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ArchiVISTA: A New Horizon in Providing Access to Visual Records of the National Archives of Canada
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Special Libraries, November 1980
Volume 71, Issue 11https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1980/1009/thumbnail.jp
Assembling and enriching digital library collections
People who create digital libraries need to gather together the raw material, add metadata as necessary, and design and build new collections. This paper sets out the requirements for these tasks and describes a new tool that supports them interactively, making it easy for users to create their own collections from electronic files of all types. The process involves selecting documents for inclusion, coming up with a suitable metadata set, assigning metadata to each document or group of documents, designing the form of the collection in terms of document formats, searchable indexes, and browsing facilities, building the necessary indexes and data structures, and putting the collection in place for others to use. Moreover, different situations require different workflows, and the system must be flexible enough to cope with these demands. Although the tool is specific to the Greenstone digital library software, the underlying ideas should prove useful in more general contexts
The New Technology and Competencies for "The Most Typical of the Activities of Libraries": Technical Services
At a library conference in 1940, William M. Randall called technical
services the "most typical of the activities of libraries" "they are..." he
said, "the things which librarians do that no one else does the secrets of
the craft."
1 In those intervening forty-three years much has been written
and uttered in defense and derision of these "secrets of the craft." These
most typical of library activities have changed the name Randall used,
technical processes, to technical services. They have moved from being
sneeringly derided as "backroom," "basement" or other dreary location
activities to being enthusiastically hailed today as "where the action is."
They are, fortunately, no longer the "secrets" that they were in Randall's
day. They have been moved into, moved around within and even moved
out of the organizational charts. Regardless of all these attitudes and
activities, the functions of acquiring, organizing and preserving library
materials persist and the competencies necessary to carry out these three
functions will be the focus of this paper. In the paper, reference will
frequently be made to the "technical services librarian" meaning any
librarian who works in that aspect of librarianship. The emphasis is on no
particular type of library. The term library will be used as meaning also
information center.published or submitted for publicatio
Report of the Stanford Linked Data Workshop
The Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) with the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) conducted at week-long workshop on the prospects for a large scale, multi-national, multi-institutional prototype of a Linked Data environment for discovery of and navigation among the rapidly, chaotically expanding array of academic information resources. As preparation for the workshop, CLIR sponsored a survey by Jerry Persons, Chief Information Architect emeritus of SULAIR that was published originally for workshop participants as background to the workshop and is now publicly available. The original intention of the workshop was to devise a plan for such a prototype. However, such was the diversity of knowledge, experience, and views of the potential of Linked Data approaches that the workshop participants turned to two more fundamental goals: building common understanding and enthusiasm on the one hand and identifying opportunities and challenges to be confronted in the preparation of the intended prototype and its operation on the other. In pursuit of those objectives, the workshop participants produced:1. a value statement addressing the question of why a Linked Data approach is worth prototyping;2. a manifesto for Linked Libraries (and Museums and Archives and …);3. an outline of the phases in a life cycle of Linked Data approaches;4. a prioritized list of known issues in generating, harvesting & using Linked Data;5. a workflow with notes for converting library bibliographic records and other academic metadata to URIs;6. examples of potential “killer apps” using Linked Data: and7. a list of next steps and potential projects.This report includes a summary of the workshop agenda, a chart showing the use of Linked Data in cultural heritage venues, and short biographies and statements from each of the participants
User Needs and Library Services in Agricultural Sciences
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A Bibliography of Community Analyses for Libraries
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Special Libraries, Winter 1986
Volume 77, Issue 1https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1986/1000/thumbnail.jp
Development and application of computer software techniques to human factors task data handling problems Final report, 21 Jun. 1965 - 21 Jun. 1966
Computer software techniques applied to human factors task data handling problem
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