On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Bigwood, David wrote:
> An interesting aspect of LibraryThing are the ammount of user
> contributed metadata. The LibraryThing community has FRBRized the
> collection by grouping various editions of the same work. They have also
> contributed tags to the metadata mix.
yep. I've done a lot of that myself.
> Another source of metadata comes from the links made by usage. Folks who
> had this book often also have these books. That is machine generated, a
> type of information our catalogs could make better use of.
This I did not know. Interesting.
> Another thing LibraryThing can demonstrate is how to combine MARC with
> other metadata formats. I'm guessing the LOC metadata they are getting
> is MARC. But they also use Amazon and both exist in the same catalog.
Yes, this is very important, and vital to an next generation catalog.
Mary
Received on Tue Jun 20 2006 - 12:45:19 EDT