Computers in Libraries 2006
Thursday morning at the Computers in Libraries 2006 conference, Lorcan Dempsey gave a talk called “Exploiting the Value of Structured Metadata.” Among much else, he showed off a demo of the new FictionFinder, which will go live next month, and mentioned FRBR. It was copiously blogged. Compare and contrast the following notes:
- Jason Clark at the LITA Blog: CIL 2006 – Structured Data, Web 2.0, Libraries
- Karen Coombs at Library Web Chic: Structured Data, Web 2.0, Libraries
- David Lee King: Lorcan Dempsey: Structured Data, Web 2.0, Libraries
- Marydee Ojala at the Information Today blog: Exploiting the Value of Metadata
- Christina Pikas at Christina’s Library Rant: CIL2006: Notes from Thursday Morning
- G. Sandler, a school librarian in New York state: CIL2006 Thursday report
- Michael Sauers at the Travelin’ Librarian: CIL2006: Exploiting the Value of Structured Metadata
- A Talis person on the shared Panlibus blog: CIL2006 – Lorcan Dempsey on Structured Data, Web 2.0 and Libraries
Then on Friday, Roy Tennant and Andrew Pace mentioned FRBR in a session called “Catalogs/OPACs for the Future,” and it got blogged (with probably more to come):
- Geoff Harder at Blog Driver’s Waltz: CIL3.2 The Future of Catalogs: Roy Tennant and Andrew Pace
- Tom Pace on the ALA TechSource Blog: Measuring My First CIL
- Talis’s Panlibus again: Roy Tennant and Andrew Pace on the Future of Catalogues
- Christina Pikas: CIL 2006: Notes from Friday Morning
From Christina Pikas’s Friday morning notes: “You know how libraries are all bent around the axel about FRBR? NCSU asked Endeca and gave a long explanation of what they meant – Endeca said, oh yeah, product rollup, that’s easy. They do this all the time like for a clothing store where they’ll put the purple shirts with the pink of the same cut.”
I don’t think anything like this happened a year ago. Next year, I hope there will be good, large implementations being shown, and not just from OCLC.