5 Things Thursday: Adaptive Metadata, Coding, Archives

Check out these 5 things:

1. What is Adaptive Metadata? Sounds like custom metadata fields and sets to me. Always a good idea to allow flexibility for unique use cases.


2. Should catalogers, metadata librarians and digital humanists learn coding? Check out this post  on Cataloging Futures and its excellent linked post to consider. My take - a resounding yes, though not necessarily to do coding themselves, but to understand how everything integrates in a cohesive system.


3. This is poetic. Thirteen ways of looking library catalogs in verse...


4. Leave it to Aaron Tay to find the coolest tools in school - how to create curated digital flipboard magazines.


5. Are you ready for Archives Week (October 6-12th)? Here are some suggestions on getting ready from the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan NY. Besides decorating your archives week tree, that is...