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If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why
oh why can't I?": Introduction and overview of issues
Gordon Dunsire
My yellow brick road
Early 2007: the world is black and whiteAnd I’m somewhat pessimistic about the
future of cataloguingAnd the emerging information Dark Age …
Mid 2007: the wind begins to blowSLIC’n’Flickr; NLS’n’YouTubeTheme for my workshop for Croatian
archives, libraries and museums is …Web2.0 stuff
Thunder and (en)lightening
Me: I can do the Flickr and YouTube bit, plus a Google maps mash-up
Co-presenter at workshop (younger (much!), slimmer (a lot!): I can do a basic introduction to other Web2.0 stuff like del.ic.io.us, Facebook, etc.And I get blown away …
Not in Kansas …
So at the next CDLR staff meetingI enthusiastically suggest that we should all
be getting engaged with this stuffAnd the Director agrees!And then the rest of the team (looking a bit
bored) point out that they’ve all been on Facebook for months …
And then I realize …
Image courtesy Daily Telegraph
We are all, basically, Munchkins!
And getting older all the time …
Any youthful wizards or (good) witches out there?
Collective metadata
Today’s presentations will focus on metadata for information retrievalAnd most of it will be familiar to library
cataloguers, even if the labels are differentThat metadata, like those who create it, will
be associated with specific organisations or individuals
But what about metadata and Web2.0 at a higher level of granularity, and, in turn, cataloguers acting collectively?
A collective mash-up
Location metadata from collection-level descriptions in the Scottish Collections Network (SCONE)
Mashed with Google MapsUsing the Application Program Interface
Public, free
Google map of all Scotland’s archives, libraries and museums
Locations of Robert Burns collections in Scotland
But what about
The users?
Some typical end-users
And collective cataloguers?
Web2.0 now an essential tool for developing cataloguing standards to meet the challenges of an international, digital environmentWikis, blogs, Skype, etc.
And those standards becoming more Web2.0 compatibleOpen declaration for common utilityFRBR, LCSH, LCNAF, MARC21, RDA …
http://dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/
Web3.0
If we can tell computers that:Library.title = Archive.title = Museum.caption
= Bibliotheque.titre = MARC.245 = <title>“Jane Smith” (writer) <> “Jane Smith”
(musician)“Economics” = “330” > “交換率”
Then Web3.0 = Cataloguable Web = Semantic Web
Towards the Emerald City!
Image courtesy MPTV.net