Covers Sandy Berman's crusades, other struggles over kyriarchy problems in LCSH.

Nerdy but mostly-lucid history and status of persistent identifiers. Includes librarians complaining about 404s!

30-day free trial. How the HELL do they think librarians are gonna adopt RDA if they're charged out the wazoo for learning it?

Google's algorithms reify majority discourses. When it comes to women, that means porn, porn, and more porn. When it comes to MINORITY women, even worse.

"It turns out that cataloging has been mixing content and carrier descriptions in the extent area for ... well, perhaps forever."

Comparison of handles, ARKs, PURLs, DOIs, etc. etc.

ISO standard for uniquely identifying people and organizations, including fictional ones.

Better than the Memex!

Stack Overflow for librarians!

Migration from one application to another is extremely time consuming because you are:

mapping from one set of entity types to another. Entities are the types of objects the application can hold (users/groups/documents/records/files/libraries/sites/retention rules etc)
mapping from one set of descriptive metadata fields to another
mapping from one set of functions to another. Functions are the actions that users can be permitted to perform on entities in the system (for example: create an entity/amend it/rename it/move it/copy it/delete it/attach a retention rule to it/grant or deny access permissions on it)
mapping from one set of roles to another. Roles are simply collections of functions, grouped together to make it easier to administrate them. For example in SharePoint the role of ‘member’ of a site collects together the functions a user needs to be able to access a site and view and download content, and to contribute new content to the site, but denies them the functions they would need to administer or change the site itself.

What's hard-to-parse about current-gen metadata, and how we can and can't make it better algorithmically. Not sure how I missed this one; it's fabulous.

Swedes tell OCLC/WorldCat to get stuffed because they don't want to become reuse cops.

Example of how complicated it is to map MARC fields/subfields to search indexes.

Has more info on Google relevance-ranking algorithms.

Sad lack of actual documentation. Pity.

Comparing different FRBRization APIs.

Wizzy web-based RDF visualizer

Scary-fun RDF graph diagram!

Some truly frightening Excel metadata spreadsheets here.

"It makes sense for us to ask now: is there any reason (other than shelf placement) to continue library classification practices?"

Includes an example of what MARC records really-truly look like.