A Flicker of Flickr at the National Library of Australia

This post started its journey with an email from Chris Gould (a member of staff at the NSIC, Canberra) to the AUSPIN listserv. It has developed into an expedition into tagging and accessibility.
Chris had attended a talk by George Oates (program manager for Flickr’s Commons project and former chief designer for Flickr) at the National [...]

Read Full Post »

Resource Description and Access

(Via Greg Blood and Chris Gould, NSIC, Canberra)
The Joint Steering Committee (JSC) for the Development of Resource Description and Access (RDA) states that RDA is the working title of the new standard that will be the successor to AACR2. (Background information is here.)
RDA will provide:

A flexible framework for describing all resources – analog and digital
Data [...]

Read Full Post »