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I'm a librarian by trade and training, but I like to "hack" stuff and live the dijalog lifestyle. Does this make me a geek? Did I mention I'm a metadata specialist that works primarily with non-marc standards in xml bindings?
I am looking forward to the upcoming discussion topics. I'd like to offer some early comments.
On the subject of implementing Library of Congress (marc cataloging?, subject headings?, search interface?) at home:
My fiancee and I have so many books we can't part with that they don't fit on the existing shelves in our apartment. So we rent a storage unit to house the overflow, it's our own personal depository. I want to stop relying on my memory for a catalog of the collection and I need to teach myself xslt for an upcoming project at work. I am bringing the books back to the house a box at a time and searching for marc records through the library of congress website. When I find the right record I then save a marcxml copy of that record (that LoC gives away free) to the server that houses my personal website. I am currently teaching myself to write xslts that will read these xml records creating various bibliographic orderings and then formating that ordering as html. I considered using my weblog for this and using the MT GetXML plugin, but I really want to learn xslt and I want to create a lot of different indexes (e.g., recently read books, currently reading, lists by topic, program).
This speaks also to the topic of using weblogs to catalogue and categorize personal information.
If you'd like to see what a librarians personal website looks like check out: http://www.metametadata.net
The log's at http://www.metametadata.net/mt/
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