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Here are five more things:

1. Isn’t it about time for Movie Tagger - an easy-to-use online system that allows a community of users to parse and add relevant keywords (“tags”) to movies–scene by scene, shot by shot, and frame by frame–with a custom logging tool?
2. Aren’t we all curators?
3. Why is managing digital assets more challenging than herding cats?
4. Learn about the Computers in Libraries conference from the Library Scenester.
5. Where is DAM in your organization?

David Riecks at Controlled Vocabulary successfully busted a dozen myths about photo metadata. From the false notion that metadata is hard to read or takes up too much space, to more complex matters like social media and search, this post covers all bases.

I particularly appreciate links to valuable tools such as METAmachine, a metadata browser which streamlines the process of adding or editing captions, keywords and other essential metadata in images or the useful META Tutorials on the PhotoMetadata site.

If nothing else, this post and all the content on this blog busts the myth that metadata is somehow beyond the grasp of the everyday user.

Here are five more intriguing information related things:

1. Check out this visualization of film metadata.
2. Want to know how memes are used by librarians (or what a meme is)?
3. Need tips for your library job application or advice from a hiring manager?
4. Check out this 1963 government poster recruiting Army librarians.
5. Curious about what it takes to get tenure?

Well, I am as guilty as anyone for focusing on Adobe Lightroom for photo processing and metadata editing as if it were the only tool in the world. Aperture by Apple offers professional features with the simplicity of iPhoto. And, the features offered for adding keywords and metadata are comparable to Lightroom.

This post on Light Stalking explains how to add metadata and assign ratings in Aperture. I like the search functionality as well as the ease of navigating and customizing the metadata panel. Also, the price of Aperture is quite nice at $79.99.

Welcome back to 5 things!

1. Want to know how to hack an academic conference?
2. Read about social metadata for LAMs on OCLC’s Facebook page.
3. Have film, need to preserve it?
4. What is new librarianship?
5. Examine Pinterest’s policies.

Here are 5 things to tide you over. Mod Librarian will be on a short hiatus returning with 5 things on Thursday, March 15th.

1. Check out 20 beautiful personal and private libraries.

2. Want to find out how to use Storify for libraries?

3. Watch these interviews with moving image archivists.

4. Ever wondered about Cooper-Hewitt’s collection metadata?

5. See why the Smithsonian loves embedded metadata.