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Making Your Way Through Grey

Making Your Way Through Grey. Metadata, MARC and User Tools Meagan Cooke, Columbia University Press Sean S. Costigan, Columbia University Press. CIAO to Metadata. Online since 1997, CIAO is the largest collection of grey literature on international relations.

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Making Your Way Through Grey

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  1. Making Your Way ThroughGrey Metadata, MARC and User Tools Meagan Cooke, Columbia University Press Sean S. Costigan, Columbia University Press

  2. CIAO to Metadata • Online since 1997, CIAO is the largest collection of grey literature on international relations. • Over 200 organizations contribute to CIAO. • CIAO's metadata was developed in-house with area and library specialists. • The metadata is based on a small, controlled vocabulary (cv) of 80 subject tags and a handful of other descriptors.

  3. Describing our World • Title • Location / publication format • Author • Subject • Region • Institution or original publisher • Date

  4. Controlling the Controlled? • Future goals and current needs prompted an overhaul of the metadata. • Searching... always searching. • And then there’s searching with Google

  5. Decisions, decisions... • Time travel is perilous, or be careful changing metadata midstream. • Dublin Core or not? • Mapping metadata.

  6. The Acronym Conspiracy • Who is this MARC anyway? • MARC, OPACs and OCLC...why they matter. • MARC my words, or how CIAO's partners helped in the conversion effort. • Going to try with a little help from my friends.

  7. Tooling the Future • Automated MARC • Emailing citations • Linking to add context to CIAO content

  8. The Future is Grey • Evaluate usage of new functionality and report to contributors, subscribers • XML • New search technologies

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