Sad Metadata Kitty

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Sad Metadata Kitty is sad because it took only two SPARQL queries to hose the server. (Original photograph by CogSciLibrarian used by permission)

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Sad Metadata Kitty is sad because zie doesn’t check Tumblr often enough to tell folks that zir’s stuff is always licensed CC-BY-SA. (Image adapted from public domain image Cat-Sad-Annoyed by Robert Tortorelli on Flickr)

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Sad metadata kitty wonders why the techbros don’t see the building she has been working on all this time.

Adapted from Kittenlego by Jacob Davies (CC-BY-SA)

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Metadata Kitties are sad because they have gone too far with dis-integrating the ILS.

Image remixed from Gatti e carta igienica by Enrico on Flickr, CC-BY.

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Sad Metadata Kitty is not so sure about the Open World Assumption... prefers Closed and Heated Model

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museum-of-artifacts:

A medieval manuscript that was peed on by a cat 

Scribe was forced to leave the rest of the page empty, drew a picture of a cat and cursed the creature with the following words:

“Hic non defectus est, sed cattus minxit desuper nocte quadam. Confundatur pessimus cattus qui minxit super librum istum in nocte Daventrie, et consimiliter omnes alii propter illum. Et cavendum valde ne permittantur libri aperti per noctem ubi cattie venire possunt.”

[Here is nothing missing, but a cat urinated on this during a certain night. Cursed be the pesty cat that urinated over this book during the night in Deventer and because of it many others [other cats] too. And beware well not to leave open books at night where cats can come.]

Cologne, Historisches Archiv, G.B. quarto, 249, fol. 68r

Sad Metadata Kitty is sad because the scribe no longer loves him.

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Sad metadata kitty is just sad today.

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Sad metadata kitty is sad because the duplicate record merge went too far.

Photo copyright © 2015 by Galen Charlton; licensed under CC-BY-SA

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Sad metadata kitty is sad because he is #alaleftbehind.

Image remixed from "Sad Kitty" by Zhao ! on Flickr (CC-BY).

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Sad Metadata Kitty is Sad because she was misclassified by a cataloger in a hurry.

Image remixed from "Day 44: ooohnonononono" by Quinn Dombrowski on Flickr.

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Sad metadata kitty is sad because there is no library conference travel money left, which means she can't storm the booth of the publisher who keeps reusing ISBNs.

Image from Shrek 2

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Marking the death of authors: one of the sadder duties of a library cataloger.

Image remixed from "sad cat diary" by greyloch on Flickr (CC-BY-SA)