MULTIDISCIPLINRY NATURE OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES.pptx
Future of Library Catalogues
1. www.twitter.com/schambers3
www.slideshare.net/schambers3
Catalog(uing) 2.0:
is there a future for the library catalogue?
A presentation by Sally Chambers
for the National Library of Israel
2. Overvie
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• Who am I?
• Changing nature of the library catalogue
• Catalysts for cataloguing change
• Must MARC die?
• Linked data and libraries
• Does the library catalogue have a future?
3. Who am I?
• (Digital) Librarian (Humanist)
• 1995 – 2004: Worked in academic libraries in
the UK (Nottingham, London)
• 2005 – 2011: Worked for The European Library,
at the National Library of the Netherlands
• 2011 – present: Work for DARIAH-EU at the
Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities,
Germany
22. ELAG 2011
MARC must
die?
www.slideshare.net/schambers3/marc-must-die
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/powers_of_persuasion/hes_watching_you/images_html/wanted_for_murder.html
23. MARC must die?
Bibliographic References:
• MARC Project Final Report (1968)
• @rtennant MARC must die (2002)
• @lukask Who needs MARC? (2009)
• Karen Coyle Metadata Mix and Match (2009)
• Jason Thomale Intepreting MARC (2010)
• Understanding MARC tutorial
• LoC Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative
(May 2011)
24. MARC must die?
A new globally accepted data model
http://www.mkbergman.com/wp-
content/themes/ai3/images/2009Posts/090628_data_model_relationships.png
38. Europeana Data Model (EDM) for Libraries?
www.europeana-
libraries.eu/documents/868553/1eade085-34ac-487f-
82af-d5cd2545e619
http://pro.europeana.eu/docum
ents/900548/978614/Europeana
+Libraries+and+EDM
39. Semantic Web in Libraries (SWIB 2012)
http://swib.org/swib12/programme.php