Lexical Database Archiving Questionnaire

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I am asking around on different mailing lists to gain some insight into the archiving habits of linguists who use lexical databases. I am specifically interested in databases created by tools like FLEx, ToolBox, Lexus, TshwaneLex, etc.

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Eugene YMCA

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Food truck in-front of the YMCA

This photo of a food truck in front of the Eugene YMCA says so much about the YMCA business model. Clearly the institution is about business. First and foremost it’s in the business of selling subscriptions. Subscriptions to access. Not life-changing results. Not better communities. Not pathways towards longevity.

It’s kind of just a little bit like salt in the wound when we realize that they stuck a vending machine in front of the workout center in the kid drop-off zone.

It’s just gravy to see a bio diesel sticker on the front of the truck and a gasoline power generator in the back. There is no sense of Green at all.

We can all be grateful that the operator rinsed his hands without soap for three seconds after he took his smoke at 6:13pm.

Academic Heritage in MARC records

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I have long wondered how I might encode information contained in the https://academictree.org in MARC Authority Records. Obviously via MARC relator roles the information might be encoded within the bibliographic record. However, looking at the MARC 510 field on the linked record https://lccn.loc.gov/no2004069960, it seems that the MARC 500 field on authority Records might be used with several of the sub-fields.

Converting DC Subjects to Schema.org

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DC has the ability to specify subjects such as UDC, LCSH or DDC. How would these be converted to schema.org?

{
"@context": "https://schema.org/",
"@type": "Book",
"name": "British Isles - A History",
"about": {
"@type": "DefinedTerm",
"@id": "https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ddc/E48m7BJXdrm3XY4Xv86d88WGt3",
"name": "British Isles",
"termCode": "941",
"inDefinedTermSet": "https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ddc/"
}
}

Language Documentation Gear

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I have been investigating some new video equipment for language documentation. Currently highly recommended is the Osmo Pocket 3 and the GoPro Hero 11 (as this has GPS embedded whereas the GP12 does not). It is not entirely clear if the GP13 has GPS or not.

Also my microphones need some attention. I need some endcaps and some windscreens.

I have been thinking about using updating my capabilities for recording and regularly recording Katja Playing Music.

Serials, MARC Records and RDA Core

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So I have several questions:

  1. What does a high (over the top) MARC Record look like both for the ISSN(s) and the article?
  2. What is the overlap between RDA Core and Dublin Core?
  3. What user tasks are left out between RDA full and RDA Core?

Some resources:

For RDA tips:
https://web.library.yale.edu/book/export/html/1733
https://libguides.nmstatelibrary.org/rda

RDA Core
https://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/pdf/core_elements.pdf
https://www.librarianshipstudies.com/2016/03/rda-core-elements.html
https://www.loc.gov/aba/rda/core_elements.html

RDA Core for serials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AF2DDYczBeA
https://socialsci.libretexts.org/Courses/Sacramento_City_College/LIBT331%3A_Library_Cataloging_Procedures_(Li)/03%3A_Copy_Cataloging/3.04%3A_CONSER_RDA_Core_Elements_for_Serials

OLAC CMS options via XML

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One plan for pushing language resources to the web en-mass before a full django application is available is to use Hugo and its XML input process to parse OALC/OAI-PMH files (generated with an OAI-PMH bash script) and then convert bibtex entries to xml (using Jabref or commandline) or JSON. The content issue to overcome is that pages in Hugo have to have front matter. The XML and JSON are both content and front matter (or visible front matter). I think I need to generate an .md file for each entry meaning XML data is not really that useful. But there may be hope