May 2012
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5 Things Thursday: Ontologies, Quality Cataloging,...
Here are your weekly five things: How mature is your DAM system? Want to see nine photographers talk about the future? How to avoid the lull after the library school storm… Is quality cataloging important for the development of new library applications? What are ontologies anyway?
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Metadata Monday: Photo Metadata Conference 2012
Are you interested in a ton of useful and current information related to photo metadata? Well, this link to notes and presentations from the Photo Metadata Conference 2012 at CEPIC will keep you quite amused for days on end. With sessions moderated by David Riecks on the topics of search - finding the image, finding the rights, and the future of search and image licensing, there are presentations...
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5 Things Thursday: Accessibility, Librarian Roles...
Here are five things: Is now the time for librarians? Interested in Accessibility Camp Seattle 2012? How do you set priorities? What is the role of digital librarians in asset management? Support the National Film Preservation Foundation.
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Metadata Monday: Discoverability of Special...
Do you know what a “catablog” is? I didn’t (or at least I didn’t realize that I did) until I read this awesome post on the OCLC hangingtogether.org blog. A “catablog” can create searchable, browseable online presentations of collections, essentially a low budget collection management method. I think blogs that promote certain key collections, like my favorites at the...
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5 Things Thursday: Art Lending Library, Apps, DAM,...
Here are five more things: What is an art lending library? What are the relative merits of analog versus digital film from an archiving perspective? Check out these inspired apps for organization. Does your DAM solution scale? How can we ensure the future of libraries?
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Metadata Monday: Top Tweets About Metadata from...
The Henry Stewart Events Digital Asset Management conference in New York happened on May 10 and 11th. As always, the topics looked saliant with a lot of focus on my favorite topics - metadata and creative workflow as related to DAM. Here is a sysnopsis of the best Tweets from the two day event #DAMNY: Seth Earley: content curation is key (along with metadata and taxonomies) to remove all the...
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5 Things Thursday: iPad Photo Management, Cute...
Here are five more things and then some: Read about Photos Pro for the iPad. Ever wonder where the cute animal photos come from and the copyright implications? If I lived in NY, I would go to Using Metadata for Audiovisual Collection Management. How to set up your home office for remote work. Check out CONTENTdm in action. BONUS: check out The Signal, the LOC digital preservation...
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Metadata Monday: Self-Publishing Metadata
Here is a simple guide to maximizing metadata when self publishing online. Joel Friedlander, veteran writer/book designer/publishing acumen presents a concise overview of e-book metadata and then delves into how to use keywords with particular metadata fields to create a “secret sauce” that becomes the search-related verbal key to your book’s discoverability online. Taking it...
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5 Things Thursday: DAM Metadata, Meredith Farkas...
Here are five marvelous things: Enjoy my former professor Meredith Farkas reflecting on her first year in an interesting and challenging academic library position. Find out about the importance of updating metadata in DAM systems. Check out an interesting infographic - is the digital world killing creativity? Why did Harvard release big data for over 12 million books? Create custom...
