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Maintained by William Denton, Web Librarian at York University. Suggestions and comments welcome at wtd@pobox.com.


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17 October 2006

Beyond the OPAC

Filed under: Audio/Video, Conferences — William Denton @ 7:13 am

Beyond the OPAC: Future Directions for Web-Based Catalogues was a conference given in Australia on 18 September 2006. The texts of the papers, the presentation slides, and audio recordings of the talks are all available online! I haven’t listened to them yet, but you’ll certainly want to investigate Martha Yee’s talks and, if you want to go further, anything about RDA.

  • Beyond the OPAC: Future Directions for Web-Based Catalogues (Martha Yee)
  • The Well Connected Catalogue (Patricia Scott, Denise Tobin, Helen Attar)
  • Setting a New Standard: Resource Description and Access (RDA) (Deirdre Kiorgaard )
  • The Potential Impact of RDA on OPAC Displays (Ann Huthwaite, Philip Hider)
  • OPACs and the Real Information Marketplace: Why Providing a Mediocre Product at a High Price No Longer Works (Lloyd Sokvitne)
  • Seeding Search Engines with Data from the Australian National Bibliographic Database (ANBD) (Tony Boston)
  • Applying FRBR to Library Catalogues: A Review of Existing FRBRization Projects (Martha Yee)
  • Managing OPACs: Approaches to the Process of OPAC Change and Development (panel discussion)

Congratulations to the National Library of Australia for making all this available. (Seen on Catalogablog.)