International UDC Seminar

Slides and audio from the International UDC Seminarare now available.

Following the opening talk, speakers from different domains expanded on their particular view of what ontologies and knowledge structures may mean in their specialised areas of work and what aspects of ontological analysis or formal ontology modelling are relevant in the world of knowledge classifications. A number of talks stressed the urgency for knowledge classification schemes to be published as linked data and the limitations of the existing web ontology standards, SKOS specifically, were revisited a number of times. Presentations about particular schemes illustrated that classifications may indeed require more thought with regards to modelling.

Related articles

• Announcement: Classification & Ontology: International UDC Seminar 2011 (universaldecimalclassification.blogspot.com)
• Slides and audio recordings online - Classification & Ontology (iskouk.blogspot.com)

The Molecule of Data

Karen Coyle spoke with David Weinberger for this week’s LibraryLab/ThePodcast.

How can libraries use the power of metadata — those little molecules of information that help describe the greater work — to help users get more out of their search for resources?

This is going on my MP3 player.

Related articles

• Should academic libraries expose bib data as linked data? (library.caltech.edu)

Addition to Source Codes for Vocabularies, Rules, and Schemes

The source code listed below has been recently approved. The code will be added to applicable Source Codes for Vocabularies, Rules, and Schemes lists. See the specific source code list for current usage in MARC fields and MODS/MADS elements.

The code should not be used in exchange records until 60 days after the date of this notice to provide implementers time to include newly-defined codes in any validation tables.

Cartographic Data Source Codes
The following source code has been added to the Cartographic Data Source Codes list for usage in appropriate fields and elements.

Addition:

mapland

Maplandia.com: Google maps world gazetteer

USGS Links to Change

Image via WikipediaThe U.S. Geological Survey is changing from using the DJVU format for their scans to PDFs. The consequence of this is that all the old links will be broken stop working. They will not have a redirect from the old URL to the new.

The preferred link to USGS publications should be formatted like this:

http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/b2065
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/pp1534
http://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/cir850J

IAMSLIC News & Events has a bit more info.

The U.S. Geological Survey's Publications Warehouse (pubs.usgs.gov) will complete a process to migrate all of its' on-line publications into Portable Document Format (PDF) files by September1, 2011. At that time, the USGS will no longer support the previous DJVU format for its on-line publications. Libraries and Web site managers shouldlink to the publications citation page for USGS publications. At sometime after September 1, 2011, direct links to DJVU files will stop working and there will be no automatic redirect to the PDF version of those materials.

Information Standards Quarterly

The Summer 2011 issue of NISO’s Information Standards Quarterly magazine is now available.

• ISNI: A new system for name identification by Janifer Gatenby and Andrew MacEwan
  
• ORCID: Unique Identifiers for Authors and Contributors by Martin Fenner
  
• The Names Project: A New Approach to Name Authority by Alan Danskin, Amanda Hill, and Daniel Needham
  
• Identify This! Identifiers and Trust by Geoff Bilder
  
• The Use of the Standard Address Number (SAN) in the Supply Chain by Louise Timko
  
• I² and ISNI: Improving the Information Supply Chain with Standard Institutional Identifiers by Jody DeRidder

Related articles

• VIAF and other IDs (outgoing.typepad.com)

Cartoon Gets Subject Heading Changed

Today's Shelf Check cartoon managed to get a subject heading changed on a bib record. That was quick.