Back when I was a kid, Alvin Toffler's Future Shock was the book to read. One of the concepts he wrote about was "overchoice." This seems to have come true with the Web. It's hard not to feel overwhelmed with the amount of information out there concerning library issues. I hope this blog continues to help focus in on some of the important cataloging/metadata blog posts, papers, articles, etc. as I start a 2nd year of blogging (yesterday was the blog's 1st birthday!).
Here's some things I've found interesting lately:
- Karen Coyle's presentation from the recent Code4Lib Conference, R&D: RDA in RDF, or: Can Resource Description Become Rigorous Data? [PDF]. Slides annotated with notes. This is excellent.
- Lorcan Dempsey points out an article, Can Social Bookmarking Improve Web Search? [PDF] One intriguing conclusion from this study of user assigned tags: "It may be more efficient to train librarians to label domains than to ask users to tag." Hmm.
- On one of my very favorite blogs, repositories for the rest of us, Laura Smart mentions Diane Hillmann's trainer screencasts for the LC workshop she developed Metadata Standards and Applications. Slides with voice-over from Diane Hillmann.
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