Lukas Koster 30 connections

Is an e-book a book?

About cataloging physical items or units of content
Book scroll © Henk-Jan van der Klis
2009 is the year of the e-book, or perhaps better: of the e-book reader. This is an important distinction that I will explain below. E-books are becoming more popular because of the increasing availability of... more »

Just in time or just in case?

Metasearch vs. harvesting & indexing
The other day I gave a presentation for the Assembly of members of the local Amsterdam Libraries Association “Adamnet“, about the Amsterdam Digital Library search portal that we host at the Library of the University of Amsterdam. This portal is built... more »

Roadmaps to uncertainty

What will library staff do 5 years from now?
© Lukas Koster
I attended the IGeLU 2009 annual conference in Helsinki September 6-9. IGeLU is the International Group of Ex Libris Users, an independent organisation that represents Ex Libris customers. Just to state my position clearly I would like to... more »

Explicit and implicit metadata

Tagged © funkandjazz
On August 17, after I tested a search in our new Aleph OPAC and mentioned my surprise on Twitter, the following discussion unfolded between me (lukask), Ed Summers of the Library of Congress and Till Kinstler of GBV (German Union Library Network):

lukask: Just found out we... more »

Relevance in context

Search! © Jeffrey Beall
If you do a search in a bibliographic database, you should find what you need, not just what you are looking for, or what the database “thinks” you are looking for. If you find what you are looking for, then you will not be surprised and you will not discover anything... more »

Linked Data for Libraries

Linked Data and bibliographic metadata models
© PhOtOnQuAnTiQuE
Some time after I wrote “UMR – Unified Metadata Resources“, I came across Chris Keene’s post “Linked data & RDF : draft notes for comment“, “just a list of links and notes” about Linked Data, RDF and the Semantic... more »