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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Artificial Intelligence as a Cataloging Tool
Obtaining an MSLIS degree in 2024 entails asking each professor on syllabus day what their stance is on ChatGPT as an educational tool. The classroom implications of Large Language Models (LLMs) like ChatGPT are just the beginning of this future…
Tagged with: AI, artificial intelligence, Cataloging, chatgpt, technology
Posted in Cataloging, Knowledge Structures
Posted in Cataloging, Knowledge Structures
Questions About the Future of Information Seaking
How do people seek information and how is the information they seek organized? This question is one that students of information sciences and knowledge workers constantly engage with. For many people this process starts with a Google Web search. Google…
Tagged with: AI, artificial intelligence, Cataloging, Google, information retrieval, internet, Knowledge Organization, search engine, seo, technology
Posted in Uncategorized
Posted in Uncategorized
Massive Knowledge Institution Under Attack
U.K. institutions can’t seem to catch a break as of late. While the British Museum has been dealing with a scandal regarding its struggling cataloging system after 1,500 items in its collection were stolen by a staff member, as of…
Tagged with: Cataloging, cyber-security, cybersecurity, data, data leaks, digital cataloging, digital libraries, digitization, Libraries, malware, ransomware, security, technology
Posted in Archives, Books, Born Digital, Cataloging, Libraries, Library
Posted in Archives, Books, Born Digital, Cataloging, Libraries, Library
10,000 years of digital preservation with Project Silica
In the book The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation, Trevor Owens lists sixteen “Axioms” for digital preservation. An interesting statement in one of the Axioms is that preservation is a constant practice. Owens’s reasoning for this is the short…
Tagged with: Archives, digitization, history, microsoft, Preservation, technology
Posted in Archives, Preservation
Posted in Archives, Preservation
What’s To Blame At The British Museum?
If you enjoy a bit of gossip with your cataloguing, look no further. Since August of 2023, the British Museum has been embedded in a bit of a scandal in the museum world – more than 1,500 items in collection…
Tagged with: Cataloging, digitization, history, Museums, Preservation, technology
Posted in Uncategorized
Posted in Uncategorized
The Cost of Nostalgia
The other week I dropped off 2 rolls of 35mm to be developed by a local lab that does the process in-house. In my previous experience with this, I was given my negatives developed and would go to campus to…
Tagged with: Analog, Archives, art archive, Cataloging, digitization, photography, Preservation, technology
Posted in Archives, Born Digital, Preservation
Posted in Archives, Born Digital, Preservation
Recorder
Marion Stokes was secretly recording television twenty-four hours a day for thirty years. It started in 1979 with the Iranian Hostage Crisis at the dawn of the twenty-four hour news cycle. It ended on December 14, 2012 while the Sandy…
Tagged with: Archives, digitization, history, Libraries, Preservation, technology
Posted in Archives, Cataloging, Knowledge and Truth, Libraries, Library, Open Access, Preservation, Research Projects
Posted in Archives, Cataloging, Knowledge and Truth, Libraries, Library, Open Access, Preservation, Research Projects
by Hugh McLeod
INFO 653 Knowledge Organization 