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Class 8 - Harry Potter and The Search For Fantastic Creatures (An Intro to Search Systems)

andrewlevasseur wrote 1 month ago: Harry Potter served as a useful context for introducing the subject of search systems.   Turns out, … more →

Tags: Class 8, database design, ontology, query, query builder, Search Systems, thesauri

Get iStockphoto Keywords Tool1 comment

sjlocke wrote 1 month ago: Last week, a buyer posted on the iStockphoto forums about the trouble he was having easily getting a … more →

Tags: Buyer Tips, contributor tips, iStockPhoto Tips, user interface, keywords, royalty free images, sean locke

RDA's Controlled Vocabulary1 comment

Jen wrote 1 month ago: Lynne LeGrow recently posted a piece on the controlled vocabulary that RDA uses for carrier type on … more →

Tags: Cataloging, RDA, RDF

RDA Carrier type terms2 comments

fictionophile wrote 1 month ago: I have been searching online for a list of carrier type terms to be used with RDA.  These carrier ty … more →

Tags: Cataloguing, RDA, MARC coding

The taxonomy of meta-data

pa010 wrote 3 months ago: My recent holiday gave me the opportunity to finish the excellent “Everything is Miscellaneous … more →

Tags: tags, Meta data, David Weinberger

Where to Look?

sjlocke wrote 4 months ago: Just a few keyword terms (from the controlled vocabulary) for iStockphoto.com buyers who are trying … more →

Tags: Buyer Tips, Finding an Image, istockphoto, istockphoto.com, sean locke, Searching, sjlocke

Nettab 2009 Day Three: Semantic Integration

Duncan wrote 5 months ago: A brief report (well just some scribbled notes, bullet points and links really) on the third and fin … more →

Tags: Conferences, DNA mania, bioinformatics, RNA, cytoscape, Drupal, Tim Clark, NETTAB, Doron Betel

Agency codes for 040 tag2 comments

fictionophile wrote 6 months ago: I have a confession to make.  Up until about ten years ago, our library was not using the correct ag … more →

Tags: Cataloguing, Marc, MARC coding

Controlled vocabulary and consistency

fictionophile wrote 7 months ago: Now in the days of Google and Amazon do we cataloguers still need a controlled vocabulary? In my opi … more →

Tags: Cataloguing, GSAFD, consistency

What are you thinking?

Shareumentarian wrote 10 months ago: What are you thinking?  Describe that to me so I can understand and maybe we can collaborate on what … more →

Tags: ontology, Artificial Intelligence, Zemanta, Natural Language, Knowledge Management, Knowledge Representation, Human Inteligence, folksonomy, Juxtaposition

New MeSH terms for 2009

Danielle wrote 10 months ago: Ovid has just sent the announcement about new MeSH terms for 2009.  We now have MeSH headings for MP … more →

Tags: MESH, indexing, Medical Subject Headings, 2009, New terms

Folksonomies and Tagging

dianeoz wrote 1 year ago: This morning I did 5 tag searches for photos on Flickr which for the most part provided good example … more →

Tags: LIBR 240, SLIS, folksonomy, folksonomies, user tags, tagging, tags, controlled vocabularies

CEG UX Controlled Vocab2 comments

enthusability wrote 1 year ago: Let me know what you think…suggestions? Suggested Behaviors: spell the word out (exceptions in … more →

Tags: dux

DAM and Controlled Vocabulary1 comment

ahrenlehnert wrote 1 year ago: I worked on a project recently highlighting findability issues with unstructured content and the nee … more →

Tags: Taxonomy, Digital Asset Management, dam

DAM and Controlled Vocabulary

ahrenlehnert wrote 1 year ago: I worked on a project recently highlighting findability issues with unstructured content and the nee … more →

Tags: Digital Asset Management (DAM), Digital Asset Management, dam

The Controlled Vocabulary and You10 comments

sjlocke wrote 1 year ago: iStockphoto has over 3 million images.  How are you going to find the one for your project? Traditio … more →

Tags: Buyer Tips, Finding an Image, iStockPhoto Tips, buyer, istockphoto, istockphoto.com, keywording, Tips

Tradesman as Poet

jonaslamb wrote 1 year ago: These two poems emerged out of Joe Enzweiler’s “Tradesman as Poet” workshop. The f … more →

Tags: Culture, observations, Kachemak Bay Writer's Conference, Poetry, book proccessing, Cataloging, Library work, Trade

Lecture 2 - 17.01.08

Juli wrote 1 year ago: Expert Searching Techniques  Trina: Use creative words when keyword searching, use other fields beyo … more →

Tags: PPCM 8107, Boolean operator, compression, technology, Digital Image

Classifying Designing Web Navigation2 comments

James Kalbach wrote 1 year ago: Looks like libraries are putting Designing Web Navigation under the LC Classification of TK5105.888. … more →

Tags: Books, Designing Web Navigation, tagging, controlled vocabularies, tags, Subject headings


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