Repository infrastructure
An article in the current Dlib Magazine describes how we built the OCLC Research
Publications Repository [https://www.oclc.org/
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Generation parent
Another [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000519.html] generational
reflection ….
Lorcan: What’s the URL?
Children: Oh, we never
Decisioneers
A post on Loosely Coupled offers a model of web services layers from ‘routers’
(the messaging layer where we tend
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Reading libraries
Karen [https://freerangelibrarian.com/] said:
> The current thinking in LITA is that ITAL is a member benefit and restricting
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The DC Decade
This month marks the ten year birthday for Dublin Core, which originated at a
meeting [https://dublincore.org/workshops/dc1/
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Sharing metadata
The lightweight bibliographic apparatus of reading lists and citation managers
is an important site of integration, I believe. Refshare is
Thinking about metadata collections
Peter Murray [https://www.pandc.org/peter/work/resume.html] [authority record
[https://errol.oclc.org/laf/no2004-9223.html]] left
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Guide to creating cultural heritage web services
From UKOLN:
> This guidebook provides advice on standards and best practices to organisations
involved in the development of cultural
Library websites again
The more I look at library websites, the more they do indeed seem to wrap a thin
layer around a
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Comparing frameworks
I have just come across a white paper produced by Sakai
[https://www.sakaiproject.org/] which compares the Sakai framework
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Music Australia
The National Library of Australia has innovated with federations/aggregations
such as Picture Australia [https://www.pictureaustralia.org/]. Now we
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