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 Mashups interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:53:05 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://dltj.org/article/mash-up/ Ron Murray, a colleague at the Library of Congress (and no known relation to me), sent me a note about the history of the term “mash-up” in the Oxford English Dictionary (subscription required). The definition of the first sense is “A mixture or fusion of disparate elements” with the notation that usage is rare before the late 20th century, and the OED includes this quotation:1859D. BOUCICAULT Octoroon I. 13 He don’t understand; he speaks a mash up of Indian, French, and Mexican. The reference to “Octoroon” appears to be for a play called The Octoroon that was first performed in 1859, making the mashup term about 151 years old. Post from: Disruptive Library Technology Jester“Mash-Up” Term is Over 150 Years Old! (Source: Disruptive Library Technology Jester) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:39:06 +0100 825054 http://infobib.de/blog/2010/03/02/paperc-im-kug/ Kürzlich traf ich mich mit Martin Fenner, Lambert Heller, Felix Hofmann und Martin Fröhlich (beide PaperC), um über dieses und jenes zu schnacken. Dabei kam auch der Vorschlag auf, eine API für Bibliothekskataloge einzurichten. Unabhängig davon wurde eine API auch von Oliver Flimm vorgeschlagen. Die Antwort auf diesen Vorschlag: Umgesetzt! Unsere API ist fertig, bald mehr dazu im PaperC Blog. Entwickler sind willkommen. Im Blog finde ich zwar noch nichts, dafür hat sich Oliver Flimm aber schon ans Werk gemacht und PaperC in den KUG eingebunden. Das Ergebnis kann man sich u.a. bei diesem Prachtstück der Kataloganreicherung durch APIs ansehen. Frage am Rande: Warum heißt es eigentlich “eine” API? “Die” Schnittstelle? Oder nicht doch eher “das” Interface? Lesen zufällig Linguisten mit? (Source: Infobib) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:50:12 +0100 823421 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/PvBdrO_PsxE/feedthru Official Google Docs Blog: Using Google Docs as a data mashup platform By me: a guest post on the Official Google Docs Blog :-) (Source: OUseful Info) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 824205 http://sites.menashalibrary.org/2010/03/02/fotobabble/ Fotobabble offers an interesting mashup of sound and image.  Upload your photo and then record a short audio blurb about it.  You can share it on email, Facebook, Twitter or embed it on your blog or website.  There are no fees, though you do have to register for an account to use the service.  It is entirely web-based, so no downloads either. They also have an iPhone app that you can use and be able to Fotobabble your entire day. I can see libraries using this to create an interactive tour of their facilities without a video camera.  All it takes is a digital camera and an online connection. Related articles by Zemanta Fotobabble: Add Audio to Your Pics (readwriteweb.com) Fotobabble – Be Picture Perfect By Adding Voice to Your Photos (makeuseof.com) (Source: Sites and Soundbytes) Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824429 http://laurenpressley.com/library/2010/02/notes-on-plagiarism-tutorials/ I’m about to get started on a new tutorial project, and wanted to get a lay of the land.  This one will be a lot different from the Toolkit, since the topic is plagiarism and can’t be covered in 2-3 minutes. And what better way to do that then to ask your Twitter friends what tools they think are great? So, after a little bit of poking around, and taking a few brief notes, here are some that good folks think are good. None were quite what I’m thinking of, which is a good sign (there’s nothing worse than reinventing the wheel), but all had several good aspects worth considering. ... Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:57:56 +0100 822945 http://bsf.org.br/2010/02/19/o-que-os-nativos-digitais-querem-das-bibliotecas/ via @trmurakami o que fizeram pra Abbey decorar ou repetir o texto não importa. O que importa é que ela é cuti-cuti e resume em poucas palavras os principais argumentos acerca de uma biblioteconomia que enxerga algo além da gestão de registros impressos. eu amo biblioteca, eu amo livros mas eu sou um nativo digital e eu quero uma biblioteca online que seja capaz de aprender sobre os meus interesses que seja rápida e fácil que permita a inclusão das minhas coisas que permita compartilhamento que seja acessível do meu iphone ou meu kindle ofereça mashups tagging semântico informação em tempo real realidade aumentada geospatial tagging e touch screen eu sei que vocês estão todos ocupados trabalhando nestas coisas (estão?) mas eu sou uma nativa digital e quero isso agora então corram ou perderão o (um) trem Posts relacionados:Roteiro das bibliotecas do Rio de Janeiro (Source: Bibliotecários Sem Fronteiras 2.0) Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:34:35 +0100 820316 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2010/02/19/weeklings-expensive-e-books-and-unapologetic-plagiarism/ While agents and authors cheer Macmillan’s stand against Amazon, some e-book aficionados are angry at authors. In an anecdote-rich but fact-impoverished article in the New York Times, Motoko Rich and Brad Stone quote a bunch of people who are willing to pay a few hundred books for a gizmo — but balk at a few more bucks for a book (”E-Book Price Increase May Stir Readers’ Passions“). “They’re just books,” said Mr. Wagoner, who left an angry one-star review on the Amazon page for Mr. Preston’s novel. “I do other things other than reading.” If we in the embattled book-reviewing biz need any more ammunition for our own defense, consider the concept of amateur reviewers who review a book based on price — PRICE! — rather than a subjective analysis of the author’s ability to achieve what he or she set out to accomplish. Frankly, the best reponse to this article was written by Michael Cader on Publishers Lunch. But also, among the large group of people who do not intend to buy an ereading device, 80 percent cited the price of the device as the biggest obstacle to ownership. Why is the conversation about a few dollars on ebook prices, instead of hundreds of dollars for a device? That’s what most people “can’t afford.” Of course, now Rich has reported that “Apple’s Prices for E-Books May Be Lower Than Expected” (NYT). Sounds like some people have some Amazon reviews to rewrite! While many people lament e-readers’ lack of colorful book covers, Charlie Brooker celebrates the same thing (”Why I’m an E-book Convert,” Guardian). The lack of a cover immediately alters your purchasing habits. ... Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:10:55 +0100 819773 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2010/02/16/february-16th-stream.html Posted krynsky: I want mashup w/ TwitterTim.es RT @louisgray: New Blog Post: Cadmus Launches Personalized Twitter Trending Topics http://goo.gl/fb/EZNu. Posted ColonelTribune: Extensive DNA testing shows King Tut died of malaria and a broken leg: http://bit.ly/dqgX6q [and Chuck Norris]. Shared Mr. Snowman shows off an Alabama Reads yard sign. Posted amlibraries: AL Perpetual Beta: Digital Books and Your Rights: A Checklist for Readers http://cli.gs/14MvQ. Posted ALA_TechSource: The 10 Most Pirated eBooks of 2009 http://ow.ly/17SeQ. Shared Look what was waiting on the doorstep. Share: No tags for this post. (Source: The Shifted Librarian) Wed, 17 Feb 2010 04:40:10 +0100 819413 http://www.librarystuff.net/2010/02/14/authors-on-google-maps/ Google Maps Mania – “Soren, of Microformats.dk, has produced a Google Maps mashup to show the birthplaces of the authors whose books are on the list of the top 250 books borrowed from UK libraries.” Access the map, plus an article from The Guardian (Source: Library Stuff) Sun, 14 Feb 2010 14:29:03 +0100 818248 http://lib.wmrc.uiuc.edu/enb/2010/02/12/the-release-of-public-data-inspires-programmers-and-policy-types-around-the-world/ From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout 1994-2010. http://scout.wisc.edu/ Data and transparency: Of government and geeks http://www.economist.com/world/international/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15469415 Brainstorming a better commute http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2010/01/brainstorming_a.html NYC BigApps http://www.nycbigapps.com/ Apps for Democracy http://www.appsfordemocracy.org/ Data.gov http://www.data.gov/ There are a number of ways to deal with all the publicly available data on the web. Some use it to keep politicians honest, some use it to help develop meaningful housing policies, while others track trains and buses. These are only a few of the potential uses, and governments around the world have been challenging developers and other wonkish types to create new and dynamic applications using large and small data sets released for general consideration. It’s a trend that is gaining traction in Britain, Australia, and the United States. In the past year, a number of government entities in each of these places have released data dealing with housing starts, general economic trends, and population figures. Much of this can be attributed to an increased desire for transparency among average citizens, and leaders are hoping to deliver via this exchange of information. This commitment and initiative has resulted in some interesting projects, and a recent contest held by Washington, DC resulted in almost 50 creative applications. Projects from around the world include mashups that map the location of public toilets in Australia and applications that track buses and trains in Boston. [KMG] The first link leads users to a recent article from The Economist on the subject of public data, government transparency, and innovation. ... Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:20:14 +0100 817755 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/Dbjx/~3/CFbJy4yrusw/oclc-api-mashathon.html Some of us went into this with trepidation believing our coding skills were on the too-skimpy side for this session, but we joined the programmers for an interesting day being introduced to the data available via the APIs (application programming interfaces) that OCLC publishes for Worldcat data.Web services looked at included: WorldCat Search API xISBN, xISSN, xOCLCNUM WorldCat Identities Registries including institution, reviews, citations (lists), tagging Terminologies So what you may ask!There is a wealth of data that can be used to enhance library catalogues and other interfaces. One of the attendees showcased what he had done at the Powerhouse Museum using OpenCalais and OCLC data. OpenCalais was used to extract names and terms from textual descriptions which were then queried against OCLC data to add links to Worldcat Identities data.Using Yahoo Pipes attendees were able to build a Worldcat search which returns results in an RSS feed using the Worldcat Basic API, and later looked at other exciting possibilities using Dewey Info Linked Data and the yet to be launched geolocation data. The idea that popped into my mind was to facilitate a map-based search of a library catalogue. Imagine looking for historical or political works about a region using a map interface. Zoom into the map to select the region, return an array of book covers that can be flicked through (imagining cooliris effect here) to get a virtual browsing the shelf effect. I'm sure almost everyone at the bootcamp came away with a germ of an innovation developing.Thanks Roy, Bruce and Don for an informative and enjoyable day. Too bad we couldn't follow up tomorrow with some group work to prototype some of the ideas.Powerhouse Museum exampleWiki page for bootcamp. (Source: Innovate) Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:57:37 +0100 816382 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibrariansMatter/~3/Hsax3MiX6Uc/ Today as a precursor to the VALA2010 conference, I ran an “L-Plates” introductory session about Open Source Software and Libraries. I still give my Travel Scholar paper on Thursday, Taking matters into our own hands: influencing factors and concerning factors for libraries that developed their own Open Source Software . As promised, the slides for the L Plates session are below, Open Source Software and Libraries. It involved dry spaghetti and a jar of Paul Newman’s Own Tomato sauce – but didn’t quite match Paul Hagon’s Beyonce interpretive dance during his API and Mashups session. My food-but-no-dancing session defined Open Source and outlined how it fits in with library philosophies and practice in order to help library staff make informed decisions about Open Source software for their libraries. It includes: 1. Definition of Open Source 2. Open Source as a licence 3. Open Source as software development method 4. Widely used Open Source Software 5. Who is using Open Source Software? 6. Library Specific Open Source Software 7. Barriers and benefits for Open Source Software Open Source Software and Libraries View more presentations from sirexkat. (Source: Librarians matter) Mon, 08 Feb 2010 03:45:21 +0100 816494 http://blogs.ala.org/nrmig.php?title=ala_midwinter_2010_write_ups_from_around&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 Below is the round-up of write-ups around the Internet for ALA presentations that might be of interest to Metadata and Digital Librarians. Did I miss your write-up or presentations? Email me at kmarti@uic.edu and I will add it. Would you like to share your write-up of a conference on the blog? It's not too late! Contact me about that too. Friday 1/15 FRBR Interest Group 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in 156 A/B Unit: ALCTS No write-up yet CCS Forum 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM on 01/15 Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in 104A/B Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CCS No write-up yet New CCS Interest Group 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM on 01/15 Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in 203 Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CCS No write-up yet Electronic Resources Management Interest Group 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM on 01/15 Location: Hyatt Regency Boston in Duxbury Unit: LITA No write-up yet Saturday Electronic Resources Interest Group 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM on 01/16 Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in 253A Unit: ALCTS No write-up yet Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM on 01/16 Location: Renaissance Boston Waterfront in Pacific F Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CCS No write-up yet Catalog Form and Function Interest Group 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM on 01/16 Location: Hyatt Regency Boston in Grand BR A Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CCS Link to presentations and abstracts on ALA Connect Link to presentations on ALA Presentation Wiki JPEG2000 Interest Group 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM on 01/16 Location: Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in 157B Unit: LITA Link to meeting report on ALA Connect Cataloging Norms Interest Group 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM on 01/16 Location: Hyatt Regency Boston in Grand BR B Unit: ALCTS - Subunit: CCS Link to presentations on ALA presentation wiki Catalog Management Interest Group ... Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:21:39 +0100 815881 http://www.frbr.org/2010/02/06/last-week-in-frbr-14 Hi. I usually get this out on Fridays, but I hope you don’t miss it because it’s coming out on Saturday this week. Seems like it was a slowish week in FRBRania. The first couple of pieces involve the RDA-L mailing list archives (RDA being, of course, the new cataloguing rules Resource Description and Access) and also Karen Coyle . Mix and Match: Mashups of Bibliographic Data Mix and Match: Mashups of Bibliographic Data at the recent American Library Association conference had people from Google talking about Google Books metadata, OCLC talking about ONIX, and the Open Library talking about the Open Library. Eric Hellman was there and wrote it up in Google Exposes Book Metadata Privates at ALA Forum, which a lot of people have been pointing out, including on RDA-L. Karen Coyle, who was the Open Library person at the session, brought the four FRBR user tasks into talk about alphabetical ordering of titles: In FRBR we have the four user tasks: find, identify, select, obtain. These are fully imbued with the assumption of user knowledge. “to find entities that correspond to the user’s stated search criteria (i.e., to locate either a single entity or a set of entities in a file or database as the result of a search using an attribute or relationship of the entity);” This seems to eliminate the possibility that the user could be successful in the library catalog with a need like: “I just finished Twilight and loved it. What else might I like?” Yet that is a legitimate query to bring to the library, and even to the library catalog. Perhaps we should spend some time re-writing the FRBR user tasks, expanding them to meet a wider variety of user needs. Then we could look at our catalogs and say: “What does this mean in terms of catalog functionality?” I maintain that alphabetical order will not be at the top of our list, but will probably appear along some user tasks. ... Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 815845 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/02/04/hong-kong-university-institutional-repository-uses-scopus-api-for-researcher-citation-data/ Researcher pages in Hong Kong University's institutional repository will be updated with citation data generated by Elsevier's Scopus API. Here's an excerpt from the press release: The Scopus API offers users the opportunity to creatively interact with Scopus data by building mashups. It also allows access and usage of Scopus data inside and outside of the traditional library domain through applications based on the API. The API returns Scopus data in a format that easily integrates into an application or a web site. The majority of Scopus data is already available through the API, which can currently be used to request very specific information about article references, citations and affiliations. HKU is the first institution to show Scopus h-index, and counts of citations, documents, and co-authors for each current HKU author across the institution, in its local institutional repository, The HKU Scholars Hub (The Hub). These details are shown on The Hub ResearcherPages, an expert profiling system which showcases the research of each current HKU author. HKU uses the Scopus API to build these pages, and update them in real time. The Scopus search API draws on live data from Scopus, the world's largest abstract and citation database. By using the API, HKU is able to populate The Hub with real-time Scopus information, increasing accuracy and enriching data with valuable citation information. The API also enables HKU to highlight its overall performance and automate the process of keeping faculty publication lists up to date through continuous electronic tracking of individual researcher output. Research metrics cumulated by paper, and by author, are brought seamlessly into The Hub and displayed on appropriate records. This flexibility is a result of a recent enhancement to the Scopus API which allows for easier and more scalable ways of implementing citation counts to instantly enrich the content available on a given platform. . . ... Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:01:57 +0100 815636 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/VjorkCI0OSo/ Researcher pages in Hong Kong University's institutional repository will be updated with citation data generated by Elsevier's Scopus API. Here's an excerpt from the press release: The Scopus API offers users the opportunity to creatively interact with Scopus data by building mashups. It also allows access and usage of Scopus data inside and outside of the traditional library domain through applications based on the API. The API returns Scopus data in a format that easily integrates into an application or a web site. The majority of Scopus data is already available through the API, which can currently be used to request very specific information about article references, citations and affiliations. HKU is the first institution to show Scopus h-index, and counts of citations, documents, and co-authors for each current HKU author across the institution, in its local institutional repository, The HKU Scholars Hub (The Hub). These details are shown on The Hub ResearcherPages, an expert profiling system which showcases the research of each current HKU author. HKU uses the Scopus API to build these pages, and update them in real time. The Scopus search API draws on live data from Scopus, the world's largest abstract and citation database. By using the API, HKU is able to populate The Hub with real-time Scopus information, increasing accuracy and enriching data with valuable citation information. The API also enables HKU to highlight its overall performance and automate the process of keeping faculty publication lists up to date through continuous electronic tracking of individual researcher output. Research metrics cumulated by paper, and by author, are brought seamlessly into The Hub and displayed on appropriate records. This flexibility is a result of a recent enhancement to the Scopus API which allows for easier and more scalable ways of implementing citation counts to instantly enrich the content available on a given platform. . . ... Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:01:53 +0100 815574 http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2010/02/04/breakdown-of-the-crosslist-script/ So as I previously mentioned I created a script that crosslists print books and ebooks in Serial Solutions and our library catalog. The mechanics behind this script are pretty simple. Screenscrape the ISBN from the web page using JQuery Send the ISBN to a PHP page which queries the WorldCat Search API for that ISBN and holdings at the UH Library or Send ISBN to PHP page which queries Serial Solutions to see if UH has electronic holdings for that item PHP script returns a JSON object with the OCLC Number Use JQuery to Parse the JSON retrieve the OCLC Number and build a link to be inserted into the desired spot on the web page. The steps are the same for both Serial Solutions and the catalog. The big differences in the code? The code which grabs the ISBN and the code which inserts the link in the right place. This is because the UIs are different so it take different JQuery code to get the ISBN and then insert the link. Here is the Javascript which works to insert crosslinking into an Innovative catalog and Serial Solutions. I’ve commented it so you can see which part corresponds to each. In addition, to make this work you have to have the PHP scripts on your server. There is one for WorldCat and one for Serial Solutions. I created these to solve the cross server scripting problem and get the data into JSON format which is easier to manipulate as well. I’ve made these available for download as well as examples (Serial Solutions / WorldCat). It isn’t as abstracted as much as I like. For example, if I had the time I would have coded it so that the PHP builds the link back to the catalog based on the OCLC Symbol submitted. I can do this if I tap the OCLC Registry but I was in a rush and didn’t take the time to code it this way on the first round. This post is a hold over from before I started working for OCLC which I didn’t get published until now. ... Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:16:10 +0100 815822 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eclecticlibrarian/~3/5pNBSghKWVM/ Speakers: Ross Singer & Andrew Nagy Software as a service saves the institution time and money because the infrastructure is hosted and maintained by someone else. Computing has gone from centralized, mainframe processing to an even mix of personal computers on an networked enterprise to once again a very centralized environment with cloud applications and thin clients. Library resource discovery is, to a certain extent, already in the cloud. We use online databases and open web search, WorldCat, and next gen catalog interfaces. The next gen catalog places the focus on the institution’s resources, but it’s not the complete solution. (People see a search box and they want to run queries on it – doesn’t matter where it is or what it is.) The next gen catalog is only providing access to local resources, and while it looks like modern interfaces, the back end is still old-school library indexing that doesn’t work well with keyword searching. Web-scale discovery is a one-stop shop that provides increased access, enhances research, and provides and increase ROI for the library. Our users don’t use Google because it’s Google, they use it because it’s simple, easy, and fast. How do we make our data relevant when administration doesn’t think what we do is as important anymore? Linked data might be one solution. Unfortunately, we don’t do that very well. We are really good at identifying things but bad at linking them. If every component of a record is given identifiers, it’s possible to generate all sorts of combinations and displays and search results via linking the identifiers together. RDF provides a framework for this. Also, once we start using common identifiers, then we can pull in data from other sources to increase the richness of our metadata. Mashups FTW! 0 people like this post. Like  Technorati Tags: erl2010, rdf (Source: eclectic librarian) Wed, 03 Feb 2010 18:33:29 +0100 815585 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/02/list-top-10-youtube-mashups-of-all-time/ Adam DuVander, at the always useful (even if you’re not a developer) and often fun Programmable Web, used a combination of popularity and editorial review to build this list of the Top 10 YouTube Mashups of All Time. Check the compilation and start “playing.” All of these mashups are free to use. Want more? No problem. The Programmable Web directory has over 440 YouTube mashups listed. (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:51:41 +0100 814616 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2010/01/31/january-31st-stream.html dear location-based services: offering an iphone app as the only way to check in is like designing 4 internet explorer. pls join us in 2010 [shifted] Shared The Children of Cyberspace: Old Fogies by Their 20s — NYTimes.com. “Another bubbling intra-generational gap, as any modern parent knows, is that younger children tend to be ever more artful multitaskers. Studies performed by Dr. Rosen at Cal State show that 16– to 18-year-olds perform seven tasks, on average, in their free time — like texting on the phone, sending instant messages and checking Facebook while sitting in front of the television. People in their early 20s can handle only six, Dr. Rosen found, and those in their 30s perform about five and a half. That versatility is great when they’re killing time, but will a younger generation be as focused at school and work as their forebears? ” Posted josh neff, geek at large: I would really love to live in Lawrence, KS.. @griffey doesn’t really matter for you, right? you’re abandoning the #superduperbutnotquitemagical #iphone regardless [shifted] @griffey maybe the addition of iUnicorn will keep you on the #iphone but I’m taking bets on how much longer u can hold out against #android [shifted] @griffey yeah, just like internet explorer [shifted] Shared 6 photos. Shared What the Web of Tomorrow Will Look Like: 4 Big Trends to Watch. “Stats published by Nielsen show that social media usage has increased by 82% in the last year, an astronomical rise. Facebook (Facebook), Twitter (Twitter), YouTube, blogs, and social interaction are becoming the focus of our online interactions, even more than search. We’re social creatures, so it was only a matter of time until we figured out how to make the web an efficient medium for communication, sharing, and forging friendships. ... Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:40:11 +0100 815564 http://www.uni.uiuc.edu/library/blog/2010/01/library-day-in-life.html This post is my attempt to participate in the Library Day in the Life project. The project is in round 4, and I'm to describe a day (or a week), adding my experience to the composite picture of exactly what it is that we librarians do. The audience? Each other, prospective library students who want to know what it's really like in the trenches, and anyone else who might be curious. My run down is of yesterday, January 27th, two days off the target date of January 25th.7:35 arrival. Pick up today's paper on my way in and talk to a student about the recent seasons of Dr. Who. We continue our conversation as I open the library. In the 20 minutes before the first bell, I am inundated with requests for scissors, tape, and glue for a chemistry extra credit project. I ask the students to ask the teacher to give me extra credit too (especially since these requests continue throughout the morning).8:00 (1st period). Caught in the hiring freeze vortex, I am without a support staff person. So I check in the overnights, check out play scripts that are on reserve, and send student shelvers to retrieve the interlibrary loan requests. I process the interlibrary loans. One of them crashes the software and I have to wait until 8:30 for tech support people to arrive to solve the problem. I check my e-mail, respond to urgent messages, then do a cursory catch-up on feeds and Twitter. A student comes in from French class looking for a picture of a baby that she can put a Hitler mustache on. I do not press her on the back story. Our Library shipping buddy comes in with returned interlibrary loans, filled interlibrary loans, new books, and my anxiously awaited order of padded envelopes which will contain future interlibrary loans. The bell rings and I wake a sleeping student so she won't be late for 2nd period.Rest of the morning. I have no classes scheduled until the afternoon, so this is catch-up time. ... Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 812814 http://dltj.org/article/mashups-of-bib-data/ This year the ALCTS Forum at ALA Midwinter brought together three perspectives on massaging bibliographic data of various sorts in ways that use MARC, but where MARC is not the end goal. What do you get when you swirl MARC, ONIX, and various other formats of metadata in a big pot? Three projects: ONIX Enrichment at OCLC, the Open Library Project, and Google Book Search metadata.Below is a summary of how these three projects are messin’ with metadata, as told by the Forum panelists. I also recommend reading Eric Hellman’s Google Exposes Book Metadata Privates at ALA Forum for his recollection and views of the same meeting. ONIX Enrichment at OCLCRenee Register, Global Product Manager for OCLC Cataloging and Metadata Services, was the first to present on the panel. Her talk looked at a new and evolving product at OCLC on the enhancement of ONIX records with WorldCat records, and vice versa. 1As libraries, Renee said “our instincts are collaborative” but “our data and workflow silos encourage redundancy and inhibit interoperability.” Beyond the obvious differences in metadata formats, the workflows of libraries differ dramatically from other metadata providers and consumers. In libraries (with the exception of CIP and brief on-order records) the major work of bibliographic production is performed at the end of the publication cycle and ends with the receipt of the published item. In the publisher supply chain, bibliographic data evolves over time, usually beginning months before publication and continuing to grow for months and years (sales information, etc.) after publication. Renee had a graphic showing the current flow of metadata around the broader bibliographic universe that highlighted the isolation of library activity relative to publisher, wholesaler, and retailer activity. ... Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:14:52 +0100 814461 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Edtechpost/~3/M26xtkhW1-4/ Back in December I had another one of my half-baked ideas that I want to run by the larger community before doing much more on it. One day, while reading a wikipedia article, I thought “This is a well known topic (I can’t recall which now) - wouldn’t it be great if students could automatically be prompted that there were full, scholarly BOOKS in their library on this topic in addition to this brief wikipedia article?” (Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE wikipedia, and to get the overview there is often nothing better, but in some instances it offers only a  brief glimpse of a deep subject, as is an encyclopedia’s proper role.) Now you all know of my fondness for client-side mashups and augmenting your web experience with OER; this passion was kindled by projects like Jon Udell’s LibraryLookup bookmarklet (annotate Amazon book pages with links to your local library to see if the book is in) and COSL’s OER Recommender (later Folksemantic, a script that annotates pages with links to relevant Open Educational Resources.) What I love about these and similar projects is that they augment your existing workflow and don’t aim at perfection, just to be “good enough.” In all cases, what these types of automated annotation services require are two things: 1) some “knowledge” about the “subject” they are trying to annotate (in the LibraryLookup case the ISBN in the URL, with folksemantic - I’ve never been clear!) and; 2) a source to query  (your local library OPAC/a database of tagged OER resources) hopefully in a wel structured way with an easily parseable response. So what struck me while looking at the wikipedia page is that (following the Principle of Good Enough) the URLs by and large follow a standard pattern (e.g. http://en.wikipedia. ... Mon, 25 Jan 2010 20:55:56 +0100 812443 http://www.cla-net.org/weblog/2010/01/revamping_the_c.php Back in 1998, Librarian powerhouse, Nancy Pearl, began Seattle's "If All of Seattle Read the Same Book" with the book The Sweet Hereafter. At that point in time, this was an innovative programming idea and it made a huge splash in the Library world. Since then, the concept of an entire community reading the same book has taken hold across the nation. Today, if you were to search the Internet for "community reads" one would retrieve thousands of relevant websites. There is enough information floating out there from various sources for someone to plan a program from start to finish with insider tips and tricks. Communities, Librarians, authors and publishers love it. Well, mostly adult folks love it. Most communities focus on one book-hence the concept of a Community Reads, but in doing so neglect to reach other readers (or even non-readers). In 2008 my library, the Alameda Free Library, jumped on the bandwagon, though we changed the concept a little bit. Our program was named, "Across the Pages: an Alameda Community Reads Event." The goal was to truly make it a community event. We featured both an adult and a children's title: Bee Season by Myra Goldberg and The View from Saturday by E. L. Konigsburg. These books had similar themes and thus, crossover programming potential. I'd like to say that the program was a success, for not only were we able to reach a terrific adult population, but we also included our other, younger, population as well. (This other population, as I'm sure most of you are aware, constitutes over 60% of circulation in most, if not all, public libraries.) Not satisfied with that success, we tried something else. Frankly, we needed something that would cost us less money than purchasing hundreds of the same title to fulfill our community's reading needs. ... Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:39:00 +0100 812157 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/b8WGhAoC5ts/ Last Sunday in between putting up cabinet doors and breaking up out of control light saber fights,  I tried to sit down and listen to the live broadcast of LITA’s Top Technology Trends at ALA Midwinter.  The librarian Twitterverse was in the house tweeting about the broadcast and the speakers ideas. It was interesting to hear what the other side of librarianship is doing.  I will do my best to sum it up. If any of you listened to the broadcast, were there, or if any of the panelists find any of this information incorrect, please let me know and I will correct it.  As I mentioned I was called away from the computer every so often.  -Sorry David Walker was the first panelist and he spoke primarily about discovery systems.  Basically it is sort of like federated search but vamped up.  These systems take advantage of library collections and open them up to the users.  According to David their impact and emergence has been small and slow but that is due mainly to the economy.  But he sees discovery systems possibly replacing federated search.  If the idea of a discovery system is a little confusing (due to my poor coverage of the meeting) and still sounds like federated searching here is an article I found about it in libraries,  The Evolution of Library Discovery Systems in the Web Environment.  Lorcan Dempsy also has a short blog post with links about them, Institutional Discovery Systems. In David’s presentation and discussion, he wondered why there aren’t more library consortiums out there coming together to build discovery systems.  Personally, I think it is because there just aren’t enough librarians who do real programming to do this sort of stuff.  Many middle to large libraries have one systems librarian who has to balance the operations of the library with everything else techie. ... Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:17:37 +0100 810116 http://heyjude.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/give-credit-where-credit-it-due/ Another year of school and the vital need to think through ‘plagiarism’ rears it’s ugly head again – particularly as the Open Content movement gains strength. The recently released Horizon Report 2010 explains: A new educational perspective, focused on collective knowledge and the sharing and reuse of learning and scholarly content, has been gaining ground across the globe for nearly a decade. Open content has now come to the point that it is rapidly driving change in both the materials we use and the process of education. At its core, the notion of open content is to take advantage of the Internet as a global dissemination platform for collective knowledge and wisdom, and to design learning experiences that maximize the use of it. Collective knowledge and wisdom depends on one thing though – giving credit where credit is due, whether it is courses, information, ideas, inspiration, motivation, etc. In fact, development of knowledge and scientific research has always depended on this. But with the global reach of information and info-trash the ‘times, they are a changing‘.  Misinformation can become information. Knowledge can too readily become bias. So learning to give credit where credit is due is a critical and essential information fluency skill for our students to acquire. Creative Commons Let’s demonstrate to our students how easy it is to acknowledge inspiration in an online learning world. It takes a quote or a backlink – that’s all. What does it achieve?  Well, first and foremost, it builds learning conversation and creative endeavour,  and secondly it demonstrates that a learner is able to analyse and synthesize thinking from a global repository of possibilities. Sharing is so important, but so is sharing openly and inclusively. ... Tue, 19 Jan 2010 22:00:25 +0100 811670 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/01/19/notes-from-ala-midwinter-2010 Here are a few random notes from the weekend - the best part of the conference is talking with other librarians, and of course the free stuff. Apps: Past or Future? Despite not having a cell phone, I still ended up talking a lot about apps at the show. Gale has a great approach for AccessMyLibrary. Check out the Librarian in Black’s writeup, but what I liked about it is the geolocation authentication: it shows you all libraries within 10 miles, and lets you into their (Gale) database - no typing in library card numbers. At the LibraryThing party, there was lots of talk about LT’s new Local Books app. Some people loved it, and some people didn’t (especially the Android user I talked to, who couldn’t find one for his phone). This also led to an interesting discussion on whether or not apps are even needed - one theory was that if the mobile version of your website is good enough, then you shouldn’t need a separate app. Therefore, a good app does some kind of mashup not possible on the website. Then again, I also heard that apps are on their way out in 2010. eBooks: Present and Future This is an area I’ve been paying attention to, and I still learned a lot. The eBooks that Overdrive offers are in epub and pdf formats, and circulate just like their audio books. But the best part is that they work on the Sony Reader and Nook - I did not know that. Apparently they have lots of both fiction and non-fiction titles, so I’m going to explore this avenue for my library. Gale also offers eBooks, but I forgot to ask about the format. What I did like was that they aren’t limited to one user at a time - they were more like a database, where anyone can log in, search and use them. I also saw a demo of B&T’s new eBook software, Blio (pronounced blee-O). ... Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:43:46 +0100 809794 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/15526 ----Apologies for cross-postings---- Dear Colleague, **VALA is pleased to announce the VALA2010 L-Plate Series Programme** The very popular and free VALA L-Plate Series is being held again on Monday 8 February. Bookings for this event are only open to VALA2010 delegates, so this is yet another reason to make sure you have registered for the 15th Biennial VALA Conference and Exhibition. Book early as L-Plate places are limited. The VALA L-Plate is a series of introductory sessions focusing on the technologies and topics that will be discussed during the VALA2010 Conference. Brush up your knowledge and enhance your VALA Conference experience by attending the VALA2010 L-Plate Series. Topics in 2010 include Open Source, Library Mashups and APIs, Cloud Computing, eBooks, Semantic Web and much more. The VALA L-Plate Series is a fun way to learn, with 96% of the 2008 L-Plate attendees saying it exceeded their expectations. !!Breaking News!!: Marshall Breeding will be giving the session on Discovery Layer I (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 809815 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/vHxQBCmgIhg/ On top of the VALATech Boot Camp, VALA will also be holding the L-Plate Series, the details of which have just been announced. This year it will only be 1/2 day long, to be held on Monday afternoon, 8th February, before VALA commences. The program will comprise a series of 1/2 hour overviews, intended to give some background to the type of content that will be discussed in paper’s presented at the Conference proper. Topics to be covered include Open Source Library Systems, presented by our own lovely Kathryn Greenhill, as well as sessions on Library Mashups and APIs, Semantic Web, Cloud Computing, Discovery Layer Interfaces, Social Web apps for libraries and eBooks. Registration is free for VALA attendees, but places are limited, so please check out L-Plate Series for more details and to book your place. (Source: librariesinteract.info) Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:13:54 +0100 810651 http://infobib.de/blog/2010/01/15/schaufenster-der-deutschen-open-access-szene/ Im Juni 2009 forderte ich die Öffnung der Open-Access-Szene und schlug die Einrichtung von Projektblogs vor. Die RSS-Feeds könnte man bündeln und in irgendeiner Form verfügbar machen. Nun ist es soweit, eine Yahoo-Pipe sorgt nun dafür, dass man zumindest einen gewissen Teil der Open-Access-relevanten Blogs auf einen Blick beobachten kann. Die Pipe funktioniert folgendermaßen: In einem Google-Doc werden die Feeds gesammelt, die für die Pipe relevant sind. Ich habe mich dafür entschieden, weil man solch ein Dokument kooperativ erstellen kann. Das heißt, die Auswahl der Feeds ist nicht abhängig von der Pflege der Pipe. Außerdem kann man Google-Spreadsheets auch als .csv anzeigen lassen. Das erleichtert die Weiterverarbeitung mit der Pipe enorm. Die Feeds werden, wie schon erwähnt, als .csv-Datei in die Pipe eingelesen und aggregiert. Der aggregierte Feed wird nach verschiedenen Begriffen durchsucht. Motto: Falls Open-Access-relevanter Begriff enthalten, dann ab ins Töpfchen; else: Kröpfchen. Das war’s schon. Das Ergebnis findet sich nun zusammen mit einem von Lambert Heller vorgeschlagenen Twitterwidget auf der Webseite von Open-Access.net. Und hier: {"pipe_id":"d2b199a430c5215075dba5eeb8907a23","_btype":"list"} Verbesserungsvorschläge werden gerne angenommen, Rumgemecker ignoriert. Das Ganze ist nicht perfekt, eben perpetual beta. Aber es ist brauchbar. Wer Blogs vermisst, möge sie hier in den Kommentaren oder per Email an info (at) openaccess-germany.de vorschlagen! (Source: Infobib) Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:16:38 +0100 808976 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/6MrGcxKNqGs/ Karen Coombs has been named as Product Manager for the OCLC Developer Network effective 1/19/10. Coombs announced her resignation, effective 1/4/10, as the University of Houston Libraries' Head of Web Services on 9/18/09. Coombs was the 42nd librarian to leave the University of Houston Libraries since 2003, a 50% staff turnover. Here's an excerpt from the press release: Karen Coombs, well-known librarian and Web developer, has accepted a position with OCLC as the product manager for the OCLC Developer Network. Currently a part-time Web Application Specialist for LISHost and library Web technology consultant, Ms. Coombs previously served for four years as Head of Web Services for the University of Houston Libraries in Houston, Texas. Her primary responsibilities in this newly-created role at OCLC are twofold: to help library and consumer developers make best use of OCLC's suite of Web Services, and to continue and expand OCLC's commitment to libraries' own development of services that use WorldCat data. "We are thrilled that Karen is joining the team," said Don Hamparian, Director of OCLC's Developer Central portfolio and co-founder of the Developer Network. "She brings energy, enthusiasm and firsthand knowledge of working with all the available APIs and Web Services from OCLC." Fellow co-founder of the Developer Network Roy Tennant adds, "Her expertise will expand the breadth and depth of Developer Network activities, and help further our efforts to expose OCLC data to make it easy to use in other systems through mashups and applications." Ms. Coombs is a librarian and self-confessed geek coder with an interest in mash-ups, Web services, library Web sites and interfaces. ... Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:13:18 +0100 809695 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/01/15/karen-coombs-named-as-product-manager-for-the-oclc-developer-network/ Karen Coombs has been named as Product Manager for the OCLC Developer Network effective 1/19/10. Coombs announced her resignation, effective 1/4/10, as the University of Houston Libraries' Head of Web Services on 9/18/09. Coombs was the 42nd librarian to leave the University of Houston Libraries since 2003, a 50% staff turnover. Here's an excerpt from the press release: Karen Coombs, well-known librarian and Web developer, has accepted a position with OCLC as the product manager for the OCLC Developer Network. Currently a part-time Web Application Specialist for LISHost and library Web technology consultant, Ms. Coombs previously served for four years as Head of Web Services for the University of Houston Libraries in Houston, Texas. Her primary responsibilities in this newly-created role at OCLC are twofold: to help library and consumer developers make best use of OCLC's suite of Web Services, and to continue and expand OCLC's commitment to libraries' own development of services that use WorldCat data. "We are thrilled that Karen is joining the team," said Don Hamparian, Director of OCLC's Developer Central portfolio and co-founder of the Developer Network. "She brings energy, enthusiasm and firsthand knowledge of working with all the available APIs and Web Services from OCLC." Fellow co-founder of the Developer Network Roy Tennant adds, "Her expertise will expand the breadth and depth of Developer Network activities, and help further our efforts to expose OCLC data to make it easy to use in other systems through mashups and applications." Ms. Coombs is a librarian and self-confessed geek coder with an interest in mash-ups, Web services, library Web sites and interfaces. ... Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:10:38 +0100 808735 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/14/usa-today-mashup-earthquakes-with-1000-or-more-deaths-since-1900/ From the Web Site: A huge earthquake rocked the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010. Thousands are feared dead. The greatest death toll from an earthquake in the last century came on July 27, 1976, in Tangshan, China. The official casualty figure is 255,000. The Dec. 26, 2004 earthquake and subsequent tsunami off the coast of Sumatra killed 227,898 in 14 countries in South Asia. Map shows those quakes that have resulted in a loss of more than 1,000 lives and Earth’s tectonic plates. Source; USA Today Hat Tip (and More Info About Earth Tectonic Plates on Map): All Points Blog (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:12:54 +0100 808479 http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/2010/01/mash-up-podcast-for-librarians.html (Found via here). Nicole Engard who released the Book Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data has a podcast out with Sarah Long of Longshots on how libraries can utilise mashups (podcast here). (Source: librarytwopointzero) Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 809958 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/htNM8GbPh-s/3470 I recently talked to Sarah Long of Longshots about how libraries can use Mashups. This podcast has now been released on Library Beat. Longshots #203: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data (Source: What I Learned Today...) Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:12:38 +0100 808928 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/4Q9WJLUrwEc/feedthru Flickr and Google street view mashup | New York Public Library Lovely example of how historical streetview images can be compared to today's street views. (Source: OUseful Info) Tue, 12 Jan 2010 08:00:00 +0100 809063 http://cogscilibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/01/scienceonline-in-real-life.html Finally I'm going to ScienceOnline! I wanted to go 2 years ago, but didn't have the nerve to sign up. I wanted to go a year ago, and although I found the nerve to sign up, I didn't go because I would be moving shortly and couldn't add One More Thing into my busy spring schedule. Now that I'm living in the Triangle, I'm going to ScienceOnline -- without even the hassle of a plane trip. Yippee!As I read more about the workshops, program sessions, BlogMedia coverage and browse the list of participants, I get more and more excited. If you haven't heard of ScienceOnline, here's what excites me about it:1. It's about science and collaboration, very broadly defined. I first heard about some of the folks involve at scio10 (as it's called) at the 2007 American Society for Information Science & Technology conference (which I blogged), and I realized that not only were some librarians doing cool stuff with technology, but some scientists were too. Jean-Claude Bradley impressed me as he talked about using wikis with his chemistry students; Bora Zivkovic neatly delineated different reasons for science blogging; and Janet Stemwedel talked about the value of blogging in the scientific process. Not only are scientists learning cool things about how the brain and mind work, but they are talking about it - so I was hooked both intellectually and technologically. I expect to witness and even participate in the science & technology at scio10.2. Some cool librarians are attending. My e-buddy John Dupuis has collected a list of library people at Science Online 2010 at his great blog Confessions of a Science Librarian. I look forward to meeting him and some other science librarians I've met online over the years. Dorothea, who blogs as The Book of Trogool and I are doing a session creatively titled Scientists What can your librarian do for you?, with an accompanying wiki. ... Mon, 11 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 807770 http://www.lisnews.org/programming_skills_could_transform_librarians039_roles The Resource Shelf Pointed The Way to Research Information: December 2009/January 2010. Programming skills could transform librarians' roles At the simplest level, this may be data manipulation through mashup editors, although for real innovation to occur within the library community we will require more expert skills. Whilst the librarian’s skill set may be supplemented in part by their user community and by outsourcing to programmers, for libraries to be truly innovative, librarians need to be aware of potential opportunities, and this only comes from experimenting with the data and the platforms themselves. (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:27:36 +0100 806275 http://lisnews.org/programming_skills_could_transform_librarians039_roles The Resource Shelf Pointed The Way to Research Information: December 2009/January 2010. Programming skills could transform librarians' roles At the simplest level, this may be data manipulation through mashup editors, although for real innovation to occur within the library community we will require more expert skills. Whilst the librarian’s skill set may be supplemented in part by their user community and by outsourcing to programmers, for libraries to be truly innovative, librarians need to be aware of potential opportunities, and this only comes from experimenting with the data and the platforms themselves. (Source: LISNews.org) Thu, 07 Jan 2010 12:27:36 +0100 806106 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/06/new-mashup-probes-white-house-visitors/ From the Article by Aliya Sternstein: Less than a week after the White House began releasing visitor logs on a regular basis, watchdog groups already are linking the names of people doing business there to campaign finance stats online for all to see. Sunlight Labs, a division of the transparency group, the Sunlight Foundation, created a Web application to help researchers examine who is meeting at the White House. This administration is the first to post visitor records on the Web in formats that can be analyzed by machines — albeit with a three month delay and some editing. + White House Visitor Logs, Easily Access Other Data Sources (via Sunlight Foundation) Source: Nextgov (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 22:13:43 +0100 805879 http://blogs.ala.org/nrmig.php?title=ala_midwinter_2010_best_bets_for_metadat_1&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 Below is a list of metadata and digital library-friendly sessions for ALA Midwinter 2010. Planning to attend a session or already reporting on a session? Think about blogging it here! If you would like to blog any of the sessions, please contact Kristin Martin at kmarti@uic.edu with your name, e-mail address, and preferred session. Fuller descriptions, when available, are linked to. See a section not on here that you think would be of interest? Suggest it! I've tried to be inclusive as possible with the sessions as metadata is a cross-disciplinary topic within library and information science. Sessions of interest include metadata, digital projects, digital technology, and cataloging, and are from all different groups within and even outside of ALA. Are you blogging a session on another venue? Let me know and I'll add that information and a link. After ALA, I will try to link to as many sessions as I can that have write-ups. ... Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:47:11 +0100 805668 http://www.librarystuff.net/2010/01/05/mashup-probes-white-house-visitors/ NextGov – “Less than a week after the White House began releasing visitor logs on a regular basis, watchdog groups already are linking the names of people doing business there to campaign finance stats online for all to see.” Access the data (Source: Library Stuff) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 00:58:30 +0100 805647 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/mCZWNNFFrYY/ So, as one year passes and another arrives, it’s time for me to try to use a ‘public’ statement, (insofar as OUseful.info can be read by anyone with web access) to declare some of the things I’d like to do in 2010 in the hope (fear?!) that my imagined readership may try to hold me to account on one or two of the items;-) Around about this time last year, I resolved to try to get involved with ‘policy’ in some way; aided and abetted by Joss Winn, who picked up on a tweet early in the relating to the lack of commentable versions of the Digital Britain Interim Report, we’ve since set up a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee – Public Platforms Limited – to look after the interests of WriteToReply, a document commenting platform based on a WordPress theme we’d seen used on a couple of government consultation sites and that we used to republish the Digital Britain Interim Report. WriteToReply also spawned a JISCRI project (JISCPress), brilliantly managed by Joss, which started to develop a platform to support project calls. So here’s my first resolution: Continue to work on the development of the WriteToReply and JISCPress platforms, including: technical development; use case development; business development. ... Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:16:14 +0100 806731 http://blogs.ala.org/nrmig.php?title=metadata_interest_group_meeting_at_ala_m&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 The ALCTS Metadata Interest Group will meet on Sunday, January 17, 8–10am in the Westin Waterfront, Otis Room for a program. Featured speakers include: Roy Tennant, OCLC Research, will discuss a "metadata mashup" involving three different types of metadata. His presentation will illustrate the selected process, discuss the challenges faced, and share lessons learned about how to mashup several metadata streams effectively and extract useful information from the result. Jennifer Bowen, University of Rochester, will discuss the eXtensible Catalog (XC) Project, which has developed an open-source platform for automating the processing of metadata in any XML-based schema. MIG will hold its business meeting (9:30–10am) following the informal presentations. Contact chair Joanna Burgess (burgessj at reed.edu) for more information. (Source: ALA Weblog Service) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:07:10 +0100 805205 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/textundblog/~3/LzgGQTLzmAw/ Direktlink YouTube Vielleicht das abgefahrenste Mashup ever. Man nehme Nirvana und Lady Gaga. Heraus kommt Nirgaga. [via Mashable] © Markus Trapp for Text & Blog, 2010. | Permalink | 9 comments | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: (Source: Text & Blog) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:36:45 +0100 807005 http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/2009/12/5-uk-library-stories-of-2009.html Following on from from lisnews Ten Stories That Shaped 2009, I thought I would do my 5 UK stories.1. Cilip 2.0. This was a discussion started by Brian Kelly & Phil Bradley which looked at Cilip Bob McKee failure to take on board some of the web 2.0 technologies within CILIP. The power of the network caused Cilip to rethink there policy and have an open forum on the event in April and produce a draft paper on the subject.2. Woodsiegirl meme on 'why i became a librarian. I like blogging because sometime one persons post can spiral into a bigger discussion (see above). Well blogger Woodsie girl discussed why she became a librarian. A few others started adding there reasons why and the wikiman made a wiki for others to enter and discuss the subject on. This was actually pretty life affirming and a great idea.3. Many had heard that Wirral maybe closing many libraries in that area. Thankfully all 11 were saved. Many local people voiced there concern on the closures, making politicans back down (for the moment).4. Most stupid idea of the year? Culture minister Margaret Hodge's suggestion that libraries should link up with internet bookseller Amazon. Um, people go to libraries so they don't have to pay and store it. A library and a bookseller are two divergent markets and its not possible for one to be the other without major changes in the organisation (read money). 5. UK mashup still going strong. It was good to see many librarians meet this year for two mashups in Huddersfield and Birmingham. I went to the Huddersfield one and was really great to see a profession working to help our users experience (and learn something to).Anyhow, thats my top 5? Anybody have any others? (Source: librarytwopointzero) Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100 804080 http://bonariabiancu.wordpress.com/2009/12/22/library-mashups-3-library-catalog-mashup-using-blacklight-to-expose-collections/ Library Catalog Mashup: Using Blacklight to Expose Collections, il capitolo di Library Mashups dedicato alla soluzione OPAC dell’UVA (University of Virginia Libraries) si apre con una avvertenza preliminare sul concetto di mashup che da questi colleghi viene inteso in senso creativo – e non come semplice giustapposizione di informazioni già esistenti; insomma come nuovo amalgama, remix e riprogrammazione di contenuti, moduli e in sostanza flussi di informazioni ma in maniera inedita, modulare e user-centered. Altra puntualizzazione degli autori, riguarda la motivazione alla base della creazione di Blacklight, il prodotto-mashup che viene presentato nel capitolo: tutto nasce da un senso di frustrazione che accomunava i bibliotecari e gli utenti di UVA nella fruizione delle classiche interfacce dei cataloghi online (OPAC) che non avevano nulla di moderno, che spesso erano essenziali ma in senso negativo, e comunque lontane mille miglia dai servizi 2.0 cui pian piano siamo andati abituandoci (Flickr, NetFlix etc.). Bess Sadler, Joseph Gilbert e Matt Mitchella mettono giustamente in luce perché le interfacce di ricerca evolvono così lentamente: esse sono sempre state storicamente agganciate agli ILS, ovvero ai sistemi di automazione bibliotecaria (software con cui si gestiscono catalogazione, prestiti etc.), che di per sé sono sistemi molto complessi, che cambiano con molta difficoltà (e vanno fatti evolvere anche con molta cautela). Il segreto sta dunque nello scorporo delle funzionalità e quindi degli applicativi: che gli ILS continuino con le loro pesanti ma solide articolazioni a sostenere il peso delle biblioteche, e che gli OPAC possano diventare leggeri, agili, integrabili e adattarsi ai desiderata degli utenti. ... Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:16:19 +0100 803229 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/12/21/programming-skills-could-transform-librarians-roles/ We agree with the ideas set forth in the following Research Information article. We would add that metadata (cataloging), its development, organization, and usage also holds many opportunities for info pros. From the Article: Librarians are in the best position to make use of the increasing information available, having access to both internal and external information as well as knowledge of the information needs of their specific users. As we increasingly move towards a web of data rather than a web of documents it would seem that a basic level of proficiency in data collection and manipulation could become as important a skill to the future librarian as search engines are today. At the simplest level, this may be data manipulation through mashup editors, although for real innovation to occur within the library community we will require more expert skills. Whilst the librarian’s skill set may be supplemented in part by their user community and by outsourcing to programmers, for libraries to be truly innovative, librarians need to be aware of potential opportunities, and this only comes from experimenting with the data and the platforms themselves.. Access the Complete Article Source: Research Information (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:55:51 +0100 802351 http://www.slaw.ca/2009/12/20/web-law-predictions-for-2010/ At the end of each year, I try to find some time to consider growing trends and how each might play out the following year. I’m just beginning that process now, and honestly, I’m not even close to a complete list. For those items I do have, however, I thought it might be interesting to present them in the form of predictions. And then with any luck, others here at Slaw might consider adding an item or two of their own! So here we go: More Social in our Enterprise Software: We know some of these features are in the works already, including Microsoft’s social connector, and rumblings that LexisNexis Interaction is looking to extract more value from LinkedIn and online web relationship tools. This should be a big trend in 2010. Expect a push for ‘social’ integrations from all types of enterprise software in the legal industry. As the number of lawyers participating in these web communities increases, smart firms will look to cull the data, and get smarter from it. Real Time Web replaces Social Web: Within our vocabulary, and probably more. Just as law firms & enterprise software are catching onto ‘social’, expect some early adopters to distance themselves from the term, and proceed to align with the next big thing. The ‘real time’ web is about instant response and feedback. Launch a product, make an announcement, and then watch the pundits react. Google’s addition of popular twitter topics into the search results is just the beginning. Every industry, including legal, should expect a bigger ‘peanut gallery’ of commentators in 2010. The real time web will also push us to publish faster (or at least make us feel like we should). Those with the skill to draft insightful responses quickly, and then push those comments out onto ‘the circuit’, will see success. Mobile Web Becomes Important: The mobile web made some major inroads in 2009, but I expect it to become a priority in 2010. ... Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:55:17 +0100 803673 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/onebiglibrary/~3/YjLJIkvIYUA/2009-a-year-in-pictures Funny how sometimes the story of a year plays out in the photos you choose to share. This is how it started. Happy new year, indeed. This is what I'd done: Broken fifth metacarpal. It healed okay, I think. I spent the better part of January and February healing up from the hand and serving on a DC grand jury. No pictures of that. There was one major highlight in that period, though: What a day! Broken as I was (the hand, and my back had gone wonky a few days before inauguration) and cold as it was I'll never regret being there, it was one of the most exciting things I've ever seen. I must've started feeling better by the end of February. Though maybe I was just being foolish. Manon caught in the act, with her new camera: I've grown to prefer shooting black and white film. Here's the red filter in action: And again with the red filter. It's still hard sometimes for me to believe these places are so close to where I live. We're half a block from the park, and we'll probably move before long, but while we're here, it's wonderful. Due to additional broken bones in my family, passover was just the two of us. I think we've perfected the meatless seder, and next year maybe we'll have a big group. Here's what I look like with a mouthful of horseradish - the good kind. In April a very cool project I'm lucky to get to work on sometimes launched a major rewrite. You can do weird mashup stuff with it now like this: Springtime also means baseball season. The Nats weren't very good but did show signs of life, especially Zimmerman's hitting streak, and the Six Weeks of Healthy Nyjer Morgan. We saw Randy Johnson's 300th win this year, which was fun despite the deluge in which it occurred. The Nats might be actually competitive next year, we'll see. I still haven't had a chance to see the Tigers in DC yet, though, maybe they'll come one of these years. ... Sun, 20 Dec 2009 07:08:48 +0100 802655 http://www.frbr.org/2009/12/20/last-week-in-frbr-11 A couple of days late this week. My Internet access is apparently broken in three different ways, and the phone company can’t even explain how it could have been working last week. Zhang and Salaba, Implementing FRBR in Libraries: Key Issues and Future Directions There’s a new FRBR book! Implementing FRBR in Libraries: Key Issues and Future Directions by Yin Zhang and Athena Salaba, published by Neal Schumann. Here’s the publisher’s description: This book is ideal for anyone who aims to obtain an overview of the current status of Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) development. It helps identify the key FRBR issues that need to be addressed and investigates the future directions of FRBR development. Implementing FRBR in Libraries: Key Issues and Future Directions is the first book to address the theory and implementation of FRBR in a unified discussion. Authors Yin Zhang and Athena Salaba, winners of the 2009 ALISE/Bohdan S. Wynar Research Paper Competition Award, give readers a clear framework for understanding FRBR’s current and potential implications on library catalogs. They provide a thorough introduction to the history of FRBR and its possible benefits, a detailed description of the FRBR model and its components, and a discussion of its practical influence in transforming description standards, cataloging and metadata practices. The book includes examples of how professionals are successfully applying FRBR in real-life library settings, and explores various methods for effectively implementing the FRBR model. Each chapter includes illustrations to help reinforce fundamental concepts. The book contains a comprehensive appendix of key terms and acronyms to aid readers new to the field and a list of projects and software to showcase practical FRBR applications. ... Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100 802302 http://tecnicalia.com/2009/12/17/tec_diagrama-de-la-cultura-geek/ Diagrama de cultura geek creado por Julianna Brion, donde podemos ver representados por colores algunas de las actividades geek, las obsesiones o los ídolos. Se ve mejor en grande (haciendo click en la imagen) Via: Online» Ruben Colomer Articulos relacionados: Diagrama de la cultura geekDiagrama de flujo de la vida GeekCamiseta Space In Vader (mashup geek)Grafitis geekAntropología geek, según Wired (Source: tecnicalia.com) Thu, 17 Dec 2009 11:33:00 +0100 801280 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibrariansMatter/~3/nYBAYf9FnB0/ Remember last year’s  Thriller video from the National Library of Australia’s Christmas Party (Michael Jackson Library Video Mashups )? I’ve played it in a couple of presentations this year about libraries using media.  I have asked the audience “what do you think of when you think of the National Library of Australia?” both before and after I play it. Now I can add Volume Two – this year’s Can Can’t Dancers . It includes all those features that make a library what it is – boys being girls, cartwheels, superman poses on book trolleys, bookthrowing, office chair choreography and even the splits. Thankfully (?) this appears *not* to be part of a meme, so I can’t link to other videos of similar shennanigans in libraries like I did last year… Enjoy…. (Source: Librarians matter) Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:10:06 +0100 801268 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/BXnB9p4elQc/005075.php (This piece was written for the BingTweets blog and is part of an ongoing exploration of search underwritten by Microsoft. See my series on the interplay of search and decisions here, here, and here. I wrote the piece below before today's web-wide conversation about content farms, but I think it's related. We need new frameworks for search, and real time points us toward one potential path.) --------- The rise of real time search (just this past week, Google rolled Twitter, Facebook and Myspace data into its results) has everyone buzzing. Of course, BingTweets was the first real time mashup from a major player in search (and Microsoft has already announced its intentions to go further), but we're just at the start of where real time search might go. What might things look like a few years from now? In my last BingTweets post (Decisions Are Never Easy) I posited the idea of a real time service that connects us to each other based on expertise. So if I wanted to talk with someone who was an expert in buying classic cars, the service would find that expert and connect me to him or her. I think real time search is a step toward building an ecosystem that makes such a service possible. But we have to get out of our current modes of understanding search interfaces to really grok how this might work. At present, we still see search as a modal dialog box, where we type in a request, then wait for an answer. As different search interfaces develop, new opportunities arise. We've seen a fair amount of innovation in search interfaces lately (here's more on Pivot, for example), but real time data presents a significant challenge. We can see the challenge in the companies most directly responsible for feeding data into the real time search index. ... Sun, 13 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100 800313 http://tecnicalia.com/2009/12/11/tec_guitar2-d2-un-instrumento-capaz-de-hacer-que-darth-vader-pierda-la-cabeza-con-casco-y-todo/ Ben Simon ha puesto a prueba su Guitar2-D2 en el metro neoyorquino, uno de los pocos lugares del mundo en el que no le tirarán tomates salga lo que salga de su instrumento. La Guitar2-D2 tiene mérito: es al mismo tiempo guitarra eléctrica, sintetizador, caja de ritmos y amplificador. Aunque… será que tengo el oído atrofiado, pero el resultado musical para mí que sería capaz de reventar la cabeza de Darth Vader en una sesión intensiva. A ver qué os parece: tenéis un breve vídeo después del salto. — Rafa M. Claudín [Obsolete] Via: Gizmodo ES Articulos relacionados: Despertador Darth Vader y el lado oscuro de los lunesAsí se defiende Darth Vader de los gases tóxicosTie Fighter Advanced X1, una webcam para mantener informado a Darth Vader [veredicto: Vader, al final, sólo un pajillero con máscara]Cama Imperial Walker para Darth Vader Jr.Camiseta Space In Vader (mashup geek) (Source: tecnicalia.com) Fri, 11 Dec 2009 11:03:00 +0100 799676 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/12/10/mashups-research-musical-artists-with-artist-explorer/ For those of you who want more on the technical side of this tool, this article has what you’re looking for. Artist Explorer is a mashup using data from the NY Times, Billboard magazine, Best Buy, and Interleeper. You can use Artist Explorer to research new artists or see what your old favorites have done lately. And when you find something you like, you can send SMS messages directly from the app — after all, your friends could probably use a little help with their holiday shopping lists…On the Best Buy tab, links to Times reviews are displayed alongside product information, helping you make sure you really want to pay $32.99 for that Tom Waits box set. Note: You will need to have MS Silverlight on your computer. It’s a free download. Again, tech details here. More from Artist Explorer’s developer and Microsoft Evangelist Michael Scherotter in this blog post and this screencast. Source: NY TImes (First Look Blog) (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:20:17 +0100 799452 http://www.betabib.org/2009/12/03/sjuka-betraktelser-av-online-och-middlemash/ En ganska bra sak med att vara sjuk är att man kan ligga i sängen och slötitta på saker. Jag hade oturen att vara sjuk i veckan och mellan attacker av kyla, värme och hosta tittade jag lite på vad som händer under Online Information 2009. Jag har aldrig varit på Online Information, det ser ut som en ganska tjock konferens. Temat är Information + Conversation = Collaboration + innovation. Även om temat låter väldigt bra så tycker jag att det mesta känns ganska ”mainstream”. Man tar upp de givna nya trenderna som semantiska och sociala webben, 2.0 stuff och biblioteksteknologi i olika former. I twitterflödet hittar man en del intressant, som ONKI – Finnish Ontology Library Service och så finns det givetvis några presentationer som är värda att titta på: Semantic Web and Linked Data – In Action View more documents from Richard Wallis. Next-Gen Libraries View more documents from Ellyssa Kroski. Online fortsätter idag, men det ger mig nog inte speciellt mycket mer att följa det hela. Dessutom har jag två kollegor på plats. Så Magnus och Paola får rapportera mer utförligt på hemmaplan. #middlemash Jag tror inte att jag missar fantastiskt mycket i London. Däremot så tror jag att jag missade fantastiskt mycket på en annan liten sammankomst i England ungefär samtidigt, #Middlemash. Den som sett mashed library på Ning vet att Mash-eventen brukar vara kreativa och i framkant när det gäller att praktiskt använda ny teknik för att skapa spännande bibliotekstjänster! Många brukar klaga på att de inte får med sig något hem som de kan göra. Den känslan lär man inte ha när man lämnar ett ”mash”-event. Ett par av presentationerna finns på slideshare. Jag väntar fortfarande på att någon av våra svenska teknikintresserade bibliotekarier skall hitta Yahoo! Pipes och bli frälst. Det har onekligen tagit de brittiska system- och IT-bibliotekarierna med förtjusning. ... Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:37:56 +0100 797861 http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/2009/12/mashup-with-pipes-wiki.html (Found via here). Jody Condit Fagan released a Wiki dealing with Yahoo Pipes. I had heard of Jody via Nicole Engard book, in which she looked at this article dealing with Mashing Up Multiple Web Feeds Using yahoo! pipes. Worth a look. (Source: librarytwopointzero) Thu, 03 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100 798512 http://litablog.org/2009/12/lita-offering-two-workshops-in-boston/ LITA is offering two full-day educational workshops on Friday, January 15, 2010 in Boston, MA. Karen Coombs is presenting Creating Library Web Services: Mashups and APIs: del.icio.us subject guides, Flickr library displays, YouTube library orientation; with mashups and APIs, it’s easier to bring pieces of the web together with library data. Learn what an API is and what it does, the components of web services, how to build a mashup, how to work with PHP, and how to create web services for your library. Participants should be comfortable with HTML markup and have an interest in learning about web scripting and programming and are encouraged to bring a laptop for hands-on participation. In addition, Brenda Reeb of the University of Rochester is presenting Writing for the Web: Participants will learn how to present text and words on a webpage in ways that enhance findability and readability of webpage content. Participants will have the opportunity to receive feedback on writing during the workshop and critique web copy on sites selected by the presenter. Leave the workshop with quick-fixes you can apply to your site immediately as well as strategies for tackling long range projects that will enhance the quality of your library website. Visit the ALA Midwinter Meeting registration page to register for these events. Please note, you do not have to register for the ALA Midwinter Meeting in order to attend these workshops. You may also add a workshop to your existing Midwinter registration by calling ALA Registration at 1-800-974-3084. (Source: LITA Blog) Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:26:57 +0100 797673 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Librarianinblack/~3/ghGRuQAPJO8/mashups.html Nicole Engard (Director of Open Source Education at ByWater Solutions) recently edited a great book for library webophiles: Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data. I found the book to be quite helpful and after reading it passed it along to our web team members to browse through to look for ideas for our new website. Although I follow what’s happening in the library web world and have worked with mashups extensively, I still found myself learning about a half-dozen mashups I’d never heard of before. The book is broken into sections, each chapter with a different mashup idea.  With over two dozen contributors, the book represents a wide swath of open source mashup ideas and thinking.  The section on library website mashups was most useful to me, though the sections on catalog data mashups, maps/images/videos mashups, and an “added value” mashups chapter all introduced me to new ways of thinking about our library data.  I think that the thing I liked best about the book was that although the chapters provided the basic info to get you started on the particular mashup being discussed, it stimulated my own thinking about new and different mashups that we could pursue.  And a book that makes you think beyond the content of its pages is a good book indeed.  The book website offers relevant links to different mashup data sources, as well as the table of contents so you can see what you’re getting.  For less than $40, it’s a worthwhile buy for your library’s staff collection.  And for all of you out there who think mashups are out of your reach, remember that many of these are literally plug-and-play solutions.  If you can get the data source information from your techies, you can just copy and paste and voila–a mashup that your library users will love.  (Source: LibrarianInBlack) Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:19:18 +0100 797644 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/MdcdCtDuTjQ/3405 Computers in Libraries 2008 Wiki / Jody Condit FaganIncludes mashups and yahoo pipes info PostBooks | Open Source Alternative – osalt.comPostBooks is an open source business software package that offers a total solution for managing your business, including fully-integrated accounting, CRM and ERP modules. More of my links (Source: What I Learned Today...) Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:02:02 +0100 797705 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/talis/panlibus/~3/1A0XjQa7ne0/middlemash.php I was a newbie to the library mashup scene, and took in a lot of information yesterday at Middlemash, hosted by Damyanti Patel and her colleagues at Birmingham City University. It was every bit the friendly and stimulating event that I’d expected to be, but by the time I, along with an impressive number of co-malingerers, got to the Barton Arms at the end of the day, I was able to pinpoint what had made me mildly uncomfortable at intermittent points of the day. The discomfort had nothing to do with either the organisers or the participants, or indeed with the concept of mashing itself. The problem is that the same forward-thinking librarians who celebrate the advent of electronic resources and innovative technologies for discovering them, are the same people who, in a mashing context, are forced back into the world of print. And this has to be about ownership of data. Bibliographic data is much more “ours” than electronic resource metadata, that has traditionally been proprietary, locked away in abstract and index databases, available only in academic institutions and certainly not mashable by a bunch of librarians with a strange predilection for creating more exciting experiences of scholarly information. Mashing the reading list Like many people at the event, Edith Speller from Trinity College of Music was concerned about her institution’s reading lists. She felt that they were getting too static, and out of date, and, like many Talis Aspire customers, wanted to raise awareness of all those expensive subscriptions to e-resources among academics who would then be more likely to include them on resource lists. However, the solutions arrived at seem to be very book-specific, involving the following: • Using the ISBN of a book on a resource list to look up recommendations (along the lines of “people who bought that also bought this”) using Amazon Web Services. ... Tue, 01 Dec 2009 18:37:03 +0100 797159 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/bNwLWcG19ls/3399 David Friggens, Systems Librarian at University of Waikato in New Zealand, has been releasing a series of mashups that are close to my heart. They are a series of maps of libraries that are using an Open Source ILS. Academic Libraries Public Libraries Special/Corporate Libraries The maps pull data from libwebcats (another project I love very much) and plot the libraries on a Google Map. Since libwebcats depends on libraries to enter their automation information, and open source is easy to implement without telling anyone, there are surely libraries missing from these maps. So here I repeat what I tell everyone on the Koha Mailing Lists – if you’re using an open source ILS – or any ILS for that matter – head over to libwebcats and enter your library information so that we can get a better picture of the spread of the open source ILS. (Source: What I Learned Today...) Mon, 30 Nov 2009 13:53:10 +0100 796418 http://www.librarystuff.net/2009/11/27/mix-and-mash-for-librarians/ Information World Review has a review of Nicole Engard’s book, which is published by ITI. (Source: Library Stuff) Fri, 27 Nov 2009 20:26:17 +0100 795525 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pandia/vfbc/~3/wAUhWuDvMCY/2297-on-the-google-chrome-os-and-other-search-engine-news-nov-22.html Here are some of this week’s headlines from the search engine scene. We also presents several videos on the new Google Chrome operating system. Yahoo Search Now Indexing Twitter Tweets for Breaking News (Google Watch Nov 19 2009) Google Chrome OS Preview Comes as Microsoft Preps Azure Yesterday, Nov. 17, Microsoft said Azure, the cloud-based operating system, would be ready for enterprise consumption as soon as Jan. 1, 2010. (Google Watch Nov 18 2009) Mystery Google - what is it? A custom search engine designed to show you what the person in front of you just searched for. (About Nov 18 2009) Google Image Swirl Google is continuing to explore the possibilities of image search. (P Bradley Nov 18 2009) Sony to launch iTunes-like online store Web portal to provide missing link (techradar Nov 20 2009) Ikalia Launches Bazibaza Media Search Engine Bazibaza Media focus on distribution of TV channels through any platform, country or technical means (Alt Search Engines Nov 19 2009) Twitter paid-for accounts out this year But the main service will always remain free (TechRadar Nov 20 2009) Google to Test New, More Colorful (and Permanent) Sidebar Google is rolling out a design prototype to some users which will have a permanent new pane to the left hand side. (Blogoscoped Nov 20 2009) Google Builds Out A National Real Estate Search Engine While the National Association of REALTORS® is planning to launch its own national property database sometime next year, Google seems to have just stolen the NAR’s thunder (SE Land Nov 20 2009) Why People Love Google As a brand, both through their own efforts and through sheer luck, Google has been able to position itself as the #1 online brand in the US according to Forrester Research. (Marketing Pilgrim Nov 19 2009) The Latest News From Bing Bing has launched another feature which highlights the latest posts from news sites. ... Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:59:58 +0100 794167 http://bonariabiancu.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/library-mashups-2-mashing-up-open-data-with-biblios-net-web-sevices/ Di questo servizio abbiamo già parlato ma mi fa piacere riprenderlo attraverso il capitolo 11 di Library Mashups (come sapete, nell’esplorazione dei vari capitoli, non procederemo con ordine :-), intitolato Mashing Up Open Data with biblios.net Web Sevices e scritto da Joshua Ferraro di LibLime. All’inizio del 2009 la società che vende servizi per software open source, LibLime, ha rilasciato un servizio di catalogazione gratuito, web based e che poggia su una base di milioni di record bibliografici liberamente adoperabili (openly licensed): biblios.net. In particolare, il capitolo si focalizza sui servizi web (web services) offerti da LibLime insieme al software di catalogazione e alla base dati di record. I biblios.net Web Services (BWS) poggiano su una conquista fondamentale: gli Open (Bibliographic and not) Data, che a loro volta consentono la libertà e gratuità di intervenire sui record bibliografici, sui metadati prodotti dalle biblioteche e rilasciati/messi a disposizione di tutti attraverso licenze dedicate. Questo dei dati è sempre stato un grosso ostacolo nel mondo bibliotecario – e chi frequenta questo blog da un po’ lo sa bene. Spesso i molti e ricchi e riccamente strutturati metadati che i bibliotecari con grande fatica e sudore di fronte creano quando catalogano i libri, rimangono poi confinati entro ILS (software di automazione e catalogazione) proprietari o comunque chiusi alla possibilità del rilascio libero e del riutilizzo (al netto delle esperienze di catalogazione cooperativa, che però sono un’altra cosa). ... Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:20:01 +0100 795114 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/rihlib/2009/11/20/library-news-notes-112009/ Rowland Institute at Harvard Library News & Notes November 20, 2009 Note: there will be no LNN next week. Happy Thanksgiving! Quote of the Week “To be one with the truth for just a moment, Is worth more than the world and life itself.” ~Rumi (Source: Sharon Hayes) Rowland news Howard Berg has a review paper in the special issue of Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, “From bacterial chemotaxis to cellular systems biology: a tribute to Dennis Bray. ... Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:26:16 +0100 794068 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Spellboundblog/~3/__xznBgEYxM/ I realized while at MARAC at the end of October that I never posted here about the completion and publication of the Interactive Archivist: Case Studies in Utilizing Web 2.0 to Improve the Archival Experience. The brainchild of J. Gordon Daines III and Cory Nimer, this free SAA ePublication only exists online and brings together ten Web 2.0 archivist-oriented case studies covering blogs, mashups, tagging, wikis, Facebook and more. It also includes thorough introductions to each of the technologies covered by case studies, an annotated bibliography and a link to a living list of resources on Delicious. My contribution to the collection is titled Spellbound Blog: Using Blogs as a Professional Development Opportunity. I don’t spend much time on this blog talking about blogging, so if you ever wanted to know more about why I blog or are considering starting a blog yourself – my case study might be of interest. Thank you again to Gordon and Cory for including me as part of their project. I think that it is a great contribution to the cultural heritage community at large. These case studies take a wide range of new technologies and make them accessible through real examples and lessons learned. I don’t know about you, but I believe I learn at least 10x as much from someone’s first hand experience than I would from an abstracted explanation of how one might use a new technology. I hope you find the Interactive Archivist as rich a resource as I believe you will. This post is from from: Spellbound Blog.Interactive Archivist: Spellbound Blog as a Case Study (Source: SpellboundBlog.com) Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:01:24 +0100 793818 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/11/16/new-mashups-billmaps/ Here’s a new mashup for a new week that can be filed in the U.S. Congress category. BillMaps is very easy to use but potentially very useful for those who like to “see” how something looks. Sometimes you can see something on a map (e.g. a trend) that would be difficult to detect just by looking at the text. Simply enter a bill number (the database goes back to 101st Congress) and then select what you would one of the two mapping options. You can either map where the sponsors of a bill are from or what a vote looks like on a map. In other words, Google Map “pins” are placed inside the state where the congressperson is from and colored either green for “aye” or red for “nay.” Each pin can be clicked and you’ll find the name of the voter and direct links to info about that person from the OpenCongress database and the Govtrack.us database (a ResourceShelf fave). On the home page you can find links to: + Most Tracked Bills this Week + Most Supported Bills this Week + Most Opposed Bills this Week + Hot Bills + Most Blogged Bills this Week Btw, on any list page you can access a brief bill summary by moving your cursor over the title of the bill. So here’s an example. First, we selected Most Tracked Bills this Week We’re finding on where the “most tracked” number is coming from. Our guess, GovTrack.us. Next, we selected #H.197: National Right-to-Carry Reciprocity Act of 2009, click and we see where the 162 sponsors are from. In additon to the map you’ll find a brief summary and related bills. Here’s another example, we went to the top of the home page and entered H.1 from the 110th Congress and then vote. The bill was titled, Implementing the 9/11 Commission Recommendations Act of 2007. Here’s the maps Below the map you’ll see 435 votes. ... Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:01:01 +0100 791887 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/WowWouterOverHetWeb/~3/HdaULBAfJ0c/google-streetview-ook-in-de.html Dat Google Street View afgelopen week de dekking in Nederland fors heeft uitgebreid zal bijna niemand ontgaan zijn. Het stond ook breed uitgemeten in de reguliere kranten. Toch zal het sommige mensen weinig zeggen wat dat Street View nu precies is. En dan dat navigeren met dat poppetje is ook niet altijd even makkelijk.Vandaag viel me echter op dat Google de uitbreiding weer uiterst vernuftig in een andere applicatie verpakt. In de routebeschrijvingen duiken nu bij allerhande kruispunten cameraatjes op, wanneer je daar op klikt krijg je een split screen met plattegrond en street view foto's van het betreffende kruispunt vanuit de richting waarop je komt aanrijden. Het volgen van de lijn wordt ineens veel gemakkelijker. Het steekt weer eens zo mooi in elkaar, en opeens wordt het gebruik van streetview vertienvoudigt.Ik vind het een hele slimme applicatie of mashup, en zie dit nog wel van toepassing komen op de Google TomTom die er echt wel gaat komen. (Source: WoW! Wouter over het Web) Sun, 15 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0100 792257 http://www.figoblog.org/node/1975 Il y a quelques temps, j'étais au Bookcamp 2 à Paris, où j'avais proposé d'animer un atelier sur le Web de données. Pourquoi le Web de données ? Parce qu'il me semble urgent que les gens du livre - et pas seulement les bibliothèques - réfléchissent si possible ensemble à l'exploitation et à la valorisation de leurs métadonnées sur le Web, dans un mode ouvert, partagé et collaboratif. Quand je dis collaboratif, ce n'est pas au sens "Web 2.0" (je te taggue, tu me taggues par la barbichette etc.) mais plutôt au sens du Web de données : chacun produit ses données de façon standard, les met à disposition sur le Web de façon ouverte, et tout le monde peut les réutiliser et créer de la valeur. L'avantage du Web sémantique dans ce contexte, comme je l'expliquais dans le "use case" présenté à Florence et sur lequel je suis revenue dans l'atelier du bookcamp, c'est de ne pas obliger toute la chaîne des producteurs à adopter le même format de métadonnées (ce qui est impossible, comme la vie nous le prouve chaque jour) et d'éviter les conversions d'un format à l'autre. Probablement inspiré par ces cas d'utilisation livresques, Got s'est lancé dans la création d'un démonstrateur de ce que l'on peut déjà agréger comme données sur les livres avec ce qui est disponible aujourd'hui dans le linked data, c'est à dire rien que des données ouvertes, librement disponibles, en encodées en RDF. Le résultat est là : linked book mashup. Vous remarquerez qu'il y a déjà (un peu) de données de bibliothèques dedans : celles de Libris, les autorités de la Library of Congress, et des liens avec Rameau. Le reste provient de Freebase, DBpedia, etc. Je vous laisse apprécier le résultat, avec un début de FRBRisation, des données enrichies, des visuels... Des tas de choses intéressantes. L'exemple le plus complet étant le Seigneur des Anneaux. ... Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:05:27 +0100 792335 http://figoblog.org/node/1975 Il y a quelques temps, j'étais au Bookcamp 2 à Paris, où j'avais proposé d'animer un atelier sur le Web de données. Pourquoi le Web de données ? Parce qu'il me semble urgent que les gens du livre - et pas seulement les bibliothèques - réfléchissent si possible ensemble à l'exploitation et à la valorisation de leurs métadonnées sur le Web, dans un mode ouvert, partagé et collaboratif. Quand je dis collaboratif, ce n'est pas au sens "Web 2.0" (je te taggue, tu me taggues par la barbichette etc.) mais plutôt au sens du Web de données : chacun produit ses données de façon standard, les met à disposition sur le Web de façon ouverte, et tout le monde peut les réutiliser et créer de la valeur. L'avantage du Web sémantique dans ce contexte, comme je l'expliquais dans le "use case" présenté à Florence et sur lequel je suis revenue dans l'atelier du bookcamp, c'est de ne pas obliger toute la chaîne des producteurs à adopter le même format de métadonnées (ce qui est impossible, comme la vie nous le prouve chaque jour) et d'éviter les conversions d'un format à l'autre. Probablement inspiré par ces cas d'utilisation livresques, Got s'est lancé dans la création d'un démonstrateur de ce que l'on peut déjà agréger comme données sur les livres avec ce qui est disponible aujourd'hui dans le linked data, c'est à dire rien que des données ouvertes, librement disponibles, en encodées en RDF. Le résultat est là : linked book mashup. Vous remarquerez qu'il y a déjà (un peu) de données de bibliothèques dedans : celles de Libris, les autorités de la Library of Congress, et des liens avec Rameau. Le reste provient de Freebase, DBpedia, etc. Je vous laisse apprécier le résultat, avec un début de FRBRisation, des données enrichies, des visuels... Des tas de choses intéressantes. L'exemple le plus complet étant le Seigneur des Anneaux. ... Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:05:27 +0100 791591 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2009/11/12/november-12th-stream.html for @librarux RT @jowyang: Not happy with your designer? You need "Make my Logo Bigger" cream, funny video http://bit.ly/6wE7l [shifted] Posted Alltop: 21 ways great bosses foster innovation http://om.ly/brje. Shared Strange reflection. @stray honey, I shrunk the logo [shifted] Posted Tim O’Reilly: Clever physical mashup: iphone turned into interactive children’s book. Fresh and surprising. http://bit.ly/mTW3f #ebook #make via @bjepson. new TSL post: Return of the Cybrary (or Zip Drives FTW!) – http://bit.ly/491T7g [shifted] Posted loidagarciafebo: Video: Mobile Library Services http://www.ocls.info/Virtual/Videos/Innovations/oclsmobile.asp – nice!. Shared NGD in Canada. NGD in Canada @infowidget while I would *much* rather an Illinois library hire you yesterday, I will still wish you good luck [shifted] Posted wsstephens: RT @christman26 complied a list of AASL2009 reflections in public GoogleDoc. Feel free to add/edit! http://tinyurl.com/ylkptg4 #aasl2009. Posted branflakez: @shifted LOL RT @library2: Stare intently at Jenny Levine with comfy chairs and coffee. Shared Go. See. Fedra. while you still can.. Share: No tags for this post. (Source: The Shifted Librarian) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:00:07 +0100 791813 http://freegovinfo.info/node/2812 Looks like the UK version of data.gov, developed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, is going to be released soon. It is "language-based" where "linkages are based on human language, rather than hard-coded hyperlinks", a.k.a. the Semantic Web concept that Berners-Lee has been touting for years. I like the way Nancy Scola of Personal Democracy Forum describes the Semantic Web: [Berners-Lee] vision is of a web that understands the connections between disparate bits of information in a way similar to how the human mind might effortlessly connect an address on London's Whitehall with the events of World War II that Winston Churchill directed from an underground bunker there. Data woven through with more human ways of interpretation might, just might, make the gap between making government information public and making it useful a little smaller. The BBC reports that "Data.gov.uk is built with semantic web technology, which will enable the data it offers to be drawn together into links and threads as the user searches...we will also be able to look for patterns...visitors to data.gov.uk will want to make their own mash-ups from the information available." Yes, and we should be making mashups from our country's data.gov for our library patrons too! Let's get to it! I'll be working on mine and will show you how it can be done. (Source: Free Government Information (FGI) blogs) Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:22:02 +0100 790610 http://bhplnjbookgroup.blogspot.com/2009/11/time-management-in-libraries-some.html Anyone who has ever attended Continuing Education (CE) classes knows that sitting in a chilly meeting room, drinking coffee that tastes like styrofoam, while watching a Power Point slide show, which duplicates the handout slide-for-slide, are the order of the day. A popular CE topic is time management. Obviously, time would be better managed if the presenters just put the slide show on their website, but the irony seems to elude the presenters. Regarding the frustrations of CE, we present this letter sent to us by a frazzled librarian somewhere in Libraryland:'Greetings and Salutations Fellow Librarians,Inspired by the Regional Symposium on Time Management which I attend annually, I submit the following ideas for your consideration.Has everyone seen the TV ad for the search engine Bing that shows people madly babbling tidbits of unrelated factoids? The ad appeals to the overwhelmed in all of us. The phrase “information overload” is decades old, but the situation only got worse with the advent of the internet. Time, they say, waits for no man, but what it does do is get cluttered up with too much to do and too much information. Since every malady should have a remedy, here is a plan to solve the problem of how to fully acknowledge the many worthy causes which we just don’t have time for and how to manage other demands on our time and attention. Clearly autumn is overburdened with serious causes and holidays, so I propose that we move several fall events to February which has a dearth of activities, followed closely by the month of March. Using the ever-popular multi-tasking approach, we could even double-up some holidays. For example, Valentine’s Day and Banned Books Week (last week of September) are perfect together. Just think of the possibilities. Give your significant other Lady Chatterley’s Lover or some other racy banned book instead of those fattening chocolates, dying roses and expensive jewelry. ... Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0100 792625 http://bonariabiancu.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/library-mashups-1-sopac-2-0-the-trashable-mashable-catalog/ Per far conoscere Library mashups: exploring new ways to deliver library data, ho pensato di inaugurare una serie di post dedicati ai vari capitoli. Affinché l’impostazione non sia troppo burocratica, non procederò proprio in sequenza. Comincerò la serie con una delle puntate più avvincenti: quella  sul capitolo 12,  SOPAC 2.0: The Trashable, Mashable Catalog, scritto da John Blyberg e dedicato a SOPAC (Social OPAC), l’interfaccia web per i cataloghi di biblioteca creata da Blyberg medesimo, bravissimo programmatore e appassionato di open source e biblioteche. SOPAC nasce nel 2005 come un progetto open source della Ann Arbor District Library (NdR adesso Blyberg lavora presso la Darien Library), quando a Blyberg viene chiesto di riprogettare l’interfaccia web del catalogo della biblioteca. L’intento del nostro è subito chiaro: disegnare un OPAC che non sia percepito come qualcosa di estrinseco ma che si fonda perfettamente con l’interfaccia web del sito della biblioteca. Dunque SOPAC viene concepito come nativamente integrato nel CMS Drupal, e sviluppato a partire proprio da moduli del Content Management System. La prima interfaccia va online nel 2007 e si presenta molto bene, ricca di funzionalità sociali tipiche della Library 2.0. Qualcosa però non funziona ancora bene e non permette quell’integrazione seamless tra OPAC e sito web che Blyberg si era proposto. L’interfaccia è da un lato troppo dipendente dalla configurazione del sistema di automazione della AADL e dunque non facilmente esportabile, e dall’altro l’architettura nel suo insieme è troppo poco ricettiva verso i contenuti generati dagli utenti (UGC), che infatti non sono inclusi nell’indice dell’OPAC che viene interrogato all’atto di ricerca di un libro da parte degli utenti. Così prende il via il progetto SOPAC 2. ... Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:32:28 +0100 789677 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/griffey/~3/IBZPOXNIvLg/ I don’t normally do single link posts, but…wow. Mark Leggott knocked it out of the park with this. So well done, if you’re at all still interested in this, you need to read this: A Response to Stephen Abram and SirsiDynixSimilar Posts: Google Maps Mashup that I want Quotes: Mark Twain Sirsi-Dynix vs Open Source Software 5 Weeks Clickthrough licensing dreck (Source: Pattern Recognition) Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:00:57 +0100 790043 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/WpCrTETOcVc/lis-web2-list.html LIS-WEB2@JISCMAIL.AC.UK - a list for anyone interested in Web 2.0 and its uses in libraries. Specifically for those interested in developing Web 2.0 content for their library service, including social networking tools, mashups and other media (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:58:29 +0100 789275 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/M0CHw1jce-s/ So it feels as if I haven’t been posting that much on this blog over the last few weeks, but I have been blogging elsewhere, 2-3 times a week, in fact, on: - the Arcadia Project Blog; - the Arcadia Mashups Blog. Here’s a quick round up of some of the more notable posts that you can find over there that I would, in the normal course of events, have probably posted here on OUseful.info: Do Libraries Cater for Today’s Researchers and Research Students?, a quick response to a new interim project report from the British Library reporting on a longitudinal study about the information related behaviour of research students; [Arcadia Project] Open Library Training Materials and Custom Search Engines, in which I describe a simple Google Custom Search Engine that searches over all the UK HEI Library websites. If you’re looking for infoskills/Library training resources, this might be a handy way of finding them… [Arcadia Mashups] Getting Started With Yahoo Pipes: Merging RSS Feeds, an quick guide to creating your first Yahoo Pipe [Arcadia Mashups] Stack Request Delivery Slots: the Cambridge University Library has many of its borrowable books on closed stacks, which means you have to request the books and then they are fetched for you. Might it be an idea to allow bookable collection slots, so you can request an item for a future date? [Arcadia Project] BookServer – Like URIPlay, but for Books…? and LibraryDNS, cf. ... Thu, 05 Nov 2009 17:26:30 +0100 789116 http://www.uni.uiuc.edu/library/blog/2009/11/time-to-recharge.html I really should start recording the RifRaf meetings. Unlike other book clubs, this one doesn't pick a single book to read and discuss. Instead, a (supposed) theme is picked each week, and tends to run along the lines of "Characters who shouldn't have (or should have) died" and other such speculation. Today, folks seemed to be fascinated by the idea of popes and the supernatural (involving zombies and their ilk). I have no idea why. So next week's theme will delve into this mystery - for a good five minutes, anyway. A more concrete proposal emerged, perhaps inspired by NaNoWriMo, which was to collectively write a novel in a brand new mashup genre: "zombie pirate robot vampire alien French Pope romance." Can't wait to read the ARC. It's conference season for me right now. Last week I attended the Illinois School Library Media Association annual conference in Springfield. Tomorrow I leave for the American Association of School Librarians National Conference. I'll be blogging for them, so this little corner of the blogosphere will be quiet until I get back next week, recharged and ready for more zombies. (Source: Gargoyles loose in the library) Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0100 788331 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/wMWITy0TIt0/005052.php The sphere is abuzz with today's news that AT&T is suing Verizon over those apparently quite effective ads which borrow heavily from Apple's tagline - "There's an App for that..." Verizon has created a map that compares AT&T 3G coverage to Verizon's, and then uses the tagline "there's a map for that." (Above is the commercial, here's the map.) Well, I've been ranting about a real carrier mapping application (executed as a marketing campaign, natch), for nearly three years, and while I've told just about everyone I can about it, so far it's still not done (I know, I know, we should make it ourselves, right? Well, maybe we will!). Meanwhile, here's the idea. If any of you brilliant coder/UX/marketing geniuses want to go do it, just credit FM and I, ok? The main value of the program? It provides a place where anyone can put a pin on a map and annotate (with four part ranting harmony if they'd like) where their calls are dropped. A service like this exists - deadcellzones.com - but it's not quite what I had in mind. It's got the guts of what I've suggested, but not the scale, interface, community feel, conversational dialog, or program backing. And by program, I mean a major carrier practicing the true principles of conversational marketing, and owning the dialog - listening, responding, and acting upon the input. I imagine the program working something like this. A major carrier - let's say AT&T, since it's in the news today - decides to build this app. It then announces the app in a major marketing program via a traditional marketing platform (web, TV, etc.). Say you're on Boing Boing, and you see a STAMP execution that announces the new service - perhaps the ad itself is a widget that allows you to push a pin into the map based on a zip code, or whatever. ... Tue, 03 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0100 788235 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2009/11/01/why-plaintiffs-should-have-to-prove-irreparable-harm-in-copyright-preliminary-injunction-cases/ Pamela Samuelson and Krzysztof Bebenek have self-archived "Why Plaintiffs Should Have to Prove Irreparable Harm in Copyright Preliminary Injunction Cases" in SSRN. Here's an excerpt: It has become lamentably common for courts to issue preliminary injunctions in copyright cases once rights holders have shown a reasonable likelihood of success on the merits without going on to require them to prove that they will suffer irreparable harm unless the injunction issues. Harm is too often presumed to be irreparable if plaintiffs have made out a prima facie case of infringement. This presumption cannot be squared with traditional principles of equity, as interpreted in numerous Supreme Court decisions, particularly eBay, Inc. v. MercExchange LLC, 547 U.S. 388 (2006). While a presumption of irreparable harm is inappropriate in all copyright cases, it is particularly troublesome in cases involving transformative uses of existing works, such as parodies and remixes and mashups, because free expression and free speech interests of creative users are at stake and transformative uses cases often raise plausible non-infringement defenses. Indeed, if any presumption about harm is appropriate in transformative use cases, it should probably run in favor of irreparability of harm to the defendants' free expression and speech interests under First Amendment case law which treats preliminary injunctions as presumptively unconstitutional prior restraints on speech. Related Posts UK Intellectual Property Office: © The Way Ahead: A Strategy for Copyright in the Digital Age Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums "Copyright as Information Policy: Google Book Search from a Law and Economics Perspective" Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars "Looking for Fair Use in the DMCA's Safety Dance" (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:00:00 +0100 788179 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/McN3esW-tPo/ Pamela Samuelson and Krzysztof Bebenek have self-archived "Why Plaintiffs Should Have to Prove Irreparable Harm in Copyright Preliminary Injunction Cases" in SSRN. Here's an excerpt: It has become lamentably common for courts to issue preliminary injunctions in copyright cases once rights holders have shown a reasonable likelihood of success on the merits without going on to require them to prove that they will suffer irreparable harm unless the injunction issues. Harm is too often presumed to be irreparable if plaintiffs have made out a prima facie case of infringement. This presumption cannot be squared with traditional principles of equity, as interpreted in numerous Supreme Court decisions, particularly eBay, Inc. v. MercExchange LLC, 547 U.S. 388 (2006). While a presumption of irreparable harm is inappropriate in all copyright cases, it is particularly troublesome in cases involving transformative uses of existing works, such as parodies and remixes and mashups, because free expression and free speech interests of creative users are at stake and transformative uses cases often raise plausible non-infringement defenses. Indeed, if any presumption about harm is appropriate in transformative use cases, it should probably run in favor of irreparability of harm to the defendants' free expression and speech interests under First Amendment case law which treats preliminary injunctions as presumptively unconstitutional prior restraints on speech. Related Posts Forcing the Net Through a Sieve: Why Copyright Filtering is Not a Viable Solution for U.S. ISPs Copyright and E-Reserves: Update on Cambridge University Press et al. v. Georgia State University “Statutory Damages in Copyright Law: A Remedy in Need of Reform” Rep. John Conyers Replies to Lessig and Eisen about Fair Copyright in Research Works Act Shifting the Burden of Proof in Fair Use Cases to Copyright Holders (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 02 Nov 2009 03:05:04 +0100 787890 http://bonariabiancu.wordpress.com/2009/11/01/mashup-e-biblioteche-un-binomio-vincente/ E’ stato pubblicato Library mashups: exploring new ways to deliver library data, il libro sui mashups e le biblioteche atteso ormai da quasi un anno! Il capitolo con cui ho partecipato si intitola Behind the scenes, proprio perché intende fornire delle informazioni su ciò che accade dietro le quinte di servizi e prodotti di cui in genere vediamo solamente il front end – che sia un’interfaccia web o un client. Il libro si compone sia di una parte teorico-tecnica sia sopratutto di esempi concreti progettati e realizzati presso biblioteche sparse per il mondo: è questo approccio molto orientato alla pratica e di respiro internazionale che me lo fa considerare – conflitto di interesse a parte ;-) – un ottimo libro su un argomento tecnico come il mashup, probabilmente finora poco sviluppato al livello di riflessione e di implementazione. Nel libro potrete spaziare dagli esperimenti sui repository effettuati dal grande Stuart Lewis alle modalità con cui rendere un sito mashable all’immancabile hacking sugli OPAC. L’aspetto che trovo molto soddisfacente in quanto autrice è che il modello di pubblicazione proposto dalla curatrice e dall’editore è stato di stampo scientifico-accademico. La remunerazione per il capitolo è consistita in una copia omaggio del volume, ma ci è stata data per contratto la possibilità di pubblicare il contributo su archivi aperti e siti personali, e di farne uso per presentazioni o coursepack didattici. Aiutandoci così come autori sia a far conoscere il libro e sia a far conoscere i nostri modesti contributi. Inutile dire che personalmente trovo questo modello vincente per le pubblicazioni scientifiche. Quindi… vi comunico con grande piacere che il mio capitolo è accessibile a testo pieno sul sito del Bicocca Open Archive all’indirizzo http://hdl.handle.net/10281/5117. ... Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:12:36 +0100 787817 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogs/distlib/~3/BK2YKl-lBro/internet-librarian-days-2-and-3.html Didn't take many notes on day three, so I'm combining two days in this post.  Even so, it shouldn't be as long as the day one post.  I took these notes for myself, not necessarily for the blog, so they're most definitely not session reports - hopefully some useful links to explore. I started the day at the Summon-sponsored breakfast where we heard Peter Jacso speak mostly about how awful Google Scholar metadata is, and how whenever he points out a series of errors, Google immediately removes them from the database.  Some examples include a vast number of records with author:methods or author:password  He's just published an article under the title of "Google Scholar's Ghost Authors" in Library Journal.  Good speaker who reminded me very much of my late Grandpa Pival :-)Day 2 Keynote was an interview OF Paul Holdengraber, who hosts / moderates / interviews people for the Live from NYPL program - I want to search for audio of these - they should be great. (update: This lecture series is available in audio and video with transcripts AND Conversation Portraits in iTunes)  Start at http://www.nypl.org/LIVE .  Paul feels very strongly that the library should surprise people, not necessarily deliver only what people expect.First Session - Dreaming, Designing and using mobile platforms - mostly overview stuff in this double session - I left after the first half to go listen to the UMich session (below).  Tom Ipri's slides available at http://www.slideshare.net/Tombrarian/mobile-library-platforms. Also check http://lifeonterra.com/m and compare it to the traditional version at http://lifeonterra.com/.  This is a project of the University of Montana, introduced by Jason Clark. I think Jason mentioned this site makes use of something called meta viewport, which I want to further explore.Toby Greenwalt mentioned using a combination of Yaz + Z39.50 + PHP = mobile catalogue?  He also talked about using Shoutbomb for SMS alerts.  Red Laser, costs $1. ... Sun, 01 Nov 2009 04:00:00 +0100 787868 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/10/30/lc-releases-api-for-chronicling-america-newspaper-collection/ What follows is a post that might be of special interest to web developers, webmasters, site owners, or anyone who can work with an API (Application Programming Interface), It comes from a digitized collection of more than 1 million historic newspapers and a searchable directory of newspaper info. Even if you are don’t have the technical skills required, it’s possible you know someone who does and with their help you can partner to develop new resources, create mashups, etc. Btw, if you know of people who are able to work with an API, feel free to share this post with them. First, some background. We’ve posted about the CA program since the day it launched in March, 2007. The project is a joint effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize historic American newspapers. In addition to the digitized newspaper database CA also provides Chronicling America directory. It’s both searchable with a powerful interface (a great example of what good metadata can do) and browsable. The directory contains information about most American newspapers published from 1690 to today. On June 16, 2009, we ran a story about CA reaching a milestone. CA had just hit the one million digitized pages mark. It has grown a lot since then. About five weeks ago we posted an item about CA adding more than 192,000 pages to CA. The media release said the size of the database at that time contained 1,442,000 digitized pages from 171 titles, that were published between 1880 and 1922. Thanks for the info but what about the API (Application Programming Interface) ? The following from the “About the Chronicling America API” web page: Chronicling America provides access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages. To encourage a wide range of potential uses, we designed several different views of the data we provide, all of which are publicly visible. ... Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:51:02 +0100 786971 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ahniwa/~3/lZmX84PtOqY/ Notes from Internet Librarian 2009 – #IL2009 October 30th, 2009 by Ahniwa Posted in For Libraries, Technology and Resources, Training and Continuing Education | Edit | No Comments » I just returned from the Internet Librarian Conference (and sunny Monterey, CA) yesterday, and my brain is definitely still trying to absorb new ideas, concepts, and nifty web tools. All the same, it’s safe to say that it was the best conference I’ve attended so far in my young library career. Luckily for those who couldn’t attend this year, there are numerous options for viewing content online (and my own extensive notes will follow after the cut). First off, a lot of the slides are available on the Information Today site. Use IL2009 to get in. Elise Brown, who I got to meet and chat with at the Searcher’s Academy pre-conference, was the official vlogger covering IL2009, and she took some cool video that you can check out via YouTube. Some of the best moments of the conference were also covered live via UStream (and now available to watch at your convenience). Check out the keynote speakers, for sure. Vint Cerf, VP and Chief Internet Evangelist for Google, was amazing (as was his interviewer, Paul Holdengraber). On day two, Paul Holdengraber (Director of Public Programs at the NYPL) had the tables turned on him and was in turn interviewed. My notes from both sessions are included below. One of my other favorite events was the Battle Decks, in which librarians have to try and create a cohesive presentation within a tough time limit and with slides they’ve never seen before. Some of the slides were crazy, but all the Battle Deck contestants did a great job, and many were hilarious! For a more text-based approach, check out the bloggers who planned to write about their experiences via the Infotoday Blog. I know the Librarian In Black did quite a bit of blogging, many of which are excellent synopses of the sessions she attended. ... Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:12:39 +0100 787850 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/10/30/lc-releases-api-for-chronicling-america-newspaper-collection/ What follows is a post that might be of special interest to web developers, webmasters, site owners, or anyone who can work with an API (Application Programming Interface), It comes from a digitized collection of more than 1 million historic newspapers and a searchable directory of newspaper info. Even if you are don’t have the technical skills required, it’s possible you know someone who does and with their help you can partner to develop new resources, create mashups, etc. Btw, if you know of people who are able to work with an API, feel free to share this post with them. First, some background. We’ve posted about the CA program since the day it launched in March, 2007. The project is a joint effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities to digitize historic American newspapers. In addition to the digitized newspaper database CA also provides Chronicling America directory. It’s both searchable with a powerful interface (a great example of what good metadata can do) and browsable. The directory contains information about most American newspapers published from 1690 to today. On June 16, 2009, we ran a story about CA reaching a milestone. CA had just hit the one million digitized pages mark. It has grown a lot since then. About five weeks ago we posted an item about CA adding more than 192,000 pages to CA. The media release said the size of the database at that time contained 1,442,000 digitized pages from 171 titles, that were published between 1880 and 1922. Thanks for the info but what about the API (Application Programming Interface) ? The following from the “About the Chronicling America API” web page: Chronicling America provides access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages. To encourage a wide range of potential uses, we designed several different views of the data we provide, all of which are publicly visible. ... Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:01:02 +0100 786778 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eclecticlibrarian/~3/pLLWLfQYizI/ Speakers: Nicole Engard Mashups are easy ways to provide better services for our patrons. They add value to our websites and catalogs. They promote our services in the places our patrons frequent. And, it’s a learning experience. We need to ask our vendors for APIs. We’re putting data into our systems, so we should be able to get it out. Take that data and mash it up with popular web services using RSS feeds. Yahoo Pipes allows you to pull in many sources of data and mix it up to create something new with a clean, flow chart like interface. Don’t give up after your first try. Jody Fagan wrote an article in Computers in Libraries that inspired Engard to go back and try again. Reading Radar takes the NYT Bestseller lists and merges it with data from Amazon to display more than just sales information (ratings, summaries, etc.). You could do that, but instead of having users go buy the book, link it to your library catalog. The New York Times has opened up a tremendous amount of content via APIs. Bike Tours in CA is a mashup of Google Maps and ride data. Trulia, Zillow, and HousingMaps use a variety of sources to map real estate information. This We Know pulls in all sorts of government data about a location. Find more mashups at ProgrammableWeb. What mashups should libraries be doing? First off, if you have multiple branches, create a Google Maps mashup of library locations. Share images of your collection on Flickr and pull that into your website (see Access Ceramics), letting Flickr do the heavy lifting of resizing the images and pulling content out via machine tags. Delicious provides many options for creating dynamically updating lists with code snippets to embed them in your website. OPAC mashups require APIs, preferably those that can generate JavaScript, and finally you’ll need a programmer if you can’t get the information out in a way you can easily use it. ... Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:23:07 +0100 787903 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/xrr0RUhd4cU/feedthru An energy crisis reading list – ../learninglab/joss So I can imagine posts like this, were they appropriately discoverable, acting as a seed crystal for a group of people (a 'social network' or 'community') who start to chat about some of this issues across a range of networks. Social learning from the bottom up. Which makes me think - the web is a pretty effective social learning platform already. But do folk see it as such? Do they respect it is as such? I read something (I forget what) yesterday that suggested something along the lines that the biggest impact of social networking and online activity etc in education would be that it amplifies the need to recognise the contribution of informal learning [that is, personal learning?;-)] So what does formal ed offer? Gameable multiguess assessment? http://cogdogblog.com/4333 The Arcadia Mashups Blog: The 'Get Selection' Bookmarklet Pattern How to create a bookmarklet that can operate on a piece of text that is highlighted/selected on a web page. A worked example shows how to create a bookmarklet that can resolve a DOI (digital object identifier) highlighted on a web page. The post includes a bookmarklet generator that helps you get started writing your own bookmarklets using this pattern. The Arcadia Project Blog: The Library's Role in Organising "Course Knowledge" Google famously wants to "organise the world's knowledge". To what extent should academic libraries be helping to organise "course knoweldge"? (Source: OUseful Info) Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:00:00 +0100 786887 http://plablog.org/2009/10/internet-librarian-2009-meredith-hammons-5.html I attended a Cybertour on Connecting with the Millennium Generation, led by Mary Ellen Bates, of Bates Information Services. This talk was a 15-minute presention on how the “digital generation” sees information. It was fascinating. Mary Ellen discussed the fact that the “digital generation” doesn’t e-mail and sees websites that aren’t collaborative as both boring and useless. For them, Facebook is the web, so if you want them to see it, you’d better put a link on Facebook. Moreover, if they don’t find the information they want with a certain tool, they blame the tool and go somewhere else, rather than seeking training. Also, they believe in their own ability to evaluate information and to determine what is authoritative. Mary Ellen then offered several ways to lure millennials into the “Info Lab” (her new term for library, since it connotes activity). She suggested acknowledging the user’s expertise – do not phrase it as trying to teach them, but instead focus on the collaboration (e.g. offer “here is what other people have tried”) and accept that they learn by trial and error. I was particularly intrigued by the advice to sneak information to millennials, much as the speakers yesterday suggested sneaking Web 2.0 tools by staff members. I took from that that no one likes condescension and people respond best to being involved in learning and trying new things, rather than being told how to do something. Pardon the digression, but Mary Ellen did emphasize encouraging self-learning, as well as peer-to-peer learning. Other specific recommendations were comment-enabled OPACs, becoming Amazon.com like (in offering the “people who bought this book also bought . . .”), internal wikis, mashup tools, and personalization. ... Tue, 27 Oct 2009 23:32:04 +0100 786574 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/White-Paper/Article/Expanding-Web-Content-Management-56664.aspx I can't remember the first website I ever saw. But I bet if you saw it today, it would be hilarious. I don't need to tell you that comparing today's Web* to that of eight years ago is like talking about pre-Cambrian turbellarian worm fossils (don't bother looking; there aren't any). But did you ever wonder how the Web became so advanced, so quickly? I did. So I called up Larry Bowden. Larry's the vice president of the "portals and mashups" (really, no kidding) division of IBM. He's a big-deal guy, an old acquaintance, and he took time out of his busy schedule to school me about Web content management (WCM)... (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Content Management) Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:00:00 +0100 785837 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eclecticlibrarian/~3/mi4FnYnuon8/ Speakers: Amy Buckland, Kendra K. Levine, & Laura Harris (icanhaz.com/cloudylibs) Cloud computing is a slightly complicated concept. Everyone approaches defining it from different perspectives. It’s about data and storage. For the purposes of this session, they mean any service that is on-demand self-service, broad network access, resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service. Cloud computing frees people to collaborate in many ways. Infrastructure is messy, so let someone else take care of that so you can focus on what you really need to do. USB sticks can do a lot of that, but they’re easy to lose, and data in the cloud will hopefully be migrated to new formats. The downside of cloud computing is that it is so dependent upon constant connection and uptime. If your cloud computing source or network goes down, you’re SOL until it get fixed. Privacy can also be a legitimate concern, and the data could be vulnerable to hacking or leaks. Nothing lasts forever — for example, today, Geocities is closing. Libraries are already in the cloud. We often store our ILS data, ILL, citation management, resource guides, institutional repositories, and electronic resource management tools on servers and services that do not live in the library. Should we be concerned about our vendors making money from us on a "recurring, perpetual basis" (Cory Doctorow)? Should we be concerned about losing the "face" of the library in all of these cloud services? Should we be concerned about the reliability of the services we are paying for? Libraries can use the cloud for data storage (i.e. DuraSpace, Dropbox). They could also replace OS services & programs, allowing patron-access computers to b run using cloud applications. Presentation slides are available at icanhaz.com/cloudylibs. ... Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:00:33 +0100 786080 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/pHYJZZp4IkM/ Just after I put together the pipework for Getting Started with data.gov.uk, Triplr SPARYQL and Yahoo Pipes, I also cut and pasted some of the code from a previous map based mashup to demo how to make a SPARQL call via a pipe that calls on the UK Gov education Linked Data datastore from within a web page, and then display the geocoded results on a map. Here’s the demo – School openings and closures in the UK, 1/1/08-1/10/09 If you View Source, you’ll see the code boils down to: //schools closed between 1/1/08 and 1/10/09 q="SELECT ?school ?name ?opendate ?closedate ?easting ?northing WHERE {?school a sch-ont:School; sch-ont:establishmentName ?name;sch-ont:easting ?easting; sch-ont:northing ?northing; sch-ont:establishmentStatus sch-ont:EstablishmentStatus_Closed ; sch-ont:closeDate ?closedate ; sch-ont:openDate ?opendate . FILTER (?closedate > '2008-01-01'^^xsd:date && ?closedate < '2009-10-01'^^xsd:date)}" u=ur+encodeURIComponent(q); getPipeGeoData(u, 'parseJSON_purple'); In all I make three calls to a pipe that calls on the data.gov.uk education datastore, one for schools opened between 1/1/08 and 1/10/09: SELECT ?school ?name ?opendate ?easting ?northing WHERE {?school a sch-ont:School; sch-ont:establishmentName ?name;sch-ont:easting ?easting; sch-ont:northing ?northing; sch-ont:openDate ?opendate . FILTER (?opendate > '2008-01-01'^^xsd:date && ?opendate < '2009-10-01'^^xsd:date)} one for schools closed between 1/1/08 and 1/10/09: SELECT ?school ?name ?opendate ?closedate ?easting ?northing WHERE {?school a sch-ont:School; sch-ont:establishmentName ?name;sch-ont:easting ?easting; sch-ont:northing ?northing; sch-ont:establishmentStatus sch-ont:EstablishmentStatus_Closed ; sch-ont:closeDate ?closedate ; sch-ont:openDate ?opendate . ... Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:48:28 +0100 786890 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/15145 We did something similar, programming a mashup with Google Maps, Amazon and libraries catalogs thorugh Z.3950, within the project Maps2Books -sorry, in spanish- (http://bit.ly/Maps2Books) The system gave to you the nearest library holding a book or multimedia item matching your query, like worldcat, but using Google Maps. Also you can have location of others users that like the same literature living in the same area, in order to enhance the self generation of readers clubs around libraries as a marketing strategy. If you need, I can give you more information about how to do that mashup. (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Sat, 24 Oct 2009 04:00:00 +0100 784965 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/FreakonomicsBlog/~3/EYvNc1wyPOo/ We've blogged before about sites like Swivel and ManyEyes, data-mashup sites which allow users to upload datasets, create tables, share them with other users, and compare them to other datasets on the sites. This week a new open data project, Factual, was launched by Google alum Gil Elbaz. (Source: Freakonomics Blog) Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:38:16 +0100 784166 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/talis/panlibus/~3/QXJBLaIByvk/pode-the-crafty-catalogue.php Librarians are better at enhancing the end-user experience in physical libraries than in virtual services. This was the intriguing opening to an engaging presentation by Anne Karine Sandberg at Internet Librarian International, and the second half of the next generation OPAC session, the first half of which has been previously blogged. Anne and her colleagues at Oslo Public Libraries wanted to explore the potential reuse of cataloguing data and to create library mashup applications to make use of open content, with the ultimate objective of…  you guessed it, enhancing the end-user experience. They agreed that the mashups created should not favour one system, but should make use of SRU, MARC and Z39.50. And because Koha is the best known Open Source integrated library management system in Norway right now, they installed Koha, imported their cataloguing data, and used it as a basis for their work. Anne demonstrated one of their mashups – Trip Planner. By mashing up data from the catalogue, GeoNames, Google Maps, Encyclopaedia Norvegua, Open Library and weather forecast data, they’ve created a nice application whereby users can search for a location (London was used as the example) and get a broad sweep of information from diverse sources – population; currency; language courses; travelogues; fiction; cultural history; today’s weather; Google Map. In their next phase of work, Oslo Public Libraries will be focusing on converting the cataloguing data from MARC to FRBR. This isn’t just about creating further mashups, although it introduces the possibility of mashups in the realm of fiction, which would certainly work in a public library context. It’s also about seeing what difference that makes to the catalogue display, and to the search experience. It would be interesting to find out more about how Oslo’s users are benefiting from the work, especially as this was the starting point of this initiative. (Source: panlibus) Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:16:58 +0100 784431 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/GoZ9CV6z7WM/ Not a lot of use without speaker notes, but anyway… I may try to record a slidecast of this… or maybe not… For anyon looking for Arcadia Project details, check the Arcadia Project blog and/or or my Arcadia Mashups blog. (Source: OUseful Info) Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:49:47 +0100 782744 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/blogs/hoy-es-el-blog-action-day/ Hoy se celebra el Blog Action Day, con el Cambio Climático en mente. Muchos blogs están publicando al respecto, e incluso Google se ha sumado a la iniciativa con un mashup: Climate Change in Google Earth, donde podemos explorar el impacto potencial del Cambio Climático en nuestro planeta y buscar soluciones. Este es el video introductorio protagonizado por Al Gore. (Source: La brujula verde) Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:13:22 +0100 782933 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/griffey/~3/cu_BrEPVJ-o/ There’s a ton of good work being done in libraryland with mashups and bibliographic data (I’m looking at you, LibraryWebChic!). But for user experience and overall awesome, I love this mashup by John Herren of just the New York Times bestseller list and Amazon APIs: Reading Radar He detailed how he did it in this great blog post, and it set my mind to racing with possibilities for libraries. For one, I didn’t know that the NYT bestseller list had an API! Public libraries all over should be leveraging this on their websites, with links to their holdings.Similar Posts: SIGN THE PETITION Where did all my traffic go? LibraryThing for Libraries launches Kindle in flames? ALA Day One – Google! (Source: Pattern Recognition) Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:46:04 +0100 782943