Robin Wendler
Metadata Analyst
Office for Information Systems,
Harvard University Library
1280 Massachusetts Ave., Suite 404
Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
(617) 495-3724 fax: (617) 495-0491
Tasks:
Here we have a few of the many projects, odds, and ends
which I expect to be claiming my time for the next few months, in
some rough order of priority:
- OCLC reclamation project
- WAX METS
- Revise OIS metadata and standards web pages
- OPAC scope paper
- DRS2 metadata design
- Google: GLIB, Aleph holdings, OCLC reporting
- Discovery and Metadata Coordinating Committee
- Manuscripts and Archives Standing Committee
- Visual Materials Standing Committee
- Judaica use of OLIVIA
- I Tatti use of OLIVIA
- Registry of Digital Masters exports
- Ad-Hoc Committee to Review Cataloging Cultural Objects
- Project consulting:
- Web archiving
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Harvard Forest
- MARS public documentation
- VIA/OLIVIA
- Review RDA
- NET issues
- new sublibrary for local digital content
Current or Recent External Committees:
Selected Bibliography
- "The Eye of the beholder: challenges of image description
and access at Harvard," Metadata in Practice. Chicago, Ill:
American Library Association, 2004.
- "Musings
on 'International metadata initiatives: lessons in
bibliographic control'",
Library
of Congress Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control
for the New Millennium: Confronting the Challenges of
Networked Resources and the Web, November 15, 2000.
- "Access to visual resources at Harvard: an ongoing cooperative
effort", Spectra: a publication of the Museum Computer Network,
vol. 26, no. 2, Summer/Fall 1999, p.33-35
-
"Metadata in the
library"(LDI Update),
Harvard University
Library Notes, No. 1294, July/August 1999, p.4-5
- "Resources revealed: metadata in the library" ("Metadata
preconference". Debbie Malone, recorder. NASIG 14th Annual
Conference), The Serials Librarian,
vol. 38, no. 1/2, 2000, p.10-14
- "Branching out: cataloging skills and functions in the digital age",
Journal of Internet Cataloging, vol. 2, no. 1, 1999,
p.43-54. (Papers from the XVI Colloquium on Library Science Research
"Internet, Metadata and Information Access to Libraries and Networks in
the Electronic Age", August 5-7, 1998, National Autonomous University of
Mexico, University Center for Library Science Research, Mexico City,
Mexico)
- "'Form' and functionality in library systems" (In The Balance point
column -- The 'Ongoing' umbrella: rethinking the redefinition of
'serial'), Serials review, vol. 24, no. 3/4, 1998, p.113-117
- "'How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?': the challenge of
cataloging electronic resources", Summary of proceedings, fifty-first
Annual Conference of the American Theological Library Association,
Evanston, Ill. : ATLA, 1997. p.71-77
-
"Automating heading correction in a large file: Harvard's experience",
The Future is now: reconciling change and continuity in authority
control (Proceedings
of the OCLC Symposium, ALA Annual Conference,
June 23, 1995)
A few presentations...
- Raising
the
Digital Barn: Cooperation and Autonomy at Harvard, Five Colleges
Retreat, July 12, 2005
- Keeping
the Pieces Together: the Role of METS in the Preservation of Digital
Content, American Library Association Midwinter Meeting, January 16,
2005
- Not Everything is a
Nail: Convergence and Divergence in the Application of Metadata at
Harvard, Society of American Archivists Annual Conference, August 7,
2004
- Pooling
our Resources: the Creation of a Digital Registry, OCLC Preservation
Resources Meeting, May 7, 2003
-
Introduction to Metadata, or, Old Wine in New Bottles
My daughter Victoria
Kiri Te Kanawa Information
To OIS Working Home Page
(private)
rev. 12/19/2007
At harvard.edu, the address is r_wendler