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2007/12/14: Working on....

I'm going to pull a Mark Lidner and give up on trying to comment the Futures report. There's been a huge-o explosion of happenings in the bibliographic wilderness this past week. It's hard enough for me to get the most relevant-to-me stuff even read.

I did attend the 3rd International Conference on Digital Curation and I'll try to summarize my copious notes. I'll be writing a trip report anyway, so it serves a dual purpose. In the meantime, check out what Peter Murray-Rust and Chris Rusbridge have to say about it.

Other things worth reviewing and commenting on which I probably won't:

• OAI-ORE alpha specification
• Yee's cataloging rules
• Zotero IA alliance
• Roy Tennant on the term "bibliographic control" (which I've always LOATHED ... it gives me mental images of leather-clad dominatrices demanding all the books be returned to a library)

What's with all this stuff coming out during this season anyway? Holy Toledo people! It's time for holidays. Stop blogging already and go spend time with your families! I wish I could, but the next draft of RDA is going to be released very soon and I need to have it under my belt prior to ALA Midwinter for CC:DA's discussion.

I'm starting to wonder if I even have time to blog at all... how the heck does everybody else manage it? Don't you have lives?

Labels: CC:DA, dcc-2007, LC, life1.0, metadata, Peter Murray-Rust, RDA

posted by Laura @ 1:30 PM