Coyle's InFormation

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

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Digital Urtext

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As we reach a point where many of the classic books of literature and science published before the magical date of 1923 have been digitized,...
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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Clarification from Sweden on OCLC negotiations

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The National Library of Sweden has issued a short blog post clarifying their objections to the WorldCat Rights and Responsibilities (WCRR)...
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Sunday, April 08, 2012

Content and carrier

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In the midst of a discussion regarding the description of extents in RDA, I came to a realization that I might have noticed sooner if I did ...
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Friday, April 06, 2012

If not RDF, then what?

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There's no question that the data format known as RDF is darned difficult. Let's suppose that we in the library world decide not to ...
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VIAF gets serious

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There has been an announcement by OCLC that the Virtual International Authority File (VIAF) is "transitioning" to OCLC. Since it ...
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Saturday, March 31, 2012

Can libraries change?

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The declaration by Library of Congress that the time has come to make the long overdue change to a new data format has...
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Monday, February 27, 2012

What's the question?

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I've been meaning to comment on this for a while... If you receive the New York Times in hard copy, and if, like some of us, you turn pe...
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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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