Buongiorno,
sono una bibliotecaria UniBO, alle primissime armi con Wikipedia, se pure da anni alle prese con cataloghi e web. Mi piacerebbe collaborare; ho visto dalla lista AIB-CUR l'iniziativa in oggetto, e so che ce ne sono altre, ma in generale la mia situazione lavorativo-familiare non mi lascia molto spazio per partecipare. Tuttavia mi è sembrato di capire, guardando le chiarissime slides di Pierfranco Minsenti sull'importazione dei dati dal VIAF (http://www.slideshare.net/pierfrancominsenti/unaltra-modalit-per-arricchire…), che potrei tentare come "autodidatta" se 1) siete d'accordo e 2) potrò chiedervi aiuto in caso di necessità.
E se la risposta fosse sì ad entrambe le domande, chiederei anche se esista uno schema per contribuire, ossia se siano previsti elenchi di autori (per il codice di controllo di autorità) oppure di titoli (da inserire su Wikisource) per la distribuzione del lavoro, ovvero i contributi possano essere scelti ad esempio per discipline.
Grazie mille e scusate il disturbo
Silvia
Silvia Girometti
silvia.girometti(a)unibo.it
> -----Messaggio originale-----
> A: AIB-CUR(a)LIST.CINECA.IT
> Oggetto: AGENDA: Bibliohackaton, verso i beni comuni
> digitali. -- Trento, 2013-11-25/26
>
> Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), Mart e Wikimedia Italia, con
> il patrocinio della Sezione AIB Trentino-Alto Adige,
> organizzano a Trento
> "Bibliohackaton: verso i beni comuni digitali" il 25 e 26
> novembre 2013.
>
> Sede dell'evento: Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Via Santa Croce,
> 77 e Via Sommarive 18, Povo).
>
> A seguito della prima Bibliohackaton italiana, tenutasi il
> 26 ottobre scorso presso la Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di
> Firenze e organizzata da Wikimedia Italia e BNCF, replichiamo
> con questo evento.
>
> Come l'originale, la Bibliohackaton trentina "Verso i beni
> comuni digitali" vuole essere un evento aperto a tutti:
> wikipediani, bibliotecari, operatori museali ed editori.
>
> Per maggiori informazioni, sono a disposizione i seguenti link:
>
> <http://www.eventbrite.it/e/registrazione-bibliohackathon-vers
> o-i-beni-comuni-digitali-9241869681>
>
> <http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:GLAM/Biblioteche/Biblio
> hackathon/Trento,_25_e_26_novembre_2013>
>
> <http://www.aib.it/struttura/sezioni/taa/2013/39160-bibliohack
> athon-taa/>
>
Segnalo che l'export da Wikipedia a DBpedia italiana ha un difetto: in
DBpedia si ritrovano gli identificativi VIAF e LCCN ma non quelli da SBN.
Qualcuno potrebbe segnalare l'anomalia a Spazio Dati?
Si veda per esempio la pagina su Alessandro Manzoni in DBpedia:
http://it.dbpedia.org/page/Alessandro_Manzoni
dove ci sono gli identificativi VIAF e LCCN
dbpprop-it:viaf 14356 (xsd:integer)
e:
dbpprop-it:lccn n/79/39800
ma manca un elemento apposito che dovrebbe contenere l'identificativo SBN e
che dovrebbe essere:
dbpprop-it:sbn IT\ICCU\CFIV\009079
Da confrontare con Wikidata:
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1064
e con la DBpedia tedesca dove il loro identificativo nazionale del record
di autorità (sigla pnd) c'è, così come gli altri identificativi (viaf e
lccn):
http://de.dbpedia.org/page/Alessandro_Manzoni
che ha:
dbpprop-de:lccn n/79/39800
dbpprop-de:pnd 118577409 (xsd:integer)
dbpprop-de:viaf 14356 (xsd:integer)
Cristian potresit pensare tu a farglielo sapere?
Grazie
Pierfranco
Su Library Thing for Libraries: chissà se non è meglio ripartire provando a
fare i bibliotecari: quelli che quando si discute qualcosa innanzitutto
cercano informazioni, le vagliano, e se c'è qualche problema hanno qualche
trucco per risolvere le cose.
Qui di seguito i dati principali:
Pagina italiana di informazioni su LibraryThing for Libraries: ditta Cenfor
di Genova che commercialziza in Italia i prodotti accessiibli con licenza
Bowker:
http://www.cenfor.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=88&Itemi…
Pagina in inglese dal sito di Bowker:
http://www.bowker.com/en-US/products/servlib_ltfl.shtml
Lista di biblioteche nel mondo che hanno pagato per questo servizio di
integrazione dei loro opac: la pagina di Cenfor rimanda a questa pagina:
http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/LTFL:Libraries_using_LibraryThin…
Che però non contiene nulla perché dice che è in corso di aggiornamento (a
quanto pare è da parecchio che è vuota).
Trucco per trovare il contenuto di quella pagina di 1 anno fa: la lista
aggiornata al 20 gennaio 2013, salvata da Internet Archive:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130120112156/http://www.librarything.com/wiki…
Si vede un lungo elenco di biblioteche dell'area anglofona, con qualche
eccezione molto rara riferita a Svezia, Olanda, Cecoslovacchia, Spagna,
Portogallo, Turchia, Singapore.
Non è menzionata nessuna istituzione italiana.
Elenco utile anche perché per ogni opac contiene la URL di un esempio: per
es. per l'università di Minho in Portogallo c'è il link a questo esempio di
record nel loro opac Aleph:
https://web.archive.org/web/20130120112156/http://aleph.sdum.uminho.pt/F/?f…
Da dove si vede che l'integrazione consiste in un link a 18 recensioni
presenti su LibraryThing del libro The hero with a thousand faces di Joseph
Campbell
http://ltfl.librarything.com//forlibraries/reviews.php?&accession=&isbn=069…
Le recensioni sono tutte in inglese. È verosimile che sia questa una delle
ragioni per cui il prodotto si diffonde nell'area angolofona e pochissimo
altrove. E altrove solo in università, dove è legittimo aspettarsi la
conoscenza dell'inglese.
Ma sarebbe ben poco plausibile fare la stessa cosa in una biblioteca
pubblica italiana. E per di più pagare.
Pierfranco
Piero, Emma, Ginevra, Sannita, Elitre, Trixt, iPork, OrbiliusMagister,
Accurimbono, Aubrey, bibliotecari e soci/wikimediani tutti ;) : vedete
sotto.
Piero Grandesso, 26/02/2014 17:07:
> Ho poi letto che valgono le risposte di individui, quindi nel mio
> piccolo una risposta (mia) la invierò, magari vale la pena confrontarsi
> (sulla wikina) anche per quello.
Certo! Per piacere aggiungi le tue risposte, fossero anche a una sola
domanda, nella pagina in wikina. Cosí ci possiamo confrontare fra di noi
anche come individui, oltre che per la risposta da mandare come
associazione.
Per ora, leggendomi i vari documenti della comunità (sintetizzati da
Luis Villa) e soprattutto quelli di C4C e amici, e aggiungendo alcune
cose che "sapevamo già" (molto poche, rispetto alla vastità del
problema), ho fatto le domande 28–80.
<http://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Consultazione_europea_sul_diritto_d%27autore>
Ho scritto in inglese perché le mie risposte le avevo già fatte in
inglese in Meta e perché su tutta una serie di questioni non abbiamo il
tempo di rispondere ma vale la pena di rimandare alle posizioni di C4C
che sono scritte in buona parte da veri esperti. Se però aggiungete piú
roba in italiano di quanta ce ne sia in inglese facciamo una traduzione
e la mandiamo tutta in italiano, tanto il copincolla lo trovo odioso
(costringe le persone veramente interessate alla nostra opinione ad
andarsela a cercare col lanternino in un mare di testo già letto
altrove) quindi gran parte del testo in inglese è già separato.
Mi piacerebbe che riuscissimo a scrivere qualcosa di meglio sui nostri
storici problemi ed esperienze con:
* codice urbani/WLM (Emma, Ginevra? domanda 80),
* libertà di panorama (Sannita, Elitre, Trixt, altri commonari? di
solito affrontata nelle domande 2, 21, 80),
* digitalizzazioni nonché libri e opere in PD-Italia ma difficilissimi o
impossibili da tenere in Commons/Wikisource: potremmo ad esempio parlare
di biblioteca e l'impossibilità di un wikilivres pan-europeo nelle
risposte 58 e 68, o dell'inutile "biblioteca digitale italiana" in 40-41
(iPork, OrbiliusMagister, Accurimbono?),
* Open Access: almeno un paragrafetto ci deve stare per forza, qualcuno
in Meta chiedeva di parlare delle tesi di laurea e dottorato che sarebbe
bello avere tutte pubblicate in DART (Aubrey! 32-35, 47-49);
* non pago di leggere e altre questioni da bibliotecari: da qualche
parte ci staranno;
* Creative Commons e SIAE, ce ne eravamo tanto preoccupati in passato ma
non ho capito che opinione abbiamo ora;
* qualsiasi altra cosa vi venga in mente.
È bello filosofeggiare e sostenere i nostri alleati europei, ma ancora
meglio è portare esperienze nostre concrete come associazione o soci: a
quelle guarda molto la commissione, al di là delle competenze da
legislatori dilettanti (che non abbiamo). Ho spostato la pagina in ns0
quindi la vedono tutti, chi non ha accesso può mandarmi le aggiunte per
posta elettronica e se diventano tante ci spostiamo in Meta.
Nemo
Vi segnalo questo sito che mi pare molto interessante
- attiva il social tagging per localizzare le opere della Tate Gallery
Buona giornata Susanna
.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.
*Susanna Giaccai*
Firenze
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Date: 2014-02-24 23:15 GMT+01:00
Subject: [OpenGLAM] Tate Artmaps
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Tate's art maps look really cool. Does anyone know the license for the data?
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_________________________
Special and Contributed Sessions Code No
1. Bibliographic Control
1. Terminology project
2. Multiple controlled vocabularies
3. Subject thesaurus
4. Bibliographic utilities
5. New cataloguing rules, RDA and MARC21
2. Bibliometric research
1. Bibliometrics
2. Analysis of patterns of information
3. Usage data
4. Publication data
5. Citation analysis
6. Content analysis
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8. Databases
3. Change of Libraries and Managerial techniques
1. Human resources management
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3. Strategic management
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5. Fast-responded library
6. Learning organization
4. Changes in Learning, Research and Information needs and Behaviour of
Users
1. 21st century librarians for 21st century libraries
2. New services for the research and learning communities
3. Redefining the library service experience
4. Forging collaboration between librarians and students
5. Library in the digital workflow of research
6. Content analysis of academic libraries' Facebook profiles
7. Marketing the academic library through online social network advertising
8. International cooperation towards the development of technology in
academic libraries
5. Climate Change Data and Climate Change Impacts
1. National greenhouse gas inventories
2. Inventory submissions
3. National communications
4. Information sources and availability
5. Socio-economic data
6. Definitions and methodologies
7. Climate change fund
8. Socio-economic data socio-economic data
9. Climate-related risks and disasters
10. Regional centres and networks
11. Risk management and reduction
12. Adaptation strategies
13. Access to information
14. Public awareness and participation
15. International cooperation
16. Research dialogue
17. Systematic observation
18. Sustainable development
6. Communication Strategies
1. Working with faculty, students, and staff
2. Users - Non users
3. Alumni, Partners, Stakeholders
4. Groups / teams
5. Archives, historical societies, museums and art galleries
6. Consortia
7. Data Analysis and Data Mining
1. Content analysis
2. Ontologies
3. Knowledge discovery
4. Machine learning
5. Databases
6. Data visualization
8. Development and Assessment of Digital Repositories
1. Preservation of records for the next generations
2. Demonstration on fiscal responsibility and sustainability
3. Development of new metrics of their usages
4. Evaluation and best practices
9. Development of Information and Knowledge Services on the Public Library
1. Public libraries transformations
2. Dynamic information market
3. Public library's role in the society
4. Challenges before libraries today
5. Diversified societies
6. Public library's policy
7. Communities and information market
8. Public libraries as creative industries
9. Production and consumption of knowledge
10. Digital Libraries
1. Digitization
2. Museum and art digital objects
3. Archival digital objects
4. Public libraries digital projects
5. Digital content for teaching
6. Digital images
7. Metadata
8. Repositories
11. Economic Co-operation and Development
1. Socio-economic, environmental and emissions data
2. Energy statistics
3. Economic and social development
4. Working parties and organizations
5. Education, training and public awareness
6. Financial mechanism
7. Green climate fund
8. Investments
12. Energy Data and Information
1. Energy consumption, products, prices and taxes
2. Energy-related statistical data include coal, oil, gas, electricity and
heat statistics
3. Energy balances, prices and emissions
4. Emissions from fuel combustion from its energy data
5. Data from firms, government agencies, industry organizations and national
publications
13. Environmental Assessment
1. International, national, regional, local core data sets
2. Integrated Environment Assessment
3. Global Environmental Outlook
4. Statistical and geo-referenced historical data sets
5. Emission database for global atmospheric research
6. Socio-economic data
7. Ocean observation
14. Financial strength and sustainability
1. Fund raising
2. Cost benefit analysis
3. Cost assessment
4. Value analysis
15. Health Information Services
1. Research by health information professionals
2. Role of librarians in implementing Evidence based medicine/practice
3. Prospects and challenges of implementing Research4Life in low income
countries
16. Historical and Comparative case studies related to Librarianship
1. Library historiography
2. Agencies, people, and movements within the development of librarianship
3. Comparative case studies related to libraries, special collections, or
library programs/services
17. Information and Data on various aspects of Food and Agriculture
1. Agricultural production and trade
2. Land use, and means of production
3. Trade indices and food supply
4. Population and labour force
5. Food balance sheets
6. Fertilizer and pesticides
7. Forest products
8. Fishery products
9. Agricultural machinery
18. Information and Knowledge Services
1. Resource development policy
2. Resource project description
3. Research and development of the services
4. Knowledge discovery and knowledge creation
5. Knowledge mining
6. Team building and management
19. Information Literacy: Information sharing, Democracy and Lifelong
Learning
1. Information Literacy and citizenship
2. Strategic approaches to Information Literacy
3. New pedagogic challenges for libraries
4. Collaborative work between librarians and academic staff
5. Independent learning skills, online information skills and lifelong
learning
6. Concepts of learning, teaching and the developments in networked
technology
7. Staff development and Information Literacy
8. New areas of practice and research
9. Information literacy projects on special scientific disciplines
10. Advocacy, marketing and promotion
11. Benchmarking
12. Evaluation and assessment
20. Library Cooperation: Problems and Challenges at the beginning of the
21st century
1. Union catalogue and storage equipment
2. Collection policy and collection development
3. Joint acquisitions (purchasing, access, inter-library loan and
document delivery)
4. Joint digitization's projects
5. Local, regional and country heritage
6. Human resource in local, regional and country level
7. Organizational culture
21. Library change and Technology
1. Communicating change, scenarios and projections
2. Adaptation technology
3. Technology information
4. Technology diffusion
5. Technology needs assessment
6. Technology research and development
7. Technology transfer
22. Management
1. Excellence and innovation
2. Quality and benchmarking
3. Measures and metrics
23. Marketing
1. Marketing research
2. Public relations
3. Publicity
4. Communication
24. Museums, Libraries and Cultural Organizations
1. Networks and collaborations
2. Cultural policy, diversity and intercultural dialogue
3. Marketing & communications management
4. Case studies
5. European integration
6. Multiculturalism, interculturalism, transculturalism
7. National and international collaboration
8. Cultural policies, migration and mobility
9. Identity, memory and heritage
10. Divergence and commonality
11. Visitor experiences in collaborative projects
12. Archiving, preservation and exhibition technologies
13. Arts funding
14. Arts policy
15. Libraries, theaters, music, film industry, television etc
16. Libraries, archives and museums and their admission
25. Music Librarianship
1. Musical archives
2. Collections of music assessment
3. Copyright and broadcasting issues, copying costs
4. Librarianship and musicology
5. Music bibliography
6. Music library automation
7. Music publishing industry
8. Presentation on the duties, challenges and satisfactions of
performance music librarians
9. Collections of music preservation
10. Space and music collections
26. Performance Measurement and Competitiveness
1. Criteria of performance indicators (PI) selection for libraries and
the kinds of PI
2. Different methodologies proposed for library assessment
3. The technological effect
4. Financial indicators
5. Organizational performance
6. Comparison among governmental and non-governmental organizations'
performance
27. Publications
1. Internet Filtering
2. Privacy and share of information in libraries
3. The Read/ Write Web and the future of library research
4. Digital rights, copyright management and libraries
28. Quality evaluation and promotion of info = documentary institutions
services methods
1. User education in informational recourses
2. The importance of personal involvement
3. Accreditation of digital libraries
4. Development of a network of peers
5. Cataloguing is changing
6. Customer services
7. Management/administration
8. OPAC 2.0 - the catalogue on web
9. The benefit of change
10. Electronic library
11. Digital repository management
29. Technology & Innovations in Libraries and their Impact on Learning,
Research and Users
1. Creating webliographies
2. Computing interfaces and how libraries need to adapt
3. Creating materials samples collection to support the engineering
curriculum
4. Embedding librarians in the classroom
5. Teaching scholarly communication and collaboration through social
networking
6. Sustainable development and the role of innovative & benchmarked
practices
7. Fostering innovation through cultural change
8. Science & technology libraries as multi academic activities centres
9. Change as a service
10. Embedding innovation for scholarly information & research
11. Trends, possibilities and scenarios for user-centred libraries
30. Technology Transfer and Innovation in Library Management
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3. Competence management
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5. Intercultural management
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31. Scientific, Technical and Socio-Economic Aspects of Mitigation of
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4. Afforestation and reforestation
5. Forest Management
6. Land-use change
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8. Research and systematic observation
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*MAKING METADATA WORK*
DCMI Regional Meeting with ISKO-UK & IRSG
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*Date:* Monday 23rd June 2014 -
*Location:* BCS Office, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA.
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This event will be a showcase for the latest developments in the evolution
of the Semantic Web, exploitation of Knowledge Organization Systems (KOS),
metadata annotation to aid workflow automation, information retrieval in
networks of diverse media assets, Linked Data, and other opportunities for
using metadata. It is a Joint Meeting of ISKO UK, IRSG (Information
Retrieval Special Interest Group of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT)
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*a) Tutorial: Metadata management in Sharepoint (10.00 - 12.00)*
While Sharepoint 2013 offers more metadata capabilities than ever before,
the range of options can make it hard to implement the most effective way.
Management of controlled vocabularies is a particular challenge. This
tutorial will enable you to pick the brains of an experienced consultant,
Marc Stephenson of Metataxis.
*b) Workshop: Vocabularies and the potential for linkage (9.30 - 12.30)*
Various approaches to the linkage of value vocabularies (KOSs) and/or
element set vocabularies (metadata schemas) will be described by *Pierre-Yves
Vandenbussche* (Fujitsu, Ireland), *Dan Brickley* (Google), *Gordon Dunsire*
and *Stella Dextre Clarke*, with emphasis on the opportunities as well as
the barriers to widespread adoption. After that is a case study from *Johan
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similar techniques and projects.
*AFTERNOON MEETING (Plenary, 14.00 - 18.00)*
--*Martin White*: The importance of metadata for high quality Search
--*Sean Bechhofer*: Wf4Ever: metadata for "Research Objects"
--*Mark Sandler*: Semantic Media: a new paradigm for navigable content for
the 21st century
--*Richard Ranft*: Enhancing discovery of the British Library's audio
collections
--*Antoine Isaac*: A portrait of Europeana as a Linked Open Data case (in
progress)
--*Andrew MacFarlane*: Analysing creative image search queries to determine
important facets
Followed by networking, wine and nibbles from 18.00.
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*About ISKO UK*
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scientific/professional association with the objective of promoting
research and communication in the domain of knowledge organization, within
the broad field of information science and related disciplines. Founded in
2007, our UK Chapter has been attracting lively and steadily growing
audiences to its afternoon meeting series (see slides and recordings at
http://www.iskouk.org/events.htm). Its third conference was held in July
2013 on the general theme of "Knowledge organization - pushing the
boundaries" http://www.iskouk.org/conf2013/.
*About BCS IRSG*
Established in 1978, the main aim of the BCS IRSG is supporting the
communication between information retrieval (IR) researchers and
practitioners, promoting the use of IR methods in industry and raising
public awareness of IR-related topics. Recognizing IR as an
interdisciplinary field, a further aim of the BCS IRSG is to act as a link
between computer science, library and information science and also cognate
communities (like natural language processing).
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applications. DCMI's activities include consensus-driven working groups,
global conferences and workshops, standards liaison, and educational
efforts to promote widespread acceptance of metadata standards and
practices. DCMI is a project of ASIS&T (the Association for Information
Science and Technology).