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Articles about Linked Data, MARC, Bibframe, and Authority Control

Posted on: 10 October 2014 Last updated on: 10 October 2014 Written by: Orangeaurochs

Below are some articles I wrote for Catalogue & Index, the periodical of the CILIP Cataloguing and Indexing Group (CIG). They are all now freely available as PDFs in UCL’s repository. The first three were written following CIG”s Linked Data:…

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Importing URLs into a large MARC file with Marcedit

Posted on: 12 August 2014 Last updated on: 12 August 2014 Written by: Orangeaurochs

This is a brief documentation of how I used Marcedit to import correct URLs from an Excel spreadsheet into a large file of MARC records. The name of the ebook supplier has been changed to protect the innocent. The values…

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RLUK/European Library linked data sample

Posted on: 11 April 2014 Last updated on: 11 April 2014 Written by: Orangeaurochs

RLUK and the European Library (of which the RLUK is now a member) have just released 17 million records as linked open data. They have released three sets (via Mike Mertens), for which links to the RDF turtle versions are…

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The BIBFRAME Work

Posted on: 25 May 2013 Last updated on: 25 May 2013 Written by: Orangeaurochs

BIBFRAME has worked on modelling works as Works within the BIBFRAME model, similar to the RDA modelling work, itself modelled on the work on the FRBR model of Works and Expressions. A BIBFRAME Work is a creative work, perhaps a…

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Bookmarklet for searching catalogues from Wikipedia

Posted on: 25 March 2013 Last updated on: 2 October 2019 Written by: Orangeaurochs

I have come up with two bookmarklets that allow you to search for an author’s works in a library catalogue from the author’s Wikipedia page in one click. A bookmarklet is a browser bookmark that does something with the page…

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RDF Viewer

Posted on: 15 March 2013 Last updated on: 15 March 2013 Written by: Orangeaurochs

I have programmed a simple RDF viewer called RDFV RDF Viewer for viewing RDF. Copy and paste the contents of an RDF turtle or n-triples file into the box. The viewer will let you click on an element to highlight…

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MRV MARC Record Viewer

Posted on: 2 October 2012 Last updated on: 2 October 2012 Written by: Orangeaurochs

I have finally completed a multiple record MARC Record Viewer. This has been rather long in the making but is essentially a quick and practical tool for looking at and assessing MARC records without having to load them into specialist…

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One record in lots of data formats

Posted on: 9 August 2012 Last updated on: 9 August 2012 Written by: Orangeaurochs

For a Dev8d session I did with Owen Stephens in February I presented data for a single book and followed how it had changed as standards changed, trying above to explain to non-cataloguers why catalogue records look and work the…

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How big is my book: Mashcat session

Posted on: 10 July 2012 Last updated on: 10 July 2012 Written by: Orangeaurochs

At Mashcat on 5 July in Cambridge I gave an afternoon session on getting computer readable information from the textual information held in MARC21 300 fields using Javascript and regular expressions. I intended this to be useful for cataloguers who…

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Cataloguing coding

Posted on: 8 January 2012 Last updated on: 7 February 2012 Written by: Orangeaurochs

I am not a trained programmer, coding is not part of my job description, and I have little direct access to cataloguing and metadata databases at work outside of normal catalogue editing and talking to the systems team, but I…

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