On 20 July 2011 22:47, Laura Smart <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Esme (and all)
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> Would Jenn Riley & Devin Becker's metadata standards visualization
> have been helpful to you if it had been available back in the day?
> http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/metadatamap/
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> Perhaps a detailed sub-set thereof?
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> Perhaps at minimum a glossary of acronyms commonly tossed about by
> catalogers?  I'd write one but I think I'd be tempted to be snarky
> when trying to explain RDA in brief...

This reminded me of one more resource that might be useful for
newcomers -- a very short list that I wrote entitled "All You Need to
Know about XML in One Page".
        http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/xml.html

And while I am self-publicising, I may as well mention a longer, but
easy-to-read article that several people have liked: "One Man's
Ceiling is Another Man's Floor --- or --- Why your data may not be as
meta as you think it is."
        http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/metadata.html

Some of the specific technologies that it mentions are a bit dates,
but the concepts are pretty timeless.

Hope this is useful to someone.
        -- Mike.



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> Laura
>
> PS re: SAGE, I'd heard.  That it was useful/used for so long is a
> testament to the your development and programming skills and those of
> Chris Fryman and Brian Tingle. I raise my glass!   For the peanut
> gallery - SAGE was UCSD Lib's home-grown database of web resources
> that pub services librarians used to create subject-guides on the fly
> and was a thing of beauty to behold.  Would that all software
> developers do use cases, functional requirements, rapid
> prototyping/agile development, and usability testing so well!
>
> PPS: sorry to all for the somewhat personal communications couched in
> a public list discussion. The opportunity to publicly sing the praises
> of the excellent programmers I've been privileged to work with was too
> tempting to pass up.
>
> On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Cowles, Esme <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Laura-
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>> One of the things I wish someone had explained to me at the beginning is all the different metadata standards we use and how they fit together.  I'd been working with MARC metadata for years before anyone explained what AACR2 was, or various other controlled vocabulary content standards.  In fact, I think it wasn't until I was in a meeting with librarians explaining our metadata to non-library people that I heard a lot of things spelled out.
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>> BTW, you might be interested to know that, after many years of faithful service, Sage is going to be decommissioned this Fall.
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