10 Things on the 10th February: Semantic Layers, Music Metadata, Taxonomy & New York City

Here are 10 recent things I collected on various subjects enjoyed by library and information science enthusiasts:

1. What is a Semantic Layer? Nice explanation of the semantic layer by Enterprise Knowledge’s Lulit Tesfaye.
2. DAM as a Product: I can hardly wait til fall for this Henry Stewart course on treating DAM as a product.
3. Web Design Museum: Revisit classic websites on this cool site. Check out The Facebook…
4. What’s in a Name? Read about the power and pitfalls of naming.
5. Learning to Create Taxonomies: Back to taxonomy basics with the Accidental Taxonomist Heather Hedden.
6. Apple’s Classical Music Metadata: Music metadata is challenging and Classical can be even more nuanced. Cue up a concerto and read about Apple’s solution.
7. Back to Information Architecture Basics: Abby Covert reminds us of five basic truths about IA.
8. Categories Or Tagging? Henning von Vogelsang ponders differences in taxonomy and information architecture, categorization and tagging.
9. Metadata Fundamentals – Online Education Series: Anytime you need to learn everything about metadata or even just need a refresher, this course by John Horodyski covers everything.
10. Scrapbook of New York City Views: What a cool collection of digitized scrapbook pages from the NYPL.