 University of Waterloo 200 University Avenue Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 Canada T.: 519-888-4567x32426 http://margot.uwaterloo.ca Digital Medievalist -- http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/ Journal: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/ Journal Editors: editors _AT_ digitalmedievalist.org News: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/news/ Wiki: http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/wiki/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/digitalmedieval Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49320313760 Discussion list: d...@uleth.ca Change list options: http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/dm-l
Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH and Linked Data
On 4/17/2011 10:58 AM, Bill Dueber wrote: At the same time, I'm finding it hard to determine if we're converging on when trying to turn LCSH into reasonable facets, here's what you need to do or when trying to turn LCSH into reasonable facets, you've haven't got a freakin' prayer. Can someone help me here? FAST has done it somehow -- turned LCSH into reasonable facets. But I'm not sure if there's a good overview available of how. reasonable is certainly something of degree too. I don't think you can do 'reasonably' with a pretty rough and ready approach. I need to blog about the just _few_ things I've done to normalize LCSH for facetting in my blacklight-based catalog, which I think gets it pretty close to 'reasonable'. Heck, some people think just taking the subdivisions on marc subfields and splitting em into facets is 'reasonable', although it results in many oddities. But, I think the utlimate answer to your question with full precision and based on full knowledge of LCSH is not yet determiend -- unless the FAST people have figured it out and can share what they've figured out in a useful way.
[CODE4LIB] Fwd: Programme: Classification and Ontology, 19-20 , September, The Hague
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Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH and Linked Data
For FAST, see Chan and O'Neill (2010). There are large parts of FAST where the editors wisely opted to punt on the more intractable parts. Simon Chan, Lois Mai and O'Neill, Ed (2010). FAST, Faceted Application of Subject Terminology: Principles and Application. Libraries Unlimited. ISBN: 9781591587224 On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.eduwrote: On 4/17/2011 10:58 AM, Bill Dueber wrote: At the same time, I'm finding it hard to determine if we're converging on when trying to turn LCSH into reasonable facets, here's what you need to do or when trying to turn LCSH into reasonable facets, you've haven't got a freakin' prayer. Can someone help me here? FAST has done it somehow -- turned LCSH into reasonable facets. But I'm not sure if there's a good overview available of how. reasonable is certainly something of degree too. I don't think you can do 'reasonably' with a pretty rough and ready approach. I need to blog about the just _few_ things I've done to normalize LCSH for facetting in my blacklight-based catalog, which I think gets it pretty close to 'reasonable'. Heck, some people think just taking the subdivisions on marc subfields and splitting em into facets is 'reasonable', although it results in many oddities. But, I think the utlimate answer to your question with full precision and based on full knowledge of LCSH is not yet determiend -- unless the FAST people have figured it out and can share what they've figured out in a useful way.
Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH and Linked Data [cataloging]
Oh jeez, I'm not sure I'd suggest AutoCat. Even I can't bear that. But the RDA-L list has a fair amount of discussion that still dusts off the traditional issues and tries to figure out what sill matters. Diane Hillmann On Apr 17, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Bill Dueber wrote: OK, so I've been trying to follow all of this, and have to say, I'm finding it all very interesting. I want to give a special shout-out to the cataloger who have joined in; I (and, I think, much of code4lib) need this kind of input on a much more regular basis than we've been getting it. I concur. It is nice to have the balance of traditional cataloging mixed with 21st Century hacking. At the same time, it behooves some of us Code4Libbers to be a part of hardcore mailing lists like AUTOCAT. Think Hillmann's talk at the most recent conference.
[CODE4LIB] Why does the MARC to DC crosswalk refuse to use Creator?
I am mystified by the discovery that the MARC to DC Crosswalk does not map *any* MARC tag to the DC Creator element! http://www.loc.gov/marc/marc2dc.html Does anyone know the reasoning behind this strange decision? -- Luciano Ramalho programador repentista || stand-up programmer Twitter: @luciano
Re: [CODE4LIB] Why does the MARC to DC crosswalk refuse to use Creator?
It looks like it's using Contributor instead. So I'm guessing the sticking point is that it's hard to figure out what Contributors are primary, so it's safer to just punt and put them all in Contributor instead. -Esme -- Esme Cowles escow...@ucsd.edu During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. -- Al Gore On Apr 18, 2011, at 5:13 PM, Luciano Ramalho wrote: I am mystified by the discovery that the MARC to DC Crosswalk does not map *any* MARC tag to the DC Creator element! http://www.loc.gov/marc/marc2dc.html Does anyone know the reasoning behind this strange decision? -- Luciano Ramalho programador repentista || stand-up programmer Twitter: @luciano
Re: [CODE4LIB] Why does the MARC to DC crosswalk refuse to use Creator?
I don't actually know why, but I can imagine a plausible answer: the MARC record does not distinguish between contributors and creators sufficiently well to separate out the x00 fields between them. Either everyone is a creator, or everyone is a contributor, or the main entry (100) is treated as a creator and everyone else a contributor. Whichever it is, some portion of the mapping will be wrong. What would be interesting would be a study that would show the relative ratios of right to wrong in the three (or more?) scenarios. kc Quoting Luciano Ramalho luci...@ramalho.org: I am mystified by the discovery that the MARC to DC Crosswalk does not map *any* MARC tag to the DC Creator element! http://www.loc.gov/marc/marc2dc.html Does anyone know the reasoning behind this strange decision? -- Luciano Ramalho programador repentista || stand-up programmer Twitter: @luciano -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
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Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH and Linked Data
On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 7:40 AM, Simon Spero s...@unc.edu wrote: The main study on this subject was the Michigan study performed/led by Karen Markey (some reports were written as Karen M. Drabenstott. The final report of the project is available at http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/57992 . The work took place in the mid to late 90s, after Airlie . ... The most perplexing results were those that showed that measured understanding was lower when headings were displayed in the context of a bibliographic record rather than on their own. This indicates either a problem in the measurement process, or an either more fundamental problem with subdivided headings that may so negate the significant theoretical advantages of pre-coordination that the value of the whole practice is thrown in to doubt. That is fascinating. And disturbing. I don't think I ever read the original study, but now I'll have to. Touching on another topic, I believe that the movement of geographical subdivisions to follow the right most geographically sub-dividable subdivision can sometimes be interrupted by the interposition of a $x topical subdivision, but I haven't determined whether this is a legacy exception (the ones that came to mind were related to subtopics of the US Civil War, which seems inevitable given that the first elements are United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--). I think the key here is partly In 1992, it was decided to adopt that order where it could be applied. so LC didn't promise to do them all. $x History is probably the biggest one that hasn't been made geographically subdividable, but it's hard to say if that's on principle or because of practical concerns about the huge amount of disruption that would cause in individual systems. It's interesting that some of the biggies like economic aspects are more recent. One of the challenges for pre-coordinated strings at least as currently implemented (that facets evade) is that no order will suit everyone. Which of the following is better? Dwellings $z Australia $x History $y 20th century Dwellings $z Indonesia $x Economic aspects Dwellings $z Indonesia $x Psychological aspects Dwellings $z Indonesia $x Social aspects Dwellings $z Ireland $x Economic aspects Dwellings $z Ireland $x Psychological aspects Dwellings $z Ireland $x Social aspects Dwellings $z Japan $x Economic aspects Dwellings $z Japan $x Psychological aspects Dwellings $z Japan $x Social aspects OR (mostly current practice) *Dwellings $z Australia $x History $y 20th century **Current practice Dwellings $x Economic aspects $z Indonesia Dwellings $x Economic aspects $z Ireland Dwellings $x Economic aspects $z Japan *Dwellings $x History $z Australia $y 20th century **Airlie recommendation Dwellings $x Psychological aspects $z Indonesia Dwellings $x Psychological aspects $z Ireland Dwellings $x Psychological aspects $z Japan Dwellings $x Social aspects $z Indonesia Dwellings $x Social aspects $z Ireland Dwellings $x Social aspects $z Japan Probably not helpful to have history be an outlier, though. Kelley
