Archive for the ‘XOBIS’ Category
Concept Maps
I’ve been throwing around (with another library programmer) the idea of expressing XOBIS as a Topic Map. He is knowledgeable about Topic Maps (TMs). I, while interested in them, wouldn’t say I’ve drunk the kool-aid quite yet.
My interest in doing this mapping of (X)OBIS into TM (Topic Map) form is to better understand how to [...]
XOBIS and Museum Data
Yesterday I (and several other library folks) had an interesting meeting with the art museum people on campus. They were kind enough to give us a tour of the art museum’s new content management system. I was particularly interested in seeing this system because I haven’t had much exposure to the museum world (but have [...]
Metadata Interoperability
I’m back from ALA. What a time! It was the first ALA conference I’ve been to and, I must say, I was amazed at the sheer number of librarians (I’ve been to AALL and MLA, but they aren’t anywhere near as large). It was a bit mind boggling, to me, to see librarians at every [...]
CLOWNPOETS
One humorous little post while I’m thinking about it. XOBIS has ten principal elements: Concept, Language, Object, Work, Being, Place, Object, Event, Time, String. The first letters of these element names don’t add up to anything.
An earlier version of the schema, though, used Name instead of Being. This, of course, spells CLOWNPOETS. We wanted so [...]
Antelope, Document
Many thanks to Lorcan Dempsey's weblog for pointing me to Michael Buckland's very interesting paper, "What is a document?" This preprint of an article published in JASIS asks whether sculpture, museum objects, and live animals could be considered "documents." This is a Xobian question if I've ever heard one.
The paper starts off by [...]
Versioning Metadata
At DLF a week or two ago, I heard an interesting idea that has, ever since, been bouncing around in my head a bit. The idea was to use XML namespaces as a way to version metadata values (yes, you heard me, values… not just the XML elements and attributes themselves (which is common)). Unfortunately, [...]
MARC Down
Lorcan Dempsey has posted about the recent XML4LIB discussions. He highlights one posting that escaped my notice (because, to be honest, I was originally trying to avoid jumping into the discussion). He says (of someone else who posted on the topic): “He reminds people of the three layers in the classical library metadata stack: encoding [...]