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 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:52:13 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/10/the-prelinger-library-digital-collection/ First, some background. The other day we linked to an article about Rick and Megan Prelinger from the Prelinger Archives (open to the public) in San Francisco where they work and curate various collections. Perhaps Rick Prelinger is best known as a film archivist and the person who built a massive collection of motion picture content. These days, more than 2,100 of these films are accessible (free) via the Internet Archive. If you’ve never visited, it’s more than worthy your time. Its goal remains to collect, preserve, and facilitate access to films of historic significance that haven’t been collected elsewhere. Included are films produced by and for many hundreds of important US corporations, nonprofit organizations, trade associations, community and interest groups, and educational institutions. You can access the collection (search/browse) here, learn about the history of the collection, and view a tag cloud of its holdings. But Wait! The Prelinger Archives is contains more than just motion pictures and some non-film content is being digitized and made available via the Prelinger Library Digital Collections from the Internet Archive. The collection is home to, “public domain materials in in key subject areas.” You can search for material and also browse by title or author. The Federal Writers’ Project sub-collection is small (but growing) and contains some fascinating reading. From the Stories of New Jersey (1938) to Boston looks seaward; the story of the port, 1630-1940 (1941). If you’re from the New York area or just love NYC New York city guide; a comprehensive guide to the five boroughs of the metropolis: Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, and Richmond ([c1939]) is great to read or browse. It might also be useful for educators. Actually, many titles would be ideal for teachers. The same goes for the films. This is interesting content that must be saved. ... Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:17:20 +0100 825339 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/ARefbKQ_mj4/common-tag.html "Common Tag is an open tagging format developed to make content more connected, discoverable and engaging. Unlike free-text tags, Common Tags are references to unique, well-defined concepts, complete with metadata and their own URLs. With Common Tag, site owners can more easily create topic hubs, cross-promote their content, and enrich their pages with free data, images and widgets" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:39:33 +0100 825269 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/03/09/coverguess-from-librarything CoverGuess was released last week, and the LibraryThing blog post explains the what and why better than I can: What is CoverGuess? CoverGuess is a sort of game. We give you covers, and you describe them in words. If you guess the same things as other players, you get points. Why are you doing this? The goal is to have fun, but also to build up a database of cover descriptions, to answer questions like “Do you have that book with bride on the bicycle?” You have to have a LibraryThing account to play, but it’s worth a free account to get in on the action. CoverGuess was inspired by one of my favorite internet timesinks, Google’s Image Labeler. Both of these make the internet a better place, but CoverGuess could actually help in answering reference questions. I’ll be keeping watch for when the search component is released, but for now, racking up tagging points is fun. (Source: herzogbr.net blog) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:29:06 +0100 825032 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=6983 State: Washington, D.C. Library Associates Companies (LAC) seeks for *immediate consideration* candidates for the position of Electronic Content Designer in the greater Washington DC metro area. The Electronic Content Designer will assist with migrating content to a CMS; analyze, edit, update and tag content; recommend navigation, look and feel; prepare content for migration. The position is full time for six months. Must be a US Citizen in order to be considered. Primary Responsibilities: · Perform content analysis and mapping to determine navigation and layout; · Implement content transfer to content management system; · Create new graphics and visual designs within existing guidelines; · Implement RSS feeds and similar notification features; · Assist with usability testing and translating results into design and organization updates; · Assign metadata to digital content using existing guidelines and taxonomies; · Identify, recommend, implement, and document best practices for creating online museum exhibits; · Write new and update online text. Minimum Experience Required: · Experience with HTML · Knowledge of graphics tools such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, or Visio; · Experience with web content-creation tools such as Adobe Flash, Dreamweaver CS3, XHTML/CSS, JavaScript, ActionScript 3.0, CGI; · Experience with information architecture, user task analysis, interface design; · Experience with metadata, taxonomies, and tagging; · Experience with digital information repositories · Some knowledge of PHP, MySQL or Perl; · Knowledge of image capture and delivery techniques. To Apply: In order to apply and be considered for this position, please follow the registration link below. http://jobs.libraryassociates. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:30:02 +0100 824773 http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2010/03/common-tag.html Common Tag is an interesting project, it is an attempt to create more linked data.Common Tag is an open tagging format developed to make content more connected, discoverable and engaging. Unlike free-text tags, Common Tags are references to unique, well-defined concepts, complete with metadata and their own URLs. With Common Tag, site owners can more easily create topic hubs, cross-promote their content, and enrich their pages with free data, images and widgets.It uses RDFa. There is a tool, Zemanta, to help embed Common Tags in weblogs. (Source: Catalogablog) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824837 http://ratodebiblioteca.blogspot.com/2010/03/o-10-bad-bom-ritmo.html Estamos a um mês do 10º Congresso de Bibliotecários, Arquivistas e Documentalistas e já temos programa provisório, com muitas comunicações e posteres que aguardo com grande interesse e ainda pertinentes painéis temáticos.Desde meados de Janeiro que o evento conta com uma dinâmica na web que me agrada particularmente - o 10BAD 2.0: alguns recursos e ferramentas 2.0 para uma maior e melhor comunicação, divulgação e interacção do congresso. O blog 10BAD, a página no facebook, a conta no twitter, os vídeos no youtube, a partilha de fotos no flickr, o canal tv no livestream, a presença no second life, e um pouco do #10bad na web social de muitos dos profissionais usando a tag 10BAD para propagar e cruzar informação sobre o 10º Congresso, com muitos comentários nas redes sociais e alguns posts na blogosfera. Esta dinâmica vai trazer ao congresso uma maior e mais significativa presença dos conteúdos do congresso na web.Ao rato de biblioteca, que se envolveu neste processo, deu particular prazer a recolha de testemunhos em vídeo, de alguns dos profissionais que estiveram e/ou estão envolvidos na organização dos congressos, onde se pode ver e ouvir as experiências, os momentos marcantes e a importância atribuída por todos ao evento.Mas muito mais temos que "fazer acontecer" para tornar verdadeiramente vivo e participado este congresso! (Source: :: rato de biblioteca ::) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825222 http://www.affordance.info/mon_weblog/2010/03/culture-documentaire-et-folksonomies.html Article "de commande", pour la revue "Documentaliste, sciences de l'information", à paraître fin Février 2010. La version ci-dessous est celle de soumission, non encore revue et corrigée pour publication définitive. La version définitive sera déposée en archives ouvertes au moment de sa parution.Culture documentaire et folksonomies. L’indexation à l’ère industrielle et collaborative. Des folksonomies aux hashtags, quelles cultures informationnelles ? A L’INDEX. Il a déposé des photos de ses vacances sur FlickR ; recherché une vidéo d’un extrait de colloque sur YouTube ; partagé des signets sur Delicious ; publié un article sur son blog ; bavardé sur Twitter à propos d’un événement récent ; consulté des photos ou des profils de ses amis sur Facebook. Dans chacun de ces cas de figure et dans bien d’autres encore, l’usager a, en sus de son activité de dépôt, de recherche, de publication, de consultation ou de simple conversation, été invité à pratiquer une indexation libre. Une indexation sur ses propres traces informationnelles ou sur celles produites par d’autres. Une indexation qui traverse nos espaces numériques publics, privés et intimes, désormais réunis en une même sphère d’indexabilité. Une indexation à l’unisson de la cinétique des traces auxquelles elle s’attache : synchrone, instantanée, fragmentaire, plurielle. Enfin, une indexation parfois collaborative et le plus souvent, transparente aux autres, à tous les autres. C’EST EN FORGEANT QU’ON DEVIENT FORGERON ET C’EST EN INDEXANT ... QU’ON FINIT SUR TWITTER.Communauté. Wikipédia définit la « folksonomie » comme : « un processus de classification collaborative par des mots-clés librement choisis, ou le résultat de cette classification. ... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824977 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/U5KiCZEURgg/ I got a request today along the lines of: We’re in the process of creating a master calendar of events spreadsheet relevant to [various things]. These [various things] will all then have their own Google calendar so they can be looked at individually, embedded etc and everyone could of course have access to all and view them all via their personal Google calendar, turn different calendars on or off, sync with Outlook etc. etc. X said “wouldn’t it be great if we made the master spreadsheet with Google docs and it could somehow automate and complete the calendars”. Sigh…;-) So – is it possible? I’ve only had a quick play so far with Google Apps script, but yes, it seems to be possible… Take one spreadsheet, liberally sprinkled with event name, description, start and end times, an optional location, and maybe a even a tag or too (not shown): The time related columns I specified as a date type using the “Data Validation…” form from the Tools menu: Now take one Google apps script: function caltest1() { var sheet = SpreadsheetApp.getActiveSheet(); var startRow = 2; // First row of data to process var numRows = 2; // Number of rows to process var dataRange = sheet.getRange(startRow, 1, numRows, 5); var data = dataRange.getValues(); var cal = CalendarApp.getDefaultCalendar(); for (i in data) { var row = data[i]; var title = row[0]; // First column var desc = row[1]; // Second column var tstart = row[2]; var tstop = row[3]; var loc = row[4]; //cal.createEvent(title, new Date("March 3, 2010 08:00:00"), new Date("March 3, 2010 09:00:00"), {description:desc,location:loc}); cal. ... Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:20:41 +0100 824199 http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/RL-u4q_bBh8/shirley-hughes-top-10-picture-book-characters From Fungus the Bogeyman to Babar the Elephant, the creator of Dogger and Alfie looks at the compelling creations that turn small children into readersShirley Hughes has written and illustrated more than 50 books, selling some 11.5m copies, and collected a string of awards for creating some of the most enduring characters in children's literature, including Dogger, Alfie, and Lucy and Tom. Her latest book is Don't Want to Go, published this week by The Bodley Head.Buy Shirley Hughes books at the Guardian bookshop"With picture books small children can see themselves as readers long before they have learned to decipher the text. They turn the pages with relish, exploring the plot through the illustrations with tremendous concentration. They are learning how to look, rather than being passively overwhelmed by fast moving electronic imagery. Little wonder then, that the great heroes and heroines of picture books are among the world's best remembered fictional characters."1. Fungus the Bogeyman – Raymond BriggsFungus is one of Briggs's most inventive picture books. Adults as well as children will be gleefully sucked down into that world deep in the slime, a place of blocked drains, dubious smells and infestations, where the Bogey family thrive. Fungus's sorties above ground to plague luckless humans who are fighting a losing battle against Bogeydom are wonderfully funny. 2. The Bear with Sticky Paws – Clara VulliamyWhen The Bear with Sticky Paws arrives at Pearl's house, chaos of one kind or another ensues. Clara Vulliamy can draw real children as convincingly as she can invent anthropomorphic animals, a rare quality in contemporary picture books. (I have to declare an interest here, as she is my daughter!) These stories explore Pearl's changing reactions to the engagingly maverick bear, who tears through the action with delicious abandon.3. ... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:00:01 +0100 823030 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/1Hyco-AbYUY/3617 Barry Graubart from Alacra talked to us about ‘The New Aggregation’ and the Alacra Pulse product. Barry started by telling us what we already know – news breaks on the web now, research has gotten decentralized, and “good enough” is now good enough. Barry deals with the financial market (bankers) so his examples refer to those doing business in the finance world. The goal is to find out the nuggets that are interesting to our customers and passing them on to them in real time. We can’t deliver everything! We can’t deliver 100,000 blogs – there are a handful of sources that break news and then it becomes an echo chamber. That said, clients are not asking for all the business news, they want the important events delivered to them. In addition we need to consider tagging, an example we know that Woolies = Woolworths, but searching for Woolworths will not turn up information on Woolies. With tagging we still need humans though! You don’t want to set an automated tagger loose on some of these articles. The end result is the Alacra Pulse site which aggregates content from various open web sources, they are offering links and summaries and not licensing the content. Technorati Tags: nfais (Source: What I Learned Today...) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:14:18 +0100 823149 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/03/cfp-journal-of-library-metadata.html CFP - Journal of Library MetadataThe Journal of Library Metadata, a peer-reviewed journal, marks the growing importance of metadata in libraries and other institutions. As libraries collect, produce, distribute and publish more information than ever before, the metadata that describes these resources becomes more critical for digital resource management and discovery. The Journal of Library Metadata is the exclusive forum for the latest research, innovations, news, and expert views about all aspects of metadata applications and about the role of metadata in information retrieval. The journal is published quarterly by Routledge/Taylor & Francis.The journal covers all aspects of metadata applications including (but not limited to):* Application Profiles* Best practices* Controlled vocabularies* Crosswalking of metadata and interoperability* Digital libraries and metadata* Federated repositories* Federated searching* Folksonomies* Individual metadata schemes* Institutional repository metadata* Metadata content standards* Metadata harvesting* Ontologies* Preservation metadata* Resource Description Framework* Resource discovery and metadata* Search engines and metadata* SKOS* Tagging and tag clouds* Topic maps* Visual image and moving image metadataThe journal publishes three categories of articles: standard, peer-reviewed articles; shorter, non-peer reviewed articles and short viewpoint articles.* Peer-reviewed articles (original research): 10-50 double-spaced pages.* Short, non-peer-reviewed articles, often practical in nature: 500-2,000 words with limited citations.* Upbeat viewpoint articles giving the author’s opinion on a timely topic related to metadata applications: 500-2,000 words with or without citations. Focus should be on improvements or solutions instead of negative aspects of an existing system, standard or service.Editor:Jung-ran ParkDrexel UniversityFor more information please visit the submission instructions: http://www.informaworld. ... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824124 http://lisnews.org/dress_other_reasons “Dress for Other Reasons” R. Lee Hadden LeeHadden@aol.com Many people have made tons of money by writing "dress for success" books. Here is my "dress for other reasons" for librarians, which you can take or leave as you wish. I have often mounted on my soapbox and spouted off about dressing “as a librarian” on discussion lists. Some fashions are to make it easier and safer for the librarian to do their job. Other styles of clothing are worn as fashion statements. Or to define class or position or authority. As you can see from the following post, I am no expert on fashion, or men’s and women's clothing, but I have watched librarians at work for a number of years and have drawn some conclusions about their work attire. Men have more choice in clothing styles than women do, since men's clothing is more closely tied to profession rather than class. Among working men, you can line up a number of them and easily identify the lumberjack, the banker, the cowboy, the sailor, the librarian, the construction worker, the school teacher, the steel maker, the watch repairman, etc. fairly well by their outfits, fashions and tools. Men fit more comfortably in a variety of guild uniforms than women do. The men are interchangeable, but the uniforms are not. Women's clothing styles reflect more economic and regional attributes, although this is also slowly changing. Clothing styles for women in the south, northeast, Midwest and west are all slightly different, and often can be easily told apart. However, in academia, women do have several different fashion traditions to call upon. General rules: women who have to reach up high to get books, stoop low or bend over book return chutes frequently should consider pants instead of dresses for modesty's sake. Shorts should not be worn by public service staff except for relaxed Fridays or costume days or special work days. ... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:36:20 +0100 822270 http://freegovinfo.info/node/2918 Thanks to some documents reported to FGI's Lost Docs Blog last month, the Lost Docs blog has a new category that needs explaining. The category is called "Explanation Needed." GPO lost docs receipts submitted to lostdocs.freegovinfo.info will be assigned this category if: 1) Cataloging records exist for both tangible (Paper and/or microfiche) and online versions of the item submitted that were added to the Catalog of Government Publications (CGP) earlier than the datestamp on the lost docs receipt. 2) The catalog record for the tangible version indicates that GPO cataloged the tangible version within five years of the publishing date of the item. We have a five year limit because GPO Acquisitions staff have indicated they rarely have success in finding depository copies of tangible items more than five years old. We at FGI don't insist that GPO distribute a tangible item when that item is solely available in an online format, but when a tangible item is available and fits the program, it should be distributed. GPO's policy on dissemination, SOD 301, states (emphasis mine), "When the product is available both online and in a tangible format, GPO will disseminate the online version to depository libraries. Tangible versions will be offered as well, budget permitting." Hopefully this means that most of the time the budget will permit this. If an item wasn't distributed for budget reasons, GPO should note this in the print record. Until the non-distribution of these tangible items is explained and obviously noted in the cataloging record for a given item, it will keep the "Explanation Needed" tag. However, we will also continue to tag such items as "false positive" since we believe the primary focus of "lost docs" is documenting government publications that have escaped the National Bibliography GPO is required to maintain and because people do have access (at least for now) to the online version. ... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 23:49:54 +0100 822430 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/GC3d36r9mFo/3600 Roger Strouse from Outsell followed Clay Shirky with his talk titled: “What Information Users Really Value.” Throughout the talk, Roger gave us insights into what users are thinking based on studies and surveys that Outsell has performed. Roger started with what he called a ‘provocative statement’ – ‘In a challenging environment, meeting users’ value expectations is necessary for survival’ — why are we talking about this 2010 – when we’ve been thinking about this for 20 years now. The problem is that advertising budgets are shrinking, “free” is a competitor, users are sophisticated and know what’s possible, and good enough is good enough. The economy isn’t all that has changed for users though. Users are rethinking about what’s valuable. There are rising expectations for online experiences. Providing information is not enough anymore, you need to provide a well-rounded experience (tagging, commenting, interaction in general). There is also a morphing definition of authority – there is a dislike for peer-reviewed content. Users expect to be able to get academic and professional data on their mobile devices more than ever before. This all adds up to users have very different value filters than they used to have. Users now value things like usability, fun and sophistication. I can (and you know you can to) think of plenty of these research products that I’d rather stay very very far away from simply because of the usability and/or interface design. Another key value we’re used to hearing about is the desire to aggregate content – mix free and fee content together because users don’t want to be searchers – they want all their content in one place. ... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:20:39 +0100 823156 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NetbibWeblog/~3/5NBqNFNo6oU/ In Australien feierte ein großes schwedisches Möbelhaus das dreißigjähige Jubiläum eines Regaltyps (der von einem Frankfurter Versand, dessen Name mittlerweile auch schon gestrig wirkt, als paradigmatisch für die Änderung des Alltags bezeichnet wird) damit, dass für einen Tag eine Strandbibliothek aufgestellt wurde. [via Mail online. Dank für den Hinweis an Nusrat Ansari und deren Kollegen, die das aufgepickt haben!] (Source: netbib weblog) Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:32:18 +0100 821991 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/26/oclc-research-and-alise-recipients-of-2010-library-and-information-science-research-grants-announced/ From the Announcement: OCLC Research and the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) have awarded 2010 Library and Information Science Research Grants to Louise Spiteri of Dalhousie University and Laurel Tarulli of Halifax Public Libraries; Hsin-liang Chen and Barbara Albee of Indiana University; and Besiki Stvilia and Corinne Jörgensen of Florida State University. Here’s a Small Amount of Info About Each Person Who Has Been Award the Research Grant and Their Research Project: + Louise Spiteri, Ph.D of the School of Information Management at Dalhousie University and Laurel Tarulli of Halifax Public Libraries will conduct research to examine and compare how library users access, use, and interact with two social discovery systems used in two Canadian public library systems. The objective of the study, “The Public Library Catalogue as a Social Space: Usability Studies of User Interaction with Social Discovery Systems,” is to provide important insight into the design or modification of social discovery tools to ensure they provide the best user experience. + Hsin-liang Chen, Ph.D. and Barbara Albee, of the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University, will examine the implementation of an open source library automation system (Evergreen) in Indiana public libraries and its impact on library users in the project, “Impact of Open Source Library Automation System on Public Library Users.” The expected significant outcomes of this project are to identify: benefits library users receive from the implementation of the open source library automation system, library users’ interests in using the OPAC to discover shared library collections, and whether the consortia library collections gain more usage by library users due to the implementation of the open source library automation system. ... Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:45:41 +0100 821823 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/25/it-appears-searching-your-saved-library-with-google-books-is-back-online-other-updates-also-go-live/ That was quick! It was just a couple of days ago when we posted (via LISNews) that users of Google Books were no longer able to keyword search only the books they’ve saved (My Library). We contacted Google and they got back to us quickly. They told us that when changes were made to Google Books about a month ago, an option to search just your own library was removed. However, the search feature would be returning in the “coming weeks.” Unfortunately, we have no idea what Google Inc. means by those words. So, this morning when we got word of an Inside Google Book Search post about a couple of changes to GB we thought one of them might be Google bringing back the My Library search capability and although it’s NOT mentioned in the blog post, it appears the the My Library Search option IS BACK! To access the search box, go to your own My Library page (of course you’ll need to be logged in) and look for the search box in the left column near the top. You can now search your entire library at one time or search a specific bookshelf that you’ve created and saved. Of course, you can change the collection of a bookshelf at any time or create a new one. So, what else is new today? Brandon Badger from Google mentions: 1) Updated Home Page Ability to scroll through books and magazines cover images. 2) Integration of My Library on Home Page. You Can Make Bookshelves Either Public or Private. From the Blog Post: Previously, all books in your My Library were part of a single collection, and you could tag books with labels to organize. Now, instead of tagging a book with a label, you can add it to one or more bookshelves. As part of this transition to bookshelves, we’re migrating all the previously created labels to the new bookshelf system. ... Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:32:38 +0100 821576 http://libraryjuicepress.com/blog/?p=2014 Notice that I am not using the word “ontology.” I’ll get into why later, but if you’ve read any Heidegger you can guess… Hope Olson, Sandy Berman, and many others who have done work based on theirs, have shown how classification systems tend not to represent all users well. Hope Olson has described the problem in terms of its philosophic roots by deconstructing classification systems using methods that come from Derrida. I think it is clear and very interesting the way classification systems reflect positivistic assumptions about reality that lead to a presumed “view from nowhere” that reflects the dominant culture. I’m glad that there is a lot of work being done in this area right now, and especially the way people are tying these ideas to new topics like folksonomies and contemporary identity issues. However, I can’t help thinking that an unjust “official” classification system is not a big problem as long as it is transparent to the user. Let’s say I’m deviant in some way, and I want to find information that is relevant to me using institutions that are connected to the Library of Congress through its standards. Am I really going to expect the Library of Congress to be hip to my understanding of things? No, I am not going to expect that. I am going to do what I am accustomed to doing as a deviant person, which is my choice anyway: I am going to translate the official language, in which I am fluent, into my own deviant street language. That kind of translation skill is part of daily life for anyone who negotiates between formal and informal contexts, streets and offices, subcultures and dominant cultures. The official classification system may reinforce a sense of alienation, but as long as it is transparent to the user, I would not agree that it presents a barrier to access. ... Sat, 20 Feb 2010 15:38:28 +0100 820868 http://bsf.org.br/2010/02/19/o-que-os-nativos-digitais-querem-das-bibliotecas/ via @trmurakami o que fizeram pra Abbey decorar ou repetir o texto não importa. O que importa é que ela é cuti-cuti e resume em poucas palavras os principais argumentos acerca de uma biblioteconomia que enxerga algo além da gestão de registros impressos. eu amo biblioteca, eu amo livros mas eu sou um nativo digital e eu quero uma biblioteca online que seja capaz de aprender sobre os meus interesses que seja rápida e fácil que permita a inclusão das minhas coisas que permita compartilhamento que seja acessível do meu iphone ou meu kindle ofereça mashups tagging semântico informação em tempo real realidade aumentada geospatial tagging e touch screen eu sei que vocês estão todos ocupados trabalhando nestas coisas (estão?) mas eu sou uma nativa digital e quero isso agora então corram ou perderão o (um) trem Posts relacionados:Roteiro das bibliotecas do Rio de Janeiro (Source: Bibliotecários Sem Fronteiras 2.0) Fri, 19 Feb 2010 17:34:35 +0100 820316 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibrarylawBlog/~3/iq8BvgKhHUI/library-laws-for-the-mobile-web-environment-free-webinar-thurs-feb-17-noon-pacific.html Library Laws for the Mobile Web EnvironmentYouTube, Twitter - the Conversation goes mobile, and the library is not in control!    * Are your patrons taking photos and short videos with their cell phones of the library? Of children in the library? Do they need permission, and if so, when? What copyright, privacy and other concerns you should address?    * What do you do when you see a patron accessing child pornography, obscenity or other disturbing sites on their cell phones or netbooks?    * Are patrons tagging your content, at your website or on the library's Flickr page? Can you remove inaccurate tags? Offensive tags?    * What disability access is legally required in this new environment?These are just some of the legal issues facing libraries when working in the mobile environment.Those attending this webinar will receive:    * sample language for library signs regarding photography and videography    * guidance on when users need permission to post videos or pictures of library patrons    * an update on legal status of porn in the library - on the users' own devices    * information on what accessibility of library websites is required by law for people with disabilitiesThis one-hour webinar will be of interest to library managers, anyone who works public service, those who create content for library social networking sites, and those looking for guidance regarding a variety of situations facing libraries using the mobile web and social networking.Webinar: Thursday, February 18, 2010Time: 12pm-1pm PSTSpeaker: Mary Minow (Source: LibraryLaw Blog) Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:17:07 +0100 819682 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NetbibWeblog/~3/q3Nju1EG_p4/ Ich hatte ja bereits einmal in einem wichtigen deutschen bibliothekarischen weblog dargelegt, dass ich Schweden für noch sonderbarer als Bibliothekare halte. (Die allgemein bekannte Abneigung gegen Schweden scheint mir nicht nur stammesgeschichtlichen Tiefen zu entstammen. Nach meiner Vermutung ist sie schon in der offensichtlichen Ablösung Schwedens von der Eurasischen Platte angelegt, also plattentektonisches Urgestein unseres Gemüts.) Auch meine Abneigung gegen Islamisten ist nicht erneut darzulegen. Jetzt lese ich in dem unsäglichen Hamburger Abendblatt, das sein Archiv kostenpflichtig gemacht hat und offensichtlich auch nicht einmal mehr im Volltext durchsuchen lässt, dass der italienische Fernsehkoch Bigazzi ein Rezept vorgeschlagen habe zur Verarbeitung von – Katzen. Man muss es zur Kenntnis nehmen: Islamisten und das unsägliche Hamburger Abendblatt lassen sich noch unterbieten – durch Italiener. Da ich auf den Bericht des unsäglichen Hamburger Abendblatts nicht hinweisen kann, hier der Artikel im Corriere della Sera. Mit Erstaunen lese ich dort, dass in Italien heute der Tag der Katze, die festa del gatto gefeiert wird. (Auch hier ein italienischer Sonderweg: wird doch der Internationale Katzentag am 8.8. gefeiert.) Der Corriere hat heute eine Fotostrecke Uno scatto al tuo gatto/Ein Schnappschuss Deiner Katze. Zur Beruhigung für Italienreisende: die italienische Grausamkeit wird zumindest in der Toscana zivilisiert. Dort gibt es ein ricetta gatto auf Teigbasis. (Source: netbib weblog) Wed, 17 Feb 2010 16:04:53 +0100 819037 http://walt.lishost.org/2010/02/catching-up-sort-of-a-little-bit/ I reached a milestone of sorts about half an hour ago–one I might typically discuss in the Bibs & Blather section of Cites & Insights, but I’m thinking that most Bibs & Blather stuff (the “editorial/how we do it good” section) may belong here, rather than in C&I itself. [Would that truly ungainly sentence/paragraph be any better if I was writing it for C&I? I'd like to think so, but I would be reluctant to make such an assertion.] The milestone? I’ve emptied the “Trends & Quick Takes” manila folder–which is to say, I’ve dealt with all the stuff from days before I started using delicious to flag future source material for C&I. Yes, that means another T&QT essay in which most, if not all, of the source material is fairly old–but it does bring things up to at least March 2009. It’s a start. (It’s also about 5,000 words long…) The danger with delicious, of course, is that it’s easier to tag an article than it is to print out the first page–and I may be tagging way too much stuff as a result. But that’s OK; I’m now doing second passes and filtering out stuff (and reorganizing it) periodically. The great thing about delicious, in addition to ease, is that I can use it for work and for C&I–the same piece may be appropriate for both venues. That could happen anyway, but it’s more likely this way. (When I do a scan of my tags, which I do at least once a week, I can also see “looming” situations, where one tag is getting awfully big–noting that I delete delicious items once I’ve dealt with them. ... Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:00:42 +0100 819055 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/ThzN/~3/gbXiqTWuOfc/i-had-forgotten-how-impressionable-my.html I had forgotten how impressionable my personality is; alex and i sat up all night watching speed skating and moguling (sp?) I WANT TO BE A MOGULER (Mogulist?)Amy and I were discussing our unfortunate personalities the other day, her main issue being a longing to kill someone, steal a car, flee to the mexican border and drive off a cliff (big Thelma and Louise fan); comparatively, my moguling dream seems a sufficiently healthy/attainable lifestyle choice =)I fucking love the winter olympics. I think i'd like to be Canadian also; my mother is going on her yearly visit to vancouver in may, secretly planning tagging along for the ride, possibly/probably demanding plane tickets as a graduation present. I feel another Canadian road trip is in order, and aliroo is rather easy to influence.. just a thought!I have just received a valentines day parcel from my mother, including mascara and a self help card. pretty standard. i hope she wasn't expecting anything in return.I am still ridiculously confused about next year, but either of my various options are pretty good, so whichever way i go, life should be good, or at least interesting! =) (Source: Connecting Librarian) Sun, 14 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 818155 http://www.newberry.org/genealogy/news/default.asp?postid=1102 Recently, a patron in Pennsylvania contacted the Newberry asking for information about her grandfather's antique accordion. The accordion bears a tag stating that it was manufactured in Chicago by Dom. Pontarelli of the Italian Accordion Manufacturing Company. No date is included. Newberry librarian Autumn Mather used several tools available on ChicagoAncestors.org (http://chicagoancestors.org/#tab-tools), including city directory listings, street guides, and the street renaming guide, to help determine that the accordion must predate 1918 and likely predates 1909. Using this information, the patron has now posted the accordion up for sale on Craigslist. The deductive process Autumn used, as well as some interesting photos of the accordion, are included in the Craigslist listing, available here. If anyone has or knows of a good home for the accordion, or has further information about Dom. Pontarelli or the Italian Accordion Manufacturing Company, please contact the patron/seller at: sale-zsdyn-1594446110@craigslist.org (Source: Newberry Library Genealogy News) Thu, 11 Feb 2010 06:00:00 +0100 817742 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/Dbjx/~3/CFbJy4yrusw/oclc-api-mashathon.html Some of us went into this with trepidation believing our coding skills were on the too-skimpy side for this session, but we joined the programmers for an interesting day being introduced to the data available via the APIs (application programming interfaces) that OCLC publishes for Worldcat data.Web services looked at included: WorldCat Search API xISBN, xISSN, xOCLCNUM WorldCat Identities Registries including institution, reviews, citations (lists), tagging Terminologies So what you may ask!There is a wealth of data that can be used to enhance library catalogues and other interfaces. One of the attendees showcased what he had done at the Powerhouse Museum using OpenCalais and OCLC data. OpenCalais was used to extract names and terms from textual descriptions which were then queried against OCLC data to add links to Worldcat Identities data.Using Yahoo Pipes attendees were able to build a Worldcat search which returns results in an RSS feed using the Worldcat Basic API, and later looked at other exciting possibilities using Dewey Info Linked Data and the yet to be launched geolocation data. The idea that popped into my mind was to facilitate a map-based search of a library catalogue. Imagine looking for historical or political works about a region using a map interface. Zoom into the map to select the region, return an array of book covers that can be flicked through (imagining cooliris effect here) to get a virtual browsing the shelf effect. I'm sure almost everyone at the bootcamp came away with a germ of an innovation developing.Thanks Roy, Bruce and Don for an informative and enjoyable day. Too bad we couldn't follow up tomorrow with some group work to prototype some of the ideas.Powerhouse Museum exampleWiki page for bootcamp. (Source: Innovate) Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:57:37 +0100 816382 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/08/coming-march-31-2010-document-freedom-day/ From the Web Site: Document Freedom Day (DFD) is a global day for document liberation. It will be a day of grassroots effort to educate the public about the importance of Free Document Formats and Open Standards in general. Complementary to Software Freedom Day, we aim to have local teams all over the world organise events on the last Wednesday of March. 2009 is the second year that Document Freedom Day is being called for, and we are again looking for people around the world who are willing to join the effort. DFD’s main goals are: * promotion and adoption of free document formats * forming a global network * coordination of activities that happen on last Wednesday of March, Document Freedom Day Once a year, we will celebrate Document Freedom Day as a global community. Between those days, DFD will be focused on facilitating community action and building awareness for issues of Document Freedom and Open Standards. See Also: Companies and Organizations Supporting Document Freedom Day Source: DFD (via OA Tagging Project) (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:43:11 +0100 816256 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/08/new-issue-of-project-gutenberg-newsletter-gutenberg-tag-cloud/ The latest issue of the Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter (dated 1/21/2010) is now available. Here Are Some 2009 Year-End Totals for the PG: 25866 English en 1531 French fr 625 German de 517 Finnish fi 455 Dutch nl 405 Chinese zh 384 Portuguese pt 270 Spanish es 225 Italian it etc. 30,761 Up 3,145 From 27,616 PG General Automated Count 1,830 Up 104 From 1,726 Project Gutenberg of Australia 675 Up 121 From 554 Project Gutenberg of Europe 468 Up 243 From 225 Project Gutenberg of Canada [Estimated] 2,008 DN 423 From 2,431 PrePrints [Subtracted 307 Chinese eBooks] ====== ====== 35,742 Up 3,190 From 32,552 Grand Total [Counting subtractions] 9.825 eBooks Per Day 68.773 eBooks Per Week 297.850 eBooks Per Month The newsletter also notes a cool site at: www.bookdownloadlibrary.com This site offers a tag cloud allowing you to search the Gutenberg database. It’s updated from the complete Gutenberg catalog weekly. Source: Project Gutenberg Monthly Newsletter (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:01:05 +0100 816261 http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/wN4jVtxBFa8/pregnant-widow-martin-amis-review Martin Amis's new novel shows a regathering of his artistic energies"First it was all moral patterning. And felt life. Then it was all drugs and fucks. Now it's all tits and arses." This pithily reductive progress report on Martin Amis's new novel is spoken by a character in it, summing up not only her student boyfriend's increasingly boisterous approach to Eng lit, but also, The Pregnant Widow suggests, the unintended consequences of a cultural revolution. She's speaking in 1970 – the year, as the narrator notes elsewhere, of Germaine Greer's The Female Eunuch and Kate Millett's Sexual Politics. Later in the decade, though not noted by the narrator, there will be The Rachel Papers, Dead Babies and Success: dispatches, as their author might now see it, from a battle of the sexes that was fought on unpredictably shifting terrain. Historical consciousness isn't something you'd automatically ­associate with Amis, but here he is with a long novel set in the times he started out in, a novel that's partly an advance post-mortem on his generation's historically constituted sexual selves.The first time round, in the 70s, these were matters of some interest to Amis's literary generation, to which Keith Nearing, the new novel's central figure, also belongs. Ian McEwan, for example, read Greer's manifesto in 1971 and found it "a revelation"; his first two novels are, among other things, dreams about a collapse of male power. Amis, meanwhile, seemed to fit the sexual revolution into a wider sense of a world turning upside down, a sense that coarse, yobbish ways – ways that he was, as a good satirist, half in love with – were displacing high-minded talk about "felt life" and other literary-moral nostrums. Satirical inversions were his stock in trade, as in "It's Disgusting at Your Age", a slice of screenplay he published in 1976 and then cannibalised in Success. ... Sat, 06 Feb 2010 00:07:12 +0100 815666 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/05/location-location-location-and-the-web/ From the Article: People are now thinking locally about their use of the global network, says John Breslin, co-author of The Social Semantic Web and an electronic engineer at the National University of Ireland, Galway, adding location-awareness to their own contributions. For example, by tagging a Twitter update about an event you are attending with its location, “you’re beginning to go beyond fun” and are adding important contextual information to the filters you apply to streams of data. Source: New Scientist (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:35:08 +0100 815553 http://gnomicutterance.livejournal.com/42171.html We are actually having a conversation with commenters on the DCA blog! Hooray for commenters!If you are the kind of nerd who thinks about how controlled vocabularies influence and are influenced by our perceptions of social justice, go over and weigh in on Veronica's excellent post, "The trouble with subject headings".In a nutshell, Veronica asks how do we cope with tagging photographs with a controlled vocabulary, given:the historical baggage of Library of Congress subject headings, given that the LOC is an organization as subject to systemic racism as any otherour need as people concerned with social justice to be aware of what materials in our collection represent historically underrepresented populationsthe essentializing of straightness, whiteness, maleness, able-bodiedness, etc. inherent in tags such as "Blacks" and "Women". (Admittedly, "Men" Is a subject term as well, but we seem to only use it for historical images, while we use "Women" for photographs of students and faculty.)Now, Veronica didn't use any of that language, because I am obsessed with academic jargon and she knows better, and I can't even talk about these issues without using words like "essentializing". You should be glad I edited out "normativize"! So go read her post, and comment.OMG! Illustration found in gathering the links above: "Beating hemp, flogging a woman".(This is mirrored from an original post at Dreamwidth where there are comments. You can leave a comment here or over there. (Source: Ramblings on Librarianship, Technology, and Academia) Thu, 04 Feb 2010 20:39:39 +0100 815598 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/a-informacao/~3/EAihB7VVVwg/tag-cloud-da-tematica-do-10-congresso.html Uma perspectiva diferente, mas não menos interessante, da temática do 10º Congresso Nacional de Bibliotecários, Arquivistas e Documentalistas, a realizar-se nos próximos dias 6, 7 e 8 de Abril, em Guimarães. (Source: A "INFORMAÇÃO") Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:04:00 +0100 814873 http://www.affordance.info/mon_weblog/2010/02/ingenieries-de-la-serendipite.html AU COMMENCEMENT ... Cela ressemble à de la sérendipité, ça à la goût de la sérendipité ... mais ce n'est pas nécessairement de la sérendipité. Historiquement, c'est Google qui fut le premier moteur de recherche à instrumentaliser un processus de fortuité, via le bouton "Feeling Lucky" (lequel n'a d'ailleurs rien à voir avec une quelconque sérendipité littérale, puisque ledit bouton se contente de vous amener sur le premier résultat renvoyé par le moteur de recherche). Comme nous l'expliquions en détail dans ce remarquable article co-écrit avec mes excellents collègues (:-), ce bouton est avant tout un argument marketing et un élément fondateur de la sémiotique Googléenne. 1998 : Sérendipité année zéro. Bref, depuis Google, et avec l'arrivée du web contributif, la sérendipité est aujourd'hui partout réellement présente et systématiquement agissante. Mais cette capacité à trouver de nouveaux amis en ligne, ces liens passionnants qui semblent surgir aléatoirement au détour d'un raccourcisseur d'URL sur Twitter sont-ils réellement de la sérendipité en action ? Voici quelques-unes des questions auxquelles ce billet va tenter d'apporter des réponses (ah ben tiens, je crois que c'est la 1ère fois que je fais une vraie introduction dans un billet :-) Basiquement, la sérendipité désigne la capacité à trouver des informations qui n'étaient pas celles que l'on recherchait initialement mais qui vont cependant s'avérer utile pour résoudre le problème ou la question à l'origine de notre recherche, ou d'une recherche/d'un problème antérieur. Sérendipité et SIC. Avant que je ne me ré-attaque au problème avec mes gentils camarades, c'est le vénérable Jacques Perriault qui avait (ré)introduit la notion de sérendipité dans le corpus des SIC (sciences de l'information et de la communication ... enfin, plus souvent de la communication que de l'information, mais ceci est un autre débat ...). ... Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 816582 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/griffey/~3/ciS6XbdiAtQ/ At my place of work, we’re just beginning a massive weeding project as a part of the larger new library building project. We are hoping to weed the entire collection for, effectively, the first time in the history of the library. Needless to say, it’s kind of going to own our lives for the next 18 months. As a part of this, my awesome co-worker Andrea created this chart showing the distribution of publication dates for our collection. The massive amount of 1800’s is from our Early English Books Online collection, but the rest of it shows a pretty great distribution of “when did the library have funding” over the decades. Similar Posts: IL2009 in Wordle form Folksonomies and flat hierarchies The Perils of Strong Copyright How broken is copyright in the US? Metasearch aka Federated Search aka The Mind Killer (Source: Pattern Recognition) Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:12:11 +0100 815872 http://lisnews.org/lisnews_librarian_essay_contest_starts_today The first ever LISNews Librarian Essay Contest invites librarians to write an original essay about issues that impact librarianship. The contest will run for the entire month of February, 2010, with the fabulous prizes awarded sometime in March. Winning essayists will receive one of several prizes including Amazon or Borders gift cards, and a year of hosting from LISHost.org. All Essays Must Be Submitted Here! You can view only essay entries at http://lisnews.org/essays/ OR Subscribe to the Essay Contest Entries RSS Feed Here: http://lisnews.org/essays/rss Below the break you'll see answers to your questions. What did you mean "issues", what should I write about? ANYTHING that ties into libraries, librarianship or librarians and all those that we deal with. There are over 10 years of stories we've posted here, take a look in the archives to see what interests us. Personally, I'm looking forward to reading about everything and anything that people decide to write about, as long as it comes back to libraries somehow. I'm looking to be surprised, challenged, I want to learn a thing or two, and maybe have good laugh. What about format? You're writing for librarians, on the web. HTML is welcome, links, short paragraphs, images, and so on… There are a million sites out there that will tell you about the best way to write for the web. How many words? I'm hesitant to set a hard limit, so let's just say "essay length." How will judging be done? Well, judging writing isn't exactly easy is it? It's very subjective, that's why there will be somewhere between 5 and 10 judges. We'll all pick our favorites and base the winners on that. What are the prizes? $25 from Amazon, $50 from Borders, and a year of hosting from LISHost. What about deadlines? Anything entered in the month of February. You'll need to put it in the submissions queue and tag it with "essay". Don't email anything to me, use the queue. No, you don't need to be a librarian. ... Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:23:00 +0100 814053 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/researchbuzz/main/~3/PiujttNWg7I/ Google announced last week that its social search experiment, which it opened up for limited use last year, is now more widely available. You can read the initial October 2009 announcement at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/introducing-google-social-search-i.html and get more details on social search at http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=165228. Google’s Social Search features are basically built around what Google considers to be your “social circle.” Your social circle includes both your Google contacts and their friends, as well as contacts you have through your Google Profile (assuming you have a Google Profile.) The Social Search feature basically means that your the content of materials that your friends publish in their Google Profiles becomes another category of search result. So you do a search for, say, search engines. You’ll get Web results, news results… and over halfway down your page you’ll get results from your social circle under a heading marked “Results from people in your social circle for search engines” That heading is clickable so you can get all the results on the same page. The results include an image of your social circle contact’s avatar in case their name isn’t ringing a bell. I did several searches for various, mostly tech topics and didn’t see a lot of content from my social circle people. I did notice that I had to get fairly general in my searches to get results from my social circle, something that I don’t like to do. I played with this for a little while and didn’t get many results, and didn’t see a lot that will help me or enhance my search results. However, it did make me think of something I would want. Say there was a way to tag people, in or out of your social circle, as particularly good at a certain topic. ... Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:19:15 +0100 814864 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/02/01/blawg-review-249/ ROOTS The Legality of an American Slavery Introduction February 1 is known as National Freedom Day in the U.S.  It’s also the start of Black History Month, the annual celebration and triumph of the descendants of African-Americans.  This year, President Obama has also indicated that National Freedom Day will also be the first ever National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.  For this reason, Blawg Review #249 will follow the theme of African slavery in America, using the model of Alex Haley’s Roots: The Saga of an American Family. Haley’s novel traces his family roots back six generations to one of his African ancestors, in the process telling a compelling story of survival and resilience.  This post will focus on various topics within this narrative, starting from his earliest ancestor in Africa, down to Alex Haley himself. It’s also in part my story, as a Canadian of (more recent) African descent whose family friends as a child included (among others) former Nation of Islam members that evaded the draft during Vietnam by moving to Toronto.  Their oral traditions, often told sitting around a campfire in the Canadian north, became part of my own Roots. Left: My copy of Roots today, which I discovered over two decades ago on my parents' bookshelf. Right: How the book would look if it still had a cover. Canada has an complicated relationship with American slavery, being one of the final destinations of the Underground Railroad.  Although the Song of the Free refers to Canada as a place of safety, it is also “a cold and dreary land” where many faced rampant discrimination encoded in legislation. Frustrated by the lack of opportunities in Canada, thousands even sought “repatriation” back to West Africa by the British during the late 18th century.  Canada remained part of the British Empire until 1867, and even then held on tightly to its British roots. ... Mon, 01 Feb 2010 11:04:06 +0100 816160 http://librarytwopointzero.blogspot.com/2010/02/foursquare-for-libraries.html I had heard some months ago about Foursquare from an old colleague of mine. Wikipedia describes the service as:-Foursquare is a location-based social networking website, software for mobile devices, and game. Users "check-in" at venues using text messaging or a device specific application. They are then awarded points and sometimes "badges." You earn points for finding new places, tagging them and describing them. And if your the first there you can become mayor and win other titles. Anyway, I like Helene Blowers feel that :-It's been awhile since I've seen a new social technology emerge on scene that looked like it had that "explosion potential". The last real time for me was TwitterDavid King also has an interesting article on the use of Foursquare for libraries. Below are 5 ingenious idea's he has thought up:-1.Add your library as a place, or edit the entry if someone else has already added it. You can enter your street address (Google map is included, phone number, and your library’s Twitter name. 2.Add tags relevant to the library. For example, I have added the tags library, books, music, movies, and wifi to my library’s Foursquare entry. If you are in the area (Foursquare is a location-based service, so it knows where you are) and search for wifi – guess who’s at the top of the list? Yep – the library. 3.Add Tips and To Do lists. When you check in to a place, you have the option to add tips of things you can do there, and you can create To-Do lists of things you want to do there. For libraries, both are helpful – it’s a way to broadcast your services to Foursquare players. To Do lists are handy, because you can make the list and other players can add those To Do list items to their lists, too. When they do something on those lists, they gain points. Think of it as a fun way to get people doing stuff at your library! Just think – someone could gain points by getting a library card – how cool is that? 4. ... Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:00:00 +0100 814636 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Library&diff=341123893&oldid=prev Library use ← Previous revision Revision as of 18:31, 31 January 2010 Line 161: Line 161: Patrons may not know how to fully use the library's resources. This can be due to some individuals' unease in approaching a staff member. Ways in which a library's content is displayed or accessed may have the most impact on use. An antiquated or clumsy search system, or staff unwilling or untrained to engage their patrons, will limit a library's usefulness. In United States [[public library|public libraries]], beginning in the 19th century, these problems drove the emergence of the [[library instruction]] movement, which advocated library user education. One of the early leaders was [[John Cotton Dana]]. The basic form of library instruction is generally known as [[information literacy]]. Patrons may not know how to fully use the library's resources. This can be due to some individuals' unease in approaching a staff member. Ways in which a library's content is displayed or accessed may have the most impact on use. An antiquated or clumsy search system, or staff unwilling or untrained to engage their patrons, will limit a library's usefulness. In United States [[public library|public libraries]], beginning in the 19th century, these problems drove the emergence of the [[library instruction]] movement, which advocated library user education. One of the early leaders was [[John Cotton Dana]]. The basic form of library instruction is generally known as [[information literacy]]. - Libraries inform their users of what materials are available in their collections and how to access that information. Before the computer age, this was accomplished by the card [[library catalog|catalog]] — a cabinet containing many drawers filled with [[index card]]s that identified books and other materials. In a large library, the card catalog often filled a large room. ... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:31:47 +0100 813945 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/9CSwG35I5wU/ A few days back my good friend, and fellow IBM colleague, Aneel Lakhani, tagged me on an on-going meme that’s been going around for a little while now called "The Web in Twenty" where participants have to eventually provide answers to three different questions: How has the Web changed your life? How has the Web changed business and society? What do you think the Web will look like in 20 years? So, since it’s been quite a while that I have last embarked on chiming in on one of those blogging memes I thought it would be a good time to do that over the course of the weekend and the actual blog post is up and running already. Over at my Posterous site under the same title: "The Web in Twenty", which will give me, by the way, a nice opportunity to kick things off again over there after the holidays, the business travelling and catching up from last week. Regular blogging activities will resume there as well with the same spirit as before, starting off with that entry I have just shared. I wonder though whether the folks I tagged (Rick Ladd, Paula Thornton, John Tropea, Jay Cross, Harold Jarche and Stephen Downes) will dive in as well and share their insights with us … What do you think? Do you reckon they will chime in? Tags: Internet, Web, Future, 2030, Memes, Internet Memes, Metablogging, Blogging, Predictions, Rick Ladd, Paula Thornton, John Tropea, Jay Cross, Harold Jarche, Stephen Downes, Aneel Lakhani, Tagging (Source: E L S U A ~ A KM Blog) Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:27:58 +0100 814669 http://ramblinglibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/01/hkla-50th-anniversary-conference-part-5.html Hmm, I saved this as a Draft and forgot to publish it. Here's a belated part-5 from attending the Hong Kong Library Association 50th Anniversary Conference, Nov 2008.[Continued from Part 4]"Analysis of social tagging and book cataloging: a case study". Yi-Chen CHEN. Department of Library & Information Science, National Taiwan University.Her premise for the study: little research has been done to examine how social tagging has been applied to books.So she looked at items tagged in librarything.comResearch questions:How can tags be organised to different function types?What kind of tags are used?How can it help the library?Study involved a random sample of "most often tagged" Fiction & Non-fiction records in librarything.comSome findingsFor Fiction titles, users tend to tag with "Bibliographic Information" (i.e. author, title, publisher)For Non-Fiction titles, the tags tend to be "subjects"When she did a comparison of the user-created tags and the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), she found:90% of tags were not reflected in LCSH (i.e. 90% of the tags were unique)The overlap (between the user-tags and LCSH) was less than 12% overallTags tend to give more "genre" information, especially for Fiction worksIn tagging, users tend to describe more character names from the booksTags often had simpler and informal usage on person names, geographical namesMy rambling thinking-aloudI think when "social tagging" or "folksonomy" is mentioned, there will be some librarians who will inevitably pooh-pooh the former and start extolling the virtues of Authority Control exercised by librarians (i.e. LCSH).That sort of argument -- of which is "better" -- is is irrelevant. It's like asking, "Is it better to search by author or by subject"?The answer depends on what you prefer, and what you hope to find. ... Sun, 31 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 813755 http://ppld.org/blogs/ppld/?p=1243 In the coming months, PPLD will begin incorporating Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology into its collection. The District has been researching and saving for three years to pay for this new technology. RFID will provide many benefits to PPLD patrons and staff. The most obvious will be a substantial increase in the speed at which items can be checked in and out. Multiple items can be processed at once. This time savings should result in shorter lines and quicker access to holds. Many locations will receive additional self-check machines, which will also use RFID. How does it work? During check in and check out, material is placed on a reader pad which transmits only the item’s electronic barcode number. An item must be within two feet of the reader. The item title and a patron’s personal information are not on the tag. The one million items in the Library’s collection will be tagged with a microchip and antenna. We are actively looking for volunteers to assist with this large project. Please call 531-6333, x1251 if you are interested in helping. You can click here for an application. In order to implement RFID, the District will be closing each of its facilities for about a week at a time in order to tag material and install new equipment. These rolling closures will occur in March – May 2010. (See closure schedule below.) Closing the facilities will help us to complete the project in a shorter time period. We appreciate your patience during this process. Closure Schedule During these closures, libraries will still be open from 3 – 6 p.m. each day (and 3 – 5 p.m. on Sundays the branch would normally be open) for holds pickup and access to a limited amount of popular materials. There will be no programs or computer access at the closed location during this time. Lists of the nearest PPLD facilities will be posted at each location. Please note that all dates are subject to change. Check for updates on ppld. ... Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:06:08 +0100 814144 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Library&diff=340798064&oldid=prev Public libraries: Removed "reading room" link (led to this page) ← Previous revision Revision as of 22:30, 29 January 2010 Line 129: Line 129: 1876 is a well known year in the history of librarianship in the United States. The [[American Library Association]] was formed, as well as ''The American Library Journal'', [[Melvil Dewey]] published his decimal based system of classification, and the United States Bureau of Education published its report, "Public libraries in the United States of America; their history, condition, and management." During the post-Civil War years, there was a rise in the establishment of public libraries, a movement led chiefly by newly formed [[women's club]]s. They contributed their own collections of books, conducted lengthy fundraising campaigns for buildings, and lobbied within their communities for financial support for libraries, as well as with legislatures and the [[Carnegie Library]] Endowment founded in the 20th century.<ref>Paula D. Watson, “Founding Mothers: The Contribution of Women’s Organizations to Public Library Development in the United States”, ''Library Quarterly'', Vol. 64, Issue 3, 1994, p.236</ref> They led the establishment of 75-80 percent of the libraries in communities across the country.<ref>Teva Scheer, “The “Praxis” Side of the Equation: Club Women and American Public Administration”, ''Administrative Theory & Praxis'', Vol. 24, Issue 3, 2002, p.525</ref> The American Library Association continues to play a major role in libraries to this day, and Dewey's classification system, although under heavy criticism of late, still remains the prevailing method of classifing used in the United States. 1876 is a well known year in the history of librarianship in the United States. ... Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:30:50 +0100 813480 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/n3fNaAOHaEs/ Deadline: 2 April 2010 Got information to share with your peers? Worked on an innovative project at your library? Introduced technologies to increase the relevancy of your information service? Developed new techniques for managing electronic resources? Raised the profile of your library within your organisation? Created new opportunities within an information environment? You’re invited to present at Internet Librarian International 2010, taking place on 14 & 15 October 2010 at Novotel London West, with a day of workshops on 13 October. We’re looking for dynamic speakers from any country and all types of libraries to share their knowledge and experience about information tools, techniques, processes, innovations and management. If you’re running innovative projects within any of the following environments, we want to hear from you: Academic libraries Corporate information and knowledge settings Government libraries Health/Medical libraries Public libraries Non-traditional information settings Get real, stay relevant. The reality of the current economic climate means that it’s imperative to provide pertinent services, utilise the most appropriate tools, and explore alternative approaches, regardless of your library type. Even if you’re managing information outside a traditional library setting – as web designer, content evaluator, portal creator, systems professional or independent researcher – you must continue to offer services that are relevant and cost-efficient. Internet Librarian International seeks a mix of papers for conference sessions, workshops, and short tutorials. As always, our emphasis is on the practical rather than theoretical: case studies and proposals about initiatives in your organisation, not product pitches or overviews. ... Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:30:01 +0100 813190 http://www.frbr.org/2010/01/29/last-week-in-frbr-13 Assunção, FRBR and Music Uniform Title Maria Clara Assunção has a paper called “FRBR and Music Uniform Title” in Páginas a & b 2:4 (2009), pp. 143-153. The concepts of “work” and “expression” introduced by FRBR model, have particular implications for the rationale behind the construction of music uniform titles and can help to significantly improve the identification of musical works through this cataloguing resource. This study results from the practical need to establish a set of effective criteria in the development of uniform titles for musical works of a diverse nature, mostly of doubtful identification, often handwritten and sometimes anonymous. This paper aims to contribute to clarify this vital resource in the cataloguing of music but often avoided or misapplied. LibraryThing, A FRBR Model of Publishers I spent some time cleaning out my inbox. At work I’ve been doing Inbox Zero for a long time and it’s an enormous help, but my personal mailbox had a bunch of stuff in it that was dragging me down, so I started deleting. One thing I found was from Tim “Mr. LibraryThing” Spalding, sent in May 2009, pointing out a discussion on the LT site: A FRBR Model of of Publishers. As many know, LibraryThing has a concept of “works” being composed of editions. And we have author and tag aliases. Together, these concepts resemble what librarians call the FRBR model, and its siblings FRAR, FRSAR, FRBRoo, and FR-lama-lama-ding-dong. Now, I want to do publishers. That is, I want to have pages for publishers. This requires some model of how publishers are. An ideal model would understand that HarperCollins used to be called Harper Collins, that Collins is an imprint of HarperCollins, but was an independent company, etc. Truly publishers and imprints are much worse than authors or works. ... Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 813306 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/01/lisnews-librarian-essay-contest.html LISNews Librarian Essay ContestThe first ever LISNews Librarian Essay Contest invites librarians to write an original essay about issues that impact librarianship. The contest will run for the entire month of February, 2010, with the fabulous prizes awarded sometime in March. Winning essayists will receive one of several prizes including Amazon or Borders gift cards, and a year of hosting from LISHost.org.All Essays Must Be Submitted Here!You can view only essay entries at http://lisnews.org/essays/ORSubscribe to the Essay Contest Entries RSS Feed Here: http://lisnews.org/essays/rssBelow the break you'll see answers to your questions.What did you mean "issues", what should I write about? ANYTHING that ties into libraries, librarianship or librarians and all those that we deal with. There are over 10 years of stories we've posted here, take a look in the archives to see what interests us. Personally, I'm looking forward to reading about everything and anything that people decide to write about, as long as it comes back to libraries somehow. I'm looking to be surprised, challenged, I want to learn a thing or two, and maybe have good laugh.What about format? You're writing for librarians, on the web. HTML is welcome, links, short paragraphs, images, and so on… There are a million sites out there that will tell you about the best way to write for the web.How many words? I'm hesitant to set a hard limit, so let's just say "essay length."How will judging be done? Well, judging writing isn't exactly easy is it? It's very subjective, that's why there will be somewhere between 5 and 10 judges. We'll all pick our favorites and base the winners on that.What are the prizes? $25 from Amazon, $50 from Borders, and a year of hosting from LISHost.What about deadlines? Anything entered in the month of February. You'll need to put it in the submissions queue and tag it with "essay". Don't email anything to me, use the queue. ... Thu, 28 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 813474 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/griffey/~3/8cSet6Cosh0/ In the vein of my previous years, here’s a Tag Cloud of the 2010 State of the Union address delivered tonight by President Obama. It’s particularly interesting to compare to the 2007 and 2008 State of the Union addresses (I skipped 2009, for some reason…should probably do it retrospectively I went back and did the 2009, for comparison). cloud created by wordleSimilar Posts: 2009 State of the Union Word Cloud – retrospectively Tag Cloud for 2007 State of the Union Prior art 2008 State of the Union as Tag Cloud Twitters from 2008-11-05 (Source: Pattern Recognition) Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:34:17 +0100 813906 http://www.librarybytes.com/2010/01/fourqquare.html It's been awhile since I've seen a new social technology emerge on scene that looked like it had that "explosion potential". The last real time for me was Twitter (and for all you FB apps fans, sorry I don't count Farmville) and that was nearly three years ago.* But Foursquare is different, because it creates a new take on social networking by through local-based gaming that adds in the elements of GPS tagging along with localized loyalty rewards. As David King also notes, this new technology is worth exploring. If you haven't explored Foursquare on your own yet, here's a informational slide deck to get you start:How Foursquare Helps Consumers and Business Owners View more presentations from 22squared.* According to my twitter trail, my start date on Twitter was April 14, 1997 (Source: LibraryBytes) Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:21:00 +0100 813838 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/27/announcements-first-ever-lisnews-librarian-essay-contest/ Our friend and colleague, Blake Carver, who is also the founder and proprietor of LISNews has announced that the site is sponsoring an essay for librarians. This page has the details: The first ever LISNews Librarian Essay Contest invites librarians to write an original essay about issues that impact librarianship. The contest will run for the entire month of February, 2010, with the fabulous prizes awarded sometime in March. Winning essayists will receive one of several prizes including Amazon or Borders gift cards, and a year of hosting from LISHost.org. All essays must be submitted here. How will judging be done? Well, judging writing isn’t exactly easy is it? It’s very subjective, that’s why there will be somewhere between 5 and 10 judges. We’ll all pick our favorites and base the winners on that. What are the prizes? $25 from Amazon, $50 from Borders, and a year of hosting from LISHost. What about deadlines? Anything entered in the month of February. You’ll need to put it in the submissions queue and tag it with “essay”. Don’t email anything to me, use the queue. No, you don’t need to be a librarian. Yes, you can co-author an article. Yes, this essay should not be available elsewhere. No, if you’re a judge you’re not eligible to win. Yes, if you’ve written for LISNews before you can still win, you just can’t be a judge. How many essays do you expect to receive? Not many. Much more in the complete announcement (make sure to read it). Source: LISNews (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:01:59 +0100 812610 http://www.lisnews.org/lisnews_librarian_essay_contest_0 The first ever LISNews Librarian Essay Contest invites librarians to write an original essay about issues that impact librarianship. The contest will run for the entire month of February, 2010, with the fabulous prizes awarded sometime in March. Winning essayists will receive one of several prizes including Amazon or Borders gift cards, and a year of hosting from LISHost.org. All Essays Must Be Submitted Here! You can view only essay entries at http://lisnews.org/essays/ OR Subscribe to the Essay Contest Entries RSS Feed Here: http://lisnews.org/essays/rss Below the break you'll see answers to your questions. What did you mean "issues", what should I write about? ANYTHING that ties into libraries, librarianship or librarians and all those that we deal with. There are over 10 years of stories we've posted here, take a look in the archives to see what interests us. Personally, I'm looking forward to reading about everything and anything that people decide to write about, as long as it comes back to libraries somehow. I'm looking to be surprised, challenged, I want to learn a thing or two, and maybe have good laugh. What about format? You're writing for librarians, on the web. HTML is welcome, links, short paragraphs, images, and so on… There are a million sites out there that will tell you about the best way to write for the web. How many words? I'm hesitant to set a hard limit, so let's just say "essay length." How will judging be done? Well, judging writing isn't exactly easy is it? It's very subjective, that's why there will be somewhere between 5 and 10 judges. We'll all pick our favorites and base the winners on that. What are the prizes? $25 from Amazon, $50 from Borders, and a year of hosting from LISHost. What about deadlines? Anything entered in the month of February. You'll need to put it in the submissions queue and tag it with "essay". Don't email anything to me, use the queue. No, you don't need to be a librarian. ... Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:39:19 +0100 813071 http://lisnews.org/lisnews_librarian_essay_contest_0 The first ever LISNews Librarian Essay Contest invites librarians to write an original essay about issues that impact librarianship. The contest will run for the entire month of February, 2010, with the fabulous prizes awarded sometime in March. Winning essayists will receive one of several prizes including Amazon or Borders gift cards, and a year of hosting from LISHost.org. All Essays Must Be Submitted Here! You can view only essay entries at http://lisnews.org/essays/ OR Subscribe to the Essay Contest Entries RSS Feed Here: http://lisnews.org/essays/rss Below the break you'll see answers to your questions. What did you mean "issues", what should I write about? ANYTHING that ties into libraries, librarianship or librarians and all those that we deal with. There are over 10 years of stories we've posted here, take a look in the archives to see what interests us. Personally, I'm looking forward to reading about everything and anything that people decide to write about, as long as it comes back to libraries somehow. I'm looking to be surprised, challenged, I want to learn a thing or two, and maybe have good laugh. What about format? You're writing for librarians, on the web. HTML is welcome, links, short paragraphs, images, and so on… There are a million sites out there that will tell you about the best way to write for the web. How many words? I'm hesitant to set a hard limit, so let's just say "essay length." How will judging be done? Well, judging writing isn't exactly easy is it? It's very subjective, that's why there will be somewhere between 5 and 10 judges. We'll all pick our favorites and base the winners on that. What are the prizes? $25 from Amazon, $50 from Borders, and a year of hosting from LISHost. What about deadlines? Anything entered in the month of February. You'll need to put it in the submissions queue and tag it with "essay". Don't email anything to me, use the queue. No, you don't need to be a librarian. ... Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:39:19 +0100 812388 http://freegovinfo.info/node/2888 In my last post, I described the possibility of a systematic approach to data validation. A key feature of such an approach must be it’s availability to all who are responsible for data – and of special importance, its capacity to support efficient and timely use by creators or managers of data. Bill Michener (UNM), leader of one of the currently funded DataNet projects has published a chart describing the problem of “information entropy” [SEE: WK Michener “Meta-information concepts for ecological data management,” Ecological Informatics 1 (2006): 4 ] Within recent memory, I have heard an ecologist say that were it not possible to generate minimally necessary metadata “in 8 minutes,” he would not do it. Leaving aside -- for now -- the possibility of applying sticks and/or carrots (i.e. law and regulations, norms and incentives), it seems clear that a goal of applications development should be simplicity and ease of use. [ Within the realm of ecology, a good set of guidelines to making data effectively available was recently published – these guidelines are well worth reviewing and make specific reference to the importance of using "scripted" statistical applications (i.e. applications that generate records of the full sequence of transformations performed on any given data) this recommendation complements the broader notion -- mentioned in my last post -- of using work flow mechanisms like Kepler to document the full process and context of a scientific investigation. SEE “Emerging Technologies: Some Simple Guidelines for Effective Data Management” Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, April 2009, 205-214. http://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/files/computing/EffectiveDataMgmt.pdf ] As a sidebar, it is worth noting that virtually all data are “dynamic” in the sense that they may be and are extended, revised, reduced etc. ... Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:50:02 +0100 812383 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BabyBoomerLibrarian/~3/1c0OvccOalw/oclc-americas-regional-council-service.html I am serving on a committee of the OCLC Americas Regional Council (ARC) looking at how to improve upon and move what has been called service groups forward in the new climate of social networking and world wide collaboration now possible.Members of the committee include:Ted Schwitzner, Coordinator, Bibliographic Services, Illinois State University Library, ChairShirley Baker, Dean, Washington University LibrariesMorag Boyd, Head, Special Collections Cataloging, Ohio State University LibrariesBill Drew, Systems Librarian and Librarian for Technical Services, Electronic Information Resources and Serials, Tompkins Cortland Community CollegePatricia French, Manager, Collections & Technical Services, Multnomah County Public LibraryMichael Lacroix, Director, Leighton University-Reinert-Alumni Memorial LibrarySuzanne Lauer, OCLCSiôn Romaine, Assistant Head, Serials Acquisitions, University of Washington LibrariesSuzanne Schriar, Associate Director/Library Automation & Technology, Illinois State LibraryGregg Silvis, Assistant Director, University of Delaware LibraryJohn Teskey, Director, University of New Brunswick Libraries-FrederictonRich Van Orden, OCLCThe service groups serve to (quoted from charge document):The service groups have served an important function in two-way communication between OCLC and members regarding existing products and servicesThey also provided an excellent opportunity to explore new ideas and possibilitiesUnder the new ARC structure there is an opportunity for broader participation from all member libraries, including multiple participants from a given member libraryWeb conferencing offers possibilities to conduct Service Group meetings throughout the year and to increase participation both synchronously and asynchronouslySome topics of greatest interest to the largest number of members may be appropriate for presentation at annual meetings of the ARCThe committee met via conference call on January 11, 2010. ... Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:52:00 +0100 812333 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BabyBoomerLibrarian/~3/RkRt1hIUeps/library-day-in-life-round-4.html I am participating in Library Day in the Life / Round 4, January 2010 . I will be blogging and tweeting about my activities today.  The short ones will be on Twitter (tagged #libday4) and the longer posts on my blog with a tag of librarydayinthelife.  Tell the world what librarians do every day.librarydayinthelifePowered by ScribeFire. (Source: Baby Boomer Librarian) Mon, 25 Jan 2010 15:17:00 +0100 811789 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/a-informacao/~3/sP8GB7ZwhnE/incertezas-sobre-web-20.html Fonte: El Pais. Data: 8/01/2010.Depois de superada a crise da web 1.0 representada pela quebra das companhias pontocom no início do presente século, a web evoluiu para outro modelo menos voltado para o negócio e comércio eletrônico. Esta nova etapa, conhecida como web 2.0 ou redes sociais, baseia-se mais na comunicação entre pessoas e comunidades (many to many frente ao one to one). Nesta etapa, havia esperança de que as empresas de Internet alcançassem sua rentabilidade graças à publicidade e ao tráfego gerado. Isto fez com que os grandes nomes da Internet tomassem atitude frente ao fenômeno das redes sociais buscando novas sinergias (Google-YouTube, My Space-News Corporation, Facebook-Microsoft etc.) ou se introduzissem no negócio dos buscadores (Microsoft-Yahoo).Simultaneamente, a web evoluiu de forma natural, otimizando as pesquisas. Já não só indexavam páginas web, mas levavam em conta o contexto e o significado (web 3.0 o web semântica). Esta lógica evolução da web obedece a seu design e a sua arquitetura iniciais: compartilhar (sua origem universitário) e deslocar e sobrepor (sua origem militar). Desta maneira, as duas formas de fazer se contrapõem: comunidades virtuais frente a pessoas, blogs versus home pages, directories versus tagging, portals versus RSS, pages views versus cost per click, adversiting versus word of mouth etc. É Netscape frente a Google, e, como consequencia da lógica do negócio, e na atualidade, de todos contra Google.Mas a atual crise econômica (global, financeira e de confiança) colocou sob suspeita a rentabilidade das redes sociais de modo que, provavelmente, encontramo-nos perante a segunda borbulha, o segundo cybercrash da era Internet. Parecia que a crise econômica não iria afetar Silycom Valley, mas já se observa certo movimento na falha de São Francisco. ... Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:54:00 +0100 811910 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pandia/vfbc/~3/GM3PyIR19mA/2460-pandia-search-engine-news-wrap-up-january-24.html Here are the search engine stories we have found interesting this week: Ballmer Critical Of Google’s China Decision Ballmer suggested that Google’s decision to no longer filter out internet searches objectionable to the Chinese government was an irrational business decision. (SE Land Jan 22 2010) Google Founders To Sell 10 Million Shares Over Five Years Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin each intend to sell approximately 5 million shares (SE Land Jan 22 2010) Google Still the Top Search Property Worldwide in 2009 Interestingly, while Google retains its lead among the search properties worldwide, Microsoft’s search market share seemed to be growing by leaps and bounds. (SE Journal Jan 22 2010) Google Adds More Answers & Info To Search Results Adding to last year’s announcement of rich snippets for reviews and people, Google has created one for events, too. (SE Land Jan 22 2010) Google SEO resources for beginners Google Webmaster Central on search engine optimization (Jan 21 2010) Search Engines Bringing Back Variables In URLs – At Your Expense Now search engines are saying variables in URLs are good, as long as you use the canonical meta tag. (Online Marketing Blog Jan 21 2010) New Data on Twitter Usage Can Strengthen Your Twitter Outreach The average Twitter user is now following around 170 people and is being followed by an average of 300 other people. (Jennifer Laycock Jan 21 2010) New York Times to erect pay-wall by 2011 Will it take a year to build? (techradar Jan 2010) SEOmoz Launches Open Site Explorer, A Competitor (Replacement?) To Yahoo Site Explorer Open Site Explorer provides a number of data points pulled from SEOmoz’s Linkscape tool and its index of the web. (SE Land jan 20 2010) Microsoft And Apple Discuss Making Bing Default Engine On The iPhone Becoming the default search provider on 70 million (roughly) iPhone OS devices would be an enormous boost for Bing. ... Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:45:09 +0100 811985 http://www.affordance.info/mon_weblog/2010/01/embouteillages-dans-les-nuages-.html Au mois de Janvier 2008, il y a donc déjà 2 ans de cela, la LoC (bibliothèque du Congrès), était la première institution à décider de "déporter" dans les nuages, une partie de ses collections iconographiques. (Pour rappel : mes commentaires de l'époque). Depuis cette date, ce qui était une initiative isolée est devenu une partie extrêmement importante du site FlickR, puisque pas moins de 31 institutions (bibliothèques, musées, archives, centres de recherche) ont rejoint le volet baptisé : FlickR : The Commons.Or dans un très récent communiqué, on peut lire que le site FlickR n'accueillera pas de nouvelle institution durant l'année 2010. Dans l'un des groupes de discussion liés à ce sujet, un membre du staff de FlickR assure que le projet "Commons" n'est pas du tout remis en question et reste une priorité de FlickR (qui - rappelons-le est propriété de Yahoo!), et que la raison de cet arrêt momentanné est celle d'une trop grande file d'attente dans les demandes, demandes que FlickR dit ne plus être en mesure de traiter. Il arrête donc les nouvelles demandes d'inscription pour traiter celles qui sont déjà en cours. Soit ce qui ressemble au premier embouteillage connu - ou en tout cas déclaré comme tel - de l'ère de l'informatique en nuages. Que le projet FlickR Commons soit victime de son succès n'est guère étonnant. C'est l'archétype même du projet "gagnant-gagnant". ... Sun, 24 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 812026 http://freegovinfo.info/node/2883 No doubt folks have seen at least 1 of the growing video remixes of Hitler in the bunker. Well here's a new one from Critical Commons that highlights digital scholarship, open courseware, and fair use. Nicely done. Critical Commons provides information about current copyright law and its alternatives in order to facilitate the writing and dissemination of best practices and fair use guidelines for scholarly and creative communities. Critical Commons also functions as a showcase for innovative forms of electronic scholarship and creative production that are transformative, culturally enriching and both legally and ethically defensible. At the heart of Critical Commons is an online tool for viewing, tagging, sharing, annotating and curating media within the guidelines established by a given community. Our goal is to build open, informed communities around media-based teaching, learning and creativity, both inside and outside of formal educational environments. (Source: Free Government Information (FGI) blogs) Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:00:48 +0100 810993 http://jis.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/36/1/57?rss=1 Websites that provide content creation and sharing features have become quite popular recently. These sites allow users to categorize and browse content using ‘tags’ or free-text keyword topics. Since users contribute and tag social media content across a variety of social web platforms, creating new knowledge from distributed tag data has become a matter of performing various tasks, including publishing, aggregating, integrating, and republishing tag data. However, there are a number of issues in relation to data sharing and interoperability when processing tag data across heterogeneous tagging platforms. In this paper we introduce a semantic tag model that aims to explicitly offer the necessary structure, semantics and relationships between tags. This approach provides an improved opportunity for representing tag data in the form of reusable constructs at a semantic level. We also demonstrate a prototype that consumes and makes use of shared tag metadata across heterogeneous sources. (Source: Journal of Information Science current issue) Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:23:01 +0100 811943 http://librarychronicles.blogspot.com/2010_01_01_archive.html#5331213164853255917 Before we look back at this (admittedly quite memorable) football season I'd like to spend a few minutes looking back at the Greatest Football Season of All Time. 1987 was the Saints' 21st year in the NFL. And although the team and the city already enjoyed a strong bond forged in humor, hope and heartache, 1987 was the year it finally all paid off. This was not only the first Saints team to advance to the playoffs, it was the first to even win more games than it lost in a single season. After 20 years. Think about that. Nobody had seen anything like it before. Nobody knew how to act. So they just did was comes naturally in New Orleans. They made it ridiculous.If you're a casual observer and are surprised at the way New Orleans takes to football season, if you're surprised at the way it dominates the evening news, the front page, the bakery section at the supermarket, if you notice people reading a bit too much into the color of their brake tags,or if you get a look at shit like this or this or these peopleSaints Superfan Secondline from rob davis | photography on Vimeo.And you're wondering what it is about this year that has caused people lose their damn minds, know that all this is just a continuation of a theme begun over 20 years ago. This time around we really have seen it before, though. Everything you see in the atmosphere surrounding this team, we saw then and we saw it then for the first time. And it was even bigger and crazier than this. Really it was.Maybe I just feel this way because I was 13 years old then and everything that happens when you're 13 seems really important. But I don't think that's all there is to it. '87 was the genesis of so many memes that live on today. Take, for example, this year's absurd proliferation of Saints-themed music. Heard the "I Believe" song lately? That was 1987. ... Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 812561 http://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/celebrating-15-year-of-dublin-core.html Making Metadata Work Harder: Celebrating 15 Year of Dublin Core is the international conference on Dublin Core and metadata applications which will take place on 20-22 October 2010, in Pittsburgh. This event’s topics include: metadata principles, guidelines, and best practices, metadata quality, normalization, improvement and mapping, conceptual models and frameworks (e.g., RDF, DCAM, OAIS), metadata interoperability across domains, languages, time, structures, and scales, cross-domain metadata uses (e.g., recordkeeping, preservation, curation, institutional repositories, publishing), domain metadata (e.g., for corporations, cultural memory institutions, education, government, and scientific fields), bibliographic standards (e.g., RDA, FRBR, subject headings) as Semantic Web vocabularies, accessibility metadata, metadata for scientific data, e-Science and grid applications, social tagging and user participation in building metadata, Knowledge Organization Systems (e.g., ontologies, taxonomies, authority files, folksonomies, and thesauri) and Simple Knowledge Organization Systems (SKOS), ontology design and development, integration of metadata and ontologies, metadata generation (methods, tools, and practices), search engines and metadata, semantic Web metadata and applications, and finally vocabulary registries and registry services. (Source: The Invisible Web Weblog) Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 811166 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2010/01/21/january-21st-stream.html Posted Walt Crawford: Midwinter musings. Posted Jill Hurst-Wahl: Because some my buddies are using Four Square, I’ve joined. Looks like it was the new hot thing at ALA midwinter. Who here is using it?. Shared Videogame Statistics. infographics of various videogame statistics Shared 10 Gorgeous Social Media Infographics | Penn Olson. Shared NY Librarians Meetup: My first Midwinter. Posted georgethomas: RT @whitehouse: CIO Vivek Kundra: "They Gave Us The Beatles, We Gave Them Data.gov" http://bit.ly/5OG384. Shared my empire expands (and this one’s even legit!). Posted leahlibrarian: I’m fairly sure that the words "seasoned professional" in a job ad means they won’t hire a young person. #euphemismsarelame. Posted james3neal: "If print is dead then this is a very long goodbye" http://bit.ly/8rf9g9 – Love the diagrams here – (via feedly – @walkingpaper). Posted steverubel: Study says face time still rules http://j.mp/663aWw. Posted steverubel: RT @NiemanLab: Facebook, Twitter and blogs accounted for 6.46% of NYTimes.com’s Dec. ‘09 traffic, reports @venturebeat. http://j.mp/6Xtkqm. Posted ericrumsey: Blog: Mobile Library Interface – Reduce Options, Simplify! http://bit.ly/8vlHw0. Posted heidisteiner: IE extension for Chrome is dreamy. And that’s the only time I’m ever going to be using IE and dreamy in the same sentence.. Posted pollyalida: Used wallwisher 4 quick feedback aftr google session today. Fun. http://www.wallwisher.com/wall/wswheboces. ... Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:00:06 +0100 810855 http://www.teleread.org/2010/01/20/interview-daniel-hazelton-tech-admin-of-the-shifti-org-transformation-fiction-wiki/ When I was writing my series about “Paleo E-Books”, one of the sites I mentioned was Shifti.org, the wiki successor to the defunct Transfomation Stories Archive. In the course of writing about it, I came to read some of the stories there—and found I enjoyed them enough to contribute a few myself. While independent e-publishing sites such as Smashwords or unfiltered document hosts such as Scribd are what generally come to mind when you think of independent e-publishing, smaller themed fiction sites such as Shifti represent another way—one which does not tend to get as much media coverage. As you might guess, Shifti.org hosts mainly stories that involve some form of transformation taking place.  It lists 722 pages in the “Story” category at the time of this writing. Some of these stories center around transformation as fetish (as Hazelton says below, “Rule 34” applies), but most of them simply use it as a metaphor for exploring what it is like to be different. (Or, for that matter, exploring what it would be like to be turned into a furry animal.) I interviewed Shifti’s technical administrator, Daniel “ShadowWolf” Hazelton, through Google Wave about how the site works, the stories that are hosted there, and whether sites such as Shifti might represent the future of fiction on the Internet. Here is what he had to say. Whose idea was Shifti.org? Where did the idea come from? Originally Shifti lived on menagerie.tf and was BD’s idea. When the administrators and owners of menagerie moved to their current residence the site died. Moved forward a couple of years and people on the TSA-Talk mailing list started really complaining about how the "Transformation Story Archive" had not updated in ages. Rather than just join in on the bitching, I took the cues from BD and installed the MediaWiki code-base, then handed BD the keys for all the configuration. ... Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:13 +0100 810474 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/cU5osYS2vhs/ When I was writing my series about “Paleo E-Books”, one of the sites I mentioned was Shifti.org, the wiki successor to the defunct Transfomation Stories Archive. In the course of writing about it, I came to read some of the stories there—and found I enjoyed them enough to contribute a few myself. While independent e-publishing sites such as Smashwords or unfiltered document hosts such as Scribd are what generally come to mind when you think of independent e-publishing, smaller themed fiction sites such as Shifti represent another way—one which does not tend to get as much media coverage. As you might guess, Shifti.org hosts mainly stories that involve some form of transformation taking place.  It lists 722 pages in the “Story” category at the time of this writing. Some of these stories center around transformation as fetish (as Hazelton says below, “Rule 34” applies), but most of them simply use it as a metaphor for exploring what it is like to be different. (Or, for that matter, exploring what it would be like to be turned into a furry animal.) I interviewed Shifti’s technical administrator, Daniel “ShadowWolf” Hazelton, through Google Wave about how the site works, the stories that are hosted there, and whether sites such as Shifti might represent the future of fiction on the Internet. Here is what he had to say. Whose idea was Shifti.org? Where did the idea come from? Originally Shifti lived on menagerie.tf and was BD’s idea. When the administrators and owners of menagerie moved to their current residence the site died. Moved forward a couple of years and people on the TSA-Talk mailing list started really complaining about how the "Transformation Story Archive" had not updated in ages. Rather than just join in on the bitching, I took the cues from BD and installed the MediaWiki code-base, then handed BD the keys for all the configuration. ... Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:00:13 +0100 810233 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ScholarlyElectronicPublishingWeblogrss/~3/eXznwqjjPnE/ Next Weblog update on 2/24/10. Aslib Proceedings 62, no. 1 (2010): Includes "How UK Academic Libraries Choose Metasearch Systems" and other articles. Bailey, Charles W., Jr. Institutional Repository Bibliography, Version 2. Houston: Digital Scholarship, 2010. Collection Building 29, no. 1 (2010): Includes "The Availability of E-Books: Examples of Nursing and Business" and other articles. College and Research Libraries News 71, no. 1 (2010): Includes "Open Access: Advice on Working with Faculty Senates" and other articles. D-Lib Magazine 16, no. 1/2 (2009): Includes "Cloud Computing, Big Data, and Open Access at EDUCAUSE 2009"; "Digital Object Repository Server: A Component of the Digital Object Architecture"; "D-Lib Magazine: Its First 13 Years"; "FERPA and Student Work: Considerations for Electronic Theses and Dissertations"; "RDA Vocabularies: Process, Outcome, Use"; "Tagging Full Text Searchable Articles: An Overview of Social Tagging Activity in Historic Australian Newspapers August 2008—August 2009"; "Technologies Employed to Control Access to or Use of Digital Cultural Collections: Controlled Online Collections"; "The Use of Metadata for Educational Resources in Digital Repositories: Practices and Perspectives"; "The Virtual Journals of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics"; and other articles. International Journal of Digital Curation 4, no. 3 (2009): Includes "Constructing Data Curation Profiles," "Data Curation Program Development in U.S. ... Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:27:41 +0100 810888 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/researchbuzz/main/~3/csKSqoa5h48/ More goodness from Philipp over at Blogoscoped! I covered his Vintage Ads site a while ago but now I’ve found out about CoverBrowser at http://www.coverbrowser.com, which has both a huge collection of comic book covers (over 450,000+), more resources, and fun tools for playing with them. If you looked at the Vintage Ad Browser this is going to look similar. The front page has a list of comic book titles through which you can browse, from “Archie Annual Digest” to “Zap Comix.” Some of the titles expand to show title sets (Archie, Flash, Hulk, Valian, etc.) Clicking on a title takes you to a page (sometimes several pages) full of covers. Mostly all the information available is just title and issue number, though sometimes there’s a link to buy the item on eBay. You can also do a keyword search. I did a search for final and got over 400 results. While there were lots of comic book covers here, I also found video game covers, CD covers, and a couple of weird DVD covers. If you just want to get a sense of what’s available here, you can check out the covers by picking them at random. There’s also a labs feature, at http://www.coverbrowser.com/labs. There are several features here. You can browse comics by color. You can play the tagging game, where you see if the tags you suggest for a cover match tags other people have suggested (a fun game and a good way of tagging all the available covers.) You can also fill the speech/thought bubble on a comic cover with your own words and then download the image using the speech bubbler. (If you don’t like the cover you see, reload the page and you’ll get a new one.) Philipp must have a lot of energy to keep putting together these great resources. A heck of a browse! (Source: ResearchBuzz) Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:42:55 +0100 810139 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/19/the-januaryfebruary-2010-issue-of-d-lib-magazine-is-now-available/ When you first hit the site you’ll notice D-Lib’s new design (Impressive!) along with the names of a new Editor-in-Chief (Laurence Lannom) and Managing Editor (Catherine Rey). Bonita Wilson stays on as a Contributing Editor. January/February 2010 Issue of D-Lib Magazine Articles Include: + Digital Object Repository Server: A Component of the Digital Object Architecture by Article by Sean Reilly and Robert Tupelo-Schneck, Corporation for National Research Initiatives + Technologies Employed to Control Access to or Use of Digital Cultural Collections: Controlled Online Collections by Kristin R. Eschenfelder, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Grace Agnew, Rutgers University + The Use of Metadata for Educational Resources in Digital Repositories: Practices and Perspectives by Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos, Andreas D. Alexopoulos, Georgia D. Solomou, and Theodore S. Papatheodorou, University of Patras + RDA Vocabularies: Process, Outcome, Use by Diane Hillmann, Information Institute of Syracuse, Metadata Management Associates; Karen Coyle, kcoyle.net; Jon Phipps, JES & Co., Metadata Management Associates; Gordon Dunsire, University of Strathclyde + D-Lib Magazine: Its First 13 Years by Taemin Kim Park, Indiana University Libraries + Tagging Full Text Searchable Articles: An Overview of Social Tagging Activity in Historic Australian Newspapers August 2008 — August 2009 by Rose Holley, Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program (ANDP), National Library of Australia + FERPA and Student Work: Considerations for Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Marisa Ramirez, California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo and Gail McMillan, Virginia Tech + The Virtual Journals of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics by Richard H. Cyburt, Sam M. Austin, Timothy C. Beers, Alfredo Estrade, Ryan M. ... Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:24:05 +0100 809952 http://csbsjulibrary.blogspot.com/2010/01/search-president-obamas-speeches-and.html Search President Obama's speeches and activities from the Washington Post:1) President Obama Speech DatabaseEvery week President Obama delivers remarks on pressing issues. Find key speeches he has delivered since taking office in January 2009.This database can be searched by keyword and browsed by issue or a tag cloud. A graph shows speeches by month.2) POTUS TrackerEvery day President Obama meets with key members of his administration, Congress, foreign dignitaries, interest groups and regular citizens. Use our interactive database to track how Obama is spending his time, what issues are getting the most attention and who is influencing the debate.RSS feeds are available for his daily schedule and speeches.-sg (Source: CSBSJU Library Blog) Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 809819 http://www.affordance.info/mon_weblog/2010/01/google-twitter-haiti-secousses-tremblements.html Dans le domaine de la communication de crise, on peut aisément distinguer deux catégories d'analyses : lorsqu'il s'agit d'une entreprise - devant faire face ou mettre en place une communication de crise - la littérature sur le sujet pointe surtout les "dangers" des nouveaux médias en terme de vitesse de propagation des rumeurs et l'importance - pour l'entreprise - de réagir en temps réel, et en utilisant les mêmes canaux d'information/désinformation, soit les sites de micro-blogging, de réseaux sociaux, etc ... Lorsqu'il s'agit en revanche de communication de crise dans un contexte humanitaire, et tout particulièrement depuis l'avènement de Twitter, le traitement de ces nouveaux outils de communication en temps réel est largement salué et plébiscité, quand il ne vire pas franchement au panégyrique. De fait, l'instantanéité de la transmission, la faculté de tisser des réseaux transcontinentaux temporaires mais exceptionnellement denses, la capacité d'entonnoir financier de ces services capables de drainer des fonds plus naturellement que ne le ferait n'importe quelle ONG, de fait cet ensemble de propriétés des sites communautaires contributifs ou simplement participatifs est une opportunité remarquable dans un contexte de catastrophe naturelle.  Le drame qui touche Haïti nous en offre quelques exemples. CHAPITRE PREMIER : TREMBLEMENTS MOTORISÉS Google et Haïti : tremblements motorisés. Le premier exemple est celui de la société Google qui met en place un site dédié : http://www.google.com/intl/fr/relief/haitiearthquake/, site dédié accessible grâce à un lien présent sur la page d'accueil du moteur, dont la légendaire sobriété n'est que très exceptionnellement dérangée. ... Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 809735 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/17/wow-no-conscious-effort-required-to-tag-online-images/ From the ACM TechNews Summary: Studies done at Microsoft Research are using electroencephalograph (EEG) measurements to read users’ minds in order to help tag online images. The researchers say the mind-reading technique is the first step toward a hybrid human-computer data analysis system. The manual process for tagging images is often tedious and repetitive, but with the new method of EEG tagging, workers may be able to perform other tasks during the tagging process. Computers can recognize shapes and movements very well, but they have a harder time with categorizing objects in human terms, says Microsoft Research’s Desney Tan. During testing, researchers could determine if the subject was looking at a face, an animal, or an inanimate object with good results. The researchers found that no improvement was seen if the viewer was given more than half a second to look at each image. This leads researchers to think images could be displayed at that speed with no loss of accuracy. Read the Complete Article on Singularity Hub Amazon’s Mechanical Turk offers very small payments to those who wish to tag images online. Google Image Labeler has turned the process into a game by pairing taggers to counterparts with whom they can work together. Because EEG image tagging requires no conscious effort, workers may be able to perform other tasks during the process. (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:37:41 +0100 809382 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/earlham/dGCQ/~3/CCwoO-wgous/housekeeping-future-of-oan.html Now that Gavin has departed, and my time is still occupied with other OA work, what will become of Open Access News? To understand my answer, first allow me to recap a little history.  When Gavin came aboard two years ago, there was already more OA news than one person could cover alone, and with his help we made a substantial gain on adequacy.  But soon there was too much news for two people to cover together.  If the problem was to cover the news comprehensively, one solution was to add more people.  But it was clear that OAN was already too long.  We couldn't capture everything, but what we did capture was too much for people to read.  The rapid growth of the OA movement made both problems worse because it made the inadequacy and volume of the blog grow at the same time.  (That's why I had to keep reminding myself that this was a side effect of success.)  So there were two problems to solve --enlarge the scope and reduce the volume.  To solve both at once I decided that we needed a very different kind of alert service, and launched the OA tracking project (OATP) as a scalable alternative.  OATP is more comprehensive than a large blog because it is crowdsourced and distributes the labor to all who want to take part.  It's leaner than a large blog because most of its news alerts are just citations, links, and brief descriptions.  I could look for other news bloggers to do what Gavin and I had been doing.  But that would replicate one or both of the problems that plagued OAN.  You knew I was going to say this:  the future of OAN is OATP.  I'll continue to blog, but only sporadically.  OAN will continue to exist, but its output will be greatly reduced.  Meantime, OATP is a daily, comprehensive source of OA-related news.  OATP's austere format doesn't do what good blogs do. ... Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 809152 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/8OdXjQObPSE/ Introduction Calibre is an open source ebook management tool. Simply put calibre allows you to organize your e-book collection, convert e-books to various formats and interact with your e-book reader all in an intuitive and friendly manner. It is compatible with Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, and 7 as well as Apple’s OS X (Intel only) and various flavors of Linux. It was created by Kovid Goyal who still leads it’s development and steers the direction of the project. In addition to Kovid a number people, such as myself, around the world contribute to the application. The purpose of calibre is to make it easy to manage large and small collections of e-books. It does this in a few ways. It provides a means to organize, and search your collection so you can find the book you want when you need it. It can convert many e-book formants into other e-book formats. Also, there is tight integration with a number popular and obscure e-book readers. The project is broken down into a few basic components. The graphical user interface (GUI), a number of command line tools, and an e-book reading application. However, all of the functionality is accessible though the GUI. These other tools are just another way to use the application. For instance, the command line tools are used by the ManyBooks service to convert on an as needed basis. The focus of this article will be the GUI and various tasks users often perform. Installing The installation processes starts with you downloading the installer for your operating system. Run the installer and when it finishes launch calibre. You will now be greeted with the welcome wizard, which will help you configure parts of the application. The first page allows you to change the location calibre stores your e-books. If this is your first time using calibre, this should not be an existing e-book collection. Calibre manages the e-books you give it in it’s own way. Think of this directory as a black box. ... Fri, 15 Jan 2010 22:10:34 +0100 808748 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/15/conference-paper-tagging-human-knowledge/ By Paul Heymann, Andreas Paepcke, Hector Garcia-Molina In: Third ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM2010), February 3-6, 2010, New York City, NY, USA. PREPRINT From the Abstract A fundamental premise of tagging systems is that regular users can organize large collections for browsing and other tasks using uncontrolled vocabularies. Until now, that premise has remained relatively unexamined. Using library data, we test the tagging approach to organizing a collection. We find that tagging systems have three major large scale organizational features: consistency, quality, and completeness. In addition to testing these features, we present results suggesting that users produce tags similar to the topics designed by experts, that paid tagging can effectively supplement tags in a tagging system, and that information integration may be possible across tagging systems. Access the Full Text Paper (10 pages; PDF) Source: Stanford InfoLab (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:24:42 +0100 808879 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/01/15/using-twitter-at-a-conference/ There’s a post over at Marketing Strategy and the Law, “How to Cover a Conference Using Twitter,” that give some good advice. Use the “official” conference hash tag, don’t bother with quote marks . . . that sort of practical stuff. I’d like to add my 2¢ worth. (Time to move that expression up-market, don’t you think? I mean 2¢ won’t even buy penny candy nowadays.) And I should preface it by saying that by and large I’m not a fan of having conferences tweeted at me: I find that the sudden deluge of individually incomprehensible tweets is truly annoying, a wedge of noises inserted into my already static-y flow. In my view this is using Twitter for something that blog posting does better. So: A. If you’re a person who likes to indulge in serial tweeting from time to time, whether of conferences or birthday parties, consider getting a second Twitter account just for that purpose. You can alert your followers that you’re about to activate YournameConf again; those who enjoy conference tweeting can head over there; and those of us who like your day-to-day apperçus won’t be flooded out because YournameConf isn’t someone we follow. B. If you’re not going to do that, at least warn your followers that there’s some hail on the horizon so that those who will can take shelter. How to shelter? C. Well, you could use Twitter’s “block” feature, now that you can “unblock” subsequently. D. Or, if you’re concerned you might hurt someone’s feelings with a full block, you might avail yourself of a service like twalala.com, which filters tweets out of your stream in a variety of ways, one of which would be by way of a keyword, such as the conference hash tag. ... Fri, 15 Jan 2010 18:17:17 +0100 809328 http://hangingtogether.org/?p=766 The final report of the Museum Data Exchange grant will be released on the OCLC Research website later this month. As a first impression of key outcomes, I’ve posted the executive summary below. Stay tuned! ********* The Museum Data Exchange, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, brought together a group of nine museums and OCLC Research to create tools for data sharing, build a research aggregation and analyze the aggregation. The project established infrastructure for standards-based metadata exchange for the museum community and modeled data sharing behavior among participating institutions. Tools The tools created by the project allow museums to share standards-based data using the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). COBOAT allows museums to extract Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA) Lite XML out of collections management systems OAICatMuseum 1.0 makes the data harvestable via OAI-PMH COBOAT’s default configuration targets Gallery Systems’ TMS, but can be adjusted to work with other vendor-based or homegrown database systems. Both tools are a free download from here. Configuration files adapting COBOAT to different systems can be shared here. Data Harvesting and Analysis Harvesting data from nine museums, the project brought together 887,572 records in a non-public research aggregation, which participants had access to via a simple search interface. The analysis showed the following: for CDWA Lite required and highly recommended data elements, 7 out of 17 elements are used in 90% of the contributed records the match rate against applicable Getty vocabularies for objectWorkType, nameCreator and roleCreator is approximately 40% the top 100 objectWorkType and nameCreator values represent 99% and 49% of all aggregation records respectively. ... Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:57:09 +0100 809722 http://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/sigir-2010.html The 33rd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference will take place 19-23 July 2010, in Geneva, Switzerland. According to their call for paper, the conference’s topics include: “Document Representation and Content Analysis (e.g., text representation, document structure, linguistic analysis, non-English IR, cross-lingual IR, information extraction, sentiment analysis, clustering, classification, topic models, facets, clustering, classification, topic models, facets), Queries and Query Analysis (e.g., query representation, query intent, query log analysis, question answering, query suggestion, query reformulation), Users and Interactive IR (e.g., user models, user studies, user feedback, search interface, summarization, task models, personalized search), Retrieval Models and Ranking (e.g., IR theory, language models, probabilistic retrieval models, feature-based models, learning to rank, combining searches, diversity), Search Engine Architectures and Scalability ( e.g., indexing, compression, MapReduce, distributed IR, P2P IR, mobile devices), Filtering and Recommending (e.g., content-based filtering, collaborative filtering, recommender systems, profiles), Evaluation (e.g., test collections, effectiveness measures, experimental design), Web IR and Social Media Search (e.g., link analysis, query logs, social tagging, social network analysis, advertising and search, blog search, forum search, CQA, adversarial IR), IR and Structured Data (e.g., XML search, ranking in databases, desktop search, entity search), Multimedia IR (e.g., Image search, video search, speech/audio search, music IR), and Other Applications (e.g., digital libraries, enterprise search, vertical search, genomics IR, legal IR, patent search, text reuse)". (Source: The Invisible Web Weblog) Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 809045 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/earlham/dGCQ/~3/RChGozA_XVE/open-access-roundup_15.html PLoS launched a new collection of research from the Tagging of Pacific Predators group of the Census of Marine Life. The National Library of Finland made two of its catalogs OA: LINDA, the union catalog of Finnish university libraries, and ARTO, an index of Finnish scholarly journals. Lars Juhl Jensen looks for correlations among PLoS' article-level metrics. Leigh Blackall proposes a journal with open post-publication review, free reuse, and OA to the underlying data. (Source: Open Access News) Fri, 15 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 808850 http://feeds.plos.org/~r/plos/PublishingBlog/~3/XD3ZmR2hQXk/507 Today, PLoS is delighted to publish a Collection of articles highlighting biologging research from the Tagging of Pacific Predators group (TOPP), a Census of Marine Life (COML) project. Advances in electronic marine tracking technology, also known as biologging, allow researchers to take measurements from free-swimming marine animals as they move undisturbed through their environment. Recent technology improvements, including electronic tag miniaturization and enhanced animal movement models, have revolutionized understanding of the ecology of marine top predators. This has permitted observations well beyond the reach of standard measurement techniques, and provided extensive data on the animals' behavior at the scale of and within the context of their environment. Such studies are essential for the effective management of marine ecosystems and conservation of top predator populations. The first six articles (five from PLoS ONE and one from PLoS Biology) to be published in this Collection have examined how our understanding of animal movement and migration has been improved by electronic tagging and tracking across a diverse range of marine species including sharks, tunas, sea birds, sea turtles and marine mammals. More work will be added to this "living" collection as soon as each TOPP article is published. In the coming months, PLoS will be publishing more Biodiversity research from other groups that make up the Census of Marine Life, a 10 year project to explore and understand the diversity and distribution of life in the oceans, past, present and future. In this so called "transparent ocean" scientists will have the tools to say where marine organisms are, how many of them there are and where they are going - knowledge which will help mankind best conserve and support these precious resources. ... Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:00:14 +0100 810003 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/14/contrasting-controlled-vocabulary-and-tagging-do-experts-choose-the-right-names-to-label-the-wrong-things/ by Paul Heymann and Hector Garcia-Molina (2009) In: Second ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2009), Late Breaking Results Session, February 9-13, 2009, Barcelona, Spain. From the Abstract: Social cataloging sites—tagging systems where users tag books—provide us with a rare opportunity to contrast tags to other information organization systems. We contrast tags to a controlled vocabulary, the Library of Congress Subject Headings, which has been developed over several decades. We find that many of the keywords designated by tags and LCSH are similar or the same, but that usage of keywords by annotators is quite different. Access the Complete Paper (4 pages; PDF) Source: Stanford InfoLab (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 14 Jan 2010 20:18:06 +0100 808474 http://www.lisnews.org/lisnews_librarian_essay_contest_some_details The first ever LISNews Librarian Essay Contest invites librarians to write an original essay about issues that impact librarianship. The contest will run for the entire month of February, 2010, with the fabulous prizes awarded sometime in March. Winning essayists will receive one of several prizes including Amazon or Borders gift cards, and a year of hosting from LISHost.org. When I announced our little contest a few weeks ago I didn't provide many details. So read on below for a bit of an FAQ. Any other questions just let me know. What did you mean "issues", what should I write about? ANYTHING that ties into libraries, librarianship or librarians and all those that we deal with. There are over 10 years of stories we've posted here, take a look in the archives to see what interests us. Personally, I'm looking forward to reading about everything and anything that people decide to write about, as long as it comes back to libraries somehow. I'm looking to be surprised, challenged, I want to learn a thing or two, and maybe have good laugh. What about format? You're writing for librarians, on the web. HTML is welcome, links, short paragraphs, images, and so on… There are a million sites out there that will tell you about the best way to write for the web. How many words? I'm hesitant to set a hard limit, so let's just say "essay length." How will judging be done? Well, judging writing isn't exactly easy is it? It's very subjective, that's why there will be somewhere between 5 and 10 judges. We'll all pick our favorites and base the winners on that. What are the prizes? $25 from Amazon, $50 from Borders, and a year of hosting from LISHost. What about deadlines? Anything entered in the month of February. You'll need to put it in the submissions queue and tag it with "essay". Don't email anything to me, use the queue. No, you don't need to be a librarian. Yes, you can co-author an article. ... Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:03:43 +0100 808549 http://lisnews.org/lisnews_librarian_essay_contest_some_details The first ever LISNews Librarian Essay Contest invites librarians to write an original essay about issues that impact librarianship. The contest will run for the entire month of February, 2010, with the fabulous prizes awarded sometime in March. Winning essayists will receive one of several prizes including Amazon or Borders gift cards, and a year of hosting from LISHost.org. When I announced our little contest a few weeks ago I didn't provide many details. So read on below for a bit of an FAQ. Any other questions just let me know. What did you mean "issues", what should I write about? ANYTHING that ties into libraries, librarianship or librarians and all those that we deal with. There are over 10 years of stories we've posted here, take a look in the archives to see what interests us. Personally, I'm looking forward to reading about everything and anything that people decide to write about, as long as it comes back to libraries somehow. I'm looking to be surprised, challenged, I want to learn a thing or two, and maybe have good laugh. What about format? You're writing for librarians, on the web. HTML is welcome, links, short paragraphs, images, and so on… There are a million sites out there that will tell you about the best way to write for the web. How many words? I'm hesitant to set a hard limit, so let's just say "essay length." How will judging be done? Well, judging writing isn't exactly easy is it? It's very subjective, that's why there will be somewhere between 5 and 10 judges. We'll all pick our favorites and base the winners on that. What are the prizes? $25 from Amazon, $50 from Borders, and a year of hosting from LISHost. What about deadlines? Anything entered in the month of February. You'll need to put it in the submissions queue and tag it with "essay". Don't email anything to me, use the queue. No, you don't need to be a librarian. Yes, you can co-author an article. ... Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:03:43 +0100 808265 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/F_wmK6NtZSI/ Introduction Calibre is an open source ebook management tool. Simply put calibre allows you to organize your e-book collection, convert e-books to various formats and interact with your e-book reader all in an intuitive and friendly manner. It is compatible with Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, and 7 as well as Apple’s OS X (Intel only) and various flavors of Linux. It was created by Kovid Goyal who still leads it’s development and steers the direction of the project. In addition to Kovid a number people, such as myself, around the world contribute to the application. The purpose of calibre is to make it easy to manage large and small collections of e-books. It does this in a few ways. It provides a means to organize, and search your collection so you can find the book you want when you need it. It can convert many e-book formants into other e-book formats. Also, there is tight integration with a number popular and obscure e-book readers. The project is broken down into a few basic components. The graphical user interface (GUI), a number of command line tools, and an e-book reading application. However, all of the functionality is accessible though the GUI. These other tools are just another way to use the application. For instance, the command line tools are used by the ManyBooks service to convert on an as needed basis. The focus of this article will be the GUI and various tasks users often perform. Installing The installation processes starts with you downloading the installer for your operating system. Run the installer and when it finishes launch calibre. You will now be greeted with the welcome wizard, which will help you configure parts of the application. The first page allows you to change the location calibre stores your e-books. If this is your first time using calibre, this should not be an existing e-book collection. Calibre manages the e-books you give it in it’s own way. ... Wed, 13 Jan 2010 14:15:34 +0100 808104 http://weblog.ib.hu-berlin.de/?p=7787 Auch in diesem Jahr gibt es ein ermäßigtes Angebot für Studierende (explizit auch Studierende anderer Hochschulen, auch wenn es im angehängten Angebot anders zu lesen ist), die am PreConference Day (18. Januar 2010 im NH Hotel in Berlin Mitte) der Academic Publishing in Europe 2010 (APE 2010) teilnehmen wollen. Der Tag steht unter dem Thema “Information Competence” und ist mit verschiedenen Workshops und einem erstklassigen Mittagessen gefüllt. Der PreConference Day ist eine sehr lohnenswerte Veranstaltung – sowohl inhaltlich als auch in Bezug auf die Möglichkeiten interessante Kontakte zu knüpfen. Das Angebot gibt es hier und Fragen werden unter info@ape2010.eu beantwortet. (Source: IB Weblog) Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:36:27 +0100 807645 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/BAkpzUEBkag/ A fair number of bug fixes, plus these new features: The e-book viewer now has built-in dictionary lookup RTF Output: Add support for unicode characters Allow the metadata that is used to create collections when sending books to SONY readers to be customized TXT Input: Add option to disable insertion of Table of Contents into output text. Remember state of cover and tag browsing views on restart Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Mon, 11 Jan 2010 15:32:30 +0100 807370 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/researchbuzz/main/~3/1dPRVqpfW5U/ I’ve covered ways to find Twitter Lists before — via directories and a couple of search tricks — but I am not content. I have yet to find a way to search for Twitter lists that makes me say, “Okay, I’ve found everything I’m looking for, I don’t think I’ll miss much.” I’m still not content but I like List Tags, which allows you to enter a Twitter user, find out what tags are associated with them, and then get lists based on those tags. It’s available at http://www.mustexist.com/list_tags. Start by entering the Twitter name of someone whose tweets you like and would like to see more of. I entered Jack Schofield of the Guardian; he tweets at jackschofield. Note that I found it was better to enter someone who tends to tweet on a specific topic or group of topics. When you enter someone who tweets more generally, you get more unfocused tags. I entered jackschofield and after a few minutes of waiting I got a tag cloud that looks like this: You see there are three columns here: there’s a tag cloud (or rather tag column) generated by the lists that follow Jack. If you click on tag you’ll get the second column: lists that match that tag for Jack (in this case Tech.) Finally, the third column shows the “top” lists for that particular tag (I put top in quotes because I don’t know the methodology.) I found this useful as a Twitter list dicovery tool when I found a tag that might be applied to one list in Jack’s case, but spawned a list of other lists I hadn’t heard of before — for example, the tags journos, digerati, and socialmedia. Note you do have to use common sense when finding tags for followup — the more general the tag the less useful the list generated (“recommended,” for example, or “best”.) Great tool. ... Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:36:32 +0100 808034 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/09/the-qr-code-building-and-the-qr-code-coat/ One of our new favorite blogs, 2d Code, has two posts that might be of interest and hint at the way QR codes can be and will likely be used in the very near future. With the proper app (let’s say one for your iPhone or Nexus One) useable information can literally be everywhere. From a static building to a person wearing a piece of clothing walking down the street. For example, who needs a restaurant menu? Just zap your server’s uniform and voilà, it resolves to a menu for the restaurant. track of how many times in a certain period you’ve zapped a servers uniform. If you do it so many times in, let’s say a month, your electronic check is reduced by 20%. 1) The QR Coded Building A new building in Japan. Teradadesign Architects are responsible for an innovative commercial building in the city of Tachikawa, Tokyo, Japan, constructed with a QR Code facade. The QR Code resolves to a site which includes up to date shop information. Interestingly an unofficial iPhone application is available which allows the building to be viewed in real-time with an overlay of Twitter feed comments located via GPS tagging from inside the building. A video of the building is included in the post. 2) The QR Coded Coat View a 30 second video about this interesting piece of fashion. (-: Like we said at the beginning of this post with the restaurant menu example, the numerous ways QR coded clothing can be used/word are almost limitless. Of course, safety and privacy concerns will also be an issue. Source: 2d Code Hat Tip: @LorcanD (Source: ResourceShelf) Sat, 09 Jan 2010 21:55:42 +0100 806907 http://www.springerlink.com/content/04421lr7226x3116/ Abstract  Entity ranking has recently emerged as a research field that aims at retrieving entities as answers to a query. Unlike entity extraction where the goal is to tag names of entities in documents, entity ranking is primarily focused on returning a ranked list of relevant entity names for the query. Many approaches to entity ranking have been proposed, and most of them were evaluated on the INEX Wikipedia test collection. In this paper, we describe a system we developed for ranking Wikipedia entities in answer to a query. The entity ranking approach implemented in our system utilises the known categories, the link structure of Wikipedia, as well as the link co-occurrences with the entity examples (when provided) to retrieve relevant entities as answers to the query. We also extend our entity ranking approach by utilising the knowledge of predicted classes of topic difficulty. To predict the topic difficulty, we generate a classifier that uses features extracted from an INEX topic definition to classify the topic into an experimentally pre-determined class. This knowledge is then utilised to dynamically set the optimal values for the retrieval parameters of our entity ranking system. Our experiments demonstrate that the use of categories and the link structure of Wikipedia can significantly improve entity ranking effectiveness, and that topic difficulty prediction is a promising approach that could also be exploited to further improve the entity ranking performance. Content Type Journal ArticleCategory S.I.: Focused Retrieval and Result Aggr.DOI 10.1007/s10791-009-9125-9Authors Jovan Pehcevski, European University Faculty of Informatics Skopje MacedoniaJames A. ... Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:40:48 +0100 809700 http://blog.booklistonline.com/2010/01/08/bag-ladies-tea-is-no-mere-novelty/ As my English grandmother always used to say (she who taught my sister and me how to prepare the perfect pot of tea), a cuppa tea puts the world to right. Indeed it does. I begin my day with a cup (made in my English clay teapot) of Assam, Darjeeling, or Twinings English Breakfast–with milk and sugar, of course, and made from loose tea, not teabags. Nothing is more certain than that I will have my morning cup of tea. So, across my desk (actually sent to Keir Graff, Booklist Online Senior Editor, who passed it onto the tea guru: me) came a promotion sheet about Bag Ladies Tea (a specialty tea company, I learned) and a box of teabags, called Novel Teas. Upon investigation, I discovered that each teabag has a tag with a quote about books. Get it? The close connection between books and tea drinking, curling up with both. (And with a cat nearby–but that’s another post.) Here are some of the quotes: “Books may well be the only true magic” (Alice Hoffman); “Wear the old coat and buy the new book” (William Phelps); “Never judge a book by its movie” (J. W. Eagan); and “You can’t get a cup ot tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me ” (C. S. Lewis). Curious but skeptical (remember, I am a devotee of loose tea), I grabbed a mug from my desk and made a cup. Aroma? Wow, nice. Color? Yes, quickly deepening into the rich golden brown of good Indian tea (which I prefer over Chinese and African). With sugar and milk from the staff lounge, I was ready to drink. Very good, very tasty. Strong but not bitter, which is the essence of a good cup of Indian tea. I settled back and read more quotes, and then went online to learn more about Bag Ladies Tea. Apparently, Novel Teas is just one of several thematic presentations of English Breakfast tea–ah-ha, I knew it was English Breakfast, I could tell right away–that the company produces. ... Fri, 08 Jan 2010 13:00:50 +0100 806752 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/07/new-report-jisc-sis-landscape-study-a-survey-of-the-use-of-web-2-0-tools-and-services-in-the-uk-he-sector/ by Rosemary Russell and Ann Chapman Shared Infrastructure Services Landscape Study: A survey of the use of Web 2.0 tools and services in the UK HE sector Access the Complete Report (36 pages; PDF) From the Executive Summary: Active use of Web 2.0 appears to still be largely centred on early adopters. These people are willing to try out new tools and services as they hear about them, experiment with them and then use or drop them and they are often enthusiastic promoters of their chosen favourite service(s) to colleagues and peers – who themselves are now starting to use Web 2.0 tools and services in increasing numbers. Although mainstream use of Web 2.0 services is growing and will continue to grow over time, no specific predictions can be made regarding the rate of take-up. An increasing proportion of new entrants to HE and FE are already familiar with and using Web 2.0 services but this does not apply to everyone and there is a need to support a range of very varied learner backgrounds and expectations. Similarly staff attitudes encompass the technophobe and the enthusiast along with the cautious but happy to learn middle ground. Web 2.0 digital literacy (and illiteracy) is still an issue that needs to be addressed. Not all Web 2.0 tools and services are used to the same extent and some services (e.g. blogs, microblogging and tagging) are more popular than others. Within any one type of tool or service there are the market leaders, which are the most likely choice of new users: crucially such services have a large user base and a large amount of openly shared content. The primary factors governing initial choice of service are simple sign up, ease of use and good interface design, while the important factors favouring continuing use are good fit with the task, reliability and how much it is used by the individual’s peer group – or in the case of institutional marketing and outreach, how much it is used by the target audience. ... Thu, 07 Jan 2010 20:31:42 +0100 806216 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/01/06/conference-paper-tag-trails-navigating-with-context-and-history/ by Jacek Gwizdka and Philip Bakelaar Source: SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Boston, MA (US), 4-9 April 2009. From the Abstract: We describe a technique for preserving and presenting context and history while navigating web resources described by keywords. We use tagging and tag clouds as an application area for our technique. The technique is illustrated by employing it in a prototype that interfaces data from a social tagging website used to bookmark academic articles. The prototype displays a “tag trail” which can reveal contextual connections between web resources and the associated tags. We argue that the user’s understanding of web resources is aided by making such connections explicit. Access the Full Text (6 pages; PDF) (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:33:03 +0100 805882 http://www.lisnews.org/netherlands_library_book_tagging_project_killed_lazybrarians What Could Kill an Elegant, High-Value Participatory Project? The problem was not that the system was buggy or hard to use, but that it disrupted staff expectations and behavior. It introduced new challenges for staff--to manage return shelves differently, and to deal with queues. Rather than adapt to these challenges, they removed the system. (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:10:36 +0100 806284 http://lisnews.org/netherlands_library_book_tagging_project_killed_lazybrarians What Could Kill an Elegant, High-Value Participatory Project? The problem was not that the system was buggy or hard to use, but that it disrupted staff expectations and behavior. It introduced new challenges for staff--to manage return shelves differently, and to deal with queues. Rather than adapt to these challenges, they removed the system. (Source: LISNews.org) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:10:36 +0100 805847 http://centeredlibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/01/physical-tagging-for-books.html Haarlem Oost is a branch library in the Netherlands that wanted to encourage visitors to add tags to the books they read. To do this, the library didn’t create a complicated computer system or send people online. Instead, they installed more book drops and return shelves, labeled with different descriptors like “boring,” “great for kids,” “funny,” etc. (not quite like above, but a photo of the real system follows)Physical tagging! Such a super idea, But the library has now abandoned the system because people were using the system so seriously that it took them a lot of time per book to decide where to place it. That caused some logistic problems in the (small) building, especially as they have some peak times.Nonetheless, what a great idea and a fun concept!Found over at Nina Simon's Blog (Source: The Centered Librarian) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 05:00:00 +0100 805856 http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/2010-managing-research/2413/ For researchers struggling to manage their data, basic strategies will be provided for • best practices for retention and archiving • effective directory structures and naming conventions • good file formats for long-term access • data security and backup options • metadata, tagging, and citation • other relevant issues WHEN: Tuesday, January 12, 11am – 12pm or Tuesday, January 26, 10 – 11am (duplicate session) WHERE: DIRC, 14N-132 Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis and limited to 20 participants. Contact Amy Stout with any questions. Check out the MIT Libraries’ full schedule of IAP sessions. This session is co-sponsored by the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department. (Source: MIT Libraries News) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:15:18 +0100 805710 http://www.librarystuff.net/2010/01/05/bookdrop-tagging/ So cool! (Source: Library Stuff) Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:37:19 +0100 805465 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/wugwQAffYXE/ Here’s the changelog: Allow users to cutomize where books are placed by the Send to Device action Browse by tags: Make clicking on a tag cause all other tags to be de-selected, unless CTRL or SHIFT is pressed. News downloads: Automagically handle PDF covers Sort tags in the main view alphabetically Add command line option to content server to specify the path to the library to be served Support for the Hanvon N516, Binatone Readme and the Longshine ShineBook Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Mon, 04 Jan 2010 14:57:38 +0100 805185 http://www.onlineinsider.net/2010/01/03/power-of-three/ I’ve had some responses from my editorial about the power of three in the Nov/Dec 2009 issue of ONLINE, but I thought posting it here might generate a few more responses. Oh, and 3 words appropriate to the season: Happy New Year! The HomePage The Power of Three When my son turned three, he became fascinated with all things three. “I’m thwee,” he’d say, not being terribly good at pronouncing the r. It’s a good thing he’d hold up three fingers, since it sounded like he was saying, “I’m free,” a rather curious statement from a young child. He also had 3 friends, 3 favorite games, 3 stuffed animals, and probably some threes he didn’t share with me. This came to mind recently when Colin Beverage posted a challenge on a LinkedIn group—describe what you do in 3 words. Now I took Latin in secondary school. I know Gaul was divided into 3 parts. My Latin teacher declaimed, “Veni, Vidi, Vici” as she acted out the part of Julius Caesar (I came, I saw, I conquered, which is 6 words in English, but only 3 in Latin). Some people, who answered Colin, took the Caesar approach, using three disparate words separated by commas. “Eat, sleep, drink” was the least professional. I said, “Think, research, write.” Others came up with “define, create, refine,” which sounds a bit shampooish (lather, rinse, repeat). “Converse, plan, deliver” caught my eye, as did “communicate, negotiate, collaborate.” Some of these phrases implied a process: First I think, then I research, finally I write. Others reflected three separate activities. If it was a solo librarian, I can imagine “research, collect, manage,” which could be in any order. The non-Caesarian approach was to write a 3-word sentence that bordered on a tag line. ... Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:59:21 +0100 805721 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/kP-tWKLGQxU/ Just in case you have missed them, whilst you are busy preparing to attend VALA in Melbourne in just over a month, the call for papers for the other two big library conferences in Australia is open. ALIA’s 2010 biennial conference was going to be IFLA Brisbane, but with the global financial crisis seeing that event moved back to Europe, they have returned to an ALIA conference, still to be held in Brisbane. The call is out for papers for Access 2010 – to be submitted by 11th February (whilst you’re recovering from VALA). Submissions are being sought on: Information literacy and web 2.0 New Graduates – What next? Hidden Treasure: Finding the GOLD in Professional Development Public Libraries: A Surprise on Every Page Collective Wealth… Global Sharing, Global Resources More details are available at the Access 2010 Call for Abstracts. Information Online 2011 The call has also gone out for papers for the Online Conference, to be held in Sydney in 2011. ... Sat, 02 Jan 2010 08:34:25 +0100 805106 http://marklindner.info/blog/2009/12/31/books-read-in-2009/ Not sure what any of this means, or why, it is, or if, of importance. Much can be seen of my book reading habits over the last 3 years at this blog [see links at end of post]. According to previous posts, it looks like another banner year in the Lindner household for book reading. No doubt, article reading was even further reduced; perhaps I need a different ratio; slip a few more articles back in. Numbers Numbers, in the real world, are often hard. Overlapping and/or conflicting categories, different reasons for not finishing something, one read 1st half on a Touch and back half in a Penguin paperback (Conrad, Lord Jim), …. Nonetheless, one must try: 90 books total 9 unfinished (all reasons) 81 books read (all formats) 3-4 unfinished are still being read (2 actively: Chan and Mitchell; Gaskell) Of these totals, the ebooks follow: 31 total 1 given up on (Emerson) 1 ebook/print (Conrad) 1 still reading (Gaskell) 29 ebooks read So, ebooks made up 29/81 (~36%) of my book reading this year. Some of them being short stories, or short collections, probably helped. Hmmm. I am OK with this. There is some color-coding and other data exposed, and, in some cases, some commentary. The commentary is down a notch let’s say and, sadly, leave it at that. Dates of reading where known are included. The titles of books not finished are in red. An “edition statement” is present for all ebooks and says ebook (type) in a sort of pink. “Professional development” in a comment generally implies that I read it at work on breaks (notice lengthy reading times). ... Fri, 01 Jan 2010 02:36:48 +0100 805058 http://theipl.wordpress.com/2009/12/31/15-things-9-released-social-bookmarkingtagging/ 15 Things for IPL’s 15th birthday is back, with Thing #9:  Social bookmarking/tagging! (Source: Librarians' Internet Index: New This Week) Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:12:55 +0100 804527 http://collectingmythoughts.blogspot.com/2009/12/love-stories-from-my-coffee-blog.html Looking through my old coffee blogs, I see a favorite topic is "love," although I certainly don't write often on that topic, I write so much, it does come up. Here are some favorites.Boyfriend in the coffee shop (Nov. 27, 2004)What a surprise when a college boyfriend stepped into the coffee shop that morning. Maybe five or ten pounds heavier, but the goatee and quiet mannerisms were the same--the standing back to assess the situation, about 5 '10", smiling bright gray/blue eyes glancing around, and wispy dishwater blonde hair peeking out from under a baseball cap. Closing my book, I stood up to put on my coat and noticed he was gone.Carrying my paper coffee cup to the counter to add a little cream before leaving, I realized he was standing next to me at the condiments while waiting for his order. He said to the clerk, "Thanks for your help." That voice. Yes, it was him. Definitely him. I wanted to watch to see if his sports car was in the parking lot.Of course, it couldn't possibly be him, common sense whispered in my ear. After all, the former sweetheart is older than me and lives in another state. The young man standing there was perhaps twenty five--young enough to be my grandson. But for a moment . . . I wanted to kick him in the knee.Romancing the coffee bean (Nov. 20, 2004)She came in the coffee shop today. I hadn't seen her for maybe four or five years. A single mom with the stress of a teen-age daughter with too much mascara and a sullen younger boy. They occasionally were with her on school holidays, pretending they didn't know each other. We spoke briefly and caught up--she's working in a different suburb now, having coffee at another place.A finish carpenter also stopped by in those days. A fun guy with a twinkle in his eye. We always chatted. Another woman used to call him "the stud muffin" after he left--always a little swagger, full of himself, but oh so in love with his metallic cherry red pick-up truck. ... Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:00:00 +0100 804468