Recently, one of my friends posted about an app called Indyx on her Instagram story, saying it helped her plan her outfits and remind herself of clothes she hadn’t worn in a while. I was curious and intrigued, partially because…
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Library of Congress Releases Data for Free Download and Discovery
“The Library of Congress announced today its third release of records in its online catalog for free bulk download for research and discovery. The release supports the Library’s effort to continuously expand open access to its vast collections. This MARC…
Tagged with: bulk download, catalog, data, Library of Congress, MARC, Open Access, records, Research
Posted in Cataloging
Posted in Cataloging
The Largest Online Catalog for Artists’ Books
While this post isn’t a current event, per-se I thought this would be an interesting topic to touch on for Knowledge Organization. When folks typically think of catalogs, we likely think of libraries and librarians as catalog proprietors. But there…
From MARC to BIBFRAME: Linked Data on the Ground
The ALCTS webinar series From MARC to BIBFRAME is preceded by this webinar about BIBFRAME initiatives taking place at the Library of Congress (LC). These will be put into perspective with other BIBFRAME, Linked Data, and Semantic Web initiatives taking…
New MARC Usage Data Report
I just finished updating my “MARC Usage in WorldCat” web site that summarizes and reports on how MARC elements have been used in the 333,518,928 MARC records in WorldCat as of 1 Jan 2015. Not surprisingly, the totals for new fields…
by Hugh McLeod
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