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10 Things on the 10th December: Internet Archive, Ambiguous Metadata, Rock and Roll

10 Things on the 10th December: Internet Archive, Ambiguous Metadata, Rock and Roll

Here is a holiday edition of 10 Things for your perusal:

I love these WPA posters at the Library of Congress.

We could all use this news literacy toolkit for unearthing fake news.

Harvesting government history in preparation for the new U.S. administration.

Good times here in the U.S. – fears of Trump prompt Internet Archive to create mirror site in Canada.

From the Getty – the curse of ambiguous…

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10 Things on the 10th November: DAM, Bourbon, Controlled Vocabulary and Old Books

Here are some refreshing and non-political musings on librarian stuff:

Bourbon Whiskey, Controlled Vocabularies, and Library of Congress Subject Headings

Google Testing New Schema Markup for ‘Science Datasets’

Taxonomy and Terminology: The Crossroad of Controlled Vocabulary

Digital imagery reveals secrets of 800-year-old ‘royal’ book

From the folks at Factor: Implementing Taxonomies and IA,…

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10 Things on the 10th October: SKOS, Metadata, DAM, Crowdsourcing

10 Things on the 10th October: SKOS, Metadata, DAM, Crowdsourcing

Enjoy autumn and these 10 things:

Help the Huntington Library decode civil war telegrams.

Hack Library School on metadata and cataloging.

What do Content Strategists do?

Recordings of the webinar on controlled vocabularies from COAR.

More crowdsourcing at the Library of Congress Law Library.

What is SKOS and is there an open source tool for that?

Be a fly on the wall at the NYC DAM Meetup.

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10 Things on the 10th September: Metadata, Content, DAM, Dublin Core and More

10 Things on the 10th September: Metadata, Content, DAM, Dublin Core and More

Here are ten things to kick off autumn:

Why do content marketers need digital librarians?

Another DAM Podcast interview with Jan Delos Santos from RPA.

Dublin Core versus Schema Markup.

How to not fail at taxonomy by Emily Kolvitz.

What is metadata and why is it as important as the data itself? BONUS: Metadata and DAM by the other Kevin Bacon.

Advantages of a graph-based metadata repository.

Meta…

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10 Things on the 10th August: Cat Librarians, Archives, Taxonomy

10 Things on the 10th August: Cat Librarians, Archives, Taxonomy

Here are ten stupendous things to consider:

Check out this review of David Diamond’s Metadata for Content Management. I am not all the way through the book yet, but the section describing the concepts of metadata, taxonomy, and controlled vocabulary is simple and elegant.

How does Comedy Central use digital asset management to find the funny.

Autotaggingis one way to streamline digital asset…

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10 Things on the 10th July Edition: DAM, Taxonomy, and Oh Metadata!

10 Things on the 10th July Edition: DAM, Taxonomy, and Oh Metadata!

Here are ten things to consider along with your beach reading:

How an archive of the Internet could change history.

Another DAM Podcast interview with Liana Cave of KFC.

Sharing content ownership in large organizations.

A musical number about metadata in video form.

Catalog librarians, reference librarians and cross training.

Principles of Linked Data.

The American Society for Indexing on Taxonom…

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Happy 4th from Mod Librarian! An odd way to celebrate the Fourth of July by Mennen courtesy of NYPL Digital Collections.

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10 Things on the 10th June Edition: Taxonomy, Monty Python, Lisa Grimm

10 Things on the 10th June Edition: Taxonomy, Monty Python, Lisa Grimm

Hello! Here are 10 information-related things to read while enjoying this pre-summer season:

From John Horodyski, how taxonomy can help sort apples, oranges, and tofu.

Another DAM Podcast interview with the fantastic Lisa Grimm.

Some amazing Library of Congress online exhibits including a scrapbook about women’s rights.

Transitioning from XML to RDFis a nice academic paper on considerations for…

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10 Things on the 20th: Faceted Search, Taxonomy and Awful Library Books

10 Things on the 20th: Faceted Search, Taxonomy and Awful Library Books

Hello friends,

Apologies for missing 10 Things on the 10th due to my change of address earlier this month. Here are those belated 10 things:

Enjoy these awful library books.

Another DAM Podcast interview with Keith Bloomfield-DeWeese.

Dilbert sends a digital file.

PLOS and linked data – what happened?

All you need to know about digital asset management.

Taxonomy design for CMS.

Measuring the succ…

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No 10 Things! What???

Hello,

I will not be able to compile and publish 10 things on the 10th today as I am very busy moving to a new home.

Never fear, I just picked up my new library card and will strive to post 20 things on the 20th this month.

Please feel free to forward any interesting links by the 18th for inclusion.

Thanks for understanding.

Best,

Mod

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10 Things on the 10th: April Edition

10 Things on the 10th: April Edition

Hello, friends. Here are ten things:

Check out this amazing new online collection from The Seattle Public Library – the George Gulacsik Space Needle Photograph Collection.

Another DAM Podcast interview with Felix Cisneros who has worked at amazing places like Paramount, Sony and AMC.

And, just where is that metadata coming from?

Here is a formidable business case for metadata.

Six mythsabout data…

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Happy Easter from Mod Librarian and NYPL Who is that guy with the rabbits?

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10 ThingsThursday: DAM, Art Posters, Research, Metadata T-Shirts

10 ThingsThursday: DAM, Art Posters, Research, Metadata T-Shirts

Happy March! Here are 10 things on the 10th:

Research Vocabularies Australia has some fantastic resources for controlled vocabulary.

Classic Another DAM Blog – Ten Core Characteristics of Digital Asset Management: Is it really a DAM?

Turn of the century art posters for downloading, courtesy of NYPL.

The Library of Congress has courtroom drawings.

Watch John Horodyskispeak about digital asset…

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10 Things on the 10th: DAM, Graph Databases, the AP and Metadata

10 Things on the 10th: DAM, Graph Databases, the AP and Metadata

Here is the first installment of the monthly 10 things on the 10th:

How to choose a digital asset management (DAM) system.

Complete beginner’s guide to information architecture.

Getting started with graph databases.

Controlled vocabulary for DAM.

Coloring book pages from special collections #ColorOurCollections.

From Ralph Windsor: the stages of DAM consciousness.

The ASI (American Society for…

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One Thing Thursday: How did the Most Beautiful Library in America get Demolished?

One Thing Thursday: How did the Most Beautiful Library in America get Demolished?

Here is one thing for this week:

How did the most beautiful library in America get demolished?

Also, dear friends and readers – I am a little burnt out on the five things a week format of this blog. I welcome suggestions for content and format alike. How about 10 things on the 10th – a monthly offering? Or 20 things on the 20th?

Thanks for understanding while I take some time to sort out the best…

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5 Things Thursday: DAM, Women in Tech, Metadata,

5 Things Thursday: DAM, Women in Tech, Metadata,

Here are five things:

Curious about the best digital asset management software?

Read about an inspiring woman in tech: Alice Merchant.

MedNexus is the place to go when you are feeling like a hypochondriac.

Can a company like Target fail because of metadata?

Smithsonian Libraries receives digitizing hidden special collections award.

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5 Things Thursday: Bowie, Search, Travel and Adventure

5 Things Thursday: Bowie, Search, Travel and Adventure

Here are 5 wonderful things:

David Bowie loved to read. More on that here.

A commercial traveler’s journals from the Penn Libraries special collections.

Visual storytelling and digital asset management for adventure travel.

Semantics is not search, but it can help.

IPTC releases results of 2016 social media sites photo metadata test.

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