BagIt -- Just BagIt - Tennant: Digital Libraries - Blog on Libra. Susa 2.0: Max Evans’ Finding Aid Prototype - SpellboundBlog.com. As part of his portion of our SAA 2008 panel in San Francisco, Max Evans demonstrated his prototype for a new way to view an EAD finding aid. You can download his presentation from the SAA’s site: Finding Aids for the 21st Century: The Next Evolution. Max’s prototype of Susa 2.0 is now online! He asked that I make sure you know it works best (showing all the intended mouse over text for links) with Internet Explorer version 6.0.
The prototype presents the finding aid of the Susa Young Gates Papers from the Utah State Historical Society. His design tackles the major issues that plague large finding aids normally displayed in traditional single page layouts. Anyone who has looked at a large finding aid online has had the experience of being scrolled down somewhere in the middle and realizing they have no idea what they are looking at. What folder is this item in? Related Posts: "Quick Fixes" Are Often Neither - Tennant: Digital Lib. SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System - home page. SKOS is an area of work developing specifications and standards to support the use of knowledge organization systems (KOS) such as thesauri, classification schemes, subject heading lists and taxonomies within the framework of the Semantic Web ...
[read more] Alignment between SKOS and new ISO 25964 thesaurus standard (2012-12-13) ISO 25964-1, published in 2011, replaced the previous thesaurus standards ISO 2788 and ISO 5964 (both now withdrawn). Members of the Working Group responsible for ISO 25964 have gone on to consider the implications for SKOS users. They have developed a set of linkages between the elements of the ISO 25964 data model and the ones from SKOS, SKOS-XL, and MADS/RDF. This new "Correspondence between ISO 25964 and SKOS/SKOS-XL models" document can be accessed at and replaces the previous table presented in the SKOS Primer. From Chaos, Order: SKOS Recommendation Helps Organize Knowledge (2009-08-18)
Reader (53) Kevin Kelly -- The Technium. [Translations: Japanese] While researching the consequences of economic abundance, Chris Anderson revisted the oft maligned quote of Lewis Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission in 1954: “Someday nuclear energy will be too cheap to meter.” As with most popular quotes, there’s an untold story behind it. As Anderson investigates the context and history of the “too cheap to meter” quote he is reminded that “too cheap to meter” does not mean electricity was supposed to be free. Just that the metering costs would exceed the cost of the electrons. But what if Strauss was right? At least about electricity.
I have friends with hefty solar energy panels mounted on their roofs that in some cases is “too cheap to meter.” But I take a different lesson from “too cheap to meter.” Turns out that metering (measuring) electricity is way cheaper than even free electrons. At first glance there is a worry that an avalanche of data from all possible sensors, running 24/7/365 will simply drown us. The Bibliographic River - Tennant: Digital Libraries - Blog on L.
The Future of Descriptive Enrichment - Tennant: Digital Librarie. Reading the report [PDF] of the RLG Programs metadata practice survey, this quote from a respondent jumped out at me: We use a variety of tools to produce a variety of records. Mature and established systems (such as our ILS) are generally effective. Tools for creation of XML are not as efficient - particularly EAD creation. Creation of EAD and ingest into our XML database is still a very manual process. Our tools are also generally not well integrated. It is pretty indicative of general issues to emerge. ... I was also interested to note that over half the institutions surveyed build and maintain one or more local thesauri. For more detail see Karen Smith-Yoshimura. Related entries: