Al Cornish – XTF in 300 seconds (Slides in PDF) technology developed and maintained by California Digital Library supports the search/display of digital collections (images, PDFs, etc) fully open source platform, based on Apache Lucene search toolkit Java framework, runs in Tomcat or Jetty servlet engine extensive customization possible through XSLT programming user and developer … Continue reading »
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Code4lib 2012 Pre-Conference: Digging into Metadata
The afternoon pre-conference session was Digging into Metadata: Context, Code, and Collaboration presented by: Becky Yoose, Grinnell College Corey Harper, New York University Shana L. McDanold, University of Pennsylvania via Skype, and Laura Smart, Caltech. It was great seeing a big mix of people, many of them neither cataloguers or coders. I have put in … Continue reading »
Evaluating the UBC Catalogue
Disclaimer: This is actually a copy of my assignment for cataloguing class, so I was being as critical as possible within a set page limit. Although it could use a few improvements, there are actually a lot of things I like about the UBC catalogue, but which isn’t reflected in here. University of British Columbia … Continue reading »
AACR2 and MARC: Rules that Give You Individuality
The last couple of weeks in cataloguing have been on descriptive cataloguing using AACR2 (Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules) rules and MARC (MAchine Readable Code) coding. If ever we think that librarians cannot be decisive, then one area where they can be is cataloguing. Our instructors did not lie about this, and yet, being decisive and being … Continue reading »
