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Random Hacks of Kindness

Random Hacks of Kindness might be of interest to any library coders living in the SF Bay Area.Random Hacks of KindnessThe Disaster Relief CodejamWhat is Random Hacks of Kindness? It is an initiative that brings together disaster relief experts and software engineers to work on identifying key cha...

Ident Engine

OCLC is Enriching ONIX Metadata

OCLC now offers a service to enrich ONIX metadata for publishers.OCLC now offers Metadata Services for Publishers, a new service that takes publishers' ONIX title metadata, enriches it using WorldCat mining and mapping techniques, and delivers the enhanced ONIX metadata back to the publishers for...

Cooperative Cataloging Rules Website

Cooperative Cataloging Rules is a new website devoted to cataloging issues.We want to announce its existence and to put out a general request for professional metadata creators to participate. The site has two primary purposes: 1) to offer a serious alternative to RDA and 2) to offer a place for ...

SkyRiver

There is plenty of coverage of the new bibliographic utility, SkyRiver, so I'll not rehash all that's been said. The article by Marshall Breeding in Library Journal is a good place to start. However, one aspect that has not been covered is the authority file they offer. MARC authority records are...

Organizing Tags

Tag Clustering with Self Organizing Maps by Marco Luca Sbodio and Edwin Simpson is a recent HP Labs Technical Report.Today, user-generated tags are a common way of navigating and organizing collections of resources. However, their value is limited by a lack of explicit semantics and differing use...