¿Sistemas de gestión de información y documentación certificados?

Se reanudan las notas ThinkEPI tras el período vacacional con el interesante texto de Carlota Bustelo acerca de las nuevas tendencias en la normalización ISO de la gestión de documentos. Se trata de la evolución de las actuales normas 15489 hacia lo que en la jerga ISO se denomina “Management System Standards (MSS)”. Así mismo, se destaca el debate abierto en Iwetel acerca de la necesaria consideración de los aspectos sociales, legales y culturales de los documentos en las tareas de normalización.



Fuente: http://www.thinkepi.net/

Solving Copyright Issues Book by Book: OCLC’s WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry

Most librarians working in traditional library settings have experienced the crisis of trying to satisfy a patron who wants a permanent copy of an out-of-print but not out-of-copyright book. Even when patrons might be satisfied with an indefinite loan, somehow, those cases usually involve interlibrary loan copies with specific return dates. The problems go from pesky to imposing when the issues arise during the many mass digitization projects libraries are performing these days, where the frequency of such copyright crises can jump from once or twice a year to once or twice a shelf. Help is on the way. OCLC (www.oclc.org) is in the third month of a 6-month pilot project testing a WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry (CER; www.worldcat.org/copyrightevidence).

The new registry is designed to tap the expertise of librarians by giving them an opportunity to record efforts they have conducted to identify copyright status for sharing with colleagues and the public. The input is tied to OCLC’s 100 million-plus bibliographic records for books in WorldCat. The goal is to create a union catalog built by the library community.
Besides drawing on the metadata in the WorldCat database, the largest bibliographic database of library holdings, the new service also taps into OCLC’s culture and history. "The Copyright Evidence Registry builds on the WorldCat cooperative model envisioned by OCLC founder Frederick Kilgour," says Chip Nilges, OCLC vice president, business development. "OCLC, and its network of libraries and librarians, is in a position to take a leadership role in this cooperative effort to build a database of copyright status information for all to share."

Who can use the new service? Anyone. Who can contribute information to the new service? Anyone willing to register—for free—and get a WorldCat account. Of course, the thousands of libraries subscribing to OCLC’s Connexion cataloging have authorization to access the new service. By lodging the new registry in its www.worldcat.org outlet, rather than under www.oclc.org, OCLC has guaranteed the widest availability for both the use of and collaborative contributions to the registry.

In fact, the registry is not limited to libraries or librarians. Bill Carney, OCLC content manager, has already received input from the daughter of an author offering her email ID for those interested in contacting her. Carney was "very interested in talking with any organization." Though he has not initiated such talks yet, he did mention some types of organizations such as professional associations of authors, publisher trade organizations, even the Copyright Clearance Center.

In October or November, according to Carney, the registry will begin testing a feature that lets libraries or organizations subscribing to the registry set up automated copyright rules to analyze information in the registry and form an organized conclusion about copyright status. Initially, that feature will only be open to the formal pilot project libraries, according to Carney. If you are interested in that feature, you should contact OCLC and ask to become a Copyright Evidence Registry subscriber.

As of now, the number of libraries formally working with the Copyright Evidence Registry numbers less than a dozen, but Carney expects that number to rise as more people hear about it. Soon, the registry will incorporate data from Stanford University’s Copyright Renewal Database, matching records using computer algorithms. The matches will not be perfect due to the lack of standard identifiers in the renewal records, but they will include the data in CER when they find a strong match. They also hope that people using the Stanford-augmented records will report any problems or corrections.

Searching the WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry involves basic book metadata—title, author, publication year, country of publication, ISBN, or OCLC number. In time, OCLC expects to add multiple-item or batch entry features to the pilot. A "sandbox" record is currently available for those interested in testing the process. The service can also provide email notifications for when information about a book changes in the registry. If the pilot proves successful and OCLC commits fully to the service, Carney also expected it to expand beyond just books.

Copyright information OCLC expects to get from CER contributors could include the copyright owner’s identity or contact information, details of a copyright search, information about a copyright renewal record, a description of the book’s copyright statement, or just thoughts on its copyright status.

Carney made it clear that the registry was not intended to determine copyright. "We are not trying to make copyright determinations, just to have people share what they know. Librarians should focus on what they are most comfortable sharing. Librarians are very good at knowing what they can and can’t share. In pilot groups, some libraries are very open and offer lots of evidence; others back off. There are no minimums." However, there is one key authentication point: Input is openly tied to contributors. In time, Carney expected that users of the registry would build up trust issues tied to identification of contributors.

Ivy Anderson, director of collections at the California Digital Library and working with one of the largest library mass digitization programs in the country, suggested that in time, the service might allow users to build "trust profiles." Anderson sees the CER as providing help to a "big slice of the digitizing community. There are lots of community-based digitization efforts that need this kind of material, like Project Gutenberg, for example." Issues of scalability remain to be resolved, according to Anderson, but she seemed confident that OCLC would be the one to solve them, if anyone could.

OCLC is very interested in gathering feedback (www.worldcat.org/copyrightevidence/registry/feedback). Though the feedback received is not being shared among users at this point, Carney thinks that it might be a "good idea for the future. We’ve talked about putting social tools into service." At present, Carney says, "We have a little wiki going for the formal pilot libraries, but you need to be inside. It’s mainly prerelease announcements."

The pilot project is scheduled to close at the end of December, according to Carney, but it could be extended at that point or taken to the executive board for decisions on its future. As the project grows, more and more issues may arise. For example, OCLC’s worldwide service will draw in non-U.S. copyright situations. Carney says they made a "specific effort not to make this U.S.-centric. We’re making it as open as possible, but it’s still a pilot. If we need to add something by country, we certainly could."

The WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry is not the only service that mass digitization efforts by and from libraries are receiving from Carney’s section of OCLC. He also manages the Econtent Synchronization Program, which ties WorldCat records of print books to the individual URLs for digitized copies. In the case of the biggest book digitization program of all, Google Book Search, that means linked records for all the contributions from Google’s Library Partners, both the versions at Google and the versions at the participating libraries’ sites. It does not include the books coming from the Publisher Partner side of Google Book Search. Carney was unsure whether all the non-U.S. library partners to Google Book Search were OCLC member libraries. However, that should be no barrier. Carney says the program is open to "any mass digitization—heck, any digitization!—any library that wants to participate. Maybe some of the European Google Book Search libraries aren’t OCLC members. I haven’t contacted them, but we won’t exclude them."

http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=50625

Sarah Palin: la lista de libros censurados

Hoy leyendo El País me he enterado de que la candidata a vicepresidenta por el Partido Republicano de los Estados Unidos, Sarah Palin, quiso censurar una serie de libros que le parecían ofensivos, de la biblioteca pública de sus ciudad (Wasilla), cuando era alcaldesa de ésta (1996). La bibliotecaria Mary Ellen Emmons se negó rotundamente a cualquier tipo de censura y fue despedida meses más tarde. Esta lista aparece publicada en Librarian.net, y aunque algunos libros no concuerdan con los hechos, por su fecha de publicación (Harry Potter), posiblemente se acercaba bastante a la que se le ocurrió en su momento a esta retrógrada señora:


A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Annie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
Blubber by Judy Blume
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson
Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
Carrie by Stephen King
Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
Christine by Stephen King
Confessions by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Cujo by Stephen King
Curses, Hexes, and Spells by Daniel Cohen
Daddy’s Roommate by Michael Willhoite
Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Peck
Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
Decameron by Boccaccio

East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Fallen Angels by Walter Myers
Fanny Hill (Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure) by John Cleland
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Forever by Judy Blume
Grendel by John Champlin Gardner
Halloween ABC by Eve Merriam
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Prizoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J.K. Rowling
Have to Go by Robert Munsch
Heather Has Two Mommies by Leslea Newman
How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell
Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Impressions edited by Jack Booth
In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
It’s Okay if You Don’t Love Me by Norma Klein
James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl
Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
Little Red Riding Hood by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
Lord of the Flies by William Golding
Love is One of the Choices by Norma Klein
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
More Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
My Brother Sam Is Dead by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
My House by Nikki Giovanni
My Friend Flicka by Mary O’Hara
Night Chills by Dean Koontz
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
On My Honor by Marion Dane Bauer
One Day in The Life of Ivan Denisovich by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ordinary People by Judith Guest
Our Bodies, Ourselves by Boston Women’s Health Collective
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy
Revolting Rhymes by Roald Dahl
Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your Bones by Alvin Schwartz
Scary Stories in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz
Separate Peace by John Knowles
Silas Marner by George Eliot
Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
The Bastard by John Jakes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
The Color Purple by Alice Walker
The Devil’s Alternative by Frederick Forsyth
The Figure in the Shadows by John Bellairs
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Paterson
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Headless Cupid by Zilpha Snyder
The Learning Tree by Gordon Parks
The Living Bible by William C. Bower
The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare
The New Teenage Body Book by Kathy McCoy and Charles Wibbelsman
The Pigman by Paul Zindel
The Seduction of Peter S. by Lawrence Sanders
The Shining by Stephen King
The Witches by Roald Dahl
The Witches of Worm by Zilpha Snyder
Then Again, Maybe I Won’t by Judy Blume
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Twelfth Night by William Shakespeare
Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary by the Merriam-Webster Editorial Staff
Witches, Pumpkins, and Grinning Ghosts: The Story of the Halloween Symbols by Edna Barth

Fuente: Librarian.net

RDA, las nuevas reglas de catalogación

Mensaje de Biblioblog sobre Resource Description and Access (RDA), las normas de catalogación que sustituirán a la segunda edición de las Reglas de Catalogación Angloamericanas (AACR2) en 2009. RDA se basa en las pautas sobre requisitos funcionales desarrolladas por la IFLA. El nuevo código catalográfico cumple las condiciones deseadas de interoperabilidad con esquemas de metadatos y de integración de información con bases de datos y catálogos bibliotecarios o comerciales. La filosofía de RDA se basa en la articulación de unas normas de descripción que permitan encontrar, identificar, seleccionar y obtener los recursos que los usuarios necesitan, reflejando en el catálogo todas las posibles relaciones de un autor con sus obras. ACCR2 es el código catolográfico más empleado en todo el mundo, por lo que todo hace suponer que RDA se convertirá también en el principal sistema de descripción catalográfica, máxime cuando cuenta con el respaldo de las entidades responsables de la normalización bibliográfica en Australia, Canadá, Estados Unidos y Reino Unido.


Fuente: http://www.citafgsr.org/weblogs/biblioblog/archives/005827.html

First 'robotic rural librarian' will dispense books anytime

Wheatland library officials say they are introducing the nation's first "robotic rural librarian," an automated dispenser that will make books available anytime.

The GoLibrary equipment will be unveiled at 10 a.m. today in the park next to Wheatland Community Center, 101 C St. The event will include music, refreshments and a drawing for book-related gift baskets.

The book dispenser holds about 500 books. Users will be able to swipe their library cards and use the touch-screen to check out books.

The Yuba County Public Library used a $133,000 state grant to purchase the GoLibrary system, which was invented in Sweden and is being manufactured in Italy.

For more information, go to

http://www.yuba.org/departments/library/

Veritrocracy: una nueva forma de leer información

Recibida la invitación para probar Veri.com, una web que permite mostrar las noticias de las fuentes más relevantes en tecnología, política, negocios y entretenimiento permitiendo recibir la opinión de los lectores para destacar el contenido más interesante.

A medida que se votan las noticias el motor de Veritocracy aprende a distinguir vuestros gustos ofreciendo artículos con un enfoque parecido, sin dejar por ello de ofrecer otras perspectivas de cada asunto tratado.



Se puede añadir los feeds de vuestros propios blogs para ofrecer a los lectores vuestro punto de vista de la realidad. Por desgracia parece que de momento sólo se interesa por noticias en inglés


Fuente: http://www.veri.com/

Randy Pausch (lección de vida)

El tema que a continuación se presenta no está relacionado con los temas relacionados a la bibliotecología, sin embargo vale la pena transmitirlo porque nos muestra la calidad de vida que se puede tener "a pesar de..." y sobre todo la lección de vida que nos da a nosotros que todavía contamos con el don de la vida.

Randy Pausch (Profesor de CMU, colaborador de Disney Imagineering, EA; líder en desarrollo de VR, creador de un curso de computación para niños y adolescentes), dictó parte de su titulada "La Última Conferencia" en el Programa de Oprah.Es muy enriquecedora por lo que queremos compartirla esa gran lección de vida con los lectores de Renuevo de Plenitud.Conoce un poco más de quien fue, qué hizo, en la formación de la nueva generación de ingenieros y artistas electrónicos que nos seguirán sorprendiendo a nosotros y a nuestros hijos y más aún su legado de cómo vivir tu vida de forma correcta para que tus sueños vengan a tí.Dr. Randy Pausch falleció El 25 de julio, 2008 de cáncer de páncreas en la casa de su familia Chesapeake, Virginia, después de haber sido trasladado allí para que su esposa y sus hijos estuvieran cerca de la familia después de su muerte.