A meme ID is like a magic bullet in the document saying "I am about this meme." Can we construct a general taxonomy of memes, and then specialized lists of meme IDs that authors will feel comfortable adding to their documents?
* Alternative to OCLC cataloging already in some libraries
* Fewer records, emphasis on quality
* Copy cataloging record search and notification included
openpub - Project Hosting on Google Code. an application of the Atom Syndication Format intended to enable content creators and distributors to distribute digital books via a simple catalog format. The mechanism through which compatible Reading Systems access the distributed catalog has three components: eBook content, XML catalog metadata, and an HTTP transport for the catalog. OPDS-compatible Reading Systems must support IDPF EPUB, and may optionally support additional formats.
A meme ID is like a magic bullet in the document saying "I am about this meme." Can we construct a general taxonomy of memes, and then specialized lists of meme IDs that authors will feel comfortable adding to their documents?
LibraryThing's success—we recently hit three-hundred thousand members and twenty million books—has spawned competitors, more than forty at last count. We respect them. Some of the best include BookJetty (gorgeous), Anobii (simple and big in China),
Chopac.org has some interesting cataloging tools. There is an Amazon to MARC converter, DDC22 summaries, Amazon review server, and some others. They also have an ILS to download.It gets additional info from Amazon and Google Books to enrich the records.
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* Web-based cataloging client
* Supports copy & original cataloging
* Search millions of freely licensed records
* Share your records with other libraries
* Beta testing period from Nov 24th to Dec 12th 2008
Emily Drabinski , Queering the Catalog: Queer Theory and the Politics of Correction, The Library Quarterly: Information, Community, Policy, Vol. 83, No. 2 (April 2013), pp. 94-111
This list provides a quick overview of the landscape of open-source bibliographic software; both where is has been, but more importantly, where it may yet go.
Why ‡biblios?
A rich internet application
Though browser-based, ‡biblios has a very rich user interface and takes advantage of JavaScript toolkits like YUI, ExtJS, Google Gears for local storage of bibliographic records.
Built-in metasearch
Much of cataloging consists of copy-cataloging and so ‡biblios ships with built-in metasearch capability using a web services layer built on the Pazpar2 federated search library. Users can set up and perform cross-database searches on any Z39.50 targets.
Built around library standards
The ‡biblios record editor currently supports MARC21/MARCXML records and utilizes a plugin architecture to easily allow expansion to other formats such as MODS, Dublin Core, etc.
Library Standards Compliant
Built in support for MARC21, MARCXML, Z39.50
Free and Open Source
‡biblios is available under the terms of the GPL software license, which ensures free and open access to use, modification and redistribution.
biblios.net and the future of cataloging: Not to be confused with just “Biblios“, which is LibLime’s new open source cataloger’s editor. That’s cool too, but Jonathan Rochkind is talking about biblios.net, which is basically a shared metadata store. That is, technological support for ‘cooperative cataloging’. That is, what we used to call a ‘bibliographic utility’. The Biblios editor uses the biblios.net shared metadata store, but it’s not restricted to use by the Biblios editor, anyone can use it.
A brief introduction to metadata which encompasses both the larger context of metadata (the web) and library catalogs. Includes a brief example of crosswalking metadata into MARC.
P. Heymann, A. Paepcke, and H. Garcia-Molina. Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2010), page 1--10. Stanford University, (February 2010)