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| ==== Cataloguing Notes ==== | ==== Cataloguing Notes ==== |
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| (see also [[library notes]] for the [[foam library]] ) | <blockquote> |
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| * scan | A library -- including its physical and digital arrangement and cataloguing system -- should aspire to be simple, elegant, and beautiful. Visitors should be able both to browse and search in the greatest ease and comfort. A library thus becomes a pataphor for the art of living itself. I have striven to follow these principles in approaching the sometimes daunting task of coming to terms with, managing and (re)organising the FoAM archive. |
| * bibtex | |
| * ISBN -> BibTeX with Ottobib: http://www.ottobib.com/ and http://manas.tungare.name/software/isbn-to-bibtex/ | |
| * zotero | |
| * see also -> https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library/items | |
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| <blockquote>This particular collection, where each book can in principle lurk at the interstices of the connection of everything to everything else, demonstrates most acutely the issue with filing items according to a single -- or even predominant -- topic or subject area. At the same time, with items digitally catalogued and instantly searchable by any field (including tags), the physical arrangement becomes less critical for indicating an item's subject, class, or other characteristic. The library is also small and seems unlikely to grow rapidly in the foreseeable future. Therefore, after some (uneven and random) thought, and a close perusal of [[library notes|existing notes]] on this question, I decided to take the semi-organic organisational approach as indicated. | This particular collection, where each book can in principle lurk at the interstices of the connection of everything to everything else, demonstrates most acutely the issue with filing items according to a single -- or even predominant -- topic or subject area. At the same time, with items digitally catalogued and instantly searchable by any field (including tags), the physical arrangement becomes less critical for indicating an item's subject, class, or other characteristic. The library is also small and seems unlikely to grow rapidly in the foreseeable future. Therefore, after some (uneven and random) thought, and a close perusal of [[library_notes|existing notes]] on this question, I decided to take the semi-organic organisational approach as indicated below. |
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| A library -- including its physical and digital arrangement and cataloguing system -- should aspire to be simple, elegant, and beautiful. Visitors should be able both to browse and search in the greatest ease and comfort. A library thus becomes a pataphor for the art of living itself. I have striven to follow these principles in approaching the sometimes daunting task of coming to terms with, managing and (re)organising the FoAM archive. | --- //Armoracio "Bud" Minuez, Archivist// |
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| | {{http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3736/11099862944_5bca2325a2_c.jpg}} |
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| | === Digital cataloguing: first steps, April 2013 === |
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| | We agreed to use the [[http://www.zotero.org/|Zotero]] desktop and [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ale.scanner.zotero#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDIxMiwib3JnLmFsZS5zY2FubmVyLnpvdGVybyJd|mobile]] apps to make a first pass of cataloguing FoAM's small but esoteric library. Aside from a few annoying glitches, we were able to go through the library quite rapidly, scanning the barcodes with the [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ale.scanner.zotero&hl=en|mobile app]] while setting aside those items that could not be scanned, or needed special attention (such as all the periodicals, magazines, etc.). A second pass involved manually looking up the ISBN numbers from within the [[http://www.zotero.org/download/|desktop application]], or searching online for the bibliographic data via [[http://www.worldcat.org/|WorldCat]] or similar and importing these citations into Zotero via the [[https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/zotero-connector/ekhagklcjbdpajgpjgmbionohlpdbjgc?hl=en-US|browser plugin]], for the items that had no barcodes or could not otherwise be scanned. |
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| | Zotero online group libraries would seem to offer a flexible option for the idea of extending our cataloguing initiative into a collective, inter-organisational library database for some fairly unusual and rare books. |
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| | === Sorting and consolidating: June 2013 === |
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| --- //Armoracio "Bud" Minuez//</blockquote> | |
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| === Digital cataloguing === | |
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| * We agreed to use the [[http://www.zotero.org/|Zotero]] desktop and [[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.ale.scanner.zotero#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDIxMiwib3JnLmFsZS5zY2FubmVyLnpvdGVybyJd|mobile]] apps to make a first pass of cataloguing FoAM's small but esoteric library. Aside from a few annoying [[zotero bug reports|glitches]], we were able to go through the library quite rapidly, scanning the barcodes with the mobile app while setting aside those items that could not be scanned, or needed special attention (such as all the periodicals, magazines, etc.). | |
| * A second pass involved manually looking up the ISBN numbers from within the desktop application, or searching online for the bibliographic data via [[http://www.worldcat.org/|WorldCat]] or similar and importing these citations into Zotero via the browser plugin, for the small number of items that had no barcodes or could not otherwise be scanned. | |
| * A more time-consuming ongoing task will involve checking, verification and correction of the database. | |
| * Zotero online group libraries would seem to offer a flexible option for the idea of extending our cataloguing initiative into a collective, inter-organisational library database for some fairly unusual and rare books. For now, FoAM's library can now be found [[https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library/items|here]]. | |
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| === Organisation: the sections === | === Organisation: the sections === |
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| * in the case of books, I have chosen to file them alphabetically by name of the first author/editor/etc., failing that by title | * in the case of books, I have chosen to file them alphabetically by name of the first author/editor/etc., failing that by title |
| * sifting through the ephemera is going to be long and arduous | * <del>sifting through the ephemera is going to be long and arduous</del> much easier thanks to some remarkable assistants |
| * linking to/from the [[reading notes]] and [[https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library/items|catalogued items]] may prove interesting and useful, particularly as files can be attached to Zotero items: see [[anthropological_research_on_hazards_and_disasters|this example]] | * linking to/from the [[:reading_notes]] and [[https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library/items|catalogued items]] may prove interesting and useful, particularly as files can be attached to Zotero items: see [[:anthropological_research_on_hazards_and_disasters|this example]] |
| * manually entering and amending data in Zotero is necessary for a number of items and a good way to ensure accurate and useful information, but it is very time-consuming | * manually entering and amending data in Zotero is necessary for a number of items and a good way to ensure accurate and useful information, but it is very time-consuming |
| * there are so many yearbooks, publications accompanying exhibitions, conference papers, extended brochures, etc. etc. which are not quite periodicals and not quite books: I'm struggling to separate these from the deluge of ephemera and can only conclude that this part of the cycle could do with a //**__substantial <del>bonfire of the vanities</del> selective redistribution__**// | * there are so many yearbooks, publications accompanying exhibitions, conference papers, extended brochures, etc. etc. which are not quite periodicals and not quite books: I'm struggling to separate these from the deluge of ephemera and can only conclude that this part of the cycle could do with a //**__substantial <del>bonfire of the vanities</del> selective redistribution__**// |
| * ''fl-ephemera-menus'' | * ''fl-ephemera-menus'' |
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| what is the motivation for the ''fl-'' prefix? "**F**oAM **L**ibrary" -- a way to uniquely distinguish this set of keywords from any others that may become entangled with the items. | what is the motivation for the ''fl-'' prefix? "**F**oAM **L**ibrary" -- a way to uniquely distinguish this set of keywords from any others. |
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| === To-dos === | === To-dos === |
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| * distributed collections (c.f. connected libraries) | * distributed collections (c.f. connected libraries) |
| * "The Little Library" project for CC digital collections. | * ISBN -> BibTeX with Ottobib: http://www.ottobib.com/ and http://manas.tungare.name/software/isbn-to-bibtex/ |
| | * "The Little Library" project for CC digital collections |
| * https://github.com/rwadholm/The-Little-Library | * https://github.com/rwadholm/The-Little-Library |
| * http://www.thelittlelibrary.com/ | * http://www.thelittlelibrary.com/ |
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