Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 20:14:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Prof. N. Laxman Rao.
The (Meta)Data is the Difference
14 May 2012 | Yvette Diven, Publisher & Senior Product Manager
Posted to: What's New
A forward-thinking librarian established Serials Solutions in 2000 with
a simple goal:� offering a service that would reduce the burden on
librarians who needed to manage and increase access to the growing
number of electronic journals.� The then-small team based in Seattle,
Washington, believed that successfully achieving that goal required a
strategic commitment to gather, enrich, and share knowledge about the
electronic resources that were changing the face of library collections.
The result was KnowledgeWorks, the first centrally-maintained,
continuously updated e-resource knowledgebase.
Over the past decade, Serials Solutions has grown into a global company
dedicated to ensuring the future success of libraries as knowledge centers
and information gateways.� The authoritative metadata that we maintain
each day in our central knowledgebase has grown and evolved to support
discovery and management services for today's and tomorrow's library
collections global coverage of a vast array of resources from e-journals
to eBooks, aggregated databases, Open Access offerings, and more.��Today,
KnowledgeWorks remains the core of our Data solutions and supports the
Summon® Service Index to provide true web-scale discovery across the
full-breadth of library content.
As we continue the development of our new Serials Solutions® Knowledgebase, which is the foundation for Intota™
and will be used by all of our other products and services, we can
appreciate that the roots of our commitment to authoritative metadata go
back even farther than the year 2000—to 1926 and the work of another
forward-looking librarian who understood the need for up to date
bibliographic and publisher information that supports librarians and
their mission.
In celebration of the 80th anniversary year of Ulrich’s™ and its
continuing value to librarianship and research, we invite you to read the
story of Carolyn Ulrich and the origins of Systematic Serials Control.
About the Author
Yvette Diven
Publisher & Senior Product Manager
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What's Funny About Metadata?
Metadata is a comedic playground for some people! Here are a few amusing
titles our metadata librarians have some across during the course of their
work.
200 ways to bore a business audienceAbsolutely every bed & breakfast in
New Mexico, almostConvenience Store PeopleEmergency LibrarianOnline
Trombone Journal
