Yes, I’d certainly say non-MARC is useful, I’ve been needing to understand Dublin Core and XML recently. Knowing how to mash data from one format to another is useful too!

 

There is a MOOC https://www.coursera.org/#course/metadata that I cannot recommend highly enough! I struggled a little with the coding, but I’ve applied a lot of it in understanding things and it helped me understand the Linked Data stuff at the CIG conference :)

 

Katrina

 

 

Hello all

Many thanks to everyone who has taken part in this morning’s discussions.  You are very welcome to continue with these threads, but from 1.00 Esther will be taking over and focusing on training issues, particularly for the basics and mainstream materials.

The discussion shows a mixed picture – a decline, perhaps, in traditional cataloguing and opportunities for professional-level training, but some new opportunities, particularly in non-MARC metadata and non-traditional data providers.

Just before signing off (for the moment) I would like to mention a book I have found particularly useful as an introduction to non-MARC metadata, Stephen Miller’s ‘Metadata for digital resources’.  If I were recruiting I would definitely see a basic familiarity with non-MARC metadata as a big plus point.

Best wishes,

Bernadette

*******************
Bernadette O'Reilly
Catalogue Support Librarian

Bodleian Libraries,
Osney One Building
Osney Mead
Oxford OX2 0EW.

For cataloguing advice: [log in to unmask]
For course enquiries (cataloguing, holdings & items): [log in to unmask]
For other correspondence: [log in to unmask]

01865 2-77134

*******************

 

CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email, including any attachments, is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please notify the sender immediately, and please delete it; you should not copy it or use it for any purpose or disclose its contents to any other person. Norton Rose Fulbright LLP and its affiliates reserve the right to monitor all email communications through their networks.

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales with number OC328697, and is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. A list of its members and of the other partners is available at its registered office, 3 More London Riverside, London SE1 2AQ; reference to a partner is to a member or to an employee or consultant with equivalent standing and qualification employed or engaged by Norton Rose Fulbright LLP or any of its affiliates.

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, Norton Rose Fulbright Australia, Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP, Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa (incorporated as Deneys Reitz Inc) and Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, each of which is a separate legal entity, are members of Norton Rose Fulbright Verein, a Swiss Verein. Details of each entity, with certain regulatory information, are at nortonrosefulbright.com. Norton Rose Fulbright Verein helps coordinate the activities of the members but does not itself provide legal services to clients.

This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email
Security System.

This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email
Security System.

This email has been scanned for all viruses by the MessageLabs Email
Security System.