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 Tagging/Folksonomy interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Fri, 05 Aug 2011 02:53:08 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/12/keewl-search-engine.html "Only for Kewl People". I really hate that tag line. My immediate thought is 'Well, I'm not, so I'm not wanted here, bye bye.' It's a social search engine. It has a trending option, searches the web, photos, video, news, social web, blogs and shopping. I don't like the layout - it looks very cheap and unhelpful. 'About us' doesn't work. No help screens. I've no idea what resources it actually searches on, or how it gets its data.On the plus side, it's fast and gives good current data, especially with news and social media, with information that's only a few seconds old. However, the basic approach doesn't attract me. But that might just be me. :) (Source: Phil Bradley) Fri, 24 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 894816 http://textundblog.de/?p=3907 Seit heute bin ich über Weihnachten und Neujahr in meiner saarländischen Heimat. Gestern Abend beim Kofferpacken kam von @mattsches der prima Tipp, mir doch den «hr2 – Der Tag»-Podcast zum Saarland für die Zugreise aufzunehmen. Gesagt getan, habe die 55 Minuten heute im Zug gehört und fand das viel besser, als die etwas seltsam anmutende Ankündigung vermuten lässt: So ist das mit den kleinen Geschwistern – sie nerven. Das Saarland hat im Bundesrat das Hartz IV-Paket blockiert, jetzt muss nachverhandelt werden. Im Streit um den Länderfinanzausgleich droht das Saarland mit einer Gegenklage vor dem Verfassungsgericht. Lästig dieses Bundesland, das man am besten im Schneckentempo bereist, sonst ist man sehr schnell in Lothringen. Wer braucht das Saarland eigentlich? Wir nicht, sagen immer mehr Saarländer und wandern aus, der “Tatort”-Kommissar in Saarbrücken kommt schon aus Bayern und demnächst zieht auch Ministerpräsident Peter Müller vielleicht nach Karlsruhe, als Bundesverfassungsrichter. Nur: es ist mit dem Saarland wie mit kleinen Geschwistern – man wird sie einfach nicht los. Der Podcast kann auf den Seiten von hr2 Der Tag nachgehört werden: Klein, aber lästig – Immer Ärger mit dem Saarland oder direkt hier: Medium: MP3 Link: MP3 © Markus Trapp auf Text & Blog, 2010. | Permalink | 6 comments | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: (Source: Text & Blog) Thu, 23 Dec 2010 22:53:57 +0100 895529 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/sXfWEdXTv8A/johnt From Pace Layering to Resilience Theory: The Complex Implications of Tagging for Information Architecture http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2408716583/complexity-and-resilience-in-the-pace-layering-of-when http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2408679703/the-assumptions-of-resilience-theory Social is a substitute for quality and customers don't care ... Empowered : the service marketing (and even economy ... Sorry, but I'm not a member http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2409171421/cops-have-got-your-back Running Head: Tainted Knowledge versus Tempting Knowledge http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2411422153/organisational-design-issues-in-knowledge-sharing Tainted Knowledge vs. Tempting Knowledge http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2410801272/threat-and-self-esteem-in-knowledge-sharing Anecdote: How Story Collection Won the War http://johntropea.tumblr.com/post/2413007163/collect-stories-to-understand-data-prevails Live with it, don't pretend you can avoid it Work Teams Who Share Negative Emotions Better at Problem-Solving - US News and World Report (Source: Library clips) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:00:00 +0100 894718 http://mblc.state.ma.us/jobs/find_jobs/rss.php?job_id=6520 Manage access to Association archives, including adding new acquisitions, cataloging, arranging and describing collections, preservation and conservation. Working with end users, content providers and stakeholders, manages and updates association-wide taxonomy. Provides reference assistance to library users. PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES - Manage use and develop collections in the Archives, identify, acquire, and catalog new NFPA publications, regardless of format; search for older publications not represented in the archives - Arrange and describe archival collections, create finding aids, catalog new acquisitions and update MARC records to ensure access - Create, maintain, and manage digital preservation projects for individual items and collections to provide electronic access to image collections - Oversee conservation and preservation to protect older materials - Collaborate with users and stakeholders to maintain an association-wide controlled vocabulary for NFPA’s digital assets; use nationally-recognized indexing, metadata and taxonomy standards for consistency across the Association - Develop user documentation to train content providers and searchers on how to tag collections and web pages - Provide research to staff, using Archives, library and databases, to assist with code and product development - Answer walk-in, email, and telephone inquiries. (Source: MBLC Job Listings) Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:10:02 +0100 894267 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/eclecticlibrarian/~3/PUaSJCaPE74/ I’ve been seeing many of my friends and peers jump ship and move their social/online bookmarks to other services (both free and paid) since the Yahoo leak about Delicious being in the sun-setting category of products. Given the volume of outcry over this, I was pretty confident that either Yahoo would change their minds or someone would buy Delicious or someone would replicate Delicious. So, I didn’t worry. I didn’t freak out. I haven’t even made a backup of my bookmarks, although I plan to do that soon just because it’s good to have backups of data. Now the word is that Delicious will be sold, which is probably for the best. Yahoo certainly didn’t do much with it after they acquired it some years ago. But, honestly, I’m pretty happy with the features Delicious has now, so really don’t care that it hasn’t changed much. However, I do want it to go to someone who will take care of it and continue to provide it to users, whether it remains free or becomes a paid service. I looked at the other bookmark services out there, and in particular those recommended by Lifehacker. Frankly, I was unimpressed. I’m not going to pay for a service that isn’t as good as Delicious, and I’m not going to use a bookmarking service that isn’t integrated into my browser. I didn’t have much use for Delicious until the Firefox extension, and now it’s so easy to bookmark and tag things on the fly that I use it quite frequently as a universal capture tool for websites and gift/diy ideas. The technorati are a fickle bunch. I get that. But I can’t help feeling disappointed in how quickly they jumped ship and stayed on the raft even when it became clear that it was just a leaky faucet and not a hole in the hull. Technorati Tags: del.icio.us, fail, Yahoo (Source: eclectic librarian) Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:25:04 +0100 895015 http://www.teleread.com/audiobooks/british-library-project-to-map-pronunciation-seeks-childrens-book-readers-from-around-the-world/ The British Library has embarked on a project to map accents and pronunciation of words by English-speakers worldwide, as part of its Evolving English exhibit. To that end, they have asked any English-speaker world-wide to record themselves reading aloud the children’s book Mr. Tickle for the benefit of their collection. The idea is that reading prose aloud tends to be more natural and conversational than simply reading lists of words, and also Mr. Tickle includes some words that have interesting variant pronunciations, like “mischievous” or “extraordinary”. Readers can take part in the project at the British Library website, or by using an Audioboo mobile app. The website includes a downloadable or printable copy of the book, and instructions on how to tag the recording. (Found via ReadWriteWeb.) (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:10:27 +0100 893860 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/18/author-alex-butterworth-digital-reviews Alex Butterworth on the book as appBack in the mid-1990s I did some research on narrative in digital media. Of the projects I worked on, those that seemed most outlandish then have since become familiar concepts. Virtual worlds hit the headlines with Second Life, geo-tagging has become mainstream with Foursquare, while many of today's best video games deploy something like a "story engine" to manage the narrative flow experienced by the player.What, though, of the digital book, and its promise of a rich, new, constructive interaction with the text? With this Christmas looking like the moment when the transition from codex to screen will finally gain real traction, will the expectations of new digital readers be fulfilled? And is there anything to encourage my own ambitious sense of the revolutionary changes in narrative that digital books might bring about?There was a time when I would have scorned a mere nonlinear rendition of a book as too simple, as not fulfilling its digital potential. So I was surprised to find myself warming to the MyFry app version of Stephen Fry's memoir. Its elegant interface charted my progress through a wheel of segments colour-coded by theme and character, drawing me into an episodic engagement with the text: I skipped through the story of Fry's addictive personality – he was hooked on sugar as a seven-year-old, before picking up serious smoking and reading habits.Are other new apps similarly successful? Illustrated non-fiction immediately suggests itself as an area where the iPad's qualities might be most apparent, and two apps without accompanying books seek to be in the vanguard. The Solar System, from the makers of The Elements, is self-explanatory, while Why the Net Matters, by David Eagleman, sells itself as a groundbreaking interactive essay on the world-saving potential of the internet. Sadly the latter over-promises, with a design that's sometimes cluttered, at other times misleading. ... Sat, 18 Dec 2010 00:07:32 +0100 893551 http://northmetrotechlibraryatacworth.blogspot.com/2010/12/moving-links.html Delicious was one of the first Web 2.0 tools I latched onto. I loved how I could quickly and easily save and tag web sites for access from any computer. It became my favorite Favorites listing! Unfortunately, Delicious seems to be going away. The first announcement that registered in my brain was via ALA's Facebook. I've now exported both sets of my Delicious bookmarks.The LM_NET list serve is a wealth of hints and tips. Someone on the list suggested this blog which has very clear directions on how to export the Delicious file. The blogger suggests several options for a 'new' portable Favorites. Over the break I'll be exploring my options!-klsView from the Library maintained by The Librarian at Chattahoochee Technical College, North Metro Campus c2010 (Source: View from the library) Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893486 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2010/12/28-delicious-alternatives-to-delicious.html Well, we've all seen the news that the single most insane idea of the year award can go to Yahoo who are apparently going to be closing Delicious. Quite why they're not prepared to ask people to pay for access, or even to offer it to someone like the Library of Congress to take over defeats me, but clearly straightforward thinking isn't their forte else they wouldn't be taking this stupid step in the first place. So, if you want to choose a different bookmarking resource, what options are available to you? The good news is that there's quite a lot. A1 Webmarks. I don't personally like the look and feel of this service, but that might just be me. Bibsonomy does what you'd expect from a social bookmarking service. It has an RSS option, tagging, share bookmarks and see what others have saved. Blinklist is nice looking, but you can't import stuff, so is of limited value to refugees. Bookmarks2 is a 'simple and not social bookmarking service' according to the site. Save a link with a mouse click, access from any computer, register for free, tag bookmarks, but it doesn't look like you can share what you've found. Brainify is academic social bookmarking and networking for college and university students. The emphasis is on academia, so is probably of little use for many of us, but if you're in that area, take a quick look. Buddymarks stores your bookmarks online, imports current bookmarks, easily add new ones, share them, use tags and categories. Connotea has been around for a very long time now and is designed for the academic community. I'd be inclined to use this over Brainify if I was an academic. Diigo If you're going to be going anywhere, it's probably here. ... Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893388 http://micheladrien.blogspot.com/2010/12/death-of-delicious-social-bookmarking.html Delicious, the popular social bookmarking service owned by Yahoo! that allows users to store, annotate and share bookmarks, may be shutting down, according to various web sources.ResourceShelf is not so sure.Many libraries have been turning to web 2.0 tools such as Delicious:MIT Updates Virtual Reference Pages Using Social Bookmarking (July 9, 2007): "The library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is using the social bookmarking site del.icio.us to keep its virtual reference web pages up to date (...) What is interesting is that MIT uses an RSS feed to send the links from the del.icio.us account to its virtual reference collection, making maintenance a much easier task."Use of Social Tagging in Libraries Spreading (September 17, 2007): "The article Tags Help Make Libraries Del.icio.us in the online version of Library Journal describes how more and more libraries are turning to social bookmarking tools such as del.icio.us to organize information about recommended resources and replace the traditional subject guide."More News From Federal Library Web 2.0 Interest Group (September 16, 2008): "In the summer, federal government librarians in Canada created a Web 2.0 Interest Group (WIG) to explore ways of incorporating collaborative technologies into their work (...) It was a great opportunity to see what work has been done on the Web 2.0 front. Here are a few of the projects mentioned at the roundtable that opened the meeting: ... The Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information has launched a CISTI Facebook group, a wiki for posting known problems about its online services, and has created dozens of subject guides using delicious.com social bookmarks ... The Communications Security Establishment, Canada's electronic intelligence agency, uses wikis, mashups and social bookmarking ... Natural Resources Canada uses screencasting, wikis, blogs, and delicious. ... Thu, 16 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893286 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/davidleeking/~3/vfzhmvIlIgM/ My post titled Anonymity, libraries and websites received quite a variety of comments – thanks for that! The comments cover the whole nine yards – everything from “well, of course David – yay for transparency” to “no, we’d never do that, and don’t ask us to” – quite a range there! The main issue seems to be two things: sharing your last name online. the possibility of being stalked if you DO share your last name online. I’m going to deal with those issues, in separate posts. Last names first! So – some of you aren’t comfortable with sharing your last names or your photos online for work-related stuff, and said so in the comments of the Anonymity post. I was able to group the objections into three loose categories. Let’s take a peek at each of them: Loose issue #1: Is your last name private info? Quite a few commenters think that sharing your last name in public – while at work – is somehow an invasion of privacy. Not sure I can agree with that, and here’s why: Most of you are government employees under some form of sunshine law. Your last name (as in, a list of people who work at the library) is public record. Most of your last names are part of other publicly available government records, like DMV records, birth records, and voting records – all publicly available government info that can easily be obtained. Most of you are also in the phone book. But more to the point for work-related stuff. At my library anyway, we regularly send our staff out into the community, to do things like presentations, storytimes at schools, meetings, committee and community group work, etc. We expect those staff to provide their names, their business cards, their email address, etc. It’s simply part of the job. ... Wed, 15 Dec 2010 21:14:52 +0100 893952 http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/dec/15/michael-samuels-obituary Philologist and co-writer of the historical thesaurus of the OEDIf imagination and perseverance are the hallmarks of a great scholar, Michael Samuels, who has died at the age of 90, richly deserved that title. He lived long enough to see his major project, the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary – which took more than 40 years to complete – published last year by Oxford University Press and received with acclamation by academics and laymen alike. Prior to that, he made significant contributions to historical dialectology and linguistic theory as well as teaching at Glasgow University.Samuels announced the thesaurus project at a meeting of the Philological Society in 1965. He had become interested in how and why vocabulary changes, and felt that this topic could be investigated fully only if words were seen in the context of other words of similar meaning. One of his favourite examples was the word "silly", which started life in Anglo-Saxon times meaning "happy" or "blessed" and gradually deteriorated in meaning from "innocent, harmless", "weak" and "rustic" to our modern meaning of "foolish". This change meant that other words had to be pulled in to fill the gaps left by discarded meanings. Along the way social attitudes are revealed: we may regard harmless people as pitiable rather than admirable, and rustic people as intellectually below par.To bring these words together, Samuels and his team analysed the meanings of the 600,000 words in the Oxford English Dictionary, thus unlocking some of the riches hidden by its alphabetical order. As the linguist David Crystal wrote in the run-up to publication: "The thesaurus will be of immense value to all kinds of people … Every line generates fresh insights … It heralds a new era in the historical study of English. ... Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:56:07 +0100 892962 http://vivabibliotecaviva.blogspot.com/2010/12/dispositivos-moveis-nas-bibliotecas.html A sociedade de informação está em constante evolução, os dispositivos móveis estão em força na sociedade e cada vez mais integrados com os produtores de conteúdos, desde os jornais às bibliotecas. Os dispositivos móveis permitem um acesso à informação, metamorfoseando a comunicação.Algumas bibliotecas agarram este novo desafio a apresentam uma série de aplicações possíveis para usufruto dos seus utilizadores, tanto conteúdos como serviços, por exemplo: o portal Web da biblioteca acessível, serviços de alerta por SMS, geo-localização, acesso ao OPAC, (Mobile OPAC) e M-Repositórios, Códigos QR, serviço de recomendações, conteúdos para ebooks, tutoriais vídeo, podcats, etc.Ainda muitos problemas técnicos terão que ser resolvidos e ultrapassados, assim como os profissionais  das bibliotecas terão que demonstrar mais vontade em experimentar estas novas plataformas.Documentos a  consultar:Arroyo, Natalia. Web móvil y bibliotecas. El Profesional de la Información, vol. 18, núm. 2, marzo-abril 2009, pp. 129-136. Disponible en: http://eprints.rclis.org/16063/M-Libraries: Information use on the move : A report from the Arcadia Programme, by Keren Mills (18 Maio 2009) Utilidades de la web móvil para profesionales de la información, Natalia Arroyo In comunidad de prácticas sobre web móvilNatalia Arroyo apresenta-nos duas reflexões introdutórias sobre o tema:Web móvil y bibliotecasView more presentations from natalia.arroyo.Adaptando contenidos para la web móvil: pautas y herramientas para bibliotecas públicasAdaptando contenidos para la web móvil: pautas y herramientas para bibliotecas públicasView more presentations from natalia.arroyo.O nosso colega Pedro Príncipe (rato de biblioteca) apresentou a comunicação "Conteúdos para dispositivos móveis: uma oportunidade para as bibliotecas" nas VI Conferências do Cenáculo: Biblioteca 2. ... Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 893283 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/MK7PhsJgdCU/ It’s been some time since I last had a look at the “My Library” service in Google Books, but with the announcement of Google eBooks store (currently US only, except for out-of-copyright free downloads) I popped over to my Google Books account to see whether anything else had changed… One of the little known (I think?) features of Google Books is the “My Library” personalisation which allows you to create a collection of books and search over them. Searching your library finds all the books in your library collection that contain the search phrase; if a preview of the book is available returns deep links into the book to the point(s) at which the search terms appear: I’ve previously commented on the My Library aspect of Google Books in the context of its possible use by libraries for providing a full-text search option over books in their collection (e.g. Complementing the OPAC With a Full Text Search Book Catalogue where I describe the use of the service by Wiltshire Heritage Library (example) and the Penn State University Press booksearch (example)). (At the moment I don’t think you can get statistics back on the searches carried out on a My Library profile, though Google books can do stats for publishers e.g. Google Books for Publishers). Anyway – one of the problems I originally had with My Library was that you could only maintain a single collection. But it seems that it’s now possible to create separate collections by tagging books in your Library onto “shelves”: (Shelves appeared at the start of 2010, it seems: Updated Books Home Page and My Library. ... Wed, 08 Dec 2010 14:33:18 +0100 892172 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NetbibWeblog/~3/S6Uo-LeEBPs/ Am 11. Dezember ist der Tag der Menschenrechte. Die Hochschul- und Landesbibliothek (HLB) in Fulda zeigt zu diesem Anlaß die Amnesty-Wanderausstellung “Bootsflüchtlinge”. [via Osthessen-news] (Source: netbib weblog) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:51:03 +0100 891307 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/netbib/DFxV/~3/S6Uo-LeEBPs/ Am 11. Dezember ist der Tag der Menschenrechte. Die Hochschul- und Landesbibliothek (HLB) in Fulda zeigt zu diesem Anlaß die Amnesty-Wanderausstellung “Bootsflüchtlinge”. [via Osthessen-news] (Source: netbib weblog) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 11:51:03 +0100 891214 http://jis.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/36/6/763?rss=1 Social tagging, as a recent approach for creating metadata, has caught the attention of library and information science researchers. Many researchers recommend incorporating social tagging into the library environment and combining folksonomies with formal classification. However, some researchers are concerned with the quality issues of social annotation because of its uncontrolled nature. In this study, we compare social tags created by users from the LibraryThing website with the subject terms assigned by experts according to the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH). The purpose of this study is to examine the difference and connections between social tags and expert-assigned subject terms and further explore the feasibility and obstacles of implementing social tagging in library systems. The results of our study show that it is possible to use social tags to improve the accessibility of library collections. However, the existence of non-subject-related tags may impede the application of social tagging in traditional library cataloguing systems. (Source: Journal of Information Science current issue) Wed, 08 Dec 2010 05:00:00 +0100 892634 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Spellboundblog/~3/3TodILJPIFc/ In case you haven’t seen this request via other channels, please consider supporting the research effort described below into how different organizations encode finding aids using EAD. As someone who has dug into the gory details of eleven institutions’ finding aids to extract data for my ArchivesZ project, I am here to tell you that this work is VERY important. With better standards in place we will have a better foundation upon which to create interesting new tools and services to support archivists and researchers. Is part of your job is to encode finding aids in EAD? Then please ask if you can send a dozen of them to the researchers on this project! Seeking EAD records from repositories that have implemented EAD Standards have been entering the archival lexicon at a fast pace to ensure data reliability, enable data aggregation, and manage data over the long term. However, we have not yet examined the use of these standards across the archival community. As we move into the next phase of standards-creation, a broad look at current implementations will help to inform the next generation of these standards. To do this, Kathy Wisser (Simmons College) and Jackie Dean (UNC Chapel Hill) are conducting research on EAD tag usage in the encoding community. This project is intended to inform the TS-EAD revision process of the standard, and results will be disseminated through traditional publication avenues. We are seeking a sample of encoded finding aids from institutions that have implemented EAD. If you are willing to participate in this project, please submit via electronic mail 12 to 15 finding aids to eadtagresearch@gmail.com by December 15, 2010. The goal of the project is to identify encoding behavior and not to evaluate the quality of the encoding or the content of the finding aid. We will be noting the presence and absence of elements and attributes and the way that elements are used within the context of an EAD instance. ... Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:27:44 +0100 892326 http://dltj.org/article/thursday-threads-2010w48/ Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:• by E-mail• by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner The highlights of the past week are around publishing — first with a model proposed by Eric Hellman in which consumers can pool enough money to pay publishers to “set a book free” under a Creative Commons license, then with an announcement by the University of Pittsburgh offering free hosting of open access e-journals. Since we have to be able to describe and find this content, their bibliographic descriptions are important; John Wilkin proposes a model for open access to elements of bibliographic descriptions. Rounding out this week’s topics are a report of a master’s degree program in business using Facebook, and tips for planning an unconference meeting.Paying Publishers to Set their Content Free[Eric] Hellman’s new model is something he calls GlueJar. He proposes to “unglue” e-books from their publishers so that they can be available to the world, DRM-free and under Creative Commons license. Here’s the model: publishers sign on with works that they want to “unglue.” They determine what they are willing to be paid for ungluing each work. Users contribute money towards the ungluing. When the threshold amount is reached for a given title, that title is unglued: it appears in all contributors’ e-book reader libraries and in repositories used for online public library access. The publisher is paid, and GlueJar takes a commission.In other words, publishers just need to determine a price for content being taken off their hands, and if the public is willing to pay that price, it happens. (Users aren’t charged until works they want to unglue are unglued.) No more transaction costs; anyone can distribute the content to anyone else. Publishers could possibly retain subsidiary rights to the content, such as print on demand or derivative work rights. ... Fri, 03 Dec 2010 02:17:31 +0100 891124 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/News/KM-In-Practice/Folksonomy-Folktales-2010-71998.aspx (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Popular Articles) Wed, 01 Dec 2010 12:00:00 +0100 890982 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/02640471011093480 Abstract: Purpose – The main objective of the paper is to assess selected taxonomy building tools to review their features and capabilities for supporting development and deployment of taxonomy functions. Design/methodology/approach – A checklist of desirable features and capabilities of taxonomy tools was used for assessment focusing on development, deployment, display, and information environment supported. White papers and product information datasheets on vendor sites were consulted to analyze features and capabilities of selected taxonomy tools. Findings – The review indicates that more than 50 per cent of the selected tools support automatic and hybrid taxonomy building; about 80 per cent allow import and export of taxonomies and vocabularies; and all tools reviewed support classification and tagging. User interfaces, for maintenance, and display in facets, are supported by some tools, while, some have also integrated other visualization tools, or modules to provide clear representation of contents, and relationships. Research limitations/implications – Analysis is based on review of white papers and product information sheets and is therefore limited to indication of availability features and capabilities. The review does not assess performance of tools which would require use of tools and feedback from actual users. Practical implications – The checklist used for assessment provides a useful template for organizations interested in assessing tools for taxonomy implementation. A summary of features and capabilities of selected taxonomy tools may also be useful in selecting tools for taxonomy application projects. Originality/value – Little research has been reported in the literature on assessment methodology and evaluation of taxonomy tools. This study makes a good contribution to the literature on this important aspect of research and makes available useful practical information as well. (Source: The Electronic Library : Table of Contents) Mon, 22 Nov 2010 02:05:05 +0100 887703 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/wr8_LaF-CvU/ So… the UK Gov started publishing spending data for at least those transactions over £25,0000. Lots and lots of data. So what? My take on it was to find a quick and dirty way to cobble a query interface around the data, so here’s what I spent an hour or so doing in the early hours of last night, and a couple of hours this morning… tinkering with a Gov spending data spreadsheet explorer: The app is a minor reworking of my Guardian datastore explorer, which put some of query front end onto the Guardian Datastore’s Google spreadsheets. Once again, I’m exploiting the work of Simon Rogers and co. at the Guardian Datablog, a reusing the departmental spreadsheets they posted last night. I bookmarked the spreadsheets to delicious (here) and use these feed to populate a spreadsheet selector: When you select a spreadsheet, you can preview the column headings: Now you can write queries on that spreadsheet as if it was a database. So for example, here are Department for Education spends over a hundred million: The query is built up in part by selecting items from lists of options – though you can also enter values directly into the appropriate text boxes: You can bookmark and share queries in the datastore explorer (for example, Education spend over 100 million), and also get URLs that point directly to CSV and HTML versions of the data via Google Spreadsheets. Several other example queries are given at the bottom of the data explorer page. For certain queries (e.g. two column ones with a label column and an amount column), you can generate charts – such as Education spends over 250 million: Here’s how we construct the query: If you do use this app, and find some interesting queries, please bookmark them and tag them with wdmmg-gde10, or post a link in a comment below, along with a description of what the query is and why its interesting. ... Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:00:55 +0100 887469 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/ee9005ftUpY/ After participating and watching the MLA ebooks webinar two things became very apparent to me.  Patrons do not use the catalog We need a federated ebook search system If I tried to address both of these issues it would be a very long post, so today I will discuss the catalog and tomorrow I will discuss federated searching. Patrons do not use the catalog: We aren’t the only library to notice this problem.  When most of your library’s information content is in the catalog and when patrons aren’t using the catalog, they aren’t finding the information.  I blame librarians and ILS companies.  Why do I blame librarians?  We are on the front lines, we should be seeing how our patrons are searching (or aren’t searching) and adjust accordingly.  Yet we really don’t completely do that.  If we did then we wouldn’t be cataloging in MeSH!  I like MeSH, I really do, I think it is the best way for me to search for literature in database like Medline.  But really only librarians are the ones who speak MeSH.  The general population does not.  MeSH is the Esperanto of the medical library where only a select few of learned individuals know and use the language yet the vast majority of the population doesn’t.  Honestly, I only really use MeSH when I search literature databases which contain millions of articles on various subjects.  When it comes to searching the catalog I usually search using keywords, like most of the library patrons.  So why are we even bothering adding MeSH terms to the catalog itself?  Most of my keywords (and I am a librarian) and certainly most of the patron keywords aren’t MeSH, they are at best general subject terms.  Earlier this week Julie Stielstra posted on Medlib-l a question about alternative cataloging systems. ... Tue, 16 Nov 2010 22:03:49 +0100 886472 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/nov/16/maiden-name-marriage-decision Choosing whether or not to keep your maiden name after marriage is tricky – but hedging your bets can be even trickier"Not in my name" has previously been a pretty satisfying sentiment. A nice, swift shorthand for saying that I am totally not down with that thing that somebody else is doing. Until the somebody else was trying to give me money and the name was, awkwardly, not quite mine. If impending royal bride Kate Middleton was to ask for my advice about name changes (not that she would: I assume there's a shadowy legion of viziers dedicated to the art of blending family titles) I would say it doesn't matter what you decide, but whatever you do, decide.About two and a half years ago, I got married. Obviously, before I got married I had a name, and even though the name outlived my maidenhood by a good decade, we can call it my maiden name. Naming traditions are all tangled up in prefeminist ideas about relationships and propriety, which makes me feel as though I should care strongly about what my name is. At university, I remember a critic denouncing the use of a female writer's married name, calling it a "chattel" name – a sentiment with the advantage of being forceful, even if it still left the writer with her father's name, and presumably as his chattel instead.The truth is that I was pretty dispassionate about my surname. I felt towards it more or less as I would about the handle on a teapot: I definitely needed it, but I really didn't mind what exact shape it took as long as it was basically functional and not aesthetically offensive. I couldn't say if this disregard for personal nomenclature came down to inherent self-confidence (which would be nice), bloodless rationalism (which would be disarming) or ultimate sloth (my least favourite and most plausible option), but when it came to naming my children I was quite happy to follow convention and have them take their father's name. ... Tue, 16 Nov 2010 14:05:32 +0100 886365 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechsourceBlog/~3/pv2XqDdBAKE/marred-by-shelving.html The battle for the right to lend ebooks has begun.  It is being fought in board rooms, in backrooms, and in bedrooms.  It is being fought at sales counters and at circulation counters, by web counters and by bean counters.  It is being fought on land, at sea, in the air, on the net, and in outer space.  It is being fought on both sides of the Atlantic.  Sinister u-boats have been spotted lurking off the Jersey coast, waiting to sink errant ebooks. If I had it in me, this is the point where I would launch into some rousing rhetoric in the proud tradition of Henry V at Agincourt, of Teddy Roosevelt at the foot of San Juan Hill, of FDR, and of Churchill.  To the ramparts, readers!  We must save the lending library! Alas, I don’t have it in me, so let’s just look at some recent developments. On October 21, Stephen Page, the CEO of Faber and Faber, announced that the Publishers Association in the UK had agreed to some basic guidelines for the lending of ebooks by libraries.  One guideline suggests that patrons must travel to a physical library location to check out and download a library-supplied ebook.  This proposed restriction raised considerable ire in libraryland, the blogosphere, and the twitterverse.    David Rapp’s Oct. 22 article (http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/887416-264/uk_publishers_association_proposes_restricting.html.csp) is good battlefield reporting.  Years hence, this announcement in Leeds may be remembered as akin to the attack on Fort Sumter, the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, and the attack on Pearl Harbor, in this war for the survival of the lending library.  On October 22 Amazon announced that a lending feature would be coming to the Kindle later this year. ... Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:03:44 +0100 886359 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/11/cfp-library-trends-international.html CFP: LIBRARY TRENDS, International Journal of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science Special Issue on Trends in Next Generation Discovery and AccessURL: Library Trends: http://www.press.jhu.edu/journals/library_trends/The library catalog, along with other traditional information retrieval tools, is in a state of flux. Contributing factors include changing codes, changing priorities, and changing expectations. In the past four years, many institutions have implemented radically new approaches to the traditional library catalog. Whether we call these Third Generation Catalogs, Next Generation Catalogs, or Next Next Generation Catalogs, these are most often characterized by the introduction of faceted search capabilities and reliance on social technologies like tagging that encourage user interaction and participation. This period marks a new phase of experimentation that has not been seen since the late 1970s and early 1980s when the OPAC burst upon the scene. Since the unveiling of the new catalog at North Carolina State University in 2006, impassioned exchanges have occurred throughout the grey literature of our field today, from blog posts to the NGC4LIB listserv.To provide a more permanent record of the ideas driving these exchanges, the international journal Library Trends is planning a special issue, Trends in Next Generation Discovery and Access. This issue of Library Trends aims to investigate the historical background of the developments and innovations in the catalog, and to support articulation work that describes both the theory and practices that underlie Next Generation Discovery and Access. Some of these instantiations are traditional catalogs with new window dressing, but many institutions are rethinking fundamental technologies and practices. It is these experiments that will be highlighted by this issue. ... Mon, 15 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0100 887391 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/calibre-updated-to-0-7-28/ New Features Update the version of the grahical toolkit (Qt 4.7.1) used in the calibre binary builds on windows and linux. This should result in a significant speed up for the calibre ebook viewer Driver for Nook Color, Eken M001 Add a tweak to turn off double clicking to open viewer Catalog generation: Add indication when a book has no formats Advanced search dialog: Add a tab to allow searching particular metadata fields easily Conversion pipeline: When using the Level x Table of Contents expressions, if a tag is empty but has a non-empty title attribute, use that instead of ignoring the tag Bug Fixes Comic metadata reader: Sort filenames aplhabetically when choosing an image for the cover Bulk convert dialog: Hide useless restore defaults button. Conversion pipeline: Handle input documents that encode null bytes as HTML entities correctly Fix some SONY readers not being detected on windows MOBI Input: Fix images missing when converting MOBI news downloads created with Mobipocket reader ODT Input: Handle hyperlinks to headings that have truncated destination specifiers correctly Sony driver: Ignore invalid strings when updating XML database Content Server: Add day to displayed date in /mobile book listing MOBI Input: Do not generate filenames with only extensions if the MOBI file has no internal name MOBI Input: Handle files that has the record sizes set incorrectly to a long integer Fix not enough vertical space for text in the preferences dialog category listing Remove ‘sort’ from Search and replace destination fields and add it to source fields. S&R is no longer marked experimental Edit metadata dialog: Save dialog geometry on reject as well as on accept E-book viewer: Fix clicking entries in TOC that point to the currently loaded flow not scrolling view to the top of the document Fix bug in regex used to extract charset from tags MOBI Output: Add support for the tag (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:34:21 +0100 885921 http://librarychronicles.blogspot.com/2010_11_01_archive.html#188512292409649351 This morning I emptied the bookdrop and found two diet books, one book on how to pray yourself rich, one success-in-life type biography of a well-known business person, and one book about how "effective people" communicate. I should probably start paying attention to the circulation rates of these sorts of items. If there's a reliable method to gauge the general "unhappiness" of the population during a recession, this would be it. Also, I'm not sure what this means, but this title was stolen almost as soon as it arrived.On Wednesday, James Gill's column speculated about Gov. PBJ's next career move. The secret of Gov. Bobby Jindal's success may be that he can fast-talk his way into a fancy job before he has had quite enough time to be judged a flop in the last one.He has held so many prestigious posts in a relatively short career that he must get credit for knowing when to get out of Dodge. Gill goes on to suggest that Jindal may not be quite ready to run for President in 2012, but instead may be interested in replacing Michael Steele as RNC Chairman. This morning, NOLA.com points us to yet another possibility.Catholic bishops say more exorcists are neededBishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Ill., who organized the conference, said only a tiny number of U.S. priests have enough training and knowledge to perform an exorcism. Dioceses nationwide have been relying solely on these clergy, who have been overwhelmed with requests to evaluate claims. The Rev. James LeBar, who was the official exorcist of the Archdiocese of New York under the late Cardinal John O'Connor, had faced a similar level of demand, traveling the country in response to the many requests for his expertise.The rite is performed only rarely. ... Sat, 13 Nov 2010 05:00:00 +0100 886727 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/textundblog/~3/eDk-4rudq5Y/ Zwei Bemerkungen vorneweg: Der Titel dieses Artikels ist nicht nur der mäßigen Leistung des FC St. Pauli und dem miesen sportlichen Ergebnis der 3:0-Niederlage gegen schwache Schalker geschuldet, sondern der hässlichsten Stadt Deutschlands, die ich bis dato gesehen habe. Sicher gibt es auch nette Ecken und man wird einer Stadt (und der Umgebung) nicht gerecht, wenn man gerade mal einen Tag dort verbringt. Daher wird dieser Artikel, trotz des erlebten Grauens, auch von Positivem berichten. Um meinem Ruf als Auswärtsfahrer gerecht zu werden, habe ich nach Freiburg, Köln und Hannover am Freitag die vierte braun-weiße Auswärtsfahrt angetreten, mit Chefticket der Bahn (25 Euronen pro Strecke) ins malerische trostlose Gelsenkirchen. Zur Turnhallenarena des Kellerkindes FC Schalke. Magaths Buben sind bis dato die Enttäuschung der Saison. Fast schon ein Kunststück bei dem Etat so weit unten zu stehen. Schalke hat auch am Freitag schlecht gespielt. Unfassbar, was da ein hochkarätigen Einzeltalenten über den Platz läuft und bei individueller Anstrengung dann vom Rest der Mannschaft alleine gelassen wird. Einen Raúl das Spiel nach vorne treiben zu sehen, wie er dann allein auf weiter Flur bleibt, tut fast schon weh. Trotzdem haben die auch nach der 1:0-Führung weiter unsicher agierenden Schalker gegen uns 3:0 gewonnen. Das war bitter. Fazit: Schalke hat dieses Spiel nicht gewonnen, St. Pauli hat es verloren. Viele unkonzentrierte Ballverluste, kein Ausnutzen der offensichtlichen Schalker Schwächen. Um es klar zu sagen: wir haben verdient verloren und – insofern gilt der Titel auch fürs Sportliche – es war grauenvoll. Spielbericht bei Spox (by the way: Das Sportportal Spox ist tausendmal besser und aktueller als der Kicker). Der beste Mann auf dem Platz war der Schiri: Dr. ... Sun, 07 Nov 2010 15:58:44 +0100 885512 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pandia/vfbc/~3/ZS1Ff3kmMEw/3230-on-the-google-streetview-wifi-scandal.html A German reader has asked us about our take on the Google Streeview Scandal. The Google Streetview cars, the cars they are using to take photos of streets for its Google Maps service, have recorded and stored private information from local WiFi networks. Here is Per’s comment: There is no doubt about it: Google has made a real mess out of this. I am not sure what has really gone on behind the scenes, but here is one very likely scenario: Google has decided to augment their map service with street imagery. That makes sense if you are using the iPhone to find a house or an address. You therefore send out the cars to photograph all the streets and buildings. Here is error number one: Since Google is an engineer driven company, the employees do not necessarily have the political or social skills needed to understand the consequences of what they are doing, especially not the idea of surveillance in a country with Germany’s history. It took them far too long to understand that they had to blur faces and number plates to protect the identity of the people depicted in the photos. WiFi localization To use the street photos on Google Maos, Google needs to connect the street position of the photo with the corresponding map position. They do this by two means: GPS and WiFi triangulation. The GPS is easy. The satellites give them a map coordinate that they can use to tag the image. WiFi is important for phones and iPads that do not have built in GPS. The phone identifies nearby WiFi transmitters, compare signal strength and use that to decide where it is on the map. This is why the cars have been registering WiFi transmitters. When it passed my house, the Google Streetview car noted that there is a WiFi transmitter in this house called XXXX or whatever. When you come visiting my street your phone may make use of this info to pinpoint where you are. This is all the info Google needs: the existence of the WiFi transmitter and its signal strength. ... Mon, 01 Nov 2010 09:48:55 +0100 883309 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pandia/vfbc/~3/Fm0sb5b3yZQ/3233-3-innovative-bookmarking-tools.html Susanne takes a look at three tools for keeping track of your favorite sites and pages. I am a huge fan of online social bookmarking. My account on Delicious holds some 1800 bookmarks in categories from Annotation to Wiki — and I add new bookmarks on a daily basis. To be able to store links with comments in categories of my own choice is a simple yet powerful way to help me retrieve treasures I find online. But new tools are arriving that add functionality. Here are three interesting tools, each with its own take on bookmarking. Amplify At first glance, Amplify is a web clipper — a bookmarklet that lets you select text and images from a web page and save it all to your account with tags and comments. But it is also a tool for sharing these clips: You can post them to Twitter and Facebook or add them to your own Amplify blog. So Amplify is more than a bookmarking tool. It is also a way to bypass Twitter’s 140 character limit: You can write updates of up to 1000 characters in your Amplify account and autopost to Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz, Posterous, Tumblr, Wordpress, Blogger, Ping.fm, Plurk or Friendfeed. You sign in with your Twitter or Facebook ID and, conveniently, your Twitter or Facebook friends already on Amplify are added to your Amplify network. You can also browse people or entries to find new connections and recommend or comment on content you find interesting. This way, Amplify lets you engage in conversation around web pages, paragraphs, images, videos or ideas. Unfortunately, there is no way to import bookmarks from your browser or, say, a Delicious account into Amplify. Gravee Gravee is a metasearch engine that personalizes your search results. The personalization is based on interests and preferences you might have stated in your account, bookmarking, tagging, and voting activity as well as those of your friends (if you choose to connect to other people on Gravee). ... Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:33:08 +0100 883311 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/h2LE3TXnha8/ Over the last few months there’s been something of a roadshow making its way around the country giving journalists, et al. hands-on experience of using Scraperwiki (I haven’t been able to make any of the events, which is shame:-( So what is Scraperwiki exactly? Essentially, it’s a tool for grabbing data from often unstructured webpages, and putting it into a simple (data) table. And how does it work? Each wiki page is host to a screenscraper – programme code that can load in web pages, drag information out of them, and pop that information into a simple database. The scraper can be scheduled to run every so often (once a day, once a week, and so on) which means that it can collect data on your behalf over an extended period of time. Scrapers can be written in a variety of programming languages – Python, Ruby and PHP are supported – and tutorials show how to scrape data from PDF and Escel documents, as well as HTML web pages. But for my first dabblings, I kept it simple: using Python to scrape web pages. The task I set myself was to grab details of the membership of UK Parliamentary All Party Groups (APGs) to see which parliamentarians were members of which groups. The data is currently held on two sorts of web pages. Firstly, a list of APGs: Secondly, pages for each group, which are published according to a common template: The recipe I needed goes as follows: - grab the list of links to the All Party Groups I was interested in – which was subject based ones rather than country groups; - for each group, grab it’s individual record page and extract the list of 20 qualifying members - add records to the scraperwiki datastore of the form (uniqueID, memberName, groupName) So how did I get on? (You can see the scraper here: ouseful test – APGs). ... Fri, 29 Oct 2010 12:24:18 +0100 882762 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Librarianinblack/~3/VWleWMrwfX4/failpanel.html Internet Librarian 2010: Fail! Learn! Share! **The winner, crowned Royal Majesty of Failure – Margaret Hazel!** Beth Gallaway – Game Design Failure Beth Gallaway started the Fail! Learn! Share! session by talking about failing at gaming.  She tried to use Ben10 and Scratch to create a game. She showed a tag cloud of the words used in her correspondence with her colleague about getting the session set up.  The IT manager was on vacation.  All their computers were set up with the software for a teen game creation program.  But all the computers shut down and ran the Deep Freeze program, erasing the game installations they’d worked so hard on.  She has 5 lessons learned: 1) Talk directly with IT 2) Bring backup laptops 3) Be flexible 4) Offer low and no tech activities as a back-up Don’t panic The first week failed.  The second week failed too — the teens wanted to create shooting games with Scratch, and that didn’t fly with the library management.  The lack of communication, delays, and lack of focus on the end user. Margaret Hazel – Unified City Website Failure The City Manager decided that the city website needed to be one look and one feel, with portal software.  It was publicly funded and very visible because of the public money directed at the project.  The City departments involved were not experienced with website creation, usability, or content creation.  The portal product was purchased and implemented, but the project failed because their portal product was phased out, professional relationships were damaged in the process.  She also highlighted personal failures including crying at a meeting.  But she did get a mug and a certificate!  Yay!  Believe in your project and goals, organize what you want to say, back it up with data, and say “Stand Back I’m a Librarian!” Jeff Scott – Computer Time Management Failure They had $10,000 to set up a computer time management system. ... Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:57:44 +0100 882834 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/davidleeking/~3/9i9BPdh1Hws/ I’m at Internet Librarian 2010 in Monterey, CA – wonderful conference full of librarian techie joy. Here are some of the highlights I picked up yesterday: The keynote presentation was: Why Libraries Have a Future: Adding Value to your Community, presented by Patricia Martin, CEO Litlamp Communications & Author, Renaissance Generation: The Rise of the CUltural Consumer and What it Means to Your Business Her book = what it looks like right before a renaissance. Here’s what she means by that: as soon as something is deemed less relevant, it starts getting shed… her goal is to help us figure out how to still be relevant (so libraries don’t get shed) Interesting aside – capitalism is based on conformity (ie., 9 billion people eating the same hamburger) Cool idea – Irene Au at Google – created a team that looked around the org, and proposes improvements to the user experience at parts of google. This can work for a library! She asked users what the minimal user experience should be, then works to get those integrated. ************************************************ Managing Your Library’s Online Presence Jennifer Koerber, Boston Public Library think about voice. Be consistent in your voice online. use a styleguide with a team of authors. pre-load some preferred tags, so when busy authors are ready to tag … they can pick some “good” ones. fonts can give you a voice banners – you can add these to websites, youtube, separate blogs, etc – it is a visual way to pull everything together visually Logos – easy way to anchor your sites and services ********* SuHui Ho – University of California Managing today’s e-Library it takes a village to build, staff, and manage an e-library. ... Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:48:06 +0100 882151 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/djryLLU40Ag/ At work our dormant 3D Animation CoP just got a comment on a past blog post by someone from the Machine Design CoP saying they have also done a bit of 3D work. That’s great; our CoPs are a grounds for discovery, connection, diversity, re-use/remixing..but that’s not what this post is about… On the same day the 3D Animation CoP posted 3 new blog posts… Why is that so? It’s like that commenter came to the table for a feed, and the blogger realised his CoP table was empty so he thought he better put more food on the table, as it’s the right thing a host should do…I mean the more people eat, the more the aim of the CoP becomes fulfilled ie. generates a community spirit. It means so much when you have an audience…when you are being heard…I have impact (made a difference)…people like what I say…hey I know this…glad it helped you…connection is happiness…mutual fulfillment…building something together…personal and group progress. All this motivates you to share. Sure a motivation to share can be "I know this…", but not everyone cares to think out loud and share what they know as it happens. I think a more common motivation can happen in a reactionary way…people like what I wrote, they have used what I said in a positive action, the realisation of wow I know stuff and people are listening to me…maybe I could indeed be DIY subject matter expert. The more people comment on my stuff the more I feel compelled to share, it almost becomes an obligation, but I think it’s just the essence of what it is to be human…having purpose and social connection…engagement. ... Mon, 25 Oct 2010 21:50:10 +0100 881725 http://www.teleread.com/drm/teleread-e-book-primer-part-two-formats/ Related: TeleRead E-Book Primer Part One: What is an e-book? You may be old enough to remember a time when there were two different formats of video tape–VHS or Betamax. If not, you’re almost certainly old enough to remember that there were two different competing high-definition DVD formats a couple of years ago–HD-DVD and Blu-Ray.And you’ll know that in both cases, you had to have the right player to play each format: Beta tapes would only play in Beta players, VHS tapes would only work in VHS.It’s much the same way with e-books, except that instead of only two competing formats, there are at least a dozen. Fortunately, only three of those really qualify as important enough to worry about right now, or else this article would be a whole lot longer! File Format vs. DRM FormatE-books actually have two different types of format: file format and DRM format.File format is like what we’ve talked about above—the different ways to put e-book files together developed by different companies, kind of like the difference between VHS and Beta. The main e-book file formats I will be talking about today are PDF, MobiPocket/Kindle, and EPUB. Some e-book readers will read only one kind of file format, while others will read several.DRM format has to do with Digital Rights Management, which is a kind of lock that some companies put on their e-books to prevent buyers from copying them and passing them on for free—or reading them in a competitor’s e-book device.Not all e-books will have DRM, but most of the ones you buy from big e-book stores such as Amazon or Barnes & Noble do. Some e-book formats can have different forms of DRM applied to them, depending on which store you buy from. (For more information on DRM, see the TeleRead DRM Primer.)If you want to read an e-book, your e-book reader device or application must be compatible with both the file format and the DRM format of the e-book. ... Mon, 25 Oct 2010 14:15:00 +0100 881545 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/OafR21I_fcc/4243 Chris Cormack the first release manager for Koha was up next to talk about Koha 3.4 which he is also release manager for! Koha 3.2 was a big feature release, 3.4 is going to have some new features, but is going to be more of a clean up release. First the things that are of interest to the developers (librarians can skip down a bit): Database caching Improved Search API (Solr and other things to discuss) Database abstraction improvements (we are more tied to MySQL than we should be) New debian packaging Template Toolkit (versus the current templating we use) For the librarians – what features do we hope to see in 3.4: Circulation: we want to avoid long lines at circulation, there will be performance improvements to speed things up improve SIP2 improve transfers (a way to cancel a transfer easily) offline circulation improvements hourly loans extended patron attributes circ matrices for granular debarment Acquisitions integration with financial management systems adding some layers to acquisitions – like approval by supervisors if needed (for orders and payments) the ability to set up multiple currencies per vendor ability to change the percent discount when placing an order Cataloging validate urls found in 856$u fields analytic records cataloging without knowing/using marc Patrons duplicate card (create a card by cloning another patron) Tools batch biblio modification ways to show parts of your collection and not others (sounds like suppression) improve call number splitting Serials routines need refactoring integrate with acquisitions better binding Misc single sign on services (CAS) extend tagging module fines split into tabs by categories More info on most of the above can be found on the wiki under the 3.4 RFCs. There is no guarantee that all of these features will make it into Koha 3.4 because we are on a tight schedule (6 months) for this release to try and make it easier for developers and support companies. ... Mon, 25 Oct 2010 02:57:30 +0100 881522 http://comunisfera.blogspot.com/2010/10/percepcion-de-la-tecnologia-educativa.html Por sugerencia de Luis Anido, catedrático de ingeniería de telecomunicación de mi universidad (U. Vigo) participé el año pasado en una investigación sobre la percepción de la tecnología educativa en las universidades españolas (pdf). Olvidé mencionar antes estas conclusiones que fueron presentadas al XI Simposio Internacional de Informática Educativa, 2009 (editorial, pdf).Cambiamos algo el enfoque tradicional hacia otras aplicaciones en los cuestionarios dirigidos a las universidades:We selected for the survey traditional education-related online services like e-mail, web browsing, or e-learning platforms and authoring tools. Besides, after a careful analysis of the literature[1][3][4][5][7][9][10] and the actual experience of the members of the team, we included a portfolio of Web 2.0 applications. The selection included blogs (e.g. Blogger, Word Press), wikis[7] (e.g. Wikipedia), social markers and folksonomies[5][8] (e.g. Del.icio.us), social network platforms (e.g. FaceBook, Tuenti), virtual social games (e.g. Second Life), multimedia sharing (e.g. Hot Share), multimedia blogging (e.g. BlogAudio tools) and podcasting[7] (e.g. iTunes podcasts), content syndication (e.g. RSS) and shared calendars (e.g. Google Calendar). There is an open debate on the purpose and real impact of this new breed of tools in educational settings.(...)For the tools discussed above we identified the elements of relevance to be taken into account along the survey:- Degree of use. Measures the percentage of use of these tools in relation to the set of tools.- Purpose. Students were asked if tools were used for work, study, leisure, or other activities.- Actual communication model. ... Sun, 24 Oct 2010 18:27:00 +0100 881345 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6435 BERKMAN BUZZ: A look at the past week's online Berkman conversations If you would like to receive the Buzz weekly via email, please sign up here. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * What's being discussed...take your pick or browse below. * Charles Nesson responds to Joseph Reagle's talk on "Good Faith Collaboration." * Ethan Zuckerman asks how many jump the Great Firewall. * OpenNet Initiative on demand for less Net censorship in China * Facebook and privacy, again -- and Harry Lewis isn't surprised. * Future of the Internet Topics and Links of the Week * Dan Gillmor explains why he's not buying many Kindle books. * Weekly Global Voices: "Serbia: Two Internet Entrepreneurs Detained for Months Without Trial" * A year ago in the Buzz: Chilling Effects discusses the Unity Day softball game of '79. Special note: The Berkman Center is now accepting applications for fellowships for the 2011-2012 academic year. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The full buzz. "why has wikipedia not become a model of how to get along and get something done? true, there are elements tagging along who don’t seem to get along, instead running running counter to the consensus of good faith at wikipedia’s core, but they are back-eddies as the core force of wikipedia rushes forward in development of public knowledge. wikipedia is a collective knowledge generator" From Charles Nesson's blog post Community of Good Faith (Bonus: Joseph Reagle's book talk) "My colleague Hal Roberts, I and friends at Berkman released a paper today that attempts to estimate usage of circumvention tools, tools used to evade internet filtering. ... Fri, 22 Oct 2010 21:30:00 +0100 880938 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pandia/vfbc/~3/Uz1JTfb2ST4/3218-gravee.html As the size of the web keeps growing exponentially and many of us spend more and more time online, finding, refinding and sharing information are increasingly sophisticated tasks. Now you can take care of them all in one tool. I, for one, am fascinated. Personalized web search Gravee is a metasearch engine that your personalizes search results. The personalization is based on interests and preferences you might have stated in your account, bookmarking, tagging, and voting activity as well as those of your friends (if you choose to connect to other people on Gravee). Recommendstions Looking at your interests and the interests of people who are similar to you, Gravee recommends sites that might be interesting to you, sites that you might never have found otherwise. Bookmarking I am a big fan of online bookmarking and I like the way Gravee combines bookmarking with search. I have been waiting for someone to make use of the information from online bookmarking in search ranking. Nsyght tried, but gave it up. Yahoo, amazingly, does not make use of all of the hand picked, categorized and annotated web pages in Delicious (or at least there is no information that they do). When you set up your Gravee account, or at any time later, you can import bookmarks from your browser or Google, Delicious and Stumbleupon. You can also import links from your Facebook account. The bookmarks are displayed nicely, with thumbnail previews and link to info on who else likes this site. You can also share your bookmarked sites by email, but unfortunately not by RSS. More social features Gravee’s bet is on the social aspect, so there are plenty of social features. You can synch your profile with Facebook, MySpace hi5 or bebo. There are also options for a lot of profile info: In addition to uploading a profile picture, you can add information about your interests, favorite music, movies, and books. ... Sun, 17 Oct 2010 13:04:59 +0100 879994 http://www.teleread.com/chris-meadows/do-pda-toting-amazon-marketplace-used-book-resellers-have-a-reason-to-feel-guilty/ E-books aren’t the only book-related revolution ushered in by the Internet. On Slate, Michael Savitz writes about his profession as a PDA-assisted used book reseller on Amazon Marketplace—and an interesting profession it is, too.Savitz spends as much as 80 hours a week haunting used bookstores, library sales, and other sources of second-hand books. He takes along an old Dell PDA with a bar code scanner (like the one pictured plugged into an iPAQ at left) plugged into it, with software that immediately tells him the going rate on the Amazon marketplace for any title he scans. He spends his time scanning book after book, sorting out and buying the ones that are in demand, then listing them on Amazon Marketplace. He uses an obsolete PDA for the purpose because with its online database, it is much faster than smartphone apps that have to look to the web.The article is sprinkled with a lot of little details and tricks of the trade, and it sounds like an interesting way to earn a living. Savitz claims it is possible for someone working alone to make $1,000 a week this way, and someone insanely dedicated (or with helpers) could make more. Of course, this relies on beating out the competition who are looking to do the same thing, and also requires venues that do not forbid use of electronic devices.One interesting thing is that, despite the thrill he describes in finding a resalable book, Savitz seems to feel about the job about the same way that A.J. Raffles felt about his life of crime. He writes:If it’s possible to make a decent living selling books online, then why does it feel so shameful to do this work? I’m not the only one who feels this way; I see it in the mien of my fellow scanners as they whip out their PDAs next to the politely browsing normal customers. ... Sat, 16 Oct 2010 22:19:36 +0100 879572 http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/12/amazon-launches-kindle-singles-a-e-book-format-for-short-works/ (Source: Library Link of the Day) Fri, 15 Oct 2010 08:00:00 +0100 879077 http://www.takomapark.info/library/books/archives/002370.html City of Glass by Cassandra Clare reviewed by Chimey City of Glass is the third book in the Mortal Instruments series by bestselling author Cassandra Clare. Loved by Stephenie Meyer and compared to the Harry Potter series, the book is a spellbinding success that strikes the competition down a handful at a time. Clary, who lives in the human world, is a demon-hunting Nephilim, a shocking girl, and the daughter of a villain named Valentine. Clary is a disturbed child, as she has fallen in love with her brother and her mother has been kidnapped by her father. Her mother is taken to the City of Glass, a place in the Shadowhunter magical world, and Clary needs to go there to retrieve her. Her brother, Jace, in a rare moment, agrees with her Vampire friend Simon that it's not safe for her to go. But she manages to tag along with other characters Jace, Simon, Isabelle, and Alec. Strange things are revealed, such as the fact that Clary can create runes of the Angel that can make Nephilim do extrodinary things. She also finds that by the Nephilim law, no Downworlder, which is a creature such as a Vampire or a werewolf that is not Nephilim, cannot enter the City of Glass. Simon is put in jail, and Jace expresses such vehement anger toward Clary that she is nearly heartbroken, and becomes full of rage at the girl Aline when she is found embracing Jace one day. Then Clary meets Sebastian, the quiet, handsome brother of Aline. She finds him enthralling and continues her quest with him, her quest to free her mother and bring down Valentine, leaving Jace to amuse himself with Aline In the end, it turns out that Sebastian is actually the brother who wants to murder her, and Jace is not related to her but to one of Clary's mother's friends, and that Valentine told Clary Jace was her brother simply to irritate her. Relieved, Clary realizes she and Jace can be together, and now they are. ... Fri, 15 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0100 879694 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=For_Baseball_Archivists_a_Tag_Ends_Every_Play There are more than 500 possible tags to choose from, and among those chosen at that moment were "ground out," "from knees," "last out," "premier pla (Source: pligg - all) Thu, 14 Oct 2010 07:00:13 +0100 878851 http://www.lisnews.org/baseball_archivists_tag_ends_every_play There are more than 500 possible tags to choose from, and among those chosen at that moment were “ground out,” “from knees,” “last out,” “premier plays,” “milestone call” and “hugging.” Strangely, one tag not offered was “no-hitter.” Maybe soon. This is how baseball’s archives are created now — not by merely storing videotapes on a shelf, as it has been done for decades, but by a team of “loggers” whose job is to watch every game as it happens (2,430 during the regular season, and up to 41 in the postseason) and add computerized notes on every play, no matter how ordinary. “Your archive is only as good as what you know is in it,” said Elizabeth Scott, M.L.B. Productions’ vice president for programming and business affairs. Full article in the NYT (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News) Thu, 14 Oct 2010 04:46:36 +0100 879080 http://lisnews.org/baseball_archivists_tag_ends_every_play There are more than 500 possible tags to choose from, and among those chosen at that moment were “ground out,” “from knees,” “last out,” “premier plays,” “milestone call” and “hugging.” Strangely, one tag not offered was “no-hitter.” Maybe soon. This is how baseball’s archives are created now — not by merely storing videotapes on a shelf, as it has been done for decades, but by a team of “loggers” whose job is to watch every game as it happens (2,430 during the regular season, and up to 41 in the postseason) and add computerized notes on every play, no matter how ordinary. “Your archive is only as good as what you know is in it,” said Elizabeth Scott, M.L.B. Productions’ vice president for programming and business affairs. Full article in the NYT (Source: LISNews.org) Thu, 14 Oct 2010 04:46:36 +0100 878789 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/61248 On Major League Baseball and using a controlled vocabulary to make archival footage easier to retrieve in the future. From a New NY Times Article: To those whose job is to put the moment into Major League Baseball’s new, digitized archives as soon as possible, it was a furious series of 38 mouse clicks. The play [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 13 Oct 2010 00:03:49 +0100 878473 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/10/journal-call-for-papers-from-library-hi.html Journal call for papers from Library Hi Tech NewsLibrary Hi Tech News (LHTN), is actively seeking submissions.URL: http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=lhtnLHTN is an established (1984+) print and online monthly journal that quickly publishes articles of interest to our international readership. The journal’s major focus is on developments in library technology. Although not formally peer reviewed, LHTN is indexed in Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA), Scopus, INSPEC, Current Index to Journals in Education and others.Published by Emerald Publishing Group, LHTN is interested in articles of varying lengths, reports from relevant conferences, and case studies of library use of technology. The editors will work with authors that are new to LIS publishing, and those who are seeking outlets for reporting on practical uses of IT in libraries. Publishing your article in LHTN can be “a place to start,” analogous to a “poster session in print” and does not preclude publishing a more fulsome piece in a peer-reviewed journal at a later date. Readers consider LHTN the source to hear what’s coming next in terms of technology development for academic and public libraries. ... Tue, 12 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0100 879377 http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/calibre-updated-to-0-7-23/ New FeaturesDrag and drop to Tag Browser. You can use this to conveniently add tags, set series/publisher etc for a group of books Allow switching of library even when a device is connected Support for the PD Novel running Kobo Move check library integrity from preferences to drop down menu accessed by clicking arrow next to calibre icon Nicer, non-blocking update available notification E-book viewer: If you choose to remeber last used window size, the state of the Table of Contents view is also remembered Allow moving as well as copying of books to another library Apple devices: Add support for plugboards Allow DJVU to be sent to the DR1000Bug FixesSearching: Fix search expression parser to allow use of escaped double quotes in the search expression When saving cover images don’t re-encode the image data unless absolutely neccessary. This prevents information loss due to JPEG re-compression Fix regression that broke setting of metadata for some MOBI/AZW/PRC files Fix regression in last release that could cause download of metadata for multiple files to only download the metadata for a few of them MOBI Output: More tweaking of the margin handling to yield results closer to the input document. Device drivers: Fix regression that could cause geenration of invalid metadata.calibre cache files Fix saving to disk with ISBN in filename Fix another regression in the ISBNdb.com metadata download plugin Fix dragging to not interfere with multi-selection. Also dont allow drag and drop from the library to itself CHM input: handle another class of broken CHM files[donotprint]Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. [/donotprint] (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Fri, 08 Oct 2010 22:14:39 +0100 877694 http://infobib.de/blog/2010/10/08/science-3-0-aggregiert-deutschsprachige-wissenschaftsblogs/ Science 3.0, ein vor kurzem schon von Tobias Maier erwähntes wissenschaftliches Social Network, hat seit gestern die Zahl der im deutschsprachigen Feed-Aggregator “German Blogs” aufgeführten Blogs stark erhöht. Nun sind auch alle in der Wikio-Kategorie “Wissenschaft” enthaltenen Blogs integriert. Open Access ist in der Tag-Cloud prominent vertreten. (Source: Infobib) Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:04:51 +0100 878714 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/a8vv-DYmLy8/ I have been working in the areas of Knowledge Management, Collaboration, Online Communities and Social Computing for over a decade and I do still remember the main concerns people had back then when wanting to collaborate with customers and business partners in an effective manner, or other people outside a company’s firewall, for that matter. Back then, in my role as an advocate, and an ambassador, on collaboration and knowledge sharing tools, the main issues we were encountering were, mostly, the lack of new emerging capabilities to help improve an already existing experience that was relying far too much on traditional options like email or Instant Messaging. So that provoked that a whole bunch of interactions with customers were being buried, for good, in email or IM conversations that were rather difficult to track and too cumbersome to engage with at times. 10 years later one keeps hearing that very same inhibitor (Or excuse, who knows), when trying to collaborate and share their knowledge with external parties. Thus both email and IM still remain *the* main collaboration tools suite as back then. But, is that today’s reality really? Do we have choices now? Have we made some progress in this area? Or are we still relying far too much on those traditional tools? Have you, actually, made an effort to look out there for other options? I am sure you folks would have plenty of answers to those questions. ... Fri, 08 Oct 2010 00:44:02 +0100 877307 http://www.affordance.info/mon_weblog/2010/10/redocumentarisation-illustree-et-phagocytose-documentaire-.html Mon billet d'hier, "Lettre à Laurence" a pas mal été relayé, affolant au passage mon compteur de visites. Plus de 1500 pages vues hier, et pas loin de 2000 ce soir, à l'heure où j'entame la rédaction de ce billet. Une rapide analyse des statistiques de fréquentation de mon site (via Xiti, GoogleAnalytics et l'outil intégré dans Typepad) donne presque la moitié des visites d'hier, et plus d'un quart de celles d'aujourd'hui en provenance de Facebook, site sur lequel j'avais - comme je le fais à chaque fois - signalé sous forme de lien la publication dudit billet. Intrigué par cette étonnante homogénéité des "backlinks" (liens entrants), j'ai creusé un peu pour finir par découvrir que le signalement de la parution du billet dans mon "statut" Facebook s'était transformé en une "page communautaire" : http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lettre-a-Laurence/101900943182012?v=desc Le principe - et les enjeux - des "pages communautaires" sont parfaitement disséqués dans ce billet  du blog Netintelligenz. Extrait : "Lorsque vous souhaitiez partager une humeur, vous aviez le choix entre le publier sur votre mur (et ainsi le rendre visible auprès de vos amis) ou sur le mur d’une page, d’un groupe, ou d’une application. Aujourd’hui, si vous n’avez pas touché à vos paramètres de confidentialité et que votre mur est visible « à tous », vos statuts peuvent potentiellement être référencés en temps réel sur ces « Pages communautaires » liées aux mots ou groupes de mots que vous utilisez" En Mai 2010, peu de temps après le lancement du service, on comptait déjà plus de 6 millions de pages communautaires. ... Thu, 07 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0100 878286 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/61086 From a Recent Announcement: Safari Books Online [now offers] the seamless extension of its popular portal features to mobile devices. Subscribers on the go can now enjoy such popular features as creating notes, tagging and saving content in custom folders. In addition, Safari Books Online has rolled out a series of new features including: "Share This" to [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:29:40 +0100 877081 http://librarychronicles.blogspot.com/2010_10_01_archive.html#986703056655580657 And other shocking facts rarely discussed above basement level.Note: Moseley's posts are always so freaking dense that they're hard to categorize. I started tagging this post with some of the topics covered but didn't quite get all of it. But that's not the really annoying thing. The annoying thing about reading a Moseley column is that once the reader gets far enough in to pick up on the joke, invariably a witty line occurs to him that feels like it will make a fun riff on the theme. The problem there is the reader then spends the rest of his time with the piece hoping that Moseley hasn't already stepped on this line himself. And that combined with the aforementioned density makes the process of sifting through it all an increasingly tense experience which nearly always ends in the frustration of seeing one's fears affirmed. But fuck it I went with the damn line anyway. Enjoy. (Source: Library Chronicles) Wed, 06 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0100 877237 http://www.affordance.info/mon_weblog/2010/10/accroche-toi-au-pinceau-enleve-echelle.html PROLOGUE. Web "participatif", "collaboratif", "contributif", voilà 3 termes qui, depuis l'avènement du web dit "2.0" sont souvent indistinctement et abusivement employés. D'après le trésor de la langue française : la "contribution" peut être définie comme la "part apportée à une oeuvre commune". En l'occurrence, cette oeuvre commune sera constituée par le web la "collaboration" est "la participation à l'élaboration d'une œuvre commune" La proximité sémantique des deux termes est évidente, même si dans le contexte du web 2.0 il est possible d'envisager des formes de collaboration non-nécessairement contributives. La collaboration relèverait alors davantage de l'engagement, et la contribution, de l'action. la "consultation" est "l'action de consulter quelque chose, de l'examiner pour y chercher un renseignement, une information, une indication". Toute dimension d'altruisme ou de construction d'un but ou d'une oeuvre commune est ici évacuée au profit de pratiques qui pour être solitaires ou égo-centrées ne sont pas pour autant nécessairement honteuses ou blâmables. ;-) La "participation" est "l'action de participer à quelque chose" en - deuxième sens - "manifestant une adhésion, une complicité, une conscience d'ordre intellectuel" L'échelle "social technographics" du cabinet Forrester est un outil précieux qui permet de mieux qualifier les différents modes d'interaction en ligne et d'observer leur évolution au fil du temps. ... Tue, 05 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0100 878288 http://rabid-librarian.blogspot.com/2010/10/sorry-for-unexpected-hiatus.html The last three days have been very busy and I've been coming home and basically crashing. Saturday was game notes and most importantly, the last day I worked at the gas station. I got to see a lot of my regular customers and say goodbye to them. One lady wished me well and said I'd always been very nice to her. Another hugged me. I kind of wish there had been something (a note, a card, etc., nothing much) from the actual company thanking me for nearly five years of service (ancient in terms of retail, I'm beginning to believe), but there wasn't anything, and I can't say I'm not surprised. If Angelica had been there, she would have taken me out to eat. Teressa would have thanked me. Brandon probably would have sprung for Texas Roadhouse, our favourite meal while we were working. But I guess that's the point. There wasn't anyone left at the store who really cared whether I came in or not beyond whether they'd be covering my shift. And that was part of the reason I left. So I clocked out that night (the last time I had to get that thing to take my fingerprint), folded up my shirts (pictured to the left), took out the paper in my name tag that said 'Team Member Since 2005), and went home. The next day was the game, where we rescued a baby Deep One who had not yet gone over to the side of Dagon and Cthulhu, and was therefore still an innocent, freeing it from the freak show at the carnival (or more properly, from the adult Deep Ones who had caused much mayhem at the carnival) and getting it to the sea. It was fun, but I really have to get back into playing one of my characters with more authority; she's in charge, and didn't do much else than turn the Deep One bodies to dust afterward. We didn't do the big grocery run this Sunday; we're going to do that tomorrow instead. I need to make up a list of my own needs and get some things while we're out, so that I don't have to schlep things home in my granny cart later. ... Tue, 05 Oct 2010 04:00:00 +0100 877163 http://scilibupdate.blogspot.com/2010/10/nsf-data-management-plans-language-is.html The National Science Foundation had said back in May of this year that Data Management Plans will be required in future grant applications, and that they would elaborate on this in October. Academic librarians have been wondering if developing these plans might cause researchers to consult us about developing quality metadata for their data.  Ideally, thought should be given in advance of data collection to how research might be used in the future, by the researchers themselves, and by others, maybe even in other fields; tagging the data at its inception is most efficient. Looks like baby steps at the beginning, though.Link to the NSF page where the language on Data Management Plans is published:    http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/policydocs/pappguide/nsf11001/gpg_2.jsp#IIC2jSpecific language for various units within NSF (Directorate, Office, Division, Program, etc.) is here:   http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/dmp.jsp.On that page is a link to an FAQ about Data Management Plans:   http://www.nsf.gov/bfa/dias/policy/dmpfaqs.jsp For an example, here is Frequently Asked Question #3:3. Am I required to deposit my data in a public database? What constitutes reasonable data management and access will be determined by the community of interest through the process of peer review and program management. In many cases, these standards already exist, but are likely to evolve as new technologies and resources become available.We're all in a brave new world.  If you are a UMass Amherst person and are interested in speaking with a librarian about how the Library might be able to work with you on a Data Management Plan, please get in touch! (Source: ISEL Update) Mon, 04 Oct 2010 19:19:48 +0100 878043 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/netbib/DFxV/~3/6b11SAK4sqE/ On Oct 1st 2010 it is going to be #followalibrary day on Twitter. Join in that day and tell your followers what your favorite library is on this planet. Auf Twitter ist @followalibrary zu finden und heute ist der Tag für diese Aktion, dass Twitter-User ihren Abonnenten mitteilen, welches ihre Lieblingsbibliothek ist. Auf Youtube sind Promofilme zu sehen, eine Einführung zur Aktion von der DOK Library Delft und andere von Stephen Abram, David Lee King und anderen. [via Tame the Web] (Source: netbib weblog) Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:55:11 +0100 876700 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NetbibWeblog/~3/6b11SAK4sqE/ On Oct 1st 2010 it is going to be #followalibrary day on Twitter. Join in that day and tell your followers what your favorite library is on this planet. Auf Twitter ist @followalibrary zu finden und heute ist der Tag für diese Aktion, dass Twitter-User ihren Abonnenten mitteilen, welches ihre Lieblingsbibliothek ist. Auf Youtube sind Promofilme zu sehen, eine Einführung zur Aktion von der DOK Library Delft und andere von Stephen Abram, David Lee King und anderen. [via Tame the Web] (Source: netbib weblog) Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:55:11 +0100 875442 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/ij12NR5zZ7A/ In a series of recent posts, I’ve shown various network graphs and custom search engines generated from various things on twitter – communities around hashtags, users on lists, friends of an individual and so on. Last weekend, I tried to pull together the code into some sort of integrated but extensible mess for my own tinkering. The core code can be found here: newt.py. It may or may not work for you, work correctly, or work at all. I may or may not update that file (though if I do I will try not to change function names or types they return, nor add or remove side-effects, of which there may be many in the most unlikely of places.) The functions are all over the place in the file, and almost completely undocumented. They also demonstrate my cut’n'paste from others understanding of Python. Whatever. To use the code, you will need to install tweepy, and also add various keys into the functions at the top of the newt.py file. There are routines in there to generate Gephi GDF files, and Google custom search engine config files. Here are a handful of scripts that I’ve been using to generate various output files. The first (listfromTwapperkeepr.py) has a go at grabbing archived tweets (by hashtag) from Twapperkeeper. Command line usage is: python listfromTwapperkeepr.py TAG START END LIMIT where TAG is the hashtag (eg rswebsci), START and END are dates (in format YYYY-MM-DD, err, I think?! Whatever it is that Twapperkeeper expects;-), and LIMIT is the number of tweets that must appear from a particular person in the grabbed archive for that user to be added to the list. The Twitter list that is generated will be added with the name TAG to the authenticated user’s account (i.e. the user associated with the OAuth keys…) If the list already exists, it should just get updated with users not on the list (but no users will be removed…) import sys,newt def report(m): newt. ... Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:25:20 +0100 875903 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/B51wy27zkAA/ If you are a member of the Medical Informatics Section of MLA, we need your help for the 2011 section programming.  We are looking for volunteers to who are willing to review the abstracts that are submitted to the programs we are sponsoring.  This is a great way to help and participate in the section, you DON’T have to be going to the annual meeting to be a reviewer.  We are looking for anybody who is willing and interested in reading the submitted abstracts online and rating them on their quality and how they fit in within the programs we are sponsoring.  I have been a reviewer a few times and I found it to be quite interesting and a relatively easy process. If you are on the fence and have any questions as to what might be involved please let me know.  Below is a list and a description of the programs that MIS is sponsoring or co-sponsoring for which we will need reviewers. ***If you are interested I need your name and email by no later than October 9, 2010, as well as the name of the program you wish to review. (Email using the address on file with MLA and on the MIS listserv) Rethink Technology (General Topic Session) What are you doing with technology in your library? Implementing a metasearch? Linking in the electronic health record ? Adding folksonomy to the catalog? We want to hear about it. If your technology-related paper idea does not fit into any of the section programming themes, this general topic session is the place for you. Top Tech Trends V Technology trend spotters will speak about the latest issues in technology and provide their opinions and thoughts on their impact on health sciences libraries. It will be a quick-paced and interesting discussion among the panelists, along with the aid of a Google jockey searching and highlighting the topics. Bring your mobile devices, and participate in the program online as a Twitter jockey will summarize each panelist’s thoughts, fostering the online discussion. ... Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:55:42 +0100 874855 http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/safari-books-online-expands/ From the press release:Safari Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com), the leading on-demand digital library for technology, digital media and business professionals, today achieved another milestone in its mobile device strategy – the seamless extension of its popular portal features to mobile devices. Subscribers on the go can now enjoy such popular features as creating notes, tagging and saving content in custom folders. …In addition, Safari Books Online has rolled out a series of new features including: “Share This” to let users grant access to specific book titles to colleagues and non-subscribers; usage analytics Reporting Dashboard to let corporate training personnel optimize their subscriptions for content and tools that are most in demand; and a user-friendly Content Categorization system to let subscribers find topics of interest more easily.Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Mon, 27 Sep 2010 13:08:45 +0100 874711 http://web.resourceshelf.com/go/resourceblog/60836 From the News Release: Safari Books Online (www.safaribooksonline.com), the leading on-demand digital library for technology, digital media and business professionals, today achieved another milestone in its mobile device strategy – the seamless extension of its popular portal features to mobile devices. Subscribers on the go can now enjoy such popular features as creating notes, tagging and [...] (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:55:18 +0100 874720 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/AmpqLoPdsUU/ Now is the time to get online and submit your structured abstract for a paper or poster at MLA 2011. This year, the various sections will be sponsoring some great specifically themed programs as well as some ”general” theme programs where the topic is fairly broad.  For example there is a general section program on Education, where somebody can submit a paper on the topic of education in all its forms.  This type of general theme allows people to submit quality papers and posters that don’t fit some of the narrower themes sessions but are equally important. There are lots of great programs and I encourage everyone to submit to the program that best fits a theme.  Since I am the Chair of Section Programming for the Medical Informatics Section I would like to profile the four programs that we are sponsoring or co-sponsoring.  Please consider submitting your paper to these programs or the other ones listed in on the MLA website.  Please review the instructions in the poster or paper FAQs, then begin the online submission process. The site is open and you can start now! Submission deadline is November 1, 2010. Here are the programs MIS is sponsoring or co-sponsoring that are looking for people to contribute papers. Rethinking the Librarian’s Role in EHRs, PHRs, and EMRs: A Place at the Table In the health care environment these days, if your library is not at the table, you are on the menu. The role of medical librarians has moved from operating physical libraries to their underlying responsibility: facilitating access to and use of evidence to support quality clinical care and patient education. The emergence of electronic health record (EHR), personal health record (PHR), and electronic medical record (EMR) systems provides new opportunities for libraries to participate in the integration of evidence into the clinical process and the documentation of appropriate resources for consumers. ... Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:09:34 +0100 873391 http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/gamesblog/2010/sep/22/ideo-and-interactive-fiction Global design agency IDEO thinks merging the digital novel with playful interactions might lead to a new era of writing...What impact will digital books have on the experience of the written word – apart from the form factor, and the ability to store hundreds of works on a single ebook reader? Will the rise of gadgets like Kindle and tablet computers like iPad actually contribute to the medium in a creative way?This is a question that design consultancy IDEO has grappled with, producing a Vimeo clip to show three possible book-reading applications for tablet computers and ebook readers: Nelson, Coupland and Alice. It's the third (from 3:03 onwards) that interests us. Alice, the narrative informs us, is "an interactive reading experience that invites the reader to engage with the story-telling process [...] Stories unfold and develop through the reader's active participation."For example, clues could be unlocked by shaking the screen so that most of the words 'fall off' revealing hidden codes. Other narrative elements could be unveiled by opening the book while in a specific geographic location. The video also mentions the possibility of receiving text messages and emails from characters in the book. I guess Silence of the Lambs would be a bit more scary if you started getting texts from Buffalo Bill asking what your dress size is. But these are more like reading enhancements than truly interactive narrative features. Later, the narrator talks about the reader adding to the narrative, co-developing the story, thereby gaining access to secret events, character backstories and new chapters. "In time a non-linear narrative emerges, allowing the reader to immerse themselves in the story from multiple angles." Of course, interactive fiction is far from a new idea. 'Choose your own adventure books' were massive in the eighties, and the adventure gaming genre has been a mainstay of the computer games industry since the likes of The Hobbit and Zork. ... Wed, 22 Sep 2010 11:22:44 +0100 873454 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/09/h20 Tuesday, September 21, 12:00 pm **Please note earlier start time for this week only**Berkman Center, 23 Everett Street, second floorRSVP required for those attending in person (rsvp@cyber.law.harvard.edu)Webcast will begin ~12:10 ---> This event will be webcast live at 12:10 pm ET and archived on our site shortly after.Traditional law school casebooks are expensive, bulky and stagnant.  With the support of the HLS Library, Berkman has been updating our suite of classroom tools, H2O, to create an online alternative to casebooks that are free, online and remixable.  H2O includes our new tool Collage for editing down and annotating cases, Playlists for aggregating materials, the Question Tool for in-classroom back channel, and the Rotisserie for out-of-class discussion.  In this lunch we'll demo some of the tools (all still in alpha) and show how Jonathan Zittrain's Torts class is using them this term.About H20H2O is an open source, educational exchange platform that explores powerful ways to connect professors, students, and researchers online. There are four tools within the H2O platform:  the Question tool, the Rotisserie, Playlists and Collage.  The question tool is an organized backchannel for conferences and classes that allows participants to submit, answer, and vote on questions. It’s an effective way to keep feedback focused, direct speakers to audience interests, and potentially prevent the mic from being hijacked by that weirdo. ... Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:00:00 +0100 873082 http://opaltraining.blogspot.com/2010/09/whats-new-21-september-2010.html Twitter hashtags: quick guide Twitter hashtags are the strange little oddities that you find on lots of tweets. They use the hash symbol # followed by something else, so an example would be #mylang. They're very useful, but can be a bit puzzling, so let's shine a light on them. Hashtags are informal, they are not something that Twitter has instituted, and there are no rules about how they are used, just a general code of practice. Why do they exist? Suppose that you're interested in a particular subject, conference, television program, event or other similar 'thing'. If anyone you follow tweets about it, the chances are that you'll see it, but what about all the other people who are also talking about the same thing who you don't follow? You'll be missing all their tweets and information. Now, you can of course do a search at any number of search engines to try and find appropriate information, but how do you find it? There are plenty of different ways that you can refer to something - in short, there's no controlled vocabulary. However, if people can agree on a specific word to use in their tweets, this can in part be overcome, as you can just search for that word, and to enhance, or emphasis it, the # helps identify the keyword even more. Consequently, you can then just search for #keyword and you'll see all the tweets that people are writing, all gathered together in one place. A second way in which tweets are used is to emphasis something - it's almost like writing in bold or italics - people don't really expect you to search for similar tweets, they're just making their own personal point, such as #gladitsfriday although sometimes these hashtags do seem to take on a life of their own, and you'll find that other people start to use them - I see #latenightlibrarian quite often for example. ... Tue, 21 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 873168 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=7844 State: California To apply for this job, please visit http://jobs.berkeley.edu with the #11133 in hand. http://www.haas.berkeley.edu/haas/jobs/Job_11133_WebProductionManager.html Title: Web Production Manager #11133 ID #: 11133 Departmental Overview The Web Production Manager is a key member of the Online Marketing Team, which is responsible for implementation of the Haas School’s marketing and communication goals and objectives on the web site and via social media. The overall goal is to develop and maintain a leading edge, useful, and user-friendly web site that is considered one of the best among the world’s top business schools. The incumbent also has a key role in maintaining and implementing social media efforts. The Web Production Manager oversees technical aspects of online marketing projects and tasks that support the unit's mission. Assignments include overall web site structure design, web site development and maintenance, web file and folder access and user support and needs analysis, web activity reporting, project management, web applications development and/or maintenance, hiring and supervision of technical staff and student workers. Responsibilities Web Development Projects: Produce and develop web sites, including front-end development and basic graphic production. Work closely with Online Marketing Team members to provide backup and redundancy for development and production tasks, as time and resources permit. Working closely with other members of the School’s Virtual Web Team, manage/co-manage various aspects of special projects on the Haas website. Trouble-shoot problems for the Web Group. Validate code and/or scripts for members of the Virtual Web Team. Provide consultation to the Virtual Web Team on META tag coding and search engine optimization. Develop conversion and implementation plans. Follow Technical Project Management policies and standards. Monitors projects from initiation through delivery. ... Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:50:01 +0100 872812 http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/madreads/index.php/2010/09/20/bleep-bleep/ Pick up Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern if you are looking for something quick and funny to read.  But don’t be fooled, there’s more to this book than wacky one-liners.  Profanity aside, this is an uplifting little book about one man’s dedication to his family and what is right and honest in this world. Halpern’s collection of slightly insane, yet profound, quotes from his dad started out first as a twitter sensation.  Next came a blog, then the book, and this fall there will be a $#*! (Bleep) My Dad Says sitcom starring William Shatner.  The hilarity never ends!  And rightly so.  Halpern’s dad’s voice is unique and Halpern’s self-deprecating writing style presents it to the world in a way that is relatable and down-to-earth. If I had to compare Justin’s dad to anyone, I would describe him as a more in-depth Yogi Berra.  Like in The Yogi Book: I Really Didn’t Say Everything I Said!, Justin’s dad has a similar no-nonsense approach to doling out advice and general commentary.  Each chapter of the book features a ridiculous bleep statement.  Liberally doused with colorful language (OK, Halpern’s 74-year-old dad swears like a sailor), the bleep statements are followed by a memoir of sorts. The book starts out with Justin moving back home after a bad break-up and recounts various life events, including his dad’s stint as a Little League coach, tagging along to a medical conference where his father had to deliver an important lecture and his parent’s support of his career after he graduated from college.  The family is tight-knit and fairly well-adjusted.  With a lot of cursing thrown in for good measure. What could be offensive and shocking is neither.  Well, maybe a little, but in a grumpy old man kind of way.  I don’t know what your barometer for vulgarity is, but this is middling on my scale. ... Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:49:58 +0100 872928 http://wlaweb.blogspot.com/2010/09/technology-in-focus-at-wla-conference.html Skype, Tweet, "like," IM chat, geocoding, Web 2.0 and 3.0, socialnetwork, digital this, electronic that, i-everything! New technologycontinues to inform the way we think about library services andresources and, ultimately, how we interact with our public. Each year,new tools are available that inspire change within our work and workenvironment.The Wisconsin Library Association 2010 Conference presents a variety ofsessions that we hope will demystify some of this technology and providesuggestions for incorporating it into your library mission! Below arejust a few events that we hope are of interest to you.WEDNESDAY (11/3)-Can You Hear Me Now? Shhhh!: Mobile Devices in the Library-Digital (and Free!) Tools in Your Library-McGyver Library vs Have You Heard About: Showdown of theLibraryTechnology Titans-Vocera - Instant Voice CommunicationTHURSDAY (11/4)-The Future of Libraries and EBooks-Learning the Latest Technology @ the Library-Skype-Based Reference:  A Study and a Pilot Project-Making the Connection: Online, Email and IM Reference Services inWisconsin Public and Academic LibrariesFRIDAY (11/5)-The Changing Landscapes of Wisconsin: A Digital Archive of HistoricAerial Photographs-Social Tagging in the Library: User-Generated Content, Folksonomies,and the Library Catalog-Managing Your Online IdentityCheck out the WLA 2010 Conference Web site for the full program schedule and registration form.http://www.wla.lib.wi.us/conferences/2010/index.htmThe 2010 Wisconsin Library Association conference will be held November2-5 at the Kalahari Resort, in Wisconsin Dells. We hope to see you there!--Vicki Tobias, Publicity Chair, WLA Conference Committee (Source: The WLA Blog) Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:11:00 +0100 873478 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/YNbV5e02nT8/ Recently I have been talking about how to have less messy, more transparent, open, diverse, and recorded (by default) conversations. In particular conversations that move across silos or involve multiple departments. My first post was about bridging the enterprise gap, and my second post was about no longer having to report back to base (and some background). I will quickly review those two posts and add a third scenario of the usual spontaneous email conversations that span many levels of hierarchy and departments. Top down communication and conversation - cut through hierarchy and across groups The former was about a communication made to leads in different units who were then responsible to pass the communication down the chain. And you know what happens, people react to the communications and the same conversation is had in multiple spots. The commenters have to wait for leads (if the leads choose to do so) to get their message up the chain and then back down. Middle managers as communication reps or agents can often be a blockage; wouldn’t it be good to communicate straight with the source (this is more timely, engaging, empowering…and less frustrating for workers). The other point is that rather than each group missing out on clone discussions happening elsewhere, the inter-departmental conversation can happen in one space…yeah for collaboration, cooperation, and awareness…and of course all of this being documented by default. My suggestion was a blog post, which is like writing an email, only on an online page. If some intended recipients don’t subscribe to the blog, then the author can send them a link to the post. The recipients (the leads) simply pass on the link to their people, and anyone can post in the central spot for a discussion that cuts through and involves many levels of the hierarchy…a flat discussion perhaps. ... Thu, 16 Sep 2010 21:17:02 +0100 871954 http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/node/6353 BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY Upcoming events and digital media // September 15, 2010 [1] [TUESDAY 9/21] Berkman Center Luncheon Series: "Hacking the Casebook" with the H20 Development Team (RSVP Required) (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/luncheon/2010/09/h20) [2] [CONFERENCE 9/25] "Media Law in the Digital Age: The Rules Have Changed, Have You?" Conference in Atlanta, GA (http://csjconferences.org/medialaw/) Center for Research on Computation and Society (CRCS) Seminars [MONDAY 9/20] "Kidney Exchange" with Alvin Roth, Harvard Business School (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/09/roth) [TUESDAY] BERKMAN LUNCHEON SERIES on HACKING THE CASEBOOK ================================================================================== 9/21/10, *12:00 PM ET*, Berkman Center Conference Room @ 23 Everett St., Cambridge, MA **Please note earlier start time for this week only** RSVP is required for those attending in person to Amar Ashar (ashar@cyber.law.harvard.edu) This event will be webcast live Topic: Hacking the Casebook Guest: The H20 Development Team Traditional law school casebooks are expensive, bulky and stagnant. With the support of the HLS Library, Berkman has been updating our suite of classroom tools, H2O, to create an online alternative to casebooks that are free, online and remixable. H2O includes our new tool Collage for editing down and annotating cases, Playlists for aggregating materials, the Question Tool for in-classroom back channel, and the Rotisserie for out-of-class discussion. In this lunch we'll demo some of the tools (all still in alpha) and show how Jonathan Zittrain's Torts class is using them this term. About H20: H2O is an open source, educational exchange platform that explores powerful ways to connect professors, students, and researchers online. There are four tools within the H2O platform: the Question tool, the Rotisserie, Playlists and Collage. ... Wed, 15 Sep 2010 21:52:47 +0100 871779 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/EPr9VeuNvok/ In several recent posts, I’ve shown a variety of network diagrams based on who’s following whom in various twitter hashtag community networks. In this post, I thought I show a couple more, demonstrating the power of the visual approach for getting a quick feel for the structure of a particular community. First up, here’s the inner friends graph for the #cam23 hashtag, which is used predominantly by a handful of Cambridge Unibiversity librarians who opted in to their local 23 things programme: (Node size is proportional to the number of incoming friends links; colour is proportional to the number of outgoing links.) So what do we see? Pretty much everyone in this network is following a large number of other folk in the network, and is being followed by a large number. The network is highly interconnected. Messages don’t necessarily need tagging in order to ensure that the message gets distributed across the network because most folk are connected most other folk. (It’s never that simple of course. The likelihood of someone seeing a message from a particular person in their network is a function of, amongst other things, the number of people they follow, the frequency at which those people post, and so on.) Now let’s look at a hashtag around a different sort of event – the Isle of Wight #Bestival. Here’s a sample from that hashtag community: In this case, we see lots of small blue dots, disconnected from other folk in the network. A couple of nodes are well connected, such as @ventnorblog, the Isle of Wight’s hyperlocal news site. Generally, if we wanted to broadcast a message to the #bestival hashtag community, the only way we could hope to would be by tagging a message appropriately and hoping they had a search running on that tag. If we run the Gephi connected components tool, we can group nodes that are comnected to each other. ... Mon, 13 Sep 2010 11:36:51 +0100 872425 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/mchabib/~3/7Qe2GqzPRUo/ # habib: RT @jaykaydee: My dissertation: “Beliefs and Uses of Tagging Among Undergraduates” http://bit.ly/97bJQI If you’re into that sort of thing# habib: RT @mfenner: New blog post: ORCID session at #solo10 and other important #orcid news http://bit.ly/crZzWg# habib: RT @gthorisson: My latest SlideShare upload: ORCID presentation from Science Online London 2010 – http://slidesha.re/dqjO0F# habib: RT @ORCID_Org: We’re officially a non-profit! Announced today, ORCID initiative is now ORCID, Inc http://bit.ly/c8L8hW# RT @IanMulvany: #solo10 some pics and links to presentations from the session I hosted. http://directedgraph.net/2010/09/07/solo10-presentation-slides/# WEBINAR (free): The Future of Search and Discovery, Sept. 8 w/ Jud Dunham and Cameron Neylon http://t.co/tiia9JS# RT @Machemes: New and Unique Tool Eases the Process of Finding Article Reviewers: The search is based on the Scopus macheme fo… http://bit.ly/9U3bEy# My slides from Connecting Scientific Resources at Science Online London 2010 available at http://t.co/3vrgEc1 #solo10 #li @IanMulvany @rjw (Source: LIS :: Michael Habib) Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:05:45 +0100 872742 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/r6YPExNzzyY/ In Deriving a Persistent EdTech Context from the ALTC2010 Twitter Backchannel (aka ‘From community folksonomy to epistemology in a few clicks: Possibly the most useful post (ever?)’, via @georgeroberts;-), I showed how we could mine the tweets surrounding an archived hashtag in order to generate a topic based context that would persist after the event had been long gone. So what else might we do? Here are a couple of quick thoughts… Firstly, some folk were tweeting links using the hashtag, so we can scrape these from the twapperkeeper archive and maybe use them to feed a facet of the search engine (e.g. relating to sites/links tweeted during the event). In this case, that part of the search engine would correspond to a fragmentary memory of links deemed important at the time of the original event. Here are a couple of fragments that could form the basis of the generating script. Firstly, a link stripper to extract links from a tweet. Something like this should work: string="@sdsd http://sds.sd/sd?&dsd http://sds.sd/?r+dsd" print re.findall(r'(?:http://|www.)[^"\s]+',string) Secondly, we need to post full links rather than shortened links to the search engine. I noticed @AJCann was using a bit.ly URL in his twitter profile, and also a lot of tweeted links are shortened using bit.ly; so for those at least we can expand the links via the bit.ly API: import simplejson,urllib,re bu='psychemedia' bkey='' urls=[] urls.append('http://bit.ly/AJCann') #bit.ly api call can take up to 15 &shorturl=URL pairs for i in urls: url='http://api.bit.ly/v3/expand?shortUrl='+urllib.quote(i)+'&login='+bu+'&apiKey='+bkey+'&format=json' print 'url: '+url r=simplejson.load(urllib. ... Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:12:27 +0100 870775 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/BQYwtvtzu5M/ For ever, it seems as if we have had a problem of “information overload”. Way back when, in their dusty cells, scholarly monks would spend their days writing digests of of books that had gone before, because there were so many books (?!) very few people would be able to read them all, and know what insights they contained. And then, it seems, Shirky came along, amplified by Jarvis, Weinberger and other net culture thinkers and commentators, popularising the notion of “filter failure”. We’ve also been hearing a lot lately about event amplification… Almost three years ago now (three years, do you remember what the web was like, and what hadn’t been invented yet, three years ago?!), I presented what felt like an old idea to me, even at the time, at ILI2007 on the topic of “Search Hubs and Custom Search”. The idea was that there are lots of places where we context already exists that can used to mine links that might serve as custom search engines. That there were contexts that by their very nature brought together people and content relating to a particular topic, or domain. At that time, I demoed a Google Custom Search engine that searched over third party content linked to from an OU OpenLearn course, as well as something I’d been dabbling with for over a year even at that time: searchfeedr, a search engine that searched over domains listed in the links of an RSS feed pulled in from wherever (I think it still works? http://searchfeedr.com/), and which itself had origins in a hack I’d called deliSearch, that would search over sites tagged in a particular way on delicious. ... Wed, 08 Sep 2010 09:22:01 +0100 870781 http://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/itng-2011.html The 8th "International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations" will take place in April 11-13, 2011, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The conference’s main themes are: use of information communication technologies for social computing, mobile social computing, infrastructure and architectures for social computing, online communities and social networking, social tagging and collaborative information organization, information retrieval and sharing techniques, usability and user needs, applications and case studies in social computing, novel applications supporting user-generated content and social interaction, social, institutional and policy issues in social computing, social computing in schools, enterprises and other organizations, collaboration and social computing and social computing trends and issues. (Source: The Invisible Web Weblog) Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0100 870759 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/sep/04/supersad-truelove-story-gary-shteyngart It's funny, it's clever and it's too much, says Tibor FischerGary Shteyngart's previous novel, the witty Absurdistan, had at its core a romance, and the same is true of Super Sad True Love Story. In pitching parlance, this new work is Nineteen-Eighty-four or Brave New World reworked by a tag team of Tom Wolfe and Philip Roth. Absurdistan was divided into two main sections: a hilarious but not too exaggerated depiction of post-Soviet St Petersburg, and a more Swiftian coda in a fictitious post-Soviet state. The satire is off the leash in the US-set Super Sad True Love Story, which takes place in that very perilous territory for a novelist, the near future (the danger being that in 10 years' time no one will bother to read your novel because events will have rendered it redundant or ridiculous).Shteyngart's forecast for the United States of America is bleak (another drawback to the dystopian novel is that once you've read one you don't need to read another; ditto the post-apocalyptic novel). In the world of the novel, the gap between rich and poor is even more pronounced and publicised than today (we're only a step away from Soylent Green, a film which Shteyngart cites), and wealth doesn't just afford you luxury and pleasure, it gives you a shot at immortality. Of Soviet Jewish background, Shteyngart emigrated to the US as a child, and perhaps this has given him a greater awareness of how easy it is to slip down the ladder, or at least fail to climb up the rungs.Email has given the epistolary novel a whole new lease of life. Suddenly you're no longer blowing the dust off Richardson's Clarissa, you're surfing on an invigorating wave of zeitgeist. Much of Super Sad True Love Story is given over to electronic exchanges between the protagonist, Lenny Abramov (like Shteyngart, the son of Soviet Jews), and his girlfriend, the Korean-American Eunice, and to Eunice's communications with her mother, sister and best friend. ... Fri, 03 Sep 2010 23:06:11 +0100 868902 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/CUPKMMGER6s/ New Features * Content server: Show custom column data in the book listing * Add preference to automatically set a tag when adding books (Preferences->General) * Add a tweak to create compound search terms. Show error message in tooltip when user inputs an invalid search query. * Managing multiple libraries: Allow renaming/deleting libraries from the Choose library menu * Searching on series index is now possible. See the User Manual for details. Bug Fixes * Fix regression in 0.7.16 that broke conversion of HTML files with preprocess turned on * MOBI Output: When converting an input document that specifies an inline TOC in the but not in the , add it correctly. Fixes #6661 (Conversion to MOBI fails to create TOC) * JetBook driver: Only use JetBook naming scheme for txt, pdf and fb2 files. * Copy to library action now respects merge preferences * Fix bug in email sending when using an SSL connection * Kobo driver: Fix bug that prevented metadata caching from working correctly * Fix regression in 0.7.16 that caused calibre to forget its preferences on each restart for new installs on linux * News downloads: Cut off long downloaded from URLs Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:13:46 +0100 869017 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/M_t9w4dEaTQ/ A couple of weeks ago, the amazingly talented Dion Hinchcliffe put together a blog post under the title of “The 2010 Social Business Landscape” that would probably classify as one of the most insightful, resourceful and essential articles published during the course of this year that everyone in the industry should be reading. Yes, in case you may not have seen it, it is that good! Worth while your time, for sure!, specially, if you are into some amazing graphicware like this one. But, there is something missing from that article, don’t you think? Something that, in my opinion, is one of the fundamental pillars from Enterprise 2.0. Have you spotted it yourself already? Indeed, social bookmarking / tagging! Not sure what you would think, but I strongly believe that social bookmarking and social tagging are still an important and rather critical part of a successful Enterprise 2.0 adoption strategy. I would even go one step further and state that social bookmarking / tagging are probably essential key elements behind the social computing philosophy altogether. Yet, it’s interesting to see how they both keep getting neglected time and time again, when they are just so critical. I mean, can you imagine … having your business put together and create a massive index of must-have links with annotations and tags across the board that would help you re-find content much much easier than through just the traditional taxonomies? No, neither could I. My good friend, Harold Jarche, talked about this very same thing as well not long ago on a virtual IBM event for the community of social software evangelists that I co-lead with one other colleague and which I blogged about over at Personal Knowledge Management by Harold Jarche (BlueIQ Ambassadors). ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:24:51 +0100 868507 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/3bDu-JvCEDU/ From an email: I am a graduate student in the Dept. of Library & Information Science, National Taiwan University. I am writing to you because I read your article and thus understand that you had researched Delicious.com before. I’m currently doing my thesis research on Delicious users’ social relations and tagging behaviors. I am now on the stage of collecting data from Delicious user. Would you please fill out my questionnaire if you are currently using Delicious? It may take you approximately 20-30 minutes to complete the questionnaire. I would highly appreciate if you could also forward this questionnaire to anyone you know who also use Delicious. Thank you very much for your help. Here is the link: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/344453/Delicious-User-Survey Sincerely, Yi-Fan Chen, Graduate Student Dept. of Library & Information Science National Taiwan University Chi-Shiou Lin, Assistant Professor (Thesis Advisor) Dept. of Library & Information Science National Taiwan University (Source: Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:42:23 +0100 867535 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/08/29/neh-awards-new-digital-humanities-start-up-grants/ The NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program has made 28 new awards. Here's an excerpt from the press release: American University — Washington, DC The Map of Jazz Musicians: an online interactive tool for navigating jazz history's interpersonal network Fernando Benadon, Project Director Outright: $49,777 To support: The development of an online tool to map connections and collaborations among American jazz musicians. Bank Street College of Education — New York, NY Civil Rights Movement Remix (CRM-Remix) Bernadette Anand, Project Director Outright: $25,000 To support: A series of workshops to plan the development of location-based smartphone applications about the African-American Civil Rights Movement based around sites in Harlem, NY. Boston University — Boston, MA Evolutionary Subject Tagging in the Humanities Jack Ammerman, Project Director Outright: $13,767 To support: A two-day meeting of humanities scholars, librarians, and computational analysis experts to consider how to improve existing cataloging software that attempts to better classify interdisciplinary humanities research. Brown University — Providence, RI A Journal-Driven Bibliography of Digital Humanities Julia Flanders, Project Director Outright: $49,659 To support: Development of a project led by the staff of Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) to create, manage, export, and publish high quality bibliographical data across the digital humanities research domain. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867658 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/BDfVISosX2s/ The NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program has made 28 new awards. Here's an excerpt from the press release: American University — Washington, DC The Map of Jazz Musicians: an online interactive tool for navigating jazz history's interpersonal network Fernando Benadon, Project Director Outright: $49,777 To support: The development of an online tool to map connections and collaborations among American jazz musicians. Bank Street College of Education — New York, NY Civil Rights Movement Remix (CRM-Remix) Bernadette Anand, Project Director Outright: $25,000 To support: A series of workshops to plan the development of location-based smartphone applications about the African-American Civil Rights Movement based around sites in Harlem, NY. Boston University — Boston, MA Evolutionary Subject Tagging in the Humanities Jack Ammerman, Project Director Outright: $13,767 To support: A two-day meeting of humanities scholars, librarians, and computational analysis experts to consider how to improve existing cataloging software that attempts to better classify interdisciplinary humanities research. Brown University — Providence, RI A Journal-Driven Bibliography of Digital Humanities Julia Flanders, Project Director Outright: $49,659 To support: Development of a project led by the staff of Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) to create, manage, export, and publish high quality bibliographical data across the digital humanities research domain. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:01:59 +0100 867320 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/08/28/reference-question-of-the-week-82210 This was sort of a frustrating question, but in the end was fun - mainly because I get to tag this post “gonzo reference.” A patron came rushing up to the desk (literally) and said he quickly needed to know John Philip Sousa’s religion. Since time was important, I gave the patron Encyclopedia Britannica and showed him how to find the John Philip Sousa article, while I searched Wikipedia. Neither identified his religion, so the next step was to grab the one Sousa biography we had on the shelf, and the patron looked through the index under “faith,” “religion,” etc., while I kept searching our databases and the internet. Again, neither of us located anything quickly, except for a quote online attributed to Sousa: My religion lies in my composition. That didn’t exactly answer the patron’s question, but he felt Sousa must have meant that, regardless of what religion he was officially, he wasn’t himself a very religious person, and that was good enough for the patron. He thanked me and rushed out. But I was still surprised that such an simple fact wouldn’t have been more readily available. I decided to keep searching until I found it, and then add the fact to Wikipedia - mainly because I can. I was already in the library’s catalog, so I requested a Sousa biography from another library (John Philip Sousa: American Phenomenon) that seemed likely to have the information. When it arrived, I started flipping through it, then wondered if this had been scanned into Google Books - turns out, it had. I searched the content of the book for “religion” and found the answer I was looking for at the bottom of page 102. I then composed a little paragraph and added it to Wikipedia: Although Freemasonry is an organization influenced by religious beliefs, John Philip Sousa himself was not. ... Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:39:57 +0100 866694 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/DK4YiPam5Mo/ The San Diego History Center is recruiting a Project Manager/Cataloger. Here's an excerpt from the ad: This is a professional position requiring a high level of skill and competency and the ability to work with limited supervision and make duty-related decisions. The Project Manager/Cataloger will perform a variety of duties in order to achieve the goals stated in an IMLS-funded project, namely, to digitize, catalog and make available over 7,000 images from the E.H. Davis Collection of American Indian images. The project Manager/Cataloger will be responsible for planning the project, ensuring that milestones are met, writing reports, doing research, and cataloging photographs and drawings from the E.H. Davis Collection in collaboration with members of the local American Indian Community as well as scholars. SDHC also plans to invite social tagging of the newly-created collection records via the web. The Project Manger/Cataloger will work on the social tagging dimension in coordination with the Balboa Park Online Collaborative. This will be a full-time position for a period of 18 months. (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:08:06 +0100 867324 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/08/26/project-managercataloger-at-san-diego-history-center/ The San Diego History Center is recruiting a Project Manager/Cataloger. Here's an excerpt from the ad: This is a professional position requiring a high level of skill and competency and the ability to work with limited supervision and make duty-related decisions. The Project Manager/Cataloger will perform a variety of duties in order to achieve the goals stated in an IMLS-funded project, namely, to digitize, catalog and make available over 7,000 images from the E.H. Davis Collection of American Indian images. The project Manager/Cataloger will be responsible for planning the project, ensuring that milestones are met, writing reports, doing research, and cataloging photographs and drawings from the E.H. Davis Collection in collaboration with members of the local American Indian Community as well as scholars. SDHC also plans to invite social tagging of the newly-created collection records via the web. The Project Manger/Cataloger will work on the social tagging dimension in coordination with the Balboa Park Online Collaborative. This will be a full-time position for a period of 18 months. (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:06:43 +0100 866043 http://librarychronicles.blogspot.com/2010_08_01_archive.html#4679528851179419249 The following was meant as a comment to this AZ post featuring a highly questionable piece of political advertising. But it was too long for the comment form so I put it here. I'm pretty sure Dambala checks this space from time to time.Dude. You don't think this is a pretty slimy ad? I mean put Richmond's well documented problems aside and just look at this. In this spot we get one unidentified young white girl relating to us a poorly defined encounter with (someone we are meant to assume is) Richmond during which she "felt threatened" although it isn't made at all clear what "threatening" behavior was on display. We aren't told where they are. (The text says "a bar in Baton Rouge." The girl does not say anything about where they are which also seems strange.) Nor are we given any other information about the context of their conversation. Then we are presented with the young lady's account of what might be interpreted as a fairly brash statement by the person we are left to assume is Richmond. Although we don't know. We don't even know who she is. We have no idea, in fact, just what sort of happening, if anything, is being described to us at all.We are treated to several repetitions of that tag line, though. A completely unsubstantiated and unexplained line. Delivered by a mystery person. Who we know was "really bothered" by it.On the plus side, she has a nice hat.I watched that ad tonight during the news and immediately thought, "Who the fuck are these slimeballs?" Thanks to Open Secrets, we learn that they are a shadowy new post-Citizens United style PAC registered by New Orleans attorney and Juan LaFonta donor, Stuart H Smith. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866016 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 http://bentleywg.livejournal.com/1330564.html The First Thing You Should Do With Facebook Places: Don't Let Other People Tag You. http://gawker.com/5616329/the-first-thing-you-should-do-with-facebook-places-dont-let-other-people-tag-you"So, everyone's excited about the new Facebook Places, right? The Facebook service that lets you check-in, Foursquare style, at whatever hip Sushi bar/bicycle repair shop you happen to be in. Oh, and also other people can check you in, too.Facebook places, which rolls out this evening, allows your friends (and only your friends) to tag you when checking into a place. ... Here's how to make sure other people can't tag you on Places." (Source: BentleyBlog) Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:20:07 +0100 865769 http://gypsylibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/08/short-article-note-on-web-20-tools-for.html Citation for the article:Deitering, Anne-Marie, et.al., "Library Instruction 2.0." Public Services Quarterly 5.2 (April 2009): 114-124.Read via Interlibrary Loan.This piece is mostly a list of some Web 2.0 tools with some suggestions and tips on how they can be used for library instruction. If you are a pretty savvy librarian who knows how to use the major 2.0 tools, you can probably safely skim the article. There are some basic tips that can be useful, which include: Using Delicious (http://delicious.com) and tagging to highlight issues with the concept of tagging versus a controlled vocabulary. (116).Using Google Reader (http://www.google.com/reader) to organize and track information. I use Google Reader quite a bit for my current awareness needs. Using Creative Commons, both for finding content that may be used freely and for your own material. My blogs are licensed with Creative Commons, by the way. There are a couple other items included. This article is one to keep handy when you need some ideas to enhance or supplement your library instruction. The only catch is that it came out in 2009, which means most of it was likely written up in 2008 or earlier, and the Web has changed a bit since then. Some of these tools are pretty much common, and there are many other new ones. On the other hand, I do get a good amount of students (and some faculty) who have no idea what a feed reader is. However, the tools listed here seem to have stood the test of time (if we can understand that time moves quite swiftly in the Web). I am keeping the article in my files for future reference, plus it would be interesting to consider what other tools librarians would add to this list by now. (Source: The Gypsy Librarian) Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:48:00 +0100 866512 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/08/17/the-virtual-life/ That’s right: not the virtuous life — though it may be that — but the virtual one. Those of you who are considering opening a virtual law office might like to go that extra furlong and emulate Kelly Sutton, who has sold pretty much everything he owned and now lives a life enhanced by not much more than a bike and a computer. The BBC has just picked up on the Sutton saga, that began over a year ago, when, stimulated by a book on escaping the 9-5 work drag, he set himself the project of selling off his possessions, with the signal exception of his computer. On his (appropriately minimalist) Cult of Less website, he lists all his belongings, tagging some as sold, some as for sale, and some as being keepers. And, as those who’ve shunned the high overhead of law offices will attest, there’s a lot we’re accustomed to that we don’t in fact require. Because Sutton is young, the story of his transformation focuses a good deal on the replacement of books and CDs by internet content. But any tour of a typical middle class house (or office) will reveal much underused and unnecessary stuff. On the other side of the argument, there’s the matter of comfort (which seems likely to be the job of the blue chair) and visual art (which isn’t fungible with a screenshot of a Vermeer), of course. And Mr. Sutton does’t talk much about how he keeps and prepares food — if in fact he does. Too, Mr. Sutton has no children, which allows for a somewhat more toy-free environment. So should you practice in the park? Likely not. But for me, at least, there’s something important in this reminder that, even in a society that seems to have as its most important activities shopping and television, it’s possible to resist the worst of commodity fetishism — provided, I suppose, that what counts is sublimated into the information aether (and viewed on a Mac?). ... Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:41:11 +0100 867087 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AginfoBlogFromIaald/~3/Tvi5FA4nmCM/ifpri-adopts-3-d-approach-to-web.html Chris Addison writes:To accommodate a complete change in the way we use the Internet to find information and stay in touch, a new and different strategy for online publishing is essential. At IFPRI, we have been experimenting with the concept of a “3-D” approach using (1) decentralized content, (2) a descriptive system to put information in context, and (3) ways to ensure we are part of the discussion. So, we have been looking at our work through 3-D glasses, and it has brought the system vividly to life.1. DecentralizeFirst, we have begun to decentralize what we do by moving from a “one-platform-fits-all” approach to one that encourages the most appropriate platforms for particular types of content. Individuals, projects, divisions, and departments in the organization need to be able to update information online, so the ability to input data and documents cannot rest solely with one group. We make extensive use of Slideshare and YouTube whenever content is photo- or video-based. To post short communications, we use Wordpress, which we also use to create “websites on the fly.” Our publications follow an open-access workflow that ensures they are published on the IFPRI website and stored on the server repository to be accessible to all. The decentralization also applies to how our content reaches our audience. We have turned the core IFPRI website into a web engine able to produce content feeds, which can be used by others. These feeds are now one of the top sources of traffic to our website. We are also rapidly moving toward providing content that can be embedded elsewhere, as is the case with the Global Hunger Index map.2. DescribeSince our content is now so well dispersed in different platforms, it is essential to link related items through a descriptive system so that information is displayed in context. ... Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867406 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/hiYx-pigfnc/ If you have been following this blog for a little while now, you would know how Personal Knowledge Management, a.k.a. PKM, or Personal Knowledge Sharing (PKS), whichever term you would prefer to make use of, has always been one of my favourite topics to talk about and share some further insights over here and elsewhere. It’s been all along one of those areas that has always caught my attention since way back when I was first involved with KM in the late 90s. It’s one of those fascinating fields that has permeated successfully throughout time from traditional KM and into the world of Social Networking reaching a new level of awareness that surely makes it all worth while diving into, if you haven’t done so just yet. More than anything else, because, if anything, that interest will keep raising as time goes by! And here is why … Managing knowledge is quite a daunting task; in fact, most people claim (I am one of them, too!) that it is almost impossible to manage it successfully. How can you manage what you yourself don’t know really that well after all? How can you manage what you are just not even aware you are knowledgeable about till you are confronted with it? How can you manage what you know till you eventually have a need for it to resurface again? Quite an interesting set of questions, don’t you think? So where does Personal Knowledge Management fit in then? Well, indeed, it’s impossible to manage knowledge, even your own knowledge. However, knowledge workers can have a good chance to self manage some of that knowledge so that they can re-find and reuse it effectively and efficiently at a later time. There are a whole bunch of processes and traditional technologies that have been helping people try to figure out how they can have their own PKM strategy. ... Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:39:29 +0100 866212 http://infobib.de/blog/2010/08/04/best-archives-on-the-web-awards-2010/ Archives Next benennt die Gewinner der Best Archives on the Web Awards in den Kategorien Best re-purposing of descriptive data (Gewinner: The Smithsonian Institution, Collections Search Center und City of Burnaby Archives, Charting Change: An Interactive Atlas of Burnaby’s Heritage), Best use of crowdsourcing for description (Gewinner: Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, Waisda?; Honorable Mention: PhotosNormandie on Flickr), und Most innovative archives on the Web (Gewinner: The Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, Rich Media: Conservation History Association of Texas, Texas Legacy Project Records; Honorable Mention: HerStory 360, The HerStory Scrapbook). Die Gewinner sollen auf Archives Next in den nächsten Tagen näher vorgestellt werden. (Source: Infobib) Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:37:59 +0100 866203 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/25/uk-jisc-and-open-access/ by Neil Jacobs We’ve just published an account of Open Access and JISC’s contributions to it over the years: It covers how OA meets institutional and sector demands for sustainable efficiency and effectiveness in scholarly communication, how work in the UK fits into a wider international picture, and how it works for stakeholders including researchers, institutions and publishers. It also includes case studies and a list of relevant JISC and related reports. We are working with others this year to coordinate OA developments at a UK strategic level, and so it’s timely that this review of JISC’s work is available, showing the work done both at that level, but also by helping institutions implement practice and systems that make OA a reality, something JISC’s been in a unique position to do. Access the Complete Report Source: JISC Information Environment Team Hat Tip and Thank You: Peter Suber and the Open Access Tagging Project (OATP) (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:13:18 +0100 862186 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/24/conference-paper-could-social-tags-enrich-the-library-subject-index/ Access the Complete Paper (8 pages; PDF) By: Constantia Kakali & Christos Papatheodorou In: Libraries In the Digital Age 2010, Zadar (Hungary), May 24-28, 2010 From the Abstract: Social tagging aims to generate folksonomies through the users’ collaboration and activation. This paper is motivated by the trend of several libraries to adopt social tagging functionalities and presents a tag analysis study aiming to exploit a social tag collection for the benefit of the subject description of an academic library material. In this context, cataloguers are interviewed to assess the semantic value of the concepts expressed by the set of social tags and discuss the possibility of their incorporation in the well-formed and structured library authority file. Access the Complete Paper (8 pages; PDF) Source: Libraries In the Digital Age 2010 (via E-LIS) (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:41:56 +0100 862052 http://sites.menashalibrary.org/2010/07/21/social-cataloging-and-the-future-wilsworld-2010/ LibraryThing – Tim Spaulding Ladder of social cataloging 1. Personal cataloging 2. Sharing – library, opinions, data 3. Implicit social cataloging 65 million tags! Tagging is making sense for yourself – magical when large groups do it 5 recommendation algorithms 4. Social networking Connection news Librarians who LibraryThing – largest group 5. Explicit social cataloging No authority file 6. Collaborative cataloging 200 Collections of Presidential book collections and others – way cool Not about features or central control Traditional cataloging has physical basis – size of catalog cards Millions of tags wash out the impact of bad tagging This is about giving things to people – not user generated content! Embrace radical openness Library catalogs stuck in 2001 No permanent linking to bib records Go with the grain of Internet Trust people Let others in Be on the web LibraryThing for Libraries Reviews Different editions pulled together Similar reads Tag cloud Virtual shelf browser – adds browsability (Source: Sites and Soundbytes) Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 861379 http://nnlm.gov/mcr/news_blog/?p=7147 Have you wanted the chance to learn more about Web 2.0 technologies such as wikis, blogs, social bookmarking, and social networking?   MCR is offering a 7-week online class using a self-discovery format called Learning 2.0. You may recall that we previously taught an implementation of Learning 2.0 called “13 Things” (based on the popular “Learning 2.0 23 Things” class originally created by Helene Blowers at the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenberg County).  Based on your feedback, we’re now offering the class in 2 parts.  The first part is called “6 Things Learning 2.0 Part I.” The class will also be offered to members of the NN/LM Pacific Southwest Region. The class is offered in an asynchronous format, so you can participate at any time that works for you.  We anticipate the class work will take (on average) 2 hours of your time per week.  We will have one mandatory orientation session the first week of the class — this session will be held using Adobe Connect.  If you can’t attend the session, you can watch the recording online. Please see the class description and agenda below for more information.  Important pre-requisite:  you must be able and willing to sign up for various online services that will require registration and an e-mail address. The class will be held from July 26, 2010 through September 10, 2010.  The class is FREE. Class enrollment will be limited to 20 participants from MCR (first come, first serve based when you fill out the registration form). The class has been approved for 12 MLA CE credits. To register, please go to:  http://tinyurl.com/mcrclasses and scroll down to the listing for the “6 Things Learning 2.0 Part I ” class.  Click on “Register” to fill out the registration form. For more questions or more information contact Sharon Dennis at sdennis@lib.med.utah.edu. ... Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:22:18 +0100 860828 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/VI-TT65sWQk/ This is a follow-up to my post Enterprise microblogging needs a facelift to rival email. In that post I talked about adding an item in the stream to your Watchlist This way you can keep in the loop about a conversation without you having to be a poster or a commenter I also talked about communally grouping items via contributors tagging them with a hashtag This way you can keep in the loop about the greater task that is generating all these items Differences You are not being cc:ed, rather you "pull" the content to you (filtering your own information) you can be @mentioned which is like the to: or cc: field but this won’t happen in every post and comment, so it’s up to people to add it to their Watchlist The sender has an understanding of who needs to be involved in a conversation, but this is not always apparent at the start of a task, and there are plenty of people on the edges who need to be consulted that emerge Now anyone can find a conversation, add it to their Watchlist, get involved Deeper than In-the-flow and Above-the-flow A while back a defining post was made on the difference between working Above-the-Flow (volunteering to share information and experiences based on engagement, trust, audience, reciprocity), and In-the-Flow (communicating and asking questions about tasks using social tools rather than email…doing what you are already doing in new tools). Well what I want to describe here is going deeper than In-the-Flow…to the artifacts of the activity itself. Example We have a web conference about a task that involves people across teams. We set up a group space. We use this group space to ask the task team questions. We use this group space to communicate our individual progress to the task members. ... Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:45:23 +0100 860611 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/16/full-text-article-the-democratization-of-metadata-collective-tagging-folksonomies-and-web-2-0/ by Joshua M. Avery Vol. 5 (2010) From the Introduction: The following paper will explore some of the ways in which folksonomies are shaping notions and methods surrounding contemporary knowledge management, how they are currently being used, and how information professionals are reacting to these developments. This paper will also explore the future of folksonomies and their contribution to the growth of Web 2.0 and a more democratic World Wide Web. Because of the nature of folksonomies and their omnipresence throughout the information economy, this paper will examine both scholarly and popular sources. Access Full Text Article Source: Library Student Journal Peer Reviewed, Open Access Journal (Source: ResourceShelf) Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:23:47 +0100 860230