Tomorrow (Friday, April 15, 2011), Scowl-Face must turn-in his metadata project for his library school advanced cataloging class. It is worth a gazillion points. If he bombs it, he's toast.
You can see how it looks by clicking the hyperlink below.
[UPDATE (7/8/2011): It looks like OCLC or the course instructor has taken down the class postings for this CONTENTdm assignment. So the link will "time-out," which means you can't see the project. That's too bad. It was kinda neat.]
Scowl-Face and his classmates used CONTENTdm, a metadata software developed by OCLC, which is some big-cheese library outfit in Dublin, Ohio. He took a CONTENTdm workshop back in 2008, but it didn't stick, probably because our Library couldn't afford to buy a subscription at the time. Anyway, Scowl-Face knows all about it now, having spent the past couple of weeks in class having it drummed deeply into his thick skull. Hey, that's a segue if I ever heard one.
Thinking about Scowl-Face's project and how he's handling it, here's "Thick as a Brick" by Jethro Tull (1972).
So, what I wonder is this: Is meta-tag like laser tag? Who's "it"? Where can you hide? Do you use a laser mouse, which we felines truly love to chase around?
So, what I wonder is this: Is meta-tag like laser tag? Who's "it"? Where can you hide? Do you use a laser mouse, which we felines truly love to chase around?
Playing Meta-Tag is Fun,
Cauli Le Chat
MPL Roving Reporter
Metadata News Beat
Not the entire album, of course. Thick as a Brick was a single composition that ran for the entire length of the two-sided LP, back in the days when there were such things. The album reached number one on Billboard's pop charts (in the U.S.).
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