More from the Data Deluge Column

 Hopefully, you had a chance to look at one or more of the columns I wrote about the other day.  

In today's post, I have another 4 papers to share with you.


1) My BIBFRAME column

Frederick, D.E. (2016), "Metadata specialists in transition: from MARC cataloging to linked data and BIBFRAME (data deluge column)", Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 33 No. 4, pp. 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHTN-03-2016-00152

Let's just say that 4 years after I wrote this column, BIBFRAME remains a somewhat difficult topic to discuss - especially with those working outside of the cataloguing and metadata discipline.  However, I think that the points I made in this column remain valid today and that the key is that cataloguing and metadata will remain in transition for a very long time.  This transition includes both theoretical and practical aspects.

2) 4IR and technological haves and have-nots

Frederick, D.E. (2019), "The Fourth industrial revolution and the digital divide", Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 36 No. 7, pp. 12-17. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHTN-07-2019-0048

Back in the 1990s, there was a lot of talk about libraries helping to bridge the digital divide.  In this column, I talked about a new digital divide that the 4IR appears to be creating.

3) How are new technologies changing how we look for and receive information

Frederick, D.E. (2019), "Information seeking in the age of the data deluge", Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 36 No. 2, pp. 6-10. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHTN-10-2018-0065

I thought that this paper might generate more interest than it did.  Perhaps I didn't give it the best title.  Information seeking, which technically the correct terminology, sounds a little dry.  In fact, what I was talking about in this paper has to do with the fact that increasing amounts information is being pushed towards us by our devices, social media and algorithms that predict our information needs.  This is different than in the past where information seekers purposely and deliberately consulted information sources such as libraries.

4)  This column took a big picture view of library data

Frederick, D.E. (2017), "Library data: what is it and what changes do libraries need to make? (the Data Deluge Column)", Library Hi Tech News, Vol. 34 No. 8, pp. 1-7. https://doi.org/10.1108/LHTN-06-2017-0044

What I found the most interesting about this column is that most of the discussion came from outside of the library community.  In fact, people working in the area of blockchain seemed to be the most interested.  Maybe the title sounds a little dry and technical for a lot of library workers.  However, I'd like to challenge more library workers to read it and think about all of the data that libraries collect, store, organize and use.  We take so much of what we do and why we do it for granted.


Hopefully, there was something of interest.  The next time I discuss my column, I will share some columns for which I didn't get quite as much discussion. For the most part, I think that this is because most of these columns are newer and not as many people have had a chance to read them yet.  

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