http://tags.library.upenn.edu/tag/metadata PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/44994 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/44994 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/44925 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/44925 <p>About this Site and How to Use It:<br />This is a cooperative site originally created by James Weinheimer as an alternative to accepting RDA. The basic idea is to have a site where the current rules can continue to be updated. There are also the related Google Groups site, and the Blog. For more information, see the Official Announcement</p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/44806 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/44806 <p>Developing institution-wide policies and standards at the Library of Congress</p> <p>Note links to</p> <ul> <li>A master metadata element list with recommendations on best practices for populating the elements to provide more consistency of new metadata creation throughout the institution, support the Library of Congress metadata use cases, and point to areas where metadata remediation of current metadata might be beneficial.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Profiles that draw from the master list for specific applications or projects.</li> </ul> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/44798 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/44798 <p>Nice presentation on RDA from&nbsp; Rick J. Block, Head, Special Collections Metadata and Cataloging, Columbia University</p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/44749 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/44749 <p>"The University of Michigan and OCLC today announced that they have successfully transitioned the OAIster database to OCLC to ensure continued public access to open-archive collections, and to expand the visibility of these collections to millions of information seekers through OCLC services.</p> <p>OAIster records are now fully accessible through WorldCat.org, and will be included in WorldCat.org search results along with records from thousands of libraries worldwide that add their holdings to WorldCat. OCLC plans to release a freely accessible, discrete view of the OAIster records in January 2010 through a URL specific to OAIster."</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/44394 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/44394 <p>January 18-22, 2010<br />Boston, Massachusetts<br />ALA Hotel TBD and 90 Mt. Auburn, Harvard University</p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/43930 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/43930 <p>"Clarification" on the OCLC/OAIster terms--the comments are interesting</p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/43931 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/43931 <p>More on OAIster and OCLC</p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/43929 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/43929 <p>Blog post discusses OCLC's recent message to OAI-PMH data providers asking them to agree to a set of Terms &amp; Conditions allowing OCLC to include data harvested via OAI-PMH in both free and toll services that OCLC provides.</p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/43545 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/43545 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/43403 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/43403 <p>From Legacy Data to Linked Data: Preparing Libraries for Web 3.0</p> <p>Presentations from this program are available below:</p> <p>Eric Miller (Zepheira), "Linked Data and Libraries" [1]</p> <p>Diane Hillmann (Information Institute of Syracuse; Metadata Management Associates), "Are Libraries Ready for Linked Data?" [2]</p> <p>Jennifer Bowen (University of Rochester), "Defining Linked Data for the eXtensible Catalog (XC): Metadata on the Bleeding Edge" [3]</p> <p>Rebecca Guenther (Library of Congress), "Controlled Vocabularies as Linked Data on the Web" [4]</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/42776 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/42776