Riot Librarian

Tag: standards

  • 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…

  • The Un-standard Standard

    I’ve been working with a lot of MARC records lately, from a handful of different libraries, and a handful of different library systems. Over the next few months, I’ll be working with MARC records from approximately 80 different libraries. And what is really striking to me, as someone who is fairly new to libraryland, is…