Riot Librarian

Category: discovery

  • NISO BIBFRAME Roadmap Meeting, Part 1

    April 15th and 16th, I attended NISO’s BIBFRAME Roadmap Meeting in Baltimore. The meeting was intended to bring together different people working in the information space, not just librarians but publishers and organizations involved in scholarly communication, to talk about a path forward as we begin to move beyond MARC. The Library of Congress has…

  • The Catalog is Dead

    In the five years I’ve been a part of libraryland, one conversation seems never to die: How can we improve our online catalogs? There are so many ways to approach this question, from a user-interface perspective or a metadata perspective, a software architecture perspective or a task-based perspective. But there is an assumption at work…

  • The Infinite Library and Linked Data

    This week I read an excellent article by Stacy Allison-Cassin in The Journal of Library Metadata, “The Possibility of the Infinite Library: Exploring the Conceptual Boundaries of Works and Texts of Bibliographic Description.” Allison-Cassin explores the ways that library discovery and cataloging are bound to notions of “the work” and texts that are solidly grounded…

  • MARC as linked data

    I wanted to draw attention to an article I read recently: Improving Presentation of Library Data using FRBR and Linked Data by Anne-Lena Westrum, Asgeir Rekkavik, and Kim Talleras. If you’re curious about how linked data might be implemented in a specific library project, and how you, yourself, might think about going about a similar…

  • Open Discovery

    I was lucky enough to attend a session at ALA on the growing field of Discovery Systems. A group of people representing content providers, discovery system vendors, libraries, and standards bodies came together for a preliminary discussion toward an Open Discovery Initiative. As this was a very preliminary discussion, nothing more tangible came out of…

  • The Creative Library

    The Urban Library Journal’s Spring 2008 issue is dedicated to creativity in the library. There are some really terrific articles in here, on library transformation, using technologies in new ways in the library, and promoting work and leisure in libraries. I’ve never read this journal before, but I want to sit down and read this…