Monday Morning Blog

Today I watched a video for a memorial for MARC http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1EL76yfeVs&feature=youtu.be . It brought to mind the question of whether or not MARC is really dead or dying.   Or, is AACR2 dead or dying?   Many people would say yes.   Many people would say that both have been dead for a long time and they just haven’t fallen down yet.   This point of view has merit because both MARC and AACR2 had become technologically irrelevant in many ways starting in the 1980s.     There are others who say that MARC and AACR2 will never die because there are millions of library catalogue records all over the world that have been created using these two standards.   Many of these records are owned and used by very small libraries in small organizations.   Some of the records are likely still in card catalogue cards.   This point of view has merit too.   It’s very unlikely that every library is going to have the...

So lately I've been busy basically taking one Coursera MOOC after the other.  I'm learning a lot and amazed that the quality of classes I am getting for free. So, I put together my own little mini MOOC for folks interested in where the big picutre of data and metadata might be going.  There are no assignments, tests or discussion forums.  Instead, I have put together a collection of videos that you can watch (maybe one a day or one every couple of days) that discuss some of the thinking and technologies that are themes in discussions about where metadata and discovery in libraries are likely going.  I've organized the list from the most wide ranging and general to the most specific and library-related. For the first three videos, I attended these sessions live and I've selected them because they are the best of the type that I have seen yet. For the last 2 BIBFRAME videos, I didn't attend these particular sessions but I attended similar sessions at ALA MidWint...