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| eXtensible Catalog & Koha |
| 2008-07-03 09:44:48 |
News from LibLime about Koha and the eXtensible Catalog.LibLime, the leader in open-source solutions for libraries and the eXtensible Catalog (XC) project-- an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation funded project currently underway at the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries-- have announced a new partnership agreement to ensure future compatibility between the XC project and Koha, the first open-source integrated library system.The XC/LibLime partnership will ensure that the open-source software being developed as part of the XC project and the Koha open-source integrated library system will be fully compatible with each other, enabling current and future users of Koha to take advantage of the added capabilities for managing and distributing metadata ...
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| Changes to MARC Code List for Languages |
| 2008-07-02 11:48:04 |
As a result of a formal request from the National Libraries of Serbia and Croatia and those countries' national standards bodies to the ISO 639 Joint Advisory Committee, the MARC language codes for Serbian and Croatian will be changed as below from the ISO 639-2 bibliographic codes (ISO 639-2/B) to the ISO 639-2 terminology codes (ISO 639-2/T). This change also supports established usage in bibliographic databases in Croatia. Because the codes are obsolete, rather than deleted, they may still appear in bibliographic records created before the implementation of this change.New CodeLanguage NamePreviously CodedsrpSerbianscchrvCroatianscrSubscribers can anticipate receiving MARC records reflecting these changes in all distribution services not earlier than September 1, 2008....
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| Martha Yee Articles |
| 2008-07-02 10:20:54 |
Some more articles by Martha Yee are now available.Integration of Nonbook Materials in AACR2. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 1983; 3:1-18.Attempts to Deal With the Crisis in Cataloging at the Library of Congress in the 1940's. Library Quarterly 1987 Jan; 57:1-31.What is a Work? In: The Principles and Future of AACR: Proceedings of the International Conference on the Principles and Future Development of AACR, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 23-25, 1997. Ed., Jean Weihs. Ottawa: Canadian Library Association; Chicago: American Library Association, 1998: 62-104.Editions: Brainstorming for AACR2000. In: The Future of the Descriptive Cataloging Rules: Papers from the ALCTS Preconference, AACR2000, American Library Association Annual Conference, Chicag...
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| RDA News |
| 2008-07-01 13:25:08 |
News from RDA.The Co-Publishers of RDA Online (the American Library Association, the Canadian Library Association, and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) have reached the conclusion that further time is required to complete the development of the new software that will be used for distributing the full draft of RDA for constituency review.The full draft was originally scheduled for release on August 4, 2008. Instead, it will now be issued in October 2008. The three month time period allocated for comments on the full draft is unchanged, and in this new schedule will extend from October into January 2009. More specific dates for RDA's final release will be forthcoming shortly.Members of the Committee of Principals (CoP) and the ...
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| OCLC Terminology Services |
| 2008-07-01 10:12:27 |
Terminology Services, an Experimental Services for Controlled Vocabularies, a project of OCLC Research is now available.HighlightsSearch descriptions of controlled vocabulariesSearch for concepts/headings in a controlled vocabularyRetrieve a single concept/heading by its identifierView relationships for a concept/heading including equivalence, hierarchical, and associativeRetrieve concepts/headings in multiple representations including HTML, MARC XML, SKOS, and Zthes.Search using SRU CQL syntaxVocabulary Resources include:FAST subject headingsGSAFD Form and genre termsLibrary of Congress AC Subject HeadingsLibrary of Congress Subject HeadingsMedical Subject HeadingsThesaurus for graphic materials: TGM IThesaurus for graphic materials: TGM II...
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| New Union Catalog |
| 2008-07-01 09:08:54 |
The Avi Chai Foundation has announced a new tool for Judaica librarians — the Avi Chai Bookshelf Union Catalog. The union catalog, contains the MARC bibliographic holdings of 31 Jewish high school libraries in the United States and Canada that have been recipients of Avi Chai's Bookshelf grant. The Avi Chai Union Catalog runs on the OPALS (open source) library automation system....
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| Discovery at Safari Books |
| 2008-06-30 10:24:48 |
Jeff Patterson, CEO, Safari Books Online LLC spoke at the O'Reilly Tools of Change Conference on Valuing Content in a Web-enabled WorldTo effectively market their wares, publishers need to understand how their content is valued by the audience. With the web turning traditional distribution models on their head, easy searchability and access to a variety of free and paid resources must be considered. Jeff Patterson shares research on the information seeking habits of his client base of IT professionals. As users weigh the worth of information in exchange for their time, money and attention, publishers must grasp not just what is sold, but what is read, used and reused....Money is one part of the equation, but time, and willi...
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| Cataloging Principles and RDA |
| 2008-06-27 10:25:29 |
Cataloging Principles and RDA by Barbara Tillett is the newly available webcast from LC.The second in a series on RDA: Resource Description and Access, the next generation cataloging code designed for the digital environment. This presentation deals with the cataloging principles that have influenced the development of RDA; the challenges they present to the international sharing of bibliographic and authority data; and the challenges they present to the developers of RDA....
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| Metadata for Resource Discovery |
| 2008-06-25 13:49:15 |
Metadata to Support Next-Generation Library Resource Discovery: Lessons from the eXtensilble Catalog, Phase 1 by Jennifer Bowen has been published in the June 2008 issue of Information Technology and Libraries (p. 6-19).The slides for her upcoming talk at ALA as part of the ALCTS Program, Creating the Future of the Catalog and Cataloging (Sunday morning, June 29, 8 AM-12 PM, Anaheim Convention Center, Room 204B) are on the XC Shared Results Page.The next time nominations roll around for Movers and Shakers someone should nominate Jennifer. Her work on RDA and the eXtensilble Catalog more than qualify her....
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| FireFox Problems |
| 2008-06-25 11:41:54 |
I got the new improved FireFox, version 3, yesterday and now I'm using MS Explorer. FF3 is SLOW. I can't get into Blogger. Several add-ons I liked, TinyURL Creator, Link Evaluator, Persistent URL Bookmarker, and Map+ (opens a map for any address) don't work. I'm going to have to investigate wither it is possible to roll-back to the old version. I sure hope so. My advice, FWIW, wait.It is the portable version of FireFox, maybe the regular version would not be so slow. It still wouldn't have the add-ons.Operator+, an add-on that allows working with microformats is not working properly. I can't seem to export hCal events to Outlook.June 24, I've reverted to an older version of FF Portable. All my tools are working again. At home I plan on moving to FF3. It w...
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| Open Source OPAC |
| 2008-06-25 10:41:58 |
Rapi is yet another open-source OPAC project. It uses Lucene and Ruby like most of the projects do.Rapi is an open-source project of the WING group in the School of Computing, National University of Singapore licensed under the MIT license. Rapi provides an OPAC package that allows you to:Build a Lucene index from your MARC filesScreen scrape live circulation data from your own iii OPACWrap your OPAC with a customizable user interfaceThe user interface packaged with Rapi has been tested with Firefox 2 and 3 as well as Internet Explorer 7. The user interface supports a variety of features including tabs, an overview+details view, and a suggestion bar among many others. Note that although the user interface supports query suggestions, the package currently d...
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| Distributed Metadata Control Systems |
| 2008-06-25 09:51:45 |
Distributed Version Control and Library Metadata by Galen M. Charlton.Distributed version control systems (DVCSs) are effective tools for managing source code and other artifacts produced by software projects with multiple contributors. This article describes DVCSs and compares them with traditional centralized version control systems, then describes extending the DVCS model to improve the exchange of library metadata.Interesting suggestion. Network theory applied here. Only one node would be useless, two or three nodes interesting depending on the institutions, something like the old Linked System Project. More widespread adoption would make it much more useful....
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| Approved Books |
| 2008-06-25 09:28:09 |
The Open Library folks are considering adding information about banning to their bibliographic records. Other than MPAA ratings does anyone add approval by some body to their bibliographic records? I can remember seeing Nihil obstat and Imprimi potest on some books growing up. Is this still useful to some patrons for selecting an item?...
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| Cross-concordances |
| 2008-06-25 09:10:09 |
Mayr, Philipp and Petras, Vivien (2008) Cross-concordances: terminology mapping and its effectiveness for information retrieval. World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Council, Québec, Canada.The German Federal Ministry for Education and Research funded a major terminology mapping initiative, which found its conclusion in 2007. The task of this terminology mapping initiative was to organize, create and manage ‘cross-concordances’ between controlled vocabularies (thesauri, classification systems, subject heading lists) centred around the social sciences but quickly extending to other subject areas. 64 crosswalks with more than 500,000 relations were established. In the final phase of the project, a major evaluation effort to test and measure the ...
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| Script Codes |
| 2008-06-25 09:03:28 |
One of the issues being considered by MARBI, Discussion Paper No. 2008-DP05, is how to indicate the script used in the bibliographic record. There is strong support for using the ISO 15924 Code List, Codes for the representation of names of scripts or Codes pour la représentation des noms d’écritures....
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| OCLC Group Services |
| 2008-06-18 15:03:55 |
I've just heard of OCLC Group Services, a way for small libraries to participate in OCLC. Anyone have any experience with a group? Any group willing to have the Lunar and Planetary Institute Library become a member?...
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| The Future of Cataloging: A PALINET Symposium |
| 2008-06-18 15:00:55 |
MP3s and slides from The Future of Cataloging: A PALINET Symposium are now available. The talks were:Keynote Address, Karen Calhoun "Traveling Through Transitions in Technical Services: From Surviving to Thriving"Response to Keynote, Panel Discussion / Beth Picknally CamdenFunctional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) and Current Development and Implementation Plans for Resource Description and Access (RDA) / John AttigOn the Record, One View of the Future – Library of Congress Report on the Future of Bibliographic Control / Nancy FallgrenMaking Special Collections Not So Special? The Implications for Archives and Special Collections of the Report of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of B...
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| MARBI @ ALA |
| 2008-06-13 11:42:04 |
The remainder of the June 2008 MARC Advisory Group proposals have been posted and linked to the agenda for the meeting....
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| Chopac.org |
| 2008-06-13 09:33:18 |
Chopac.org has some interesting cataloging tools. There is an Amazon to MARC converter, DDC22 summaries, Amazon review server, and some others. They also have an ILS to download. Runs in the LAMP environment. They seem to have it up and running on their site. It gets additional info from Amazon and Google Books to enrich the records....
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| On Descript |
| 2008-06-12 14:00:44 |
When I started this weblog back in 2002 nobody was covering cataloging. There was AUTOCAT, great place for discussion. But no one place was acting as a news source. Now there are plenty of other place to keep current in cataloging, check Planet Cataloging for a good list of weblogs in this space. Now another voice joins the chorus, On Descript, and we are richer for it.On Descript is a forum dedicated to all things description in Library and Information Science (LIS). Here, you'll find information on subjects like cataloging, indexing, abstracting and the foundations of description practices in LIS. Please share your ideas!Not yet covered by Planet Catalog, so visit his site....
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| DCMI Registry Task Group |
| 2008-06-09 13:44:45 |
From the DCMI page.DCMI Registry Task Group: call for participation.A DCMI Registry Task Group has been set up with the primary aims of developing shared functional requirements and inter-registry interoperability issues. This group is currently recruiting participants. Those with an interest in metadata schema registries, terminology registries, ontology registries and metadata vocabulary management are invited to visit the Task Group's Wiki for further information, news, upcoming events and opportunities to contribute....
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| OLAC-MOUG 2008 Conference |
| 2008-06-09 13:39:26 |
Registration for the OLAC-MOUG 2008 Conference is open.The joint conference of OLAC (Online Audiovisual Catalogers) and MOUG (Music OCLC Users Group) will take place in Cleveland, Ohio, between Friday, September 26 and Sunday, September 28, 2008. Attendees will enjoy four workshops on cataloging various non-book materials, keynote speech by Lynne Howarth (former Dean of the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto); closing address by Janet Swan Hill (Associate Director for Technical Services, University of Colorado); and a session on RDA, to name just a few highlights.Preconference: space is limited for Thursday September 25th's Map Cataloging preconference, given by Paige Andrew.Please see the conference website for more informatio...
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| OAI-ORE Resource Maps |
| 2008-06-09 10:32:56 |
Posted to several lists.The Foresite project is pleased to announce the initial code of two software libraries for constructing, parsing, manipulating and serialising OAI-ORE Resource Maps. These libraries are being written in Java and Python, and can be used generically to provide advanced functionality to OAI-ORE aware applications, and are compliant with the latest release (0.9) of the specification. The software is open source, released under a BSD licence, and is available from a Google Code repository.You will find that the implementations are not absolutely complete yet, and are lacking good documentation for this early release, but we will be continuing to develop this software throughout the project and hope that ...
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| More MARBI News |
| 2008-06-06 14:52:04 |
Some more MARBI news.The following papers are available for review by the MARC community:Proposal No. 2008-04: Changes to Nature of entire work and nature of content codes in field 008 of the MARC 21 bibliographic formatProposal No. 2008-09: Definition of Videorecording format codes in field 007/04 of the MARC 21 Bibliographic formatProposal No. 2008-10: Definition of a subfield for Other standard number in field 534 of the MARC 21 bibliographic formatAdditional proposals and discussion papers will be posted shortly.The draft agenda for the 2008 ALA Annual MARBI meetings is available online.Please note that there is a strong possibility that MARBI may meet during its Monday afternoon time slot of 1:30-3:30 for continuation of the discussion....
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| Skype News |
| 2008-06-06 10:23:06 |
Skype now lets you set your mobile number as your caller-id on outgoing calls. Very nice. I'm set up....
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| ALA Annual MARBI Meeting |
| 2008-06-06 09:32:04 |
Posted to many e-mail distribution lists.The following papers are available for review by the MARC community:Proposal No. 2008-06: Adding information associated with the Series Added Entry fields (800-830)Proposal No. 2008-07: Making field 440 (Series Statement/Added Entry--Title) obsolete in the MARC 21 Bibliographic FormatProposal No. 2008-08: Definition of subfield $z in field 017 of the MARC 21 Bibliographic and addition of the field to the MARC 21 Holdings formatsDiscussion Paper 2008-DP06: Coding deposit programs as methods of acquisitions in field 008/07 of the MARC 21 holdings formatAdditional proposals and discussion papers will be posted shortly.The draft agenda for the 2008 ALA Annual MARBI meetings will be made available soon....
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| Yahoo Search Monkey |
| 2008-06-04 10:42:38 |
Another step towards the Semantic Web, Yahoo SearchMonkey.SearchMonkey is fundamentally about transforming the way search results are compiled and displayed by leveraging the same structured data that powers the millions of pages indexed by Yahoo! Search. By sharing structured data with Yahoo!, site owners and content publishers can build more useful, relevant and visually appealing search results, which can increase the quantity and quality of traffic from Yahoo! Search....You can share data by embedding microformats, using semantic web standards such as RDF, sharing an XML data feed directly with Yahoo! Search, or using the SearchMonkey developer tool to build custom data services that extract structured data from your pa...
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| LibriVox |
| 2008-06-04 10:01:36 |
LibriVox is becoming a valuable resource for free audio books. They just reached 1500 titles in the collection.We’ve had a pretty extraordinary May. We cataloged our 1,500th book, James Baldwin’s children’s history book, Four Great Americans, which was a great accomplishment. (Considering seven months ago we were at 1,000).But we also had an impressively productive month: we released 115 (!) audiobooks into the public domain, almost four per day. Our previous record for monthly production was 77, reached in July 2007.Is anyone cataloging these and adding them to their collection? Burning them to CDs and adding those to the collection? A few months back the Nebraska Library Commission made news by adding a few books licensed under Creative Commons to their catalog. Anyone doing the sa...
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| Code4Lib Conference |
| 2008-06-04 09:24:53 |
The video from the Code4Lib Conference is now on Archive.org. Note that you can get the MPEG2 high def format there. Some talks include:MARCThing Casey Durfee discusses MARCThing, a self-contained web service which aims to do for MARC and Z39.50 what Solr did for searching.OpenURL Ross Singer and Jonathan Rochkind describe Ümlaut, an open source OpenURL middleware layer intended to improve the link resolving chain by analyzing incoming citations and intelligently querying resources to better enable access to them.Blacklight Bess Sadler describes Blacklight, a Solr based OPAC replacement being developed by University of Virginia Library.Scriblio Casey Bisson describes Scriblio, the OPAC replacement based on the WordPress authoring system.A Metadata Reg...
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| Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE ) Specifications |
| 2008-06-03 09:38:11 |
The Open Archives Initiative has announced the public beta release of Object Reuse and Exchange Specifications.Over the past eighteen months the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), in a project called Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE), has gathered international experts from the publishing, web, library, and eScience community to develop standards for the identification and description of aggregations of online information resources. These aggregations, sometimes called compound digital objects, may combine distributed resources with multiple media types including text, images, data, and video. The goal of these standards is to expose the rich content in these aggregations to applications that support authoring, deposit, exchange, visualization, reuse, and...
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| Geologic Map Symbolization |
| 2008-06-02 10:07:40 |
The PostScript version of the FGDC Digital Cartographic Standard for Geologic Map Symbolization is now available as a USGS Techniques and Methods publication....
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| Improving Subject Searching |
| 2008-06-02 10:01:01 |
Improving subject searching in databases through a combination of descriptors and UDC by Granados, Mariangels and Nicolau, Anna (2008) In Proceedings BOBCATSSS'08: Providing acces for everyone, Zadar (Croatia)Problems with subject access to online catalogues and databases are not new. Studies on the use of OPACs have revealed two apparently endemic problems: on the one hand, the large number of searches with zero hits (failed searches) and on the other, the retrieval of an excessive amount of bibliographic records (information overload).In this paper we describe a new information retrieval technique based on the combination of descriptor weighting and the use of the Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) call numbers.The use of classification call numbers in order to search the catalogue h...
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| Tag Cleaner |
| 2008-05-30 15:51:13 |
Bring some consistency to your tagging with Delicious Tag CleanerWhat would a "Delicious Tag Cleaner" be? It is tool for removing unnecessary tags from your del.icio.us account....If you're like me, you probably have thousands of bookmarks collected over years and years of web surfing and hundreds of tags used to describe them. But the thing is that over these months/years you haven't been able to come up with a consistent taxonomy for your tags.I have, for example, dozens of different tags for expressing links related to software development: "dev", "devel", "development" etc.So this tool can suggest you tags to be merged together, so you can choose one by one and have this tool to merge the chosen tags on your delicious account.As you clean-up tags doesn't that remove them from the strea...
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| Statement of International Cataloguing Principles |
| 2008-05-30 09:53:46 |
A reminder from IFLA about the Statement of International Cataloguing Principles.This is a reminder announcement that the Statement of International Cataloguing Principles developed by the five IFLA Meetings of Experts on an International Cataloguing Code is now available for worldwide review and comment.A vote form is also available there and can be used by anyone to indicate whether they approve the statement or not and to make comments. The form can be printed out, filled in, and faxed, or it can be filled in electronically and sent as an e-mail attachment....
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| 2.0 Speaking Opportunities |
| 2008-05-28 10:32:55 |
Any folks who want to represent the library community in an eduction 2.0 setting should check out CR 2.0. They are having a series of 20 workshops around the U.S. and are using an unconference format. Go to their website and suggest a topic and the folks attending vote on what they want to hear. Even if you don't become a facilitator for the discussion, at least they have seen that libraries are part of eduction 2.0. Just participating in the discussion might open some eyes to the role of libraries in education....
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| Tagging @ NASA |
| 2008-05-27 17:27:14 |
NASA is sporting a tag cloud on their home page. It is generated from words used to search the site. Look to the right a bit down. It sports a nice star field background....
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| MARC 2 MODS Tool |
| 2008-05-23 09:30:36 |
The Digital Library Federation announces a revision to their MARCXML to MODS tool.The DLF Aquifer Metadata Working Group announces an update to the XML stylesheet they have developed for the Aquifer project, for conversion of MARCXML records to MODS. The current stylesheet, DLF_MARC2MODS_1.34.xsl, can be found from a link on our MARC to Aquifer MODS XSLT Stylesheet page. Changes are briefly documented in the comments at the beginning of the stylesheet. We have also updated the Introduction pages that give more detail about some of the changes. The changes include re-added mapping for tag 510 citations to the note element for monographs only; added subject:hierarchicalGeographic element mapping of tag 662 Subject - Hierarchica...
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| MARC Update |
| 2008-05-20 10:36:45 |
Update No. 8 (October 2007) was recently released in multiple document formats. It includes changes made to the MARC 21 formats resulting from proposals which were considered by the ALA ALCTS/LITA/RUSA Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information Committee (MARBI), the Canadian Committee on MARC (CCM) and the BIC Bibliographic Standards Group in 2007.The printed update is available through the Cataloging Distribution Service. It includes pages for fields that have been changed, with changes marked with side lining. PDF of those printed update pages are also available online...
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