The recent announcement about The Library of Congress acquiring the back archive of tweets got me thinking again about meaning in Twitter hashtags. I jokingly suggested that L.O.C. might like to classify them all. Thinking about it properly, classifying them might be useful. I’m not thinking about all tweets, but hashtags mentioned in the tweets. [...]
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Share it with RDA
One of the key points behind RDA is being able to re-use bibliographic data held in library management systems, outside of the system. If you release this data into the wild, it’s likely that someone else will come up with an interesting and innovative way of using it, way beyond its original purpose on the [...]
Posted by garygre on March 12, 2010
http://informationtwist.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/share-it-with-rda/
RDA for the People
I’ve known RDA was coming along for us cataloguer librarian types. I knew what it was all about, but until recently I’ve been trying to work out why it’s so important and what difference it will make? How will it change what I’m doing in my day job? I know you’ve got the practical side [...]
Posted by garygre on March 12, 2010
http://informationtwist.wordpress.com/2010/03/12/rda-for-the-people/
Knobbling the Winter Olympic Catalogue Results
In my role of ‘Keeper of the Keys to the Catalogue (once removed)’ for a public library service and ‘Man with Access to Official Twitter Account’, I thought it would be a good idea to promote some of our books around the Winter Olympics. This included trying to get a few more loans out of [...]
Posted by garygre on February 25, 2010
http://informationtwist.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/knobbling-the-winter-olympic-catalogue-results/
