Quick update on here: I recently began working on the Project Gutenberg "Distributed Proofreaders" site ( http://www.pgdp.net/c/ ), which is the volunteer-driven proofreading engine that makes the large archive of scanned public-domain works...
Topics: digitization, Project Gutenberg

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It's been a while since I was following the development of OAI-ORE, but I just came across the announcement of the alpha version of the specification docs. Looking forward to seeing development and adoption proceed. OAI-ORE Specifications (URL for...
Topics: metadata, OAI-ORE, open archives initiative

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Random humor at work. Kim, one of my colleagues, is cataloguing a book which has the three fixed fields Conf, Fest, and Indx all checked to "1". We posited that all it needs is a "1" for the Fiction field and there would be some...

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Library of Congress working group on the future of bibliographic control webcast -- recorded on November 13, 2007 Warning -- this is a long webcast. Set aside a couple of hours if you want to view it in full; I couldn't get through the whole thing...
Topics: cataloging, me, metadata, RDA, standards

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Just had the privilege of cataloging another vanity press — er..."self-published" — publication from the Diggory Press "Exposure Publishing" imprint: The Logic of Scientific Revolutions by Chris Glynn. I'm not sure...
Topics: cataloging, humor, philosophy, publishing

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