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, 03 Sep 2010 02:54:53 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 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 http://www.bauenblog.info/2010/06/01/12es-jornades-catalanes-dinformacio-i-documentacio-de-lautocomplaenca-a-la-il%c2%b7lusio/ Hi ha una conclusió clara que extrec del meu pas per les 12es Jornades Catalanes d’Informació i Documentació del 2010: que estem un moment de canvi importantíssim, crucial i imparable, de tota la societat i per descomptat, també, de la nostra professió. I en aquest context convé resituar-nos, (tornar) a trobar el nostre lloc; i les resistències d’anys passats han desaparegut. Sembla, a la fi, que el col·lectiu ha assumit si o si la necessitat de canvi; potser hem vist ja les orelles al llop… L’autocomplaença ha desaparegut; o com a mínim ja no és tan present entre les converses de passadís, el veritable nucli de tota Jornada. No, jo ja no em crec tota aquella cantarella de què som i serem una professió indispensable, capdavantera, a l’avantguarda… no, això ja no em serveix i em nego a continuar per aquest camí. I personalment, a les Jornades vaig veure que aquest discurs havia desaparegut; i especialment a les ponències, als diàlegs i als tallers. De res serveix tirar-nos floretes i mirar-nos el melic, si ni tan sols sabrem quin és el nostre futur, primer com a societat i després com a professió. L’autocomplaença era i és un discurs estèril i que no porta a cap lloc, i celebro que comencem a abandonar aquesta línia que ens hagués portat a un precipici. Ni hem estat mai, ni per descomptat serem mai cap professió cabdal i crucial… senzillament serem una professió més, un col·lectiu professional que, mitjançant l’encaix i el treball coordinat amb d’altres sectors, aportarà el seu granet de sorra en la construcció social, ciutadana i cívica des de la seva especialització. Res més. Com qualsevol altra. Però tampoc és poca cosa. Els canvis que ens afecten es poden enfocar des de diferents mirades: canvis en els edificis, canvis en els horitzons professionals, i canvis en la gestió de la informació. ... Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:33:57 +0100 850448 http://www.newrambler.net/lisdom/383 I try not to blog here too often, but I have been seriously remiss in reporting here that our fundraising drive to send Walt Crawford to ALA was successful. 36 people donated a total of $1210, which Walt assures us will be enough to get him to DC and back. Walt writes a little about the whole thing on his blog, too. I can’t make it, but if you are there, please give him my best. In the meantime, I’ve read a few books, though never as many as I’d like. A Friend of the Family by Lauren Grodstein — It’s always fun to read a book with a character with your name. . . especially when that character is a no-good prodigal daughter suspected of infanticide who’s returned and is now carrying on a relationship with the college dropout son (there’s a great line about how he flunked out of Hampshire, where you don’t even get grades) of the main character, a suburban New Jersey doctor. I think most people, myself most emphatically included, make bad decisions at some point or other, and reading books about other people’s bad decisions is one way to think about your own. I guess there are people in the world who feel that there lives have been free of tragedy and bad decision making, and I guess perhaps those are the people who find books like this one lurid or over-the-top, and then there are people who have plenty of tragedy and bad decision making to go around and would prefer not to deal with it in fiction. If you do like it in fiction, though, this book is for you. (Also, I love that it got me to sympathize with a character who wants to live in the suburbs.) Radical Simplicity by Dan Price — I picked this up when someone returned it, because I love to imagine that I have an alternate life full of good health and practical skills and can thus go off and live in a homemade yurt on some farmer’s property whilst living off my income as a freelance writer. ... Thu, 27 May 2010 15:22:31 +0100 847583 http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/2010/05/library-mashup-book-reviewed.html Having mentioned previously a book review of Nicole Engard's Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Databook, I noted that there's a further review here on the book. (Source: librarytwopointzero) Thu, 27 May 2010 04:00:00 +0100 849268 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/05/26/new-issue-ariadne-april-2010-issue-63-articles-on-archives-2-0-library-mashups-file-formats/ Access the Complete Issue This Issue Went Online at About 7pm EDST Last Night. Here is a Selection of Articles: Head to the Table of Contents to Review All Articles. 1) Mobilising the Internet Detective Diana Massam, Andrew Priest and Caroline Williams describe a recent project to adapt the online Internet Detective tutorial, to deliver a user-friendly mobile site which reflects their market research into user preferences for mobile content. Note: If you’ve never seen or used the Internet Detective it is yet another quality tutorial from Intute. Although it hasn’t been updated in a couple of years, it might provide some good ideas if you decide to put a resource like this together. The “Detective” is a part of the virtual training suite. Btw, all of these resources are completely free. Finally, budget cuts are forcing Intute to make some changes. Hopefully, it will work out in the long run. Intute is one of the GREAT non-commercial web directories and as you can see a number of related resources. 2) Archives in Web 2.0: New Opportunities Marta Nogueira describes how three Web 2.0 applications (Facebook, Flickr, YouTube) can work as a virtual extension for archives and other cultural organisations, by identifying benefits obtained from the use of Web 2.0 applications. 3) Usability Inspection of Digital Libraries Lorraine Paterson and Boon Low highlight findings from the usability inspection report conducted for the UX2.0 research project. 4) Balancing Stakeholder Needs: Archive 2.0 as Community-centred sign Jim Ridolfo, William Hart-Davidson and Michael McLeod present a case example on building a digital archive with cultural and scholarly stakeholder groups – to provide a model for balancing stakeholder needs. 5) A Pragmatic Approach to Preferred File Formats for Acquisition Dave Thompson sets out the pragmatic approach to preferred file formats for long-term preservation used at the Wellcome Library. ... Wed, 26 May 2010 06:55:19 +0100 847148 http://freegovinfo.info/node/3007 If you haven't looked at data.gov lately, you should. It was launched one year ago and has had a bit of a makeover recently and has added lots of new data. OMB Watch has a quick overview and comment about the current state of data.gov (Data.gov Celebrates First Birthday with a Makeover, by Roger Strother, OMB Watch. 05/24/10). Check out these highlights: Apps where developers are creating a wide variety of applications, mashups, and visualizations. From crime statistics by neighborhood to the best towns to find a job to seeing the environmental health of your community... Semantic Web where they highlight a set of data.gov resources reformatted into Resource Description Framework (RDF) format. These allow new kinds of rich interaction with the data. See, for example, the White House Visitor Search. Also see the Thetherless World Weblog from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where some of this work is being done. And don't forget, at Data.gov, "data" can mean just about anything, even the Foreign Relations of the U.S. (Source: Free Government Information (FGI) blogs) Tue, 25 May 2010 19:05:30 +0100 846914 http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2010/05/22/theres-a-web-service-for-that/ One of the things that never ceases to amaze me is the amount of data that is available via web services these days. While up until this point I’ve mostly focused on bibliographic data available, I’ve been delving into APIs for newspapers like the New York Times and the Guardian. IMHO these web services can be used to bring valuable evaluative data into library interfaces. I’ve built mashups that add indicators to an pseudo catalog interface which show whether or not a book is a New York Times bestseller. Recently I’ve been trying to see if I could link to movie reviews from DVDs in a library catalog. The Guardian also has an API and Movie and Book Reviews, but I haven’t figured out the most efficient way to get at those reviews from a title in a library record. I don’t seem to be able to search with the appropriate limits to just get reviews about a particular movie. I always seem to get a cluster of other stuff that also has those keywords but isn’t the review of the movie I want. I’d appreciate any ideas folks who’ve worked with the Guardian API are willing to share in the comments. I’m very keen on getting metadata about films so another API which I found and have become interested in is the Netflix API.What I really want is to be able to put indicators about what awards a film has won as well as reviews. In addition, I had the idea of adding to an Identities screen, awards which actors, actresses, directors etc have won. One of the biggest difficulties with films is making sure I get the right film. Title works reasonably well, but since films get remade, it is necessary to check the year to make sure one is linking to the appropriate version. I’m lucky because the New York Times Movie Review API includes a field for DVD Release Date which I can compare to the publication date in the MARC record. ... Sat, 22 May 2010 18:01:29 +0100 846431 http://blog.sedic.es/?p=3261 El día 6 de mayo, organizado por el Grupo de Salud de la SEDIC, Helena Martín Rodero, de la Biblioteca de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Salamanca, impartió el Taller “El desarrollo de Netvibes para la Integración de información en Ciencias de la Salud: El proyecto Medical Information Library and Knowledge (MILK)” El taller  se inicio con una breve exposición teórica sobre los “Mashups” y las “Aplicaciones de Escritorio” en el contexto de la web 2.0 y Google. En sus inicios, estas nuevas herramientas frenaron el desarrollo de los grandes portales generalistas tipo Yahoo, y facilitarón la creación de portales personalizados “a medida” del usuario. Los cuatro aspectos fundamentales que implica la web 2.0 “comunicar, compartir, colaborar y confiar” han propiciado el rápido desarrollo de estas herramientas, cuya principal caracteristica es la “mezcla” de contenidos de diversas fuentes. La existencia de gran numero de contenidos accesibles en la red y la infinita imaginación de los usuarios, ha permitido la multiplicación exponencial de estas herramientas, aunque a veces su vida sea muy corta, por los continuos avances de la red. En el taller, se diseccionaron y utilizaron editores de mashups, como Google Maps, Yahoo Pipes, Dapper y Geocommons, y se resalto el éxito de las aplicaciones que incluyen mapas y se basan en el geoposicionamiento de datos. Vimos también mashups sociales como twittermap. Estudiamos algunos ejemplos específicos de las Ciencias de la Salud como el Avian Flu Mashup creado por la revista “Nature” , el mapa mundial de Alertas Epidemicas Health map, EpiSpider y Flu Tacker que utilizan geoposicionamientos de epidemias y que han tenido enorme auge con la Gripe A También vimos ejemplos de utilización de mashups e interfaces alternativas de PubMed, como Biowizard, eTBlast o HubMed, Hakia, Go PubMed, Novoseek, Pub Get y Semantic Medline. ... Tue, 18 May 2010 11:32:09 +0100 845432 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/infoesfera/~3/mBHWy3VSGU8/ El día 6 de mayo, organizado por el Grupo de Salud de la SEDIC, Helena Martín Rodero, de la Biblioteca de la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Salamanca, impartió el Taller “El desarrollo de Netvibes para la Integración de información en Ciencias de la Salud: El proyecto Medical Information Library and Knowledge (MILK)” El taller  se inicio con una breve exposición teórica sobre los “Mashups” y las “Aplicaciones de Escritorio” en el contexto de la web 2.0 y Google. En sus inicios, estas nuevas herramientas frenaron el desarrollo de los grandes portales generalistas tipo Yahoo, y facilitarón la creación de portales personalizados “a medida” del usuario. Los cuatro aspectos fundamentales que implica la web 2.0 “comunicar, compartir, colaborar y confiar” han propiciado el rápido desarrollo de estas herramientas, cuya principal caracteristica es la “mezcla” de contenidos de diversas fuentes. La existencia de gran numero de contenidos accesibles en la red y la infinita imaginación de los usuarios, ha permitido la multiplicación exponencial de estas herramientas, aunque a veces su vida sea muy corta, por los continuos avances de la red. En el taller, se diseccionaron y utilizaron editores de mashups, como Google Maps, Yahoo Pipes, Dapper y Geocommons, y se resalto el éxito de las aplicaciones que incluyen mapas y se basan en el geoposicionamiento de datos. Vimos también mashups sociales como twittermap. Estudiamos algunos ejemplos específicos de las Ciencias de la Salud como el Avian Flu Mashup creado por la revista “Nature” , el mapa mundial de Alertas Epidemicas Health map, EpiSpider y Flu Tacker que utilizan geoposicionamientos de epidemias y que han tenido enorme auge con la Gripe A También vimos ejemplos de utilización de mashups e interfaces alternativas de PubMed, como Biowizard, eTBlast o HubMed, Hakia, Go PubMed, Novoseek, Pub Get y Semantic Medline. ... Tue, 18 May 2010 11:32:09 +0100 845043 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/smwm/~3/Q_2sXXSRKfc/digicmb Why Banning Social Media Often Backfires <script src="http://cdn.widgetserver.com/syndication/subscriber/InsertWidget.js" type="text/javascript"></script><script>if (WIDGETBOX) WIDGETBOX.renderWidget('e57ad365-1ccd-4a52-9ed5-d323f01c330a');</script><noscript>Get the <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/eahil2010">EAHIL2010</a> widget and many other <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com/">great free widgets</a> at <a href="http://www.widgetbox.com">Widgetbox</a>! Not seeing a widget? 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Sun, 16 May 2010 17:20:02 +0100 844547 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/may/15/thousand-autumns-jacob-david-mitchell Christopher Tayler wonders if David Mitchell has added a little too much to his mixDavid Mitchell, of Cloud Atlas (2004) rather than Peep Show renown, has become a big name in the 11 years since his first book, winning prizes, attracting admiring reviews and finding a large, cultish readership. But even after four substantial novels – one of them, Black Swan Green (2006), semi-autobiographical – it's hard to get a sense of his artistic personality. Style and, despite some recurring interests, themes don't have much bearing on his authorial signature, which has to do with more diffuse devices: multiple narrators and narrative modes, a wide range of settings in time and space, wispy connections within and between his books. A lot of his writing takes the form of pastiche, and he's equally wide-ranging in the writers and genres he "does": Haruki Murakami, airport thrillers, Melville, science fiction. Does he have a vision and voice of his own, or is he more of a mashup artist, a maker of structurally ingenious page-turners? In full flow, he makes the pages turn sufficiently smoothly to make such questions seem churlish as well as simple-minded.It's clear, however, that Mitchell has a problem when it comes to sustaining a straight narrative without benefit of channel-flicking. His most distinctive books artfully reshuffle smaller units – short stories in Ghostwritten (1999), novellas in Cloud Atlas – in ways that let him jump playfully between tones and genres, holding the whole performance together by means of thematic linkages and Short Cuts or Pulp Fiction-like overlaps between episodes. His first novel built around a single spine of story, number9dream (2001), seemed to reach a bit nervously for a heavy armature of subplots and alternative realities. ... Fri, 14 May 2010 23:15:03 +0100 844218 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/05/12/web-development-twelve-new-apps-added-to-the-oclc-application-gallery/ Interesting to see how different organizations are using OCLC web services like WorldCat Search API, WorldCat Registry, xISBN, xISSN and others to create useful web resources. This is also a post to share with your systems and tech librarian friends. From a Blog Post: Getting It System Toolkit (GIST) for Gifts and Weed Manager New York Times bestsellers mashup with WorldCat Fuwatto WorldCat Search Powerhouse Museum UNC Chapel Hill library catalog TRLN Authorities Autosuggest EasyBib Pic2Shop Book Bazaar WorldCat Search API query for mobile WebVoyage Tomcat–OCLC Citation in ActionBox EZproxy wondertool You can browse the complete OCLC Application Gallery here. Source: OCLC Developer Network Blog (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 13 May 2010 01:06:03 +0100 843644 http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/nlcpodcast/NCompassPodcast050.mp3 Trainer Michael Sauers applies the super-search strategies he is known for to the latest generation of Web tools. Blogs, RSS, Flickr, podcasting, mashups, the read/write Web, Google, visual search engines, folksonomies, Firefox Search Plugins, Del.icio.us, and more. Irreverent and fun, this presentation will expose you to some of the more recent tools that make the most of the Web 2.0 environment: from improving basic search skills and evaluating search results to making the best use of search engines, both common and cutting-edge. Sauers will also show you how best to organize your resources for quick access at the reference desk. Play audio: Play video: Download (MP3) Subscribe to the NCompass Podcast (Audio RSS) Searching 2.0 links (Source: Travelin' Librarian) Wed, 12 May 2010 15:58:07 +0100 843457 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/YAO4Vo225rI/3842 So, this June will be my first ever ALA conference!! I’ll be there giving two talks and when I’m not talking I’ll be on the exhibit floor talking about Koha and the value of open source. My talks are: Smart Reference Technologies for Tough Economic Times (Panelist) ALA Conference (RUSA), Washington, DC, June 27, 2010 Library Mashups: Exploring new ways to deliver library data ALA Conference (ACRL), Washington, DC, June 25, 2010 And you can find me at the ByWater Solutions’ booth #817!! Technorati Tags: ala10 (Source: What I Learned Today...) Tue, 11 May 2010 17:09:43 +0100 843695 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/Y0HvLiIkpFM/ Fans of cycling will be more than familiar with the idea of a profile map that details the elevation above sea level along a particular race stage. (See also More Thoughts on Data Driven Storytelling for several more ideas on representing geospatial time series augmented by other sensor data.) Although F1 circuit maps are provided by the FIA for each Formula One Grand Prix, they don’t give elevation data. Nor did a quick web search turn up any elevation maps. In several previous posts on the topic of visualising F1 telemetry data I’ve plotted various map views, so I wondered whether I could generate elevation maps too… and it appears I can, using the Google elevation API: The x-axis is distance round the lap, so if data from multiple laps is captured, we can start to get a more complete set of altitude data round the circuit. Simply pass the API one or more sets of latitude/longitude co-ordinates, and I can get back elevation data. So for example, the above data (captured from the Vodafone Mclaren Live website) shows a lap by Jenson Button of the Malaysia circuit earlier this year. ... Sun, 09 May 2010 12:38:28 +0100 842656 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/ZjcDDwYj_5E/3822 I was asked to talk about open source, Koha, and Library Mashups at the TCLC spring meeting in PA today. But before I gave my talks, I got to listen to Nancy Magnuson give a keynote address on Transforming the Library. Nancy talked to us about the transformation of the Goucher Athenaeum in Baltimore. This Athenaeum was decided to be the intellectual center of the campus. In fact they put it right smack in the center of the campus. The old building was a boring circ 1950 square building that they had grown out of. The new Athenaeum was 102,000 sq feet and the library is 72,000 sq feet of that. The building also houses the art gallery, a cafe, a community service center and exercise loft. The building itself is 4 stories and covered in walls of glass which is awesome!! Inside the library the walls and shelves are painted in bright friendly colors. There is also a great meeting area in the center that doesn’t look like an empty lecture hall when no one is there, but can be used for social events, lectures, and even exercise groups. In the student interviews, one of the students said it was both a great social and work environment at the same time. In addition to the public areas, they were now able to work more efficiently with their special collections. They have a large reading room and display cabinets. They also have a work room where they can work with their special collection materials – something they didn’t have before. One of the things I like the most about this renovation is all of the green aspects. They have water and energy saving measures in place – most of these aren’t that unique – pretty much what we’ve all heard of in other arenas. The one really unique and cool things is the rain garden. The students and librarians alike think that this transformation has changed the way people interact on campus. ... Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:09:24 +0100 840650 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2010/04/30/broken-boxes.html This has been one of those weeks in which everything I’m reading seems related and is clicking for me. It’s got my mind churning, and I’m still not sure what to think of it all. The first is from Will Richardson and is titled The End of Books (At Least, For Me?), a provocative statement to be sure. Don’t panic — it’s not really about the end of books, just print books for his own use. “Turns out my iPad Kindle app syncs up all of my highlights and notes to my Amazon account. Who knew? When I finally got to the page Ted pointed me to in my own account, the page that listed every highlight and every note that I had taken on my Kindle version of John Seely Brown’s new book Pull, I could only think two words: Game. Changer. All of a sudden, by reading the book electronically as opposed to in print, I now have: all of the most relevant, thought-provoking passages from the book listed on one web page, as in my own condensed version of just the best pieces all of my notes and reflections attached to those individual notes the ability to copy and paste all of those notes and highlights into Evernote which makes them searchable, editable, organizable, connectable and remixable the ability to access my book notes and highlights from anywhere I have an Internet connection. Game. Changer. I keep thinking, what if I had every note and highlight that I had ever taken in a paper book available to search through, to connect with other similar ideas from other books, to synthesize electronically?…” Honestly, I didn’t know about this, either, and I’m now seriously considering going back to reading nonfiction on my Kindle, something I had stopped doing when I couldn’t get at my highlights and free them. As far as I was concerned, they were bricked text. But I logged in at http://kindle.amazon.com and sure enough, there were the highlights from the three nonfiction books I’d read on my Kindle. ... Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:27:57 +0100 840152 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/y7ySLYJ7T7o/ A recent post on the journalism.co.uk site asks: How much computer science does a journalist really need?, commenting that whilst coding skills may undoubtedly be useful for journalists, knowing what can be achieved easily in a computational way may be more important, because there are techies around who can do the coding for you… (For another take on this, see Charles Arthur’s If I had one piece of advice to a journalist starting out now, it would be: learn to code, and this response to it: Learning to Think Like A Programmer.) Picking up on a few thoughts that came to mind around a presentation I gave yesterday (Web Lego And Format Glue, aka Get Yer Mashup On), here’s a slightly different take on it, based on the idea that programming doesn’t necessarily mean writing arcane computer code. Note that a lot of what follows I’d apply to librarians as well as journalists… (So for example, see Infoskills for the Future – If You Can’t Handle Information, Get Out of the Library for infoskills that I think librarians as information professionals should at least be aware of (and these probably apply to journalists too…); Data Handling in Action is also relevant – it describes some of the practical skills involved in taking a “dirty” data set and getting it into a form where it can be easily visualised…) So here we go…. An idea I’ve started working on recently as an explanatory device is the notion of feed oriented programming. I appreciate that this probably already sounds scary geeky, but it’s a made up phrase and I’ll try to explain it. A feed is something like an RSS feed. (If you don’t know what an RSS feed, this isn’t a remedial class, okay… go and find out… this old post should get you started: We Ignore RSS at OUr Peril. ... Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:15:14 +0100 840686 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NetbibWeblog/~3/Er_Gr1OWzPE/ Furthere ist eine ansprechende Idee: Ein Weblog, dessen einzelne Beiträge aus Tweets eines Twitter-Accounts erstellt werden. Die Schlagwörter (”hashtags”) ergeben die Kategorien und unten werden die Links in einer Linksammlung und die Nennungen anderer Twitter-Accounts als “Bibliographie” zusammengefasst. Man twittert einfach und Furthere publiziert das ganze in ansprechender Weise. Man kann natürlich noch ergänzen etc., die Handhabung ist recht einfach. Ja, löschen kann man auch, wenn’s denn sein muss. Ich habe jetzt einfach probehalber mal eines eingerichtet, undzwar wollte ich schon längst Twittereinträge von Bibliotheksbenutzern irgendwo dokumentieren. Das hat jetzt seinen Platz auf twitbib writes furthere … Machen Sie sich einmal Gedanken, wo und wie Sie das einsetzen könnten! (Source: netbib weblog) Thu, 29 Apr 2010 11:01:57 +0100 839780 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/smwm/~3/GDAg8vur_rc/digicmb Twitpic - Share photos on Twitter Hearing Lorcan Dempsey talking at #emtacl10 #netflix http://twitpic.com/1ilxuj YouTube - Lorcan Dempsey at Emtacl10. Short vid of Lorcan Dempsey talking at Emtacl10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9taJDxairJU #emtacl10 Twitpic - Share photos on Twitter Rss feeds& mashups in Track B http://twitpic.com/1impx0 Twitpic - Share photos on Twitter Reusing journalTocs for searching articles from authors of institutions 2 ask the authors ... #emtacl10 http://twitpic.com/1imqk1 @patrickd Twitpic - Share photos on Twitter James Toon prezi taking us across the screen and the scottish repository pools http://twitpic.com/1in4m5 Interface of WorldCatImage - Advanced Search Page Http://worldcatimage.weebly.com When will it be ready? http://twitpic.com/1inc33 #emtacl10 Twitpic - Share photos on Twitter Http://worldcatimage.weebly.com When will it be ready? http://twitpic.com/1inc33 #emtacl10 Karolinska Institutet Universitetsbiblioteket RT @: personalised website based on bbc, very like netvibes, igoogle #emtacl10 http://www.kib.ki.se/ #emtacl10 Twitpic - Share photos on Twitter Tritonia 'Adapt and Change' 5 orgs into 1? #emtacl10 http://twitpic.com/1inibb #emtacl10 - Emerging Technologies in Academic Libraries Any people out there tweeting about EMTACL10 that NOT have joined the TWUB at http://twubs.com/emtacl10? #emtacl10 DigiCMB's Universe 6 short vids uploaded to Youtube. See them at my EMTACL10 Tab on my Netvibes page http://www.netvibes.com/digicmb#EMTACL10 #emtacl10 @digicmb Red, Blossom, Grow, Garden, orchids, plants, flora, petals Flowers http://bit.ly/8J8Jcf Links for 2010-04-25 [del.icio.us]: Good... @digicmb Red, Blossom, Grow, Garden, orchids, plants, flora, petals Flowers http://bit.ly/8J8Jcf Links for 2010-04-25 [del.icio.us]: Good... – Danyel Simonsen (DanyelSimonsen) http://twitter.com/DanyelSimonsen/statuses/12930838179 (Source: DigiCMB) Thu, 29 Apr 2010 00:20:02 +0100 839572 http://freegovinfo.info/node/2974 The news about the World Bank opening up its data just gets better and better. I talked with Jose de Buerba at the World Bank yesterday. Jose confirmed the open access and also said that the site also includes a link to the World Bank Data API and that they encourage developers to create new applications with the data. It also has a link to DataFinder, the new World Bank iphone application. They're now in phase I of their data plan, the launch. Phase II will focus on improvements to the API. Very cool indeed! If anyone builds mashups with World Bank data, please leave a comment here and/or email Jose (jdebuerba@worldbank.org). They're very keen on understanding how researchers, developers, students and the public are using their data. (Source: Free Government Information (FGI) blogs) Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:57:31 +0100 838096 http://audioboo.fm/boos/118337-jeff-jarvis-tedxny-on-curation.mp3 On Wednesday, transport willing, I’ll be giving a short presentation at an East of England Imnformations Services Group event: Whilst preparing the slides, I listened in to Martin Bean’s opening keynote from JISC2010, and was interested to hear what he had to say about libraries: That is, folk are gonna need help with sensemaking around information and with identfiying trusted [trustable?] content. I had intended to put together a talk about the challenges faced by the OU library, as I see them, as it starts to offer a comprehensive digital library service for our students; but the VC’s talk got me thinking again about some of the issues I touched on in my Arcadia brown bag lunch talk about the skills training gap that I think is building up around digital tools: Anyway, here’s a preview of my slides for Wednesday (subject, as ever, to change…;-) (UPDATE, post presentation: a couple of folk commented on the slide aesthetic – it’s inspired in part by the Presentation Zen approach (blog), in part by Lawrence Lessig. As far as the Digital Economy Bill/Act goes, here’s a summary. And for Doctorow on book ownership, listen here.) The content diverges somewhat from the title (oops!) but I feel the need to have another crack at exploring what exactly are the skills I think we’re failing to articulate… As ever, it’s rich in images that don’t make a lot of sense without my commentary. I also toyed with the idea of embedding a few audio and video clips in the presentation, but as time is tight, I think I’ll omit probably have to omit those on the day:-( One of the clips I had thought of using was Martin Bean’s quote embedded above. Another was from a recent TEDxNYED talk by Jeff Jarvis (via @ajcann) in which he talks about the move educators – like journalists – may have to make towards a curatorial role. ... Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:16:32 +0100 838600 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/wAUlbS3LwIw/3738 I’ve been asked to give 2 CE Course Workshops at SLA Annual 2010 in New Orleans. Practical Open Source Software for Libraries and Librarians Saturday, 06/12/2010 1:00PM – 5:00PM The library community is a buzz about open source software (OSS). What will it mean to our libraries? How can it save us money and time? What will open source mean to our libraries? More flexibility and freedom! Why open source; Because both the open source community and the library world live by the same rules and principles. This course will give you the facts about OSS by not only introducing you to what OSS is, how it is developed and maintained, and what it means for libraries, but also by providing attendees with a toolbox of over 50 OSS products to use in their libraries. Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data Sunday, 06/13/2010 8:00AM -12:00PM Learn what mashups are and how they can be used, plus share examples from libraries around the world. Attendees will learn what tools to use to mash up library data with content from the web to reach more patrons. This hands-on workshop includes examples such as using maps to enhance library data, using Flickr for digital collections, and creating library websites with data from several information sources. These workshops are for CE credit and if there aren’t enough registrants by the 27th of April they will be canceled. If you’re interested register soon!! The registration link can be found via the Conference Planner on the SLA site. I hope I’ll get to see some of you there! (Source: What I Learned Today...) Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:01:22 +0100 837276 http://heyjude.wordpress.com/2010/04/19/semantics-keystone-learning/ Web 3.0 or the Semantic Web is the development of the web as data are given meaning (semantics) which enable computers to look up and eventually “reason” in response to user searches. It’s early days yet, but because of that, it’s particularly interesting to delve into these changes to see how the Semantic Web might  affect education. The Semantic Web holds three key features that are of interest to me.  The first is the capacity for effective information storage and retrieval. The second is the capacity for computers to augment the learning and information retrieval and processing power of human beings. The third is the resulting capacity to ‘mix and match’ that will extend and expand knowledge and communications capabilities of humans in multiple formats. The Semantic Web is a vision of information  that is immediately  understandable by computers, so computers can perform more of the tedious work involved in finding, combining, and acting upon information on the web. As the Semantic Web becomes more of a realization, new technologies will also continue to enhance the learning process making flexibility and adaptability a keystone of learning. The unlimited mashup of dynamic information, all portable and tailored to your preferences will be the vehicle for learning in the future. Linked Data is powering the web but mostly outside of libraries, so libraries and those that deal with information (educators) need to catch up. Technology is evolving extremely quickly, and consumers are driving delivery methods – “get it to me on my device”. Live Serials explains: The information industry is all about helping people to find things and linking students to the resources that they need. We need to rethink how we do this, bringing the information directly to the user, in the format that they want. ... Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:25:38 +0100 838161 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/Y2m29K_n6lk/ Sigh…;-) Hi Tony, In looking for authoritative news on the cloud about to tr-ash my holiday, I found this advisory: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/aviation/vaac/vaacuk.html There’s a string of coordinates which appear to mark the extent of the cloud at “FL200” (20000 feet?). E.g. N6343 W01935 is 63.43N 19.35W. It looks ripe for your skills, and if you could get a map and a how to … Don’t you realise it’s a race weekend – and if I tinker on such a weekend, I tinker F1data?!;-) Okay – so here’s a half hour hack (I timed it)… The advisory data from the Met Office looks like this: Rather than mess around with any scraping, I just copies and pasted some of the data into a text editor (I use TextWrangler on a Mac) and ran a few regular expressions over it. Starting at the bottom of the list: - remove end of line characters and replace them with a space; - remove the “-” and any whist space around it and replace it with a return (new line) character; - replace the space with a tab character. The result of the regular expression processing is a two column tab separated list of co-ordinates. These can then be copied and pasted into a spreadsheet. For rapid prototyping purposes, I pasted the data into a Google spreadsheet because I know I can get a access to a CSV output from there, and I also know that I can get access to a map widget that will plot markers given lat/long data in that environment. The next step was to decode the position data. How to read a Volcanic Ash Advisory gave a couple of clues, and a quick test suggested the data is direction, degrees, minutes, seconds concatenated. ... Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:23:10 +0100 836633 http://dltj.org/article/mash-up-request-for-submissions/ I’m working with some colleagues at the Library of Congress on the on the description of complex analog and digital resources. In that research, we want to get a better sense of what people who read DLTJ call a “mash-up.” We invite readers to provide examples (in any medium) of what they think are mash-ups of different resources in the comment area of this post. If you nominate a web-accessible mash-up, please provide a link for it. If you nominate an analog mash-up (they do exist!), please provide a reasonable citation. If it is a hybrid – do your best! Also helpful would be a short statement as to why you think the example is a mash-up, and whether you like the results.The research involves how we describe the parts of a whole guided by concepts provided by FRBR. These sorts of mashups are typically made up of independently created parts, and acknowledging those parts are in single-record frames of reference. We’re exploring the use of interconnected networks of descriptions, and mashups are one of the exemplars.ExamplesWe’re looking for mixtures of audio, still images, moving images, and other media.“Avatar, Daybreakers, Prince of Persia, Book of Eli, Wolfman, Legion, Sherlock Holmes Trailer Mashup” from YouTube.FooBar Poster, by Eboy Arts Inc.“FooBar” poster (also commonly called the Web2.0 Poster).Post from: Disruptive Library Technology JesterMash-Up Request for Submissions (Source: Disruptive Library Technology Jester) Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:14:20 +0100 837451 http://heyjude.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/web-of-knowledge-the-semantic-web/ Last week many Australian teachers & tech  educators travelled to Melbourne to participate in the ACEC 2010 Conference Digital Diversity, an Australian biennial national ICT education conference. Much has been written since then about the challenges we encountered, the message of the keynote presentations, and the interesting experiences and conversations we all enjoyed. What struck me was the continued conversation about the same things – even the Keynote sessions offered no new insights into the future directions of learning, though there were some challenging messages thrown out to the participants as ‘take-aways’.  For me the absolute  highlight was the  Keynote by Oscar award-winning Australian  Adam Elliot. So refreshing to hear something beyond the usual Gary Stager message of gloom and doom which offered little in constructive strategies for the listeners.  Thanks to Chris Betcher for his Keynote and reflections on Gary’s presentation too. I liked Chris’ presentation much  more than I liked Gary’s – despite Gary’s apparent claim to  fame. BUT where were the discussions about the future directions of the web?  No keynotes that explored the synergy between virtual worlds, augmented reality, or the Semantic Web.  Nothing that offered hands -on grass-roots understanding about information fluency and knowledge work in a globally connected semantic web. We have to stop working/thinking in silos!!  It was the same at the Apple  ITSC2010 conference, held over the last two days in Sydney.  Nice stuff covered for sure, and fun hands-on workshops. But nothing that points the way forward. Nothing that deals with reading and  literacy (our inescapable way of cognitive engagement with multimodal texts) on a variety of devices from paper to e-devices. Nothing that acknowledges the virtual, augmented, semantic mashup of connection with the world. ... Wed, 14 Apr 2010 03:41:31 +0100 836519 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryCloud/~3/hgWTy1mQUUM/cil-using-technology-creativity.html Bridging the Digital Divide - orHow Quick Response Codes Can Give Your Readers a 6th SensePaul Coyne, VP of Innovation, Emerald Group Publishing LimitedQuick Response (QR) Codes:How you can use, why QR Codes, and real-word examples.What are QR Codes = Quick Response CodesHow it works? With the phone and software:take a picture of the code with your phonephone will decodesoftware will present informationCreate your own QR Codes:find a mobile code generatorchoose a QR code generatorselect the content type you needenter your codeQR codes in LibrariesMake it innovative & easy to useHuddersfield University in UK - added codes to signs in the university library, initiate reference calls to the librarian, link to catalogUniversity of Bath - created a mashup with catalog and inserted QR codes for titls that include directions to the item with the book in the catalog.Brooklyn Public Library - all 60 branches have QR codes in promotional materials and flyers, codes are individual to libraryCIL 2010 - a directory of CIL 2010 bloggers is available on the bulletin board. Photograph the QR code and visit the blog (direct to URL)QR Codes in Publishing (slide content)Can extend the life of print content for the mobile audienceupdated informationreviews and ratingslinks to similar contentmore titles by an authorEmerald Publishing is using QR codes to provide information about articles and resources. Can engage the user and student with more resources since the content was printed."QR Codes bridge the gap between the physical and digital world."Bright Ideas in Dark TimesLouise Alcorn, Reference Technology LibrarianWest Des Moines Public LibraryChallenges facing libraries include budgets, staff reduction, and public library usage has significantly increased due to the same recession constraints.Challenges = Opportunities"Libraries shine in tough economic times." Every challenge can be an oportunity for marketing available library resources. ... Tue, 13 Apr 2010 18:30:00 +0100 836604 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/_zt_X6MZmho/3712 I’m now ready to drool over the new features coming to SOPAC 2.1. John started by telling us what SOPAC was and if any of my reader’s don’t know it’s a social OPAC built using Drupal — and it’s open source so that moves it to the top of my list To learn more about SOPAC there are plenty of articles out there and of course a chapter in Library Mashups. So why do you want SOPAC? John puts it best when he says: “Your web site is great, but when people click on the catalog link, Boom! They’re in the ghetto!” Our websites can be the most gorgeous easy to navigate site on the planet, but then our patrons need to search our catalog and they’re dumped in this horrible mess of a site. So one of the key design directives for SOPAC was that it had to “look good.” Drupal makes that easy because you have access to tons of canned templates and the ability to design your own templates on top of it. One example of the social capabilities in SOPAC is tagging. Tagging is of course a feature for patrons, but the staff love it too! They’re using it to generate staff favorite lists by tagging things as ’staff favorite.’ Another staff tag that is used often is ‘better than the book’ to make it clear which DVDs are actually better than the book. Next there are reviews & ratings like Amazon or other online booksellers. In addition to the community reviews you can get content from Syndetics (a pay service they subscribe to). They even made it so that you can follow the reviews from a specific user – in the case of their library lots of people follow the reader’s advisory librarian’s reviews. ... Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:10:51 +0100 835591 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Librarianinblack/~3/_rcTdjsyDME/lms.html CIL2010: LMS: What’s Out There & How to Decide The hashtag for the session is #lms if you want to follow what was said on Twitter about the session. Lori Reed started the session. Lori works for the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenberg County and needed to find a way to provide online training and manage overall learning for her library’s staff. Lori’s current LMS was working fairly well, but did not include eLearning. You could look at the roster all printed out. There is a centralized number that people can call to cancel if they’re unable to attend. They have mandatory customer service training and Lori can run a report to see who has and has not attended. They decided to move from an LMS (Learning Management System) to an LCMS (Learning Content Management System) called Luminex. An LCMS allows you to reuse content. It lets learning developers crate, store, reuse, and manage. It lets you deliver small units of learning content and assets called learning objects. The system provides a WYSIWYG editor letting you develop content, images, text, allow comments, and organize the class in a hierarchical manner. To implement an LMS or LCMS, develop a team. Start by talking with IT & the other stakeholders. Talk to the target audience for your learning – what do they want? Narrow your focus, conduct research, and contact vendors. You’ll most likely need to prep an RFP, select finalists, hold demos, test systems over and over, negotiate for pricing and terms, and make a final selection. You will need to decide what your goals are — are you wanting to provide eLearning or just track training? Make sure that you have a valid “business case” that you can present to managers. Decide what your must-have items are: a portal, branding, mobile options, adaptive, assessments, or the ability to create your own content. ... Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:17:17 +0100 836711 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryCloud/~3/u-d6G6G1pWU/cil-information-literacy-life-cycles.html Information Literacy: A Driving Engine for Economic SuccessBarbie E. Keiser, UnescoA current work/project in progress, this presentation is based upon study determining what nations, schools, and individuals could do for information literacy. Research Agenda included:CharacteristicsEvidenceNecessary elements and contributory factors Benefits (Presentation Slides):Citizenry that can actively participate in government decision-making and ability to make use of e-government opportunities. Easy access to industry from abroad and informed potential form of investors.Value Analysis (Presentation Slides):Media-literate and informed voters, more productive government workers. Increased trade and foreign direct investment.Larger, growing countries tended to have more information literacy standards and evidence thereof in place. Countries doing well financially had similar results. What makes regions attractive? They looked at educated population, demographics, real disposable income, and immigration/emigration rates as the population determined where to target the information literacy program.Did having a successful library college/university program in the country make a difference in the success of the project? Information technology and Internet users were key to the study, growth rates have been significant in the last few years for many regions.The Library LifecycleDerek Badman, Springshare Inc.Nathan Flinchum, Roanoke Public LibraryThe traditional library lifecycle, why don't the students know more? How can we work together to foster literacy at all levels - school, public, and academic. Looking at library use (slide information)Childhood - passive use of materialsTeens - school libraries, used when told to not want toCollege - bibliographic instruction for assignmentsAdults - public library use for job search & technology helpFamily - go back to the library for books ... ... Mon, 12 Apr 2010 19:54:00 +0100 836611 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryCloud/~3/_1FoeOpEJwE/cil-real-time-collaboration-tools.html Real-Tine Collaboration ToolsKaren Huffman, Senior Applications and Database AdministratorDan Alford, co-presenter and studentNational Geographic SocietyGoogle Apps: Docs & Sites, Mail, CalendarsNational Geographics moved over to Google Apps, working with a cloud solution for a server that may be accessed at any time. They were specifically interested in having something in place with their disaster plan (the National Geographic offices are near the White House and after 9/11 the point was brought home this was worth exploring).Real-time collaboration Mashup of internal and external"Automatically builds in our disaster recovery/business resumption plan"Market place to enhance appsStudents in Karen's class is immersed in using Google App tools. They were required to use Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Email, and Google Sites throughout the term. Course projects provided opportunity for students to take their tools into schools, in this case a charter school in DC, for real life experiences. Skype, FreeConference Call, Pamela for SkypeVirtual discussions and conversations for knowledge. Recording sessions and offer other opportunities for people to meet together without physically having to be there. Virtual Classrooms - Digital Collaboration ToolsOpportunity for face-to-face and virtual classroom conversation. There are financial issues with Webex are related to the number of people and length of time. DimDim is more cost effective, but there are limits. Saba (icon driven), Articulate, Adobe Connect, and Mikogo are higher-end. Often these higher-end products have free trial downloads. ... Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:30:00 +0100 836613 http://memphisreads.blogspot.com/2010/04/news-and-notes-monster-mashup.html Abraham Lincoln, the vampire slayer? Yes, America’s 16th president is the hero of the newest book by Seth Grahame-Smith, bestselling author of monster mashup fiction.What is a mashup novel? Camille at camillereads.com explains:"Mash up novels are novels which combine the stories of classics (usually public domain) with anything. The 'anything' tends to be monsters, zombies, sea monsters, androids, werewolves, vampires.... "If you are familiar with classic novels you might giggle at the clever mashup titles, but I'll warn you that the book covers are a bit gory.Camille lists a few mashup novels on her blog.Have you read a monster mashup?Share your thoughts and reviews with Memphis Reads. (Source: Memphis Reads) Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 835232 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2010/04/08/historical-fiction-and-genre-friction/ [This is an excerpt from the editor's note of today's issue of REaD ALERT. Feel free to weigh in!] Genre fiction is hotter than ever, but how long will current genre classifications do the job? Take Steve Hockensmith’s Holmes on the Range series, for example, which is a fine and creative example of the mystery. Or are these books historical fiction? Or even westerns? Well, given the deducifyin’ of the Amlingmeyer brothers, we’ll continue to categorize these entertaining books as mysteries, but solving the mysteries of genre sure ain’t as easy as it used to be. In our mashup-crazy, zombie-besotted culture, genre-bending is a trend that shows no signs of abating. When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead’s Newbery winner, features time travel and a mystery and could, by virtue of its 1970s time frame, be considered historical fiction, too. Is Twilight fantasy or romance? And what the hell is Going Bovine? Some of these genre crossers may pass the Holmes Test, but some of them require extensive testing to determine their genetic genre makeup. This is less of a problem for review databases such as Booklist Online—we can easily add secondary genres that help power searches—and more of a problem for libraries and bookstores. If you put the right book in the wrong place, the right readers won’t find it. So what do you do where you work? And where do you see this trend going? Are genre classifications going the way of top hats and spats, or will we see genres fragment until mystery, sf, fantasy, romance, and horror are useless without the qualifiers historical, paranormal, graphic, and even straight? And are genres useful to you or do you despise the very existence of such labels? (Source: Likely Stories) Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:00:58 +0100 833657 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/04/06/going-to-computers-in-libraries-2010 Next week is Computers in Libraries 2010, and I’m lucky enough to be going and co-presenting a pre-conference workshop with Nicole Engard. Our workshop is Implementing Library Mashups, based partly on the book Nicole edited, Library Mashups. I’m looking forward to hearing Nicole speak, and I’ll present* my chapter, then the rest of the workshop will be hands-on building mashups with the attendees. Keep an eye on Nicole’s presentations page for the slides. There will be lots of other great speakers and workshops, so it should be a good time**. If you’re there, be sure to say hi. And if you need help convincing your boss you should go, CiL provides help on justifying your trip, complete with a draft memo [doc]. I’ll try to blog, tweet and flickr as much as I can while traveling, both library and touristy things.   *Ah, public speaking, we meet again. **Not to mention sightseeing in Washington. I [heart] that city. And this time, I’m going to the International Spy Museum, tour the Capitol and see Senate in session - all outside of conference hours, of course. (Source: herzogbr.net blog) Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:12:14 +0100 833120 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/KOeLQalvDPE/3688 EPetitionsDeveloped around Local Government best practice and working closely with Bristol CC and Napier University. Public-i’s open source petitioning tool manages the workflow of petition submission – both paper and electronic – through their entire lifecycle, from creation to submission, to the Council and eventual feedback and closure. The system has been designed to be easy to use and caters for the needs of Citizens, Members and Officers. Mashup Server by WSO2Open Source Mashup Server for easy Web service composition and aggregation using JavaScript More of my links (Source: What I Learned Today...) Fri, 02 Apr 2010 05:02:03 +0100 832163 http://poesygalore.blogspot.com/2010/04/notes-on-reality-hunger-fantasy-hunger.html I picked up David Shields's Reality Hunger after reading not reviews of it, but mentions of how polarized the reviews of it have been. The book is apparently a new classic, a jolt to the solar plexus that belongs on every syllabus, a wake-up call for the 21st century--or a piece of crap.I found it neither. I'm looking up reviews after the fact to try to figure out why so many have responded so intensely to the book. I enjoyed it; I'll give it a 3 out of 5 stars on GoodReads. I don't think it said anything new, unless the newness is in David Shields being the one saying it. The main thrusts seem to be:A) all memoir is fiction, people, just like all history and biography: bits are fictionalized, whether they be "perfect recollections" of conversations that took place decades ago or claims that one spent three nights in jail when one did not. Hence, it is kind of silly to be morally outraged by James Frey. (With this I did not disagree--though I do think one could claim a little outrage if the book was only published because the publisher thought it was true--outraged that it might have remained in the slush pile otherwise. But if you're an editor/publisher and you're only publishing a book because you think it's true, I think you should reconsider whether you'd still find the book of quality if it were "not true"). All memoirists, if writing for an audience, are manipulating things. There is no memory that is not manipulated. Agreed.andB) David Shields likes mashups and remixes and books that cannot be easily classified into one category. Not only that, but these are the only forms that are relevant to life today. The first sentence there works; the second really doesn't, as Shields seems to be mistaking a personal preference or a change in one's own reading habits or way of thinking for some new huge cultural shift. ... Fri, 02 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 832353 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/seealso/~3/y_fAUzJ926g/lsw_coloring_contest_winner_suzie_degrasse_.html The votes are in and the winner is clear: entry number nine from Suzie DeGrasse! If you haven’t looked at her entry full-size, you owe it to yourself to click on the image below and check out the details. For submitting the winning entry, Suzie will win our (to-be-named-later) Grand Prize. In addition, the voters named her the recipient of several special prizes, such as: Best Depiction of Reality in Libraries Over the Last 40 Years; Coloring Outside the Lines Award; Gratuitious Metadata Award; Best Mashup of Humor and Depression; Best Re-Purposing of a Pony Tail; Stereotypical Librarian Attention to Detail Award; Wordiest Coloring Contest Entry Evar. Edit: Funny stuff redacted at Suzie’s request. Sorry, Suzie: didn’t mean to get you in trouble with humorless overlords. All the entries had strong points, points that were recognized by the voters with the following special awards: Entry 1 : Best Use of Color as an Accent; Best Use of Grayscale Entry 2 : Best Use of a Rainbow Wig Outside a Sporting Event; Best Hairpiece and Implants; Taste the Rainbow Award Entry 3 : Advocacy Award for Including the Value of Library Materials; Best Use of Hearts Award; Best Promotion of Scientific Literature Entry 4 : Twilight-tastic Award; Best Redheaded Character Since Pippi Longstocking; Best Tattooed Librarian; Best Reader’s Advisory Dialogue Entry 5 : Best Use of Purple Hues; Best Depiction of Fluevogs Entry 6 : Best Striped Desk; Best Non-Hazardous Alert Use of Diagonal Lines; Diversity Award for Depiction of a Non-White, Non-Fluroscent Librarian Entry 7 : The Vividly Green Patron Award; Best Use of Vivid Colors; Outreach to Leprechaun Patrons Award; The Pretty In Pink Award; Entry 8 : Best Use of Library Supplies; Most True-To-Life; Most Like My Library Award Thank you so much to all who participated and for your patience as I let this contest go on longer than intended. ... Wed, 31 Mar 2010 20:46:06 +0100 832168 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/mar/30/campaign-for-real-fear-horror-fiction Sure, we all love werewolves and vampires, says a new horror fiction manifesto – but where are the monsters for our age of diversity? And can you create one in 500 words?Anyone giving a cursory glance to horror fiction today might think it's dominated by zombies, vampires and cod-literary mashups – tropes of supernatural fiction inserted into classic texts, with varying results. But a New Puritan-style mini-movement is gathering pace in the horror fraternity, one that plans to deliver shocks closer to home. It's time to cross the threshold and join the Campaign for Real Fear.The Campaign for Real Fear is the creation of Christopher Fowler – author of many critically acclaimed urban horror stories and the quirky Bryant & May detective series – and blogger Maura McHugh. It was born out of McHugh's frustration with what she sees as the genre's failings to be fully representative. On her blog Splinister, McHugh has twice blown the whistle on instances of perceived bias: in September, she pointed out that a British Fantasy Society book of interviews with horror writers contained no women. Last month, she highlighted the same issue with SFX magazine's horror special. Both of those rows are well-documented and led to widespread internet debate (and, to be fair, apologies and explanations from the targets of her ire). Now, with Fowler's support, McHugh seems to be focusing her energies on doing something positive about the situation. Setting out the Campaign for Real Fear's manifesto on his blog, Fowler writes: "Our nascent horror movement is beginning to grow... We're hoping to change the outmoded habits of the past, aiming for some positive discrimination leading to fresh new strands of writing that will benefit readers and publishers alike. The Campaign for Real Fear starts here." Both Fowler and McHugh were at the World Horror Convention in Brighton at the weekend, spreading the word. ... Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:05:56 +0100 831263 http://plablog.org/2010/03/brief-session-notes.html Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data Nicole Engard unfortunately was in the hospital and unable to present this program. David Lee King from Topeka and Shawnee County Library filled in. Right away, he proved a point about technology by whipping out his iPhone to film a short “get well” greeting for Nicole from the crowd. After defining mashups and related terminology like web services and APIs, he discussed some easy tools libraries can use to create their own mashups – web features that mix data from two sources, such as map info from Google and photos from Flickr. Nicole’s suggested way to think of the whole system was to consider the web service as a bridge supporting the APIs (cars) as they pass between two services. This allows the two sources of data to be displayed in one place. Yahoo! Pipes and Dapper are two free tools that will create the necessary code. David also pointed out that many sites like Google maps and Youtube provide code you can embed into your website, so you don’t need to know how to write scripts on your own. Mashups can provide added value to library patrons through such techniques as placing a catalog search box on your library’s Facebook page or adding an IM reference box to each catalog record. Adrift or Right on Target: Perspectives on Floating Collections Greg Bodin from San Mateo County Library, Sarabeth Kalajian from Sarasota County Library System, and Barbara Spruill from Gwinett County Public Library provided three perspectives on floating collections. Each library had experienced a lot of success with floating collections, a system wherein library items are kept at the branch to which they are returned, rather than going by courier back to a home branch. ... Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:54:29 +0100 830485 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/talis/panlibus/~3/x1ehLV1OcT4/understanding-the-semantic-web-3.php Is the Semantic Web so immense and infinite in its possibilities that drawing out a vision for a particular domain (libraries in this instance) becomes difficult or impossible? That’s what Karen Coyle seems to be saying in her Understanding the Semantic Web: Bibliographic data and metadata report here: It is somewhat difficult to explain what you can do with linked open data because the answer is just about anything. And here: If all this sounds other worldly and value, it is because there is no specific vision of where these changes will lead us. Or is it the case that the Semantic Web crystallises the changes around librarianship that have proven to be both problematic and exciting in recent times? Living on borrowed time? Karen’s call for action – for librarians to embrace the Semantic Web – emanates from her uncontentious point that today’s library users are more likely to be found on the Internet than in the library building itself. However it is precisely the library’s traditional role as a repository of authoritative textual artefacts, that has borne the fruit (metadata) that Karen now proposes we offer to the emergent Semantic Web. The question here is – Are we living off our former glories as we move into the future? And does this raise issues of sustainability? Karen says this about the library’s “unique selling point” (to borrow an outdated marketing term): What can libraries offer that no other community can? First, libraries have holdings of published and unpublished materials that are not currently represented on the Web. Next, they have metadata for most of those materials. The metadata includes controlled forms of personal and corporate names, physical description, topical headings, and classification assignments. I am left with an uncomfortable sense that our position in the future depends on our printed heritage which, of course, would make us very vulnerable. ... Fri, 26 Mar 2010 15:33:03 +0100 830056 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/MKuf/~3/zSM4zsP7RNE/display-advertising-towards-creativity.html This is the second post in our series on the future of display advertising. Today, Neal Mohan looks at how new technology can power creativity in the years ahead - Ed.Imagine you own a popular coffee chain in Denver that you want to promote. On Monday afternoon, it’s warm and 80 degrees in the city. You run a display ad campaign online that offers Denverites a discount coupon for an iced cold latte, with a searchable map embedded in the ad to show local branches, and a real-time feed from people who have tweeted publicly about your newest flavor. That evening, a cold front rolls over the Rockies. Your ad automatically and dynamically adjusts to present a photo of a hot, steaming cup of hot chocolate in front of a warm fireplace, together with a home delivery number and an offer of free marshmallows.Creative? Absolutely. Impossible? Hardly. You can do this today using technology from Teracent that we’re working to roll out for our clients who advertise on the Google Content Network or who use DoubleClick Rich Media.There’s no doubt that advertisers today are increasingly seeking to run campaigns that are highly measurable and relevant to users. That’s one of the benefits of advertising on the Internet. But great ad campaigns are about more than clicks or numbers. The best campaigns are so memorable and effective because they make an emotional bond with us. The very best can engage us, move us and make us feel a connection with the brand that’s being promoted. That’s the real creative genius of advertising.We traditionally think of TV as the most creative advertising media. But display advertising has the promise of a couple of things that even TV doesn't have — the ability to dynamically customize ads in infinite ways and the opportunity to enable a true two-way interaction and dialogue with users. ... Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0100 829422 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/exiBz9QM2Dc/ In Does Funding Equal Happiness in Higher Education?, I described a couple of interactive visualisations that are built up around a dataset that pools data from several of the Guardian datastore Higher Education datasets. In this post, I’ll show how that aggregated dataset was put together, and review some of the problems that the approach I took has. The first thing to note is that the data I wanted to combine existed in several different spreadsheets, which we might think of as several different databases. Notwithstanding some of the “issues” I have with some of the more puritanical elements of the Linked Data world view, publishing data from different sources that is ostensibly about the same things (i.e. Higher Education institutions) in the seemingly arbitrary way that it has been published on the Guardian Datastore ires me even more… (I’ve written about this before (e.g. The Guardian OpenPlatform DataStore – Just a Toy, or a Trusted Resource?) so I’m not causing any new offence by saying this;-) So what’s the problem? In short, this sort of thing (the column contents are taken from several of the HE related spreadsheets): Given the name of a university from one spreadsheet, it’s all but impossible to match the data to a corresponding university in one of the other spreadsheets. Ideally, each spreadsheet should use a common identifier for a particular institution, such as a UCAS institution code; but that hasn’t happened, which makes relating one data set to another – such as comparing drop out rates to student satisfaction scores – difficult. One possible way around this is to use a “Rosetta Stone” spreadsheet (e.g. The Guardian rosetta: the Datablog reference guide to nearly everything) which contains synonyms for the same entity as used across several spreadsheets. ... Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:05:42 +0100 830373 http://infobib.de/blog/2010/03/22/die-grunen-und-ein-network-zu-open-data/ Die Bundestagsfraktion der Grünen begrüßt die Veröffentlichung bibliographischer Daten unter CC0-Lizenz. Gerade in Zeiten, in denen Werke und Daten oftmals unter rein finanziellen Gesichtspunkten betrachtet werden, ist die Freigabe von solchen öffentlichen Beständen ein Gebot der Stunde. Die Bereitstellung von Daten, deren Erstellung erst durch öffentliche Mittel ermöglicht wurde, darf sich künftig jedoch nicht bloß auf Bibliotheken beschränken. Während es uns andere Länder vormachen und ihre staatlichen Daten-Bestände für die Öffentlichkeit nutzbar machen, gibt es in Deutschland noch erheblichen Nachholbedarf. Der nun eingeschlagene Weg für mehr Transparenz und Partizipation muss daher konsequent fortgesetzt werden. Wer sich für diese Themen wie z.B. Open Data, Transparenz oder Informationsfreiheit interessiert, dem sei das Open-Data-Network empfohlen, in dessen Blog ich kürzlich einen Gastbeitrag veröffentlichen durfte. Das Network richtet am 17. und 18. April, also leider parallel zur Inetbib-Tagung einen (eigentlich: zwei) Open-Data-Hackday(s) aus: Mit dem Opendata Hackday “Apps 4 Democracy” wollen wir einen Beitrag dazu leisten Daten aus Politik und Verwaltung öffentlich zugänglich zu machen. Der Ideenwettbewerb ist eröffnet: Wer hat die besten Ideen für Webseiten / Apps / Visualisierungen / Mashups um die Daten der öffentlichen Verwaltung zugänglich zu machen und so dazu beizutragen Verwaltung und Regierung offen, transparent und bürgernah zu gestalten? Auch Datenprovider sind gerne gesehen! (Source: Infobib) Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:45:14 +0100 828567 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/8y7F5AVTBCA/ Earlier this week, Library Journal announced their Movers and Shakers for 2010. This annual list and the people who make it up, are both motivating and great inspiration. But this year is of more interest, because one of our own has been inducted. Australia’s own (sorry, couldn’t resist), Paul Hagon from the National Library of Australia, has been inducted as a 2010 Movers and Shakers Tech Leader, the first Australian to receive this honour. Paul was recognised for redesigning users interfaces, for his involvement in Trove and for his work in mashups to make content more accessible. Having heard Paul speak several times at VALA 2010 (and you really must read his work) and having met him, I fully applaud this choice of the first Australian to receive this honour. And that’s not all. Joann Ramsen, one of our New Zealand kin, was also inducted as a Tech Leader in the same honour list, for her work on Kete Horowhenua – “community-built digital library of arts, cultural, and heritage resources”. She is the first New Zealander inducted. There are also many other familiar names throughout the Movers and Shakers list, but even if you don’t know them, its well worth reading about innovative librarians and the things they are doing.  It makes you proud of our profession and is also a great inspiration for things you could be doing in your own library. Congratulations to this year’s inductees! (Source: librariesinteract.info) Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:51:01 +0100 828505 http://infobib.de/blog/2010/03/16/movers-and-shakers-2010/ Jedes Jahr werden im Libraryjournal die Movers and Shakers des Jahres benannt. Das sind Menschen, die die Zukunft des Bibliothekswesens formen (sollen). Dieses Jahr gab es 50 Preisträger in sechs Kategorien: Advocates: They don’t waver in the effort to battle illiteracy, save library funding, help the unemployed, or fight censorship. Innovators: These librarians create savvy solutions such as mobile apps, reference service à la Twitter, and a general store-like library. Marketers: See libraries afresh through a Ben & Jerry’s library flavor, Library Minute vids, a Library Use Value Calculator, and more. Tech Leaders: These techies take our services to the next level with a “technology petting zoo,” a mashup of images and maps, “The Techie Is IN” program, to name a few. Community Builders: They break barriers to expand the library’s reach, with green initiatives, training, and outreach across geographic, cultural, and administrative lines. Change Agents: No problem is too big for these librarians as they foster GED readiness for the 17-plus crowd, day-by-day literacy for preschoolers, health info for all, and more. Es geht längst nicht nur um technische Innovationen oder “neue Produkte”. Zwar sind einige PreisträgerInnen auch wegen technischer Entwicklungen ausgezeichnet worden, wie z.B. Joann Ransom für Kete. Aber es werden eben auch Preise für Innovationen in anderen Bereichen vergeben. Zum Beispiel an Gretchen Caserotti, die Dewey als nicht kinderbibliothekstauglich befand: She wanted to reorganize the picture books. Taking Dewey out of the equation, she scrapped alphabetical organization (how many four-year-olds will look for fairy-tale books by author?) and went for an intuitive approach—using colored tabs for categories like “Transportation,” “Folk and fairy tales,” etc. ... Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:15:52 +0100 826851 http://www.librarymonk.com/2010/03/from-dan-on-twitter-this-week-52/ I just got the Mac Heist bundle. 7 fantastic apps worth $260+ for only $20 and got 3 great bonus apps free! http://bit.ly/heist-it # Chuck Norris is 70? Chuck Norris doesn't have birthdays, time is afraid of him… # RT @sumnerjake: BSG/Sabotage mashup=best thing EVER: http://bit.ly/8ZSgNl #sabotage #bsg # Powered by Twitter Tools (Source: Library Monk - the blog of Dan Greene) Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:16:00 +0100 827381 http://www.lisnews.org/literary_monster_mashup Literary Monster Mashup Seth Grahame-Smith started it. He wrote a monster mash-up of Jane Austen and his own imagination called “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.” It sold a million copies and set off an avalanche: “Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters” … “Emma and the Werewolves” … “The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies” … “Alice in Zombieland” … “Jane Bites Back.” Now Grahame-Smith is back with his follow-up — “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.” Literature and zombies. History and vampires. Selling like hotcakes. What’s going on? This hour, On Point: the monster mash-up craze. (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:01:59 +0100 825904 http://lisnews.org/literary_monster_mashup Literary Monster Mashup Seth Grahame-Smith started it. He wrote a monster mash-up of Jane Austen and his own imagination called “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.” It sold a million copies and set off an avalanche: “Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters” … “Emma and the Werewolves” … “The War of the Worlds Plus Blood, Guts and Zombies” … “Alice in Zombieland” … “Jane Bites Back.” Now Grahame-Smith is back with his follow-up — “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.” Literature and zombies. History and vampires. Selling like hotcakes. What’s going on? This hour, On Point: the monster mash-up craze. (Source: LISNews.org) Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:01:59 +0100 825463 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/arlisnap/~3/CLxgPGEG_cQ/ Have some knowledge of web 2.0 features such as blogs, wikis and mashups? Looking to meet some new folks and become involved? If so, please consider volunteering for this year’s Web 2.0 Kiosk... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: [ArLiSNAP]) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:20:42 +0100 825203 http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/2010/03/mash-up-is-old-term151-years-to-be.html (Found via here) Disruptive Library Technology Jester pointed out that the term mash-up is 151 years old. He/she writes:-Ron Murray, a colleague at the Library of Congress (and no known relation to me), sent me a note about the history of the term “mash-up” in the Oxford English DictionaryL1 (subscription required). The definition of the first sense is “A mixture or fusion of disparate elements” with the notation that usage is rare before the late 20th century, and the OED includes this quotation:1859D. BOUCICAULT Octoroon I. 13 He don’t understand; he speaks a mash up of Indian, French, and Mexican.The reference to “Octoroon” appears to be for a playL2 called The OctoroonL3 that was first performed in 1859, making the mashup term about 151 years old. Wow. I always thought it was only about 60 years old and came from reggae mash up. (Source: librarytwopointzero) Fri, 05 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825159 http://dltj.org/article/mash-up/ Ron Murray, a colleague at the Library of Congress (and no known relation to me), sent me a note about the history of the term “mash-up” in the Oxford English Dictionary (subscription required). The definition of the first sense is “A mixture or fusion of disparate elements” with the notation that usage is rare before the late 20th century, and the OED includes this quotation:1859D. BOUCICAULT Octoroon I. 13 He don’t understand; he speaks a mash up of Indian, French, and Mexican. The reference to “Octoroon” appears to be for a play called The Octoroon that was first performed in 1859, making the mashup term about 151 years old. Post from: Disruptive Library Technology Jester“Mash-Up” Term is Over 150 Years Old! (Source: Disruptive Library Technology Jester) Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:39:06 +0100 825054