Topic Maps Lab - Home. Who needs MARC? Posted on May 15th, 2009Lukas Koster Why use a non-normalised metadata exchange format for suboptimal data storage?
© leah the librarian This week I had a nice chat with André Keyzer of Groningen University library and Peter van Boheemen of Wageningen University Library who attended OCLC’s Amsterdam Mashathon 2009. As can be expected from library technology geeks, we got talking about bibliographic metadata formats, very exciting of course. The question came up: what on earth could be the reason for storing bibliographic metadata in exchange formats like MARC?
Being asked once at an ELAG conference about the bibliographic format Wageningen University was using in their home grown catalog system, Peter answered: “WDC” ….”we don’t care“.Exactly my idea! As a matter of fact I think I may have used the same words a couple of times in recent years, probably even at ELAG2008. Semantic Web Standards. VIAF. Topic Maps Lab - Topic Maps and Catalogues of Museums, Libraries and Archives. There have been some initiatives or exploration of the potential uses of Topic Maps to Integrated Library Systems ( ILS ) or catalogues in the MLA institutions. However, most of them are prototypes and not implemented due to the fact that no vendor in the MLA field has already incorporated Topic Maps to their systems yet.
Those projects that are online proved their skills, some were/are still prototypes and others are not meant for a public usage. The following case study is going to show examples of Topic Maps based projects especially for catalogues of museums, libraries or archives. The first part describes two projects using Topic Maps by implementing data with the FRBR -model. The second part of the study concentrates on another two projects that uses the Topic Map paradigm to integrate several catalogues. Discover Literary Oddities in the Weird Book Room on AbeBooks. Welcome to AbeBooks' Weird Book Room - heralded by the New York Times, Canada's Globe and Mail, The Times of London, and The Guardian (UK) as the finest source of everything that's bizarre, odd and downright weird in books.
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But the artwork involved no live action, no stage, no human spectacle. While the Italian couple and their director, Paolo Ruffino, sat in the back at SoHo's Artists Space silently manning laptops, about 60 downtown types filed into the gallery and seated themselves before a ten-foot projection screen. Most of the audience, however, was dispersed around the world, sitting in front of their own computer screens. Format Icon Descriptions. The Friend of a Friend (FOAF) project.
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Freeborn INTRODUCTION It seems that AV cataloging has finally come of age, and it's all thanks to the Internet. The dramatic explosion of Internet-based resources over the past few years, coupled with the limitations associated with the current generation of search engines, has brought about the realization by information professionals that Web-based materials are in dire need of better organization and description. In 1995, Northwestern's Karen Horny stated, "The problems encountered in AV cataloging are closely related to the issues beginning to be addressed as libraries struggle to provide access to an immense variety of electronic resources proliferating in Internet-accessible computer databases. " "Current AV cataloging is a kind of 'intermediate step' toward organizing access to these electronic resources, or, to put it another way, 'cataloging the Internet.'"
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