Rice Majors has an MLS from Emporia State University and, before coming to Innovative, worked in several positions with the Cornell University library system as well as at Lewis & Clark College in his hometown of Portland, Oregon. He serves on NISO’s Content and Collection Management Topic Committee and is the Chair of the ALCTS FRBR Interest Group. In his spare time, Rice is an adjunct faculty member at Contra Costa College, where he is the band teacher, and sings opera chorus with San Francisco Lyric Opera.
This week I am off to San Diego for the Digital Directions conference, presented by the Northeast Document Conservation Center. I’ll be there demonstrating Content Pro and Encore Harvesting Services in a showcase session called Digitization and Harvesting: Promoting Your Local Collections. The session is about exposing digital collections through OAI-compliant harvesting, increasing purposeful […]
January 21, 2009 :
Podcast: Putting Local Collections “in the Flow”
This is Rice Majors, product manager for Encore Harvesting Services. Libraries are using OAI-compliant harvesting to present their local collections in Encore right along with catalog search results, putting these important resources “in the flow” of their users. In this podcast, Spenser Thompson and I talk about Encore Harvesting Services and how one […]
January 14, 2009 :
Content Pro Update Podcast
This is Rice Majors, product manager for Content Pro. Content Pro is Innovative’s new digital library solution for libraries wanting to present their historical photographs, oral histories, video files, and more in a simple and elegant way. Recently I had a chance to sit down with my colleague, Spenser Thompson, for a podcast about […]
Back in July, I attended a wonderful workshop for library folks called Metadata for You and Me: http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/mym/. Metadata for You & Me is a collaboration between the University of Illinois Library and Indiana University.
I attended an all-day version of this workshop at Stanford University and found it to be an excellent presentation in terms […]
I am asked this question by our partner libraries every so often these days. For those of you who aren’t keeping track of what’s new in cataloging, Resource Description and Access (RDA) is intended to be the successor to the Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, which govern how librarians have described things for their catalogs. RDA is […]
In mid-June, I made a visit to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where I gave an Encore launch presentation to library staff. UNL has been a development partner with Innovative this summer to introduce harvesting of OAI-compliant databases to Encore—we’re pretty excited about this, as UNL has such a rich portfolio of digital resources to harvest, […]
I’m Rice Majors, and many of you already know me as the Product Manager for Millennium’s technical services modules—but I’m also the product manager for Innovative’s Content Pro and other digital asset management products. These products deal with everything related to storing, managing, and presenting digital content.
June brought me to my very first ALA conference, […]
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