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Oops, let’s try that again! The Google Drive link seems to be fussy; here is the handout as images.

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My (unmedicated) A.D.D. indexing process

Thanks to guidance from the fabulous DAM Debey’s blog post on her process, I finally dove in and started my indexing, but realized I quickly forgot the rules as soon as I had entered something. And I was so cocky that I had not even read the guidelines for selecting the coverage.temporal guidelines, because surely! That’s obvious...it’s the year the game is played, right?! Oh wait, on my final read when I got insecure, sure enough - the following January is considered part of the previous year (which makes more sense, as I work in education and we think of everything as July 1-June 30 instead of calendar year).

I had to go back and change my titles after re-reading the indexing guideline on that element - I realized that I was basically including a lot lot lot of of of duplication duplication duplication (see what I did there?) of info that was already covered in other elements.

But it is hard not to include some of that; what if clients only peruse the titles instead of searching deeply for the other element info? Hrm. Should I put the dates back in? If I had not waited until the last minute, I could have gotten advice from my class colleagues, but that is not the way I roll (I’m a masochist).

I did take heed after my third review of the title guideline to spell-out things and  change “vs.” to “versus.” Rule-follower in some respects!

But hey, here is me in both cooking and indexing...

http://www.theonion.com/graphic/box-cooking-instructions-immediately-retrieved-tra-50804

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Indexer Initials...so easy, it must be a trick

I feel I received the easiest of elements for our client project, but of course I obsess about the correct way to state it anyway! Would love feedback from my fab group. :) See my draft in the wiki, and questions below...

1) Am I including too much detail?

2) Is the roster/actual list of preferred names/initials appropriate for the creation guidelines, or would the notes field be more appropriate?

3) Our class does not have any duplicate first/last initial combinations. In the event that we did, I had planned to make the indexer initials element include a number. Example: John Smith would be JS1, the next John Smith would be JS2, etc. Is that a good tactic? What would you advise for a best practice?

4) Because I know that we are not going to be editing/co-indexing images, I did not allow for this to be a repeatable element. If we were co-indexing, or editing each other's work, or found new information about the collection items down the road, etc....I am thinking we would want that option? But not for this current project?

[metawhatdata-blog]

Create or Consume!

http://nathan.torkington.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Where-It-All-Went-Wrong.pdf

Comparing libraries to Microsoft sounds silly, but when you continue reading, it kinda makes sense?  They aren’t exactly hard up but they are struggling to keep up with Apple (although, I think much of Apple’s rise to fame can be attributed to hipsters…yes, I own an Ipad.  I don’t use the internet on my phone…I’m going off topic).  Anywho, this got me to thinking about how can you digitize something that needs to be seen in person?  I don’t want a digital version of the Taj Mahal?  or the catacombs of Paris?  or the Hope diamond?  I want to see it, not a digital version of it.  Although, I get the author’s point…libraries have to get on equal footing as the Internet or die trying (no seriously, don’t die)

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It has happened to all of us...or not

Bad book metadata can make or break book sales as the heart of the article points out.  I've had this happen on several occasions-books with the same name, authors with the same name, a slip up in the metadata and your book is under another book's ISBN.  Oh the joys and problems of metadata.  It can also be a (insert bad word) to fix because all vendors make changes to a book's data on their sites at different times #headaches

http://www.digitalbookworld.com/2014/when-bad-ebook-metadata-is-good-or-not/

[metawhatdata-blog]

So much content in 140

After reading this article I can honestly say I will never look at metadata the same again...or maybe I wasn't looking at it properly in the first place.  Hopefully this class can help me learn about metadata and all it has to offer.

http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/06/06/in-a-single-tweet-as-many-pieces-of-metadata-as-there-are-characters/

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