Coyle's InFormation

Comments on the digital age, which, as we all know, is 42.

Monday, October 17, 2011

Relativ index

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Most of us, when we hear "Dewey Decimal Classification" (DDC) think about the numbers that go onto the backs of books that then te...
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Monday, October 03, 2011

Organizing knowledge

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At the LITA forum on Saturday I stated that classification and knowledge organization seem to have fallen off the library profession's r...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Europe's national libraries support Open Data licensing

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 "Meeting at the Royal Library of Denmark, the Conference of European National Librarians (CENL), has voted overwhelmingly to support t...
Sunday, September 18, 2011

Meaning in MARC: Indicators

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I have been doing a study of the semantics of MARC data on the futurelib wiki . An article on what I learned about the fixed fields (00X) a...
Friday, September 16, 2011

European Thoughts on RDA

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Some European libraries are asking the question: "Should we adopt RDA as our cataloging code?" The discussion is happening through...
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Due diligence do-over

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In what I see as both a brave and an appropriate move, the University of Michigan admitted publicly that the Authors Guild had found some s...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

Diligence due

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Oooof! Talk about making a BIG, public mistake. HathiTrust's new Orphan Works Project proposed to do due diligence on works, then post...
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Karen Coyle
BERKELEY, CA, United States
Librarian, techie, social commentator, once called "public intellectual" by someone who couldn't think of a better title.
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