My new gig is still at the overwhelming-but-in-a-good way phase. I've
got jobs open, btw, if you want to work with me. Once I'm a bit less short-staffed I'll be able to blog a bit more as previously promised. I've set myself a goal of posting at least once per week.
I've got a few ideas percolating plus a few longish posts which have been in draft since (eep!) last summer. I've been holding in my snarks about RDA. I've got long ignored notes from DCC to discuss. I've got a few stories about online identity management. And so on....
The big but is that I've been experiencing a lot of health issues. I've recently learned that my heart murmur may be getting worse and I've also got some thyroid funny business happening. Nothing to worry about most likely. It does mean a slew of tests and doctors appointments, however. All my promises above are predicated on my ability to stay well.
Labels: dcc-2007, life1.0, metadata, RDA
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
I'm heading to Boston tomorrow to visit the folks at Ex Libris for some training. Speaking of work travel, that reminds me that I've gotten the go-ahead to attend the
3rd International Conference on Digital Curation with my boss and another colleague.
I will share my conference notes, but perhaps not in raw form.
ALA Midwinter will be the next work travel after dcc-2007. Beyond that, I don't want to think that far ahead.
If you're in the Boston area and want to meet up for a cuppa joe (or better yet, a nice tasty microbrow), give me a holler. Same applies for those of you in D.C. in December.
Labels: data curation, dcc-2007, digital preservation, metadata
