This week's muffin (vegan as always) is cinnamon coffeecakes. The wife's verdict..meh, so so.
Our movie is "
Does metadata matter?" from Andy Powell of Eduserv. Cataloging savvy folk may want to fast forward through the first 10 minutes as he reviews AACR2, MARC etc. for a non-librarian audience. His gets around to telling us why metadata matters in the latter portion of the presentation.
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Today's muffin (vegan as always) is a cupcake! In celebration of my 1st anniversary at MPOW, we had an extra special batch of carrot cupcakes with creamy-cheeze frosting (how I did it vegan style is a trade secret).
Today's metadata movie:
The Clanger's Guide to Microformats . At some point we'd like to experiment with microformats and other ways of enhancing the metadata in
CODA, our institutional repository.
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This week's muffin (vegan as always) Oat Bran Surprise! Each muffin is filled with fruit preserves. To be completely honest, we actually had a reprise of the Hearty Spiced Cocoa muffins, due to a special request from my wife for me to make an extra batch as a hostess present. We ate the Oat Bran Surprise! muffins at last week's 4M. Which I forgot to blog.
This week's movie:
What is My WebJunction? We have a lot of WebJunction users within the department so we're getting accustomed to the new interface and features.
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This week's muffin (vegan as always): Hearty Spiced Cocoa
No new movie this week. We're still finishing up Diane Hillman's Metadata Standards and Applications.
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This week's muffin, by special request, Chocolate Chocolate Chip (veg but not vegan. I couldn't find vegan chocolate chips :-( ).
This week's movie: None. We're still catching up with Diane Hillman's Metadata Standards and Applications.
FYI, No 4M next week. I'll be at ALA yawning my way through a CC:DA meeting.
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This week's muffin (vegan as always): Orange Cranberry.
This week's metadata movie: None. We're catching up on the last 2 part's of Diane Hillman's Metadata Standards and Applications. We got busy. What can we say?
You may have also noticed that the weekly 4M doesn't always happen weekly. You would be very observant. Sometimes stuff pops up. Like Memorial Day. Or, simply me being on work travel or vacation (went to Berkeley, it was great, thanks for asking).
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This week's muffin (non-vegan, store bought):
Assorted. Would you bake if it was over 100F and you didn't have AC in the house? Exactly.
This week's movies:
Part 5 of
Diane Hillman's Metadata Standards & Applications: metadata interoperability and distributionHow to build the semantic web using Dublin CoreLabels: 4M, metadata
MSG's weekly meeting with movies and muffins.
This week's muffin (vegan as always):
Carrot with walnuts & raisins (adapted from The Joy of Cooking)
This week's movies:
Part 3 of Diane Hillman's
Metadata Standards & Applications: Relationship ModelsSocial bookmarking in plain EnglishLabels: 4M, metadata
The Metadata Services Group continues its Monday morning meeting ritual of watching metadata related movies while enjoying home-baked muffins!
Today's muffin: Blueberry
Today's movies:Tim Berners-Lee waxes enthusiastic about the Semantic WebMetadata Standards and Applications Trainer Screencasts: Part 2:
Approaches to Models of Metadata Creation, Storage, and ManagementLabels: 4M, metadata
I dislike meetings without a purpose. I'm also of the opinion that meetings which take longer than an hour are probably wasting time. That said, I also think that meetings should happen with more regularity than they are sometimes scheduled. Frequent informal interaction may help us (a) build collegiality and (b) get regular opportunities to share information and (c) learn a few new things. My colleagues within the Metadata Services Group and I have decided to experiment a bit to find which meeting model works best for us.
To that end, we've started meeting weekly, for roughly half an hour, to discuss department business and to do some shared professional development. That means movies! We interpret "movies" loosely and include podcasts/videocasts/screencasts etc. The common thread is that the subject needs to be related to our current or future work. We kicked off this meeting format last week by watching Arlington Heights Memorial Library's
Behind The Scenes - Technical Services (part of their awesome
LibVlog on youtube).
This week we begin exploring technology and filling in gaps in our knowledge about computing and networking
by looking at the inside of a computer. We also begin viewing Diane Hillmann's screen casts from the
LC Metadata Standards and Applications workshops.
After 6 months, we'll evaluate and figure out if we want to keep doing this.
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