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Now seeing qualified candidates for a Public Services and Archives Librarian.

Chief Librarian, Cairo, Egypt Organization: World Health Organization (WHO) Country: Egypt City: Cairo Office: WHO EMRO Cairo Grade: P-3 Closing date: Tuesday...

New metadata schema will make it easier for scientists to find and reuse open-access data.

The story of the e-book is one of unfulfilled expectations and underappreciated successes, writes ‘PW’ columnist Bill Kasdorf.

[This is part two in a series -- you should read part 1 first for context and then you might go on to part 3.] The Dublin Core -- metadata made dumb Just when librarians were in despair of ever getting their data out to the world in a form it could understand, along came…

This lecture examines opportunities for better collaboration between museums, archives and libraries. It will cover: How improved collaboration (especially in discovery services and data exchange) can deliver significant benefits to collecting institutions users; Some of the models and standards that support collaboration; and The National Librarys new discovery service, Trove, and how it will help improve collaboration. Introduction Today I will discuss the opportunities for collaboration amon...

A key conclusion of the Conference was The task is too large for individual institutions to undertake in isolation and the resources required for successful and sustained archiving are too great to make duplication of effort a tenable position. Australia was an early implementer of web archiving. Since 1996 the National Library of Australia has been developing and maintaining PANDORA, an archive of selected, significant Australian web sites and web-based online publications6. The purpose of PAN...

1 January 2009 - 12:00 Library catalogues today need to harness the full power of the metadata that librarians have carefully created over previous decades. For those who describe resources the challenge is to create metadata which meets users needs for data content and also facilitates machine manipulation of that data for searching and display. Resource Description and Access (RDA) will be an important building block in the creation of better catalogues and resource discovery systems. RDA is ...

Guests: Uncle Dave Williams, Lee-Ann Buckskin, Professor Lisa Jackson-Pulver, Wesley Enoch, Katrina Sedgwick These pieces of information are useful for finding a known item, where the user is searching for a specific broadcast that they already know exists. For the user searching more broadly by subjects or keywords, like “Indigenous” or “World War One”, they’re not going to find this record. We need to capture more information, so that broader searches will find this record in Trove....