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 Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:53:50 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://infobib.de/blog/2010/12/22/google-datawiki/ Google legt momentan ein flottes Tempo vor. Über den nGram Viewer wurde inzwischen anderswo so viel geschrieben, das spare ich mir erstmal. Auf Shared Spaces wurde hier noch gar nicht eingegangen. Aber DataWiki kann man hier nicht unerwähnt lassen. Es handelt sich hierbei um ein Wiki für strukturierte Daten. In eigenen Worten With DataWiki it should be easy to: * create and edit structured data * create simple mashup applications in a few minutes * define formats in terms of others, e.g. Missing Person reports = vCard (who) + GeoRSS (last seen) + string (current status note) * share information with other systems via built-in federation * enable easy input/output from a variety of endpoints, e.g. via Twitter, ODK or SMS from a remote location Es gibt ein Gästebuch, an dem man ein wenig probieren kann. Einträge erstellen und suchen (z.B. nach Hans Dampf) kann man auch hier: Finden Erstellen Name: Comment: Gender: Country: Homepage: Name: Comment: Gender: Country: Homepage: Eine kleine Dokumentation gibt es auch, ebenso die Möglichkeit, DataWiki (Open Source) selbst zu installieren. Man kann seine Daten also in der Cloud lagern, muss aber nicht. Wer sehen möchte, was in Googles Laboren noch alles entwickelt wurde und wird, sollte sich diesen kurzen Überblick ansehen. (Source: Infobib) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 17:28:57 +0100 894697 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/Vx2VookZpHA/ Originally posted as a comment on Brian Kelly’s Is It Too Late To Exploit RSS In Repositories?: I used to advocate the adoption of RSS a lot, and came across some of the problems you mention repeatedly, such as the inability to consume certain pages in off-the-shelf feed consuming apps. Many of the problems resulted from non-standard character encodings, or incorrectly encoded item.description text. Links/URLs were occasionally missing or pointless (e.g. pointing to the root domain from which the feed was served, rather than anything relating to the particular feed item). Generating sensible URLs for feed items could also turn up issues with the way pages were served, eg on sites where session variables or other arbitrary keys were required. The reason the problems were allowed to slip through was because of the context in which the feeds were published. Eg request goes in for ‘we need a feed’; developer adds feed, runs it through validator, job done. But the job isn’t done, just as the job isn’t done when a someone publishes a public/open data set but doesn’t do anything more than that, or someone publishes an OER and considers that now it’s public, it’s useful. I spend way too much of my time trying to glue things together, and finding more often than not that they don’t play nice. For example, Guardian datastore data often falls just short of being easily combined with other data sets, even other Guardian datastore published datasets, though this is getting better all the time as workflows are tweaked ever so slightly… One possible solution, where things are published /with the intentions that others re* them/ is for the publisher to demonstrate a simple remix or combination with at least one other information source. If you publish an RSS feed, demonstrate one or two off-the-shelf ways of consuming it. This is what any user is likely to try first, so save them the grief of finding out it doesnlt work by making sure it does. ... Wed, 22 Dec 2010 12:39:06 +0100 895052 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Hangingtogetherorg/~3/T1ejWmVI38M/ As 2010 winds down, we’d like to call attention to some of the things we’ve worked on or created this year. You can see a rundown of highlights here. I’ve spent some time playing with mapFAST, which is a mashup between Google Maps and the FAST Geographic subject headings. This is a really neat way to explore the intersection between a geographic area and publications of all sorts. I grew up in Garden Grove, California, so I used that as a launching pad for exploration. I like that the mapFAST display shows Garden Grove and its environs (note how close to Disneyland it is!). Browsing through the WorldCat results, there are of course numerous city planning documents, but also some interesting surprises. There’s a masters thesis based on survey data collected in the Garden Grove elementary schools, dating from close to the time I was a student. There’s also quite a bit on the Garden Grove Community Church, which I found curious until I realized that’s the old name for the Crystal Cathedral (home of the Hour of Power broadcasts). I was also able to find links to images of the “new” Crystal Cathedral during construction. In addition to links to WorldCat.org, mapFAST also offers links to Google Books. I was surprised at how much content is available, almost too much even for the most ardent Garden Grove enthusiast. You can find out more about mapFAST here, and more about FAST here. And if you are thirsty for more, you can check out a three-page summary of our accomplishments over the last five years. (Source: hangingtogether.org) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:52:47 +0100 895039 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/12/21/the-dilemma-with-delicious You probably heard last week that someone leaked that Yahoo was planning on shutting down Delicious - but then later said it will be maintained until a good home could be found. When I first read this, two things struck me: This is very bad, considering my library website’s subject guides rely on Delicious, plus I’ve been telling people for years to convert to Delicious This isn’t so bad, because the demise of Bloglines was announced and averted So, for the time being, I’m not panicking - but it is a perfect reminder that we need to face the realities of third-party tools with eyes wide open. You can integrate anything you want into your website, but remember it may go away at any time. David Lee King has a great post on this (and gwern0’s comment is spot-on). What is a librarian to to? Our options are: Keep using Delicious Migrate to a different service (reviews of some alternatives, and more at Stephen’s Lighthouse) Host your own Delicious-like service (neat - via iLibrarian) Sign a petition to get Delicious to go Open Source (via Nicole C. Engard) I’m going to be doing a little bit of all of these. Since there is no imminent deadline, I’m going to ignore all of this until after the holidays. Then, I’ll backup my bookmarks and start looking at alternatives in case migration becomes necessary. I had been wondering if there was a host-your-own option, so I’m happy to see that. However, although it would be nice to have control myself, I like the shared aspect of these tools. Not to mention I’d be responsible for the maintenance, and there is always the danger of getting stuck in yet another information silo. If we do have to move, right now I’m leaning towards Diigo because it seems to match most closely the Delicious features I use - namely, linkrolls and a bookmarklet (or toolbar). ... Tue, 21 Dec 2010 13:40:05 +0100 894215 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2010/12/21/literary-spin-offs-a-christmas-carol/ Okay, so you’ve seen, and this is just a conservative estimate, 1,489,226 television shows and movies based — sometimes exceedingly loosely — on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (1843). But how many literary spin-offs have you read? Adam Roberts, the British science fiction writer and parodist — I talked about him back in March, in this post – has written I Am Scrooge (Gollancz, 2010), a very funny retelling of Dickens’ classic story, with one tiny, almost insignificant addition: zombies. Scrooge, you see, is somehow immune to the plague that’s turning the rest of humanity into the walking dead, and the ghosts of Christmases past, present, and future are really keen to find out why. If you’re a fan of Roberts’ brand of humor (and I am, very much), you’ll love this Yuletide mashup. If you’ve never come across his hysterical parodies — or, for that matter, his elegantly written science fiction novels — you’re in for a real treat. And, needless to say, zombie-philes will eat it up. Louis Bayard’s Mr. Timothy (HarperCollins, 2003) focuses on the grown-up Tiny Tim, who, with a young companion, exposes the dark side of London’s elite. Timothy Cratchit undergoes a transition that echoes that of his benefactor Ebenezer Scrooge — he’s a hard-edged cynic when the story begins — but the novel isn’t precisely a sequel to A Christmas carol. In fact the book feels a bit unsure of itself at times (is it an examination of its central character? is it a crime drama?), but you can’t deny that it’s well written and pretty darned interesting.  You should also check out The Man Who Invented Christmas (Crown, 2008), by Les Standiford – yes, that Standiford, the author of the John Deal mystery novels. ... Tue, 21 Dec 2010 10:38:44 +0100 894482 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/19/grant-morrison-the-invisibles-comics The Glasgow lad has cracked America with his exhilaratingly strange, puckish tales, despite having been abducted by aliensThe first thing the comics writer Grant Morrison did when he arrived at the podium to address the Disinfocon convention in 2000 was to unleash a bloodcurdling 10-second scream. "Okay, I'm pissed," he admitted to the audience at the bash for the anti-establishment publisher. "And in half an hour, I'm going to come up on drugs."Footage of his speech was greeted with chuckles when it cropped up in Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods, screened last week at the ICA in London. It's sort of how Morrison's fans want him to behave – and, with its copious hallucinogenic drugs, magic symbols and alien encounters, the Talking With Gods documentary didn't disappoint.Morrison, who is in the DC comics stable, certainly plays up to his own myth with his shaved head, shades and trenchcoat. But he's thoughtful and well read, too. This was a properly interesting – albeit rather worshipful – portrait of one of the most interesting writers in the comics medium.Morrison's friend Warren Ellis, another excellent comics writer, points out that Morrison's occultism is actually very pragmatic. The only reason he was abducted by aliens in Kathmandu in 1994, says Morrison, is "because I went to Kathmandu in 1994 to be abducted by aliens. And it works! These fuckers, they will turn up!" Morrison practises magic, and encourages his readers to do the same. He's matter-of-fact about it: "Anyone can contact the scorpion gods."At their best, Morrison's comics are crammed with ideas. They are exhilaratingly strange, and kind of puckish. His Doom Patrol featured a gang of supervillains called The Brotherhood of Dada, a sentient piece of roadway called Danny the Street and a painting that ate Paris. ... Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:30:01 +0100 893900 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NetbibWeblog/~3/siWOGbrDg4U/ Irgendwie habe ich gerade einen Technik-Lauf, deshalb noch der Hinweis auf das Angebot Twittertim.es, mit dessen Hilfe man aus Twitter-Accouts/-Listen auch wieder zeitungsähnliche Webseiten – wie letzthin am Beispiel von paper.li geschildert – erstellen kann. Lambert Heller beispielsweise hat so ein Teil erstellt, das er bibtweets genannt hat. Daran sind zwei Dinge bemerkenswert: Es wird nicht nur der betreffende Eintrag angezeigt, sondern Tweets von Freunden und von Freunden von Freunden, die diesen Eintrag betreffen. Man hat somit ein bißchen Information über die Verbreitung dieser Meldung. Man kann, muss aber nicht die erzeugte Webseite lesen. Man kann das auch per Twitter abonnieren und hat es dann in seiner Timeline mit integriert oder per RSS – so mache ich es -, damit man es schön im RSS-Reader lesen kann. (Source: netbib weblog) Sun, 19 Dec 2010 16:16:04 +0100 893851 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/LysV6_iCbCc/4458 Some of you have probably heard that Delicious is possibly going to be turned off by Yahoo!. One of my favorite mashups examples is using Delicious to create ‘link rolls.’ In fact link rolls power the links page on both my Library Mashups and Practical Open Source Software book sites. So the question now is what the heck do I do? Well, first I’m all for petitioning Yahoo! to open source Delicious so that it can not online live on, but probably get more development attention than Yahoo! ever gave it. If you like this idea you can try to get that to happen by participating in this petition (click the flame to the right or this link). Next, I recommend that you backup your links now and regularly while we wait to see what is going to happen to Delicious. Finally, some colleagues have already switched to Diigo, a tool that I tried a while ago but ended up leaving to return to Delicious. It looks like I’ll be giving it another shot now that it might be my only option. For this post I did a search on Diigo to see if I could use it for my mashups still and have found that I can. Diigo offers linkrolls just like Delicious did. I haven’t tested them at all, but this is promising to say the least. [update] There is a blog post out there saying that Delicious will move on and not close, but I can’t get it to load, so I haven’t read it yet. [/update] Related posts:Yahoo! Pipes Giving Twitter another shot Spam Karma – Solved (Source: What I Learned Today...) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 20:30:22 +0100 894488 http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2010/12/death-of-delicious-social-bookmarking.html Delicious, the popular social bookmarking service owned by Yahoo! that allows users to store, annotate and share bookmarks, may be shutting down, according to various web sources.ResourceShelf is not so sure.Many libraries have been turning to web 2.0 tools such as Delicious:MIT Updates Virtual Reference Pages Using Social Bookmarking (July 9, 2007): "The library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is using the social bookmarking site del.icio.us to keep its virtual reference web pages up to date (...) What is interesting is that MIT uses an RSS feed to send the links from the del.icio.us account to its virtual reference collection, making maintenance a much easier task."Use of Social Tagging in Libraries Spreading (September 17, 2007): "The article Tags Help Make Libraries Del.icio.us in the online version of Library Journal describes how more and more libraries are turning to social bookmarking tools such as del.icio.us to organize information about recommended resources and replace the traditional subject guide."More News From Federal Library Web 2.0 Interest Group (September 16, 2008): "In the summer, federal government librarians in Canada created a Web 2.0 Interest Group (WIG) to explore ways of incorporating collaborative technologies into their work (...) It was a great opportunity to see what work has been done on the Web 2.0 front. Here are a few of the projects mentioned at the roundtable that opened the meeting: ... The Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information has launched a CISTI Facebook group, a wiki for posting known problems about its online services, and has created dozens of subject guides using delicious.com social bookmarks ... The Communications Security Establishment, Canada's electronic intelligence agency, uses wikis, mashups and social bookmarking ... Natural Resources Canada uses screencasting, wikis, blogs, and delicious. ... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893286 http://litablog.org/2010/12/call-for-bloggers-midwinter-2011-schedule/ Do you plan to attend ALA Midwinter in San Diego? Take this opportunity to become a LITA Blogger. The LITA Blog (http://litablog.org) will again be on hand to report what is happening and share the terrific Midwinter experience with those who cannot attend this year. If you like to write and are looking for new ways to get involved (or have blogged in the past and would like to blog again), please email me at thebrewinlibrarian@gmail.com and let me know what sessions you would like to cover. The blog schedule for Midwinter is below and will be updated as we receive volunteers. Names of bloggers appear in bold next to session. If there is no name after a session title, please feel free to sign up for it! We will be taking volunteers up to and during the conference. Thank you very much in advance! Matt Hamilton, LITA Web Coordinating Committee FRIDAY, JANUARY 7 Creating Library Web Services: Mashups and APIs 9:00 am- 4:30 pm SDCC-Room 24 A 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. Open Source CMS Playroom 9:00 am- 4:30 pm SDCC-Room 24 B Open source content management systems present an opportunity for libraries to distribute content creation and maintenance and add Web 2.0 features to library websites. This workshop will provide an overview of several content management systems, compare and contrast system functionality and features, and demonstrate how open source CMSs can be used to enhance library websites. ... Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:15:50 +0100 893198 http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/dec/14/hollywood-black-list-best-unproduced-scripts Wizards, zombies and Jackie Kennedy star on list of finest films you didn't see this yearFancy catching a taut drama about Jackie Kennedy's fight to preserve JFK's legacy in the seven days immediately following his death? Or perhaps a romantic comedy with the legendary title: Your Bridesmaid is a Bitch? Both stories could well find their names into cinemas, along with another 74, after making it on to the 2010 "Black List" of the best unproduced screenplays in Hollywood.This year's list was revealed yesterday by its compiler, film executive Franklin Leonard. It consists of the screenplays which a team of more than 300 movie producers most liked but that did not end up making it into cinemas by the end of the year. "The Black List is a snapshot of the collective taste of the people who develop, produce, and release theatrical feature films in the Hollywood studio system and the mainstream independent system," said Leonard on website blcklst.com.The list is often a useful indicator of upcoming film-making trends, and this year is no exception. The mashup genre, which began with the forthcoming film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, is well represented with the likes of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, Boy Scouts vs Zombies and the delightful-sounding Fucking Jane Austen, in which two friends angry at Jane Austen for creating unrealistic romantic expectations among modern-day women get sent back in time to the 19th century. "The only way for them to return home is for one of them to get Jane Austen to fall in love and sleep with him," reports the list.There are also indications of Hollywood's continuing obsession with famous historical and cultural figures. The list is topped by writer Wes Jones's screenplay College Republicans, which centres on aspiring politician Karl Rove's "real-life" dirty campaign for national College Republican chairman under the guidance of Lee Atwater, his campaign manager. ... Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:21:39 +0100 892703 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/RPGHM4pWQdQ/signal_curation_discovery.php This past week I spent a fair amount of time in New York, meeting with smart folks who collectively have been responsible for funding and/or starting companies as varied as DoubleClick, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, Federated Media (my team), and scores of others. I also met with some very smart execs at American Express, a company that has a history of innovation, in particular as it relates to working with startups in the Internet space. I love talking with these folks, because while we might have business to discuss, we usually spend most of our time riffing about themes and ideas in our shared industry. By the time I reached Tumblr, a notion around "discovery" was crystallizing. It's been rattling around my head for some time, so indulge me an effort to Think It Out Loud, if you would. Since its inception, the web has presented us with a discovery problem. How do we find something we wish to pay attention to (or connect with)? In the beginning this problem applied to just web sites - "How do I find a site worth my time?" But as the web has evolved, the problem keeps emerging again - first with discrete pieces of content - "How do I find the answer to a question about...." - and then with people: "How do I find a particular person on the web?" And now we've started to combine all of these categories of discovery: "How do I find someone to follow who has smart things to say about my industry?" In short, over time, the problem has not gotten better, it's gotten far more complicated. If all search had to do was categorize web content, I'd wager it'd be close to solved by now. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Our first solution to the web's initial discovery problem was to curate websites into directories, with Yahoo being the most successful of the bunch. Yahoo became a crucial driver of the web's first economic model: banner ads. ... Sat, 11 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892140 http://freegovinfo.info/node/3138 The Federal Reserved released documents that identify the recipients of $3.3 trillion in emergency aid provided at the height of the financial crisis. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform And Consumer Protection Act (Public Law 111-203) required the release of this information, which had been secret. A lot has been written about this, but here are some of the links I have found particularly interesting. (Thanks to Gary and ResourceShelf for many of these tips!). FRB: Regulatory Reform: Transaction Data, Federal Reserve Board (The data.) Federal Reserve releases detailed information about transactions conducted to stabilize markets during the recent financial crisis, Sabrina I. Pacifici, BeSpacific. (Sabrina's summary of what the Fed has put online.) Inured to “Trillions”, By Ryan Chittum, Columbia Journalism Review. (CJR has some of the most interesting coverage, summarizing the facts and the analysis coming from journalists.) Audit Notes: The Federal Reserve’s Trillion-Dollar Bailout Document Dump, By Ryan Chittum, Columbia Journalism Review. (With links to more news coverage and evaluations of the data.) Audit Notes: Too Big to Fail Edition, By Ryan Chittum, Columbia Journalism Review. (CJR does more analysis of the analyses.) A Real Jaw Dropper at the Federal Reserve, by Sen. Bernie Sanders, Huffington Post. (Sanders, who wrote the amendment to the Dodd-Frank Bill that required the disclosure, gives his first take on the data.) Interactive: Which Banks Got Emergency Loans from the Fed During the Financial Meltdown?, By Karen Weise and Dan Nguyen, ProPublica. (ProPublica's interactive mashup of the data.) Fed Emergency Lending , Wall Street Journal (The WSJ's mashup of the data.) Decoding the Fed’s Emergency Programs, Wall Street Journal. (The WSJ explains some of the details.) (Source: Free Government Information (FGI) blogs) Fri, 10 Dec 2010 02:31:24 +0100 891612 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/fZj6EwIWF7E/4441 The program is out and I’ll be giving two pre-conference sessions at Computers in Libraries 2011 in Washington, D.C. Make sure you register early!! W7 – Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data Sunday, March 20, 2011 :: 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Nicole C. Engard, Director of Open Source Education, ByWater Solutions Brian Herzog, Head of Reference, Chelmsford Public Library This workshop explains what mashups are, how they can be used, and shares examples from libraries around the world. In the first half of this workshop, attendees will learn about some of the tools they can use to mash up library data with content from the web to reach more patrons. Examples include using maps to enhance library data, using Flickr for digital collections, and creating library websites with data from several information sources. After learning the basics and seeing examples from other libraries around the world, attendees will have a chance to create a website pulling data from several sources on the web. After attending this talk, librarians will be able to define what a mashup is and identify mashups on library sites and the web; find tools and APIs to gather data for their own library sites; and pull data from other sites into a website W15 – Practical Open Source Software for Libraries Sunday, March 20, 2011 :: 1:30 PM – 4:30 PM Nicole C. Engard, Director of Open Source Education, ByWater Solutions The commonly accepted definition of open source software is software that is distributed with human readable source code in order to allow the user freedom to run, review, alter, enhance, and modify the code for any purpose. But open source is about so much more than just the code behind the software, it’s about community, collaboration, and innovation. ... Thu, 09 Dec 2010 19:20:12 +0100 892059 http://rabid-librarian.blogspot.com/2010/12/hee-hee-merrry-christmas.html Via Towleroad, who put it: Sting Meets Rankin-Bass. Talk about mashups. :) (Source: The Rabid Librarian's Ravings in the Wind) Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 891978 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/bryanloar/~3/UpBFt8-Z5g0/new-forms-of-synthesis.html Mark Twain Mashup from Nicolas de Peyer on Vimeo.I didn't want to write a paper for my Final in one of my college classes that was focused on Mark Twain. So instead I scoured the internet, and the library, my librivox audio books, and my music collection, and I mashed this up.Music is by Prefuse 73, and it is still one of their best songs. I highly recommend that you support Prefuse if you like them. Will today's term paper be tomorrow's media mashup? Should visual literacy be contrasted against literacy, or is it really about the ability to synthesize concepts and communicate those in compelling ways?More @ bryanloar.com (Source: Brave New World) Fri, 03 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 890439 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/62223 From Futurity.org: The system was devised by Jan-Michael Frahm, research assistant professor of computer science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and colleagues at the the Swiss university ETH-Zurich. To demonstrate the technique, the researchers used the three million images of Rome available online to reconstruct all of the city’s major landmarks. They also [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 28 Nov 2010 17:02:14 +0100 888936 http://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/bis-2011.html The 14th International Conference on Business Information Systems (BIS 2011) will take place in Poznan, Poland, June 15-17, 2011. Topics include:* Business Process Management - Semantic business process management - Adaptive and dynamic processes - Supply chain processes - ERP implementations - Integration of data and processes - Collaborative BPM* Ontologies - Creation, learning, population, evolution and evaluation - Ontologies for enterprise content management - Natural language processing and cognitive science - Semantic integration of heterogeneous semi-structured sources - Interoperability of heterogeneous information systems - Business models for Web information integration and aggregation* Contexts - Location-aware and geography-centric information systems - Wireless and mobile applications - Multi-agent distributed systems - Semantic web personalization - Ambient computing* Content Retrieval and Filtering - Hidden Web search and crawling - Data integration from Web information sources - Modeling and describing evolving data sources - Adaptive integration of evolving data sources - Information gathering for knowledge-intensive enterprises - Search over semi-structural Web sources - Business models for a content* Collaboration - Knowledge-based collaboration - Social networks and social wikis - Enterprise mashups, Enterprise 2.0 - Infrastructures for collaboration (P2P, TSC, etc.) - Semantic grid - Security in distributed systems - Web-based model for discoverability, consumption, and reuse* Web Services - Service oriented computing (SOA) - Semantic web services - Composition, choreography and orchestration - Open, decentralized self-service - Trust and quality of service (QoS) - Service level agreements (Source: The Invisible Web Weblog) Thu, 25 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0100 888842 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/Dbjx/~5/OSEs1VcVhyo/3NpE5-mupxg iGlue consists of a semantic knowledge base and some browser (Chrome and Firefox) plugins that enables the user to link together a piece of text on a web page that refers to a concept (person, place, thing etc) and a resource in the knowledge base, and to explore more about the concept where those links have already been made. It is in beta at present and users can annotate web pages to link to existing items in the knowledge base, but eventually they will also be able to add to the knowledge base thereby crowdsourcing some of the linkages in the semantic web. In the illustration above, the I linked the Cordyceps heading to the video resource in the knowledge base. I signed up yesterday and received an email message with a link to activate my account. Every time I try I get a server overloaded response, but that has not prevented me using the plugins to annotate web pages. With the ability to add to the semantic knowledge base, this could be a great tool to develop learning resources by: creating a web page with basic information on a topic link text on the page to a variety of resources in the knowledge base such as video, images, other web pages etc Via the ‘icecube’ plugin the visitor does not lose their place on the web page. The linked resources can be explored within the icecube that sits over the top of the web page. My only problem with the icecube is that it does not work well on a small screen (1024x600). I thought about creating a screencast but then I found that there was already a good video on the site that already showed some of the features I was thinking of including. (Youtube embed) (Source: Innovate) Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:21:22 +0100 886733 http://rafaelsidi.blogspot.com/2010/11/change-is-here-elseviers-applications.html Finally all the API, opening up, open up applications, mashups, applicationmarketplace, widgets tags that you have been seen in the past few years came alive early Sunday morning, go check-it outThis is a new publishing ecosystem and a new innovation playground for the whole developer community -researchers, librarians, scientists, developers, start-ups- go start coding, collaborating, innovating to create apps that will help the scientific and research community.Exciting and appy timesRafael Sidi (Really Simple Sidi) (Source: Really Simple Sidi (RSS)) Sat, 13 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0100 887024 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/xHPRbT_XVwk/4334 There are still spots in my upcoming workshop on Mashups for Libraries at WNYLC in Buffalo, NY. If you’re interested in joining us don’t miss your chance to register. Information can be found on the official WNYLC site, but here are some specifics: Date: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 Starts: 9:00:00 AM Ends: 12:00:00 PM Location: WNYLRC Training Center 4455 Genesee St., PO Box 400, Buffalo, NY I hope to see some of you there! Related posts:Library Mashups Book Library Mashups on Longshots Podcast Win a copy of Library Mashups (Source: What I Learned Today...) Fri, 12 Nov 2010 19:19:11 +0100 886606 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/davidleeking/~3/7MUBGONwuh8/ Some of you might be interested in attending this webinar coming up on December 1 and Decomber 8 (two part series) that Robin Hastings and I are leading. Here’s the details (and here’s where you can register): The popularity of social networking software—tools like Twitter, Facebook and blogs—continues to skyrocket, particular among younger populations. For libraries in the 21st century, a presence on these social networking sites is an essential part of library outreach and patron services. In this exclusive event, librarians and social software experts David Lee King and Robin Hastings will teach you about what tools you can use to engage with your patrons and the best practices for using them. You’ll learn about: Collaboration with libraries and patrons using YouTube, Flickr and Dropbox Marketing your library with Facebook and Twitter 4 things your library must do when signing up for any social media tool (listen, plan, respond, and opening up) Time-savers and tools to use for maximizing your library’s social media reach About the Instructors Robin Hastings is the Information Technology Manager for the Missouri River Regional Library in Jefferson City, Missouri. She manages the library’s network, websites and training classes, as well as social networking projects for the library. Recently, Robin went to England, Jamaica, California, Chicago (twice), St. Louis and Columbia, Missouri, giving presentations on Web 2.0, Learning 2.0, Library Mashups, RSS, OpenID and Web 3.0. When she’s not traveling, she spends most of her free time in front of a computer blogging at http://www.rhastings.net or writing articles, a book chapter on mashups in the library and a chapter on using Google Apps in the library, an issue of Library Technology Reports on Collaboration and a book on lifestreaming and microblogging. ... Wed, 10 Nov 2010 18:59:43 +0100 886029 http://erikhoy.blogspot.com/2010/11/ili-2010-bibpode-mashups-og-linkdata.html På Internet Librarin International holdt norske Anne-Lena Westrum, fra Oslo Public Library et oplæg om et projekt som hun og andre arbejder på under navnet Pode (se link nederst). Projektet går ud på at undersøge hvilke mashup-applikationer biblioteket kan bruge i forbindelse med bibliotekskatalogen. Og der er en del at lære også for andre biblioteker.Den traditionelle tilgang til dette spørgsmål er ofte at bibliotekerne prøver på at udvikle ting selv, eller i hvert fald under streng kontrol af firmaer eller eksperter som bliver hyret. Ofte for meget dyre penge. I modsætning hertil tager projektet udgangspunkt i: Hvorfor opfinde noget som nogen allerede har lavet i forvejen og som man bare kan tage i anvendelse. Podes formål er bl.a. at undersøge fikse måder at bruge bibliotekskatalogen. Fx til at henvise til leksikonartikler, vejrmeldinger, anmeldelser, bedre præsentation af ktatalogen.Ligeledes er det også gængs opfattelse at brugernes inddragelse i sådanne projekter skal kontrolleres og at "vi" bibliotekarer ved bedre end lånerne selv hvad de vil have. I modsætning hertil har projektets indfaldsvinkel været at lade brugerne lave præcis det de vil have. For som en sidegevinst finder vi så også ud af hvad det er de vil. Pode har sat sig for at lære brugerne selv at lave deres mashups ud fra deres behov.Mashups er ikke noget nyt. Det har eksisteret meget længe. Og er i virkeligheden en meget enkel tankegang: At sammenstykke hvad allerede eksisterer på en sådan måde at det fungerer som noget nyt forenklende. På projektets hjemmeside kan du se to eksempler på sådanne mashups.Reiseplanleggeren masher data fra diverse rejseførere sammen med stednavne fra Geonames, Google Maps, vejrdata og med bogomslag. Og emnemæssigt kobler de til sprogkurser, rejseberetninger og andet. Det er altså et scenarie hvor de prøver at sætte sig i turistens sted.Ideer kan som bekendt  være gode, men udførelsen problematisk. ... Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:00:00 +0100 884749 http://dltj.org/article/thursday-threads-2010w44/ Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads by E-mail!Enter your email address:Delivered by FeedBurner This week is a mostly Google edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads. Below is a high-level overview of Google’s Book Search algorithm, how Google is helping web servers improve the speed at which content loads, and how Google’s internet traffic is growing as a percentage of all internet traffic. But first, there is an uprising on the RDA test records in the WorldCat database.If you find these interesting and useful, you might want to add the Thursday Threads RSS Feed to your feed reader or subscribe to e-mail delivery using the form to the right. If you would like a more raw and immediate version of these types of stories, watch my FriendFeed stream (or subscribe to its feed in your feed reader). Comments and tips, as always, are welcome.Memorandum Against RDA TestWe have found ourselves in an unenviable position of opposing the work that supposedly has been authorized by agencies representing our interests. I might compare it to a military coup d’état. I mean here the RDA “test” and its implications on the cataloging world at large. After extensive discussions on the PCC, OCLC cataloging e-mail lists with opinions from the British Library, Australia and North America, we can safely conclude that there is a broad consensus against principles of RDA and the way RDA “test” has been imposed on the cataloging world.The original post on the OCLC-CAT list by Wojciech Siemaszkiewicz of the New York Public Library is behind a must-subscribe-and-authenticate form, but it has been copied out copied to an open website by Becky Yoose (thanks, Becky!). The subsequent discussion resulted in a Petition against the RDA Test by Jacqueline Byrd at Indiana University. The link to the position has been posted to the open AUTOCAT list, and there has been subsequent discussion there. (Hat tip to Kirsten Davis. ... Thu, 04 Nov 2010 16:00:57 +0100 884956 http://memphisreads.blogspot.com/2010/11/book-review-abraham-lincoln-vampire.html Fiction/HorrorDarletha reviews ABRAHAM LINCOLN: VAMPIRE HUNTER by Seth Grahame-Smith (Grand Central Publishing, 2010)I first discovered this book after reading an article about monster mashup novels. I had to read for myself how Smith depicted a renowned United States president as a vampire slayer. Judging from the bloody book cover, I initially thought this would be a ridiculous parody. What I found was a story that made me wonder if we’ve been kept in the dark about this nation’s REAL history.Abraham Lincoln discovers the existence of the undead as a young boy, after his beloved mother becomes ill and dies. When Lincoln learns that a vampire contributed to his mother's death, he vows to kill all vampires. He reads all he can find about them and strengthens his tall physique with rigorous farm work, especially chopping wood. A sharpened ax becomes Abraham's signature weapon--later adding an arsenal of weapons hidden inside his long coat.Not all blood suckers are evil in Lincoln’s story. A vampire ally named Henry helps Lincoln enhance his vampire-hunting skills. Henry also sends Lincoln on secret missions to kill the most ruthless of the undead, under the guise of travelling away for work. Lincoln’s secret diary reveals that vampires also chose sides in the Union-Confederacy conflict. As president, Lincoln makes decisions to guarantee the Union wins the Civil War--preventing full vampire domination of the United States.I was pleasantly surprised with this story. Despite the gory violence, it is crafted as an authentic historical biography. Within the pages are sketches and Civil War photographs provided as evidence of vampires in America--some of which were funny to me. Historic figures like Edgar Allan Poe and Jefferson Davis make memorable appearances in the plot. Consider this story an adventure-filled mashup of historical, horror, and speculative fiction with an amusing twist at the end.Darletha Matthews, South Branch (Source: Memphis Reads) Wed, 03 Nov 2010 04:00:00 +0100 883922 http://litablog.org/2010/11/lita-offering-two-workshops-in-san-diego/ LITA is offering two full-day educational workshops on Friday, Jan. 7, 2011 in San Diego. Jason Clark of Montana State University is presenting Creating Library Web Services: Mashups and APIs. Participants will learn how to bring pieces of the Web together with library data: del.icio.us subject guides, Flickr library displays, YouTube library orientation. 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, Amanda Hollister of LISHost.net will present Open Source CMS Playroom. This workshop will provide an overview of several content management systems, compare and contrast system functionality and features and demonstrate how open source CMSs can be used to enhance library websites. Open source content management systems present an opportunity for libraries to distribute content creation and maintenance and add Web 2.0 features to library websites. Bring your laptop to explore and compare basic installations of WordPress, Joomla and Drupal CMSs. More information on these workshops and other LITA events at Midwinter can be found on the LITA web site. 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 register for the workshop only or add a workshop to your existing Midwinter registration by calling ALA Registration at 1 (800) 974-3084 or through the online registration form in the “Your Events” section. (Source: LITA Blog) Tue, 02 Nov 2010 15:39:53 +0100 883742 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eclecticlibrarian/~3/n5nGf6mGS2Q/ [I took notes on paper because my netbook power cord was in my checked bag that SFO briefly lost on the way here. This is an edited transfer to electronic.] presenter: Joseph Baisano Dashboards pull information together and make it visible in one place. They need to be simple, built on existing data, but expandable. Baisano is at SUNY Stonybrook, and they opted to go with Microsoft SharePoint 2010 to create their dashboards. The content can be made visible and editable through user permissions. Right now, their data connections include their catalog, proxy server, JCR, ERMS, and web statistics, and they are looking into using the API to pull license information from their ERMS. In the future, they hope to use APIs from sources that provide them (Google Analytics, their ERMS, etc.) to create mashups and more on-the-fly graphs. They’re also looking at an open source alternative to SharePoint called Pentaho, which already has many of the plugins they want and comes in free and paid support flavors. presenter: Cindi Trainor [Trainor had significant technical difficulties with her Mac and the projector, which resulted in only 10 minutes of a slightly muddled presentation, but she had some great ideas for visualizations to share, so here’s as much as I captured of them.] Graphs often tell us what we already know, so look at it from a different angle to learn something new. Gapminder plots data in three dimensions – comparing two components of each set over time using bubble graphs. Excel can do bubble graphs as well, but with some limitations. In her example, Trainor showed reference transactions along the x-axis, the gate count along the y-axis, and the size of the circle represented the number of circulation transactions. Each bubble represented a campus library and each graph was for the year’s totals. By doing this, she was able to suss out some interesting trends and quirks to investigate that were hidden in the traditional line graphs. ... Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:20:44 +0100 883473 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechsourceBlog/~3/EwFtxrVV8so/facebook-twitter-and-more-using-social-software-in-the-library.html We're happy to announce this two-session workshop in the important topic of social networking tools and their use in the library. The popularity of social networking software—tools like Twitter, Facebook and blogs—continues to skyrocket, particular among younger populations. For libraries in the 21st century, a presence on these social networking sites is an essential part of library outreach and patron services. In this exclusive event, librarians and social software experts David Lee King and Robin Hastings will teach you about what tools you can use to engage with your patrons and the best practices for using them. You’ll learn about: Collaboration with libraries and patrons using YouTube, Flickr and Dropbox Marketing your library with Facebook and Twitter 4 things your library MUST do when signing up for ANY social media tool (listen, plan, respond, and opening up). Time-savers and tools to use for maximizing your library's social media reach The two workshop sessions will take place: Wednesday December 1st, 2:30pm Eastern (90 Minutes)Wednesday December 8th, 2:30pm Eastern (90 Minutes) Sign up today and engage in three hours of interactive learning and discussion you can’t get anywhere else! About the Instructors Robin Hastings is the Information Technology Manager for the Missouri River Regional Library in Jefferson City, Missouri. She manages the library’s network, websites and training classes, as well as social networking projects for the library. Recently, Robin went to England, Jamaica, California, Chicago (twice), St. Louis and Columbia, Missouri, giving presentations on Web 2.0, Learning 2.0, Library Mashups, RSS, OpenID and Web 3.0. When she’s not traveling, she spends most of her free time in front of a computer blogging at http://www.rhastings. ... Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:46:04 +0100 882558 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/FBxi17teK2Y/4248 David Friggens gave us a very animated (slides and speaker) talk about how to present our information in different ways to our patrons. First example was from the University of Dundee and their serials holding chart. It’s a graphical representation of what issues the library has of a specific serial. Next, word clouds. One way to use a word cloud is to show what people are searching for right now – or today – or this month (I can’t share a link to an example of this cause the system they use does not have permalinks – another reason to use Koha). One that I’d love to see is RSS feeds for new titles in different subject areas. This is possible in Koha with the custom RSS feeds, but it would be awesome if it was just a default function. Some libraries are showing what has been checked in or out recently in different ways – one example was to have it publish to Twitter. Yet another graphical display would be to show a map of where you can find the item in the library right from the bib record display in the OPAC. There are different ways to handle this – flash, image files, etc. Along the lines of mapping would be usage heat maps to show where things are circulating more or less (this is not something David or I have seen anyone do yet). We have all of this data in our libraries that we can mash into new and interesting visualizations and tools. As I say in my mashups talks (and my book did get a shoutout by David), we just have to open up our data. David gave us a great quote by Rufus Pollock about open data: “The coolest thing to do with your data will be thought of by someone else.” We have to open up our data and see what gets created with it! Technorati Tags: kohacon10 Related posts:KohaCon10: Kete & Koha KohaCon10: Why I Love Koha KohaCon10: What is a Koha? (Source: What I Learned Today...) Mon, 25 Oct 2010 03:22:08 +0100 881520 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/dj0jekrbN3o/websites-bibliotheken-nog-niet-mobiel.html Deze bijdrage verscheen eerder in Digitale Bibliotheek nr. 6, 2010 Mobiel internet in Nederland Dat het gebruik internet op mobiele apparatuur snel aan terrein wint in Nederland zal weinig mensen nog verrassen. De prijzen van smartphones dalen, de tarieven voor draadloze internetabonnementen eveneens. Als je om je heen kijkt zie je dat steeds meer mensen met hun mobieltjes in de weer zijn, zonder dat ze zitten te bellen. Telefoons zijn in korte tijd getransformeerd tot kleine, maar volwaardige computers. Uit een onderzoek dat het bureau MarketResponse in augustus 2010 publiceerde kwam naar voren dat inmiddels 1 op de 5 consumenten in Nederland gebruik maakt van mobiel internet. Je zou kunnen stellen dat tachtig procent van de bevolking dus nog altijd géén gebruik maakt van mobiel internet, maar wie het in september 2010 gepubliceerde rapport van het Sociaal en Cultureel Planbureau, Alle kanalen staan open, heeft gelezen, heeft twee van de belangrijkste conclusies van het rapport waarschijnlijk ook gezien en, weet dat dit slechts een kwestie van tijd is: Het gebruik van nieuwe media, zoals krant lezen via internet of televisie-uitzendingen bekijken via internet of de smartphone, verspreidt zich minder snel dan vaak wordt gedacht. Toch zullen in 2015 breedbandinternet en smartphones hun voorlopers, respectievelijk smalband en ‘gewone’ mobiele telefoons, nagenoeg volledig hebben vervangen. Het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek meldde in oktober 2009 dat inmiddels driekwart van de internetgebruikers online aankopen doet, en dat de helft van de jongeren gebruik maakt van internet op de telefoon. Webwereld schreef eind augustus dat “het aantal vrouwen dat in de afgelopen twee jaar gebruik is gaan maken van mobiel internet steeg met 575 procent. ... Sun, 24 Oct 2010 14:19:00 +0100 881432 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/61438 Direct to Interactive Map/Mashup ...[Released this week a ] Bing Maps mash-up developed by ShootHill was launched on UNCHR.org to show geographical information on refugees, refugee assistance offices, and refugee-related stories from around the globe. Since 1950, “UNHCR has protected refugees and other uprooted and stateless people worldwide by: ensuring their basic human rights; providing life-saving [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:42:27 +0100 880919 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/10/19/nela2010-easy-website-mashups As part of NELA2010, I’m doing a poster session on Quick and Easy Website Mashups - very simple ways to add more information and utility to library websites. The image at right is an example of the Resources page on the ChelmsfordHistory.org website (a town-wide history project my library participates in). Embedded in the page are four different mashups, which makes it both more useful to researchers, and easier to maintain. Win-win. If you’re interested in seeing easy examples of adding more content to your website, check it out. (Source: herzogbr.net blog) Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:27:33 +0100 880112 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eclecticlibrarian/~3/NHIZuQ6LXF4/ presenter: Robert Sterling Affiliate marketing is a practice of rewarding an affiliate for directing customers to the brand/seller that then results in a sale. “If you’re good at something, never do it for free.” If you have a blog that’s interesting and people are coming to you, you’re doing something wrong if you’re not making money off of it. Shawn Casey came up with a list of hot niches for affiliate marketing, but that’s not how you find what will work for you. Successful niches tend to be what you already have a passion for and where it intersects with affiliate markets. Enthusiasm provokes a positive response. Enthusiasm sells. People who are phoning it in don’t come across the same and won’t develop a loyal following. Direct traffic, don’t distract from it. Minimize the number of IAB format ads – people don’t see them anymore. Maximize your message in the hot spots – remember the Google heat map. Use forceful anchor text like “click here” to direct users to the affiliate merchant’s site. Clicks on images should move the user towards a sale. Every third or fourth blog post should be revenue-generating. If you do it with every post, people will assume it’s a splog. Instapundit is a good example of how to do a link post that directs users to relevant content from affiliate merchants. Affiliate datafeeds can be pulled in using several WP plugins. If your IAB format ads aren’t performing from day one, they never will. Plugins (premium): PopShops works with a number of vendors. phpBay/phpZon works with eBay and Amazon, respectively. They’re not big revenue sources, but okay for side money. Use magazine themes that let you prioritize revenue-generating content. Always have a left-sidebar and search box, because people are more comfortable with that navigation. ... Sun, 17 Oct 2010 22:08:44 +0100 880778 http://litablog.org/2010/10/lita-offering-web-course-on-mashups-and-apis/ Creating Library Web Services: Mashups and APIs, presented by Karen Coombs of the OCLC Developer Network and Jason Clark of Montana State University Libraries will be held 10 a.m. – noon CST from Nov. 15-19, 2010, with live synchronous lectures each day. This five-day course will help participants learn how to bring pieces of the Web together with library data: del.icio.us subject guides, Flickr library displays, YouTube library orientation. 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. This hands-on course is synchronous with a daily lecture followed by a hands-on exercise. Instructors will be available for any questions during the exercises. By the end of this course, participants will be able to: understand and apply the major terms of Web services; use simple Web services like Yahoo Pipes to bring multiple sources of data together; build simple mashups with Javascript; build simple mashups with Server-side scripts (PHP). For registration and additional information, visit the LITA web site. Contact: Melissa Prentice, LITA 312-280-4268 mprentice (at) lita.org (Source: LITA Blog) Thu, 14 Oct 2010 21:36:02 +0100 879521 http://library.waubonsee.edu/wordpress/2010/10/14/wired-magazines-7-essential-life-skills-aka-learning-2-0/ Have you read about Wired Magazine’s 7 essential skills for life (that you, ahem, supposedly didn’t learn in college)? Here they are: 1.     Statistical Literacy -Making sense of today’s data-driven world. 2.     Post-State Diplomacy – Power and politics, sans government. 3.     Remix Culture – Samples, mashups, and mixes. 4.     Applied Cognition [...] (Source: Featured Resources) Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:59:50 +0100 879734 http://freegovinfo.info/node/3106 The AFL-CIO has a mashup that makes use of data from Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Notices, Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) Certifications, Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), the Case Activity Tracking System (CATS) maintained by the National Labor Relations Board, the U.S. Department of Labor Enforcement Data website, the Department of Labor Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, CNN's Exporting America List, information from Local and National Newspapers, a database of news articles that report on companies exporting jobs maintained by The Washington Alliance of Technology Workers, and others. Job Tracker. Find out which companies in your area are exporting jobs, laying off workers, endangering workers' health or involved in cases of violations of workers' rights. The database contains information on more than 400,000 companies nationwide. Enter your ZIP code to see the detailed information. (Source: Free Government Information (FGI) blogs) Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:48:02 +0100 878788 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/61220 We love real-time resources around here so we thought we would share this one. It's also an example of a mashup using services from Foursquare, Twitter, and Google Maps. One of the most popular services on the web these days is Foursquare where users "check-in" as they visit at various locations. Users also have [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:04:50 +0100 878485 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/10/12/upcoming-book-conferences For those in New England, the coming weeks have a few book-related conferences worth attending. I’ll definitely be at the first two, but not sure about the third: Boston Book Festival - Saturday, October 16th The Boston Book Festival is a day-long event, filled with talks from authors and illustrators and others in the book field. All the events are around Copley Square in Boston, and everything is free. I’m going to try to see Chipp Kidd, Bill Bryson, Joyce Carol Oates, Jeff Kinney, and anyone else I can find - not to mention renew my library card at the BPL. New England Library Association 2010 Annual Conference - Oct 17 - 19th This year’s NELA conference is in Boxborough, MA, and should be a good time (as always). Highlights (for me) are the talk on censorship by Joe Raiola (senior Editor of MAD magazine), seeing Ethan Zuckerman again, a talk on Open Source ILS’ by Stephanie Chase and Pamela Soren Smith - and I’ll be doing a poster session on library website mashups. Why Books? - Oct 28 -29th Hosted by Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, “‘Why Books?‘ probes the form and function of the book in a rapidly changing media ecology. Speakers from a variety of disciplines—literature and history to sociology and computer science—will discuss the public-policy implications of new media forms and will explore some of the major functions that we identify with books today: production and diffusion; storage and retrieval; and reception and use.” Busy busy busy. And if you’re ever looking for a book-related event, remember to check out LibraryThing.com/local for events in your area - and also add your library’s events there for more exposure. (Source: herzogbr.net blog) Tue, 12 Oct 2010 14:15:39 +0100 878387 http://www.teleread.com/copy-right/interview-with-a-pirate-partisan/ The Bookseller’s FuturEBook blog has an email interview with Andrew Robinson, the erstwhile leader of the Pirate Party UK. It’s interesting to note that the Pirate Party does not specifically endorse actual piracy—it inherited the name from the original Swedish party—though it is campaigning on a platform of pruning back what its members see as an increasingly out-of-control intellectual property regime. Robinson writes:Yes, we seek a fairer balance in copyright law, that takes account of advances in technology. A law that was written to deal with businesses running expensive printing presses isn’t well suited to an age where duplication costs are zero, files are intangible, jurisdictional boundaries are regularly crossed, and everyone owns a computer that has cut and paste functions.Robinson talks about what he sees as the potential future for the content industry should his party’s reforms come to pass—creators will do more of their selling direct to the consumer, and file sharing will be considered free advertising. “I find it amazing that in the US, record labels are still getting into legal trouble for paying radio stations to give away their product (payola), when bittorrent gives them a way of giving away music at zero cost.” He also points out that there is evidence that the biggest file-sharing also tend to spend the most money on media, using it as a way to sample and preview before they buy so they can more easily find artists they want to support with their money. He says that there have always been and always will be people who won’t pay for content—they just listened to radio in the past instead of downloading music.He also talks about consequences of his party’s proposed 10-year limit on copyright, and outlawing medical patents in favor of subsidizing pharmaceutical companies’ research, and how the Pirate Party relates copyright to free speech and privacy rights. ... Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:15:00 +0100 875343 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/60792 News that the YouTube portion of the AWESOME ProgrammableWeb directory of mashups has now passed 500 entries. We would love to hear about your favorites. + Complete List of YouTube Mashups (500+) or + Just "Mashups of the Day" Featuring YouTube or + Top 10 All-Time YouTube Mashups (From February 2, 2010) Source: ProgrammableWeb (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 24 Sep 2010 13:41:31 +0100 873962 http://hangingtogether.org/?p=813 Tomorrow Bruce Washburn and I leave from the San Mateo office of OCLC Research to help run the WorldCat Mashathon in Boston (well, Cambridge, really, but you could toss a rock across the river and hit Boston). I really enjoy these events, since it is a couple days of helping library programmers learn about OCLC Web Services with a good chunk of time set aside to play with them. We’ll have all day Thursday and Friday to devote to learning and playing, which can be time difficult to come by when under pressure to deliver at your place of employment. Previous Mashathons have yielded a number of new mashups, many of which have ended up in our Application Gallery. Previous attendees have also integrated a number of service improvements in their local systems using these APIs. Mashers are not limited to OCLC APIs by any means. We take pains to point out a list of library-related APIs that I maintain over on my TechEssence.info site. Any API is fair game. Or linked data, or what have you. Whatever developers can use to improve their local services is fine with us. So why did I title this post “Monster Mash”? Why I’ll be there…why else? (Source: hangingtogether.org) Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:52:09 +0100 873498 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/netbib/DFxV/~3/4uRzBSmMM9I/ Die hier schon einmal erwähnte Nicole C. Engard hat das Buch “Library Mashups: Exploring new ways to deliver library data” herausgegeben und dazu auch eine Website zusammengestellt, auf der sich neben dem Glossar auch eine Übersicht über die verschiedenen Beiträge des Bandes findet sowie die in den einzelnen Kapitel vorgestellten Links. Ergänzt werden die Informationen aus dem Buch Buch duch verschiedene Präsentationen, mit denen Engard Buch & Thema vorgestellt hat. Eine schöne Sammlung, mit der man einen guten ersten Einblick ins Mashuping allgemein und die Anwendung im Bibliothekskontext erhalten kann. (Source: netbib weblog) Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:34:02 +0100 873133 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NetbibWeblog/~3/4uRzBSmMM9I/ Die hier schon einmal erwähnte Nicole C. Engard hat das Buch “Library Mashups: Exploring new ways to deliver library data” herausgegeben und dazu auch eine Website zusammengestellt, auf der sich neben dem Glossar auch eine Übersicht über die verschiedenen Beiträge des Bandes findet sowie die in den einzelnen Kapitel vorgestellten Links. Ergänzt werden die Informationen aus dem Buch Buch duch verschiedene Präsentationen, mit denen Engard Buch & Thema vorgestellt hat. Eine schöne Sammlung, mit der man einen guten ersten Einblick ins Mashuping allgemein und die Anwendung im Bibliothekskontext erhalten kann. (Source: netbib weblog) Tue, 21 Sep 2010 09:34:02 +0100 873003 http://kidslit.menashalibrary.org/2010/09/21/white-cat-dark-and-delightful/ White Cat by Holly Black Curse working is illegal because it can so easily be misused and disguised.  Curse workers are able to change your memories, give you good or bad luck, change your emotions, and even change you into something else.  Cassel comes from a family of curse workers who continue to use their gifts illegally.  His mother is currently in prison because she worked someone’s emotions.  His brothers work for one of the crime bosses.  Cassel has deliberately created a life separate from his family.  But he can’t run from the fact that he killed his best friend a few years ago.  Cassel can’t do curse work but that doesn’t stop him from pulling a con.  At his private boarding school, he is a bookie for all sorts of bets.  But things start to fall apart when Cassel wakes up on the roof and can only remember following a white cat in his dreams.  The school sends him home and requires him to see a doctor before he returns.  As Cassel tries to find a way to game the system and return to school, more odd things start to happen, leading Cassel to figure out exactly what his mobster family has been up to.  Holly Black has created a great mashup of mobsters and fantasy.  In this compelling novel, she has given us a clever and twisted world that is well-built and completely brought to life.  A large piece of her success is her protagonist.  Cassel is charming, intelligent and easily cons readers into liking him.  Thanks to being an outsider in the crime world, he is a great way to introduce readers to this skewed and amazing world that Black has created.  Equally successful is Black’s pacing and story.  The action sequences are inventive and taut, they are contrasted effectively with the slower, subtler moments of the novel.  It is beautifully constructed. ... Tue, 21 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 873545 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/F3ERkZWrkIk/ A couple of days ago I got an email from Jennifer Okamato of the Dallas News, who had picked up on one my mashup posts describing how to scrape tabluar data from a web page and get it onto an embeddable map (Data Scraping Wikipedia with Google Spreadsheets). She’d been looking at live crime incident data from the Dallas Police, and had managed to replicate my recipe in order to get the data into a map embedded on the Dallas News website: But there was a problem: the data being displayed on the map wasn’t being updated reliably. I’ve always known there were cacheing delays inherent in the approach I’d described, which involves Google Spreadsheets, Yahoo Pipe, Google Maps, as well as local browsers all calling on each other an all potentially cacheing the data, but never really worried about them. But for this example, where the data was changing on a minute by minute basis, the delays were making the map display feel too out of date to be useful. What’s needed is a more real time solution. I haven’t had chance to work on a realtime chain yet, but I have started dabbling around the edges. The first thing was to get the data from the Dallas Police website. (You’ll notice the data includes elements relating to the time of incident, a brief description of it, its location as an address, the unit handling the call and their current status, and so on.) A tweet resulted in a solution from @alexbilbie that uses a call to YQL (which may introduce a cacheing delay?) to scrape the table and generate a JSON feed for it, and a PHP handler script to display the data (code). I tried the code on the OU server that ouseful.open.ac.uk works on, but as it runs PHP4, rather than the PHP5 Alex coded for, it fell over on the JSON parsing stakes. A quick Google turned up a fix in the form of a PEAR library for handling JSON, and a stub of code to invoke it in the absence of native JSON handling routines: //JSON. ... Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:49:47 +0100 872419 http://kidslit.menashalibrary.org/2010/09/17/its-a-book-subversive-and-smart/ It’s a Book by Lane Smith This is signature Lane Smith in every possible way.  A donkey and a gorilla sit in a living room together.  The donkey has a laptop, the gorilla has a book.  The donkey is puzzled by this book.  How do you scroll?  Does it blog? Where is the mouse?  The gorilla answers again and again, “No, it’s a book.”  Finally, the donkey gets the book in his hands and refuses to give it back.  The gorilla stands up to leave, heading for the library when the donkey offers to charge it when he’s done.  All leading up to the final line: “You don’t have to… It’s a book, Jackass.”  This is like a long lead up to a perfect punch line.  I shared this book with my sons, aged 9 and 13.  They both adored it.  They got the references to blogging, video games, charging and mice.  By the final line, they both had huge grins on their faces and both looked rather slyly at me to see if I had realized what I had said.  Then we all laughed and read it again.  Smith has created a book that will be enjoyed by adults and older children.  Young children will not get the references to the technology and will not get the punch line.  So let’s not waste time discussing whether that last line is appropriate for  preschoolers or story times.  The entire book is not for them.  Smith’s wonderful art is modern, sleek and yet has a timeless quality to it.  It is ideal for this mashup of technology and books.  The day I got it in the mail, I took it to one of our staff luncheons.  It was read aloud, everyone loved it.  I’m going to have it tucked with my things for the upcoming state library conference.  They will all enjoy it.  And I expect plenty of the same looks my sons gave me and plenty of laughter too. ... Fri, 17 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 873552 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/09/16/city-data-and-the-little-laws-of-life/ It’s no secret, and no puzzle, that lawyers’ attention generally follows the money. Indeed, with the possible exception of criminal law as romanticized on TV, the public’s view of law itself is shaped by this legal currying of currency and its sources. But that same public’s actual encounters with the law often happen in areas that have a tiny bar or no bar at all. One of these is with respect to municipal by-laws. In a city of any size, there will be thousands of these laws regulating much of the activity and paraphernalia of everyday life: where and when to park your car, when to clear ice off the sidewalk, what you and your dog may do and where you may do it, whether and how you may ask strangers for money, whether there should be speed bumps on your street, or whether you may open up a night club in that spare room. This skein of statutory stuff was until recently extremely difficult to search. Lately, though, cities have taken to putting their by-laws online, where, with varying degrees of trouble, affected citizens might actually find and read them. (Interpreting them correctly remains another matter. This†, for an example picked at random, would likely cause most folks some difficulty because of its technical language.) It’s a part of the general move towards putting government data online, and ideally online in formats that make it useful for mashups and other repurposing. Vancouver seems to be leading the way in Canada. That city has joined with Toronto, Edmonton, and Ottawa to develop an “open data framework” that “aims to enhance current open data initiatives in the areas of data standards and terms of use agreements.” Each of these cities has put some datasets online, some of them in formats that can be displayed on Google Maps or Google Earth, others in formats that lend themselves to spreadsheets. ... Thu, 16 Sep 2010 14:28:06 +0100 872616 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/KMI-M1taWnQ/25-jaar-mario.html Snorremans! Lees ik nu dat je alweer 25 bent geworden? Gekkenhuis met jou, maffe loodgieter. Gefeliciteerd! Zo jong nog, maar tegelijkertijd ook al zo oud. Vanaf het moment dat je kon lopen ren je achter die onbereikbare chick aan: springend, duikend, rennend en klauterend. Je zag alle uithoeken van de wereld, je ging mee met de tijd, je gaf nooit op. Buitengewoon! Maar te pakken kreeg je haar nooit, toch? Toch? Waarom loop je nu weg? You son of a Peach! Gerelateerd: Frustratie is de motivatie Ouwe trouwe Mario Super Mario als straatkunst Het prinsesje weer redden Mashup van de week: Doomed Mario @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Tue, 14 Sep 2010 00:49:00 +0100 871411 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/davidleeking/~5/iiYTnTSs6x8/ssplayer2.swf I lead a seminar on collaborative technology in libraries for SEFLIN today – it was a good time, with a TON of information going by pretty fast! Here’s a copy of my slides: Collaborative Technology in Libraries View more presentations from David King. And here’s a list of the websites we looked at: Social networks twitter.com search.twitter.com twitpic.com facebook.com Private Social Networks groups.google.com groups.yahoo.com friendfeed.com yammer.com socialcast.com present.ly Conversation tools blogs – this one is an example coveritlive.com basecamphq.com meebo.com gmail.com – chat feature tinychat.com Mashups pipes.yahoo.com widgetbox.com Multimedia 12seconds.tv skype.com oovoo.com ustream.tv stickam.com youtube.com flickr.com Meetings voice.google.com calendar.google.com doodle.com elluminate.com Adobe Connect dimdim.com zoho freebinar.com slideshare.net present.io Sharing stuff on your PC gotomeeting.com glance.com yugma.com showdocument.com twiddla.com clavardon.com cosketch.com scribblar.com dabbleboard.com Documents docs.google.com scribd.com zoho pbworks.com wetpaint central mediawiki.org wikispaces.com yousendit.com box.net drop.io dropbox.com Share: Related PostsNo Related Post (Source: David Lee King) Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:18:45 +0100 870648 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/09/07/the-resurrection-of-newspaper-obituaries Last week I started talking about newspaper obituaries. Today’s post details how we’re improving access to the obituaries we do have in our newspaper microfilm records, using an online index created with Yahoo Pipes. Our microfilm records of the local papers go back to 1940. But microfilm is primarily an archival format, rather than an accessible format, so it can be cumbersome to use. Our biggest impediment was that we didn’t know what was there - when a patron contacted the Reference Desk asking for someone’s obituary, it was very time-consuming for us to search the microfilm for an obituary, which may or may not have even appeared in the paper - we wouldn’t even know until we checked. So we created an online searchable index to the newspaper’s obituaries - not the text of the obituaries, just a name/date/page index. Patrons and staff can use this to know whether someone’s obituary appeared in our newspaper, instead of having to check the microfilm every time. Here’s how we did it: first, for about the past 10 months, volunteers have been going through every microfilm reel we have, page by page, and building an Excel spreadsheet with the following information: Newspaper Year Month Day Page FirstName MiddleInitial LastName Maiden-Jr-Sr The first column is necessary because we have records for both the Chelmsford Newsweekly (1940-1993) and the Chelmsford Independent (1986-present). The middle columns are reference and retrieval information. In the last column, we included extra information, like maiden name, whether a person was a “Jr.” or “Sr.” etc., and anything else that was random and didn’t fit into another column. The spreadsheet itself is useful, but I wanted to put this online so anyone could search it. ... Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:55:30 +0100 869884 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/pVTet4SkzeI/feedthru Data mash-ups and the future of mapping : JISC Horizon scan looking at the role of location based data mashups. Interesting to note how the report passes comments on openness, whilst copyright of the report is held by the authors with no open license applied... The doc is available as PDF and ODF - so not web native, deep linkable, or directly commentable. Ho hum... I wonder who the readership is intended to be, and what setting they're expected to read it in??? (Source: OUseful Info) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 07:00:00 +0100 870782 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/krBD9MdGOF4/online-publishers-growing-display.html This is the latest post in our series on the future of display advertising. Today, director of product management Jonathan Bellack looks at our efforts to help online publishers generate more advertising revenue - Ed.For millions of online publishers—from the smallest blogger to the largest entertainment, news, e-commerce and information sites—online advertising revenue is vital. When publishers can maximize their returns, everyone benefits from more vibrant online content and websites. But the pace of change in the industry can be intimidating—how can a publisher keep up with what’s new, let alone grow their business?We believe that the new technology we’re developing to make display advertising work better will help to grow the display advertising pie for all publishers, by orders of magnitude. We shouldn’t be asking how publishers can eke another 5 or 10 percent out of display advertising in the next few years. We should be looking at how the industry can double or triple in size.We’ve previously described our three core display ad products for publishers:AdSense, which places the most valuable, relevant ads on our partners’ websites, without the publishers having to sell the ad space themselves;DoubleClick for Publishers, our ad serving platform, which maximizes the value of ad space that publishers have directly sold themselves; DoubleClick Ad Exchange, a real-time auction marketplace, which maximizes large publishers’ overall returns, by "dynamically allocating" the highest value ad, whether directly sold, or indirectly sold through an ad network.I wanted to highlight the key principles guiding our future product innovations in this area, as we work to help all publishers maximize their online ad revenues.1. Making life more efficientFor most large publishers, directly sold ads (ads sold by their own sales force) comprise the vast majority of their ad revenues. ... Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867982 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/Ubd7JCPTww0/4051 Yesterday I was stumbling around the web and came across a site I hadn’t heard of before called 101 Free Tech Books. They have a raffle once a month and give away print tech books (not e-books) to the winners. If you’ve bought a book on programming or computers lately you know that these books can add up in cost pretty quickly. I haven’t won anything yet, so I don’t know how easy it is to snag one of these books, but it seems like a pretty awesome idea and worth giving it a try to get free books! This second site isn’t so much technology related, but I have recently become a fan of a pretty cool deal site called Groupon and thought that some of you might find it interesting. Basically you sign up to get deals in your area, called Groupons (like coupons for a group) and if enough people promise to buy the Groupon the deal is on. I recently got a Groupon for $110 worth of photobooks for only $25 (a technology-ish type deal). Finally and most awesome – if you want to learn more about finding deals and saving money you should checkout my friend Rachel and her awesome Mashup Mom site & her newest book Point, Click, and Save. (Source: What I Learned Today...) Sun, 29 Aug 2010 13:18:52 +0100 867926 http://lis.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/42/3/211?rss=1 (Source: Journal of Librarianship and Information Science current issue) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:59:52 +0100 867400 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/HJm6VNi7iAw/mashed-library-2010-mashspa-uk.html "The sixth Mashed Library event known as MashSpa will be held in Bath, UK, on 29 October 2010. Designed for librarians and technical staff, the one-day event is an opportunity for them to meet, share knowledge and create new mashups. The morning will be given over to a couple of talks while the afternoon will be dedicated to mashing and creating new ideas for your library" The Twitter tag is #mashspa (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:56:47 +0100 865673 http://laurenpressley.com/library/2010/08/the-awesomeness-of-archives-and-mashups/ zomg. You have to click through and look at these pictures. Please come back, though. I’ll wait. Okay, did you see them? Weren’t they awesome?! Seeing these pictures made me think about mashups again. I often talk about mashups in my lib100 classes. They’re a good tool for helping people think about how technology changes things and copyright. I show a few demos and that’s about it. There aren’t many that I’ve found to be useful for teaching my content. But can you imagine how much more meaningful a history class would be if looking at those photos? An architecture class? How would seeing photos like this affect your visit to a country if you saw them before hand? Afterwards? I don’t have much time for a long post on it this Friday afternoon, but stumbling across these photos made me think more about how archives could impact the curriculum, how mashups and technology can make some educational experiences more meaningful and rich, and about how visual learning can impact even those of us who learn more from words. And I thought you all might find it interesting, too. Have a happy weekend! Related posts:your local library-online your local library-online your local library-online (Source: lauren's library blog) Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:41:44 +0100 867758 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BabyBoomerLibrarian/~3/SB2DctXMT-w/idsconf10-oclc-web-services-for.html August 3,2010 -- Tuesday Session #4 (4:10 pm - 5:00 pm) • OCLC Web Services for Developers: WorldCat API, et al. Have you wondered just what a web services is, and what it would mean to use one? Are you thinking of investing effort into building new systems that rely on web services, or enhancing an existing service with API-provided data? OCLC offers a variety of web services such as xISSN, WorldCat Search API, WorldCat Identities, and the WorldCat Registry provide a variety of data which can be used to enhance and improve current library interfaces. This session will provide an overview of the web services offered by OCLC and demonstrate several simple real world applications which use the data from these services in libraries. Examples such a Javascript and PHP code to add journal of table of contents information, peer-reviewed journal designation, links to other libraries in the area with a book, also available ..., and info about this author will be discussed. Karen A. Coombs' Biography Karen A. Coombs is a librarian and geek coder with an interest in mashups, web services, and library web sites and interfaces. Currently she is the Product Manager for the OCLC Developer Network, a community of developers collaborating in a “sandbox” environment in order to propose, discuss and test OCLC Web Services. Prior to joining OCLC, she worked part time as a Web Application Specialist for LISHost and as a library web technology consultant. From 2005 - 2010, Karen served as the Head of Web Services at the University of Houston Libraries. ... Thu, 05 Aug 2010 20:37:00 +0100 864886 http://poesygalore.blogspot.com/2010/07/hurt-wit-chu-3-favorite-new-mashups.html I've posted about mashup artist Pheugoo before (9/07). Here's a new favorite of mine: Johnny Cash covering Nine Inch Nails meets Queens of the Stone Age (the video's a still image; embedding so you can hear the song)You can download the mp3 of "Hurt Wit Chu" free at Pheugoo's site.BRAT Mashups are new to me (and available as free downloads at BRAT Productions Mashup Page). This one, laying the vocal from the Cure's "Just Like Heaven" over the music and backing vocals from the Commodores' "Easy," is brilliant:Finally, here's "Time After Romance"--Lady Gaga/Cyndi Lauper/Three 6 Mafia by mochi beats (free download). It's more of a jolt than the above two at first (I like that in a mashup: when it takes a second for your brain to rearrange itself and be able to simply hear the music as it is, not just how it differs from its source tracks), but on repeated listens, I think the mix really brings out the sweetness of "Bad Romance"--it's a love song, fit for a slow dance: (Source: poesygalore<IMG SRC=http://www.geocities.com/emilylloyd.geo/glore.jpg>) Sat, 31 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 864017 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/textundblog/~3/i0ywRJSqKtk/ Direktlink YouTube Wer «Inception» noch nicht gesehen hat, sollte sich mal diesen Trailer-MashUp von «Inception» und «Up!» anschauen. Großartig. Ich war schon begeistert, als ich vorgestern «Inception» sah. Aber das hier ist auch ganz großes Kino. [via Gizmodo, dort auch in den Kommentaren der Hinweis auf weitere MashUps, etwa Toy Story 3 Inception Mashup] © Markus Trapp for Text & Blog, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: (Source: Text & Blog) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:31:30 +0100 863479 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/16629 Colleagues/ In addition to to my interest in MashUps (and/or Readers) that allow one to Create A Cloud Tag From An RSS Feed > RSS > TagCloud > 4 > CD : WebFeed-Based TagClouds For Collection Development > i-CD [ http://bit.ly/dyLrF5 ] I am also interest in any initiative implementation in which an RSS feed can be used o search an OPAC / WorldCat / Any Database in order to identify relevant items related to the topics of the RSS search results > To further identity publications/information resources /etc. that might support an individual / departmental / institutional Current/Emerging Research Foci , I am interested in using RSS feeds from Dissertations & Theses < at > Iowa State (D&T [At] ISU) for the departments/subjects for which I have formal Collection Development responsibilities ] As A Search Statement For Searching Select Databases >>> Another Scenario >>> Shall We Call This > Citation Searching On Steroids [:-)] Please Post Any/All Recommendations/ Thoughts / Reactions As A (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 863288 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/commissaresse/~3/F3h19w0SWFU/library-mashups Mashups zijn webapplicaties die de inhoud van twee of meer bronnen samenbrengen tot één nieuwe, originele toepassing. Slim gebruikt kunnen ze bibliotheekwebsites en -catalogi meer dynamiek, een grotere zichtbaarheid en betere functionaliteit geven. Populaire mashups maken gebruik van kaarten – denk aan Google Maps – of remixen foto’s, video’s, RSS feeds, enz. In Library mashups laat Nicole C. Engard een schare gerenommeerde early adopters aan het woord. Jenny Levine, Darlene Fichter, Tim Spalding, John Blyberg, Karen A. Coombs, Joshua Ferraro en vele anderen implementeerden voor hun bibliotheken of organisaties jaren geleden al een of meerdere mashups. In hun getuigenissen proberen ze de lezer vooral te overtuigen van het gemak om met mashups aan de slag te gaan. Er vallen grootse dingen te verwezenlijken, ook zonder veel tijd, budget en personeel. Toch is het boek in zijn geheel beschouwd veeleer iets voor de gevorderde: behoorlijk wat bijdragen baden in terminologie en technische details. Na het lezen van dit werk zullen begrippen als API, web service, REST, SOAP, AJAX, microformats, RDF, linked data, JSON, SOPAC en SRU geen geheimen meer hebben. Ook geeft het een heldere kijk op een aantal inspirerende projecten zoals biblios.net Web Services, WorldCat Affiliate Services, The Repository Mashup Map en The LibraryThing API. Let wel, dit is niet iets voor een strandvakantie. De hoofdstukken dienen bij voorkeur geconsumeerd achter een rustig bureau met een computer erop. Door de vele schermafbeeldingen en kopieerklare codefragmenten die in het boek te vinden zijn, leent het zich bij uitstek tot onmiddellijk uitproberen. Zo overtuigt het onder meer om meteen met de mashup editor Yahoo! Pipes aan de slag te gaan. Voor de creatie van mashups geldt immers dat men al doende leert. Uiteraard bestaan mashups enkel bij de gratie van sites die hun data publiek beschikbaar stellen. ... Wed, 28 Jul 2010 11:07:00 +0100 865322 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/16626 Colleagues/ I am greatly interested in learning of any/all past/present/future initiatives in which an Abstracts/Indexes search results webfeed (RSS; Atom; Etc.) is Mashed into aTagCloud that displays the frequency of terms from the citation and abstracts for the RSS results. I currently subscribe to a variety of altering services and wish to go Beyond The Linear Review of entries in order to expedite the identification of potential candidates for further consideration. My current interest is to use the mashup to visualize RSS search updates from Dissertations & Theses < at > Iowa State University in order to keep abreast of the current and emerging research for departments which I have assigned responsibility to inform my Collection Development activities. BTW: Believe It Or Not I Do Have A Real Job And Do Real (And Virtual) Work [(:-)]: “I currently have primary responsibilities for Collection Development, Instruction, and Reference and Research Services in Chemical and Biological Engineering; (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 862800 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/16627 Colleagues/ I am greatly interested in learning of any/all past/present/future initiatives in which an Abstracts/Indexes search results webfeed (RSS; Atom; Etc.) is Mashed into aTagCloud that displays the frequency of terms from the citation and abstracts for the RSS results. I currently subscribe to a variety of altering services and wish to go Beyond The Linear Review of entries in order to expedite the identification of potential candidates for further consideration. My current interest is to use the mashup to visualize RSS search updates from Dissertations & Theses < at > Iowa State University in order to keep abreast of the current and emerging research for departments which I have assigned responsibility to inform my Collection Development activities. BTW: Believe It Or Not I Do Have A Real Job And Do Real (And Virtual) Work [(:-)]: “I currently have primary responsibilities for Collection Development, Instruction, and Reference and Research Services in Chemical and Biological Engineering; C (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 862799 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/Quick-and-nimble-mashups-68490.aspx JackBe announces new offering (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Content Management) Mon, 26 Jul 2010 12:00:00 +0100 862342 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/griffey/~3/FaRSDvjY788/ I am very pleased to finally be able to announce that the Library at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is scheduled to be the first live implementation of a product that has been talked about for years: a web-based, collaborative, modern library system that does away with silos of data. We are implementing the OCLC Web Scale Management library system even as I type, and will be going live with the system for circulation on August 20, 2010, and with circulation, cataloging, and acquisitions on August 30, 2010. A wiki page documenting the process, working groups, and more is available, and will continue to be updated as the process continues. I could talk for a long time about how excited I am about the possibilities of this system…and probably will for the next few months at least. I’ve been pursuing Andrew Pace about this product for what feels like years now, and after seeing it and understanding what may come as a result of this…well, I can’t wait. This is a major shift in the library world, and it’s one where I think the repercussions will take years to really be felt. The simple time-saving that will be immediately felt for libraries in their processes are enormous…the workflow necessary to get something from order to shelf is so straightforward and fast that I feel strongly that we’ll save several person-years of staff time in short order. In addition, there is a shared-plugin architecture for the staff-side that combines with the open API calls that give incredible access for mashups of data that directly interact with the system. One example that I’ve seen is a plugin that combines the New York Times bestseller API with the acquisitions module in Web Scale to allow for single-click ordering from a list of bestsellers that is a live call from the NYT. Going the other direction, the architecture allows you to pull your own data out and impose it on other pages. ... Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:03:23 +0100 859979 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=Literacy_News_-_Blog_Archive_-_Information_literacy_meets_library_--- Information literacy meets library 2.0: library mashups. Library mashups, exploring new ways to deliver library data, is a presentation by Nicole Eng (Source: pligg - all) Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:00:32 +0100 859381 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/07/13/university-of-southamptons-school-of-electronics-and-computer-science-releases-all-public-data-in-open-linked-data-format/ The University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science has released all of its public data in an open linked data format. Here's an excerpt from the press release: In what is believed also to be a world-first, ECS has become the UK’s first University department to release all its public data in open linked data format. The School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton is at the forefront of the open linked data initiative through the work of its Professors Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt. Now, in accordance with the spirit of the initiative, ECS has released all its own data for public reuse. This includes data about research papers in the EPrints archive (announced this in the official global rankings as one of the top ten in the world), people in the School, research groups, teaching modules, seminars and events, buildings and rooms. All public (RDF) data from rdf.ecs.soton.ac.uk and eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk is now available and can be reused for any legal purpose, including derivative works and commercial use. The School has opted for a creative commons public domain (CC0) license to allow the data to be reused. Christopher Gutteridge, ECS Web Projects Manager, comments: "We believe that in the future this will become common practice for certain types of open data, and it is our responsibility to lead the way in setting the standards of best practice." "We have decided not to make attribution of our data a legal requirement, as this makes it difficult to create large scale mashups." "So, rather than "MUST attribute", our policy is 'please attribute'. Obviously an attribution would be nice, but we don't want to restrict innovation by requiring it under all circumstances. ... Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 859943 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/JrF0Uo8mM2A/ The University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science has released all of its public data in an open linked data format. Here's an excerpt from the press release: In what is believed also to be a world-first, ECS has become the UK’s first University department to release all its public data in open linked data format. The School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton is at the forefront of the open linked data initiative through the work of its Professors Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt. Now, in accordance with the spirit of the initiative, ECS has released all its own data for public reuse. This includes data about research papers in the EPrints archive (announced this in the official global rankings as one of the top ten in the world), people in the School, research groups, teaching modules, seminars and events, buildings and rooms. All public (RDF) data from rdf.ecs.soton.ac.uk and eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk is now available and can be reused for any legal purpose, including derivative works and commercial use. The School has opted for a creative commons public domain (CC0) license to allow the data to be reused. Christopher Gutteridge, ECS Web Projects Manager, comments: "We believe that in the future this will become common practice for certain types of open data, and it is our responsibility to lead the way in setting the standards of best practice." "We have decided not to make attribution of our data a legal requirement, as this makes it difficult to create large scale mashups." "So, rather than "MUST attribute", our policy is 'please attribute'. Obviously an attribution would be nice, but we don't want to restrict innovation by requiring it under all circumstances. ... Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:03:21 +0100 859722 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/07/13/university-of-southamptons-school-of-electronics-and-computer-science-releases-all-public-data-in-open-linked-data-format/ The University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science has released all of its public data in an open linked data format. Here's an excerpt from the press release: In what is believed also to be a world-first, ECS has become the UK’s first University department to release all its public data in open linked data format. The School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton is at the forefront of the open linked data initiative through the work of its Professors Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt. Now, in accordance with the spirit of the initiative, ECS has released all its own data for public reuse. This includes data about research papers in the EPrints archive (announced this in the official global rankings as one of the top ten in the world), people in the School, research groups, teaching modules, seminars and events, buildings and rooms. All public (RDF) data from rdf.ecs.soton.ac.uk and eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk is now available and can be reused for any legal purpose, including derivative works and commercial use. The School has opted for a creative commons public domain (CC0) license to allow the data to be reused. Christopher Gutteridge, ECS Web Projects Manager, comments: "We believe that in the future this will become common practice for certain types of open data, and it is our responsibility to lead the way in setting the standards of best practice." "We have decided not to make attribution of our data a legal requirement, as this makes it difficult to create large scale mashups." "So, rather than "MUST attribute", our policy is 'please attribute'. Obviously an attribution would be nice, but we don't want to restrict innovation by requiring it under all circumstances. ... Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:03:05 +0100 860510 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/12/a-new-report-from-mcafee-labs-social-networking-apps-pose-surprising-security-challenges/ 3 Paragraphs from the Report: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and LinkedIn—oh my! If we’re not using these services ourselves or hearing about them in the media, our friends, colleagues, and children remind us each day of their existence. Although Web 2.0 may be a buzzword we all love to hate, media-rich web applications that allow information sharing among users are here to stay and growing in popularity. An article written in October 2009 (so it’s clearly out of date) on the size of Facebook’s data center states Facebook stores approximately 80 billion photos and serves up approximately 600,000 photos per second—making it the largest photo archive in the world.1 Social networking web applications such as Facebook are a big deal. As social networking gains users, it will increasingly be targeted by attackers, just as instant messaging and other media have been. For an interesting view on how platform prevalence draws attackers like bees to pollen, see the IEEE article “When Malware Attacks (Anything but Windows).” One popular technology ripe for exploitation in social network applications is the “mashup.” (Wikipedia: “A mashup is a web page or application that uses or combines data or functionality from two or many more external sources to create a new service.”) From the perspective of an application provider such as Google, mashups allow their applications—for example, Google Maps—to become more widely used and embedded within other new applications, like Yelp or the iPhone operating system. However, as we’ll soon see, attackers have also been using mashups to their advantage. Summary (via McAfee Research Blog) Access Full Text Report/White Paper: Social Networking Apps Pose Surprising Security Challenges (6 pages; PDF) Source: McAfee Labs (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:11:08 +0100 858978 http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/2010/07/library-mashup-slideshare-presentation.html (Found via here). Having previously discussed Nicole Engard's book Library Mashups : Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data, I noted she has a slideshare on the subject of the book here. Interesting too. (Source: librarytwopointzero) Mon, 12 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 859828 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=Information_Literacy_meets_Library_2-0_Library_Mashups Library mashups, exploring new ways to deliver library data, is a presentation by Nicole Engard, who also wrote Library Mashups Exploring new ways to (Source: pligg - all) Sun, 11 Jul 2010 07:00:26 +0100 858571 http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jul/09/007-daniel-craig-sam-mendes Daniel Craig and Sam Mendes are optimistic that the 23rd Bond movie will eventually be made despite MGM's financial problemsReports of the death of the 23rd James Bond film, set to be directed by Sam Mendes with Daniel Craig reprising his role as 007, may have been greatly exaggerated.Speculation ranged far and wide in April that plans for the next instalment of the famous franchise had been all but abandoned due to ongoing financial problems at the MGM studio. However, the Deadline blog reported yesterday that both Mendes and Craig still have high hopes that the film will see the light of day.It does not exactly sound as if the start of production is imminent, however. "Development will resume once MGM is viable again," a source close to the series told Deadline. "So all bets are off. No idea when this will get resolved."Deadline further reports that MGM's main concern right now is getting its two Hobbit films into production for 2012, a date which must not be breached if Peter Jackson is to be persuaded to direct. Only then will the studio turn its attention to Bond. The blog suggests that MGM may resolve its financial crisis by partnering with other, more profitable Hollywood companies such as Summit, which makes the Twilight series. In such a scenario, Bond would be back on track by the early autumn.With the studio currently having no need of Mendes and Craig's services, the two men have taken on other projects while they await the return of Bond. Craig has the David Fincher-directed remake of 2009 Swedish film The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo lined up, along with a role in the sci-fi/western mashup Cowboys and Aliens. Mendes is focusing on a big-screen adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel On Chesil Beach, while considering plans for a stage musical version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.James BondDaniel CraigIan FlemingSam MendesAction and adventureBen Childguardian.co. ... Fri, 09 Jul 2010 09:52:50 +0100 858133 http://www.frbr.org/2010/07/09/last-week-in-frbr-28 Have you been trying RDA Online? Test accounts for RDA Online were set up and log information sent around a couple of weeks ago. Have you tried it? The offer is open until the end of August. I had a short look, but I’ll go back for a longer look and post about it. I didn’t try doing anything with workflows, which is the most important part of it all. Summers, Libraries and Linked Data: Confessions of a Graph Addict Ed Summers (who works at the Library of Congress in the United States) gave a talk on 24 June 2010 at a preconference session on linked data before the American Library Association conference: Libraries and Linked Data: Confessions of a Graph Addict. I don’t know what he said, but Summers used something I posted here in 2007 about Copernicus’s De revolutionibus in part. Glad it was useful! Murray and Tillett, From Moby-Dick To Mashups: Thinking About Bibliographic Networks Four days later, on 28 June (and you’ll see this mentioned in the previous slides), Ronald J. Murray and Barbara Tillett (both also at the Library of Congress) were talking at the ALA convention proper: From Moby-Dick to Mashups: Thinking About Bibliographic Networks (25.3 MB PDF). Summary: Traditional and contemporary attempts to identify and describe simple and complex bibliographic resources have overlooked useful and powerful possibilities, due to the insufficient modeling of “bibliographic things of interest.” The presentation will introduce a resource description approach that remodels and strengthens FRBR by borrowing key concepts from Information Science and the History of Science. The presentation will reveal portions of a network of bibliographic (and other useful) relationships between printings of Melville?s novel dating from 1851-1975 into the present. ... Fri, 09 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 858383 http://www.libology.com/blog/2010/07/07/map-of-woes.html The Losing Libraries blog has a mashup available that shows a map detailing libraries currently suffering fiscal troubles: The Big (Awful) Picture Libraries are labeled for staff layoffs/furloughs, branch closures, reduced hours and more.  It is a sobering visual representation of the scope of the problems facing communities. And there will be even more markers as time goes on… that is the worst part. Thanks to Petter Naess for posting this to Web4lib (Source: LibrarySupportStaff.Org) Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:39:35 +0100 859294 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/16523 I believe I recently (past 10 days) saw a Google Maps mashup showing public library closings across the U.S., but now I can't find it. Ring a bell with anyone? I'm aware of the A Nation Without School Librarians mashup, but I thought I'd seen something comparable for public libraries. Thanks in advance for any advice. Petter Næss Information Resource Director American Embassy Office of Public Affairs Henrik Ibsens gate 48 0244 Oslo, Norway 47 21308802 fax 47 22440436 naessp-ZM7Pm/iYlqnyG1zEObXtfA< at >public.gmane.org <mailto:naessp-ZM7Pm/iYlqnyG1zEObXtfA< at >public.gmane.org> <mailto:naessp-ZM7Pm/iYlqnyG1zEObXtfA< at >public.gmane.org <mailto:naessp-ZM7Pm/iYlqnyG1zEObXtfA< at >public.gmane.org> > http://norway.usembassy.gov <http://norway.usembassy.gov/> Don't forget, ESTA <blocked::http://norway.usembassy.gov/aug_01_2008.html> went into effect January 12, 2009 This email is UNCLASSIFIED. (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Wed, 07 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 857974 http://bonariabiancu.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/nasce-jlis-it-rivista-italiana-di-lis-peer-reviewed-e-open-access/ E’ online il primo, attesissimo numero della nuova rivista di biblioteconomia e information science, JLis.it: e-journal italiano peer reviewed e completamente open access. Il first issue si compone di diversi, interessanti articoli (immeritatamente ce n’è anche uno mio: I mashup e le biblioteche: le tecnologie dietro le quinte, ovvero la versione italiana del capitolo sulle tecnologie alla base dei mashup pubblicato nel volume Library Mashups). JLis.it è il risultato del lavoro, della creatività e del grande impegno sull’Open Access in primis di Mauro Guerrini, presidente AIB, e dei suoi valenti collaboratori, nonché del CILEA, che ha realizzato l’infrastruttura tecnologica, usando peraltro la piattaforma per e-journal OJS, prodotto open source per la gestione delle riviste elettroniche sempre più diffuso a livello internazionale e soprattutto per le riviste OA. JLis.it , pubblicato dall’Università di Firenze, Dipartimento di studi sul Medioevo e Rinascimento, pur appena nato, ha già ricevuto un importante riconoscimento: il “marchio” di SPARC Europe. Come evidenzia una news sul sito: Novità: JLis.it ottiene il sigillo di SPARC Europe per l’accesso aperto Il “sigillo” segna il rispetto di alcune condizioni importanti per l’editoria ad accesso aperto: la scelta di una licenza CC-BY, la fornitura al repertorio DOAJ dei metadati degli articoli pubblicati Per la redazione è un primo segnale positivo a conferma della validità della strada intrapresa. Sulla pagina delle Info, tutte le informazioni sulla policy Open Access, sul processo editoriale e sul profilo scientifico della rivista. Reputo la nascita di JLis. ... Sun, 27 Jun 2010 17:20:13 +0100 856715 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NetbibWeblog/~3/xd0OP0W9vaM/ Das Library Journal meldet: In an effort to map and chronicle the full range of cuts, closings, and diminished library services nationally, Library Journal, in partnership with Mandy Knapp and Laura Solomon (contributing author and web designer of SaveOhioLibraries.com, has launched LosingLibraries.org. Interessante Umsetzung! (Source: netbib weblog) Sat, 26 Jun 2010 18:19:05 +0100 855075 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2010/06/25/june-25th-stream.html @JustinLibrarian #ala10 #twitter stickers for badges are at registration and the networking uncommons. or flag me down-I carry a few with me [shifted] @JustinLibrarian w00t! I’ll be there for EL poster session at 3pm in room 201 of wcc. can’t wait to see JBots in action! u all rock! #ala10 [shifted] Posted JustinLibrarian: @shifted @mstephens7 Sunday 1pm at on-site registration..JBots group photo! #ala10 #el10ala. @stray it’s like lord of the flies to get the hello kitty totebag.… [shifted] we’re set up for the #ala10 Open Gaming Night in the Renaissance Ballroom @ the Renaissance WA hotel. 2 floors down is the fun! #ala10gaming [shifted] Posted ablalibrarian: #ala10 must get twitter ID for my badge–I saw someone with one on, what a great idea. Posted lenalibrarian: I am now headed to gaming event at Ren hotel across the way #ala10 sweet awesome. Posted misskubelik: great first day at #ala10, freebies in the exhibits, super precon thanks to @wsstephens, tons of #yalsa fun tomorrow. MY PEOPLE! #ala10. Posted BugRabbit: He met his wife by creating a mashup between librarything and the match.com / #ala10 #themostinterestinglibrarianintheworld. Posted BugRabbit: She climbed mt everest with an iphone. just to test the signal strength / #ala10 #themostinterestinglibrarianintheworld. Posted wanderingeyre: #ala10 day 1 = awesome. i love being a librarian. Posted CanuckLibrarian: Gee, @pnkrcklibrarian’s twitpics make #ala10 look fun. I’ve never been to a full blown ALA (Only a midwinter once).. Posted wittsalley: @feistylibrarian I wish that I were at #ALA10, too. I’ve never been, but from what my librarian friends tell me, it’s a great conference.. Share: No tags for this post. ... Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:57:48 +0100 855204 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jun/26/restless-cities-beaumont-dart-review PD Smith enjoys a stroll through the ever-changing spaces of urban lifeMarco Polo, the narrator of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, does not attempt to describe the city of Zaira by simply listing the number of steps in its streets that rise like stairways, or the precise type of zinc tiles used on its roofs. He knows that mere facts alone are not sufficient. For Zaira, like all great cities, consists of "relationships between the measurements of its space and the events of its past". Monuments, city squares, even street names are dense with memories and recollections: the city is a place of living history, a mashup of past and present.Like Calvino's lyrical novel, this evocative collection of "city symphonies" attempts to go beyond facticity in order to capture the intangible essence of city life. It is a bold and admirable ambition, and generally these riffs on the urban everyday rise to the occasion. Highlights include Kasia Boddy on the history of attempts to green the city by growing pot plants on window sills, Michael Newton on the lodger – a "new urban character" in 20th-century film and fiction – and Geoff Dyer's delightful account of his love for familiar urban places and routes: "wherever we live we are always compelled to repeat the same thing over and over". Each writer contributes a piece to the jigsaw that is daily life in the modern city – a seemingly mundane subject, yet one that is shot through with the miraculous, like Ben Wilson's gemlike acrylic paintings on discarded chewing gum stamped into the pavement, described in Esther Leslie's piece on "Recycling".The editors describe the attempt to define urban life as akin to diagnosing some pervasive malady or "a state of delirium so habitual as to be almost unnoticeable". ... Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:05:17 +0100 854934 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/QkskExvmP4E/ Not strictly ebook related, but this is so unbelievably cool that I just had to bring it to your attention. From Resource Shelf: Here’s one of the cooler (and practical) mashups we’ve seen in a long time. While there are several services that map where an aircraft is located at any given moment in time (with a brief delay), here’s an example of the same type of thing for public transport in London, UK. Many public transit services around the world offer near real-time bus and train info with text, this new service shows users precisely where a train is (using a Google map) in the London Underground system at at any given moment in time (”approximate” real-time) and then next station info and time with text. Additionally, users can see the trains move from station to station. Clicking on any red “pin” (representing at train) will tell user: + The Line the Train is Operating On + The Name of the Station Where the Train Last Departed + The Name of the Station Where the Train is Scheduled to Arrive (along with a Time, ie. 2.5 minutes) + Clicking on a Yellow Pin Shows the Name of the Station. Along the right side of the page, you’ll learn more about the service including a link to the where the data is coming from, the TFL (Transport for London) API. You’ll also read about a couple of plans for the future. Kudos to the developers and another superb example of what developers can build with access to open data. Access the Map/Database Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:50:52 +0100 854831 http://dltj.org/article/thinking-about-bibliographic-networks/ Ron Murray and Barbara Tillett, both from the Library of Congress, are presenting their research in thinking about bibliographic information as networks of interrelated nodes at ALA Annual. This is a continuation of their “paper tool” work which was presented at the Library of Congress last year.The title of the presentation is From “Moby-Dick” To “Mash-Ups:” Thinking About Bibliographic Networks. The presentation will be Monday, June 28, 2010 at 8:05 a.m. in the Hyatt Regency Washington on Capitol Hill, Yorktown/Valley Forge Rooms. The presentation is scheduled to go for 75 minutes.Presentation Summary: Traditional and contemporary attempts to identify and describe simple and complex bibliographic resources have overlooked useful and powerful possibilities, due to the insufficient modeling of “bibliographic things of interest.” The presentation will introduce a resource description approach that remodels and strengthens FRBR by borrowing key concepts from Information Science and the History of Science. The presentation will reveal portions of a network of bibliographic (and other useful) relationships between printings of Melville’s novel dating from 1851-1975 into the present. In addition, structural similarities between the print publication network and the multimedia “mash-ups” seen on YouTube and other websites will be demonstrated and discussed.Post from: Disruptive Library Technology JesterFrom “Moby-Dick” To “Mash-Ups:” Thinking About Bibliographic Networks at ALA Annual 2010 (Source: Disruptive Library Technology Jester) Fri, 25 Jun 2010 02:18:41 +0100 856158 http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/2010/06/new-library-mashup-website-released.html (Found via twitter). Owen Stephens has set up a website for UK mash ups here. Includes an upcoming events page, how to organise your own event, Ingredients, Techniques, Recipes,Menu suggestions and Projects. (Source: librarytwopointzero) Wed, 23 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0100 854523 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/06/21/new-resource-uk-real-time-information-a-live-map-of-london-underground-aka-the-tube/ Here’s of the cooler (and practical)mashups we’ve seen in a long time. While there are several services that map where an aircraft is located at any given moment in time (with a brief delay), here’s an example of the same type of thing for public transport in London, UK. Many public transit services around the world offer near real-time bus and train info with text, this new service shows users precisely where a train is (using a Google map) in the London Underground system at at any given moment in time (”approximate” real-time) and then next station info and time with text. Additionally, users can see the trains move from station to station. Clicking on any red “pin” (representing at train) will tell user: + The Line the Train is Operating On + The Name of the Station Where the Train Last Departed + The Name of the Station Where the Train is Scheduled to Arrive (along with a Time, ie. 2.5 minutes) + Clicking on a Yellow Pin Shows the Name of the Station. Along the right side of the page, you’ll learn more about the service including a link to the where the data is coming from, the TFL (Transport for London) API. You’ll also read about a couple of plans for the future. Kudos to the developers and another superb example of what developers can build with access to open data. Access the Map/Database Source: Hacker News (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:39:05 +0100 853862 http://freegovinfo.info/node/3019 Data.gov's next big thing: Mashing up federal stats with maps, By Aliya Sternstein, NextGov (06/18/2010). Within the next month, data.gov will offer the public a chance to preview a so-called viewer that will let them combine many of the 270,000 data sets posted on Data.gov with maps. (Source: Free Government Information (FGI) blogs) Mon, 21 Jun 2010 14:01:24 +0100 853818 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=Library_Mashings_custom_search_-_Library_2-0 In the UK we have held a series of events called 'Mashed Libraries'. This covers the area of data mashups in a library service/information profession (Source: pligg - all) Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:00:25 +0100 853717 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/06/19/new-zip-code-maps-mashup/ Access the Database From Programmable Web: Have you ever noticed how little sense the placement of zip codes make? Sequential zones are an entire city apart. Sometimes there are even zip codes wholly contained within other zip codes. It takes a visual zip code map to make sense of it. Huge.info has just such a map using an interactive Google Map and custom overlay images. Type in a zip code and you’ll go right to it, with surrounding zip codes shown. Or, type in an address and find out its code. Actually, since it uses the Google geocoder, you can include anything you’d be able to search in Google Maps proper, including business listings and landmarks. In case you’re wondering, Yellowstone National Park’s zip code 82190. The site uses custom tiles, which it puts over the map partially opaque, so you can see the Google imagery (streets, parks, etc.) below. There are different tiles for every zoom level, so it’s quite an undertaking. One could potentially create zip code boundaries with map polylines, but it would slow down with more than a couple shapes on the map. In case you want to take this feature mobile, there’s also Android app to find your zip code using your current location. Source: Programmable Web (Quickly Becoming an Essential Resource) (Source: ResourceShelf) Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:09:20 +0100 853436 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15160 Applications Analyst, Analyst IT (Duke University, North Carolina) The Center for Instructional Technology (cit.duke.edu) in the Duke University Libraries is currently recruiting for an Applications Analyst to be responsible for various functional and technical operations, support, and development of Duke’s Learning Management System (LMS) and also assists with other CIT technical needs. S/He is a member of the Center for Instructional Technology’s staff and reports to the CIT Head of Applications. Salary dependent on qualifications and experience. Comprehensive benefits package. Required qualifications: BA/BS; or an equivalent combination of relevant education and/or experience. ... Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:50:03 +0100 853089 http://freegovinfo.info/node/3018 Here's a nice little mashup from Forbes. They created an interactive map visualizing migration data into and out of US counties based on 2008 IRS data*. The black lines represent people moving to a certain place, the red lines are people moving out. TONS of people moving to SF (where I live). No wonder I have to stand in line so long for my strawberry balsamic ice cream fix from BiRite Creamery! *I went looking for said IRS migration data and found that: The County-to-County Migration Data are updated annually and available for purchase as follows: * $200 per year for the entire United States * $10 per year per State * $500 for the entire United States for all years It's unfortunate to say the least that IRS feels the need to charge for access to public domain data that the public has already paid for once already. Has anyone come across other data sets like this? please leave us a comment. [Thanks BoingBoing!] (Source: Free Government Information (FGI) blogs) Wed, 16 Jun 2010 17:01:43 +0100 852678 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/06/13/mashup-search-google-buzz-posts/ Here’s a brand new mashup that allows you to keyword search only Google Buzz items from the past day or week. Access the Database: http://etaitavor.com/index.php?option=com_trendsearch&Itemid=11 Etai Tavor is the developer. Source: Programmable Web (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 13 Jun 2010 16:52:17 +0100 851934 http://acrlog.org/2010/06/12/a-full-day-of-information-literacy/ Last week I went to the ACRL New England chapter’s Library Instruction Group (NELIG) annual program Meeting Digital Natives Where They Are: New Standards for the New Student. This was my first conference entirely devoted to library instruction, and it was great to have the opportunity to think and talk about information literacy all day. The morning started off with keynote speaker John Palfrey, Vice Dean for Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law School and author (with Urs Gasser) of Born Digital. The book reports on the results of their interviews, focus groups and surveys with the oft-discussed millennial generation, exploring the way these kids relate to information, one another and institutions. I won’t recap the book (or transcribe the piles of notes I took), but here are a couple of takeaways I found most relevant for academic libraries: Credibility is a huge issue for us adults: we fear that kids are highly susceptible to misinformation on the internet. But Palfrey’s research found that most kids don’t use information from Wikipedia verbatim or uncritically. Most use it to get an overview of a topic, and then head to the references at the bottom of the page to find more information. I use Wikipedia like this all the time in my teaching so I found this to be quite encouraging. The digital generation has an incomplete understanding of intellectual property. It’s true that many of them do download and share music illegally (and they realize that it’s illegal). But they don’t know that there are legal ways to use copyrighted materials–fair use–so they hesitate to use them to remix or mashup content. This is a great opportunity for librarians to help students learn about ethical use of information. I haven’t read the book yet, but after seeing Palfrey speak I’ve added it to my summer reading list. ... Sat, 12 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0100 851661 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/EnIu6ihxdNs/3908 I’ll be giving two talks at ALA this year – my very first ALA Annual conference! The first is a preconference where I’ll be teaching librarians about mashups: Friday, June 25, 1:00 – 4:30 p.m. Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data Madison Hotel (1177 15th St. NW) Montpelier Room The second (on my birthday) is a panel discussion: Sunday, June 27, 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Smart technologies for tough economic times: using innovative technologies to enhance Service, extend Your Library’s Reach, and Not break the budget RUSA – MARS Washington Convention Center-Ballroom B With: Chad Boeninger and Diane Kresh Hope to see some of you there! Technorati Tags: ala2010 (Source: What I Learned Today...) Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:56:43 +0100 851209 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/06/09/department-of-energy-releases-collection-of-gulf-coast-oil-spill-data/ A large amount of data from the Department of Energy about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was made available online today. Here’s a look at some of what was made available: + Well Configuration (.pdf) - showing the depths and sizes of the different casings installed during the well’s construction. + Key Events Timeline (.ppt) - This document lists key events beginning with the April 20 fire on the Deepwater Horizon through June 4. BOP Stack Details This page provides information about a number of the key components of the system: the Blow Out Preventer, the Lower Marine Riser Package, and the associated piping which is located above the wellhead on the sea floor. + Blow Out Preventer Drawing (.pdf) - This file is an engineering drawing of the Blow Out Preventer with the key components labeled. + Pressure Data Within BOP (.xls) - This file describes the components within the BOP and the pressure readings taken during diagnostic operations on May 25. And Much More. Source: U.S. Department of Energy See Also: More Oil Spill Resources 1) Recently Released CRS Report: “Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Selected Issues for Congress” 2) More BP Oil Spill (Deepwater Horizon) Resources: Maps and Mashups 3) Live Video Stream: Underwater Oil Spill Webcam 4) Resource of the Week: Hub — Disaster in the Gulf (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 09 Jun 2010 23:03:59 +0100 851021 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/smwm/~3/HZUPc9pu0V4/digicmb YouTube - commana's Channel I subscribed to commana's channel on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/user/commana?feature=autoshare Library Mashups : Links Library Mashups : Updated Links by chapter http://bit.ly/bt2Mfw or use http://bit.ly/b8TmEg #li librarymashups's Bookmarks on Delicious Library Mashups : Updated Links by chapter http://bit.ly/bt2Mfw or use http://bit.ly/b8TmEg #li YouTube - leelefever's Channel I subscribed to leelefever's channel on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/user/leelefever?feature=autoshare foursquare :: Bakker Bart :: Groningen, Nederland I'm at Bakker Bart (Groningen). http://4sq.com/cQyrvh Derfor sluttet jeg å notere på papir, og ble en digital student, pluss en del selvskryt « Ida Aalens blogg RT @idaaa: So I stopped with paper, and am a digital student: slides & video from my presentation at #emtacl10 http://bit.ly/digitalstudent Netvibes Launches iPad-Friendly Custom Feed Reader I prefer a more STABLE & faster Netviibes RT @dhilipsiva: #TechNews Netvibes Launches iPad-Friendly Custom Feed Reader http://bit.ly/95or9D Comparison of e-book readers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Comparison of e-book readers http://bit.ly/6s4KX6 Open Science, Open Access, Science2.0 : de nouvelles modalités pour la communication scientifique #slideshare Open Science, Open Access, Science2.0 : de nouvelles modalités pour la commun St... http://bit.ly/92Yc7K RT @net_fjcapeletto Repository maps Repository66.org Repository Maps http://maps.repository66.org/ There are 21,593,147 items held in the 1576 repositories on this map. DigiCMB: Summon & PubMed : an update Summon & PubMed : an update: " In a recent demo of Summon at the University of Groningen Library we tested some ... http://bit.ly/bOvGcV Ranking Web of World Repositories: Top 400 Institutional Repositories Dissertations of the University of Groningen no. ... Wed, 09 Jun 2010 08:40:02 +0100 850803 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/06/06/more-bp-oil-spill-resources-maps-and-mashups/ 1) Visualizing the BP Oil Disaster An explosion on the BP-operated Deepwater Horizon oil rig on April 20, 2010 sparked the greatest environmental disaster in United States history. This mashup visualizes the area that would be covered if the oil spill was in your city, or any other city. 2) Oilaholic Get Gulf oil spill updates and oil spill clean up news, see oil spill photos, watch oil spill videos, chat about oil spills and more at Oilaholic.com Includes live video stream of oil gushing for pipe from 5000K underwater. It’s video that should be seen by everyone. 3) Visualizing Oil Rig Location (with streaming video) via Google Earth 4) Gulf Oil Spill Video Archived footage from a second underwater camera and more material from people on beaches. See Also: Additional Resources Including Links to Official Twitter stream and Facebook Page Source: Programmable Web (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:40:19 +0100 850099 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/06/04/twitter-gets-mashed-up-400-times-on-programmable-web/ If you’ve never visited Programmable Web, it’s a site you might want to stop by to find some cool mashups (they have over 4800 listed in their directory) and then go try a few out and if you find some useful or just plain cool, share them with others. If you or some colleagues or friends are the “techie” type they likely already know about Programmable Web but if they don’t this site is also for them because it’s home to more than 2,000 API’s (Application Programming Interface) that are needed to develop mashups. API’s can also be used to take an “off the shelf product” and add some customization to the interface and things like the the way results are presented. Today, we want to let you know (please share this with your friends and colleagues who are in love with Twitter) that Programmable Web now has more than 400 Twitter mashups listed in their directory. This post has more info on what seems to be a never ending stream. In the last two weeks, it [Twitter] accounts for more than a quarter of all mashups added to the directory. Twitter also holds the distinction of being the only API to take the top slot from Google Maps in our “last 14 days” pie chart.. The number of mashups has doubled in less than a year, since we announced 200 Twitter mashups [on June 26, 2009]. So go forward and have a look around this directory and as we said a moment ago, make sure all of your friends and colleagues know about it. It also might make for a good story for your library blog or newsletter. If promoted to the right audience, it would also could make for a great presentation where various staff members who tweet share their favorite mashups and then leave some time for those in attendance to share their favorites. For those new to Twitter and/or social networking in general a presentation like this might also get some loud oohs and ahhs from those in attendance. ... Sat, 05 Jun 2010 05:51:31 +0100 849885 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jun/05/privileges-jonathan-dee DD Gutenplan weighs up an American hit about money and classAdam Morey is exactly the kind of guy who would be in a novel like this: not just an investment banker at a time when Wall Street's woes have made the machinations of money men of general interest, but a hero who, confronted with the chance to make a quicker fortune through insider trading, leaps the barriers of conventional morality with a single bound. For connoisseurs of banker lit the settings may be a tad predictable, but the details are sharply drawn.And while Adam himself is a little fuzzy around the edges – I know we Americans pride ourselves on our supposed social mobility, but the sons of union pipefitters don't generally grow up to be uber preppies, regardless of how much charm they can muster at after-work drinking sessions – the other characters are more convincing, especially Cynthia, an East Coast upper-class desperate housewife, who married Adam when they were both in their early twenties because "he makes me laugh and he makes me come", only to find herself driven to distraction (and psychotherapy) by the relentless banality of stay-at-home parenthood.Jonathan Dee's four previous novels were hailed for their combination of mordant moral vision and ironic dissection of our self-deceptions about race and victimhood (St Famous), art and advertising (Palladio), guilt and forgiveness (The Liberty Campaign) and the strains connecting the personal to the political (The Lover of History). The Privileges, which comes garlanded with laudatory quotes from Richard Ford and Jonathan Franzen, is supposed to be Dee's big breakthrough book. And indeed the novel's bravura first chapter, a cinematic montage of Adam and Cynthia's wedding, is as full of promise as a freshly caught bouquet: "Then the bride walks in, ahead of her own entourage like a prizefighter, in the dress, the makeup, the veil and gloves, the full regalia. Masha and Ruth together make a gasping sound . . . ... Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:05:58 +0100 849709 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eclecticlibrarian/~3/zasfi3PCYcU/ Presenter: Eric Miller, Zepheira, LCC Nowadays, we understand what the web is and the impact it has had on information sharing, but before it was developed, it was in a “vague but exciting” stage and few understood it. When we got started with the web, we really didn’t know what we were doing, but more importantly, the web was being developed so that it was flexible enough for smarter and more creative people to do amazing things. “What did your website look like when you were in the fourth grade?” Kids are growing up with the web and it’s hard for them to comprehend life without it. [Dang, I'm old.] This talk will be about linked data, its legacy, and how libraries can lead linked data. We have a huge opportunity to weave libraries into the fabric of libraries, and vice versa. About five years ago, the BBC started making their content available in a service that allowed others to use and remix the delivery of the content in new ways. Rather than developing alternative platforms and creating new spaces, they focus on generating good content and letting someone else frame it. Other sources like NPR, the World Bank, and Data.gov are doing the same sorts of things. Within the library community, these things are happening, as well. OCLC’s APIs are getting easier to use, and several national libraries are putting their OPACs on the web with APIs. Obama’s open government initiative is another one of those “vague but exciting” things, and it charged agencies to come up with their own methods of making their content available via the web. Agencies are now struggling with the same issues and desires that libraries have been tackling for years. We need to recognize our potential role in moving this forward. Linked data is a best practice for sharing data, connecting data, and uses the semantic web. ... Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:59:13 +0100 851058 http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2010/06/oclc-application-gallery.html OCLC has announced that twelve new apps have been added to OCLC Application gallery.Members of the OCLC Developer Network and participants at WorldCat Mashathons have created these apps and mash-ups.Getting It System Toolkit (GIST) for Gifts and Weed ManagerNew York Times BestSellers mashup with WorldCatFuwatto WorldCat SearchPowerhouse MuseumUNC Chapel Hill library catalogTRLN Authorities AutosuggestEasyBibpic2shopBook BazaarWorldCat Search API query for mobileWebVoyage Tomcat—OCLC Citation in ActionBoxEZproxy WondertoolRelated articles by ZemantaMore mobile apps built with the WorldCat Search API (catalogablog.blogspot.com)Got MissingMaterials? (hangingtogether.org) (Source: Catalogablog) Thu, 03 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0100 849467 http://www.bauenblog.info/2010/06/01/12as-jornadas-catalanas-de-informacion-y-documentacion-de-la-autocomplacencia-a-la-ilusion/ Hay una conclusión clara que extraigo de mi paso por las 12as Jornadas Catalanas de Información y Documentación del 2010: que estamos un momento de cambio importantísimo, crucial e imparable, de toda la sociedad y por supuesto, también, de nuestra profesión. Y en este contexto conviene resituarnos, (volver a) encontrar nuestro lugar, y las resistencias de años pasados han desaparecido. Parece, al fin, que el colectivo ha asumido si o si la necesidad de cambio, quizá hemos visto ya las orejas al lobo… La autocomplacencia ha desaparecido, o al menos ya no está tan presente en las conversaciones de pasillo, el verdadero núcleo de toda Jornada. No, yo ya no me creo toda aquella cantinela de que somos y seremos una profesión indispensable, líder, a la vanguardia… no, eso ya no me sirve y me niego a continuar por este camino. Y personalmente, en las Jornadas vi que este discurso había desaparecido, y especialmente en las ponencias, los diálogos y los talleres. De nada sirve tirarnos flores y mirarnos el ombligo, si ni siquiera sabremos cuál es nuestro futuro, primero como sociedad y después como profesión. La autocomplacencia era y es un discurso estéril y que no lleva a ningún sitio, y celebro que empecemos a abandonar esta línea que nos hubiera llevado a un precipicio. Ni hemos sido nunca, ni por supuesto seremos nunca ninguna profesión capital y crucial… sencillamente seremos una profesión más, un colectivo profesional que, mediante el encaje y el trabajo coordinado con otros sectores, aportará su granito de arena en la construcción social, ciudadana y cívica, desde su especialización. Nada más. Como cualquier otra. Pero tampoco es poca cosa. Los cambios que nos afectan se pueden enfocar desde diferentes miradas: cambios en los edificios, cambios en los horizontes profesionales, y cambios en la gestión de la información. ... Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:59:39 +0100 850447