k state candidacy presentation
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Teague Allen
Metadata librarian candidateSeptember 23, 2013
2 questions
"What is the role of the metadata librarian in terms of resource discovery and access?”
“How do future directions of metadata tie-in to the present?”
WHATWHYWHO
WHEREWHENHOW
Public domain
WILL?As in: Will library metadata be significant to future information seekers?
From Encapsulation for Focused Search from Pervasive Devices, Aridor et al, WWW10, May 1-5, 2001, Hong Kong.fair use definition 17 U.S.C. § 107
84%of users began information search with a search engine
How many began their search on a library website?
1%From “Why Google? Dr. Lynn Silipigni ConnawayOCLC Research briefing at UNC Chapel Hill, June 7, 2013 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
(Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research, 2008)(De Rosa, 2010)
danieleizans.com, January 1, 2011, fair use definition 17 U.S.C. § 107
WHO?As in: Who besides librarians believes that metadata has a place in a future with algorithms?
Public domain
WHO?As in: Who will be adding value and providing the context metadata brings?
Likely choice: those doing it for a long time…
Public domain
"What is the role of the metadata librarian in terms of resource discovery and access?”
Finally…
ACRONYM WARNING!
From PPN: Alphabet Soup, post by Sherry Cermak on What did you eat?, May 22, 2008fair use definition 17 U.S.C. § 107
WEMI/FRBR model
From Local library data in the new global framework, post by Lukas Koster on commonplace.net,, January 5, 2012 (CC BY-SA 3.0)
The linked data universe 2 years ago...
Linking Open Data cloud diagram, by Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. http://lod-cloud.net/ - CC BY-SA 3.0
“How do future directions of metadata tie-in to the present?”
• The other main question…
Metadata carriers head to head
Henriette Avram (1919-2006) & MARC Tim Berners-Lee and HTML
Avram: theautry.org, fair use definition 17 U.S.C. § 107 Berners-Lee: Derived from Knight Foundation/Flickr, (CC BY-SA 2.0)
MARC: a programmer following directions from librarians
Catalog Card: bibliovox/Flickr, (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)MARC code: MARC Reader: a HyperCard script to demystify the MARC record, Eric Lease Morgan, post on Infomotions, December 1, 1999, updated December 19, 2004, fair use definition 17 U.S.C. § 107
HTML: A programmer responding to perceived need
This is actually an improvement…<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD
XHTML+RDFa 1.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-rdfa-1.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="XHTML+RDFa 1.0" xml:lang="en"> <head> <title>John's Home Page</title> <base href="http://example.org/john-d/" /> <meta property="dc:creator" content="Jonathan Doe" /> <link rel="foaf:primaryTopic" href="http://example.org/john-d/#me" /> </head> <body about="http://example.org/john-d/#me"> <h1>John's Home Page</h1> <p>My name is <span property="foaf:nick">John D</span> and I like <a href="http://www.neubauten.org/" rel="foaf:interest" xml:lang="de">Einstürzende Neubauten</a>. </p> <p> My <span rel="foaf:interest" resource="urn:ISBN:0752820907">favorite book is the inspiring <span about="urn:ISBN:0752820907"><cite property="dc:title">Weaving the Web</cite> by <span property="dc:creator">Tim Berners-Lee</span></span></span>. </p> </body></html>
Wikipedia, CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported License
BIBFRAME:
• Extensible
• Scalable
• PortableBibframe.org
WHEN IS ALL THIS GOING TO HAPPEN?
Kai Schreiber (Genista)/Flickr, (CC BY-SA 2.0)
The future contains infinite possibilities with many competing visions
Public domain
The man who asks questions…
Public domain
Milos Milosevic / Flickr, (CC BY 2.0)