Riot Librarian

Category: metadata

  • Learning about Linked Data: SPARQL and Content Negotiation

    My ad hoc learning about linked data continues, and this past week I feel like my knowledge grew in leaps and bounds. A few weeks ago I installed Joseki on my local machine. Joseki is a SPARQL query engine (and apparently is no longer being developed; I guess I will have to upgrade to Jena…

  • Goals (NISO BIBFRAME Roadmap Meeting, Part 3)

    Over the course of the two-day NISO BIBFRAME Roadmap Meeting last week, I kept circling back to thinking about our goals. There was a discussion subgroup that focused on Goals and Strategies, and they raised some very important issues, but I didn’t come away feeling that we had a strategy for addressing them. There were…

  • What’s Wrong with MARC? (NISO BIBFRAME Roadmap Meeting, Part 2)

    Librarians have been talking about what’s wrong with MARC for so long, at this point it seems like you shouldn’t even have to ask. It was 11 years ago that Roy Tennant published his now infamous article, MARC Must Die in Library Journal. But MARC is far from dead. At the NISO BIBFRAME Roadmap Meeting,…

  • 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…

  • Linked Data Baby Steps

    I’ve been thinking A LOT about linked data over the past few months. To be less specific, I’ve been thinking about ways that librarians can better share library resources and metadata on the open web, and make our resources more discoverable. We know that Google, to use one search engine example, ranks things on the…

  • 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…

  • Standards for Social Reading

    On Wednesday, I had the privilege of attending a NISO working meeting on creating a standard for Open Ebook Annotations. The meeting was held the day before the Books in Browsers conference, and was the third such working meeting, after meetings held in New York and Frankfurt. The purpose was to brainstorm around what the…

  • Being a metadata librarian at the CDL

    My second post on The Desk Set is up for your perusal! In which I talk about the many varied projects of the California Digital Library, and my specific metadata-related work therein. All you ever wanted to know about the CDL…

  • The Big Picture

    Since I got back from ALA, I’ve been thinking about how to tie together everything I saw and thought and learned while I was there. I’ve been looking for the big picture. Throughout the week, in a variety of sessions, a few phrases kept popping into my mind: Re-think the ILS, re-think the bibliographic record.…