5 Things Thursday: Books, Metadata, Digital Images and Holiday!

Here are five things to discuss at holiday parties. 5 Things will be taking a much needed break next week returning January 3, 2013 (unless the Mayans were right):

1.  Check out this archive of book covers. Yummy for designers and bibliophiles alike.

2.  Scientific American explores metadata with a holiday themed twist.

3.  Want a nice compilation of digital image collections online? Scott Spicer has done the work for you here on ALA Connect.

4.  Just in time for holiday photos - a guide to photo metadata fields.

5.  And for more stunning photo archives, take a look at the collaboration between the Digital Public Library of America and Europeana on migration.

Finally, happy holidays to all and enjoy this slightly creepy Christmas postcard from my favorite NYPL digital collection.

 

5 Things Thursday: DAM, Taxonomy, Metadata and Bed Bugs!

Here are five things to consider as we plummet through the holiday season and perhaps towards the apocalypse:

1. Does the discovery of bed bugs in University of Washington books make you rethink reading in bed?
2. What is the role of taxonomies in content strategy?
3. Is there any contest between cloud-based versus onsite DAM systems?
4. Why is there radical change ahead for DAM vendors?
5. Check out this hysterical, but long video on the Plight of Metadata. Skip in about five minutes for the more useful stuff. Answering the question, why are British people so funny?

Holiday Bonus: Twas the Night Before DAM Deployment

5 Things Thursday: ARTstor, Metadata, Daguerreotype, Unglue.it

Here are your weekly five things:

1. Want to go behind the scenes at ARTstor? Here is your chance to see how Dustin Wees, Director of Metadata and Cataloguing explains metadata. What is it about the ARTstor Name Authority that gets me so excited?
2. An impassioned plea from photographers - stop stripping XMP metadata! Contains lots of information on copyright complete with examples.
3. Interesting piece in KMWorld about the crucial role of metadata in organizing documents for the Air Force Medical Service.
4. Maybe this will become your new favorite blog commemorating librarians past - check out My Daguerreotype Librarian. Fabulous photos and bios of some really awesome librarians.
5. From my former classmate Sarah Hashemi Scott, a marvelous article on why you should support Unglue.it. I especially like the fact that unglued books are library friendly.