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 RSS interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:53:23 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/f1ZwUJVZvmg/crossroads-september-2010.html Crossroads: the newsletter of WebJuntion.org - September 2010 issue is now available. RSS feed (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 15:57:55 +0100 868625 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/KWc1M_mpoA8/plos-blogs.html "PLoS Blogs has been set up to bring a select group of independent science and medicine bloggers together with the editors and staff who run our blogs. Our independent network is made up of writers who love science and medicine, and scientists and physicians that love to write. Here, you’ll find an equal mix of blogs from journalists and researchers tackling diverse issues in science and medicine" RSS feed (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:50:01 +0100 868626 http://www.lisnews.org/hurricane_resources With Hurricane Earl getting set to hit the eastern coast of the United States and with hurricane season hardly over, it is appropriate to consider some available resources out there. The audio of National Hurricane Center's storm briefings are being released on-demand in podcast form. You can subscribe using this link in your podcatcher: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/audio/index_podcast.xml NOAA's tracking portal for Earl is located here: http://www.noaawatch.gov/2010/tc_at07.php A list of all National Hurricane Center RSS feeds, including updates with rich data on storms in progress like Earl, can be found here: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutrss.shtml Widgets if you would like to integrate such into your library's own web pages can be found here: http://www.noaawatch.gov/widgets/ (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:13:27 +0100 868596 http://lisnews.org/hurricane_resources With Hurricane Earl getting set to hit the eastern coast of the United States and with hurricane season hardly over, it is appropriate to consider some available resources out there. The audio of National Hurricane Center's storm briefings are being released on-demand in podcast form. You can subscribe using this link in your podcatcher: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/audio/index_podcast.xml NOAA's tracking portal for Earl is located here: http://www.noaawatch.gov/2010/tc_at07.php A list of all National Hurricane Center RSS feeds, including updates with rich data on storms in progress like Earl, can be found here: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/aboutrss.shtml Widgets if you would like to integrate such into your library's own web pages can be found here: http://www.noaawatch.gov/widgets/ (Source: LISNews.org) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:13:27 +0100 868254 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6331 BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY Upcoming events and digital media // September 1, 2010 [1] [TUESDAY 9/7] Berkman Center Fall Open House (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/09/openhouse) [2] [CONFERENCE 9/25] "Media Law in the Digital Age: The Rules Have Changed, Have You?" Conference in Atlanta, GA (http://csjconferences.org/medialaw/) [TUESDAY] BERKMAN CENTER OPEN HOUSE ================================================================================== Tuesday, September 7, 6:00 pm Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School Campus (Map: http://bit.ly/poundmap) Free and Open to the Public Tell us if you're coming on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=140755442627336) or Twitter (http://tweetvite.com/event/berkmanopenhouse) Come to the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s Open House to meet our faculty, fellows, and staff, and to learn about the many ways you can get involved in our dynamic, exciting environment. As a University-wide research center at Harvard University, our interdisciplinary efforts in the exploration of cyberspace address a diverse range of backgrounds and experiences. If you're interested in the Internet’s impact on society and are looking to engage a community of world-class fellows and faculty through events, conversations, research, and more please join us to hear more about our upcoming academic year! Paid part-time research positions will be available in the fall, and you can visit http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/getinvolved/internships to see currently available positions. People from all disciplines, universities, and backgrounds are encouraged to attend the Open House to familiarize yourself with the Berkman Center and explore opportunities to join us in our research. We look forward to seeing you there! Refreshments will be served. For more information visit: http://cyber.law.harvard. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:31:14 +0100 868263 http://ksulib.typepad.com/talking/2010/09/blogging-the-loc-an-introduction.html The start of the semester always brings at least a couple people to the Library Help Desk expressing frustration with the way our books are organized. Why isn’t all the fiction together? Why couldn’t you just put History in the “H” section? What happened to the number system I used in high school and at the public library? This year, I’d like to explain it to you. I’ll probably get my official librarian card revoked for revealing these arcane secrets, but I think it’s worth the risk. K-State Libraries, along with most other academic libraries, uses the Library of Congress classification system. It’s a method of grouping resources by topic, just like the Dewey Decimal numbers you’ve probably used before. It’s useful, but highly quirky. It’s a product of a particular time (the early 1900s) and a particular collection of books (those in the Library of Congress), but it’s also the best way most academic libraries have for organizing the vast numbers of resources they contain. The Library of Congress.  Image retrieved from Print and Photograph Online Catalog. The system consists of twenty-one basic classes, each with an associated letter of the alphabet. Five letters were left out: I, O, W, X, Y. I’m going to make a librarianly guess that I and O were too easily confused with 1 and 0. W, X and Y were likely left out for normal end-of-the-alphabet discriminatory practices (or maybe to leave room for eventual additions).  Each of the classes can have multiple subclasses, designated by more letters. Then there are numbers and more letters and more numbers, maybe with some punctuation sprinkled in. We’re not going to delve that deep, though, so no worries. We’ll start next week with “A” and see where it takes us. It will be super geeky, and therefore completely awesome. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868722 http://rafaelsidi.blogspot.com/2010/09/sciverse.html This is just the beginning of a new journey....Rafael Sidi (Really Simple Sidi) (Source: Really Simple Sidi (RSS)) Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868516 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/09/social-news-curation-packages.html Actually a lot more interesting than they sound. There have been many 'Create your own newspaper' sites over the years - Crayon being the one that most people probably know. You provide the resource with subjects that you're interested in, and it will go out and gather useful and appropriate information from various different sites and present it back to you. I've never really got on well with them because I've always found them rather too clunky and difficult to fine tune. Besides, I make huge use of RSS feeds and alerts so I just don't find them that useful. However, there's a new(ish) bred of resources that are coming to the fore, and I've looked at three in particular - Paper.li, Flipboard, and Twitter Times. What they all have in common is that they will take content such as a Twitter user name, or a Twitter list or subject and will automatically create a newspaper for you - in the main based on a Twitter feed. They all try and create a newspaper look and feel, so that you can read through your newspaper. Why is this different from a Twitter feed? Well, the resources will pull in the content from a link, so if someone refers to an article in the Guardian for example, that article will be pulled into your newspaper so that you can read it there and then. You'll also find that the resource tries to position content on the page in the order that it thinks you want to read it, and/or by grouping content together. Here's a screenshot of my Paper.li which was created for me today.   Now, it's a huge page, with lots of scrolling required. You can't move stuff around, mainly because the paper only lasts for the day, so that's three things that irritate me right off the bat - it's inflexible, it thinks it knows what's best and it's updated once a day. This isn't how social media is supposed to work. ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 868256 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechsourceBlog/~3/q4Gj8g-ALsI/special-offer-ala-techscource-online-only-subscription-199.html Subscribe to ALA TechSource Online now and save 46 percent off the full subscription price. Hosted on Metapress, an online subscription gives you access to a growing nine-year archive of Library Technology Reports and Smart Libraries Newsletter. Read full issues online or a downloadable PDFs. Share unlimited access across your institution Personalize with RSS alerts, saved items, and emailed favorites Offer is available only to new ALA TechSource online subscribers and must be purchased using the subscription form at http://www.alatechsource.org/subscribeonly199. Offer is good through September 30, 2010. (Source: ALA TechSource Blog) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:00:34 +0100 867911 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/08/30/opds-catalog-1-0-specification/ The OPDS Catalog 1.0 specification has been released. Here's an excerpt from the announcement: The open ebook community and the Internet Archive are pleased to announce the release of the first production version of the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) Catalog format for digital content. OPDS Catalogs are an open standard designed to enable the discovery of digital content from any location, on any device, and for any application. . . . Based on the widely implemented Atom Syndication Format, OPDS Catalogs have been developed since 2009 by a group of ebook developers, publishers, librarians, and booksellers interested in providing a lightweight, simple, and easy to use format for developing catalogs of digital books, magazines, and other content. (Source: DigitalKoans) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867650 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/30/google-roundup-google-voice-a-mess-google-readers-new-full-screen-google-and-more/ + Google Voice Is A Hot Mess Right Now (by Michael Arrington, Techcrunch) ++ See Also: Google Voice: 5 Truths Behind the Hype (by Kristin Burnham, CIO) + RSS: Google Reader Now Offers a Full Screen Mode; New Trends Page (via Google Reader Blog) + Google & AP Extend Long-Term Content Deal (by Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Land) + Google Scoops up Fifth Company This Month (Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service) Today they acquired Canada ’s SocialDeck. Other Acquisitions in August: Angstro; Slide, Jambool, Like. + Report: Google’s YouTube To Offer Streaming Pay-Per-View Hollywood Rentals (by Juan Carlos Perez, IDG News Service) + Google Translate gets better definition with new interface (Chad Catacchio, NextWeb) + A Video Show From Google Highlights Hot Topics (Nick Bilton, Bits via NY Times) + Google-ITA Deal Gets Closer DOJ Scrutiny (via IDG News Service) (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:55:10 +0100 867693 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/N-KWcwQY8tU/ From Catalogablog: Version 1.0 of the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) Catalog format for digital content has been released. The open ebook community and the Internet Archive are pleased to announce the release of the first production version of the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) Catalog format for digital content. OPDS Catalogs are an open standard designed to enable the discovery of digital content from any location, on any device, and for any application. The specification is available at: http://opds-spec.org/specs/opds-catalog-1-0. Based on the widely implemented Atom Syndication Format, OPDS Catalogs have been developed since 2009 by a group of ebook developers, publishers, librarians, and booksellers interested in providing a lightweight, simple, and easy to use format for developing catalogs of digital books, magazines, and other content. OPDS Catalogs are the first component of the Internet Archive’s BookServer Project, a framework supporting open standards for discovering, lending, and vending books and other digital content on the web. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:29:00 +0100 867540 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/89SaXZr7V4Y/ Open Culture (a wonderful blog that deserves your full attention if you’ve never visited) and led by Dan Colman at Stanford U., has started compiling a collection of free textbooks available on the web. The post mentions to check back often to find new titles. Hopefully, as new titles are added they can be easily found by including an “added on” date or perhaps placed in the collection and on a separate list, with the date added also included. From the Open Culture Text Book Post: Free textbooks (aka open textbooks) written by knowledgeable scholars are a relatively new phenomenon. Below, find a meta list of 150 Free Textbooks, and check back often for new additions. Access the Collection of Free Textbooks You’ll find links to a MANY other free resource on the site and while IT IS included in one several past ResourceShelf posts, we will once again mention the Online Books Page from John Mark Ockerbloom at the University of Pennsylvania is a wonderful place to find FREE full text books from many different sources and collections. The homepage currently says it contains 40,000 titles but our guess is that it is much larger as the 40K number hasn’t changed in several months as new titles pour in. We would also suggest that the “New Listings” page is not only a tribute to Ockerbloom’s hard work but a resource that should be looked at often. New titles are added several times a week (most weeks). Amazing! Look at how much was added from a huge number of sources and collections in just last week. “New Listings” even has its own RSS feed. Two More Favorites That We’ve Mentioned Many Times: OpenLibrary and WatchKnow First, the great work that George Oates and the team at the Open Library are doing. They’re building a database of free books and other material (bibliographic data) very powerful but easy to use. One click and you can quickly limit your search to only e-books. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:23:30 +0100 867541 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/30/meta-collection-free-textbooks-online-and-a-few-other-favorite-freebies/ Open Culture (a wonderful blog that deserves your full attention if you’ve never visited) and led by Dan Colman at Stanford U., has started compiling a collection of free textbooks available on the web. The post mentions to check back often to find new titles. Hopefully, as new titles are added they can be easily found by including an “added on” date or perhaps placed in the collection and on a separate list, with the date added also included. From the Open Culture Text Book Post: Free textbooks (aka open textbooks) written by knowledgeable scholars are a relatively new phenomenon. Below, find a meta list of 150 Free Textbooks, and check back often for new additions. Access the Collection of Free Textbooks You’ll find links to a MANY other free resource on the site and while IT IS included in one several past ResourceShelf posts, we will once again mention the Online Books Page from John Mark Ockerbloom at the University of Pennsylvania is a wonderful place to find FREE full text books from many different sources and collections. The homepage currently says it contains 40,000 titles but our guess is that it is much larger as the 40K number hasn’t changed in several months as new titles pour in. We would also suggest that the “New Listings” page is not only a tribute to Ockerbloom’s hard work but a resource that should be looked at often. New titles are added several times a week (most weeks). Amazing! Look at how much was added from a huge number of sources and collections in just last week. “New Listings” even has its own RSS feed. Two More Favorites That We’ve Mentioned Many Times: OpenLibrary and WatchKnow First, the great work that George Oates and the team at the Open Library are doing. They’re building a database of free books and other material (bibliographic data) very powerful but easy to use. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:41:38 +0100 867562 http://bclyaknow.blogspot.com/2010/08/closing-blog.html My friends, all good things must come to an end.This will be the final post on the YA Know @ BCL blog. We have enjoyed sharing events and books with you over the past few years, but as the whirlwind of technology moves on, we are shifting our focus to other venues!Teens: Follow us on Facebook! We update our wall 3-4 times a week with new book releases, hot programs, author news, etc. Our location is the "Beaverton City Library Teen Divison" page.Teachers/Parents: Follow us at Teendom, Tweendom! We update this blog on a weekly basis with good homework resources, college prep and scholarships, book news, etc. Add us to your RSS feed or request periodic reminders to check the blog. (Source: YA KNOW @ BCL) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867945 http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2010/08/open-publication-distribution-system.html Version 1.0 of the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) Catalog format for digital content has been released.The open ebook community and the Internet Archive are pleased to announce the release of the first production version of the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) Catalog format for digital content. OPDS Catalogs are an open standard designed to enable the discovery of digital content from any location, on any device, and for any application.The specification is available at: http://opds-spec.org/specs/opds-catalog-1-0.Based on the widely implemented Atom Syndication Format, OPDS Catalogs have been developed since 2009 by a group of ebook developers, publishers, librarians, and booksellers interested in providing a lightweight, simple, and easy to use format for developing catalogs of digital books, magazines, and other content.OPDS Catalogs are the first component of the Internet Archive’s BookServer Project, a framework supporting open standards for discovering, lending, and vending books and other digital content on the web. (Source: Catalogablog) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867723 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/08/29/analyst-programmer-intermediate-at-georgia-state-university/ Georgia State University is recruiting an Analyst Programmer Intermediate. Salary: $42,707-$49,113. Here's an excerpt from the ad (vacancy number: 0601522): Reporting to the Web Services Librarian, the Analyst Programmer develops, maintains, and troubleshoots web based applications in support of University Library's goals. Responsibilities include scripting and programming for applications developed in-house, customization and enhancement of open-source and vendor applications, working with vendor or open-source Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and management of in-house databases. In addition, the Analyst Programmer develops end-user interfaces and dynamic forms for web applications using a variety of scripting languages and frameworks including PHP, JavaScript, CSS, XML/XSL, and RSS. This position works with project stakeholders as needed to further develop or enhance application designs or features. This position also works collaboratively with library Systems personnel to implement and configure web servers in support of web development activities, authentication technologies and server security. (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867657 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/UshoguGGTBo/ Georgia State University is recruiting an Analyst Programmer Intermediate. Salary: $42,707-$49,113. Here's an excerpt from the ad (vacancy number: 0601522): Reporting to the Web Services Librarian, the Analyst Programmer develops, maintains, and troubleshoots web based applications in support of University Library's goals. Responsibilities include scripting and programming for applications developed in-house, customization and enhancement of open-source and vendor applications, working with vendor or open-source Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and management of in-house databases. In addition, the Analyst Programmer develops end-user interfaces and dynamic forms for web applications using a variety of scripting languages and frameworks including PHP, JavaScript, CSS, XML/XSL, and RSS. This position works with project stakeholders as needed to further develop or enhance application designs or features. This position also works collaboratively with library Systems personnel to implement and configure web servers in support of web development activities, authentication technologies and server security. (Source: DigitalKoans) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:02:54 +0100 867318 http://jobs.nasig.org/?p=823 Please update your bookmarks and RSS feeds! The new home for the Jobs Blog is: http://nasigjobs.wordpress.com/ This site will only list jobs posted prior to July 2010. We’ll link to it from the new Jobs Blog and maintain it for several more months. (Source: NASIG Jobs) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:11:54 +0100 866799 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/7XD_qc2rPIg/ A couple of days ago, in another blog post, I mentioned how, just recently, I, finally, managed to get my hands on an iPad. This time around the 3G 64GB model, which I have been hunting down for a while now. Right from the moment I saw it, I knew that device would change completely the way I would interact not only with the Web and various social networking sites I use on a regular basis, but also with a good bunch of different applications. So, with that spirit, I thought, why not share those favourite applications across, as perhaps other folks may be able to benefit from them just as much as I am doing myself. After all, there are just so many out there that it wouldn’t hurt the odd recommendation, don’t you think? Well, this is the purpose of this blog post: i.e. to share those recommentations. My favourite #elsuapps! Actually, this is not something new! Back when I first got my 3G iPhone I used to share across in Twitter, on a daily basis, my favourite iPhone app under #elsuapps! Now, since we all know how wonderful (NOT!!) the Twitter Search engine is, since you can no longer track those recommendations, I thought this time around I would do a bit more of curation on such job and keep track of things slightly better. So now, I am, indeed, still sharing the Daily #iPad App, but instead of relying on the Twitter search, I actually subscribe to its own feed and have got those suggestions available in my feed reader. So I thought what a better way of sharing those recommended iPad apps than using my own blog over here to store them on a weekly basis and open up, from today, a weekly series of blog posts where I will be talking, very briefly, about those various applications I have been enjoying on my iPad for a while now. No, I am not going to share them all in one single post. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 20:02:34 +0100 867965 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/08/27/a-useful-and-fast-moving-resource-for-those-who-stream-movies-tv-from-netflix/ You’ve likely heard by now that you can now stream thousands (if not more) movies and tv shows instantly to your iPhone and iTouch if you have a NetFlix subscription (even the least expensive one). These two new outlets joint the iPad and other tools allowing you to stream direct to a TV or computer. Today, we simply wanted to share a resource (it’s free) that might be of interest to you, those you work with, and or users. Basically anyone who watches movies streamed by Netflix. What is it? An RSS feed. This RSS feed will show each title that’s available to stream as SOON as it BECOMES AVAILABLE. In the past two days, we’ve seen at least 250 titles added. To access the RSS feed, go to: http://www.netflix.com/NewWatchInstantlyRSS Here’s a Look at of Some of the Most Recent Additions to the “Watch Instantly” Collection {"pipe_id":"196f4870f85aee9d54eff3593afb296c","_btype":"list"} If you prefer, we’ve also set up a web page with the RSS feed that you will can use and will update as new titles are added (that’s RSS). However, it does not show the complete list of new titles. The best way to see that full list is to subscribe to the feed and get an entry for each title. Perhaps a combo will work best. The web page is at: http://www.resourceshelf.com/45086/ Finally, this is just one of many RSS feeds Netflix offers. The complete list is available here. (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:51:11 +0100 866417 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/xMjBcyhlaMk/beter-werken-sneltoetsen-voor-websites.html De strijd tegen mijn muisgebruik woedt nog steeds voort. Reeder mag dan bekend staan als een van de beste apps voor het lezen van RSS; nu ik er een paar keer gebruik van heb gemaakt kan ik weinig anders dan constateren dat de toepassing voor mij niet werkt. Reeder is onoverzichtelijk en het navigeren heeft een omslachtig karakter. Weg d'r mee dus. Tweetdeck bevalt wél. Ik ging overstag omdat die Twitterclient me, in tegenstelling tot Seesmic, in staat stelt om te scrollen door tweets. Inmiddels ben ik gewend aan de interface en heb ik gemerkt dat het programma nog meer voordelen heeft. Het is bijvoorbeeld veel makkelijker om te schakelen tussen verschillende accounts. Tweetdeck behoud ik. Ik bleef echter een beetje worstelen met Netvibes en andere websites. Maandag schakelde ik over van de widget- naar de zogenaamde 'lezerweergave', maar daar werd ik ook al snel hoorndol van. Het werkt prima op het moment dat ik 'goed bij ben' met het lezen van alle feeds, maar het krijgt een averechts effect als ik een dagje geen tijd heb gehad. Dan klik je je alsnog een slag in de rondte. In een helder moment bedacht ik vandaag dat Netvibes de gebruiker misschien ook wel sneltoetsen (toetsen op het toetsenbord die fungeren als alternatief voor knoppen op websites) biedt. Dat blijkt inderdaad het geval te zijn. Ik bewijs mezelf een grote dienst door deze sneltoetsen, en die van Google Chrome, uit mijn hoofd te leren. Voor Netvibes heb ik de toets H alvast onthouden. Daarmee roep je het 'contextmenu' op, waarin je naar behoefte kunt spieken. De sneltoetsen van Windows zelf kende ik al grotendeels uit mijn hoofd. Die muis gaat eraan! @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 11:36:00 +0100 866120 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/08/google-realtime-search.html Google's now got a formal 'Realtime' search page that you can visit for realtime information. You can read the official blog post for their take on it. It's got some useful functionality attached to it. Let's start with a quick look at the results page for a 'cilip' search. We get a nice little time line right at the start of the results, and it's possible to then go back in time to look at previous results - very useful if you want to see particular spikes: Unfortunately this only goes back to February 2010, although Google is planning on extending this. There are however no plans to provide an advanced search function, so the Twitter search options are still providing more detail and functionality if you really want to get into a search. It's also possible to view conversations, which is a very useful option - the 'Full conversation' option brings all of the discussions together in one place, although if someone has retweeted a protected tweet you can't actually see the original, even though Google implies that you can. There's also a 'Custom Location' option so that you can see tweets from a specific location, although again with Twitter search you can specify a location and distance from. Another useful feature is the ability to create an email alert, although no RSS option as far as I can see.The number of results is far superior to Bing, which only gave me three results for the same search. However, comparing what Google is offering with other real time search engines I remain entirely underwhelmed. ... Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866086 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15554 Web Developer (Computer Systems Analyst) (Great River Regional Library, St. Cloud, Minnesota) Great River Regional Library (GRRL) is one library in 32 locations across 6 central Minnesota counties serving nearly 450,000 residents. To meet our patrons’ needs, GRRL provides nearly 1 million books, CDs, DVDs, downloadable audiobooks and e-books as well as subscription databases, 268 public computers and free wireless internet. For more information, please visit griver.org. Description: The Web Developer (Computer Systems Analyst) exists to assist in the provision of information technology services to staff and public users at all locations and across the region through the use of web technologies. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:15:01 +0100 865555 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/7U_PVsBnJNA/ JUst before going away on holiday, I popped up a questionnaire asking for a little help working out what sort of impact – if any – I had on folk that could weave in to my promotion case for support… Thanks to all who took the time out to reply (it was very humbling:-) Anyway, for what it’s worth, here’s a draft of the Case for Support, which I need to submit tomorrow. Whilst I haven’t been able to add direct quotes from the questionnaire responses – the word limit is set at 1500 words – your responses did inform what I wrote: some of the words are very heavily loaded and more densely packed, on occasion summarising whole responses… Tony Hirst – Case for promotion to Senior Lecturer My case for promotion is based around excellence in teaching and scholarship, with a strong theme of digital scholarship and community engagement. Teaching & contributions to the teaching system I have chaired three courses (production and presentation), and authored on four others, pushing the elearning agenda through technology and design innovation with a view to reuse. In 2000, I developed two units for T396 delivered via a novel electronic study guide, providing a unified browser-based interface to online, offline and CD-ROM content, and a mobile website for course alerts. This work identified issues relating to authoring content specifically for browser based delivery on desktop and mobile devices that have informed my work ever since. A major feature of my approach to the production of teaching materials relates to supporting reuse in other contexts. Whilst writing online material for the T184 robotics course, I commissioned several interactive browser-based activities that have been reused on courses such as TXR174, as well as for outreach. Using T184 software, I developed a range of activities for schools and OU regional Aim Higher/Widening Participation initiatives. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:55:39 +0100 866539 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss/~5/SAnnET1MNaU/AJIC10-Gray.pdf Next Weblog update on 9/29/10. The African Journal of Information and Communication, no. 10 (2009/2010): Includes "Access to Africa's Knowledge: Publishing Development Research and Measuring Value," "Copyright and Education in Africa: Lessons on African Copyright and Access to Knowledge," "Open Access and Open Knowledge Production Processes: Lessons from CODESRIA," "Research Productivity-Visibility-Accessibility and Scholarly Communication in Southern African Universities," and other articles. Ariadne, no. 64 (2010): Includes: "Data Services for the Sciences: A Needs Assessment," "Repository Software Comparison: Building Digital Library Infrastructure at LSE," "Retooling Libraries for the Data Challenge," and other articles. Aslib Proceedings 62, no. 4/5 (2010): Includes "Excavating Grey Literature: A Case Study on the Rich Indexing of Archaeological Documents via Natural Language-Processing Techniques and Knowledge-Based Resources" and other articles. Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Open Access Journals Bibliography, version 1. Houston: Digital Scholarship, 2010. International Journal of Digital Curation 5, no. 1 (2010): Includes "Bit Preservation: A Solved Problem?," "Chronopolis Digital Preservation Network," "Towards Interoperable Preservation Repositories: TIPR," "Towards Smart Storage for Repository Preservation Services," "The Use of Quality Management Standards in Trustworthy Digital Archives," and other articles. Issues in Science & Technology Librarianship, no. 62 (2010): Includes "Publishing Practices of NIH-Funded Faculty at MIT" and other articles. Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries 7, no. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 17:23:48 +0100 866426 http://bibliotheque20.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/apple-store-iv-les-bibliotheques/ Que peut-on trouver dans l’apple store, dans des champs bibliothéconomiques ? 4è partie : nous / nos homologues J’ai été sur l’iphone pour rechercher les appli qui sortent quand j’appelle : « bibliothèque » ou « mediathèque » Aucune bibliothèque La Bibliothèque Nationale de Tunisie : quelques livres du domaine public accessibles Des titres de la maison d’édition « bibliothèque digitale » Bdessinée : plateforme type babelio pour les BDs Books App : plateforme type babelio ILoveBooks : plateforme type babelio Libfly : plateforme bien connue, avec webservices à destination des bibliothèques (proprio = Archimède) En anglais : les « library » Beaucoup de choses diverses et variées Bibliothèque du congrès : 2 appli Une appli « Virtual Tour » : visite des locaux avec archives de qq expo marquantes Une appli « NewsReader » : aggrégation de flux rss dont ils sont la source Wattpad : 100.000 livres électroniques en lecture (Gratuit) Université Illinois : Nouveaux titres en français du catalogue Université de Cornell accès a l’opac horaires compte usager askal (tel, mel, IM) Wahsington Public Lib OPAC critiques sur les notices horaires&co réservations Southern Maryland idem Orange County OPAC Interface de recherche travaillée spécifiquement Auckland University OPAC dont nouveautés Brown University OPAC Avec un mode de recherche simplifié San Francisco Public Lib Mon compte L’accès à l’opac est payant Denver « creating communities » consortium culturel pour créer une plateforme communautaire. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:41:22 +0100 867004 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/08/26/update-on-ongoing-collaborative-family-law-agreement-frauds/ The following is the text of the August 26 e-blast sent to Ontario lawyers reminding them of the ongoing collaborative family law cheque scam. Almost every day LAWPRO® hears from lawyers who find themselves the targets of various kinds of frauds. While this message is not a full fraud alert, we felt we should advise lawyers to be on guard, as there has been a significant increase in the number of collaborative family law agreement frauds reported to LAWPRO over the last week. Almost 20 firms have been targeted in the last four business days. We also urge lawyers to be extra cautious as we approach Labour Day weekend, as we have seen an increase in fraud attempts around long weekends and holidays in the past. These recent frauds have some new twists but are very similar to the collaborative family law agreement frauds we have previously warned lawyers about. See the previous fraud alert here. These frauds have been reported to the police. The first new twist on these frauds is that the initial contact is a letter (not an email) delivered by Canada Post. That letter is from someone claiming to be Karen L. Clark. (Click here to enlarge) The contents of the letter are virtually identical to the contents of the initial contact email used previously (i.e., Clark and ex-husband David M. Baker have signed a collaborative family law agreement that requires a payment of spousal support by Baker). The second new twist is that each of these letters include a very real looking but counterfeit cheque or cashier’s cheque in the amount of $145,000. (Click here to enlarge) The counterfeit cheques appear to come from St. Christopher House and are drawn on an account at a CIBC branch on Ossington Ave. in Toronto. (Click here to enlarge) The counterfeit cashier cheques appear to come from the Chase Bank. In the letter Clark indicates there is some urgency to cash the payment from Baker in case he changes his mind and urges the lawyer to take a retainer from the payment. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:13:00 +0100 867049 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/Dbjx/~3/MB4a3mYqVZA/social-marketing-and-yammer.html The Social Media Club Gold Coast gathered at Broadbeach Library this evening. Tracy Whitelaw was the guest speaker and talked about convincing business to ‘go new school’ in their marketing. Tracy runs a business which provides advice on social marketing and related services to businesses, and offered some great insights into how ignoring social media channels can be a big risk. The slides will be available from the SMCGC site in the near future. I’m sorry I missed the speed networking at the beginning of the evening as there were a couple of new faces – a big welcome to you if you read this :). I had to dash off to get a cable for the projector or we would have been slideless. After Tracy’s presentation Michael Rees and I gave a short demonstration of Yammer and talked about how this microblogging tool can be used within an organisation, or for small teams. Yammer has not taken off to any large extent at MPOW, but it has great potential and I’m sure there are some great success stories out there (@Suelibrarian want to add a comment about your experience?). The demonstration inspired me to check out some features that I wasn’t aware of. There is now an option to extend the network beyond the email domain, by inviting external partners and collaborators or customers into the conversation. Tracy had talked about the importance of monitoring social traffic about your product or business so as to engage with the community. Yammer has a facility to include RSS feeds or keyword filters from Twitter or Google into the Yammer feed. This is a fairly simple way to easily include those streams to monitor tweets or posts about your business. It was a good night, but must remember to bring a spare cable just in case next time! Image by Idoknow19, used under Creative Commons Licence. (Source: Innovate) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 10:59:22 +0100 866067 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/16744 Location: Georgia State University Library, Atlanta GA Position Title: Analyst Programmer Intermediate Type of Position: Regular Staff Duties: Reporting to the Web Services Librarian, the Analyst Programmer develops, maintains, and troubleshoots web based applications in support of University Library's goals. Responsibilities include scripting and programming for applications developed in-house, customization and enhancement of open-source and vendor applications, working with vendor or open-source Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), and management of in-house databases. In addition, the Analyst Programmer develops end-user interfaces and dynamic forms for web applications using a variety of scripting languages and frameworks including PHP, JavaScript, CSS, XML/XSL, and RSS. This position works with project stakeholders as needed to further develop or enhance application designs or features. This position also wor ks collaboratively with library Systems personnel to implement and configure web (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865168 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=Thomas_Hawk_Digital_Connection_-_Blog_Archive_-_New_York_Public_--- New York Public Library. Posted on August 24, 2010, 1:42 pm, by Thomas Hawk, under Photoblog. New York Public Library. Comment (RSS) | Trackback. 2 C (Source: pligg - all) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:00:22 +0100 865018 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/16739 It's a completely separate site. As someone else mentioned, mobile users' needs and capabilities are very different from users of the regular website. Our mobile site (which I built using the iUI framework) has a lot of "look up" apps or utilities, such as staff directories, announcements, news items, events, travel and weather info, etc. Most of the content is dynamically generated either from a database or from RSS feeds that are transformed into HTML http://www.law.ttu.edu/ http://www.law.ttu.edu/m/ Our regular website uses some code on the home page to detect mobile users and redirect them to the mobile site. However, the mobile site allows the mobile user to go back to the regular website, including the home page, without being caught in a redirect loop. The redirection to the mobile site occurs only if the mobile user goes to the home page from outside the website (i.e., the referrer variable is from an external site, or is undefined). Randy -----Original Message----- From: web4lib-bounces-Lfqs8nn (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865173 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/aplicaciones-web/wacchen-el-instapaper-de-los-videos/ Con el éxito de servicios como Instapaper o Read It Later no es extraño que empiecen a aparecer clones y servicios parecidos, aunque enfocados a otros tipos de contenido. Es el caso de Wacchen, que sirve para ir almacenando los videos que no podemos ver en el momento, y volver sobre ellos más tarde. Su creador es Alex Kessinger, ingeniero en Yahoo. De momento sólo tiene aplicación web, con un diseño realmente espartano. Pero resulta interesante porque, bookmarklet mediante (instalable en el navegador) podemos ir añadiendo videos de casi cualquier servicio (YouTube, Tumblr, Vimeo, etc.), ya que soporta más de 50. Wacchen no almacena sólo el enlace, sino que, al igual que Instapaper hace con las páginas web, nos crea una especie de blog personal con los videos embebidos, y nos da la opción de marcarlos como favorito y compartir en Twitter, Buzz o Reader. También nos provee de un feed RSS con todos los videos que nos faltan por ver. Aunque todavía está en pañales tiene bastante buena pinta. Veremos como evoluciona. Si te ha gustado el post puedes votarlo en bitacoras.com para que otros puedan descubrirlo © Guillermo Carvajal para La Brujula Verde, 2010. | Permalink | Comentar | Guardar en Delicious (Source: La brujula verde) Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:55:12 +0100 866795 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~3/eZAjb19wRzY/ La nueva sesión de la Certificación en Tecnologías de Aprendizaje y Educación en Línea que ofrece el Recinto Universitario de Mayagüez comenzará el 6 de septiembre  y se extenderá  hasta el 6  de noviembre. Se ofrecerá completamente a distancia. Los interesados pueden visitar la web de la certificación para obtener más detalles. Incluyo una descripción de los temas que se cubrirán en la certificación: Descripción: Se exploran los componentes necesarios para el desarrollo de un curso en línea desde el punto de vista del diseñador. El participante tendrá la oportunidad de comenzar a desarrollar  un curso en línea  e integrar componentes tales como foros de discusión, prontuarios en línea, notas de clases, directorios de enlaces y asignaciones en línea. Además, se recalcará el uso de las herramientas 2.0 en la enseñanza en línea. OBJETIVOS: Al finalizar la certificación los participantes podrán: 1. Crear y manejar de manera efectiva componentes asincrónicos y sincrónicos de un curso en línea tales  como foros,  calendarios electrónicos y chats. 2. Conocer como publicar contenido en línea 3. Crear módulos de contenido o lecciones en línea 4. Identificar los elementos  efectivos en el diseño de un curso en línea 5. Crear y desarrollar blogs 6. Manejar un sistema de social bookmarking 7. Subscribirse a fuentes de internet mediante el RSS 8. Identificar recursos educativos abiertos e integrarlos al proceso de enseñanza TEMAS: Introducción a la educación a distancia 1. ¿Qué es educar a distancia? 2. Enseñanza y aprendizaje en línea Preparación  para el curso  en línea 1.Componentes  del curso: objetivos, calendario, actividades, módulos, avalúo y evaluación del aprendizaje 2. Componentes del prontuario en línea 3. Políticas relacionadas al curso en línea Diseño del curso en línea 1. ... Tue, 24 Aug 2010 01:32:58 +0100 864912 http://www.blogpocket.com/2010/08/23/los-10-plugins-que-no-pueden-faltar-en-tu-wordpress/ Lo mejor de WordPress, en su versión instalable, es la posibilidad de ampliar la aplicación con plugins. Un plugin es un programa que se puede añadir al paquete original de WordPress, extendiendo sus funcionalidades. Realmente, WordPress es una plataforma que te permite construir cualquier tipo de sitio web, como veíamos en el post Cómo ampliar las posibilidades de tu blog. Sin embargo, los plugins son también el peor enemigo de WordPress. A menudo, son fuente de problemas, por lo que hay que tener cuidado con lo que se instala, leyendo bien las especificaciones, comprobando las incompatibilidades y probando siempre previamente. A continuación, 10 plugins que no pueden faltar en tu instalación de WordPress: 1. Akismet. Un plugin que viene con el paquete de instalación de WordPress para combatir el spam. A veces falla, pero mantiene casi a cero el número de mensajes no deseados en comentarios y trackbacks. 2. All in One SEO Pack. Realiza por tí, automáticamente, todas aquellas labores relacinadas con el SEO (posicionamiento en buscadores). La parametrización no es evidente pero existe mucha información al respecto; como por ejemplo, Guía All in one SEO pack – Configuración o, más general, Guia completa de SEO para WordPress . Más información sobre SEO y/o WordPress en mi cuenta de Delicious y aquí en Blogpocket. 3. Different Post Per Page. Muestra diferente número de posts en el blog, dependiendo de si se está visualizando la home, una página individual, una página de resultados, etc. 4. FeedBurner FeedSmith. Redirige cualquier feed del blog (rss, rss2, atom, etc.) al de FeedBurner. Tener tu feed definido en FeedBurner tiene la ventaja de poder medir tus suscriptores, además de disponer de funcionalidades adicionales como suscripción por e-mail, publicación automática en Twitter, feeds amigables, etc. FeedBurner también falla de vez en cuando y los contadores son aproximados pero, de momento, no hay ninguna aplicación semejante. ... Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:14:45 +0100 866769 http://infobib.de/blog/2010/08/23/biblio-blogempfehlungen/ Neue Biblioblogs allerorten! Der frischeste Neuzugang ist der TUBfind-Blog der TUB Hamburg-Harburg, in dem über den alternativen Katalog der TUB HH informiert wird. Im letzten Posting geht es um die Probleme mit Umlauten und Trunkierung inklusive Vorschläge zur Umgehung eben dieser Probleme. Das TUBfind-Blog richtet sich also zumindest bislang eher an das technisch interessierte Bibliothekswesen von heute. Wer so langsam den Überblick verliert, was für Bibliotheksblogs es gibt, dem möchte ich zum wiederholten Male zwei Wege vorstellen, wie man sich zumindest ein kleines bißchen auf dem Laufenden halten kann. Da ist natürlich einmal der Planet Biblioblog, in dem ziemlich viele (nicht alle) deutschsprachigen Blogs mit Bibliotheksbezug versammelt sind. Eine manuelle, subjektive Selektion aus der deutschsprachigen Bibliotheksblogwelt wird in Lesewolkes Rubrik “Gelesen in Biblioblogs” geboten. Dieser bibliothekarische Perlentaucher erscheint wöchentlich(!), im letzten zur 33. Kalenderwoche wird unter anderem eine Diskussion aus dem ebenfalls noch recht neuen Blog “Ethik von unten” aufgegriffen. RSS: http://rss.netbib.de/?media=rss http://lesewolke.wordpress.com/feed/ Abonnieren! (Source: Infobib) Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:56:12 +0100 866194 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/Virtual-data-center-for-law-firms-69535.aspx Worldox CompleteCloud (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Content Management) Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0100 867103 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/KM-In-Practice/Dana-Farber-selects-new-data-integration-platform-69534.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Content Management) Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0100 867102 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/BP-Logix-rolls-out-Process-Director-2.0-69536.aspx Business analytics, process optimization (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Business Process Management) Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0100 867099 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/Navigate-semantically-69537.aspx Open Text introduces new tool (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Digital Asset Management) Mon, 23 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0100 867093 http://rafaelsidi.blogspot.com/2010/08/information-overload-is-not-new.html That's what I have been stating in all SciVerse presentations too. Let's not forget Seneca's points on "trusted knowledge networks" too.TextDigger goes to FederatedMediaRafael Sidi (Really Simple Sidi) (Source: Really Simple Sidi (RSS)) Mon, 23 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865133 http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/002129.html While writing about subject pages and library websites the other day, it occurred to me that we might think of library websites in three stages - which emerged successively and continue to exist together. Always mindful of the rule of three ;-) We might clumsily call these stages: [1] fragmentary, [2] integrated supply, and [3] demand-influenced. Fragmentary. Libraries have to manage a variety of resources which are outside their control and present them to their users as best they can. This has meant that the library website has often been a thin wrapper around two sets of heterogeneous resources.One is the set of legacy and emerging systems, developed independently rather than as part of an overall library experience, with different fulfillment options, different metadata models, and so on (integrated library system, resolver, knowledge base, repositories, ...). Another is the set of legacy database and repository boundaries that map more to historically evolved publisher configurations and business decisions than to user needs or behaviors (for example, metadata, e-Journals, eBooks, books, A&I databases, and other types of content, which may be difficult to slice and dice in useful ways). [Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog - Stitching costs] Integrated supply. Recently, libraries have been focusing on the website in a more holistic way, as a unified service. There are several developments which have supported this. One is the move to the single, or tabbed, search box as a focal point of the website. This may sit over a metasearch product, or, more recently, over a discovery layer product. Another is the adoption of a consistent content management framework which gives a similar look and feel across the website, extending to linked services (the catalog for example) where possible (I was interested to note that SOPAC and Ting both advertise the integration between the catalog and the rest of the website). ... Mon, 23 Aug 2010 02:25:23 +0100 866750 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/1XdapB3T18E/modderen-met-code-en-hulp-via-twitter.html Vandaag ontving ik een mail van Add This, de site die de code genereert voor het balkje 'delen', onder iedere blogpost. Het was een attendering op de nieuwe service 'Follow Menu', waarmee je met een paar klikken knoppen kunt aanmaken die verwijzen naar profielpagina's elders op het web. Die code genereren was een peuleschil en het plaatsen van de code in de sidebar is ook geen probleem, maar ik wil het natuurlijk weer net een beetje anders: ik wil dat de vier knopjes rechtsboven komen te staan, op de plaats waar nu 'Twitter' en 'RSS-feed' in blauwe letters staat. De code voor die twee teksten is kort. Zie deze afbeelding. De code van Add This is iets langer. Zie afbeelding 2. De eerste code zomaar vervangen door de tweede lukt niet: dan komen de knopjes onder 'startpagina' en 'over edwin' te staan. Mijn vraag nu is: weet iemand hoe ik de code van het scriptje van Add This netjes rechts in beeld kan krijgen? Wat moet ik dan aanpassen in de code van Blogger? Op de afbeelding zie je dat al een paar goede mensen zo vriendelijk waren om mij tips te geven via Twitter (wat een mooi medium toch, dank allen!) maar ik ben bang dat ik met mijn geringe kennis van CSS er niet uitkom in een paar keer 140 karakters. Al met al is dit ook helemaal niet belangrijk, maar het zou natuurlijk wel leuk zijn als ik het nu toch nog voor elkaar zou krijgen. Als iemand een gouden stap voor stap-tip heeft, houd ik me van harte aanbevolen. @ (Source: Digitaal Inlichtingenwerk Zeeuwse Bibliotheek) Sun, 22 Aug 2010 09:22:00 +0100 864833 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/b0U6443g9o4/muismijden.html RSI wordt door veel mensen onderschat. Nog steeds. Terwijl het veel voorkomt en de samenleving veel geld kost. Ik onderschat RSI niet meer. Een jaar of zes geleden was ik zelf bijna het haasje. In die tijd werkte ik overdag in de bibliotheek, veelal achter de pc, zat ik 's avonds thuis nog een paar uur achter de pc, voor de lol, en rondde ik de dag af door nog twee uur Unreal Tournament online te spelen. De linkermuisknop was de trekker/schietknop van mijn wapens. Dat was teveel van het goede. Op een gegeven moment kreeg ik last van tintelingen en een slap gevoel in mijn arm en vingers. Later ging het zelfs pijn doen. Ik meldde me dus bij de bedrijfsarts en kreeg een van de grappigste adviezen ooit van een arts. Nadat hij me had gevraagd of ik rookte en ik dat had bevestigd zei hij: "dan moet je je werkzaamheden regelmatig onderbreken om een sigaretje te gaan roken". Met dat koren op mijn molen vervoegde ik me uiteraard graag bij mijn chef. Mijn werkplek werd bekeken door een ergonoom. Hij zorgde ervoor dat ik een stoel met leuningen kreeg en dat mijn beeldscherm op een verhoging werd geplaatst, opdat ik ertoe verleid zou worden rechtop te blijven zitten. Met online gamen stopte ik. Dat was simpelweg te intensief, als dagafsluiter. Sindsdien heb ik eigenlijk geen noemenswaardige klachten meer gehad, ondanks het feit dat ik dagelijks heel wat uren achter de pc of laptop zit. Tot vorige week. 8 dagen terug pakte ik eens ouwerwets flink door. Werken aan projecten, volop in de weer met alle communicatiekanalen en mijn favoriete websites: ik zat die dag meer dan 12 uur met de muis in mijn hand. Zonder na te denken, onderuit gezakt. Ik kreeg de rekening de volgende dag meteen gepresenteerd: een knoop tussen de schouderbladen en jawel: een tintelende en slappe arm. Code Rood! Defcon 2! We gaan neer, Houston! Als ik nu ergens niet op zit te wachten zijn het RSI-klachten. Dan kan ik het kleine ondernemerschap wel vergeten. ... Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:28:00 +0100 864834 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/digizen/~3/tRwkApC1Eqc/ Hoy en la mañana participaré del Simposio Aprendizaje 2.0 que se llevará a cabo en la Universidad Católica de Mayagüez. Hablaré sobre los usos del RSS y su valor en el aprendizaje 2.0. Incluyo la presentación: El RSS: Herramienta omnipresente en el aprendizaje 2.0 View more presentations from DigiZen. Otros recursos sobre el tema que pueden ser de interés: 1. Guía sobre cómo usar el Google Reader 2. Introducción al RSS 3. Guía en SlideShare sobre Google Reader: Guía para Google Reader View more presentations from DigiZen. (Source: DigiZen: Un blogfesor aprendiendo) Sat, 21 Aug 2010 10:49:27 +0100 864913 http://gypsylibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/07/article-note-on-liaison-activities-for.html Citation for the article:Kozel-Gains, Melissa A. and Richard A. Stoddart, "Experiments and Experiences in Liaison Activities: Lessons from New Librarians in Integrating Technology, Face-to-Face, and Follow-Up." Collection Management 34.2 (April 2009) :130-142. Read via Interlibrary Loan.  The article reviews some librarian liaison activities. It specifically looks at blogs, customized research pages, and the use of Library Thing for collection development. The article is mostly for new librarians who find themselves with liaison duties in academia, but librarians who are already working in academia will find benefit from the article as well. The authors cite RUSA's definition of liaison work as "the process by which librarians involve the library's clientele in the assessment and satisfaction of collection needs" (131). Let me put it in plain English. If you are an academic librarian, and your role includes working with faculty in a specific department, and if said role includes work in collection development for said department/subject area, and you also provide instruction specifically to meet those department's needs, you are a library liaison. In a university setting, odds are pretty good that if you are a reference and/or instruction librarian, that you will have some level of liaison duties. Let me use myself as an example. I am the subject librarian here for the School of Education, the Department of Psychology, and the Department of Social Sciences (specifically for areas in anthropology, criminal justice, public administration, geography, and political science). This means that I promote library services to those areas. ... Fri, 20 Aug 2010 19:50:00 +0100 866511 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/08/20/court-web-site-guidelines-notification-content-securit/ Earlier this week, I presented the CCCT IntellAction Working Group selection of principles that should guide the design and organization of court web sites. In this post, I further explain the next three principles: Principle #4: Notification Principle #5: Content Organization & Search Principle #6: Security Comments and suggestions are welcome! Principle #4: Notification The option of subscribing to content (or notification of new content) is often an expected web site feature. This is typically achieved by offering one or several RSS feeds, one or several email subscriptions or, ideally, offering both RSS feeds and email-based subscriptions. Each court web site audience should be provided with recommended notification channels, thereby increasing the likelihood of the court web site becoming truly interactive. Selected taxonomy terms (see below, Principle #5: Content Organization & Search) should have their own page on the site, RSS feed and email-based subscription. Notification further empowers web site stakeholders. Principle #5: Content Organization & Search There are three methods to organize content on a web site. All three methods should be used for court web sites: Menu Navigation. First and foremost, menu navigation should be tested by users (User Acceptance Testing – UAT) and relentlessly optimized, because it is the primary means of accessing content for web site visitors Taxonomies. Taxonomies are terms (or categories) controlled by web site administrators to classify and organize content. Only web site administrators can create and update such terms. These terms, often called categories on web sites, are displayed along content and can usually be clicked on to get to all content belonging to the same category Free Tagging. Free tagging (also called “Social Tagging”) allows creators of content to assign terms on-the-fly to their own content and/or to existing content. ... Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:05:23 +0100 867076 /2010-8-20/Do_you_miss_Unshelved_RSS by Bill ( link (Source: Unshelved) Fri, 20 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865514 http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/002128.html I have mentioned Libguides a couple of times, which seem to be quite widely used. I have been interested recently to come across some other initiatives which aim to organize subject- or course-based library resources within a consistent content management environment which reduces custom effort. I enjoyed listening to Allie Flanary present about students and search strategies at the Orbis Cascade Alliance Worldcat Discovery Day. Allie works at the Portland Community College, where the event was held. The course guides she was using caught my eye and I went back later to see how they were put together. Here is the one for Fashion design, for example. I discovered that they use Library à la Carte, developed at Oregon State University: The Library à la Carte Content Management System (CMS) enables librarians to easily and quickly create dynamic web pages that integrate Web 2.0 features, such as chat and RSS feeds, with traditional library content, such as catalogs and article databases. Library à la Carte is a free open-source solution for libraries by libraries. A redesign of the NCSU Library website highlights course-related services. Among these are course pages (see one below) which include some general resources, some course-specific resources, and a link to a librarian. I was interested to discover that these were based on a home-grown framework, Course Views, which is described in an article in the Code4Lib Journal: The NCSU Libraries' Course Views project, along with a locally developed widget web service, improves course-based access to library collections and services by dynamically generating library course pages for all 6000+ courses at NCSU. By automatically generating custom content when possible and showcasing authored content when available, Course Views is able to achieve full course coverage without significantly increasing staff time to create and manage content. ... Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:33:53 +0100 866752 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6309 BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY Upcoming events and digital media // August 18, 2010 [1] [8/26-27] VRM + CRM 2010 Workshop (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6295) [2] [SAVE THE DATE 9/7] Berkman Center Open House (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/09/openhouse) [3] [9/25] "Media Law in the Digital Age: The Rules Have Changed, Have You?" Conference in Atlanta, GA (http://csjconferences.org/medialaw/) VRM + CRM 2010 WORKSHOP ================================================================================== 8/26-27 Pound Hall, Harvard Law School Free and Open to the Public; Registration is required: http://vrmcrm2010.eventbrite.com/ The first VRM+CRM workshop will take place on 26-27 August, at Harvard Law School. The purpose is to get VRM and CRM developers and other interested parties (such as CRM customers) together to start building out the common ground between them. That common ground is potentially very huge. CRM is already a $15 billion business. What happens when customers start managing relationships too? Let’s start answering that. While the workshop sessions will be chosen by the participants (following opening briefings by VRM and CRM folks), here are a few of the topics and questions that are sure to come up – * Terms of service. How can we get past the legal hurdles and shackles that inconvenience both buyers and sellers when they get acquainted? * Privacy policies. How can we reduce the suspicions and frictions that these involve? * Personal data. What tools, methods and services are being developed for individuals to keep track of data they generate or is being kept by sellers and other parties? What means do we have for sharing or exchanging that data in secure and trustable ways? * Signaling. ... Wed, 18 Aug 2010 20:04:08 +0100 865910 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/Personal-business-intelligence-69471.aspx The cloud opens up (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Business Intelligence) Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0100 867413 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/FOIA-help-for-government-69470.aspx IE Discovery tackles Freedom of Information Act (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Content Management) Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0100 867106 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/Partnering-for-legal-assistance-69469.aspx Facilitating efficient practice management (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Content Management) Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0100 867105 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/KM-In-Practice/Uniting-to-facilitate-brain-research-69468.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Content Management) Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0100 867104 http://www.umm.uni-heidelberg.de/apps/bibl/mwbnews/?p=1429 Es gibt wieder neue Angebote in KELDAmed; eine Auswahl nennen wir an dieser Stelle: Spomedial Bronchoscopy Atlas   Hearing Loss Sampler Musical Acoustics Die neu in KELDAmed hinzugefügten Angebote können auch per RSS abonniert werden. (Source: Newsblog) Wed, 18 Aug 2010 09:33:14 +0100 866706 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/08/17/court-web-site-design-principles/ Back in January, I announced the formation of a working group under the auspices of the Canadian Centre for Court Technology (CCCT). The objective of this working group was to draft guidelines facilitating the modernization of Canadian court web sites. Since that time, we have made progress and expect to have finished a first draft of the Court Web Site guidelines before the upcoming Canadian Forum on Court Technology. One of the five parts of the guidelines is titled “Principles – Cutting Through Context and Issues: What Principles Should Guide the Design of Court Web Sites?” In this post I’d like to expose the principles we selected. Your comments and feedback are welcome: Principle #1: The Right Information for Specific Audiences Principle #2: Empowerment Principle #3: Timeliness Principle #4: Notification Principle #5: Content Organization & Search Principle #6: Security Principle #7: Bilinguism Principle #8: Accessibility Principle #9: Interactivity Principle #10: Viability Principle #11: Simplicity The first three principles are explained, below. The other principles will be explained in upcoming posts. Principle #1: The Right Information for Specific Audiences Users that come to a court web site generally fall under the following categories: Members of the Public Journalists Self-represented Litigants Practitioners: Lawyers, Paralegals, Stenographers, Translators, etc. Researchers: Law Professors, Law Librarians, Law Students Commercial Law Publishers Government (Public Servants) Staff (employees and judges of the court) Each audience has its own information needs and expectations. Being able to find the right information means that courts should make a effort, under the current guidelines, to specifically cater to each audience according to a “cost / benefit” analysis. This analysis is necessary, because it is impossible to meet the entire range of all information needs by all audiences. ... Tue, 17 Aug 2010 15:18:13 +0100 867086 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/08/17/building-a-business-case-for-an-external-blog/ In June, Hicks Morley launched its first external blog, “Human Resources Legislative Update”. The blog replaces a monthly newsletter on legislative changes in human resources law that was sent to clients by email and posted on our website. The downside of the newsletter format was that by the time it was published, it was often already out of date due to the frequency of legislative changes and updates. We needed a time-sensitive solution that was accessible 24/7 to our legislative writers, provided a quick and easy publishing solution and gave readers the ability to ask questions or leave comments. The Knowledge Management Group had already successfully launched an internal blog that had similar features, so we proposed an external blog to our Executive. As I was writing this column, a blog entry by Sean D’Souza entitled “5 Reasons Why No One Is Reading Your Email Newsletter” appeared on Twitter and LinkedIn. The five reasons included: content which was not useful and involved self promotion; using a voice that is not compelling; lack of structure; lack of communication regarding certain actions; and lack of frequency.   Our blog business case addressed many of the same issues, including the structure and content of blog entries, target audience, frequency of updates, the proposed bloggers, the accessibility of the blog platform and the ability to moderate and respond to readers’ comments. It also included a recommendation to outsource the blog design to a vendor that specializes in developing and hosting legal blogs.    The content was ideal for the firm’s first foray into the blogging sphere because it was factual and authoritative. Each blog entry would be a short, succinct summary of the legal change and its impact on our readers. Blog posts would be targeted to a niche audience interested in specific legislative developments that could also be found through topics and tags. ... Tue, 17 Aug 2010 11:00:41 +0100 867088 http://dallnet.blogspot.com/2010/08/speaking-of-rss-feeds.html New Media News has published a list of the "Best RSS Directories and Blog Submission Sites." (Source: Lex Scripta) Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865389 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/White-Paper/Article/Info-GovernanceNew-Challenges-and-Tools-for-Records-Managers-69346.aspx Records management (RM) is not generally perceived to be sexy work?records managers are usually not high-profile heroes in their organizations. And yet, the importance of a records manager's job continues to grow as information governance becomes critical to many organizations. In the past, records managers generally had responsibility for paper records, organizing and maintaining a file plan. Even though the RM system may not match the way that users organized their documents, the records manager knew how to store and retrieve the records as required and eventually to run disposition as required by the organization's policies.The advent of electronically stored information (ESI) has changed the way records are maintained, and while many organizations continue to maintain physical records, they must also now contend with a growing array of electronic records. . . . (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Records Management, Regulatory Compliance) Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0100 867420 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/White-Paper/Article/Fortifying-the-Pillars-of-Governance-69338.aspx What exactly IS governance? Governance, at first glance, seems to be one of those broad, umbrella-like terms that can mean virtually anything. Definitions from different research firms and business consultants do little to resolve the issue. According to Gartner Research, IT governance is "the set of processes that ensure the effective and efficient use of IT in enabling an organization to achieve its goals." Microsoft TechNet explains that IT governance is "the set of policies, roles, responsibilities and processes that guide, direct and control how an organization's business divisions and IT teams cooperate to achieve business goals." Though these definitions help frame the issue, it is often difficult for the IT administrator to define actual "good governance practices" from such broad definitions... (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Records Management, Regulatory Compliance) Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0100 867419 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/White-Paper/Article/The-Gamble-Risk-Vs.-Governance-69328.aspx And I quote: "Regulatory compliance is what you have to do. Information governance is what you should do. And risk avoidance is what you achieve when you do both of those correctly." That's roughly what I wrote about a year ago, and it's still pretty much true today. But a few things have changed in the records and risk-management business since then, so I set out to discover what those elements were. To do so, I spoke at length with Miguel Rodriguez. Miguel is the senior product manager for ASG Software Solutions, and is as gentlemanly and poised as they come. He's also got a sense of humor about his work, and we had a great talk a couple weeks back. "For most business-side people, their contact with the reality of technology is limited. . . . (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Records Management, Regulatory Compliance) Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0100 867418 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/White-Paper/Article/What-They-Done28099t-Tell-You-About-Governance2c-Risk-and-ComplianceIntegrating-and-Auditing-Content-across-the-Enterprise-69330.aspx The understanding that an organization's content is a critical competitive asset is universally accepted. However, the scope of what comprises that content has expanded dramatically. Content is created and resides in a wide variety of sources, including email, transaction records, images, photographs, audio and video files, Web pages, wikis and blogs. Content also includes spreadsheets, documents and presentations generated by individuals at their desktops. For most organizations, statements, bills, checks, invoices and high-volume reports generated by business applications are critical content, too. The risk of not managing this content effectively is high. Think about it: Do you know where all of the content in your organization resides, who authored it, who owns it, who can access it and which version is correct. . . ? (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Records Management, Regulatory Compliance) Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0100 867417 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/KM-In-Practice/Verifying-votes-by-mail--69400.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Document Management) Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0100 867414 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/Another-feather-in-IBMe28099s-cap--69403.aspx Boosts content capture, management and flow (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Business Process Management) Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0100 867101 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/Leverage-from-Applied-Discovery-69402.aspx Early case assessment, review and metrics (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Business Process Management) Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0100 867100 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/MarketingPilot-announces-Release-10-69401.aspx New social media capabilities (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Digital Asset Management) Mon, 16 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0100 867095 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pandia/vfbc/~3/OEuoF2jlx2o/3082-top-5-real-time-search-engines.html Social media of all kinds are a source of huge amounts of fresh information about news and events, likes and dislikes. But the signal-to-noice ratio is not good: Much, maybe most, of the material posted is personal and it can be hard to find the pertinent information. You need help to sift and sort the items, so why not try one of these five great real time search engines. There are all kinds of search engines out there, searching the real time web. Some search a particular channel, like Twitter or Flickr. Others search for particular media, like images or video. These five search engines all search several sources and present results in several kinds of media. Collecta My personal favorite is Collecta. This is a powerful search tool, yet it is easy to figure out and navigate. The front page holds boxes, each containing a hot topic represented with both images and text, so you have a feeling of reading a real time newspaper. When you do a search, the screen is split into three columns: The main column shows a live stream of fresh items matching your query. These are updated in real time and the stream can be paused if you want a closer look. The stream contains: Microblog updates from Twitter, Jaiku and Identica Blog posts and blog comments Photos from Flickr, TwitPic and yFrog Videos from YouTube and Ustream When you select an item, it expands in the right column, where you can get a closer look at it. Unfortunately, there is no way to play videos on the results page, you have to click through to the source, e.g. YouTube. In the left column, you can sort your results by type (updates, images, stories etc.). In the same menu, you can share the results: You can send them directly to Facebook, Twitter, Mixx, Delicious, Reddit or StumbleUpon or you can grab the URL to the page or the feed. Topsy Topsy has no fancy front page like Collecta, but the search results page holds plenty of options. By default, the results include news, tweets and photos (no videos). ... Sun, 15 Aug 2010 09:09:36 +0100 865165 http://rafaelsidi.blogspot.com/2010/08/sciverse-setting-up-stage-for-new.html Back from vacationGetting closer in bringing aggregation, interoperability between ScienceDirect and Scopus and creating an "open platform" to develop apps. This is just the beginning of a new direction..Believe in APIs when you are setting your product strategyKind of you cite me, I'll cite youChallanges at universitiesNow that's a clever idea, going back to Ottoman timesGreat to see this kind of innovation programs from Harvard Library Rafael Sidi (Really Simple Sidi) (Source: Really Simple Sidi (RSS)) Sun, 15 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865134 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JohnBattellesSearchblog/~3/wDl1ZFX7MyY/the_signal_week_that_was.php Once again, for you RSS consumers out there, the week that was in Signal, which, should you care to, you can sign up for in convenient email form right here. Friday Signal: The Week That Is. Thursday Signal: We Got Yer Tablet(s) Right Here   Weds. Signal: Pull the Ripcord! Tuesday Signal: Google’s Agony Monday Signal: It’s Slow Out There, Be Careful (Source: John Battelle's Searchblog) Fri, 13 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865624 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6300 BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY Upcoming events and digital media // August 11, 2010 [1] [8/26-27] VRM + CRM 2010 Workshop (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6295) VRM + CRM 2010 WORKSHOP ================================================================================== 8/26-27 Pound Hall, Harvard Law School Free and Open to the Public; Registration is required: http://vrmcrm2010.eventbrite.com/ The first VRM+CRM workshop will take place on 26-27 August, at Harvard Law School. The purpose is to get VRM and CRM developers and other interested parties (such as CRM customers) together to start building out the common ground between them. That common ground is potentially very huge. CRM is already a $15 billion business. What happens when customers start managing relationships too? Let’s start answering that. While the workshop sessions will be chosen by the participants (following opening briefings by VRM and CRM folks), here are a few of the topics and questions that are sure to come up – * Terms of service. How can we get past the legal hurdles and shackles that inconvenience both buyers and sellers when they get acquainted? * Privacy policies. How can we reduce the suspicions and frictions that these involve? * Personal data. What tools, methods and services are being developed for individuals to keep track of data they generate or is being kept by sellers and other parties? What means do we have for sharing or exchanging that data in secure and trustable ways? * Signaling. What new methods will both individuals and organizations have for notifying each other of interests, intentions, policies, preferences, or changes in any of those? How can we make these common across the industry, rather than different for every organization? * Self-tracking and personal informatics. What vendor-independent means are being developed for individuals to keep track of their own personal data, and manage it? * Search. ... Thu, 12 Aug 2010 14:14:14 +0100 865917 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/LqNf3s2AM8o/feedthru RSS Feeds « App Inventor API (Source: OUseful Info) Thu, 12 Aug 2010 07:00:00 +0100 866543 http://www.rss4lib.com/2010/08/survey-report-on-librarians-us.html A recent survey of WebJunction users showed some interesting statistics on use of various online tools by librarians (the write-up is at at "Library Staff Report Their Use of Online Tools"). The trend from the survey indicates that social media (such as Facebook) is making inroads on email as a communication tool. Of particular interest to me is the finding that RSS feeds are used daily or weekly by only 24% of respondents and used never by 50%. Blogs are used daily or weekly by only 27%, and never by 40%. I know I spend much less time reading blogs (and, as those of you who read RSS4Lib in its native blog for or via RSS might notice, writing for one). I do wonder how much RSS usage is un-noticed or un-recognized by respondents; as RSS (and XML in general) become the way data move, do its consumers care how the data appear where they're consumed? The survey results highlight differences between academic and public librarians (academic librarians are more likely to use online tools than their public counterparts) and a series of interesting differences between urban and rural librarians. (Source: RSS4Lib) Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:49:18 +0100 865936 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/To-Infiniworx-and-beyond-69329.aspx AnyDoc adds e-mail capabilities (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: E-mail Management) Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0100 867415 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/Simplifying-e-discovery-collection-69327.aspx Integreon announces Seek & Collect appliance (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Content Management) Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0100 867108 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/KM-In-Practice/E-discovery-solution-aids-war-crimes-conviction-69325.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Content Management) Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0100 867107 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/Partnering-for-SharePoint-69326.aspx AvePoint and Summit 7 Systems (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Digital Asset Management) Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0100 867097 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/1uC6v9cUoQQ/feedthru A call to arms to developers: How far can you take our travel advice? There's a lot of cognitive surplus in education, in the sense that we make up contrived exercises and activities for students to engage with rather than using the real world. So why shouldn't we set students AUTHENTIC exercises, such as helping the Foreign Office develop their ad hoc RSS powered just-as-good-as-a real-api services...? We're All Google's Lab Rats So every Google query is part of one or more live experiments? It's time we started experimenting on our students... ;-) (I would *love* to be able to run A/B tests on course materials via the VLE...) PLAYBACK: Digital Books Come of Age (Or) The Textbook is Dead; Long Live the Textbook » Spotlight "Blackboard and Barnes and Noble, the leading operator of college bookstores, recently announced a partnership to enable students to purchase e-books, textbooks and other course-related materials directly through Blackboard Learn, a widely-used online teaching and learning platform. Barnes and Noble also will integrate its NOOKstudy application more seamlessly into Blackboard." http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/feeds/ou-xcri-cap.xml Thinking that following my Talis training last week, if I had a couple of free hours I'd convert this "OU course info as XML" doc into turtle triples and import them into my Talis platform developer datastore to see what sort of queries the data might then suggest? The data isn't very graph like, though, so it'd really need supplementing with "this course studied with that course" data from Course Profiles...? (Source: OUseful Info) Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:00:00 +0100 866546 http://wulibraries.typepad.com/bionews/2010/08/new-wiley-and-springer-sites.html Wiley and Springer both brought up new web sites for their ejournal and ebooks recently. The new Springer interface has been available as their Beta site for several months. On the new platform you will find: Related documents for every article or eBook chapter; this is nice but only leads you to related documents within the Springer universe PDF Preview for eBook chapters. Note: I find this especially useful in when browsing in collections we do not subscribe to because you can see several pages of each chapter online even though we do not have full access to the book. Then, if needed, you can search the catalog or Mobius to find out if we have the book available. The ebook collections which we do have, 2005+, are Biomedical & Life Sciences, Medicine, Computer Science, and Mathematics & Statistics. Enhanced browsing features. Note: use the TOOLS menu if you would prefer to turn off Access Indicators or search-term Highlighting. View abstracts without leaving search results Improved search functionality - including searching by citation Easy filters for Online First and Open Access articles Wiley Online Library is also more than just a new "look." More info about Features and Benefits. My favorite feature so far is that it is much easier to see when access is freely available or accessible (due to WU-license). I have noticed several links on subject pages that need repair, particularly Wiley links, but the links from the library online catalogs and EJournals Holdings list seem to be up-to-date. If you have bookmarks or RSS feeds to Wiley or Springer tables of contents alerts or new book alerts, you may need to update your links. Please let me know when you have access problems or when you note other new features. I really appreciate your reports. (Source: Biology Library News) Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866609 http://dallnet.blogspot.com/2010/08/good-bye-stat-usa.html STAT-USA Office to Cease Operations September 30, 2010 From the website: After 25 years of service, "The STAT-USA/Internet website and our syndication services will no longer be available after September 30. To assist our customers in locating the data that STAT-USA/Internet has provided, by August 15 we will post a transition page with links to the data sources. If your STAT-USA/Internet subscription expires after September 30, you may be entitled to a refund. There will be no changes or interruptions in service for USA Trade Online subscribers. USA Trade Online will be managed by the Census Bureau’s Foreign Trade Division, a founding partner and the official source of the merchandise trade data." For additional information: http://www.stat-usa.gov/ From a personal view...so sorry to see it go! (Source: Lex Scripta) Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865393 http://dallnet.blogspot.com/2010/08/online-session-utilizing-rss-feeds.html FOR DALL MEMBERSTitle: Keeping Current--Utilizing RSS FeedsPlace: Online SeminarLength: 20 MinutesInstructors: Jennifer Stephens & Barbara FullertonDate: Wednesday, Aug. 18thTime: 10 a.m. CSTDuring this session, attendees will learn:1. What is a RSS Feed 2. Why is it important to use them 3. How to locate RSS Feeds4. How to use Readers like Bloglines and Google Reader 5. How to add a feed like Lex Scripta 6. How to view a feed 7. How to organize feeds8. FAQs If you would like to attend this event, please RSVP by Monday, Aug. 16th to Barbara Fullerton at Barbara.fullerton@morningstar.com or 214-800-4576 and the webinar instructions will be provided to you.Jennifer Stephens, DALL BlogmasterBarbara Fullerton, DALL Placement (Source: Lex Scripta) Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 865392 http://nnlm.gov/pnr/dragonfly/2010/08/09/new-look-for-pubmed-abstract-display/ Certain abstracts in PubMed will now be formatted for easier readability. One fourth of the abstracts currently added to MEDLINE follow the Structured Abstract format with headings for BACKGROUND, OBJECTIVE, METHODS, RESULTS, and CONCLUSIONS. These section will appear in the abstracts. For more information, see the NLM Technical Bulletin article. Remember, you can stay current with by signing up for email alerts or an RSS feed (links found at the bottom of each NLM Technical Bulletin screen). (Source: Dragonfly) Mon, 09 Aug 2010 23:34:14 +0100 867517 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pandia/vfbc/~3/jvlYdHtJcuQ/3072-search-delicious-twitter-facebook-and-more-all-in-one-tool.html If you are an avid user of social networks or if you want to monitor the hive mind for news about, say, a brand, a sports team or a celebrity, you know it can be hard to keep up across the different networks. Here’s a solution. 48ers is a new search engine in public beta. It lets you search Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, Digg, and Delicious all at once. All you do is enter the search term and hit Search. By default, results from all five networks are displayed. The search results are entire entries (tweets, updates etc). A little logo next to each result lets you know the source. If you want to see the results for each network separately, you can filter the results from a menu on the left. There is no RSS, but a button to share search results with friends through a large number of channels. I am particularly happy that Delicious is included among the sources. For years, it has continued to be my most indesposable web tool, not only for storing bookmarks, but for finding vetted web resources and sharing them with others. (In case you are wondering: The name 48ers refers to the pioneers of the California gold rush.) Facebook, Twitter and Youtube Marketing. Hourly rates $15 to $25. (Source: Pandia Search Engine News) Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:04:36 +0100 865166 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AginfoBlogFromIaald/~3/uYOhjkbTuD4/aginfo-developments-in-mauritius.html Mauritius recently hosted a 'National Workshop on Agricultural Information Communication Knowledge Management (AICKM) Strategy development.' See reports in the News of Agriculture from Mauritius blog.This was preceded by several days 'Web 2.0 Collaborative Tools Training' (check stories from early July 2010) in which "participants were exposed to tools covering: social media, RSS, blogs, wikis, Dgroups, GoogleDocs, social bookmarking, learning management and online surveys."Look out for lots more aginfo 2.0 from Mauritius! (Source: AgInfo News from IAALD) Sun, 08 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867410 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BabyBoomerLibrarian/~3/KK5ujeQvuzM/nylink-donna-dixon-moving-to-suny-press.html Donna Dixon: New Co-Director at SUNY Press Donna Dixon (Director of the Member Programs Team) will be transferring from Nylink to SUNY Press where she will be Co-Director along with James Peltz, who is currently an executive acquisitions editor at the Press.  This new role will be a great opportunity for Donna to broaden her experience to include the university press arena.  At the same time, she will bring a wealth of knowledge regarding publishers and information providers in her dealings with such organizations while at Nylink.  Her work at SUNY Press will include contract and financial management duties as well as other tasks as required. We will miss Donna’s experience and positive approach to challenging issues.  While she will be moving into this new role immediately, she will be “just across the hall” now that SUNY Press is relocated to Corporate Woods.  We wish her the very best and expect to stay in touch on a regular basis. Dealing with Information Overload with the Librarian in Black September 22, 2010: 2:00 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Overwhelmed by your RSS feed, email and social networks? Learn how to dig yourself out of the information pile! Join us for a webinar that will give you skills and techniques to deal with your ever growing pile of things to read, do, store and tweet. About the Instructor: Sarah Houghton-Jan is the Digital Futures Manager for the San José Public Library in the heart of the Silicon Valley. She is also the author of the blog LibrarianInBlack.net.  Sarah was named a 2009 Library Journal Mover & Shaker as a Trendspotter.  She trains and consults for libraries all over the world about issues of library and technology.  Her book, Technology Training in Libraries, was published in 2010. For more information about this webinar, or to register, see our website at http://www.nylink.org/education/LIBInfoOverload.cfm. ... Fri, 06 Aug 2010 20:43:00 +0100 864880 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://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/08/trb-90th-annual-meeting-january-23-27.html TRB 90th Annual Meeting, January 23-27, 2011 - Call for Poster ProposalsCall TitleSearch, Discovery and Current Awareness: New and Innovative Uses of Online Research Tools in Transportation Research and ImplementationSponsoring CommitteeABG40 Committee on Library and Information Science for Transportation (LIST)Call DescriptionThe Committee on Library and Information Science for Transportation invites you to submit proposals for a poster session focusing on new and innovative uses of practical online search, discovery and current awareness tools that can give modern transportation professionals a competitive edge. Posters will be displayed at the TRB Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, January 2011.BackgroundExtending a theme begun with LIST’s 2006 presentation session on wikis, blogs, RSS and podcasting, and continued in 2007, 2008, and 2009 with LIST sessions on the application of Web 2.0 social media technologies, the committee is issuing a call for posters related to new and innovative uses of online research tools as they relate to search, discovery and current awareness in transportation. This poster session is designed to complement this year’s LIST-sponsored workshop titled “The Right Tool for the Job: Search, Discovery and Current Awareness Tools, Tips and Tricks for Busy Transportation Professionals.” While the workshop will provide a high-level overview and will focus specifically on TRB and Google tools and ways they can be used to find high-quality transportation information, the poster session will allow presenters to explore specific tools and specific techniques in great depth. This poster session is not limited to TRB and Google tools.DescriptionThe poster session will focus on new and innovative uses of tools and techniques that can be used by transportation professionals to save time and improve the work effectiveness of professionals who must quickly search for, find and ultimately make decisions based on reliable information. ... Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866364 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/KM-In-Practice/Museum-launches-kid-friendly-kiosks-68702.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Popular Articles) Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0100 867422 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/Breaking-News/DAM-in-the-cloud-68707.aspx Nuxeo introduces new offering (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Digital Asset Management) Mon, 02 Aug 2010 12:00:00 +0100 867098 http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2010_08.php We're happy to present the 99th issue of Bookslut! One more issue, and we'll be eligible for syndication. Soon you'll be able to watch Jessa reading all the reviews from each issue out loud from her flat in Berlin, right... (Source: Blog of a Bookslut) Mon, 02 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 863925 http://mplic.wordpress.com/2010/07/30/stat-usa-office-to-cease-operations-september-30-2010/ http://www.stat-usa.gov/ “The STAT-USA/Internet website and our syndication services will no longer be available after September 30. To assist our customers in locating the data that STAT-USA/Internet has provided, by August 15 we will post a transition page with links to the data sources. If your STAT-USA/Internet subscription expires after September 30, you may be entitled to a refund.”–From the website. (Source: MPLIC Reference Highway) Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:16:17 +0100 864277 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/28/after-25-years-stat-usa-will-say-goodbye-shutting-down-as-of-september-30-2010/ News on the STAT-USA web site that the well-known U.S. Government business/finance database is shutting down as of September 30, 2010. A post by Francine Krasowska, Director, STAT-USA provides details: After more than 25 years of operation, STAT-USA is closing its doors. This was not an easy decision, but the world of access to government information has evolved to the point that STAT-USA’s business model, as a fee for service office, is no longer viable. In its early years, STAT-USA was on the progressive edge of government data delivery. Its mandate from Congress, to serve as a central collection and delivery mechanism for economic and trade information from all the federal agencies, was a much-needed innovation. Since then, the Internet and information technology in general have grown and changed at dazzling speed. Information sharing, data tools, and social media have become intrinsic parts of American life. In this new atmosphere, STAT-USA/Internet’s historic role as a straightforward storehouse of static government information releases has become outdated. As we move on, we applaud and acknowledge these new innovations, new tools for new needs, and a new world of government data-sharing. Fast Facts USA Trade Online will continue, provided by the Foreign Trade Division of the Census Bureau—a key source of STAT-USA data. All USA Trade Online subscription accounts will be handled directly by that agency, with no interruption to the customer. STAT-USA/Internet (which includes all State of the Nation and GLOBUS & NTDB databases) and our syndication services will cease September 30, 2010. The letter includes email and telephone contact info if you have any questions. A page of asked and answered questions (including refund info) is also online. Numbers (as of Today) State of the Nation 50,000 Current and historical U.S. ... Wed, 28 Jul 2010 20:36:25 +0100 863009 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://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jul/17/hugh-trevor-roper-biography-review Stefan Collini on a frank biography of the scholar who staked his reputation on the Hitler 'diaries'Few scholars have been on such intimate terms with that tricky duo, hubris and nemesis, as Hugh Trevor-Roper. It may appear absurdly inflated to invoke Greek tragedy to describe the life of someone who, rather than being a statesman or general or artist or other traditional "great man", was a historian and therefore a member of a tribe whose deities might seem to be scepticism and caution. Yet in reading his biography it is hard to escape a feeling of horrified fascination as, over and over again, the stakes rising at each new turn of the wheel, the overconfidence engendered (at least in part) by his prodigious talents led him to court, and eventually to encounter, disaster.Nothing in his childhood, as the eldest son of a modestly successful country doctor, suggested what was to follow, except perhaps the combination of intellectual precociousness and a lack of love. Public school and Oxford accentuated both aspects of his upbringing; they also fostered in him an enduring susceptibility to the social, sporting and alcoholic tastes of the English upper classes. Precociousness became almost his trademark. In 1940, at the age of 26, he published an obviously clever if overly provocative first book, on Archbishop Laud. As a result of his role in wartime intelligence, he was called upon to investigate the circumstances surrounding Hitler's death, with the result that he wrote an international bestseller, and perhaps minor historical classic, The Last Days of Hitler, when he was 33. By the time he was 41, he was being paid a handsome retainer by the Sunday Times, just entering its great days, to write "special articles", which he did for more than 35 years. He married the daughter of an earl and was on visiting terms with heads of state. He was made regius professor of modern history at Oxford at 43. ... Fri, 16 Jul 2010 23:05:19 +0100 860185 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/fp367h6G320/ Long time readers of this blog might remember that I used to play in public with the delicious social bookmarking service all the time, advocating the use of social bookmarks through presentations and workshops, as well as demoing various visualisations; but whilst I now use delicious regularly as a place to dump bookmarks for future reference(?!), as well as the occasional bit of syndication through my augmented blog feed via a feedthru tag, I haven’t really been keeping up with the innovations they occasionally, and quietly, roll out. If you haven’t looked at delicious lately, here are few things you can do with it that you might not have realised: - browse links in delicious: for a particular set of links, browse through the web pages one at a time. If you do presentations that demonstrate, or show off, a lot of web pages, this can be a really handy tool (e.g. Browse Links in Delicious – Another OUseful Prototype Unprediction Comes True:-)); - advanced search operators: as well as being able to search through your bookmarks, your network’s bookmarks, or everyones’: you can also filter within a particular tag: Tag based filtered searching is also possible using the tag: search limit, as is searching by site: or filetype: Something that was definitely new to me as I was having a play yesterday were tag based subscriptions, subscription bundles, and network bundles. Tag based subscriptions allow you to subscribe to a feed of links that are being bookmarked with a particular tag. For example, you might use this approach to subscribe to a list of links being tagged with a course code: Subscription bundles allow you to collect a stream of links from several tag subscriptions together. So for example, if you are subscribing to several conference tag bookmark feeds, you could collate them all in one big “conference” subscription bundle. ... Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:56:23 +0100 860712 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/e-kQR_RFo68/ What’s the easiest way to read a document published on JISCPress or WriteToReply? One answer is just to read the document on the parent site, but another way is to pull the content into another space using the RSS/Atom syndication feeds that WordPress makes available, and that the digress.it plugin opens up even further. In what follows, I’ll use URLs for example docs published on both JISCPress: e.g. http://linkeddata.jiscpress.org WriteToReply e.g. http://writetoreply.org/publicsectortransparencyboard The simplest subscription option is just to subscribe to the document as an RSS feed: - http://linkeddata.jiscpress.org/feed/ - http://writetoreply.org/publicsectortransparencyboard/feed/ This will pull the whole document into your feedreader, with each section of the document (i.e. each “page” of the doc as published on JISCPress/WriteToReply) as it’s own “blog post”. Note that this form of subscription displays the posts in reverse order – to view the sections that make up the document in the “proper” order, we use URLs of the form: - http://linkeddata.jiscpress.org/feed/?order=ASC - http://writetoreply.org/publicsectortransparencyboard/feed/?order=ASC To view the comments from the document as a whole, we need a URL that looks like: - http://linkeddata.jiscpress.org/comments/feed/ - http://writetoreply.org/publicsectortransparencyboard/comments/feed/ It is also possible to get a separate RSS feed out of the platform for each page, as well as a separate comment feed for each page. For example, single item RSS feeds, where each page has an RSS feed with one item in it – the content of that page: - http://linkeddata.jiscpress.org/executive-summary/?feed=rss2&withoutcomments=1 - http://writetoreply. ... Fri, 09 Jul 2010 14:40:02 +0100 858808 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/Rd3eLjgaVW8/ Following a chat with Mark Surman of the Mozilla Foundation a week or two ago, I’ve been pondering a possible “flip” between: a) the production of course materials as part of a (closed) internal process, primarily for use within a (closed) course in a particular institution, and then released under an open license (such as a Creative commons license); and b) the production of course materials in the open that are then: i) pulled into the institution for use within a (closed) course; or ii) used (or not) to support self-directed learning towards an assessment only award. In the OU, the course production model can take a team of several academics, supported by a course manager, media project manager, editor, picture researcher, rights chasers, developers, artists, et al. several years to produce a course that will then last for between five and ten years of presentation. In addition, handover of course materials may take place up to a year before the first presentation of the course. Course units are typically drafted by individual authors, and then passed for comment and critical reading to the rest of the course team. Typically, materials will pass through at least two drafts before final handover. (After a little digging, and the help of @ostephens, I managed to track down some reports on how course production was managed in the early years of the OU: Course Production: Some Basic Problems, Course Production: Activities and Activity Networks, Course Production: Planning and Scheduling, Course Production: The Problem of Assessment, though I haven’t had chance to read them yet…) For the OU short course T151 Digital Worlds, the majority of the course team authored content was published as it was being written on a public WordPress blog (Digital Worlds Uncourse Blog); in the current version of the course, students are referred to that public content from within the VLE. ... Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:14:35 +0100 858809 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/AlFUrorIrKI/ With a new doc out on WriteToReply published by DCMS, I’ve started getting fired up again by the sorts of things that I think the platform is capable of, so over the next couple of weeks I hope to post a few ideas, and will then start looking for ways of trying to get the ones that seem workable and useful actually implemented (and ideally, funded). So for example, one of the things I’ve been playing with are what we might refer to as “single page consultations” (micro-consultations?). Here are a couple of examples: CHANGE IS OVERDUE – a public charter for libraries – an unofficial republication of a 12 point plan originally published by The Library Campagin (I think?!); see also MLA: Library Users’ Charter; Draft Public Data Principles, as originally posted on the data.gov.uk blog and as made available for comment and discussion on the data.gov.uk wiki, albeit in both cases without independent/unique URLs for each point (which makes offboard/remote commenting harder to track and reference. Here’s another example: - Lessons Learned from Publishing Local Election Data Note that this isn’t a consultation, as such, more it’s a set of observations (lessons) that might benefit from discussion, or that independently (at paragraph level) might act as a useful focus of, or foil for, further discussion. So – my observation, based on the examples above, is that there may be some mileage in exploring a WriteToReply-like way of publishing short, single page documents that would benefit from being able to offer: - unique paragraph level URLs (atomisation); - commenting at the paragraph level (commentability), with the ability to track comments associated with a particular paragraph. Of course, it’s easy enough to add unique URLs within any document yourself using the the name attribute within and HTML <a>/anchor element. ... Mon, 05 Jul 2010 13:02:28 +0100 857147 http://bentleywg.livejournal.com/1320747.html I wasn't allowed to watch Hawaii Five-0 when I was a kid. I think it was on too late or something. I G\got into the shows on syndication, in my early 20's, and now I watch it whenever I happen to be home on a weekday morning. ... (Source: Google Blog Search: Bentleyblog blogurl:http://bentleywg.livejournal.com/) Sat, 03 Jul 2010 00:13:12 +0100 856714 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/1TFQuLIqnoU/ Looking over the UK Gov Transparency Board’s draft Public Data Principles, one of the suggested principles (#) proposes that: Public data underlying the Government’s own websites will be published in reusable form for others to use – anything published on Government websites should be available as data for others to reuse. Public bodies should not require people to come to their websites to obtain information. One example of how this might work is to look at the Direct Gov Syndication API, but there are maybe some simpler alternatives…? Like RSS… So for example, over on Mash the State, Adrian Short had a go at hassling local councils into publishing RSS feeds by the end of 2009, although not many of them took up the challenge at the time… (maybe the new principles will nudge them towards doing this?) Here, for example, are some obvious starting points: - council news (here’s an example council news feed from Shropshire Council); - recent planning applications (here’s an example Planning RSS feed from Lichfield District Council); - current roadworks (here’s an example traffic/roadworks feed from Glasgow City Council); - council jobs (here’s an example council advertised jobs feed from Sutton Council); - current consultations (here’s an example open consultations feed from Bristol City Council). In accord with another of the draft Public Data principles (#), Public data will be timely and fine grained – Data will be released as quickly as possible after its collection and in as fine a detail as is possible. Speed may mean that the first release may have inaccuracies; more accurate versions will be released when available. Release data quickly, and then re-publish it in linked data form – Linked data standards allow the most powerful and easiest re-use of data. However most existing internal public sector data is not in linked data form. ... Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:13:59 +0100 857150 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/MqFKvJY1o9g/ Following the first meeting of the Public Sector Transparency Board last week, which is tasked with “driv[ing] forward the Government’s transparency agenda, making it a core part of all government business, a set of 11 draft public data principles have been posted for comment on the data.gov.uk wiki: Draft Public Data Principles [wiki version] Following the finest Linked Data principles, each draft principle has its own unique URI… err, only it doesn’t… ;-) [here's how they might look on WriteToReply - WTR: Draft Public Data Principles - with unique URLs for each principle;-)] The principles broadly state that users have a right to open public data, and that data should be published in ways that make it useable and useful (so machine readable, not restrictively licensed, easily discoverable and standards based, timely and fine grained). In addition, data unerlying government websites will be made available (as for example in the case of the DirectGov Syndication API?) Other public bodies will be encouraged to publish inventories of their data holdings and make it available for reuse. A separate blog post on the data.gov.uk blog describes some of the practical difficulties that local government offices might face when opening up their data: Publishing Local Open Data – Important Lessons from the Open Election Data project (Again, unique URLs for individual lessons are unavailable, but here’s an example of how we might automatically generate identifiers for them;-) WTR: Lessons Learned from the Open Election Data Project). The lessons learned include a lack of corporate awareness about open data issues (presumably there is a little more awareness since the PM’s letter to councils on opening up data), a lack of web skills and web publishing resources, not to mention a very limited understanding of, and tools available for the handling of, Linked Data. ... Wed, 30 Jun 2010 10:32:56 +0100 857152