The Working Group of the Future of Bibliographic Control at the Library of Congress has released its initial plan for its Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative for dissemination, sharing, and feedback. Although the MARC-based infrastructure is extensive, and MARC has been…
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TR Legal’s Mike Dahn on WestlawNext, WestSearch, and Haters
I first met Mike Dahn, who is now SVP Marketing & New Initiative Development at Thomson Reuters Legal, last January in Eagan during a beta preview of WestlawNext (WLN), and since then, we have kept up with one another over…
Opening: Two PT Research Assistants for the Digital Public Library of America planning initiative (Paid Internship Opportunity), Cambridge, MA
Are you a student interested in helping to launch a large-scale digital public library in the United States? Excited about the future of online access to information? Want to collaborate closely with innovative partners in public and research libraries, government,…
Launch of Schema.org: Structured Data Markup Using Microdata for Web Search Engines
Schema.org, a joint initiative of Google, Bing and Yahoo!, provides a collection of shared vocabularies webmasters can use to mark up their pages in ways that can be understood by the major search engines. From the Schema.org front page: Search…