Monthly Archives: April 2011

Sorry catalogers, a programming post. Thor is a great ruby library for automating tasks. It’s really slick. It’s the engine on top of which Rails3 Generators are built. That’s where I’m working with them. However, a bunch of things are … Continue reading →

It took me a while to understand/figure out some things about how DOIs work in ways related to my applications, both for assignment and using DOIs out there in the world. I wrote the following in a thread on the … Continue reading →

I’ve been having a long discussion (years!) at this point with Jim Weinheimer about RDA. Here’s my latest volley, which I thought worth posting. If I understand Jim’s position correctly (which I may not, perhaps consider this an argument with … Continue reading →

Someone on the RDA-L list posted a question, that if I understood it right, was asking, of a given example of FRBR modelling, “Why is the movie version of Pride and Prejudice considered a different work than the novel?”  (And, … Continue reading →

So, it can be very useful to have some kind of broad categories as facet-style limits to partition your result set. When you get way too many results, and want to narrow down, narrowing to just “Art” or “Biology” or … Continue reading →