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In this space you will find an increasing resource of information on Controlled Vocabularies including Taxonomies, Thesauri, Ontologies, Terminologies, and other Knowledge Organization and Classification Systems. We encourage you to contribute!"
07 January 2011
FreePint Newsletter: 317
FreePint Newsletter: 317: "My Favourite Tipples
By Heather Hedden
Taxonomist Tipples
As a consultant and trainer in the field of taxonomies, people have often asked me what resources I would recommend for doing taxonomy work. There are various useful sites, including blogs, the collected presentations and articles of taxonomy consultancies, professional organization sites, and sites that are collections of links to publicly accessible taxonomy examples. Following are some resources that cover all the basics of taxonomies for those, by accident or not, find themselves working as taxonomists."
By Heather Hedden
Taxonomist Tipples
As a consultant and trainer in the field of taxonomies, people have often asked me what resources I would recommend for doing taxonomy work. There are various useful sites, including blogs, the collected presentations and articles of taxonomy consultancies, professional organization sites, and sites that are collections of links to publicly accessible taxonomy examples. Following are some resources that cover all the basics of taxonomies for those, by accident or not, find themselves working as taxonomists."
FreePint Newsletter: 317
FreePint Newsletter: 317: " My Favourite Tipples
By Heather Hedden
Taxonomist Tipples
As a consultant and trainer in the field of taxonomies, people have often asked me what resources I would recommend for doing taxonomy work. There are various useful sites, including blogs, the collected presentations and articles of taxonomy consultancies, professional organization sites, and sites that are collections of links to publicly accessible taxonomy examples. Following are some resources that cover all the basics of taxonomies for those, by accident or not, find themselves working as taxonomists."
By Heather Hedden
Taxonomist Tipples
As a consultant and trainer in the field of taxonomies, people have often asked me what resources I would recommend for doing taxonomy work. There are various useful sites, including blogs, the collected presentations and articles of taxonomy consultancies, professional organization sites, and sites that are collections of links to publicly accessible taxonomy examples. Following are some resources that cover all the basics of taxonomies for those, by accident or not, find themselves working as taxonomists."
OCLC and The Combined Regions announce plans to launch first Web [OCLC]
OCLC and The Combined Regions announce plans to launch first Web [OCLC]: "updates and offers
News releases
OCLC and The Combined Regions announce plans to launch Web-based public library national union catalogue in UK
BIRMINGHAM, UK, 06 January 2011—
New shared Web catalogue to boost visibility and usage of public library resources
OCLC and The Combined Regions (TCR) have announced plans to launch Britain's first freely accessible national public library union catalogue. Containing the bibliographic data from 80% of the UK's public libraries, the service will make it possible for Web users to simultaneously search 9 million bibliographic records and 50 million holdings.
Leveraging information already indexed in WorldCat, the world's largest online resource for finding library materials, this customised union catalogue will provide a view of holdings contributed by the 149 local authorities with a current full package subscription to UnityUK, the UK's only nationwide network for resource sharing.
The initiative will make bibliographic data more discoverable on the open Web. Indexing of WorldCat data through search engines such as Google and Yahoo! will vastly improve awareness of public library resources and drive significantly increased traffic back to local libraries."
News releases
OCLC and The Combined Regions announce plans to launch Web-based public library national union catalogue in UK
BIRMINGHAM, UK, 06 January 2011—
New shared Web catalogue to boost visibility and usage of public library resources
OCLC and The Combined Regions (TCR) have announced plans to launch Britain's first freely accessible national public library union catalogue. Containing the bibliographic data from 80% of the UK's public libraries, the service will make it possible for Web users to simultaneously search 9 million bibliographic records and 50 million holdings.
Leveraging information already indexed in WorldCat, the world's largest online resource for finding library materials, this customised union catalogue will provide a view of holdings contributed by the 149 local authorities with a current full package subscription to UnityUK, the UK's only nationwide network for resource sharing.
The initiative will make bibliographic data more discoverable on the open Web. Indexing of WorldCat data through search engines such as Google and Yahoo! will vastly improve awareness of public library resources and drive significantly increased traffic back to local libraries."
Cloud-sourcing Research Collections Report Announcement [OCLC]
Cloud-sourcing Research Collections Report Announcement [OCLC]: "DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 6 January 2011—This report presents findings from a year-long study designed and executed by OCLC Research, the HathiTrust, New York University's Elmer Bobst Library, and the Research Collections Access & Preservation (ReCAP) consortium, with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The objective of the project was to examine the feasibility of outsourcing management of low-use print books held in academic libraries to shared service providers, including large-scale print and digital repositories. The study assessed the opportunity for library space saving and cost avoidance through the systematic and intentional outsourcing of local management operations for digitized books to shared service providers and progressive downsizing of local print collections in favor of negotiated access to the digitized corpus and regionally consolidated print inventory."
The objective of the project was to examine the feasibility of outsourcing management of low-use print books held in academic libraries to shared service providers, including large-scale print and digital repositories. The study assessed the opportunity for library space saving and cost avoidance through the systematic and intentional outsourcing of local management operations for digitized books to shared service providers and progressive downsizing of local print collections in favor of negotiated access to the digitized corpus and regionally consolidated print inventory."
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