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Is everything under control?

Is everything under control?. LNSS “23 things” Project Sinéad Keogh, 03/04/09, University of Limerick. DISCLAIMER. wiki - what i know is. witi - what i think is. Who are the experts?. LNSS “23 things” Project Sinéad Keogh, 03/04/09, University of Limerick. Doesn’t tempus fugit.

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Is everything under control?

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  1. Is everything under control? LNSS “23 things” Project Sinéad Keogh, 03/04/09, University of Limerick

  2. DISCLAIMER wiki - what i know is witi - what i think is Who are the experts? LNSS “23 things” Project Sinéad Keogh, 03/04/09, University of Limerick

  3. Doesn’t tempus fugit LNSS “23 things” Project Week 6: Tagging, Del.icio.us & TechnoratiThing 11 Learn about tagging and discover del.icio.us (a social bookmarking site)Thing 12 Explore Technorati and learn how tags work with blog posts. LNSS “23 things” Project Sinéad Keogh, 03/04/09, University of Limerick

  4. Metadata & Tagging Describesand/or Organises stuff so that (in theory) you can easily Access stuff LNSS “23 things” Project Sinéad Keogh, 03/04/09, University of Limerick

  5. much the same as… LNSS “23 things” Project Sinéad Keogh, 03/04/09, University of Limerick

  6. A place for everything & everything in its place • Data fields • Controlled vocabularies • Field entry rules Instructions for describing and organising: i.e. what fields to enter information into and what terms to use to describe the items LNSS “23 things” Project Sinéad Keogh, 03/04/09, University of Limerick

  7. Traditional Control Freaks Libraries have always used rules to describe items LNSS “23 things” Project Sinéad Keogh, 03/04/09, University of Limerick

  8. Controlling Information • Metadata schema - MARC • Cataloguing - AACRII • Classification - DDC / LCC • Authority files / Controlled vocabularies  Just do it Library instructions: MARC tells you where to input information, AACRII tells you how, Controlled vocabs tell you what terms to use… No back talk LNSS “23 things” Project Sinéad Keogh, 03/04/09, University of Limerick

  9. MARC Record MARC fields 100 = Author, 250 = Title info, 650 = subject terms… Not very user friendly. Must use rules to fill in fields (see $a etc.)

  10. Catalogue Record Catalogue The rest of us don’t have to worry about knowing MARC fields or other rules.

  11. Easy Access Because somebody else has gone to the trouble, we can search for titles, dates, authors etc. If nobody had entered that information, the search boxes would be useless.

  12. Sharing is caring Using standardised methods and rules means we can share. If we create a MARC record, any other library using MARC can take that record and it will be useful to them. And so we can have union catalogues like WorldCat to share resources – don’t need to re-invent the wheel each time.

  13. ‘cos I said so Libraries run a tight ship • Dictate fields to be filled • Dictate how fields are filled AND • Dictate what fields are filled with LNSS “23 things” Project Sinéad Keogh, 03/04/09, University of Limerick

  14. Standard Description Terms Using thesaurus/ index/ subject terms helps DescribeANDFind MeSH –Medical Subject Headings AAT -Art & Architecture Thesaurus (Getty) LCSH –Library of Congress Subject Headings Subject terms Standard words that can be used to describe items. LNSS “23 things” Project Sinéad Keogh, 03/04/09, University of Limerick

  15. MeSH Use the term “Deaf-Blind Disorders” instead of all those circled below. It helps to know that when searching a database

  16. Not just information Human Life is organised. Humans are Mammals which in turn are Eucaryotes. “Phylogenetic Tree” downloaded from Wikimedia Commons 02/04/09 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Phylogenetic_tree.svg Mammals Birds Reptiles LNSS “23 things” Project Sinéad Keogh, 03/04/09, University of Limerick

  17. The Wild Flower Key Identifying flowers using a key. Answer questions in key to identify species e.g.; 1. Plants without flowers, or submerged aquatic plants with minute, inconspicuous flowers ……. See Vegetative Key, p 48 Plants with flowers present ……. Move on to 2 And so on until you identify flower Rose, F. (1981) “The Wild Flower Key” Frederick Warne:London There are strict rules for organising species in the natural world. LNSS “23 things” Project Sinéad Keogh, 03/04/09, University of Limerick

  18. Costly Exercise • Expertise needed • Heavy workload • Quality Assured If something is organised following rules then it can be found easily following those rules. LNSS “23 things” Project Sinéad Keogh, 03/04/09, University of Limerick

  19. What happens if you let go ?

  20. ULIR The IR uses Dublin Core metadata standard. This tells us the standard fields that must be filled, but unlike MARC records, there are no rules for filling in the record.

  21. ULIR Subject terms Dublin Core (dc.) record – friendlier than MARC?! AND, the subject terms are not from a controlled vocabulary, instead we let the authors, who know about their own topics, fill in subject terms

  22. research_online@UDC UCD have decided that items in their IR should have controlled subject terms. LCSH = Library of Congress Subject Headings. Cataloguing time and expertise is needed to do this.

  23. Guidance Vs Rules Lighten workload if everyone pitches in and does their bit “Barn raising in Lansing” downloaded from Wikimedia Commons 15/04/09 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barn_raising_in_Lansing.jpg LNSS “23 things” Project Sinéad Keogh, 03/04/09, University of Limerick

  24. Cataloguing the Web? It’s scary LNSS “23 things” Project Sinéad Keogh, 03/04/09, University of Limerick

  25. Search the Web Search for “wedding dress” on the web – over 20,000,000 results! The web will search full text using keywords “wedding” and “dress”. LNSS “23 things” Project Sinéad Keogh, 03/04/09, University of Limerick

  26. Method 1 Everybody should: • Select an appropriate xml standard schema to describe your data. • Use a controlled vocabulary. • Map said schema to Dublin Core for increased interoperability. • Sit down and have a rest. OR… LNSS “23 things” Project Sinéad Keogh, 03/04/09, University of Limerick

  27. Method 1 variation On the RTE homepage (or any website), go to View > Source. This is the html code that makes up the webpage that you see. Get round this if everyone describes their webpage OR, use basic metadata tags in the webpage code Use metadata tags in the code to describe the website. There’s even Dublin Core field (DC.title) – it’s an international standard.

  28. Method 2 • Describe what you create, find, see, use, love, hate… Tag it LNSS “23 things” Project Sinéad Keogh, 03/04/09, University of Limerick

  29. Search WorldCat – at the end of the record there is a “Tags” tab. Click on a term to view similar titles.

  30. Look at the tags in LibraryThing – how useful are they? $6.99, ++…? Tagging is done by real people. It shows you what people think is important. What is the best way to describe something so YOU can find it again? What is the best way to describe something so ANYONE can find it?

  31. delicious allows you to keep all your bookmarks together so no matter what computer you use, you can access your favourites. OR you can use it to just keep together websites on a topic of interest (mine has wedding dresses and food – see my tags)

  32. If you click on the number beside your bookmark, you can see all the other people who have bookmarked that site. It’s interesting to see how other people tag. You can also click on a name to see another person’s bookmarks. You might be interested in the same things. Or, add a person to your network (it’s called becoming a “fan” – at least it’s not “stalker”)

  33. I have a recipe for Banana Bread tagged. Some of the 35 others who have tagged it have also added in notes to share ideas and offer tips.

  34. Value Added Tags • Tag so you can find it again • Tag so they can find it • Tag to give context • Tag to share ideas • Tag to give us all a good laugh Tag for yourself Tag for the world! LNSS “23 things” Project Sinéad Keogh, 03/04/09, University of Limerick

  35. Google does Blogs Do a search for the lnss blog. You should register your blog. Go to “Information for Blog Authors” and add in your blog address. It takes a while (maybe over week) but Google will start to search your blog. LNSS “23 things” Project Sinéad Keogh, 03/04/09, University of Limerick

  36. Technorati – hmmm Like Google Blogs, it searches blogs. But it tries to go further - it wants to organise blogs by subject/ interest. It does this by asking bloggers to register (or “claim”) their blogs and to describe them.

  37. I also claimed my blog which, in theory means my blog gets searched. Emm. I tagged my blog with “LNSS”. That means that my blog is about LNSS.

  38. The searching is very sensitive. My very important news only shows up for the 2nd search.

  39. Technorati • Decide for yourselves – I didn’t find it that useful and there isn’t much in the way of instruction or support. LNSS “23 things” Project Sinéad Keogh, 03/04/09, University of Limerick

  40. Rules help us control the fun • Standardised cataloguing and classifying is important. • Easier to find something when you know what you’re looking for. LNSS “23 things” Project Sinéad Keogh, 03/04/09, University of Limerick

  41. BUT, like the product of a child with crayons…

  42. There is Beauty in Chaos • Web is a form of free expression, for everyone – not controlled. • Tagging is informal and informative Tagging has Personality and we are all experts LNSS “23 things” Project Sinéad Keogh, 03/04/09, University of Limerick

  43. Resources • http://www.loc.gov/marc • http://www.loc.gov/standards/ • http://dublincore.org/ • http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/vocabularies/ • http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/ • http://delicious.com/ • http://technorati.com/ • http://lnssproject.blogspot.com/ • http://ulir.ul.ie • http://blogsearch.google.ie/ LNSS “23 things” Project Sinéad Keogh, 03/04/09, University of Limerick

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