LibWorm.com provides a librarian RSS filtering service. Over 1500 RSS librarian sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest headlines from journals and sites in the Google interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:51:09 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2011/04/code4lib-journal.html Issue 13 of the Code4Lib Journal has been published. Partial contents:ISBN and QR Barcode Scanning Mobile App for LibrariesGraham McCarthy and Sally WilsonThis article outlines the development of a mobile application for the Ryerson University Library. The application provides for ISBN barcode scanning that results in a lookup of library copies and services for the book scanned, as well as QR code scanning. Two versions of the application were developed, one for iOS and one for Android. The article includes some details on the free packages used for barcode scanning functionality. Source code for the Ryerson iOS and Android applications are freely available, and instructions are provided on customizing the Ryerson application for use in other library environments. Some statistics on the number of downloads of the Ryerson mobile app by users are included.Using Web Services for a Mobile OPACDenis Galvin and Mang SunThe purpose of this paper is to discuss the creation and intended evolution of the Rice University mobile online public access catalog (OPAC). The focus of the article is on how SirsiDynix’s Symphony Web Services can be used to create a mobile OPAC.Look What We Got! How Inherited Data Drives Decision-Making: UNC-Chapel Hill’s 19th-Century American Sheet Music CollectionRenée McBrideHave you inherited a digital collection containing valuable, but inconsistent metadata? And wondered how to transform it into a usable, quality resource while accepting that it can’t meet your idea of perfection? This article describes such an experience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Library with its CONTENTdm-based 19th-Century American Sheet Music Collection, addressing issues such as field construction, the use of controlled vocabularies, development of a project data dictionary, and metadata clean-up. ... Tue, 19 Apr 2011 04:00:00 +0100 895887 http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2011/03/vufind.html VuFind, the open-source discovery tool has released a new version.The next significant version of VuFind has been released this morning. Here are some of the highlights of the new release:Improved support for non-MARC metadata and authority recordsNew search tools: autosuggesters, snippets, keyword highlighting, alphabetical heading browseAlternate jQuery-based theme (for tighter integration with non-YUI sites)- Easier and more powerful favorite list managementMore API integration: book previews through Google Books/OpenLibrary/Hathi Trust, cover images from B&T Content CaféExpanded OAI-PMH and RSS output capabilitiesBetter discovery by search engines with automatic sitemap XML generation toolNumerous bug fixes, plus better-commented and standardized codeFor more information, and to download the new release, please visit http://vufind.org. (Source: Catalogablog) Fri, 25 Mar 2011 04:00:00 +0100 895898 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~3/vbpnqurgSdM/ Hace ya unas semanas he estado probando Google Chrome y debo decir que se ha convertido en mi navegador por defecto. He estado utilizando FireFox por varios años pero su lentitud y sus “crasheos” continuos me han llevado a migrar a Google Chrome. Seguiré usando a FF pero como navegador secundario. Además de su estabilidad y velocidad, Chrome me ha impresionado por su gran número de extensiones y lo fácil que es instalar y desinstalar las mismas. Comparto una lista de extensiones que son indispensables para el educador 2.0: 1. Diigo: Un complemento esencial para los que usamos el marcador social Diigo. 2. Adblock: Para navegar las páginas web sin anuncios 3. After the Deadline: Excelente corrector gramatical 4. Amplify: Permite cortar partes de una página y bloguear o “tuitear” la misma. 5. Diccionarios RAE: Para buscar  la definición de las palabras que necesite en dos diccionarios  de la Real Academia Española: Diccionario de la Lengua Española y Diccionario Panhispánico de Dudas. 6.  Google Quick Scroll: Permite saltar directamente a los temas relevantes de un resultado de búsqueda de Google. 7. Wikipedia Companion: Extensión esencial para los usuarios de Wikipedia   8. Hootsuite Hootlet: Extensión para los usuarios de Hootsuite que facilitar publicación de textos en Twitter y Facebook . 9. Posterous for Chrome: La extensión esencial para usar Posterous desde Chrome 10. Awesome Screenshot: Excelente extensión de los creadores de Diigo para captura toda la pantalla o cualquier porción, anotar con rectángulos, círculos, flechas, líneas y texto, subir y compartir con un clic. 11. Google Reader RSS Subscriber: Permite subscribir un canal de RSS al  Google Reader pulsando un solo botón. 12. Quick Note: Para incluir tus notas relacionadas a determinada página web. También se pueden incluir imágenes. En total estoy usando más de 50 extensiones en Chrome. ... Fri, 31 Dec 2010 15:38:20 +0100 895823 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/editors-pick-of-the-week-29/ Ebook marketing still needs a lot of work Google ebookstore round-up By Gary Price TeleRead traffic doubles on Christmas day – a lot of ereaders as presents? Could computer games be the journalism of the future? by Chris Meadows R. Scott Raynovich on the top five online newspaper killers – and one from me Ebooks at year-end 2010 by Gary Price Helpful advice for new Kindle owners by Chris Walters First Google Books sales numbers are in for Munsey’s For new and old Kindlers wanting to do more with their Kindles by Andrys Basten Question of the year: does Amazon have too much power? by Rich Adin The online future of Australian journalism, as seen by the industry itself by Jason Davis Why I am a library traitor and love the Kindle, by Sarah Houghton-Jan Holiday travel update: gadgets, gadgets, everywhere! by Joanna (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Fri, 31 Dec 2010 05:39:00 +0100 895763 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/12/2-million-children-with-no-web-access-at-home.html We're used to thinking about the "Google generation" and the "Facebook generation" and there is a common misconception that children know all about using computers and using the Internet. Of course, this isn't true; I've spoken to many school librarians and children themselves to know that while they are comfortable with using the Internet their actual use still remains quite limited, and their understanding of what can be achieved, how to find the information you require, and assessing it is not as good as one may first expect. This is the case for those children who have access to the Internet; how much more difficult is it therefore for those children that do not. A recent article in the Guardian No web access at home for 2m poor pupils, warns charity point out the quite shocking figures which go to show that too many children still don't have access to the Internet; especially from the poorest homes in the country. In the richest 10% of homes, 98% had a home computer and 97% had internet access, but in the poorest 10% of homes only 38% had a home computer and 30% an internet connection. Even in the South East which is one of the richest areas in the country, if not the richest one in four homes cannot access the Internet.This therefore puts not only children but their parents a grave disadvantage. We are all familiar with the situation in which a child requests help with algebra homework and the parents can do no more than do a good goldfish impression, so how much more difficult is it going to be for both child and parent when it comes to accessing the Internet when neither know what they are supposed to be doing. A school can only do so much and of course a child can only access Internet computers in school when the school is open. This is surely where the library comes into play. Children who do not only need access to the Internet they need access to reading materials and educational material. ... Fri, 31 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895806 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/how-to-find-free-kindle-books/ CNET has an article with this title. They discuss Jungle-search.com. After they discuss free ebooks they go on to say: … But what if you want to see more granular lists–say, separating the public domain titles from the modern freebies? (Publishers occasionally give away older books in a series to hook readers on newer ones, for example.) Or what if you want to see only books in a certain price range–only those that are 99 cents, or $2 to $3? That’s where Jungle-search.com comes in. The search engine is designed to scour Amazon for all sorts of deals across a variety of categories. And that includes Kindle titles, which can be filtered by price. As of today, there are almost 17,000 free Kindle titles (see links below). Nearly all of them are public domain titles, including many of the same you’ll find on Google Books. The remaining 246 free titles tend to be Kindle games, or those aforementioned freebie promotional titles. Currently, it looks like romance titles dominate the top of the list, but you’ll find plenty of thrillers, and even some “Star Wars” books in there, too. (These titles tend to turn over pretty quickly, so it’s worth checking every few weeks or so.) (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Thu, 30 Dec 2010 16:16:35 +0100 895707 http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/finding-free-or-cheap-kindle-books-with-jungle-search/ CNet has an article looking at how to use Jungle-Search.com to find free or inexpensive Kindle e-books. The piece notes that Amazon has almost 17,000 free Kindle titles, though all but 246 of them (as of the article’s writing) were the same public domain titles that can be found on Google Books, Project Gutenberg, or elsewhere. There are also over 220,000 titles for 99 cents or less, and 125,000 between $1 and $5. This looks to be a very interesting search site even aside from e-books. One of the things that annoyed me about Amazon during my Christmas shopping was that there wasn’t any way to search solely on price. Paired with Amazon Prime, this could be a very fun way of finding cheap trinkets to keep oneself amused. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:15:00 +0100 895709 http://www.teleread.com/library/scholarly-electronic-publishing-weblog-updated-for-december/ Ariadne, no. 65 (2010): Includes: “Developing Infrastructure for Research Data Management at the University of Oxford,” “Moving Researchers across the eResearch Chasm,” “Trust Me, I’m an Archivist: Experiences with Digital Donors,” and other articles. Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian 29, no. 4 (2010): Includes “Digital Archival Image Collections: Who Are the Users?” and other articles. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 49, no. 1 (2011): Includes “Google Book Search and Metadata,” “Reclassification in Academic Research Libraries: Is It Still Relevant in an E-book World?,” and other articles. Collection Management 36, no. 1 (2011): Includes “Librarian Roles in Institutional Repository Data Set Collecting: Outcomes of a Research Library Task Force” and other articles. First Monday 15, no. 12 (2010): Includes “The Size Distribution of Open Access Publishers: A Problem for Open Access?” and other articles. IFLA Journal 36, no. 4 (2010): Includes “Non-users’ Evaluation of Digital Libraries: A Survey at the Università degli studi di Milano” and other articles. The Journal of Electronic Publishing 13, no. 3 (2010): Includes “Academic Search Engine Spam and Google Scholar’s Resilience against It,” “OA Repositories: The Researchers’ Point of View,” “Traversing the Book of Mpub: An Agile, Web-first Publishing Model,” and other articles. Journal of Scholarly Publishing 42, no. 2 (2011): Includes “Extending ArXiv.org to Achieve Open Peer Review and Publishing,” “Protocols and Challenges to the Creation of a Cross-disciplinary Journal,” and other articles. Krikorian, Gaälle, and Amy Kapczynski, eds. ... Wed, 29 Dec 2010 21:35:45 +0100 895609 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss/~3/eC6Mm0oVw6U/ Ariadne, no. 65 (2010): Includes: "Developing Infrastructure for Research Data Management at the University of Oxford," "Moving Researchers across the eResearch Chasm," "Trust Me, I'm an Archivist: Experiences with Digital Donors," and other articles. Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian 29, no. 4 (2010): Includes "Digital Archival Image Collections: Who Are the Users?" and other articles. Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 49, no. 1 (2011): Includes "Google Book Search and Metadata," "Reclassification in Academic Research Libraries: Is It Still Relevant in an E-book World?," and other articles. Collection Management 36, no. 1 (2011): Includes "Librarian Roles in Institutional Repository Data Set Collecting: Outcomes of a Research Library Task Force" and other articles. First Monday 15, no. 12 (2010): Includes "The Size Distribution of Open Access Publishers: A Problem for Open Access?" and other articles. IFLA Journal 36, no. 4 (2010): Includes "Non-users' Evaluation of Digital Libraries: A Survey at the Università degli studi di Milano" and other articles. The Journal of Electronic Publishing 13, no. 3 (2010): Includes "Academic Search Engine Spam and Google Scholar’s Resilience against It," "OA Repositories: The Researchers' Point of View," "Traversing the Book of Mpub: An Agile, Web-first Publishing Model," and other articles. Journal of Scholarly Publishing 42, no. 2 (2011): Includes "Extending ArXiv.org to Achieve Open Peer Review and Publishing," "Protocols and Challenges to the Creation of a Cross-disciplinary Journal," and other articles. Krikorian, Gaälle, and Amy Kapczynski, eds. ... Wed, 29 Dec 2010 19:08:58 +0100 895591 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/idate-releases-ebook-report/ European consulting firm, IDATE, has released its 130 page study of the ebook market for Japan, America and Europe for 2008-2015. The report costs between 2,900 and 3,500 euros, but they have allowed me to release part of their principle results (blockquotes omitted): By the end of 2010, the digital book market took off in all of the surveyed countries, albeit under varying scenarios. That year, the United States became the world’s largest market with a turnover from e-book sales reaching EUR 594 million, ahead of Japan, e- book pioneer country whose market is evaluated at EUR 527 million. European markets remain relatively modest, but are characterised by strong growth rates (around 80%). This digital migration concerns all literary genres, although some more rapidly than others (sentimental literature, science fiction & fantasy, detective stories) and a wide range of media (e-readers, PCs, mobile phones, game consoles, tablets, media players). • By 2014, the digital transition should not result in a global loss (or destruction) of book value. Certainly, sales of printed books have been declining for several years in the surveyed countries (except for France and Canada), and the emergence of a digital offer will only accentuate this trend, especially for the literary genres that are prone to this digital migration. However, e-book sales should offset the decline in printed book sales, and potentially even expand the book market thanks to the incremental sales effect (i.e., digital book sales which would not have taken place with printed books). By 2015, the future of the market will be shaped by factors operating at two levels: the degree of conversion of casual readers to digital media (who represent the bulk of the book market in terms of volume) and the impact of enriched books, hybrid multimedia products capable of attracting people who are not regular consumers of traditional books. ... Wed, 29 Dec 2010 14:36:06 +0100 895515 http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2010/12/juror-misbehavior-in-information-age.html LLRX.com published an article last Sunday on Juror Behavior in the Information Age: "While the lure of tweeting or doing a Google search or updating a Facebook profile seems all but irresistible, these upheavals are reshaping the social dimensions of the trial and breaking down the barriers that channel the flow of information within the courtroom. Online misbehavior by jurors can be reduced to four principle areas: (1) publishing or distributing information about a trial, e.g., tweeting or posting updates on a social media site; (2) uncovering information about the case by searching the Internet, entering social networking sites or visiting virtual crime scenes; (3) contacting parties, witnesses, lawyers or judges via social networking for example; and (4) discussing or deliberating the merits of the litigation prematurely or inviting outside opinions." "Judges and court administrators are being tasked with responding to this technological revolution in jury behavior. They have been assigned expanded roles in jury selection and policing misconduct before, during and after trial (...)" "This article collects recent and notable examples of juror online misbehavior and highlights scholarship and practice resources concerning its implications for voir dire, trial management and the administration of justice" Earlier Library Boy posts on the topic include:Impartiality of Juries Threatened by Web? (October 22, 2009): "Donald Findlay QC, one of Scotland's top criminal lawyers, has warned that the impartiality of the jury system is at risk due to jurors using internet search engines and has warned that the Government cannot continue with its 'ostrich-like' attitude to the problem (...) "Should Twitter in the Courtroom Be Illegal? (November 11, 2009): "A U.S. ... Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895632 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/12/similarpages.html I'm not usually a great fan of browser add on tools, since you're limited not only by the browser itself, but also the machine that you're using. However, I do use a few of them, but they have to be really top notch. I was introduced to SimilarPages today, and as it required installing onto Firefox (and doesn't yet work on any other browser, though an IE version is in the works) I wasn't overly keen on it. However, I had time available, so thought I'd give it a go. The concept of SimilarPages is pretty obvious - the clue is in the name. It's a tool that finds pages that are similar to the one that you're looking at. There are plenty of ways of getting data like this - Google has several, including the Related: function, and there's a very nice search engine that I've written about before called Web Insuggest - if you haven't tried it I would most certainly recommend it. The disadvantage of both approaches however is that it's necessary to go to the page/resource to find others. SimilarPages works rather differently, and this is where the download and integration into the browser is important. There are three ways that you can find similar pages: Simply click on the icon and get a sidemenu display. You get a lot of alternatives, and I was very impressed with the choice for my CILIP example; you get given up to 300 options. I recognised a lot of the sites (and would have listed them myself as related sites if asked) but many I didn't, and a disadvantage is that I'd need to click on the link to go and have a look. A mouseover of more than the URL (which I can already see) would help. The menu bar stays open when you go from tab to tab, and it's lightening fast however - very impressive. ... Wed, 29 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895506 http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/local-phone-books-in-cdrom-format-could-prove-handy-save-trees/ While I was out and about last night, I happened to notice a CDROM stand on the counter of a local print and copy shop. It was a free CD version of “Names & Numbers”, one of the local telephone directories. Curious, I picked it up and took it home to give it a run-through. Though I have only taken a cursory glance over it, I am actually fairly impressed. Though the device has a Windows autorun and installer built in, it can also be run off the CD without needing to be installed. At heart it seems to be implemented in simple HTML, meaning that it should be compatible with anything that has a CDROM drive and a web browser. Even the directory pages themselves are in HTML—not some encapsulated, DRMed format that can only be read or searched with an executable. (A far cry from some early PC phone book apps I played with back in the late ‘80s to early ‘90s.) They’re formatted to impersonate the look of a white pages or yellow pages page, but at heart they’re unencrypted plain vanilla HTML; viewing source reveals the names, addresses, and phone numbers of everyone right there in plain text (albeit with a lot of HTML style stuff surrounding that text). The white pages and textual entries in the yellow pages could quite readily be data mined if someone wrote the right programs There is also a search box that lets you search the directory—it takes longer if you’re browsing on CD than if you install it on the hard drive, of course. It seems to work pretty well. In fact, it works better than the search function on Names & Numbers’s website, which couldn’t find my uncle’s number when I punched his name in at all whereas the one on the CD pulled it right up. I have a number of ordinary tree-killing paper phone books in my apartment—I can’t seem to avoid getting them; they get left on my doorstep every so often whether I want them or not.  And I’m not entirely averse to having them. ... Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:15:00 +0100 895352 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/first-google-books-sales-numbers-are-in-for-mynseys/ Here’s a great article about the workings of Google Books from Munsey’s point of view. I recommend you go over and read the whole thing. It’s really the first thing I’ve seen about Google Books from a publisher’s perspective. A snippet: Hokay, Google’s bookstore, launched Dec. 8th or so, is now giving sales stats. Results are promising, at least v. B&N or Kobo, less per title than Apple, but still a good start. Some portions, like the “sold through retailers” thing, aren’t looking as hot, but Google did manage to sell 4 copies via third parties, which is about 4 more than I expected. Here’s why Google, and not B&N/Kobo/Sony/Apple/Agency/whatev, is the biggest ebook story of the year: They take away Amazon’s most powerful weapon against publishers. You can’t bury us in search anymore, Jeff. I’d been putting titles into Google, by pointing their uploader to a directory w/ all the .pdfs I created for LSI/CSpace, and then taking Dusty for a long walk past the swimming pool while it processed. Through this arduous process, I’ve got 699 books live, another 150 pending, and can double that amount in short order, maybe after the uploader better supports .epub format (I’ve got a thousand such titles that I’d already prepared for Kobo… whenever the uploader supports .epub. Google does say that’ll happen soon, though it has been a while.) The reason for going Google isn’t that I was so flush from ad revenue from Google Book Search; it’s that a book in Google’s search engine can, in many circumstances, be found, where it cannot be on Amazon . (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:20:30 +0100 895264 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/new-ereader-app-hits-the-ipad-iflow/ eBook Magazine is reporting on this ereader app. It’s been out for the iPhone for a while, but the iPad version is new: A new ebook app combining a bookstore for new purchases with the ability to import titles purchased from any retailer which supports epub files protected Adobe DRM launched earlier this month for Apple’s iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. By mimicking the ‘buy anywhere, hear here’ approach of standalone ebook readers such as those from Sony, the free iFlow Reader app follows txtr and Bluefire in ending the segregation of books within vendor-specific apps. iFlow also offers readers to look up words and phrases on Google, Wikipedia, or dictionary.com as well as integration with Facebook allowing the sharing of excerpts and comments via the social networking site The iFlow website is here. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:04:15 +0100 895265 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/teleread-traffic-doubles-on-christmas-day-a-lot-of-ereaders-as-presents/ Now you tell me that this means. The graph shows Google Analytics data for December 23 to 25 (with the numbers deleted). Note that it gradually goes down as Christmas approaches and is at its lowest point on December 24. Now look at the huge spike on Christmas day. Almost double the numbers of the day before. The only thing I can think of is that a lot of people got ereaders for Christmas and started Googling around to find out more about them. Neat! (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Sun, 26 Dec 2010 23:52:07 +0100 895173 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/XIBwZd2UKVQ/twitteren-met-chromedeck.html Over Twitter heb ik al veel geschreven, maar over het feit dat ik vijf verschillende accounts beheer doe ik meestal een beetje besmuikt, misschien wel omdat ik -ook al zonder dat feit mee te delen- vaak te horen krijg dat ik wel erg actief ben, met mijn persoonlijke account. Ik heb dat zelf eigenlijk niet eens zo in de smiezen. Er zijn genoeg dagdelen, soms zelfs dagen, dat Twitter langs me heen gaat. Ik bekijk de tijdlijn alleen als daar tijd voor is of ik volg 'm juist heel selectief, door in te zoomen op bepaalde personen of organisaties. Toch denk ik dat een belangrijk deel van de informatie die Twitter te bieden heeft mij uiteindelijk wel bereikt: Groot nieuws kan rekenen op veel retweets. Zelfs als je maar een paar keer per dag een kijkje neemt zie je het nieuws dan nog wel voorbij komen, als je voldoende mensen volgt. Als het gaat om 'klein nieuws', waarvan mensen vinden dat je het moet weten, nemen ze je gebruikersnaam meestal wel op in het bericht. Daar kun je je op laten attenderen. Met clients (software gemaakt om Twitter elders dan op twitter.com te beheren) behoud je het overzicht. Je kunt je via feeds abonneren op trefwoorden die voor jou interessant zijn. Dat maakt een focus een stuk eenvoudiger. De clients beschouw ik als belangrijkste hulpmiddel, omdat je daarmee in een oogopslag kunt zien of er nieuwe berichten zijn, voor al je accounts. Op de telefoon gebruik ik nog steeds de app Twitter for Iphone, op de laptop gebruik ik Tweetdeck. Over Twitter for iPhone ben ik niet eens zo heel tevreden. De app is behoorlijk instabiel ( loopt regelmatig vast) maar ervaar ik wel als een van de meest overzichtelijke als het gaat om het beheer van meerdere accounts. Daar laat ik een veelbelovend alternatief als Twittelator nog even voor schieten. Over Tweetdeck heb ik sinds mijn kennismaking afgelopen zomer eigenlijk nooit veel te mopperen gehad, of het moet de constatering zijn dat het programma vaak moeite heeft met opstarten. ... Sun, 26 Dec 2010 23:12:00 +0100 895105 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/lgWYS4IIZHY/middelburg-dronk-helemaal-niet-zo-veel.html Ik weet niet hoeveel Nederlandstalige boeken Google Books inmiddels bevat, maar ik merk wel dat zoekacties op het trefwoord 'Middelburg', in verschillende combinaties, veel meer resultaten oplevert dan ongeveer twee jaar geleden. In het boek Middelburg voorheen en thans kwam ik een prachtige passage tegen, die ik heb toegevoegd aan de pagina Algemene Geschiedenis, van Middelburg Dronk (de foutjes die erin zitten worden veroorzaakt door gebrekkige OCR): "Gunstiger is het gesteld met hunne begrippen van zedelijkheid en andere maatschappelijke pligten. We mogen het als eene bijzonderheid en als eene gelukkige onderscheiding opteekenen, dat de dronkenschap, — die pest voor de maatschappij, die steeds voortwroetende kanker in het hart der arbeidende klasse van Nederland, — bij de Middelburgsche arbeidende klasse tot de hooge zeldzaamheden behoort. Een dronkaard ontmoet men hoogst zelden onder hen, en niet alleen dat men een zoodanigen niet op straat of gansche scharen daarvan (zoo als in de groote steden van Holland) als zinneloozen hoort tieren en de walgelijkste vertooningen voor het oog maken, maar zelfs in huis of in de kroeg behooren zulke gevallen tot de zeldzaamheden. Onder een getal van 500 armen, die ik door het dagelijksch verkeer ken, zou ik geen 6 voorbeelden van dronkaards van professiekunnen opnoemen. Dezelfde gunstige berigten heb ik bij de bazen ingewonnen, die deze kwaal al meer en meer onder de arbeidende klasse hier zien verminderen, en de meesten maken zelfs gedurende hun werk geen gebruik van sterken drank. Over het algemeen is de uitspraak van alle voorname bazen en den directeur der weverij dan ook eenparig: dat dronkenschap bij het werkvolk niet plaats heeft.Het doet mij een innig genoegen die hoofddeugd van onze arbeidende klasse te kunnen vermelden, en zulks te meer, omdat de harde kamp dien zij tusschen weinig verdiensten en groote gezinnen soms te strijden hebben, hen te gereeder tot die ondeugd zoude kunnen brengen. ... Sun, 26 Dec 2010 09:53:00 +0100 895016 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/r-scott-raynovich-on-the-top-five-online-newspaper-killers-and-one-from-me/ He has an interesting article today and it includes some reasons I haven’t heard before. 1. Craiglist : Obviously a big one, because classified ads were once the mainstay of local newspaper advertising revenue. Once Craigslist siphoned off most of that, it put pressure on everything else. The irony? Craig Newmark still runs his company as a lean community-friendly ungreedy operation. … 2. Google 3. Internet-phobia 4. The “Bill Simmons” effect 5. Unions And here’s one that I’m convinced is important but never discussed: recycling. That’s what caused me to drop all my newspaper subscriptions. It’s too much work to bundle them, tie them and put them in bags. If I don’t get it just right the recyclers won’t even pick them up – just leave them by the side of the road. Overall, newspapers were not worth the trouble their disposal caused. I’ve never seen it mentioned, but I bet a lot of people feel like this. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:48:38 +0100 894824 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/google-ebookstore-round-up/ + Exclusive: Google ebookstore rep hints at timetable for Australia (Teleread) + Indie Bookstores Opt-In to Google eBooks (Chicagoist) + Google Books: Solid But Not Worth Switching For (tapscape) + Five-Million-Book Google Database Gets a Workout, and a Debate, in Its First Days (Arts Beat, New York Times) Via Resource Shelf (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:09:37 +0100 894826 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/infoesfera/~3/H-PH661eMFA/hasta-cuanto-estoy-dispuesto-pagar.html No es difícil oirle a Jesús Tramullas frases del tipo: “los usuarios "desaforados" de la 2.0 deberían reflexionar sobre sus planteamientos estratégicos...”, que recientemente encontramos en Iwetel a raíz del debate sobre el anunciado cierre de Delicious. Tramullas nos ha regalado ya con varias frases de este tipo, estamos acostumbrados, pero fue tras una conversación con mi amigo Fernándo Juarez y sobre todo tras una frase suya (tweet) en una reciente conferencia virtual, cuando me pareció que debía reflexionar algo más sobre estos temas y si me atrevía, lo haría en alto. Metáfora pesquera de @ferjur: "Facebook es una gran red que está esquilmando el fondo marino"less than a minute ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®Enzo AbbagliaticadaunanteEn relación al cierre anunciado de delicious, que aún está por ver, creo que debemos plantearnos las siguientes cuestiones: Estamos en una época de cambios, o quizás mejor en un cambio de época. Un denominador común a todo esto que vivimos es el siempre Beta, ya lo argumentaron en el debate sobre delicious en Iwetel y se nos olvida con bastante frecuencia. Permanente beta significa adaptación continua, flexibilidad, perderle el cariño a lo seguro por definición.No es el primer producto que, de confirmarse su desaparición, nos obliga a una migración:  yo soy usuaria de Microsoft Money desde hace más de 13 años, y en enero de 2011 deja de mantenerse, o tuve que hacer la migración a Innopac/Millennium cuando Dobis Libis, nuestro SIGB dejó también de actualizarse a comienzos de este siglo. Además, la biblioteca invierte sus recursos en proyectos que no siempre salen, muchas veces porque dependen de terceros,  pero el riesgo hay que correrlo, la seguridad del éxito no la garantiza nadie. ... Fri, 24 Dec 2010 13:44:00 +0100 894849 http://www.cilip.org.uk/jobs-careers/qualifications/Pages/assistants.aspx CILIP offers its Seal of Recognition to bodies offering training and development. To see the organizations that have been awarded the Seal click here.While some of the following courses are best suited to library assistants they may prove useful at any stage of your career and contribute towards the portfolios needed for CILIP's own professional awards: Certification , Chartership and Revalidation .British Computer Society European Computer Driving Licence Tel: 01793 417530 email: qualifications@hq.bcs.org.uk web:www.bcs.org.uk/qualifications  CILIPCertification is a portfolio based qualification recognizing learning, training and experience which also offers a route to Chartership. Tel: 020 7255 0610 email: quals@cilip.org.uk CILIP Training and developmentShort courses for all levels of library work including assistant roles. Tel: 020 7255 0560 email: training@cilip.org.uk   Education Development International EDI has developed two brand new qualifications for the Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF), in partnership with Lifelong Learning UK and key industry stakeholders. These are aimed at assistants working in libraries, archives and information services:     §  Level 2 Certificate in Libraries, Archives and Information Services (30 credits)  §  Level 3 Diploma in Libraries, Archives and Information Services (45 credits) The qualifications have replaced the existing NVQs from 1 August 2010 and have been updated to reflect the diverse range of skills currently required of those operating in libraries, archives and information services settings.   The qualifications will be available to training providers across England, Wales and Northern Ireland. For more information please contact enquiries@ediplc.com, call 08707 202 909 or visit www.ediplc.com Open UniversityTU120 Beyond Google: an online course that runs over 10 weeks. 0845 300 60 90www.openuniversity.co.uk/tu120 general-enquiries@open.ac. ... Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:13:23 +0100 895291 http://marklindner.info/blog/2010/12/23/batchelor-buddhism-without-beliefs/ Buddhism without BeliefsStephen Batchelor; Riverhead Trade 1998WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder This is the 7th book in the 12 Books, 12 Months Challenge that I have finished. For another view, see my list at Open Library. I began this back on 22 March and got halfway before stopping back in April or so due to wedding and move planning/prep. I started again from the beginning on 11 December and finished it on 18 December 2010. I am a real neophyte when it comes to Buddhism.  I read Siddhartha in high school and I re-read it last year; no I am not claiming Hesse wrote a Buddhist text, just that it introduced the idea to me long ago. I have also read a bit about mindfulness (2 books, I think) and one or two books by Thich Nhat Hanh.  This, though, is my first serious attempt at learning more about Buddhism.  I am not sure where or how I came across this book, although I think it was from a book review of the author’s more recent Confession of a Buddhist Atheist.  But where the book review came from I do not know; I failed to find it in my delicious bookmarks.  It seems I ordered both books at the same time from amazon this past March. The book is reasonably short and reads well.  I liked that it rejects the religion of Buddhism, founded on historically institutionalized beliefs, in favor of the actions of Buddhism.  It also remains agnostic on the more metaphysical aspects, such as karma and rebirth, for instance. Contents Ground Awakening Agnosticism Anguish Death Rebirth Resolve Integrity Friendship Path Awareness Becoming Emptiness Compassion Fruition Freedom Imagination Culture Awakening The author claims that the four ennobling truths — anguish, its origins, its cessation, and the path — have become “propositions of fact to be believed.”  Thus, Buddhism becomes a religion (5). ... Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:36:56 +0100 895467 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/griffey/~3/BWgDG5FNfRI/ I ended up writing about 2000 words over at Perpetual Beta on my experience with the Google ChromeOS Cr-48 laptop thus far, and see no reason to duplicate all that info here at PatRec. Here’s the review, linked up in 5 parts: Google ChromeOS Notebook – Part 1: Introduction Google ChromeOS Notebook – Part 2: Overview Google ChromeOS Notebook – Part 3: Hardware Google ChromeOS Notebook – Part 4: Performance Google ChromeOS Notebook – Part 5: Conclusions (Source: Pattern Recognition) Thu, 23 Dec 2010 16:10:05 +0100 895159 http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/mobilerss-copies-reeder-interface-backs-down-when-called-on-it/ Yesterday, the developer of the Reeder RSS reader (which I’ve found to be the best RSS reader for either iPhone or iPad) noticed that MobileRSS’s latest version had added some disturbing similarities to Reeder’s interface. He posted some comparison shots on his site and tweeted about it, and the forces of indignant social-network-using Reeder fans went to work. It wasn’t long before both Instapaper and Read It Later, two of the major bookmarking/reformat reading services, both threw their support behind Reeder, and shortly afterward MobileRSS’s developer said it would be resubmitting the app with the similarities to Reeder removed. One of the things I find most interesting about this is that it’s a case of a “ripoff” similarity that was resolved not through costly, lengthy legal action, but rather through the voices of indignant users and curious press—and resolved within a day of its announcement, at that. If you’ve got the community on your side, do you really need the lawyers? (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Thu, 23 Dec 2010 13:15:00 +0100 894678 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/12/23/morris-cohen-1927-2010-a-few-thoughts/ Morris Leo Cohen died on Saturday, December 18, 2010. He had recently celebrated his 83rd birthday. More than a few of us call Morris mentor. During his years at Yale, Harvard, Penn and SUNY Buffalo, he attracted disciples with ease and grace. I trust that a round of tributes will follow his passing, but one aspect that may be neglected is the symbolic value of it for librarianship. Morris was the last great scholar bibliographer of his generation in American law librarianship. Not a scholar who stepped into the role of librarian, Morris was a scholarly bibliographer, a man of great learning, who could quote both Samuel Johnson and Ranganathan in the same sentence. Even more important, he was devoted to bibliographic integrity. While a hardy handful of American law librarians continue to pursue lines of scholarly interest, Morris stands for old-style, careful, bibliographic work. His work showed analytical depth combined with elegant style. It was an endeavor that called for intellectual focus and pure sweat equity. When I first met Morris in 1972, I was a second year law student at Harvard Law School. Sharon Hamby O’Connor, who had been my boss at the undergraduate library, suggested that I meet with him to discuss my very foggy career plans. (Sharon went on to become Law Librarian, Professor and Associate Dean at Boston College Law School, yet another of Morris’s mentees). Inspirational in every possible way, Morris told me to be a law librarian. Looking at him, at his work, and entranced, as so many were, by his sweet manner, he changed my life. I recall that on that day he told me of BEAL, his projected Bibliography of Early American Law. It was an ambitious project, conceived of with Balfour Halevy, that ultimately was designed to prepare a catalog that listed each and every legal imprint in the United States published before 1860. Ideally, Morris would look at each book in person. ... Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:00:01 +0100 895185 http://lovetheliberry.blogspot.com/2010/12/crazy-interaction.html Man: I've got 55 minutes left of computer time, and I don't want to waste it. I don't know how I can find buyers for my land on Google. I own 17 acres of ocean view land in State Y. I'm 55 years old and I don't know how to work the computer. Me: Do you have a real estate agent?Man: Oh no. I don't want them to take all my money.Me: We have books on for sale by owner.Man: No, I don't want those. I want you to show me how to find a buyer for my 17 acres of ocean view land, even if they are in Japan. ... then he asked me if I'd be interested in buying the land or know someone who would be interested.Not a service we provide. (Source: Love the Liberry) Thu, 23 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895097 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/QlpGaHIWqsQ/handig-snelle-online-samenwerking-met.html Vandaag heb ik kennisggemaakt met een nieuw product uit de laboratoria van Google: Shared Spaces. Het concept is vrij simpel: je logt in een met je account (als je die hebt uiteraard) bij Twitter, Google of Yahoo en je kunt vervolgens 'een ruimte' aanmaken waarin je met anderen samenwerkt, bijvoorbeeld door samen een tekening te maken, of een diagram, door een reis te plannen op een kaart, door een poll te beantwoorden of zelfs door samen een Sudoku te doen. Er staan maar liefst vijftig verschillende applicaties tot je beschikking. Deze manier van samenwerken is niet nieuw. Afspraken maakten we al via Doodle (toch?) en online schaken deden we al in 1997 bij Yahoo. Het grote verschil is dat Google alles nu samenbrengt en  het daarmee een stuk behapbaarder maakt. Een aanwinst. @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:33:00 +0100 894525 http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=2672 Google has added a feature to its advanced search form that allows you to filter results by reading level or add information about a page’s reading level to the information in the results. Reading level is indicated as “basic,” “intermediate,” or “advanced.” Like most of what goes on underneath the Google hood, we aren’t given much information about how reading level is computed. I am constitutionally against anything that could be construed as “dumbing down,” but I have to confess that I find this feature interesting. Working with first-year students in an academic library I often find myself wishing that we had a way to search bibliographic databases that would provide scholarly acceptable content that the students were actually able to comprehend. Something like this technology could be used in a bibliographic database, although I am sure its application in a reference setting would be potentially awkward and intellectual freedom issues would emerge. In checking out this feature, I noticed that Google’s advanced search page includes some additions that I would have to call welcome and surprising from a librarian’s standpoint. If you haven’t looked at it for a while you should check it out (including the collapsed features at the bottom). (Source: Library Juice) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 19:07:14 +0100 895080 http://infobib.de/blog/2010/12/22/google-datawiki/ Google legt momentan ein flottes Tempo vor. Über den nGram Viewer wurde inzwischen anderswo so viel geschrieben, das spare ich mir erstmal. Auf Shared Spaces wurde hier noch gar nicht eingegangen. Aber DataWiki kann man hier nicht unerwähnt lassen. Es handelt sich hierbei um ein Wiki für strukturierte Daten. In eigenen Worten With DataWiki it should be easy to: * create and edit structured data * create simple mashup applications in a few minutes * define formats in terms of others, e.g. Missing Person reports = vCard (who) + GeoRSS (last seen) + string (current status note) * share information with other systems via built-in federation * enable easy input/output from a variety of endpoints, e.g. via Twitter, ODK or SMS from a remote location Es gibt ein Gästebuch, an dem man ein wenig probieren kann. Einträge erstellen und suchen (z.B. nach Hans Dampf) kann man auch hier: Finden Erstellen Name: Comment: Gender: Country: Homepage: Name: Comment: Gender: Country: Homepage: Eine kleine Dokumentation gibt es auch, ebenso die Möglichkeit, DataWiki (Open Source) selbst zu installieren. Man kann seine Daten also in der Cloud lagern, muss aber nicht. Wer sehen möchte, was in Googles Laboren noch alles entwickelt wurde und wird, sollte sich diesen kurzen Überblick ansehen. (Source: Infobib) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:28:57 +0100 894697 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/author-frustrated-with-google-books-distressing-options-hidden-until-after-book-listed/ Author Allen Harkleroad listed his books with Google Books and found out, only after listing the book, that some options that were not at all palatable to him were only shown after he had already listed his book. Another item that disturbed me was several options in Google Books that I discovered by digging around such as allow libraries to display the entire contents of the books. While I do not mind people reading a portion of my book before buying I just cannot, financially speaking, afford to have the entire contents available. He also round that the lowest level (20%) of preview exposed too much of his books. He writes “how-to” books and “… much of the previews that Google displayed as previews were the ‘meat’ of my books. Thus allowing browsers to see things that might encourage them not to buy the books because the information was in the previews….” Full article at Designer Today. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:25:02 +0100 894413 http://www.teleread.com/drm/star-trek-digital-download-expiration-why-should-media-be-like-milk/ While this is not specifically about e-books, it is about an experience in transitioning from physical to digital media, and it should provide a lesson to all fields that are taking these steps—including books to e-books. A number of movies, especially titles from Paramount or Disney (such as Pixar’s Wall•E), have been coming with an “extra third disc” lately, containing a DRM-girt digital copy which can be transferred either to iTunes or Windows Media Player. This saves the buyer the trouble of ripping the thing, and lets the studio charge a little extra and feel they can keep some modicum of DRM control over the final product. Yesterday I received a friend’s Christmas gift—the Blu-Ray 3-disc version of the Abrams Star Trek movie, from my Amazon wish list. (I don’t have a Blu-Ray player yet, but I believe in future-proofing.) On the back of the box, in the fine print, I noticed the following: The enclosed code that permits “authorization” (i.e., transfer of digital copy from DVD-ROM to your computer) is not valid after November 17, 2010. Authorization is not possible outside of the U.S. No refunds if authorization is unsuccessful or unavailable. Needless to say, I was curious whether my digital copy would, in fact, work, so I did a little googling. I found an Amazon discussion of the expiration date, in which a number of people complained, and one person posted the responses he’d gotten from Paramount. At first he just got a brush-off: “Thank you for your interest in Paramount Digital Copy, but unfortunately that feature offering is no longer available for Star Trek.” But later, he received another e-mail: Thank you for your interest in "Star Trek" and Digital Copy. Due to popular demand, we are extending the redemption period for the Digital Copy offering on this title. Please try your Digital Copy disc again as you should now be able to redeem your digital copy of "Star Trek. ... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 13:15:00 +0100 894415 http://sites.menashalibrary.org/2010/12/22/beware/ Beware the lure of the extension or add on!  If you are anything like me, you see articles that list the top 10 Chrome extensions or Firefox add ons and suddenly you have them all loaded to try them out.   Then your browser and computer s-l-o-w down and you can’t figure out why.  I mean, those are extensions that you aren’t using right now.  The add-ons are there but not active.  But that is simply not the case. My recommendation is that if things are getting sluggish on your browser, you head straight to that list of add-ons and extensions and start cutting until it is down to the ones that you use every day.  I did it today on Google Chrome.  It was difficult to get rid of some of the extensions that I really like.  But I eliminated any of them that are just for aesthetics.  Ones that make Gmail more attractive or add icons to Google Reader.  Bye bye. And now?  It is like I have a new computer without wiping and reinstalling anything.  I still have my must-have plug ins.  Which I would list for you, but I wouldn’t want to encourage extension bloat.  My New Year’s resolution is to keep extensions and add-ons in hand.  2012 might just be the year that it will actually happen.  But ask me in July when I’m complaining about my browsers being slow again.  (Source: Sites and Soundbytes) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895131 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Hangingtogetherorg/~3/T1ejWmVI38M/ As 2010 winds down, we’d like to call attention to some of the things we’ve worked on or created this year. You can see a rundown of highlights here. I’ve spent some time playing with mapFAST, which is a mashup between Google Maps and the FAST Geographic subject headings. This is a really neat way to explore the intersection between a geographic area and publications of all sorts. I grew up in Garden Grove, California, so I used that as a launching pad for exploration. I like that the mapFAST display shows Garden Grove and its environs (note how close to Disneyland it is!). Browsing through the WorldCat results, there are of course numerous city planning documents, but also some interesting surprises. There’s a masters thesis based on survey data collected in the Garden Grove elementary schools, dating from close to the time I was a student. There’s also quite a bit on the Garden Grove Community Church, which I found curious until I realized that’s the old name for the Crystal Cathedral (home of the Hour of Power broadcasts). I was also able to find links to images of the “new” Crystal Cathedral during construction. In addition to links to WorldCat.org, mapFAST also offers links to Google Books. I was surprised at how much content is available, almost too much even for the most ardent Garden Grove enthusiast. You can find out more about mapFAST here, and more about FAST here. And if you are thirsty for more, you can check out a three-page summary of our accomplishments over the last five years. (Source: hangingtogether.org) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:52:47 +0100 895039 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/OT0ZaaSPdgU/ A few days ago, in the post Translate to Google Statistical (“Google Standard”?!) English?, Iwondered whether there were any apps that looked for convergence of phrases going from one language, to another, and back again until a limit was reached. A comment from Erik at digitalmethods.net posted a link to Translation Party, a single web page app that looks for limit cycles between English and Japanese (as a default). Having a look at the source, it seems there’s a switch to let you search for limits between English and other languages too, as the following screenshot shows: (Though I have to admit I don’t fully understand why the phrase in the above example appears to map to two different French translations?!) Here’s another – timely – example, showing the dangers of this iterative approach to translation… The switch is the URL argument lang=LANGUAGE_CODE, so for example, the French translation can be cued using http://www.translationparty.com/?lang=fr. Another fun toy for the holiday break is the Google Books Ngrams trends viewer, that plots the occurrence of searched for phrases across a sample of books scanned as part of the Google Books project. Here’s another one: This is reminiscent of other trendspotting tools such as Google Trends (time series trends in Google search), or Trendistic ((time series trends in Twitter), which long-time readers may recall I’ve posted about before. (See also: Trendspotting, the webrhythms hashtag archive.) (Source: OUseful Info) Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:47:03 +0100 895054 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/YeBb5yxVA_k/johnt The Leader's Guide to Radical Management: What's Google's biggest strategic issue? Create Colleagues, Not Competitors - Harvard Business Review http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2395128285/encourage-hoarding-by-rewarding Pinboard (Source: Library clips) Tue, 21 Dec 2010 08:00:00 +0100 894357 http://lovetheliberry.blogspot.com/2010/12/art.html Girl: Do you have Strawberries with Whipped Cream by James Patterson.I look all over-- the catalog, Fantastic Fiction, Amazon, Google Books, etc. to finally learn that it is the epilogue to Sundays at Tiffany's.Girl (to her dad): Why did they name the epilogue that?Dad: Because it's art. They can do whatever they want. Why did Picasso paint people with three eyes? Because it's art! (Source: Love the Liberry) Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895098 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62784 Direct to The Journal of Electronic Publishing (December 2010, 13.3) Articles in This Issue Include: + JEP Bids Farewell to Long-Time Editor by Maria Bonn + Hypernews, Hyperreaders and Beyond by Alexander Hay Key to any understanding of online journalism is the nature of its readership, as in, the [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 20 Dec 2010 23:35:00 +0100 894080 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/YwfLqUl7yqk/ Searching for medical apps for smart phones can be a bit of a pain.  It seems like medical professionals when browsing for good apps need to sift through the thousands calorie counter apps before they can find something like Epocrates.  To try and make things a little easier, iTunes created a medical category which is separate from the health and fitness category.  It is isn’t fool proof, there are still some apps that get thrown into the medical category which really don’t belong, but in general it helps. It appears that Android users will soon have a medical category too.  According to iMedicalApps, Google is set to launch a medical category for Android Market apps this week.  Additionally, they report Google is asking developers to send larger screen shots of their apps for Android Marketplace which has caused some to speculate that Google is planning to put Android Marketplace online.  If it is indeed true, this will help Android using health care professionals find appropriate medical apps.  Librarians might want to keep an eye out for when this goes live so they can add it to their list of resources (if they keep track of smart phone resources). Tweet This Post (Source: The Krafty Librarian) Mon, 20 Dec 2010 21:44:41 +0100 894115 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/5viFUTcGxcQ/middelburg-dronk-update-ii.html Dat van die hals had ik al vastgesteld maar nu ik eenmaal ben begonnen met het vullen van de Wiki Middelburg Dronk kan ik daar aan toevoegen dat het steeds gekker wordt. Ik begin een beetje verslaafd te worden aan dit hobbyproject. Dat heeft alles te maken met het feit dat er weliswaar nog ontzettend veel informatie ontbreekt, maar dat ik met behulp van bronnen als de Beeldbank Zeeland, Krantenbank Zeeland, Zeeland in Beeld, Geschiedenis Zeeland en Google Books toch steeds meer gegevens boven water krijg. Inmiddels heb ik er ook voor gekozen om het onderwerp iets ruimer te nemen. Aanvankelijk wilde ik het beperken tot cafés van ca. 1960 tot nu, maar inmiddels heb ik besloten de beperking in tijd los te laten en voeg ik ook andere gelegenheden toe, zoals discotheken en herbergen. De voorwaarde is dan wel dat de consumptie van drank minstens even belangrijk is als de andere activiteiten. Of belangrijker uiteraard. Omdat ik me nu ook moet gaan verdiepen in de oude geschiedenis van Middelburgse cafés (die heetten vroeger koffiehuizen, en nog vroeger dus herbergen) moet ik me automatisch ook wat meer gaan verdiepen in de geschiedenis van de stad. Ik wist bijvoorbeeld niet dat Napoleon nog eens op bezoek kwam, in Herberg Het Groenewoud en las met open mond dat sommige zaken in de jaren '70 Fransen die werkzaam waren bij Pechiney weerden. Terwijl er puzzelstukjes op hun plaats beginnen te vallen wordt de puzzel groter en groter. Dat geeft allemaal niets. Ik word er niet minder enthousiast door, integendeel. Het project leert me nu wel goed hoe beperkt Google eigenlijk is, als het gaat om informatie van tien jaar geleden of daarvoor. Oude foto's krijg je in veel gevallen niet boven water, oude nieuwsberichten ook niet. Als het gaat om krantenbanken is het juist de periode na de Tweede Wereldoorlog die nu nog niet beschikbaar is. Ik kan nauwelijks wachten tot die periode beschikbaar komt... ... Mon, 20 Dec 2010 16:47:00 +0100 894077 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62762 From an Article by Barbara Casassus Appearing in The Bookseller: In a major policy about-turn, Google has said it will not enforce exclusivity clauses in contracts to scan and index library book collection, according to an opinion about online advertising released last week by the French competition watchdog. Partners of Google Book [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 20 Dec 2010 15:51:00 +0100 894085 http://infobib.de/blog/2010/12/20/wer-traut-der-cloud/ Gartner hat Cloud Computing zu einer der Strategic Technologies for 2011 erklärt. In Wikipedia ist Cloud Computing folgendermaßen zusammengefasst: Ein Teil der IT-Landschaft (in diesem Zusammenhang etwa Hardware wie Rechenzentrum, Datenspeicher sowie Software wie Mail- oder Kollaborationssoftware, Entwicklungsumgebungen, aber auch Spezialsoftware wie Customer-Relationship-Management (CRM) oder Business-Intelligence (BI)) wird durch den Anwender nicht mehr selbst betrieben oder bereitgestellt, sondern von einem oder mehreren Anbietern als Dienst gemietet. Die Anwendungen und Daten befinden sich dann nicht mehr auf dem lokalen Rechner oder im Firmenrechenzentrum, sondern in der (metaphorischen) Wolke (engl. „cloud“). Das Bild der Wolke wird in Netzwerkdiagrammen häufig zur Darstellung eines nicht näher spezifizierten Teils des Internet verwendet. Es geht als darum, Ressourcen zu sparen. Klingt attraktiv, doch kann man der Cloud wirklich trauen? Zwei Fälle in der jüngsten Vergangenheit sollten mindestens misstrauisch machen. Yahoo vs. Delicious.com Yahoo will Delicious verkaufen. Zumindest nicht mehr schließen, wie es kurze Zeit hieß. Auch wenn sich die erste Aufregung schon wieder ein wenig gelegt hat, steht fest, dass Delicious und ähnliche, in der Cloud gelagerten Dienste nicht Teil einer kritischen Infrastruktur sein dürfen. Wenn die Linksammlung einer Bibliothek kurze Zeit ausfällt, bis sie zu einem anderen Dienst übertragen ist, wäre das nur ärgerlich. Es sind jedoch auch Szenarien denkbar, in denen ein Dienst wie Delicious eine für den Fortgang einer Bibliothek oder eines Forschungsprojekts wesentlichere Funktion einnimmt. Wikileaks vs. Amazon Man mag von den Cablegate-Veröffentlichungen halten, was man will. Fakt ist, dass bislang niemand für die Veröffentlichung der Depeschen verklagt oder gar verurteilt wurde. Dennoch hat sich Amazon, wo Wikileaks bislang in der EC2-Cloud gehostet wurde, dazu entschieden, Wikileaks auszusperren. ... Mon, 20 Dec 2010 10:10:30 +0100 894700 http://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/online-information-review.html Theses papers have been published in the latest issue of Online Information Review:Why do members contribute knowledge to online communities?User evaluation of textual results clustering for web search,Understanding the consistent use of internet health information,Three-dimensional context-aware tailoring of information,How to improve trust toward electronic banking,Antecedents and consequences of trust in online product recommendations: An empirical study in social shopping,Genre analysis of bookmarked webpages,Pragmatic issues in calculating and comparing the quantity and quality of research through rating and ranking of researchers based on peer reviews and bibliometric indicators from Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar. (Source: The Invisible Web Weblog) Mon, 20 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 895027 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/17230 Cites & Insights 11:1 (January 2011) is now available for downloading. The 32-page issue is a PDF download as usual. HTML separates–or, in one case, PDF separate–are available for most essays; follow the links below. This issue includes: Bibs & Blather (pp. 1-2) Announcing The Liblog Landscape 2007-2010 (and a pre-Midwinter early-bird discount) and Cites & Insights 10 in book form (also with a pre-Midwinter discount). Interesting & Peculiar Products (pp. 2-9) Sixteen products and eight roundups/Editors’ Choices, from USB 3.0 to Windows 7 on an 11-year-old PC. The Liblog Landscape 2007-2010: Chapter 3: How, Where and When (pp. 9-18) [Note: This link is to a 6x9" PDF.] Six aspects of most or all of the 1,304 liblogs in this massive study: How they’re created (blogging software), where they’re written (country of origin), how visible they are (Google Page Rank), when they began, how long they’ve lasted and currency (a timed snapshot of freshness of posts). Trends & Quick Takes (p (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Mon, 20 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894117 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NetbibWeblog/~3/bZqKwY9LjpM/ Googlewatch- und andere Blogs, die Googles Angebote beobachten, haben darauf hingewiesen, dass es nun ein extra Template für die Darstellung der Blogger-Weblogs auf mobilen Endgeräten gibt. Sieht ganz nett aus, hier links das Beispiel von bibvideo. (Source: netbib weblog) Sun, 19 Dec 2010 12:24:31 +0100 893853 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/m2KrZS8kXyc/ Over the last three or four weeks, I’ve been finding myself on all manner of foreign language (i.e. non-English) web pages, and increasingly accepting Google Chrome’s offer to translate the page to English when it recognises the page isn’t in English… It’s still a bit ropey (as a close inspection of the above might suggest (‘select your drive‘???!) but as the algorithm used is powered by a Google training algorithm, the quality is likely to improve as the Goog indexes more and better translations of documents: Anyway – a couple of things came to mind: - translations aren’t into native speaker English, or German, or French, they’re into Google Statistical English, Google Statistical French etc etc - I hope that the Goog doesn’t treat it’s own translations as training documents (though it could end up with some intriguing mistranslations…) - Mandelbrot comes to mind, and the question whether anyone has done a limit cycle translator that takes a foreign language document, translates it into English, back to French, back to English and so on unti the English translation is stable? If the translation at each (English) step was fed into a wiki, could the wiki history be used to compare versions of the document and ‘colour’ different parts of it depending on how quickly those areas of the document converge to a stable translation? Does convergence happen at a different rate if you translate through different routes that appear to be more stable (for example, Austrian-German-English rather than Austrian English?!) - Google has started doing “reading levels” as an advanced search switch, so will we start seeing “translate this “advanced” English page into “basic” English? Or maybe Google will offer the ability to translate all pages, including those ... Sat, 18 Dec 2010 19:10:11 +0100 893804 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62738 From a Silicon Valley Insider Article by Matt Rosoff: Outgoing Connecticut attorney general Richard Blumenthal said he's "disappointed" that Google hasn't turned over data that the company's StreetView vehicles collected. [Clip] Google has promised to erase the data and make sure not to collect similar data in the future. This [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Sat, 18 Dec 2010 17:17:00 +0100 893783 http://librarychronicles.blogspot.com/2010_12_01_archive.html#2411581184774643805 Google Books Ngram generator.See this NYT article for an explanation. With little fanfare, Google has made a mammoth database culled from nearly 5.2 million digitized books available to the public for free downloads and online searches, opening a new landscape of possibilities for research and education in the humanities.The digital storehouse, which comprises words and short phrases as well as a year-by-year count of how often they appear, represents the first time a data set of this magnitude and searching tools are at the disposal of Ph.D.’s, middle school students and anyone else who likes to spend time in front of a small screen. It consists of the 500 billion words that are contained in books published between 1800 and 2000 in English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese, Russian and Hebrew.The intended audience is scholarly, but a simple online tool also allows anyone with a computer to plug in a string of up to five words and see a graph that charts the phrase’s use over time — a diversion that can quickly become as addictive as the habit-forming video game Angry Birds.I don't even play Angry Birds but I could play this all day long. For example, wondering if the internet really is killing journalism? The graph suggests perhaps.And in this one we see that bicycle lanes clearly have no impact on global warming.The dip at the end of this one suggests that NFL defenses may finally be reclaiming the upper hand.This seems about right.As does the obligatory comparison.My favorite so far compares seven common vices. I wish these graphs were embeddable but you should really click on this one and take a close look. I find it interesting to see narcotics, prostitution and even gambling all appear to have peaked while liquor and bacon are in the midst of a resurgence. ... Sat, 18 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894600 http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/026018.html 7 Useful Google Cheatsheets – Download for Free [Search Engine Journal]... (Source: beSpacific) Sat, 18 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893770 http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/026020.html "Welcome to Body Browser - To use Body Browser, you'll need a Web browser with WebGL support. Click here to... (Source: beSpacific) Sat, 18 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893767 http://www.librarian.net/stax/3427/google-books-ngrams-on-hegel-and-hitler-and-ocr/ So hey this is interesting. I’ve skipped a lot of the Google Books ebookstore stuff lately because I’m honestly not sure what to make of it. And I don’t buy books anyhow. But a friend mentioned this Google Labs Ngram viewer, a fun tool that lets you search the full corpus of the Google Books databases. Here’s a New York Times article about it and data geeks should read the article Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books (free reg. required – click for PDF ILL) or nose around in the datasets. I did my own dopey search pictures above – Hegel vs. Hitler. And here’s what’s interesting. The big jump in the late 1940′s is fairly predictable, but who was talking about Hitler in 1620? I clicked through and poked around some and here’s what I found. No one was talking about Hitler. OCR is, as you know, imperfect. So the words that Google Books’ optical character recognition thought of as “Hitler” were actually words like “Ruler” and “bitter” and “herbe.” How about that? (Source: librarian.net) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:47:37 +0100 894028 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/google-releases-new-database-of-500-billion-words/ From an article in the NY Times: With little fanfare, Google has made a mammoth database culled from nearly 5.2 million digitized books available to the public for free downloads and online searches, opening a new landscape of possibilities for research and education in the humanities. Enlarge This Image The digital storehouse, which comprises words and short phrases as well as a year-by-year count of how often they appear, represents the first time a data set of this magnitude and searching tools are at the disposal of Ph.D.’s, middle school students and anyone else who likes to spend time in front of a small screen. It consists of the 500 billion words contained in books published between 1500 and 2008 in English, French, Spanish, German, Chinese and Russian. The intended audience is scholarly, but a simple online tool allows anyone with a computer to plug in a string of up to five words and see a graph that charts the phrase’s use over time — a diversion that can quickly become as addictive as the habit-forming game Angry Birds. … “The goal is to give an 8-year-old the ability to browse cultural trends throughout history, as recorded in books,” said Erez Lieberman Aiden, a junior fellow at the Society of Fellows at Harvard. Mr. Lieberman Aiden and Jean-Baptiste Michel, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, assembled the data set with Google and spearheaded a research project to demonstrate how vast digital databases can transform our understanding of language, culture and the flow of ideas. Much more info in the article. Thanks to Bookofjoe for the heads-up. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:40:57 +0100 893400 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/ebook-are-5-of-hachettes-total-sales/ The Bookseller has a report of a letter sent to authors by Tim Hely Hutchinson, Hachette’s ceo. Here’s a snippet. A lot more at the site: In a letter to authors dominated by digital issues, Tim Hely Hutchinson said e-books were now a “significant” part of Hachette’s business. He said in the United States, e-book sales had been tripling year on year, from 1% of total sales in 2008 to 9% this year. He said: “Our market in Britain and the Commonwealth is not far behind and, actually, I would not be surprised if the British and Australian markets were to end up with a higher percentage of ebook sales than that of the USA.” … He said Google’s planned move into e-books next year “might be another game-changer” although added: “Google has not, to put it mildly, always been a favourite of those of us who live by copyright, and any agreements we make with Google will be negotiated with great care, protecting your and our mutual interests.” (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:34:13 +0100 893401 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/booksellers-marketing-google-ebooks-in-clever-ways/ From Shelf Awareness: Booksellers are marketing Google eBooks in a variety of creative ways, Bookselling This Week reported. For example, among other steps, the Book Bin, Northbrook Ill., is offering loaner Sony Readers, has featured a range of e-readers in a store display and has a large sign in-store announcing that it is selling e-books. Rainy Day Books, Fairway, Kan., is promoting e-books in a variety of ways and will highlight a handful of e-book titles in its weekly newsletter. Several booksellers, including the Tattered Cover, Denver, Colo., and Kepler’s, Menlo Park, Calif., are considering or are offering discounts on non-agency model e-book titles. Kepler’s has promoted “aggressive discounts” on five such titles. (For more on indies and Google eBooks, see Robert Gray’s column below.) (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 14:53:41 +0100 893405 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/google/google-ngram-viewer-la-tortilla-vence-a-la-pizza/ Google Labs acaba de publicar una nueva herramienta que bucea en el interior de los millones de libros digitalizados por Google estos últimos años: Ngram Viewer. Así, podemos rastrear el uso de las palabras que queramos en los libros a lo largo de los años, ver su evolución, cuando se hablaba más de una cosa…Los datos arrancan en el año 1800 y van hasta el 2008, con lo que podemos tener una visión bastante amplia de como ha evolucionado el lenguage y su uso historicamente.Incluso no se limita sólo al idioma inglés, sino que podemos buscar términos en chino, francés, alemán, ruso y también español.Por ejemplo, si comparamos el uso de ‘tortilla’ con el de ‘pizza’ en la literatura hispana veremos que la tortilla sigue venciendo, y por muchos puntos.¿Tienes un producto que lanzar? ¿Quieres que llegue a la máxima audiencia?Te ofrecemos este espacio para patrocinar nuestro feed RSS durante una semanaQuiero más información (Source: La brujula verde) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 09:51:32 +0100 893883 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/rbExB9gDNBA/nogmaals-over-het-niet-mogen-uitlenen.html Jan de Waal heeft op Bibliotheek de moeite genomen om ons bij te praten over de delicate kwestie van het uitlenen van e-readers met boeken erop, door bibliotheken. Ik ben blij dat Jan het doet, maar raak wel steeds meer overtuigd van de noodzaak van een plan B. Ik reageerde: Zonder te weten wat de perspectieven werkelijk zijn overheerst hier maar een gevoel: dat we bezig zijn met het versieren van een onbereikbare vrouw/man. Ik hoop uiteraard dat dit gevoel ten oprechte kriebelt, maar denk ondertussen wel de kant van Jeroen op: het is verdomd jammer dat wij zo braaf moeten zijn. Dit zou achteraf inderdaad best eens een van de kantelpunten kunnen zijn die de positie van Google als 'nieuwe bibliotheek' definitief verankert. Geduld is een schone zaak, maar 'een plan B', bijv. bibliotheken als keiharde want goedkope concurrenten voor de uitgevers, vind ik steeds interessanter worden. Wij hebben ook een groot netwerk onder schrijvers, zeker op regionaal gebied...en hebben ook nog steeds een groot bereik. Dat veel mensen vinden dat uitgeven niet de taak van bibliotheken is, is dan jammer. Uitlenen was ook niet de taak van Google en Amazon. Op de digitale wereld kun je de oude wetten van de boekenwereld niet langer loslaten...Op naar scenario 5 van  'eBook Feasibility Study for Public Libraries' dan maar? We moeten niet vergeten dat alle 'middlemen' (reisbureau's, bibliotheken, uitgevers, makelaars) zich bedreigd voelen. Lees vooral ook de tien interviews met uitgevers, over e-boeken, in State of Print, op Frankwatching (PDF). @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:51:00 +0100 893416 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/GOmDMYo1pkM/woorden-analyseren-met-googles-n-gram.html Van de uitleg van de N-gram viewer snap ik niet zo veel, of beter gezegd: wil ik niet veel snappen. Zelfs als ik er iets over lees in het Nederlands blijft het een vaag model. Ik skip daarom de toelichting en beperk me tot een vermelding. Met deze tool kun je op basis van een grote verzameling data, zien hoe vaak bepaalde woorden voorkomen in boeken, in een bepaalde periode. Als je doorklikt op de jaartallen worden de zoekresultaten in Google Boeken meteen beperkt op die periode. Google moedigt ons aan om zelf ook te experimenteren met de data maar dat laat ik toch liever over aan de jongens en meisjes die hier meteen de nuttige toepassingen in herkennen. Als jij jezelf daartoe rekent hoor ik later graag van je wat je allemaal hebt ontdekt. Ik kom niet veel verder dan de constatering dat het woordje oorlog vaker voorkomt in teksten dan liefde...maar dat het verschil vooral groot was toen de koude oorlog op z'n hoogtepunt was. Naarmate de tijd verstrijkt komen de woorden nader tot elkaar, qua verschijningsfrequentie. Dat linkt best analytisch, als je het snel zegt :-) @ Attendering: Michel Rijnders (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 08:06:00 +0100 893417 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/editors-pick-of-the-week-28/ A defense of pagination New BookReader on the Internet Archive View from Down Under: Kindle for Web vs. Google Ebookstore, by Jason Davis Amazon removes incest-related erotica titles from store, Kindle archive, by Chris Meadows A geographical restriction warning for those of you giving an iPad/iPod – it may go unactivated! by Joanna What ereader would I recommend for the holidays? The Editor’s picks The most important ereader company you’ve never heard of, by Eric Hellman Amazon provides authors with data that publishers won’t —————— The Peter Ginna trilogy ————— The last country house party? Ebooks and publishing’s phony war, by Peter Ginna More on P versus E books: bookstores, and printed books, aren’t dead. But … – by Peter Ginna Why we should get ready for a plunge in print book sales, by Peter Ginna ————————————————————– Underwhelmed by Google’s ebookstore, by Joe Wikert Harvard announces research/planning initiative for a “Digital Public Library of America”, by Gary Price Amazon’s power play: Nielson data as a gateway drug, by Eoin Purcell Ebooks take the fun out of giving? Well allow me to retort …, by Jason Davis Booknología / Booknologie / Booknology now available in Spanish Is Publetariat worth a dollar to you? The site, and its owner, April Hamilton, are in trouble Google’s indie-bookstore reseller plan stumbles on reseller price issue, by Chris Meadows (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:26:28 +0100 893260 http://outofthejungle.blogspot.com/2010/12/new-study-using-google-books.html The Boston Globe reports on a fascinating cooperative effort where GoogleBooks has created a new tool, the Google Books Ngram Viewer which allows a researcher to sift through the materials scanned into the Google Books project, and automatically calculate the frequency of a word and watch it change over time. You can then compare the changing frequency of different words across the decades or centuries. It can be very interesting. The link above demonstrates at Google Labs with "Atlantis" and "El Dorado." But perhaps meatier questions (ha, ha) are raised by the examples in the Globe article. The online article reproduces what I saw in my print paper, and you can see it better online. They looked at changing frequencies of appearances of food terms: sausage, ice cream, hamburger, steak, pizza, pasta, and sushi. You can imagine that in English language publications, instances of pizza and sushi in particular, and pasta, a bit, have really only begun appearing since their popularization by returning World War II veterans. Increasing acceptance of ground beef, improved food inspection perhaps as well, and certainly the rise of fast food chains have increased the frequency of "hamburger." They also tested the changing terms for types of influenzas. They looked at the frequency of the use of the word "God." This last in particular, allows the reporter to explain that this new tool is merely that. It is a new addition to the scholar's tool chest. It does not take the place of the scholar. The scholar eventually will have to sit down and read at least a portion of the literature. It makes a great difference if the appearance of "God" is in a prayer or an ejaculation or a discussion of theology. So the graphs carry a certain amount of meaning, but to really understand WHAT it means, the scholar still needs to visit the literature. ... Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893597 http://www.bespacific.com/mt/archives/026017.html Inside Google Books: "The Ngram Viewer lets you graph and compare phrases from these datasets over time, showing how their... (Source: beSpacific) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893584 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/C7QQxCw6DD4/thinking_out_loud_whats_driving_groupon.php In the current issue of the New Yorker, columnist James Surowiecki, who I generally admire, gets it exactly wrong when it comes to Groupon. He writes: " But it seems unlikely that it’s going to become a revolutionary company, along the lines of YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and Google. ....Groupon, by contrast, is a much more old-school business. It doesn’t have any obvious technological advantage. Its users don’t really do anything other than hit the “buy” button. And its business requires lots of hands-on attention..." Well, that's a defensible opinion, but after visiting CEO Andrew Mason this week in Chicago, and thinking about it a bit, I must say that I wholeheartedly diasagree. Many folks think of Groupon as a relatively simple idea. A daily deal, a large sales force, and that's about it. Too easy to copy (there are scores of "Groupon clones"), and too labor intensive (the more small businesses you want to work with, the more sales and service people you need). All this is true. But it fails to understand the power of Groupon's model. To sum it up: Groupon has built a new channel into the heart of the the world's economic activity: Small businesses. And it is that channel where the true power lies. First, the economic math: Small businesses create more than 50% of US GDP and create more than 75% of net new jobs each year. But small businesses represent a fragmented, maddeningly difficult sector of our economy - 23 million small pieces loosely joined. Any platform that has connected them and added value to their bottom line has turned into a massive new business. Over the past century, there have been two such new platforms. The most recent is Google, a proxy for the rise of the web as a platform for small business lead generation. Before that, it was the Yellow Pages, a proxy for the rise of the telephone as a platform for lead generation. ... Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893574 http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/2010/12/wanted-top-rated-applied-science-engineering-college-for-nyc.html Worried that New York City is not spawning enough technology-based start-up companies with the potential to become big employers like Google, city officials are inviting universities around the world to create an engineering campus on city-owned land. Despite being home to more college students than any other city in the country, New York lacks a top-rated engineering school. Robert K. Steel (Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893384 http://rabid-librarian.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-favourite-part-of-movie.html It's so fluffy I'm going to die! Although the whole movie is quite fun. :) Sadly, I didn't see anything in Google Reader or on Twitter or Facebook to post here. I did enter a contest to win a 42" HD big screen television, which if I win will make an awesome present for a friend (but I'm not holding my breath). (Source: The Rabid Librarian's Ravings in the Wind) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893298 http://lisnews.org/google_book_tool_tracks_cultural_change_words A searchable database of more than 500 billion words from millions of books published over the past four centuries is now online. Researchers say the tool, which is a collection of words and phases stripped of all context except the date in which they appeared, is a powerful way to study cultural change. Full story (Source: LISNews.org) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:22:33 +0100 893254 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/12/16/googles-ngram-viewer/ I’ve only just come across Books Ngram Viewer, a Google Labs tool that lets you derive graphs from their Books database at the text level. You can enter up to three terms and graph the frequency with which each term occur in a given corpus over time. Drawn from five million of the 15 million books Google has digitized thus far, there are five corpora in English, and one for each of Chinese (simplified), French, Spanish, Russian, and German. In English, the basic corpus has books ranging from 1500 to 2008 and is offered without any filtering except as to quality of OCR and metadata, resulting in 361 billion words. Further filtering produces English Fiction, British English (published in UK), and American English (published in US). There’s also the English Million, built of 6000 books from each year randomly selected. The About page explains all this and more, and alerts you to the fact that punctuation counts in this exercise. (If you’re interested in the difficult math and linguistics issues encountered in constructing the Viewer, feel free to get yourself a free account on Science and read “Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books.“) To illustrate what can be done, I ran a search on the word “privacy” in books from 1900 to 2008, resulting in this graph: Click on image to enlarge. It’s also interesting to run terms against each other to seek correlations (not causes, remember). Thus, in a graph produced by Rob Sanderson, whose tweet alerted me to this tool, we see the terms [feminism] [terrorism] [civil rights] played out on the same scale: Click on image to enlarge. Note that beneath each block of years there’s a link to books from that period that might be relevant to your search terms. (Source: Slaw) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 22:07:54 +0100 893958 http://blogs.ischool.utexas.edu/infomatters/2010/12/16/culturomics-is-us/ According to a new paper in Science by Michel and Aiden, we are on the dawn of a new form of study, Cuturnomics, enabled by the Google Books. A research team analyzed the language in the millions of books now digitized and yes, searchable. Among the many interesting findings (other than you can make up a word for a field and have it passed along in record time) are: The English language is growing by more than 8500 words per annum The majority of words in the lexicon are undocumented in standard reference materials The half life of the past is decreasing – we reference the past much less much faster than before Media stars become famous faster and obsolete quicker (phew!) Freud is more frequently referenced in our world than Darwin, Einstein or Galileo…but probably not as much as Lady Gaga this year…..(I made that last bit up) Fascinating stuff really, and further proof that digital tools give us access (and thereby potential analysis) of text corpora that could simply not be analyzed by previous researchers. Culturomics indeed (wouldn’t culturnomics be better?) .More at: http://www.culturomics.org/ (Source: InfoMatters) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:17:06 +0100 894127 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62675 Note: The Google Body Browser is ONLY accessible using Google's Chrome Browser* or if you're running the Firefox 4 beta. It's also available from the Chrome 9 Dev Channel and Chrome Canary Build. Direct to Google Body Browser In a nutshell: think Google Maps for the human body. Wow! This is [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:59:04 +0100 893177 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/gmail/gmail-permite-dar-acceso-a-terceros-a-tu-cuenta/ Google anunció ayer una nueva función en Gmail, mediante la cual podemos dar acceso a nuestra cuenta a otras personas. El proceso es realmente sencillo y, una vez completado, la otra persona podrá consultar, leer, responder o borrar nuestro correo sin necesidad de saber la clave. Para ello debe disponer de una cuenta Gmail, con la que podrá acceder al nuestro tan sólo cambiando la cuenta en la pestañita superior que le aparecerá para cambiar entre ellas.Esto es realmente útil en el caso de empresas que dispongan de cuentas a las que quieran dar acceso a todos o alguno de sus empleados. Pero también es interesante en otros casos, como familias o grupos de trabajo. En mi caso, por ejemplo, donde todo mi trabajo se desarrolla online, es esencial el acceso a la cuenta de correo. Si en algún momento, por la razón que sea, no me fuera posible acceder al correo (para gestionar mis dominios, el hosting, etc…) me quedaría más tranquilo sabiendo que mi mujer puede hacerlo por mi, sin necesidad de saber la clave. Poniéndonos en lo peor, ella podría incluso asumir la gestión de todos mis asuntos en caso de necesidad. Claro que esto depende de cada uno, y del nivel de confianza que tenga con la persona a quien vaya a dar acceso.En el video pueden verlo perfectamente explicado.¿Tienes un producto que lanzar? ¿Quieres que llegue a la máxima audiencia?Te ofrecemos este espacio para patrocinar nuestro feed RSS durante una semanaQuiero más información (Source: La brujula verde) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 11:22:55 +0100 893887 http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/flipboard-adds-google-reader-flickr-display-capabilities/ Shortly after Apple called it the “best iPad app of the year,” awesome social reading app Flipboard has a major new update out that adds a couple of much-requested capabilities to the social network reader for the iPad: it now supports Flickr and Google Reader feeds. As Sarah Perez at ReadWriteWeb reports, it actually incorporates most of the functions possible in Google Reader, including starring items, sharing items, marking as read, and so on. That’s certainly a lot more than the Pulse RSS reader has yet managed to do. I tried the new feature out, and it is really neat to see my Google Reader Feed appear as my own personalized magazine. Given that I don’t know many of the people who are my Facebook friends, but I personally selected every newsfeed I want to read, this feels more like a personalized “me-gazine” than ever. On the other hand, I don’t think this is going to supplant Reeder as my normal Google Reader reading method any time soon. As the screenshot demonstrates, I can only see a few stories at a time, from all my sources put together, flipping backward through time—and given that I have to scan through literally hundreds of headlines per day seeking bloggable nuggets, I just don’t have the time for pleasure browsing all of them like that. Reeder lets me focus on single sources and go through and check all their articles off one at a time, and I do that starting the moment I wake up—I take the iPad into bed with me since I use Easy Relax Ultimate to help me sleep, and go through my Reeder feed before I even get out of bed in the morning. Of course, for the average person, who doesn’t have to worry about digging for gold, this could be the best way yet to read Google Reader. However, Robert Scoble notes that this still isn’t quite the version of Flipboard he is waiting for. ... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:55:56 +0100 893170 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/4qoWhxWzrYg/flipboard-uitgebreid-met-google-reader.html De iPad-app Flipboard maakte informatie al bloedmooi maar doet daar in de nieuwste versie nog een schepje bovenop. De ontwikkelaars schrijven op het weblog van het bedrijf dat Google Reader en Flickr nu ook zijn toegevoegd aan de toepassing. Dat op zich is al goed nieuws maar er wordt aan toegevoegd: We have also made a lot of improvements to give you a more beautiful layout, including fully-justified text with hyphenation and faster access to the stories with faster load times. We have eliminated the “read on web” button and now Flipboard automatically loads the original web page, RSS feed or Flipboard Pages view of a story when a reader taps on an excerpt. There is a deeper integration with Flipboard Pages, a way to display web content in a magazine-style layout that Flipboard is currently testing with nine publishers and creates a beautiful, end-to-end reading experience.Kort gezegd komt het erop neer dat de app korte metten maakt met het probleem van 'onvolledige rss-feeds'. Als een website ervoor kiest om de informatie slechts gedeeltelijk te tonen in de nieuwslezer, haalt Flipboard automatisch de rest van de informatie op. Daarmee is de dood van de pageview nu echt ingetreden, ook voor 'de gedwongen pageview'. Goed zo! Half nieuws zuigt. Gerelateerd Volledige of gedeeltelijke rss-feeds: het grote debat De pageview is echt dood: inzicht in Feedburner Nieuwe methoden voor het meten van internetverkeer Nederlandse kranten en RSS; half nieuws @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:25:00 +0100 893172 http://www.affordance.info/mon_weblog/2010/12/culturonomics-juste-une-question-de-corpus-.html A quoi sert de numériser des millions d'ouvrages depuis 2005 ? A ça. Disposer de 4% de tous les livres publiés depuis 2 siècles. 7 langues. 2 milliards de mots. 5,2 millions de livres numérisés "inside" (voir l'article du NYTimes). Ici (Google), le plus grand corpus linguistique de tous les temps. Ailleurs (Facebook), le plus grand "corp(u)s social" numérique. Deux corpus. Mais qu'est-ce qu'un corpus ? "Ensemble de données exploitables dans une expérience d'analyse ou de recherche automatique d'informations." (Source : Trésor de la langue française) "Ensemble de textes établi selon un principe de documentation exhaustive, un critère thématique ou exemplaire" (Source : Trésor de la langue française) Dans le domaine du droit, le corpus : "C'est l'élément matériel de la possession, le pourvoir de fiat exercé sur une chose. (Animus)." Du premier corpus, celui de Google, on ne pourra que se réjouir, pour ce qu'il représente de potentialités ouvertes dans l'aventure linguistique comme compréhension du monde. Et l'on mettra du temps à en épuiser les possibles. Mais nul doute qu'il contribuera aussi à alimenter tous les fantasmes, celui, notamment, d'une "intelligence artificielle" dévoyée, apprenant à penser en déchiffrant ce que le plus grand corpus du monde révèle des pensées de ce même monde. Les ingénieurs ont même inventé un mot pour cela : "culturonomics". Culture et génomique. Enthousiasmant. Pour l'instant. Et pour les linguistes. Du second corpus, celui de Facebook, on ne peut que continuer à raisonnablement s'alarmer. ... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894271 http://rabid-librarian.blogspot.com/2010/12/oh-those-wily-folks-at-google.html Google hides mathematical puzzle in Cr-48 video, rewards its solver with a laptop I love toasting marshmallows over a flaming laptop (except for the poisonous gases). They were very creative in destroying them, but personally I'd start whacking the men in haz mat suits after awhile. Congratulations to Sylvain Zimmer and his buddies, who figured it all out. Now that's true geekiness in motion. The formula is found at 2:26 in the following video: (Source: The Rabid Librarian's Ravings in the Wind) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893303 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/WYvZrgqAqqM/weve_still_lost_the_backlink_and_i_for_one_want_it_back_.php Remember back in the halcyon days of the web, when bloggers shared a sense of community with each other, linking back and forth to each other as a matter of social grace and conversation, as opposed to calculated consideration? Well, if not, that's how it was back in 2003 or so, when I started blogging. Now, that signal (who linked to you recently) is gone, and honestly, not just for blogging. It's also gone for most of the web. Of course, you can find it, if you want to geek out in your refer logs. But honestly, why have we buried it there? The funny thing is, this is the very signal Larry Page was looking for when he came upon the idea for Google with Sergey. Backrub, remember? I sense there's about to be some serious reconsideration of the value of declarative and transparent backlinks. I don't know why, but call it an itch I'm scratchin', rather like that of RSS.... All of this brought on by my continued and early explorations of Tumblr.... (Source: John Battelle's Searchblog) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893118 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62663 Note: Access Google Headlines #1 (Posted Earlier Today) + Privacy: "Googler Quits To Build Browser To Block Google Tracking" (by Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Land) + New Gmail Feature: "Gmail now lets you restore contacts you accidentally deleted" (by Martin Bryant, The Next Web) + New Gmail Feature: New Gmail Feature: [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 16 Dec 2010 00:18:52 +0100 893014 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/kgpYwCsITjI/chrome-for-cause-browsen-voor-een-goed.html Omdat we toch geen privacy hebben en er niets mis is met goede doelen, beveel ik gebruikers van Google Chrome de extensie Chrome for a Cause aan. Het concept is eenvoudig: de extensie telt tussen 15 en 19 december hoeveel tabbladen je opent binnen je browser en zet dat getal om in tegoedpunten voor een goed doel, zoals Room to Read. Mooi toch? Als je nog geen gebruik gemaakt van Chrome is het nu misschien de overweging waard. De browser is snel en schoon en went snel. Naar mijn vorige troetelkindje Firefox taal ik eigenlijk nooit meer. @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 23:12:00 +0100 893010 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62644 Update: We have an extra large amount of Google material today. So, we've posted Google Headlines #2 here. 1. E-Books: “Google’s indie-bookstore reseller plan stumbles on reseller price issue” (by Chris Meadows, TeleRead) 2. Tools: “Google Voice Search update helps you personalize your results” (by Sean Hollister, Endgadget) See Also: "Voice Search [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:30:18 +0100 893017 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PegasusLibrarian/~3/VDLvhlgYAxM/why-would-undergraduates-need-those-clunky-databases-anyway.html Google Scholar has made great strides in the 6 years I’ve been a librarian. It’s great. I use it all the time. And now interesting new research by Xiaotian Chen shows that Google Scholar contains nearly all of the articles held in several standard library databases, which is also great. Chen’s article finishes with a flourish, declaring, “The conclusion cannot be clearer: libraries can seriously consider cancelling a large number of subscription-based abstracts and indexes since their unique contents and value are rapidly evaporating” (Chen 226). This would probably be true if the unique content and value of subscription databases were housed solely in the citation, abstract, and potential for full text access, but in fact it misses the point for many researchers. And it misses the point particularly for undergraduates. Search is all about term matching, and terms are often the hardest thing for undergraduates to harness. So one key value of a database or search engine is the way that it introduces students to helpful information such as terms that might be important to their topics, genres of publication that are relevant to the scholars in the field that study the topic, and ways of judging the source’s relative weight by providing clues about other things the author has written or about how often the source is cited by other sources. These are not things that undergraduates are able to do just by looking at a citation and abstract. Google Scholar is very forgiving of bad searching. It will nearly always give you something, even if you enter “impact of cell phones on globalization” into the search box. (Two of my big goals for this last term were to get students to stop searching for “impact on” and “globalization.” I was only minimally successful.) Because it’s so forgiving, it can be a great place to start. ... Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:03:49 +0100 893024 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/Z9dv4CLMWF8/de-beperkte-schade-van-geen-pagerank.html Zonder pagerank hoef je niet meer te rekenen op veel spontaanbezoek via Google maar als je het over een wat langere periode bekijkt, valt het best mee, met de schade. Bovenin een indruk van de statistieken van de RSS-abonnees over een periode van 3 jaar, onderin een visualisatie van de bezoekers van M.I. in die periode. Best stabiel, toch? @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:08:00 +0100 893011 http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/googles-indie-bookstore-reseller-plan-stumbles-on-reseller-price-issue/ Ebooknewser has pointed out one of the unmentioned problems with Google’s much-vaunted plan to allow indie bookstores to “resell” e-books on their websites: price variability. Whereas Google is matching Amazon on pricing, including $9.99 for many e-books, indie stores may have to charge higher rates in order to make a profit. For example, for the title The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot: Google sells the eBook for $9.99, down from the list price of $26.00. Bay area independent bookstore Alibris has the eBook listed at $16.90. And Politics and Prose, an independent bookstore based in Washington DC, is selling the eBook for $18.20. This would seem to reduce the benefit to the bookstores—given that consumers have already rebelled at Amazon having to raise its prices over $9.99, it seems a little like wishful thinking for independent bookstores to be able to sell for that much. Ebooknewser’s readers tend to agree. But then, if Google doesn’t provide the books to its resellers at a discount such that they can still make a profit by selling at Amazon price, the retailers pretty much have to raise the price to make money. That’s the way having middlemen works. And price-conscious consumers will still look for the very lowest price. (For that matter, how can the bookstores raise their prices on these books? I thought agency pricing was supposed to prevent that?) (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:54:56 +0100 893002 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62632 Over at Search Engine Roundtable, Barry Schwartz posts about problems about searching the LIFE magazine photo archive using Google. When you enter a search you'll most likely receive an empty results page. Barry documents what he found with screenshots. He also links to this post from the Google Web Search Forum from [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 17:39:04 +0100 893022 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/zJ30g23Pn74/boekmoe.html Ik vraag me af: als mensen nog online op zoek gaan naar boeken, waar zoeken ze dan? Nu ik op Frankwatching lees over boekensite Omero denk ik terug aan Bookfinder. Als collectioneur gebruikte ik die site nog wel eens. En nu? Nope. Er zijn inmiddels honderden online boekenwinkels en tientallen sociale boekensites. Dan heb je ook nog de grotere databases als Gutenberg, Archive, Google Books en Open Library. En dan nog honderden bibliotheekcatalogi en full-text databases. Wat denk je zelf? Gerelateerd: Overvloed en onbehagen Justbooks.nl: de Nederlandse versie van Bookfinder.com Eenvoudig vergelijkbare boeken adviseren: 6 boekensites bekeken Boeklezers.nl Mooi dat we het hebben! De kwispelende lange staart van bibliotheken @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:38:00 +0100 892906 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/griffey/~3/kzntdxyIug4/ In one of the more surreal occurrences in my working life, I will have the opportunity to interview one of the titans of the Science Fiction world, Dr. Vernor Vinge, at the ALA Midwinter Meeting 2011 in San Diego, CA. The interview itself will be on Saturday, Jan 8th, from 1:30-3:30pm Pacific time in the San Diego Convention Center Room 29 A-D. Plans are in place to livestream the interview at the LITA Ustream channel, and in addition to a set of questions from myself, I’ve decided to set up ways to take questions from just about anyone who wants. At the bottom of this post is an embedded Google Form where you can ask your question of Dr. Vinge…I’ll sort through any in the next 2 weeks and pick the best of the bunch for inclusion. In addition, during the interview itself, we will be taking questions not only from the live audience but also from Twitter (use the hashtag #alamw_vinge) and from the Facebook Event page. So: hit the form below, and ask your question now. Watch the interview live on Saturday, January 8th at 1:30 Pacific time, and ask your questions as they occur to you. I, along with several awesome librarians, will try our best to collapse all of these streams into an entertaining and informative couple of hours for all. ********** Loading… (Source: Pattern Recognition) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:24:57 +0100 892910 http://rabid-librarian.blogspot.com/2010/12/ooooohhhh-medlical-librarian-geekiness.html Google's Body Browser essentially lets you explore human anatomy as you would with Google Earth. For now, I think you need Chrome or other browsers that use WebGL [that includes Firefox and Safari--there are instructions at that link for enabling it. Unfortunately I have a higher version of Firefox and the instructions don't work for it. :( And since I (and most medical libraries) are locked into Internet Explorer at work, it may not make it to prime time in our setting. :(] Nifty. (Source: The Rabid Librarian's Ravings in the Wind) Wed, 15 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893309 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62617 Friday afternoon we posted an introduction and a few examples of Google's new Reading Level feature that's accessible from the Advanced Search interface. Here's the post and examples. Today, Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Roundtable provides a bit of background about how Google built the technology. Barry points to some comments [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 21:17:07 +0100 892798 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/google-ebookstore-hooks-up-with-government-printing-office/ According to the Washington Post, Google has arranged with the GPOI to have about 1,800 government publications available for purchase and download. The partnership, which quietly launched last week, allows e-Book fans to search for and buy copies of documents ranging from the public papers of President Obama’s administration to an official history of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Potential e-readers can purchase government titles online at prices lower than the print versions, the GPO said. A print copy of Obama’s 2011 federal budget proposal costs $77.00, for example, but a Google eBook version sells for $9.99. (A PDF version of the document is free.) The article goes on to say that the GPO operates an online bookstore and a small shop. Revenue peaked in 1980 and has been smaller since then. Via eBookNewser (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:36:36 +0100 892777 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62590 From an Announcement: The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and Google have entered a partnership to offer the public, for the first time, federal government titles in an e-book format. The titles will appear on Google’s recently launched Google ebookstore, which can be searched, purchased and read on any connected device with a [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:36:33 +0100 892803 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/TK7Pl-Delfo/ A v. quick post this one, because I have other stuff that really needs to be done, but it’s something I want to record as another couple of observations around the practical difficulties of engaging with Linked Data… Firstly, identifiers for things most of us would probably call councils. The Guardian Datablog has just published data/details of the local council cuts. The associated Datastore Spreadsheet has a column containing council identifiers, as well as the council names: Adding formal identifiers such as these is something I keep hassling Simon Rogers and the @datastore team about, so it’s great to see the use of a presumably standardised identifier there:-) Only – I can’t see how to join it up to any of the other myriad identifiers that seem to exist for council areas? So for example, looking up Trafford on the National Statistics Linked Data endpoint identifies it as local-authority-district/00BU and Local education authority 358 – I can’t find R342 anywhere? Nor does R342 appear as an identifier on the OpenlyLocal page for Trafford Council, which is another default place I go to look at for bridging/linking information (but then, maybe a local authority is not a council?) (A use case for the data might be taking the codes and using them to colour areas on an Ordnance Survey OpenSpace map (ans. 1.17)… This requires a bridge into the namespaces the OS mapping tools recognise. ... Tue, 14 Dec 2010 12:30:50 +0100 893806 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=8907 State: Kansas This is a technical support position in end user and network support for the State Library. The Technology Support Consultant maintains three servers, which includes applying service packs and patches, planning system upgrades, upgrading virus scanner software, running back ups, and securing servers. This position also assists network end users by maintaining workstations, assisting with hardware/software issues, training staff, installing applications, and troubleshooting network problems. The position is supervised by the State Librarian. Required knowledge, abilities and skills: ● Working knowledge of server administration, including Active Directory, DNS, Windows 2003 server ● Thorough working knowledge of microcomputer hardware ● Working knowledge of standard PC software, specifically MS Office, Firefox and Chrome web browsers, and content/communications programs (Adobe, Dreamweaver, etc. ... Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:00:02 +0100 892593 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/12/13/digital-scholarships-2010-publications/ Digital Scholarship's 2010 publications are listed below: January 11, 2010. Published version two of the Institutional Repository Bibliography. March 27, 2010. Published Digital Scholarship 2009 as a paperback. It included four bibliographies: the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2009 Annual Edition, the Institutional Repository Bibliography, the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, and the Google Book Search Bibliography. (HTML versions of the bibliographies that this paperback was based on were freely available.) April 12, 2010. Published version 6 of the Google Book Search Bibliography. May 17, 2010. Published version 1 of the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography. June 18, 2010. Published Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition as an open access PDF file. June 30, 2010. Published version 78 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. August 21, 2010. Published Digital Scholarship 2009 as an open access PDF file. August 23, 2010. Published version 1 of the Open Access Journals Bibliography. September 7, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as a paperback. September 9, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as an open access PDF file. October 12, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as an open access HTML file. November 11, 2010. Published version three of the Institutional Repository Bibliography. November 30, 2010. Published version five of the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography. December 13, 2010. Published version 79 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. December 13, 2010. Published 841 DigitalKoans posts in 2010. Digital Scholarship publications are under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892859 http://akbani.blogspot.com/2010/12/visualizing-facebook-friendships-across.html By Ben Parr, Mashable, CNNSTORY HIGHLIGHTS * A Facebook intern created a visualization of Facebook connections around the globe * Using a sample of 10 million friend pairs, he correlated them with their current cities * The U.S. has the highest concentration of Facebook friendships while Africa has the lowestContinue reading Facebook relationships visualizedHere is what Butler had to say @ newsday.com:"After a few minutes of rendering, the new plot appeared, and I was a bit taken aback by what I saw. The blob had turned into a surprisingly detailed map of the world. Not only were continents visible, certain international borders were apparent as well. What really struck me, though, was knowing that the lines didn't represent coasts or rivers or political borders, but real human relationships. Each line might represent a friendship made while travelling, a family member abroad, or an old college friend pulled away by the various forces of life."Facebook staffer Paul Butler has created this beautiful map of the millions (billions?) of friendships stored in the social network, using something that looks like edge bundles to create the beautiful map. Says, Randall Hand @ | VizWorld.comOn the same shelf: Tim Berners-Lee says Facebook 'threatens' web future Facebook Q&A Update: Sorry, we're not ready for you just yet Google Alerts' mybookface! And, the true colors of Internet Explorer and Firefox Web Browsers in dealing with Web forgery Facebook penetration: a whopping 40% in Canada - with UK a close second (Source: Information Visualization) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892718 http://splat.lili.org/node/419 On Tuesday, December 7, 2010 Google announced the deployment of its Chrome Opearating System (OS) to a live audience (see above) and streamed the presentation via YouTube. The presenter talked about how Google wants everyone to use the cloud, and what better way to do that than to develop a Google laptop that uses cloud computing and the Chrome OS to do everything. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/cloud-computing-latest-chapter-in... What is cloud computing? It is “Computing in which services and storage are provided over the Internet (or "cloud")” --from en.wiktionary.org/wiki/cloud_computing. You don't store anything in physical devices like your computer, but on powerful servers housed in distant lands. Cloud computing is not really new—Google already stores your e-mail on their servers, along with everything else, readily available on demand over an Internet connection. So now that Google has developed their own OS, it will be delivered in two ways: one is via a new 12.1” netbook called CR-48 (the name will probably change when it's ready for sale), and another through Google's browser, Chrome. The netbooks won't be available until 2011, but if you use Google's browser Chrome, then you're already using Google's OS. The Google's netbook is a cloud computer, and it uses Chrome as its main OS. Think of it as a browser made into a netbook, since the netbook itself doesn't have any other function than to house Chrome, and use the Internet over a wireless connection to do its thing. I was lucky enough to receive a bare bones, beta-tester CR-48 netbook, thanks to the magic of a QR code (I'll tell you that story some other time), and sure enough it is a sleek and spartan netbook. If you already use Google, then your Google login and password are all you need—all the other services you depend on (Google Docs, forms, sites, etc.) are automatically loaded because, well, they're online too, tied to your Google account. ... Tue, 14 Dec 2010 04:33:37 +0100 893647 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/KIt63H5lzuM/ Digital Scholarship's 2010 publications are listed below: January 11, 2010. Published version two of the Institutional Repository Bibliography. March 27, 2010. Published Digital Scholarship 2009 as a paperback. It included four bibliographies: the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2009 Annual Edition, the Institutional Repository Bibliography, the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, and the Google Book Search Bibliography. (HTML versions of the bibliographies that this paperback was based on were freely available.) April 12, 2010. Published version 6 of the Google Book Search Bibliography. May 17, 2010. Published version 1 of the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography. June 18, 2010. Published Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition as an open access PDF file. June 30, 2010. Published version 78 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. August 21, 2010. Published Digital Scholarship 2009 as an open access PDF file. August 23, 2010. Published version 1 of the Open Access Journals Bibliography. September 7, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as a paperback. September 9, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as an open access PDF file. October 12, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as an open access HTML file. November 11, 2010. Published version three of the Institutional Repository Bibliography. November 30, 2010. Published version five of the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography. December 13, 2010. Published version 79 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. December 13, 2010. Published 841 DigitalKoans posts in 2010. Digital Scholarship publications are under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 04:01:16 +0100 892644 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/12/13/digital-scholarships-2010-publications/ Digital Scholarship's 2010 publications are listed below: January 11, 2010. Published version two of the Institutional Repository Bibliography. March 27, 2010. Published Digital Scholarship 2009 as a paperback. It included four bibliographies: the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2009 Annual Edition, the Institutional Repository Bibliography, the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography, and the Google Book Search Bibliography. (HTML versions of the bibliographies that this paperback was based on were freely available.) April 12, 2010. Published version 6 of the Google Book Search Bibliography. May 17, 2010. Published version 1 of the Digital Curation and Preservation Bibliography. June 18, 2010. Published Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition as an open access PDF file. June 30, 2010. Published version 78 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. August 21, 2010. Published Digital Scholarship 2009 as an open access PDF file. August 23, 2010. Published version 1 of the Open Access Journals Bibliography. September 7, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as a paperback. September 9, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as an open access PDF file. October 12, 2010. Published Transforming Scholarly Publishing through Open Access: A Bibliography as an open access HTML file. November 11, 2010. Published version three of the Institutional Repository Bibliography. November 30, 2010. Published version five of the Electronic Theses and Dissertations Bibliography. December 13, 2010. Published version 79 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography. December 13, 2010. Published 841 DigitalKoans posts in 2010. Digital Scholarship publications are under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License. | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 14 Dec 2010 04:01:03 +0100 893610 http://marklindner.info/blog/2010/12/13/borges-seven-nights/ Seven nightsJorge Luis Borges; New Directions Pub. Corp. 2009WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder   I enjoyed this slim volume of essays based on seven lectures Borges gave in Buenos Aires between June and August 1977. There is a short introduction by Alistair Reid which provides some context and historical information on the lectures. Then the seven essays, in this order: The Divine Comedy, Nightmares, The Thousand and One Nights, Buddhism, Poetry, The Kabbalah, and Blindness.  Some of them are, of course, better than others but all of them are worth reading. This is the 6th book in the 12 Books, 12 Months Challenge that I finished. (Source: Off the Mark) Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:44:14 +0100 893328 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryCloud/~3/t9YAyuYp3MA/its-that-time-year-in-review.html A plethora of annual year-end lists are being published, here are a few that made their way into my reader this weekend. In no particular order:The Top Twitter Trends of 2010The Horn Book Magazine's 2010 Fanfare ListTime Magazine, The Top Ten of Everything 2010Time Magazine, The Top Ten GadgetsThe Top Ten Quotes of 2010Yahoo! 2010 Year in ReviewYahooo! 2010 Year in Review: Top 10 SearchesAnd, from Google and YouTube:The Year on YouTube: Double Rainbows, Annoying Oranges, and Bed IntrudersZeitgeist 2010: How the World Searched (Source: Library Cloud) Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:31:00 +0100 893731 http://www.librarystuff.net/2010/12/13/decoding-the-google-digitizing-settlement/ NYTimes – “As the New York Times series Humanities 2.0 has discussed, digitally savvy academics are both excited and anxious about Google’s plan to digitize tens of millions of books and create an online library and bookstore. While the proposal remains in legal limbo, the result of a class action lawsuit, the debate continues. Last year, New York Law School organized a conference on the Google settlement and now the school’s law journal has devoted its latest issue to the discussions about access, competition and copyright that ensued.” (Source: Library Stuff) Mon, 13 Dec 2010 18:19:26 +0100 892504 http://marklindner.info/blog/2010/12/13/marshall-reading-and-writing-the-electronic-book/ Reading and writing the electronic bookCatherine C. Marshall; Morgan & Claypool 2010WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder   This is my 5th book review for the 12 Books, 12 Months Challenge. Note: This is in no way a balanced review of this book. I do think this can be a valuable book to read if you are interested in the topic; at least it will be for a little while longer. But it has some issues, and those are what I primarily focus on here. Table of Contents Ch. 1 Introduction Ch. 2 Reading Ch. 3 Interaction Ch. 4 Reading as a Social Activity Ch. 5 Studying Reading Ch. 6 Content: Markup and Genres Ch. 7 Beyond the Book Introduction This book examines “a rather more pragmatic set of issues and developments” and is based on “sources from information science, computer science, and human-computer interaction, but especially on the results of studies I have conducted with colleagues and by myself over the last decade-and-a-half” (8). Reading In defense of the sociality of reading, one of her examples is “…, drivers read billboards together as they speed by the landscape, …” (16).  Seriously?  The other examples actually support the claim of reading being social but this is beyond me as to how it can be considered social. In this book: “The word eBook can refer to hardware, software, content prepared to be read on the screen, or a combination of all three. In much of this book, when we talk about eBooks, we’re by and large referring to the software—the reader—used to present the content” (33). “…; after all, no one needs instructions on how to read a book, assuming they are literate” (33-34).  On one hand, “No shit!”  To become literate we learn to read books.  This, also, includes how to interact with the physical book; knowledge of which is needed to correctly operate said book so it can be read once learns to read the language marks inscribed in the book. ... Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:36:44 +0100 893329 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/book-camp-ny-jim-hanas-on-diy-ebooks-by-the-numbers-a-case-study/ Here are my notes on the presentation made by Jim Hanas. Jim is the author of the short story collection When they Cried. He wanted to give some actual number of where his book actually sold. Started as journalist and trade writer. Director of Social Media for NYC tourism agency and so obsessed with metrics. 1999, first short story published in print. $750 is total amount made writing fiction in his lifetime. Threat 0f not having readers is hollow threat. Threat of not having readers is more real. 2006 did first ebook stories and gave them away for free. The stories are an asset and regular publishing would want you to “save’ it until it can be published in a journal, etc.. For first ebook: Used Manybooks, Wattpad, Scribd, Bookglutton,Feedbooks and Smashwords. Manybooks (2007), 500 downloads by 9/09 12 downloads/month; Bookkglutton (2008), 819 BookGlutton (2009)downloads by 9/09; 529 Stanza downloads 112 downloads/month Wattpad (2007) 1,934 views by 9/09 but no stats on downloads Scribd (3008) 3,259 views by 9/09, 29 downloads Feedbooks (2009) 997 downloads by 9/09 142 downloads/month They win in discoverability and portability. Feedbooks was fastest to 1000 downloads Smashwords, (late 2009) 75 downloads/month 2010 to date gives a total of 3,103 downloads with Feedbooks giving the most at 1,857, Bookglutton second with 657 and Smashwords third 467 If want to charge for it recommends that go to Amazon. Led to ebook being published by ECW, a Canadian publisher, and a $500 advance, 10% of gross sales and retail price is $9.95. They only bought digital rights and he retains print rights. Spent $1997 in marketing the book and revenues were $940 in whole for about $1,000. Lessons learn: Google ads are tough for books, expect of pay $.30 to $.50 per click on Facebook and Goodreads, hunt for value with direct ad buys. HTML Giant was best marketing outlet. ... Mon, 13 Dec 2010 14:13:04 +0100 892513 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/K91_dYd2PGs/ Yesterday morning, @ambrouk tweeted: “Is there a tool where you can quickly check 2 twitter accs and find out who follows both? I.e who can see the exchanges between A and B?” (Explanatory note: if you start a tweet with @name, only your twitter followers who also follow @name will see the tweet in their stream.) There probably is, but I thought it’d be an interesting exercise to see if I could put a script together to do this in a web page without requiring authenticated access to the Twitter API using the Google Social Graph API. If you go to the Social Graph API Parameter Playground, you can use the tool provided to construct API calling URLs that return the people you follow on Twitter, or who follow you, as well as various other bits of social data… The data is returned as JSON, so it’s easy enough to pull into a web page. So here’s a view of my ‘common twitter friends’ single page web app: And here’s the script that does it, pulling back the common friends or common followers of two folks on Twitter: <html><head><title></title> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> function compareUsers(typ){ if (typ=='followers'){ gtyp='edi' } else { gtyp='edo' } url='http://socialgraph.apis.google.com/lookup?q=http://twitter.com/'+$('#user1').val()+',http://twitter.com/'+$('#user2').val()+'&'+gtyp+'=1&callback=?'; var content = ""; $. ... Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:14:31 +0100 893809 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/12/12/library-web-developerdesigner-at-princeton-university-library-revised/ The Princeton University Library is recruiting a Library Web Developer/Designer. Here's an excerpt from the ad: The Web Developer position will help the Library Web Development Manager on specific projects to deliver more library content and services to our users from our web sites. Specific projects may include designing new sites, or using new web services technologies to improve the user experience in discovering, searching, finding, or acquiring library materials and content. Additionally, the position will assist in implementing the Drupal CMS, customizing the interface for the latest version of the OPAC, and creating mobile ready versions of the library web site and catalog. Customization tasks for the new NextGen Discovery system will be a large component of the work. Projects will also likely include implementation of open source code created in other libraries, using various API's made available by Google, OCLC, or Code4Lib members, as well as various library vendors. This position will also be assigned other digital library projects as the need arises. Conducting user-centric usability studies is highly desirable, so experience in this area will be preferred. | Digital Scholarship | (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892863