[CODE4LIB] Job: Archivist & Metadata Coordinator - Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library (#16859BR)

2012-05-19 Thread Beacom, Matthew
Hi all, Below is a description for a job at Yale University in the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Matthew Beacom Archivist / Metadata Coordinator Manuscript Unit Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library Yale University New Haven, CT Rank: Librarian 2-3 www.yale.edu/jobs<

Re: [CODE4LIB] What do you wish you had time to learn?

2011-04-27 Thread Beacom, Matthew
Here's my list Leading people well Managing people well Making good things happen (e.g. going from a perceived problem to a routine implemented service) Understanding (at a fairly high level) how a networked digital environment works technically, economically, and socially Old English Hebrew Re

Re: [CODE4LIB] Announcing OLAC's prototype FRBR-inspired moving image discovery interface

2010-12-13 Thread Beacom, Matthew
-Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 10:51 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Announcing OLAC's prototype FRBR-inspired moving image discovery interface Quoting &q

Re: [CODE4LIB] Announcing OLAC's prototype FRBR-inspired moving image discovery interface

2010-12-13 Thread Beacom, Matthew
Kelly, Thank you for your message on the FRBR-inspired thinking. I'll second Karen's request that you get this or an expansion of this note published. With as complex a thing as a film--so many "authors", images, music, dialog, acting, sets, costume, etc., etc., etc., applying the FRBR model i

Re: [CODE4LIB] Announcing OLAC's prototype FRBR-inspired moving image discovery interface

2010-12-10 Thread Beacom, Matthew
Karen, The summary of the task group's work at http://olacinc.org/drupal/capc_files/archived_docs/MIW_summary.pdf may provide some of the information you are looking for. Matthew -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle Sen

Re: [CODE4LIB] MODS and DCTERMS

2010-05-03 Thread Beacom, Matthew
Although I agree with Roy's suggestion that librarians not gloat about our metadata, the notion that the value of a data element can be elicited from the frequency of its use in the overall domain of library materials is misleading and contrary to the report Roy cites. The sub-section of the v

Re: [CODE4LIB] Variations/FRBR project releases FRBR XML Schemas

2010-03-22 Thread Beacom, Matthew
Karen, This is fun, but I ought to be working. Me> Work is not defined in AACR or AACR2. Karen> "Uniform title. 1. The particular title by which a work that has appeared under varying titles is to be identified for cataloguing purposes." (AACR2) "The title of the work is the word, phrase, o

Re: [CODE4LIB] Variations/FRBR project releases FRBR XML Schemas

2010-03-22 Thread Beacom, Matthew
ehalf Of Karen Coyle Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 1:22 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Variations/FRBR project releases FRBR XML Schemas Quoting "Beacom, Matthew" : > Karen, > > You said: > > From the FRBR model we know that a manifestatio

Re: [CODE4LIB] Variations/FRBR project releases FRBR XML Schemas

2010-03-22 Thread Beacom, Matthew
atthew Beacom -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 1:52 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Variations/FRBR project releases FRBR XML Schemas Quoting "Beacom, Matthew&quo

Re: [CODE4LIB] Variations/FRBR project releases FRBR XML Schemas

2010-03-22 Thread Beacom, Matthew
Karen, Is see your depiction of the Moby Dick example Work: Moby Dick Expression: Moby Dick with preface, appendices, Hart Crane poem Contains: (Work/Expression) preface Contains: (Work/Expression) Hart Crane Poem Manifestation: Moby Dick with preface, appendices, Hart Crane poem ?Contai

Re: [CODE4LIB] Variations/FRBR project releases FRBR XML Schemas

2010-03-22 Thread Beacom, Matthew
Karen, You said: "One thing I am finding about FRBR (and want to think about more) is that one seems to come up with different conclusions depending on whether one works down from Work or works up from Item. The assumption that an aggregate in a bound volume is an Expression seems to make

Re: [CODE4LIB] Variations/FRBR project relases FRBR XML Schemas

2010-03-16 Thread Beacom, Matthew
Karen asked "(And now I'm confused as to what the work would be in something like a text collection, such as an anthology of poems. Would the anthology be a work?)" Karen, I think it is clear that each poem is a work and that an anthology of poems is also a work--a work of the anthologist. This

Re: [CODE4LIB] Payment for code4lib 2010?

2009-12-16 Thread Beacom, Matthew
Where is the registration form? Matthew -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Edward M. Corrado Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1:16 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Payment for code4lib 2010? Mads, There w