If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?": Introduction and overview of issues

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If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the
rainbow, why oh why can't I?" Introduction and
overview of issues

• Gordon Dunsire

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My yellow brick road

• Early 2007 the world is black and white
• And Im somewhat pessimistic about the future of
  cataloguing
• And the emerging information Dark Age
• Mid 2007 the wind begins to blow
• SLICnFlickr NLSnYouTube
• Theme for my workshop for Croatian archives,
  libraries and museums is
• Web2.0 stuff

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Thunder and (en)lightening

• Me I can do the Flickr and YouTube bit, plus a
  Google maps mash-up
• Co-presenter at workshop (younger (much!),
  slimmer (a lot!) I can do a basic introduction
  to other Web2.0 stuff like del.ic.io.us,
  Facebook, etc.
• And I get blown away

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Not in Kansas

• So at the next CDLR staff meeting
• I enthusiastically suggest that we should all be
  getting engaged with this stuff
• And the Director agrees!
• And then the rest of the team (looking a bit
  bored) point out that theyve all been on
  Facebook for months
• And then I realize

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We are all, basically, Munchkins!
And getting older all the time
Any youthful wizards or (good) witches out there?
Image courtesy Daily Telegraph
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Collective metadata

• Todays presentations will focus on metadata for
  information retrieval
• And most of it will be familiar to library
  cataloguers, even if the labels are different
• That metadata, like those who create it, will be
  associated with specific organisations or
  individuals
• But what about metadata and Web2.0 at a higher
  level of granularity, and, in turn, cataloguers
  acting collectively?

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A collective mash-up

• Location metadata from collection-level
  descriptions in the Scottish Collections Network
  (SCONE)
• Mashed with Google Maps
• Using the Application Program Interface
• Public, free

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Google map of all Scotlands archives, libraries
and museums
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Locations of Robert Burns collections in Scotland
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But what about

• The users?

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Some typical end-users
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And collective cataloguers?

• Web2.0 now an essential tool for developing
  cataloguing standards to meet the challenges of
  an international, digital environment
• Wikis, blogs, Skype, etc.
• And those standards becoming more Web2.0
  compatible
• Open declaration for common utility
• FRBR, LCSH, LCNAF, MARC21, RDA

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http//dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/
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Web3.0

• If we can tell computers that
• Library.title Archive.title Museum.caption
  Bibliotheque.titre MARC.245 lttitlegt
• Jane Smith (writer) ltgt Jane Smith (musician)
• Economics 330 gt ???
• Then Web3.0 Cataloguable Web Semantic Web

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Towards the Emerald City!
Image courtesy MPTV.net