Category Archives: metadata

Adding more, and more structured, information about public domain serials

Posted on December 11, 2017 by

I’ve been happy to hear from a number of people and institutions interested in the IMLS-funded project we now have underway to shed light on the hidden public domain of 20th century serials that I discussed in my last post.  … Continue reading →

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New IMLS-funded project: Opening access to 20th century public domain serials

Posted on September 13, 2017 by

I’m happy to report that over the next year, I and others at Penn will be working on a project that the Institute of Museum and Library Services has just funded to help open access to the vast public domain … Continue reading →

Posted in awards, citizen librarians, copyright, metadata, open access, serials, sharing | 2 Comments

Forward to Libraries update, and some thoughts on sustainability and scale

Posted on October 3, 2016 by

It’s been a while since I posted about Forward to Libraries, but if you’ve been following my Github repo, you may have noticed that it’s had a steady stream of updates and growth.  If making connections across library collections or … Continue reading →

Posted in data, discovery, libraries, metadata, wikipedia

The value of catalogs in the linked data era: Two recent talks

Posted on September 12, 2016 by

I’ve recently uploaded two talks I gave this year to my Selected Works site.  I presented “How Not to Waste Catalogers’ Time: Making the most of subject headings” at the Code4lib 16 conference in Philadelphia in March.  “How to Read … Continue reading →

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Going beyond 1922: Finding periodicals with (and without) renewed copyrights

Posted on June 16, 2014 by

As mass digitization progresses, and as copyright terms grow longer, we now have access to much more literature from 1922 and the years before it than from the years that come soon after it.  This graph by Eric Crampton, based … Continue reading →

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Some presentations on reading (and linking) libraries

Posted on October 4, 2013 by

Have you ever wanted to read a library?  I know I have.  More than once when I was young, and introduced to a new library, I’d contemplate, if just for a moment, whether I could read every book in it.  … Continue reading →

Posted in discovery, libraries, metadata, reading

50,000 online book and serial catalog records released as CC0

Posted on August 23, 2013 by

What a difference a few years can make.  A few years ago, folks in the library world (myself included) were arguing about whether it was a good idea to let other people copy and build on their catalog records.  Whether … Continue reading →

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