Showing posts with label Bibliographic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bibliographic. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

OCLC's Vision for the Next Generation of Metadata

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From the OCLC report summary:  Transitioning to the Next Generation of Metadata synthesizes six years (2015-2020) of OCLC Research Library ...
Sunday, May 13, 2018

Publishing Technology Survey Request: How strategic is technology spending?

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Please take some time to complete this technology survey. Results will be published here. I encourage you to forward this survey to your c...
Thursday, May 03, 2012

Corporate Data Strategy and The Chief Data Officer

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There were several discussion points around data at today's BISG Making Information Pay session and I was reminded of a series of posts...
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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

File Under "Bleedin' Obvious": Good Data Drives Sales

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Nielsen Bookdata recently released a white paper/sales sheet on metadata enhancement which presents some real data on the direct link betwee...
Monday, December 12, 2011

OCLC Report: Libraries at Webscale

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OCLC have released a report they've been working on this year looking at the impact of the web on our rapidly changing information envir...
Wednesday, December 07, 2011

BISG Policy Statement on ISBN Usage

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The Book Industry Study Group after long deliberation and incredibly astute consulting has announced its policy recommendation for the use ...
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Wednesday, September 28, 2011

McKinsey Report on BIG Data

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Recently consulting services firm McKinsey released a report that took a look at what BIG data is and what the potential gains could be from...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

BISG BookStats - Live Webcast

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BISG has announced two webinars to discuss the recent release of BookStats: During each Webcast, representatives from the BookStats data t...
Monday, January 10, 2011

Findings Meeting for the Identification of e-Books and Digital Content Project

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As you may know, in May 2010 the Identification of E-Books Working Group of BISG’s Identification Committee began a systematic review of the...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Books about Presidents

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These USA Today snapshots were the best and most effective marketing and PR we did at Bowker when I was there. We got more mileage out of t...
Thursday, November 04, 2010

Fake Reviews: Does Amazon have a sense of Humor?

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Take a look at how numerous Amazon reviewers have taken the time to write reviews for a book that is either a test page (why Amazon would b...
Friday, October 22, 2010

Repost: Publishing and Global Data Synchronization

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Originally published on March 19, 2007 Over the past several months, I have commented on issues related to the publishing supply chain and t...
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Friday, September 17, 2010

Repost: 'Qualified Metadata' - What Does it All Mean?

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Originally posted on 2/22/2007, I was speaking to someone this afternoon about this topic and it reminded me a little of this post. Earlier ...
Friday, July 23, 2010

Repost - Data Sync: The Next Coming of Biblio Data - Repost

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Originally posted June 22, 2007 A number of years ago while President of Bowker I attended a conference organized by our EDI provider Genera...
Friday, June 18, 2010

Metadata Everywhere

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An interesting article in OCLC's NextSpace publication about the increasing importance of meta data. Music to bibliographers and catalog...

Bibliographers Shall Inherit...Data Monopolies - Repost

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I recently heard Fred Wilson speak and it reminded me of this post from February 5th, 2007: Fred Wilson is a founder of Union Square Venture...
Friday, March 05, 2010

Is There a Future for Bibliographic Databases? - Repost

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The following was originally posted on April 2nd, 2007 and since John and I met for dinner in NYC last night I thought I would re-post his a...