Presentation Announcement: Re-Imagining the Bibliographic Unive. Next Monday (November 30, 2009) a colleague at the Library of Congress will be giving a presentation on modeling bibliographic information based on a “Paper Tool” technique adopted from physics.
The title of the talk is “Re-Imagining the Bibliographic Universe: FRBR, Physics and the World Wide Web and will be presented by Ron Murray (no relation), Digital Conversion Specialist in the Preservation Reformatting Division of LC. A PDF of the presentation slides (35MB ZIP file) is now available online. The presentation is open to the public, and will be from 10am to noon in the Mumford Room (6th floor of the LC Madison Building). The abstract of the talk is: In response to dramatic increases in the quantity and types of culturally significant resources in libraries, cataloging theories like FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) have become more complex when compared to traditional cataloging theories. Cataloging productivity suite. Placemaker™ Beta. Yahoo BOSS Geo Services Yahoo BOSS is a suite of services that provides Developers premium API's that can support Search and Geo applications.
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