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, 20 Nov 2008 02:08:33 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2008/11/googles-seo-starter-guide.html Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Google's SEO Starter Guide. I don't write a lot about search engine optimization, even though it's of interest to me, but this is one that's particularly worth noting I think. Google have finally produced an official guide listing a few of the things you need to do in order to get a good ranking with their search engine. Much of this won't come as any surprise to people in the know, but if you're just interested or simply starting out in this area you may find these tips to be of use. Read the entire article for the full details, but briefly...Create unique and accurate page titles.    Accurately describe the content    Create new tags for each page    Use brief, but descriptive titlesMake use of the description meta tag    This one amused me, since so many 'experts' have said that meta tags are dead, but Google is saying that the content tag is useful in some circumstances.Improve the structure of URLs    Create proper, sensible folder structures    Use real words    Provide one URL to reach a documentMake the site easier to navigateGood quality contentWrite better anchor textUse header tags appropriatelyOptimise use of imagesEffective use of robots.txtAll in all, it's a very useful and interesting document which is worth spending some time going through if you want to optimise your website. (Source: Phil Bradley) Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 674319 http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2008/11/algorithms-for-clustering-tags.html Clustering Tags in Enterprise and Web Folksonomies by Simpson, Edwin will be published and presented at the International Conference on Weblogs & Social Media, Seattle, March 31st, 2008 (HPL-2008-18 )Tags lack organizational structure limiting their utility for navigation. We present two clustering algorithms that improve this by organizing tags automatically. We apply the algorithms to two very different datasets, visualize the results and propose future improvements. (Source: Catalogablog) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:03:00 +0100 673915 http://elibrarian.livejournal.com/39424.html Kool Tools!It's been some time since the blog has taken a look at some of the latest in free web tools available to you, so it seems like a good time to take a look at some of the latest goodies you can get.Saving ContentOne of the biggest areas of online tools these days are ways to preserve (and share) content. For example, you can capture little snippets of content (including images or videos) and store them in an online archive for however long you desire using Snipd.com, an online clipping service. You can also invite people to "follow" your snips, to which you can add comments. The possibilities for using this with students, co-workers, or any organization of which you might be a member are probably obvious. Snip out items of interest and then your followers can see what you feel is important. Snipd works with the Firefox browser. If you'd like to see how Snipd content appears, check out my sample Snipd account, which includes a terrific video about the internet age. Because this tool saves your snips for you online, nothing needs to be downloaded to your computer. (A word of advice: Don't sign up for a Snipd account until you begin Snipping. For some reason it is harder to associate your first snips with a pre-constructed account than to set it up at that point.)If you want to preserve something more substantial than snippets of information, take a look at Zotero, the Firefox extension that enables you to save, mark, comment on, and cite resources you retrieve online so that you can refer to them for later use when you are offline (and thus making it easy to work when you are offline). This tool marks an integration of of reference software with web applications that enable bookmarking, tagging, and classification. Because this is a Firefox extension, you do not need Administrative privileges in order to install it on your system. ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:24:30 +0100 673848 http://sla-divisions.typepad.com/itbloggingsection/2008/11/save-the-date-s.html This announcement below was sent to the Digital-Preservation discussion list and it seemed appropriate for this blog. Last Thursday would have been the 63rd birthday of Bob Oakley, the late director of the Georgetown University Law Library and a pillar in the law library community.  Today, we are pleased to announce a symposium dedicated to his memory. Immediately preceding the 2009 AALL Annual Meeting, on Saturday, July 25, in Washington, DC, the Georgetown Law Library will be holding The Future of Today’s Legal Scholarship (FTLS), a Symposium in Honor of Bob Oakley, which will build upon the fundamental assumption that blogs are an integral part of today’s legal scholarship. This symposium will bring together academic bloggers, librarians, and experts in digital preservation to brainstorm and debate the great challenges presented for future researchers of materials currently populating the blogosphere.  These challenges include unreliable materials, disappearing scholarship and documents, and the proliferation of online legal scholarship.  Symposium participants will collectively develop innovative practices to ensure that valuable scholarship is not easily lost. Join the conversation now by tagging items you think are relevant to this symposium with the del.icio.us tag FTLS2009. Details about the symposium and a complete list of all FTLS2009 tagged items can be found at http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/ftls/. (Source: Blogging Section of SLA-IT) Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:42:21 +0100 673276 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/452676961/ The other day I posted on Knowledge flow networks and Post-KM : enterprise 2.0, facilitation and complexity, these along with an older post include how I think KM and enterprise 2.0 can come together. In this post I pointed to a post by Tom Davenport on recognising the difference in the planned and outcome KM approach compared to the enterprise 2.0 emergent approach (with sharing, learning, connections happening along the way). He also concurred with Andrew McAfee saying there is an element of facilitation and gardening, this is the part I call KM 2.0. I think KM 2.0 is a layer on top of enterprise 2.0. Samuel Driessen’s post pointed me to a comment by James Dellow on Tom’s post. Samuel disagreed with James that enterprise 2.0 is only about technology, saying it’s also about the people and the networks. It’s all semantics at the moment, sure enterprise 2.0 is a technology that allows connections, network effects and emergence that we didn’t have previously, but we all know without participation and management 2.0 values it’s nothing. When we talk about enterprise 2.0 we often also mean the culture, adoption and human part of it, we assume a new style of bottom-up work. The last thing we want to do is stifle the potential of the tools with a top-down approach. I think KM 2.0 comes in to make sure enterprise 2.0 is left alone and emergence can happen, but then comes in to guide and facilitate, to make sure it’s adaptive in the best possible way. Anyway this leads me to some descriptions of this movement by James Dellow in an article in the Image & Data Manager Magazine Sep/Oct 2008. Lately James writes a lot about Intranet 2.0, and is even seeking a publisher for a book on this subject. James offers various ways or choices in implementing Intranet 2.0 into your organisation. 1. Tactical Social Computing 2. Enterprise Web 2.0 3. Enterprise 2. ... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:52:37 +0100 672392 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2008/11/cfp-ifla-satellite-meeting.html CFP: IFLA Satellite Meeting - Classification and Indexing SectionFlorence, Italy20-21 August 2009Theme: "Looking at the Past and Preparing for the Future"The IFLA Classification and Indexing Section is pleased to announce a satellite pre-conference which will explore the theoretical and methodological aspects of rethinking semantic access to information and knowledge and will offer a general survey of innovative projectsdeployed to cope with the challenges of the future, offering a unique opportunity for librarians, academics and other information professionals to be informed about the state of the art in subject indexing.Librarians, academics and other information professionals around the world are invited to submit paper proposals for the satellite meeting, focusing on:- Systems, tools and standards in subject indexing- Retrieval in multilingual, multicultural environments- Web indexing and social indexingIf you are interested in contributing, please send:An abstract of 300-500 words in English including a title.An outline of the presentation.Brief biographical information of the author(s)/presenter(s) with current employment information.Your mailing address.All this by December 15, 2008 to: Patrice Landry at:e-mail : patrice.landry@nb.admin.ch fax: +41 31 322 84 63 (Source: A Library Writer's Blog) Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:33:00 +0100 672475 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/WowWouterOverHetWeb/~3/451744495/development-of-local-tagging-guidelines.html O wee, een prachtige Schots accent. Lijkt mijn achilleshiel te worden deze ochtend. Op dit grappige geluid dreig ik weg te dwalen. Maar Gillian Hanlon presenteert een verhaal over web 2.0 initiatieven bij Schotse bibliotheken. Het initiatief is te vinden op de Scottish libraries across the Internet shared website, Slainte 2.0, .Interesant is dat ze uitlegt dat in dit project er gewerkt wordt aan regels voor gebruikers voor het taggen. Instructies voor iets dat in het wezen van zijn aard intuïtief, en persoonlijk moet zijn en leidt tot folksonomies. Iets dat tegenovergesteld is aan inhoudelijke onstluiting met thesauri. Maar het verhaal gaat verder, ze praat inderdaad over het ontwikkelen van regels voor taggen. Tag in meervoud en niet enkelvoud. Gebruik kleine letter geen hoofdletters. Dat soort flauwe dingen.Ze laat de fotostream van de library of scotland zien, waarin –oh hoe ernstig- de tags war naast wars voorkomen. En wwi, ww1 worldwar1 en worldwari naast elkaar voorkomen omdat die vervelende gebruikers dit aan hun mooie foto's toevoegen. Afschuwelijke toestanden in het oog van een bibliothecaris. Eigenlijk kunnen we maar beter die hele fotostream afsluiten. Gillian wil dus dolgraag afspraken maken over het toekennen van tags. In de praktijk komen er ook wel eens vragen over richtlijnen voor het taggen.Ik ben helemaal verbaasd over dit verhaal. Ik val van mijn stoel. Ik ga wat anders doen.Lunch bijvoorbeeld. (Source: WoW! Wouter over het Web) Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 672666 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Library&diff=251456723&oldid=prev Public libraries ← Previous revision Revision as of 00:52, 13 November 2008 Line 80: Line 80: ==Public libraries== ==Public libraries== - The earliest example in England of a library to be endowed for the benefit of users who were not members of an institution such as a cathedral or college was the [[Francis Trigge Chained Library]] in [[Grantham]], [[Lincolnshire]], established in 1598. The library still exists and can justifiably claim to be the forerunner of later public library systems.The beginning of the modern, free, open access libraries really got its start in the U.K. in 1847. [[Parliament]] appointed a committee, led by, William Ewart, on Public Libraries to consider the necessity of establishing libraries through the nation: In 1849 their report noted the poor condition of library service, it recommended the establishment of free public libraries all over the country, and it led to the Public Libraries Act in 1850, which allowed all cities with populations exceeding 10,000 to levy taxes for the support of public libraries. Another important act was the 1870 Public School Law, which increased literacy, thereby the demand for libraries, so by 1877, more than 75 cities had established free libraries, and by 1900 the number had reached 300. <ref> {{cite book|title=The History of Libraries in the Western World|Author=Harris, Michael H.|year=1984|city=London|Publisher=Scarecrow Press}}</ref> This finally marks the start of the public library as we know it. And these acts led to similar laws in other countries, most notably the U.S. + The earliest example in England of a library to be endowed for the benefit of users who were not members of an institution such as a cathedral or college was the [[Francis Trigge Chained Library]] in [[Grantham]], [[Lincolnshire]], established in 1598. ... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:52:52 +0100 671769 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/textundblog/~3/450763319/ Leseempfehlung für einen heute erschienenen Artikel im Tagesspiegel: Tommy arbeitet als Übersetzer für die US-Armee in Afghanistan. Die Ausübung des Übersetzerberufes unter besonders schwierigen Bedingungen ist nur ein Teil des Dargestellten. Ein Porträt, das auch menschlich bewegt: “Ich bin 21 Jahre alt und sehe aus wie 40″ “Sieh mich an”, sagt er. “Ich bin 21 Jahre alt und sehe aus wie 40, ganz dünn und grau.” Sieben Jahre ist es her, dass die Amerikaner damit anfingen, die Taliban zu vertreiben. Der Tag, an dem die ersten Bomben fielen, sei der glücklichste Tag seines Lebens gewesen, sagt Tommy. Weil von nun alles besser werden würde; Frieden, Aufschwung, Bildung, Internet und Mobiltelefone würden folgen, so dachte er, damals - ein 14-jähriger Junge, der zum ersten Mal von der Zukunft träumte. Seitdem wartet er darauf, dass die Versprechen eingelöst werden. Carsten Stormer begleitet die US-Truppen in Afghanistan als embedded journalist. Lesenswerte Reportage: «Die Sprachen des Krieges». (Source: Text & Blog) Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:18:41 +0100 672095 http://vancouverlawlib.blogspot.com/2008/11/new-web-hosting-home-for-slaw.html After a long weekend of mysql databases, .htaccess files, blog upgrades, and php coding work, the Canadian legal blogging co-op, Slaw is now just a few hours away from moving into its new home at Fused Network.I wouldn't normally blog about a web hosting transfer. Even in this case, the website's address remains the same, and in the end it's not all that noticable to the reader. But as any website owner will tell you, finding the right web hosting environment is an important process, and often, a difficult one.Everyone with a website has a web host, and most people have faith in their provider, at least until that faith is broken... And then everything is back on the table - service, reliability, trusted backups, and so on. Making that decision, becomes an all encompassing task that includes both online research and seeking out personal recommendations.Unfortunately, web hosting is one of the most spammed out areas online, and trusting anything you read is frequently difficult. More often than not, I assume the company is astroturfing the sales process. I also try to make a habbit of searching the host's name along with the words 'sucks' or 'problems' to identify potential issues. If any kind of valid case can be made, I tend to have reservations about retaining that service.Now in the case of moving Slaw, we weren't making the process any easier on ourselves. Simon Fodden and I made the choice to upgrade the website to the latest version of Wordpress, knowing our rather large list of plugins may pose problems, at the same time as we were making the host switch. We were hoping this would give us some extra time to figure out custom code and plugins along the way; but in all honestly, we would have been better making this switch without upgrading the site concurrently. ... Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 670897 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/griffey/~3/447899632/ Been awhile since I did one of these, and this definitely captures something special. I love the way that the cloud came together to say “new america yes”. Similar Posts: I really hate Zotero When is a tag not a tag? Tag Cloud for 2007 State of the Union I am not a terrorist 2008 State of the Union as Tag Cloud ShareThis (Source: Pattern Recognition) Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:22:17 +0100 670466 http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001804.html My former colleague and network resident, Andy Powell, advocates strongly that public events should publish a conference tag, a virtual venue to which event amplifying network activity like blog posts, tweets, images and so on can cluster. It's easy to forget, but I'd go as far as saying that the tag is almost as important as the venue. In fact, in a sense, the tag becomes the virtual venue for the event's digital legacy. [eFoundations: Tags as virtual venues] For a network resident this may make complete sense; to others, it may seem overstated. I raise this in the context of the Libraries Australia 2008 Forum. They have gone the extra step of pulling that network amplification into a single page. This is what people have posted about the 2008 Libraries Australia Forum. If you are posting about the forum, please tag your blog posts, presentations or flickr photos laf2008. If you are using twitter, use the tag #laf2008 in your tweets. [2008 Libraries Australia Forum - from the web] Now, at the time of writing, the network amplification seems largely to be the work of one person. I don't think this is a particular issue: whatever the level of participation, the organizers are to be commended for taking this extra step I think. However, it does raise for me an interesting question about the relative balance in conference audiences between 'network residents' and 'network visitors', or, more broadly, the relative balance between these categories in the general use of our network services. (For those that are not familiar with this helpful distinction, see Dave White's discussion and my comments made after I read about it in Andy's post.) I know from my own experience that the balance is very different in different audiences. In some audiences there are likely to be bloggers; in others it is very unlikely. In some audiences, there may be people who will take pictures and post them; in others it is very unlikely. ... Sat, 08 Nov 2008 10:48:01 +0100 670071 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ScienceLibraryPad/~3/446534230/billions-of-pho.html Facebook sayswe've added 20% more photo servers and 50% more upload servers to process this year's Halloween traffic. We've also packed in 40 terabytes of additional storage (that's 40,000,000,000,000 bytes). By comparison, the words of all 20 million books in the Library of Congress could be digitized in about 20 terabytes of text. So we're making room for the equivalent of two Libraries of Congress. The popularity of Facebook's photo application, home of more than 10 billion photos, has compelled us to think big for a while.Click or Treat: Halloween Photo Bonanza - Facebook blog - October 31, 2008 Wow, that's a lot of photos of drunk college students... It's also an order of magnitude increase from last year.  In an infrastructure posting from 2007, they saidWe have:     * 1.7 billion user photos    * 2.2 billion friends tagged in user photos    * 160 terabytes of photo storage used with an extra 60 terabytes available    * 60+ million photos added each week which take up 5 terabytes of disk space    * 3+ billion photo images served to users every day    * 100,000+ images served per second during our peak traffic windowsFacebook Photos Infrastructure - Facebook blog - May 21, 2007 I discovered the Facebook has a Statistics page in its press area* More than 120 million active users * More than 10 billion photos uploaded to the site* More than 30 million photos uploaded dailyLet's see 30x30 = almost a billion photos a month, so yeah, the math works out. Flickr, photo-sharing darling (which always has had a buzz disproportionate to its actual number of users and photos, due its "look, folksonomy stuff" usefulness for the technorati), Flickr reports its 3 billionth photo. ... Sat, 08 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 670492 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pandia/vfbc/~3/443291568/939-3-great-ways-to-search-flickr.html If you are looking for images for your blog or a PowerPoint presentation, don’t go to Google image search. Search Flickr instead, using one of these three excellent search tools. Google image search returns lots of hits, but the results can only be sorted by image size. Even the advanced image search option lacks one important option: You have no way of knowing if the image copyright rights are reserved or not. Creative Commons licensed photos On Flickr, users have the option to tag the images they upload with a Creative Commons license. There are several Creative commons licenses and they all indicate that the photographer want to share the photos for free as long as you credit them for the creation. Then there are several more restrictive licenses that allow only non-commercial use, that allow no derivatives or that require you to share the work under identical terms. All six types are explained here. More than 80 million photos on Flickr are tagged with a creative Commons license and this number is growing day by day. But Flickr’s own search engine may not be the best way to find the photo you want with the license that is right for you. Here are three great ways to search Flickr. CompFight CompFight is a third party Flickr search engine with a simple yet advanced interface. Here’s how to make the most of it: By clicking a button next to the search box, you can choose to search just the photo tags (for more precise results) or all text associated with a photo (if searching just the tags didn’t provide enough results). Below the search box, you can choose to search all Creative Commons licensed photos or only those with a license that allows commercial use of the images. A very convenient feature is “Seek Original”. When you use this option, blue bars on the photos indicate that Flickr is holding an original. Linger your cursor over the image to display dimensions. ... Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:38:37 +0100 669685 http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2008/11/searching-with-tags.html Searching with Tags: Do Tags Help Users Find Things? by Margaret E.I. Kipp appears in Proceedings 10th International Conference of the International Society for Knowledge Organization, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.This study examines the question of whether tags can be useful in the process of information retrieval. Participants were asked to search a social bookmarking tool specialising in academic articles (CiteULike) and an online journal database (Pubmed) in order to determine if users found tags were useful in their search process. The actions of each participants were captured using screen capture software and they were asked to describe their search process. The preliminary study showed that users did indeed make use of tags in their search process, as a guide to searching and as hyperlinks to potentially useful articles. However, users also made use of controlled vocabularies in the journal database. (Source: Catalogablog) Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:18:00 +0100 669257 http://www.librarystuff.net/2008/11/01/searching-with-tags-do-tags-help-users-find-things/ E-LIS - “This study examines the question of whether tags can be useful in the process of information retrieval. Participants were asked to search a social bookmarking tool specialising in academic articles (CiteULike) and an online journal database (Pubmed) in order to determine if users found tags were useful in their search process. The actions of each participants were captured using screen capture software and they were asked to describe their search process. The preliminary study showed that users did indeed make use of tags in their search process, as a guide to searching and as hyperlinks to potentially useful articles. However, users also made use of controlled vocabularies in the journal database.” (Source: Library Stuff) Sat, 01 Nov 2008 19:57:52 +0100 668633 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/davidleeking/~3/439131158/ What’s VloMo08, you ask? It stands for Videoblogging Month 2008 - sorta like NaNoWriMo08 (National Novel Writing Month 2008)… but it’s a video a day instead of a chapter a day. So yep - the general idea is simple: make a video every single day during November, put it up on the web (your blog, blip.tv, YouTube, etc) and tag it vlomo08. But don’t stop there! Sign up for a free account at mefeedia.com, add your video feed, then join the vlomo08 channel - and connect to lots of other participants. Fun! Share: (Source: David Lee King) Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:26:27 +0100 668877 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/437893014/library-and-archives-canada-brings.html "Library and Archives Canada has announced that a selection of digital images related to Irish-Canadian documentary heritage have been made available for the first time on Flickr.com, a popular photo-sharing community. As part of the pilot project, this November 2008 a number of video presentations will be added to YouTube.com, a popular video-sharing community. Both online communities allow for commenting, sharing, and tagging of content" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:08:42 +0100 668061 http://rabid-librarian.blogspot.com/2008/10/happy-halloween.html Today I dressed up as a zombie gas station attendant (hey it was kind of lame, but I didn't have much in the way of ideas this year). So I wore my uniform, put on white makeup with dark circles around my eyes to suggest the undead or a skull, and put fake spiderwebs in my hair and on the shirt. I didn't have a picture taken of it, though, even though I had my camera with me. The picture to the right is a decorated statue in one of our hallways. The artwork is by Virginia Leake and is called 'Blue's Cat'. It was donated to the hospital sometime after UK had their public art auction of wildcat (their mascot) statues (Lexington had recently done a similar one with fibreglass horses).We had trick-or-treating for the kids at work; hence the dressing up. The kids come to each department and we hand out candy. There weren't that many kids this year; Fridays are kind of light on census and outpatient clinic visits. But it looked like they had a lot of fun.The biggest hit in costumes were probably those of the information technology department, who all dressed up at iPods. They had white cardboard boxes with a transparent sheeting where the screen would be, and the buttons and Apple logo were printed on them as well. I remember one saying his screen kept fogging up. I wish I'd gotten a picture. Nancy was in that department; I think she would have approved.I had thought to dress up at the gas station as a librarian, but 1) I wasn't working tonight and 2) it's a lot harder to dress as a librarian, even with stereotypes like buns and glasses. I don't have a long skirt and crepe-soled shoes, either. Basically, if I dressed as myself, no one would get it, work name tag or not. So, it's just as well I wasn't working tonight.Of course, it's also a religious holiday for me. So I'm home early and enjoying some time at home. ... Fri, 31 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0100 668558 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/437346876/ Dean from the Infovark blog has a contemporary post, “Knowledge Management Renaissance?“, I guess the question mark is nicely put as it may indeed be considered a war for some. Some people do not want to be affiliated with the failed KM crowd, and the existing KM crowd have been waiting for the day that the tools (along with the right approach) would come along to achieve their aims…and now these tools are here! Some would say, what gives the right for KM to hijack Enterprise 2.0. I’ve posted on the irony that employees became to be respected, that they were not just cogs in a machine, instead they were knowledge workers. They had talent beyond their job, and their ideas and what they learnt from their job or elsewhere could be fed back into the organisation. This is really important for the fast paced services industry, as exploiting know-how is how work gets done most effectively. So the irony was, to try and capitalise and augment the sharing and spread of this knowledge, we had KM use industrial techniques. Just as we were moving away from the industrial age, KM was still treating people as computers that log things and spit them out on demand. Enterprise 2.0 is based on bottom-up tools that allows for connections and emergence to happen, ie. knowledge workers now have the tools to do work and distribute their talent without really needing a department telling them to do so. Bottom-up vs Top-down management approach Venkat’s post about the KM and SM War has merit, his example shows that some KM practioners are incorporating these new tools, but still in the old management style, ie. a planned recipe style approach. Venkat’s says: “…he completely ignored new elements in the technology and forcefully presented the design pattern for his success as the design pattern for success” “Where he advocated planning, I advocated ad-hoc experimentation. ... Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:14:06 +0100 667838 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Elsua/~3/436269452/ And here we go with Day 2 of the highlights from the Web 2.0 Expo I attended last week in Berlin. Day 1 can be found over here. Again, and like I have mentioned previously, I will not be embedding any of the slide decks from the event itself. Instead, I will try to make things easier by linking to this lovely Slideshare presentation pack where you can eventually grab them all from there. At the same time, and to make it even easier and for each of the highlights entries I will be embedded the code over here so that you can flip through them at your convenience and go back and forth between the various decks and my two cents of the sessions I attended and which I also live tweeted while at the event. Finally, if you are interested in checking out some of the pictures I took during the course of the event with my Nokia N95 you can have a look at them in my Flickr account. I have already started uploading a bunch of them and tag them appropriately, but if you feel you would want to contribute into that tagging effort, by all means, go ahead and do it. More than happy for folks to do that to help me identify most of the folks coming up on each of the snapshots. Thus with all of that said, here is the embedded presentation pack so that you can refer back to it as you may see fit: | Get your Presentation Pack And now, without much further ado, here are the highlights from Day 2 of the Web 2.0 Expo in Berlin, starting with the various sessions I attended during the course of the morning & early afternoon: - Better Media Plumbing for the Social Web with Stowe Boyd Without any doubt in my mind one of the best sessions from the entire Expo and not only, because of how innovative the topic is, but also because of how provocative it was. Stowe, in a very clear and concise way establishes the ground of where the next generation of blogging will be going. ... Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:58:46 +0100 668012 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pandia/vfbc/~3/435838151/920-5-fun-things-to-do-with-twitter.html Twitter has taken a lot of heat for being a vehicle of mindless, narcissistic chatter. Sure. Twitter is that, but it’s so much more. You just need to know how to find the good stuff. Election 2008 Courtesy of Twitter, you can follow hot topics concerning the US election to keep up to date on this race that concerns us all whether we like it of not. You see the latest updates from the official campaign Twitter accounts of both candidates and a live stream of all the public tweets mentioning Obama/Biden or McCain/Palin. It’s like a live and personal poll and at times it’s very interesting. Several third party developers are also making tools to take advantage of all the information that is available on Twitter or to present it in innovative ways. Here are 5 fun things to do with Twitter — some of them are even quite useful. TwitPic If you send your tweets (twitter updates) directly from Twitter, you are limited to sending 140 characters of text. Thar’s it. With TwitPic, you can also distribute links to pictures. All you have to do is log in and upload an image of your choice. You can also add a location, tags and a short message. Once the photo is uploaded, TwitPic also gives you the option to share it in other channels, like email, Digg, Facebook, MySpace, Delicious and more. There is also a code to embed it in your blog or web site and a badge that shows your recent TwitPic updates. TwitPic also allows people to comment on the uploaded images. There’s a lot of useful interactivity here. TwittEarth Ever wonder where on Earth all the tweets originate? With TwittEarth, you can get a sense of just that. You won’t see a geographic rendering of all the updates in Twitter’s public time line, but you’ll see where all the TwittEarth users are. This is an alternative way to update your status on Twitter. Go to TwittEarth, where you’ll see a 3D image of Earth. ... Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:30:50 +0100 667448 http://marklindner.info/blog/2008/10/28/asist-2008/ ASIS&T is going well.  I arrived late Saturday afternoon in Columbus (OH) and am getting along fine with my roommate whom I met over the Internet by posting to my blog. Our panel* went well yesterday and I am far happier with my portion than I thought I’d be. I have received some nice comments since, including one from a “luminary.”  I was asked if I’d be posting my slides and I said I would. I still need to make an explicit entry on my “Writings” page but here are the links for now. http://marklindner.info/presentations/ASIST2008/mrlASIST2008.pdf [This is large! 6.2 MB PDF] http://marklindner.info/presentations/ASIST2008/mrlASIST2008.ppt [3.1 MB Powerpoint] My friend, Christina, blogged the panel I was on here. She is also blogging many other sessions at her blog, Christina’s LIS Rant.  She also told me that what I said was more important than my slides. While there are notes in the PPT they aren’t the final ones I used.  Perhaps I’ll post those at some point. Of course, they aren’t exactly or entirely what I said either. Socializing is going well. I’ve seen several interesting posters and a few good sessions. And tomorrow night I’ll get to see my “baby girl.” That is, the one who turns 25 on Election Day. * “Tagging as a Communication Device: does every tag cloud have a silver lining.” My portion was a suggestion that tagging researchers make an explicit commitment to a theory of language and communication. If you were to guess that I even had one to suggest—Integrationism—you’d be right. Thus, I tried to give a very, very basic intro to Integrationism, show how community fits into/is described by the macrosocial (within the theory), and how tagging (as a user behavior) can be explained by Integrationism. ... Wed, 29 Oct 2008 01:39:41 +0100 667172 http://mulford.utoledo.edu/mblog/?p=683 The OpenCourseWare Consortium is a collaboration of more than 200 higher education institutions and associated organizations from around the world creating a broad and deep body of open digital educational content using a shared model. Reputed educational institutions such as MIT publish course materials on a range of subjects that include engineering, biology and economics for free download. Participating institutions have met membership requirements. Individual courses may be located with these options **Browsing institution Web sites by country **Find courses option at the consortium’s home page **Open Courseware finder is a search engine for consortium supplied courses. It contains a search box as well as an alphabetical listing of about 650 “tags” (terms). Biochemical tags of note include biotechnology, brain, diseases, health, laboratory, medicine, neural, and psychology. Clicking on a tag will yield links to related courses as well as a links to narrower terms. For further information, please do not hesitate to contact Mulford Reference Assistance. (Source: Mulford Library Blog) Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:30:17 +0100 666738 http://oalibrarian.blogspot.com/2008/10/elpub-2009-first-call-for-papers.html ELPUB 2009 - First Call for PapersRethinking Electronic Publishing : Innovation in Communication Paradigms and Technologies13th International Conference on Electronic Publishing10 - 12 June 2009, Milan, Italyhttp://www.elpub.netElectronic publishing via the Internet is continuously changing its shapes and models, challenging traditional players to adapt to new contexts. Innovative technologies enable individuals, scholars, communities and networks to establish contacts, exchange data, produce information, share knowledge. Open access sources and commercial players make contents available for a heterogeneous audience in diversity of environments, from business to private life, from educational and cultural activities to leisure time, and in a large variety of devices, from personal computers to mobile media.New opportunities and new needs challenge us to rethink electronic publishing, to innovate communication paradigms and technologies, to make information not just a flat equivalent of a paper but a truly digital format, to allow machine processing and new services, to face the future of mobile life. The ELPUB 2009 conference will focus on key issues in e-communications, exploring dissemination channels, business models, technologies, methods and concepts.We welcome a wide variety of papers from members of the communities whose research and experiments are transforming the nature of electronic publishing and scholarly communications. ... Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:17:00 +0100 667616 http://weblog.ib.hu-berlin.de/?p=6190 Am 4. World Usability Day (13.11.2008) finden weltweit in mehr als 100 Städten in 30 Ländern Events zum Thema Usability statt. In Berlin dreht sich dieses Jahr alles um Usability im Web 2.0. Es werden einen Tag lang  in verschiedenen Sessions Vorträge, Workshops und andere Aktionen angeboten, um sich näher über Usability für das Web 2.0 zu informieren. Die Teilnahme an den Veranstaltungen ist frei. Näheres zum Thema gibt es hier. (Source: IB Weblog) Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:00:03 +0100 666625 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Edtechpost/~3/434055098/ http://freelearning.bccampus.ca/ If you read ed tech blogs, especially the ones I read, then conversations about “open content” and “open education” feel like they have been going on forever. Indeed, at the Open Education conference this year, we celebrated 10 years of Open Education, so it’s been at least that long. But my experience travelling around my own province for the last few years is that OER is still not a widely publicized phenomenom, and that faculty and ed tech support staff are still living with “scarcity mentalities” when it comes to the availability of free and open educational resources. So as one small step to address this, we built this new site, Free Learning. There are many other good OER portals out there. If faculty and students were already using these, then we wouldn’t have a problem. But, in my experience, they are not, and as someone who works for the Province of BC, I have a hard time justifying marketing budgets for sites like those. So we built this one, also to give more play to locally developed resources that are Fully Open. But in building this, I did not want to create a monster we would then have to maintain forever more. I wanted something that was simple to use and provided straightforward value to end users, but was also simple (and free) for us to maintain. Thus we built the site in Wordpress. Using the Exec-PHP plugin allowed us to include some additional PHP web service calls to the SOLR repository to display the Creative Commons resources there in a tagcloud, something that system does not do natively. I am especially proud of the OER and Open Textbook search pages. These provide a tagcloud of sites stored in Delicious, and then allow users to perform a constrained Google search over just these sites. ... Tue, 28 Oct 2008 04:00:12 +0100 667209 http://hangingtogether.org/?p=540 I recently stumbled upon an announcement for NZMuseums, a website run by National Services Te Paerangi, itself a department of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. NZMuseums brings together collections information from museums across New Zealand. As of today, the system knows 383 museums, and contains digitized objects (albeit sometimes only a handful) for 54 collections. It boast a clean interface, and allows you to tag items – you can add and remove tags, and they immediately become available (or unavailable) for searching. While all that is nice and good (it’s actually more than nice and good!), what really caught my attention is the system’s architecture: in order for the often very small museums to be able to contribute, NZMuseums partnered with Vernon Systems to deploy their brand-new eHive system. In essence, eHive is the first web-based collections management system I am aware of (and you should feel free to contradict me if I’m wrong). In a recent podcast interview [mp3] I did with Ken Hamma, he singled out the cost of ownership of technology as a key issue for museums, and he mentioned open source and web-based systems as a possible way forward. His math: “A museum thinks about having a collections-management systems. It goes out and licenses one from between $600 and $120,000, pays 11, 12, 13 percent maintenance year after year. But, that’s only the beginning of the costs. Once you’ve got that thing, you need to be able to support it on servers. You need to be able to provide access. You need a network.” The price point for eHive (numbers taken from the eHive factsheet[pdf]): it starts with “free” for 100MB of storage and 200 images, and tops out at $800 per year for 25GB and 50k images. No surprise that this was a good fit for NZMuseums and its quest to bring the many small museums of New Zealand online. (Source: hangingtogether.org) Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:39:04 +0100 666912 http://alaska-library-association.blogspot.com/2008/10/keynote-communities-and-communication.html I really enjoyed this keynote by author Howard Rheingold, who wrote Smart Mobs. The themes were of trust and communication over time. Rheingold noted that when he had written other books, he researched them, wrote them, and then put the topic away, but this topic has stuck with him. His presentation was lively, interesting and relevant, with visuals reminiscent of Flat Stanley or Where's Waldo. I've stuck pretty closely with my notes from his presentation:Cell phones are changing the way the world looks at time, children, and each other. In Finland, the word for cell phone is the diminutive of “hand.” In Tokyo, people were walking around looking at their cell phones instead of around themselves or at each other. Rheingold heard the saying, “kids flock like birds” and noticed a softening of time, where we don't meet at a pre-specified time as much, but rather plan to meet in the afternoon and work out the details of when and where later, on the phone. Protests, meetings, etc., have all been arranged by cell phone (for example: "everyone show up at this time in this place wearing black"), lowering the threshold for cooperation. Oh My News (Korea) tipped the election on election day via social networking, and there are many more examples of this type of thing from all over the world: high school kids in Chile, Basques in Madrid, violent radicals in Denmark, Nigeria, Australia, and more.This isn't new. Way back when, hunter-gatherers needed protein every day. They gathered together in extended family groups and managed to drive all large mammals in North America to extinction more quickly. These were big, so hunters could provide for more than themselves and their families. Communication was key for hunting and sharing.Later, big civilizations grew in the river deltas. Writing began from record-keeping: accountants started it all! Reading and writing was limited to the elite until the printing press. ... Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0100 667275 http://ddc.typepad.com/025431/2008/10/classification-and-the-arts.html <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Times New \(W1\)"; panose-1:2 2 6 3 5 4 5 2 3 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:536902279 -2147483648 8 0 511 0;} /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0in; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} @page Section1 {size:8.5in 11.0in; margin:1.0in 1.25in 1.0in 1.25in; mso-header-margin:.5in; mso-footer-margin:.5in; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> As I write this, the 19th Annual SIG/CR Classification Research Workshop on Classification and the Arts: Enduring Practice, Alternative Strategies, and Contrasts with Other Domains has just concluded.  It was a small conference in terms of the number of both active participants (6 papers and 1 poster) and attendees (20), but rich in terms of ideas, discussion, and vitality.In general, the papers took an indexing approach, specifically a social tagging approach, to subject access rather than a classification approach.  A major drawback of social tagging is its use of uncontrolled vocabulary, an issue addressed indirectly by several of the papers.  For example, one paper presented the background use of a controlled vocabulary to clarify tags that are identifiably ambiguous; another paper addressed the role of subject expertise and indexing experience in achieving greater consistency of image indexing. ... Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0100 666820 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ChristinasLisRant/~3/433918943/asist2008-tagging-as-communication.html Tagging as a Communication Device: does every tag cloud have a silver lining[v.v. incomplete notes take at face value and don't attribute malice to poor typing!]Heather D Pfeiffer (New Mexico State U)Emma Tonkin (UKOLN, U Bath)Mark R. Lindner (UIUC)Margaret E. I. Kipp (LIU)David R Millen (IBM TJ Watson Research, Cambridge, MA)HDP-Tagging as metadata: ontological architecture of tagsKnowledge in language-knowledge is communicated through syntax (symbols), semantics (meaning), pragmatics (context of usage) – pragmatics is the context of usageterms are just at the surface, meaning comes from relationshipsso can see tags as just syntactic terms that we to apply semantic information to. asks – do we have a change in language since 1600 (um, yeah, how is that controversial?? what? I either didn’t get her talk or I don’t see why it’s novel)ET-Ten minutes of language development(funny example from “true names” map)essentialist idea – id concepts, label concepts, id relationships – building a strawman, this is easy- assumes perfect accuracy in id and labeling- …place vs. space, somewhere or with meaningposition vs. location (where you are, where you think you are), physical context, context awarenessconcepts – positions, labels – names for positions, agents negotiate labels for shared conceptssharing – joint or shared attention to a conceptGrounded naming game (steels, Vogt)joint attention is co-locationwith disagreement – resolve who feels stronger, probabilistic decay; voting/majority wins;these require that you have gone there and discussed it. ... Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0100 666731 http://theloudlibrarian.net/2008/10/leavin-on-jet-plane.html ("My" room at cousin Pat's house in Hay-on-Wye)On Monday evening, Dad and I will be winging our way across the Atlantic for a two-week visit to the family in England. Mum had long wanted Dad to go home to see his family, and I'm tagging along for company, as she wanted me to.We don't have much sightseeing or tourist-y things on the schedule - just lots of family, relaxing, strolling, my first Guy Fawkes Day in England and hopefully, a few trips to Sainsbury's. ;-)While in England, I will have another challenge to take on, though.The beginning of NaNoWriMo!Oh yes, for the sixth time, I'm going to try and write a novel in a month, even though I'll be in a foreign country at the mercy of my father's laptop (and his willingness to part with it!) for the first nine days of this journey.But hey, it's all good. What's a few days here and there when you're writing a 50,000 word novel? ;-)In any case, I'm not sure if I'll be blogging from the motherland or if I'll just stack up my camera card until I return, but either way, I'll see y'all soon! (Source: Writings of the Loud Librarian....) Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:29:00 +0100 666007 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ouseful/~3/431837335/ Although an increasing number of OU courses include the delivery of online course materials, written for online delivery as linked HTML pages, rather than just as print documents viewable online, we know (anecdotally at least, from requests that printing options be made available to print off whole sections of a course with a single click) that many students want to be able to print off the materials… (I’m not sure we know why they want to print off the materials, though?) Reading through a couple of posts that linked to my post on Video Print (Finding problems for QR tags to solve and Quite Resourceful?) I started to ponder a little bit more about a demonstrable use case that we could try out in a real OU course context over a short period of time, prompted by the following couple of comments. Firstly: So, QR codes - what are they good for? There’s clearly some interest - I mentioned what I was doing on Twitter and got quite a bit of interest. But it’s still rare to come across QR codes in the wild. I see them occasionally on blogs/web-pages but I just don’t much see the point of that (except to allow people like me to experiment). I see QR codes as an interim technology, but a potentially useful one, which bridges the gap between paper-based and digital information. So long as paper documents are an important aspect of our lives (no sign of that paper-less office yet) then this would seem to be potentially useful. ... Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:43:55 +0100 666691 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/431282196/ The kind folks at SLA IT Bulletin Digital Focus have given me permission to reprint the interview they did with me last summer here at TTW as part of my digital portfolio. I really appreciate it. Interview with Michael Stephens – Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dominican University For those who may be unfamiliar with you or your work, could you provide a professional description of yourself? I’ve worked in libraries and LIS education for 18 years. My public library career spanned 15 years, and included positions in Audio Visual, Reference,  and Networked Resources. Throughout that time I was using technology and teaching staff and our public to do the same. I saw the advent of our public library’s first Internet connection and jam-packed lecture-style “What is the Internet?” sessions all the way through launching the SJCPL blog in 2003. The opportunity to teach as an adjunct in the Indiana University SLIS program also put me on the path toward the PhD: in 2004, I was awarded an IMLS-funded fellowship to the doctoral program at the University of North Texas’ Interdisciplinary Information Science program. I joined the Dominican GSLIS faculty in the Fall of 2006a and just completed my second year of full time teaching. I love it!  Running parallel to the professional timeline above is the fact I started my blog Tame the Web on    April 1, 2003. Since then, my blogging life has grown as well. TTW just turned 5 and I’ve been blogging for ALA TechSource since 2005. I also found my way to Flickr, my favorite social site of all, and to LastFM, Facebook, and YouTube. I still use Flickr the most and enjoy the engagement with others in the professions as well as others who share my interests outside of libraries. I also do a lot of speaking around the US and internationally. It does my heart good to get to present some of my thinking to others and hopefully inspire them. ... Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:44:45 +0100 665428 http://lblog.jalcorn.net/archives/1216-IL08-Closing-Keynote.html Closing Keynote – Wednesday Technical/Tangible/Social Liz Lawley – http://delicious.com/mamamusings/il08 New arcs She’s going to show us a lot of stuff – “none of it is cheap, and all of it you’ll want” Today is her bloggoversary – 6yrs New game experience…how think about new library experience. Don’t want to move “behind the screen” as games begin to move out from behind them. How can we embrace the tangible again. iPHones popular because the feel good. Tangible, touchable. They understand importance of this tangible object. We’ve been thinking of these objects as way to deliver content. This is not where these object shine – instead about “social proprioception” – sense of what they sound like, how to move around in a space, or a social space. Twitter gives us this social proprioception, so do FB updates. Twinkle – twitter client that runs on the iPhone – uses GPS info on iPhone to show who is nearby. But virtual isn’t enough. People want to be physically present. Ambient Devices – co. makes cube or sphere that changes color that follows something – like stock market. Also make an energy usage readout – Home Joule – what are you paying right now, what is current energy usage – biofeedback loop for house energy consumption. Can get points toward bill for using less! Game mechanics for power consumption! Availabot – not commercially available yet – from Schulze and Webb. YouTube – Availabot. Chumby – interactive media player that streams fav parts of Internet. Can push to device – could give to grandparents to push photos, etc. It’s cute. Baztag – little rabbit – talks, monitors online environments, send kisses from friends. Both baztag and chumby don’t require being at computer. Inherently social, visual, kinetic. Mir*ror – “give powers to your objects” – RFID tag reader with USB interface – lets you define what to do when you scan a tag. ... Wed, 22 Oct 2008 23:35:11 +0100 664456 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/davidleeking/~3/428737459/ danah boyd gave this morning’s keynote session. An aside - Howard Rheingold AND danah boyd - way to go, Information Today! Title: Social Media & Networked Technologies: Research & Insights Web 2.0 means different things to different people. user-generated content techies - always beta business crowd - it was a glimmer of hope (an “after the first crash” thing) Early days of the web - very topic driven. Now instead of information organized around topics, it’s arranged around people - around friends. What make it a social network site? Profile: physical world - clothes, hair styles, etc define us digital world - we’re an IP address… - we repurpose stuff to reflect us (ie., lying about age in myspace). - younger people’s profile pages are similar to their bedroom walls (and probably horrify their parents in the same way) Friending (not sure that was the word she used): - it’s still awkward to us - some have 30-50 friends (it reflects their real life friends) - some have 1-200 friends, trying to collect a whole school - 3rd category - people who collect as many friends as possible - MySpace lets you arrange friends “in order” Top Friends is a very tricky thing. Bands are safe, put them in your family list (that’s safe), put your girlfriend in the top 10, etc. ... Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:58:22 +0100 664421 http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2008/10/internet-libr-7.html Internet Librarian 2008: Implementing the Next-Gen OPAC Jeff Wisniewski We should not be calling these next gen OPACs or catalogs, but next gen discovery system or search engines.  Their library uses Voyager because of the locked-down nature of their system, the user expectations that the catalog look and function like Amazon and other similar sites.  Their new catalog is in beta: PittCat (running AquaBrowser) and offers a tag cloud, faceted searching, and a clean look and feel.  They were almost ready to go live in late August but rolled the new catalog out in beta and found some data and display issues through a lengthy beta that they would not have discovered otherwise.  Having real users hit and bang on the system uncovers some of the minor problems that aren’t otherwise found without a public beta.  The hard launch will occur after 4 months of beta where the old catalog will no longer be linked to from the library website.  They will monitor usage logs to see how much the old catalog is being used by the public and at some point discontinue the public interface entirely and keep only the back-end which is required (AquaBrowser is only a search overlay). Their project goals were to have an intuitive interface that didn’t require user instruction, a forgiving interface that didn’t chastise or punish for misspellings, etc., something that exposed more of their collection (both traditional and e- materials).  They also wanted to integrate various silos of information that they had with the Voyager system (local digital collections, ejournals, etc.).  They also wanted something implementable quickly. They chose AquaBrowser and were able to sign a contract in April and be in beta four months later (with a 5 million MARC record collection). ... Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:21:43 +0100 664750 http://ramblinglibrarian.blogspot.com/2008/10/bridging-worlds-2008-conference-part-4.html [From Part 3]John Blyberg (tall, lanky and soft-spoken) spoke about User Experience (UX).“Public Library 2.0: Making it Happen”View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: worlds bridging)"UX allows us to pursue X-treme User Experience".His library carried through this conviction by setting up a team to look into user experiences on and offline."We must present it in a way to have consistency in communication". What John suggests is, in my view, for librarians to be brand savvy. Starting by being brand conscious.John explained the key values of UX:SimplicityImagination - exploring the limits of technology, also possibilities for contentOpennessCoordination, within the org (says "this can be tricky", which I think is always an understatement!)FeedbackPersonal transformationHe also touched briefly about SOPAC (I'd hoped he'd share more about how they got buy-in and their thinking processes, but I guess I'll have to read his blog).In his talk, John gave an example of a positive unintended consequence of introducing SOPAC.A teacher asked for books on genealogy. Wanted it by that day. Librarian sent out an alert to other colleagues. "Use this tag to identify related books". Was able to get the list generated quickly with the help of colleagues.Made a lot of sense. It's one possibility of social tagging that didn't occur to me until then.Made me realise that even if customers didn't tag or comment (in the OPAC) as much as we would like them to, it was a tool that librarians could use it.Let's say I want 10 books on Science Fiction. It would take far less time if 10 librarians each suggested and tagged one book, than for one librarian to come up with 10 books.And instead of emailing me and compiling into a document, the "list" is now on the OPAC.The tag is the "retrieval" tool for that subject. And I could update the list on the fly. And others can help. ... Wed, 22 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0100 664498 http://thecorporatelibrarian.com/2008/10/21/revitalizing-content-in-the-enterprise/ This was a joint presentation by Christopher Connell, Karen Draper, Emily Shem-Tov and Amy Affelt. Given that there was just one hour for four speakers, I’m not going to go into all-consuming detail. I’ll link to the presentations once they’re up. Christopher Connell talked about using Vivisimo to ‘vivisect’ the OPAC and build a federated search tool for the enterprise. Vivisimo provided clustering of topics and the capability to federate the OPAC with other internal and external resources. He had the advantage of an in-house SQL programmer to extract bibliographic data from the catalog database and create a union query from the different catalog templates on an ongoing basis for Vivisimo’s index. The OPAC now integrates Library of Congress subject heading, provides on-the-fly topic clusters and groups subject headings and other metadata facets (corporate authors, formats, date, etc.). The catalog is repositioned as an integral part of the Institute for Defense Analyses’ intellectual capital. Benefits, results and next steps: Researchers can connect people, projects and project deliverables. 25% of researchers are using the OPAC now. Plans for SharePoint 2007 integration and a document management system. Vivisimo will introduce tagging, commenting and other Web 2.0 features in its next release. Karen and Emily presented on innovative ways the Adobe Library uses to communicate with users about events and training workshops past and upcoming, print and digital resources, etc.. ... Tue, 21 Oct 2008 21:32:36 +0100 663895 http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2008/10/21/solving-the-opac-problem/ John Blyberg & Chris Barr http://thesocialopac.net Can you customize your opac NO No personalization Horrible logins!! aadl.org sopac 1.0 Internet portal for online library experience Not enough customizations Drupal, tagging, reviews, ratings, comments Issues with critical mass Tags reviews not representative Social data not searchable SOPAC 2.0 Locum - discovery layer Write an ILS connector for your ILS Abstractions of connectors Social data engine for libraries - Insurge Shared social data between libraries much richer data set Everything is done within the drupal framework Search tags in the catalog and tags are part of keyword search Reviews searchable Can sort by ratings Sort by when added Sort by popularity Very cool My Account stuff Version 2.1 will be coming out soon RSS feeds, multiple cards with an account Popularity is based on number of holds placed via SOPAC VuFind - Chris Barr Library opacs are usable for librarians but not patrons Too many different interfaces Creates high learning curve Advanced search is for advanced users Top secret search syntax - last name, first name Customization is not easy and sometimes impossible No Web 2.0 social stuff http://www.vufind.org Easily replace your ILS without your patrons knowing it Faceted results, author bios, tags, favorites, bookmarkable, book covers, faceted browsing Availability - on results page! Reviews from other sources Amazon Syndetics Get a citation (MLA, APA) on the fly Export Endnote, Refworks Zotero compatible Text or email info Wordpress style template for easy customizations - in next version Used by Villanova National library of Australia Yale - beta CARLI system Illinois - beta Tags: nexgen catalog (Source: Library Web Chic) Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:25:38 +0100 665045 http://thecorporatelibrarian.com/2008/10/20/improving-navigation-and-findability/ Tom Reamy, who presented on folksonomies and tagging last year, led this session. Since it’s in the San Carlos Ballroom, back to no Wi-Fi access. Then again, from what I’m hearing, even if there’s Internet access in a given room it’s spotty at best. His talk is about integrating semantics, taxonomy and faceted navigation, with a look at what works and what doesn’t for media sites. Facet - Orthogonal dimension of metadata Taxonomy - Aboutness of documents Ontology - Relationship between entities and facts Software - Text analytics and auto-categorization People - Tagging and evaluation of tags, fine-tuning rules and taxonomies, social tagging and suggestions Facets are metadata attributes (e.g., people, location) and are not identical with categories (which are limited in number and involve aboutness). By orthogonal Reamy means mutual exclusivity –> an event is not a person is not a document is not a place. Facets have a variety of units and structures, and are designed to be used in combination. Faceted navigation is more intuitive to end-users and allows for dynamic selection of categories (rather than forcing the user to go down a single path to find information). It involves fewer elements - 4 facets of 10 nodes can yield a 10,000 node taxonomy, it’s flexible and easier to maintain. Taxonomies deal with semantics (meaning, aboutness) and documents and are complementary to facets. Taxonomies support multiple meanings and purposes, and can be relatively small if combined with facets. Formal taxonomies work better (is-a-kind of, is-a-part-of) than broader classifications. Ontologies deal with relationships between entities - e.g., Vice Presidents have employees and bosses. They can be represented with XML, RDF, OWL, inference rules. Best approach is dynamic search and browse. ... Tue, 21 Oct 2008 01:06:43 +0100 663722 http://www.goblin-cartoons.com/2008/10/20/secret-origin/ Beth Tribe tagged me, so I guess I’m It. How did I get into blogging? Well, it all started back in 2001… I was in Milwaukee, attending GenCon (this was before it moved to Indianapolis, obviously). I was hanging out with some friends in their hotel room, the conversation flowing like some kind of fast-flowing liquid, when it occurred to me that I was the only person in the room without a blog. My friends immediately began encouraging me to start a blog of my own. “It’s so easy!” they said. “We’ll even help you get one started.” (In retrospect, it was very much like an after-school special from the ’70s, only with blogging replacing cigarettes or LSD.) When I got home from the convention, I bought a book on learning HTML, registered the domain “www.goblin-cartoons.com” (the name vaguely had to do with how I saw my prose and poetry writing at the time, and I thought it was catchy), and began blogging. In library school, I stumbled upon Jenny Levine’s blog, which led to discovering other library-themed blogs. After I graduated and got my first post-degree library job, I decided I wanted to join the ranks of library bloggers, so I changed my blog name to “the goblin in the library.” And then, of course, I recently changed the blog back to the more general “goblin cartoons.” And that, my friends, is the story of my blogging (so far). I’m not going to tag anyone, but if you read this and haven’t written your own post about how you got into blogging, go ahead and share your story with us. (Source: the goblin in the library) Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:01:19 +0100 663459 http://litablog.org/2008/10/19/participation-and-power-combining-community-features-with-existing-metadata-in-nextgen-public-interfaces/ Participation and Power: Combining Community Features with Existing metadata in NextGen Public Interfaces Dinah Sanders, Innovative Interface Kelly M. Vickery, University of Kentucky Instead of just talking about encore, Dinah will discuss how metadata is exposed for patrons to leverage, how is it extended to cover gaps in controlled vocabulary. The majority of Americans use the interwebs everyday. This means they are coming in with savvy web skills and we can leverage metadata to give them tools that are powerful and that users recognize. They are trying to bring these patron skills together with the library strengths of good metadata. However, there are limits, particularly as was mentioned in the opening session “cookery” is not a common term. Encore tries to bring together the formal controlled vocabulary and folksonomies to rectify these problems. Searching can be done across library metadata and user-supplied tags. Early attempts at this like penntags, sopac, library thing for libraries – exposed key problems: Have to use parallel interfaces for tags (they aren’t intermixed with library data) Tags are stored and searched separately The participation then is really not IN the library catalog These initiatives forged new ground but still retained separate systems Community tagging success comes from: Eliminate hurdle to participation (like creating a profile) Create credibility and local relevance (require authentication with an existing profile) Give an immediate return on investment (immediate indexing) There was apprehension about letting users in, that they would add irrelevant data. Since implemented in June no tags have been deleted. Staff also add tags. Tags and subject headings are used in display and retrieval interfaces together. Existing ontologies are under-rated, subject headings aren’t perfect, but there is really good information there that can be useful if it is presented properly. ... Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:20:27 +0100 663180 http://lisnews.org/audio_interview_john_blyberg_creator_sopac_social_opac If you don't know about the Social OPAC application suite--an open source social discovery platform for bibliographic data, you're really missing out. SOPAC (Social Online Public Access Catalog) is a Drupal module that provides true integration of your library catalog system with the power of the Drupal content management system while allowing users to tag, rate, and review your holdings. User input is then incorporated into the discovery index so that SOPAC becomes a truly community-driven catalog system. I Talked With John about SOPAC, and how it's used. (note: the recording got a bit messy, our voices end up overlapping towards the end of the recording). Some of the other features of SOPAC include: * Faceted browsing * Ajax-empowered interface with native jQuery support * 100% customizable interface via the Drupal template system * Ability to remove search limiters * Saved searches * Integrated renewals, holds placement, and fine payment * Ability to customize the user experience via the administrative control panel * Ability to create custom functionality via a Drupal sub-module (Source: LISNews.org) Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:31:18 +0100 663022 http://www.lisnews.org/audio_interview_john_blyberg_creator_sopac_social_opac If you don't know about the Social OPAC application suite--an open source social discovery platform for bibliographic data, you're really missing out. SOPAC (Social Online Public Access Catalog) is a Drupal module that provides true integration of your library catalog system with the power of the Drupal content management system while allowing users to tag, rate, and review your holdings. User input is then incorporated into the discovery index so that SOPAC becomes a truly community-driven catalog system. I Talked With John about SOPAC, and how it's used. (note: the recording got a bit messy, our voices end up overlapping towards the end of the recording). Some of the other features of SOPAC include: * Faceted browsing * Ajax-empowered interface with native jQuery support * 100% customizable interface via the Drupal template system * Ability to remove search limiters * Saved searches * Integrated renewals, holds placement, and fine payment * Ability to customize the user experience via the administrative control panel * Ability to create custom functionality via a Drupal sub-module (Source: LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News) Sun, 19 Oct 2008 17:31:18 +0100 663017 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LibraryGeekWoes/~3/424719172/lita-forum-2008-design-for.html WebJunction staff (sorry, didn't catch the names)Webjunction started with a grant from the Gates foundation in 2003Started with the iea of building an online community where library staff can support each other and public access in public librariesSurveyed to find out what people needed. Content management, learning management and community services. Works with state libraries and other partners to customize portals.Wanted people, training and resources all in one placeBy an for the library staff who spend their time there40,000 members, over 100K unique visitors per month currentlyWebjunction staff moderates, but considers themselves to be facilitators, rather than owners or managersThe redesign in summer 2008:Increases in the "internet lifestyle," and rapid growth required a redesignStep 1: Know your audience. Find out what they need, who they are and what they're trying to accomplish. Web sites often reflect the organization, rather than what the users actually want. Made a tag cloud from their needs to help visualize. Extrapolated their needs into 2.0 features. These included friends, groups, discussions, blogs, avatars, public profiles, images, email , chat, tagging, rating/reviewing. But had to pare the scope back from all the great ideas or it was too overwhelming.Integrated CMS and LMS, surrounded by social appsCreated mini communities around topic areasMyWebJunction is the primary social area. Discussions and comments show up in your updates; similar to Facebook news feed. Includes an RSS feed and your affiliations.Public profile is the public view of your MyWebJunction page. You can control what other people seeCourse catalog isn't very sexy, but very powerful. You can nest information. It has a shopping cart function. Can add comments about courses, which then show up in your news feed. ... Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0100 663479 http://librarygeekwoes.blogspot.com/2008/10/lita-forum-2008-design-for.html WebJunction staff (sorry, didn't catch the names)Webjunction started with a grant from the Gates foundation in 2003Started with the iea of building an online community where library staff can support each other and public access in public librariesSurveyed to find out what people needed. Content management, learning management and community services. Works with state libraries and other partners to customize portals.Wanted people, training and resources all in one placeBy an for the library staff who spend their time there40,000 members, over 100K unique visitors per month currentlyWebjunction staff moderates, but considers themselves to be facilitators, rather than owners or managersThe redesign in summer 2008:Increases in the "internet lifestyle," and rapid growth required a redesignStep 1: Know your audience. Find out what they need, who they are and what they're trying to accomplish. Web sites often reflect the organization, rather than what the users actually want. Made a tag cloud from their needs to help visualize. Extrapolated their needs into 2.0 features. These included friends, groups, discussions, blogs, avatars, public profiles, images, email , chat, tagging, rating/reviewing. But had to pare the scope back from all the great ideas or it was too overwhelming.Integrated CMS and LMS, surrounded by social appsCreated mini communities around topic areasMyWebJunction is the primary social area. Discussions and comments show up in your updates; similar to Facebook news feed. Includes an RSS feed and your affiliations.Public profile is the public view of your MyWebJunction page. You can control what other people seeCourse catalog isn't very sexy, but very powerful. You can nest information. It has a shopping cart function. Can add comments about courses, which then show up in your news feed. ... Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0100 662874 http://librarygeekwoes.blogspot.com/2008/10/lita-forum-2008-what-is-social.html (Opening session, Tim Spaulding, founder of LibraryThing)Will be primarily discussing LibraryThing and LibraryThing for LibrariesWhat is social cataloguing? No official definition --Authorial intent theory --Prototype theory LibraryThing is a good prototype (example) of SC SC as something emergent What happens when you take personal cataloging and make it social?It's on the rise... LibraryThing is now larger than the Library of Congress in terms of holdings Sites like LibraryThing Goodreads, Shelfari, Visual Bookshelf for Facebook ucorked.com for wine, Last.fm for music HarperCollins has a site that has something like SC Book reviews on YouTube like social cataloging Bibliocommons--social catalog is upcomingWhat's new about SC? Explores socialization; social is different, more is different Digitization Social and digital are deeply intertwined; libraries have not thought deeply enough about the digital LibraryThing vs. Amazon: LT not commercialThe SC Ladder (The evolution of how people catalog their items)Personal cataloging (how LT started) :LT searches over 600 libraries around the world, as well as AmazonExhibitionism, voyeurism--people want to peek at others' collections; LT shows covers and tags which make it easy to do. Can show off what you have to others.Self-expression--all about reviews. Can see reviews of books in your own collection from other people. For too long, reviews have been too much of a commercial thing. Finding out what people think about your books is interesting.Implicit social cataloging--When everyone catalogs in their own separate room, but the rooms are all connected, something emerges. LibraryThing has over 43 million tags. You can see what the top rated AND the bottom rated books. Amazon won't tell you the bottom ones! You can even see the most controversial. People cannot rate books that are not in their own catalog. ... Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:47:00 +0100 662110 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LibraryGeekWoes/~3/423956538/lita-forum-2008-what-is-social.html (Opening session, Tim Spaulding, founder of LibraryThing)Will be primarily discussing LibraryThing and LibraryThing for LibrariesWhat is social cataloguing? No official definition --Authorial intent theory --Prototype theory LibraryThing is a good prototype (example) of SC SC as something emergent What happens when you take personal cataloging and make it social?It's on the rise... LibraryThing is now larger than the Library of Congress in terms of holdings Sites like LibraryThing Goodreads, Shelfari, Visual Bookshelf for Facebook ucorked.com for wine, Last.fm for music HarperCollins has a site that has something like SC Book reviews on YouTube like social cataloging Bibliocommons--social catalog is upcomingWhat's new about SC? Explores socialization; social is different, more is different Digitization Social and digital are deeply intertwined; libraries have not thought deeply enough about the digital LibraryThing vs. Amazon: LT not commercialThe SC Ladder (The evolution of how people catalog their items)Personal cataloging (how LT started) :LT searches over 600 libraries around the world, as well as AmazonExhibitionism, voyeurism--people want to peek at others' collections; LT shows covers and tags which make it easy to do. Can show off what you have to others.Self-expression--all about reviews. Can see reviews of books in your own collection from other people. For too long, reviews have been too much of a commercial thing. Finding out what people think about your books is interesting.Implicit social cataloging--When everyone catalogs in their own separate room, but the rooms are all connected, something emerges. LibraryThing has over 43 million tags. You can see what the top rated AND the bottom rated books. Amazon won't tell you the bottom ones! You can even see the most controversial. People cannot rate books that are not in their own catalog. ... Fri, 17 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0100 662837 http://philbradley.typepad.com/phil_bradleys_weblog/2008/10/123people-people-search-engine.html 123people is a new people search engine that has been getting a bit of coverage recently, so I thought it was time that I took a look at it. It has a simple Google like interface and you're prompted for Firstname Lastname, and have a choice of Austria, Germany, Switzerland, US or the World. A slightly odd set of options which may be explained by the fact that it's German based. However, to title itself 'The European People Search Engine' is slightly disingenuous  I think.  A search brings up a huge amount of data; weblinks, images, videos, social network profiles, email addresses, phone numbers, blogs, biographies, documents, Amazon links and Instant Message accounts. All of this information is presented on one page of results, with tabs to be more specific and a tag cloud to focus on a particular aspect of a name. I found the display of results to be reasonably clear, though it does lead to a long page!Of course, I did a search for my name, and got a mixed bunch of results. None of the 20 emails that were returned were mine which was a little disappointing. The system was intelligent enough to work on variations such as pbradley but it wasn't able to expand out to philipbradley which would then have picked up my Gmail address for example. It did find me on Twitter though, and found a couple of the few images of me on the net. Although it didn't find any of the videos that I've put onto YouTube it did find one that referenced me which I found slightly amusing. The weblinks were fine and pulled up both me, the baseball star and the singer, although the porn star didn't get a mention, despite an image of him. The blog search function was equally acceptable, and 123people also found me on several networking sites. As far as it goes, 123people is fine. ... Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0100 661495 http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/search-books-journals/1200/ Looking for an easy way to find books and journals owned not only by MIT, but also by other libraries around the world? Try MIT Libraries’ WorldCat, an experimental interface to the Barton catalog. Other features include: easy browsing capabilities, with images of book covers and many Google book previews option to set up a user profile, so you can save your favorite items to sharable lists ability to tag, rate, and review items For a full list of features, read About MIT Libraries’ WorldCat. WorldCat doesn’t include everything owned by the MIT Libraries, so if you can’t find what you’re looking for, make sure to check Barton and Vera, or ask us! We’d love to hear your thoughts on MIT Libraries WorldCat! Give feedback. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fnews-libraries.mit.edu%2Fblog%2Fsearch-books-journals%2F1200%2F'; addthis_title = 'Search+for+books+and+journals+available+in+libraries+worldwide+through+MIT+Libraries%26%238217%3B+WorldCat'; addthis_pub = ''; Tags:Current Mortgage Rates (Source: MIT Libraries News) Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:26:29 +0100 661067 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TechsourceBlog/~3/421696502/information-overload-the-tooth-fairy-of-the-internet.html I never quite got the hang of believing in Santa. Flying reindeer seemed suspect to me, but the real problem I had was the speed at which he made it around the world, in and out of all those houses and back in a single night. Even accounting for time differences and the International Date Line, I couldn’t get comfortable with the idea.Like Santa, Information Overload has never quite settled properly into my mind. Every time I read an article (and there are oh so many to read) about the perils of the Information Age and the overwhelming amount of information we’re all drowning under, I find myself squirming.I know there’s exponentially more information available to us, I know we all feel overwhelmed at times and I know those two factors intersect, but I could never bring myself to set out milk and cookies for Information Overload.At the recent Web2.0 Expo, Clay Shirky explained why, like Santa, Information Overload is a myth. One meant to make us feel better and keep some magic in our lives, but something that does not exist.The problem, Shirky tells us, is not more information, but outdated filters. This should resonate with librarians who have helped people use the Internet for the first time and watched the careful left to right tracking of their eyes across the screen, treating everything on the page as if it had equal importance… as if it were printed material.Compare that to teenagers who can keep several chat windows open, hang out on Facebook, listen to music and work on their math homework simultaneously. Filters that evolved with the Internet are fitter.Over at the reference desk, our job has evolved from information provider to information filter. “Here are the materials on your topic” isn’t good enough anymore, not because people are lazy, but because that stack of material is gigantic and in order to truly help our patrons, we have to help them parse what’s in there. ... Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:37:02 +0100 661247 http://ia310841.us.archive.org/2/items/DerNetbib-podcast-Ausgabe60a/Netbib-Podcast-Augabe-60_64kb.mp3 Die Themenübersicht Vorklang Falls Sie mal wissen möchten, was mir beim Erstellen des Netbib-Podcastes so durch den Kopf geht, den verweise ich gerne an meinen privaten Identica-Account, dessen Einträge werden auch bei Twitter gespiegelt. Identica ist die Open-Source-Alternative zu Twitter. Der Tag lautet Netbib-Podcast. Themen der letzten Woche 00:58 - Karrieretipps 02:21 - Wo bin ich eigentlich angemeldet? 03:12 - Neues von der Cardiff-Heritage-Verscherbelung 04:19 - Schulbibliothek wiedereröffnet 04:55 - Bibliotheken in Facebook 09:46 Sonntagöffnung der Bibliothek in Eisenach denkbar Schwerpunktthema 11:50 - Open Access Day bei Archivalia mit Links und interessanten Gastbeiträgen zum Thema. Podcast online hören Medium: MP3 Link: MP3 Podcast für DSL-Benutzer herunterladen Podcast für DSL-Benutzer im Ogg-Vorbis-Format herunterladen Podcast für Modem-Besitzer herunterladen Podcast abonnieren (Source: netbib weblog) Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:10:28 +0100 660766 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/420157420/ ALPSP has released Scholarly Publishing Practice, Third Survey 2008: Academic Journal Publishers' Policies and Practices in Online Publishing. It is available for purchase by non-ALPSP members. Here's an excerpt from the press release: Key findings include: Publishers—especially large publishers and commercial publishers are launching new journals at a higher rate than in 2005. The growth trajectory of online availability has been steady since 2003. There is still some difference between the disciplines, with 96.1% of STM and 86.5% of arts, humanities and social science titles accessible online. Pricing models are just as complex and varied as they were in 2005. Most publishers use a variety of means to establish prices. It is notable that fewer publishers are providing online access free with print and instead are offering online-only subscriptions. Open access advocacy has clearly had an effect on publishers' thinking. The proportion of publishers offering optional open access to authors has grown from 9% in 2005 to 30% in 2008. However, the take-up of the author pays open access option is exceedingly low. Licensing terms have become more generous, as publishers have become more comfortable with the use of digital content, including allowing use in Virtual Learning Environments and repurposing to create learning objects. Publishers' practice on authors' rights is changing. Fewer publishers now require authors to transfer copyright to the publisher and will instead accept a licence to publish. The growth of institutional and subject based repositories has prompted a rethink on authors' rights to post their articles on the web. Large publishers have relaxed prohibitions on posting pre-prints, but have imposed embargoes on the final accepted version. Publishers are at different stages of development in their implementation of Web 2. ... Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:02:30 +0100 660413 http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/2008/10/13/scholarly-publishing-practice-third-survey-2008-academic-journal-publishers-policies-and-practices-in-online-publishing/ ALPSP has released Scholarly Publishing Practice, Third Survey 2008: Academic Journal Publishers' Policies and Practices in Online Publishing. It is available for purchase by non-ALPSP members. Here's an excerpt from the press release: Key findings include: Publishers—especially large publishers and commercial publishers are launching new journals at a higher rate than in 2005. The growth trajectory of online availability has been steady since 2003. There is still some difference between the disciplines, with 96.1% of STM and 86.5% of arts, humanities and social science titles accessible online. Pricing models are just as complex and varied as they were in 2005. Most publishers use a variety of means to establish prices. It is notable that fewer publishers are providing online access free with print and instead are offering online-only subscriptions. Open access advocacy has clearly had an effect on publishers' thinking. The proportion of publishers offering optional open access to authors has grown from 9% in 2005 to 30% in 2008. However, the take-up of the author pays open access option is exceedingly low. Licensing terms have become more generous, as publishers have become more comfortable with the use of digital content, including allowing use in Virtual Learning Environments and repurposing to create learning objects. Publishers' practice on authors' rights is changing. Fewer publishers now require authors to transfer copyright to the publisher and will instead accept a licence to publish. The growth of institutional and subject based repositories has prompted a rethink on authors' rights to post their articles on the web. Large publishers have relaxed prohibitions on posting pre-prints, but have imposed embargoes on the final accepted version. Publishers are at different stages of development in their implementation of Web 2. ... Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:00:39 +0100 661032 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/earlham/dGCQ/~3/420659014/alpsp-third-scholarly-publishing-survey.html ALPSP has released its third Scholarly Publishing Practice Survey (free to members).  From yesterday's announcement:  ...The third in a series of ALPSP surveys undertaken to establish current scholarly publishing practices and designed to track changes in policy and practice since 2000, has been published by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishing....The survey, carried out by Laura Cox of Frontline Global Marketing Services and John Cox of John Cox Associates, was conducted of 400 journal publishers, both commercial and not-for-profit, consisting of ALPSP and other major association members. A response rate of over 65% was achieved including the majority of major journal publishers. Key findings include: Publishers - especially large publishers and commercial publishers are launching new journals at a higher rate than in 2005. The growth trajectory of online availability has been steady since 2003. There is still some difference between the disciplines, with 96.1% of STM and 86.5% of arts, humanities and social science titles accessible online. Pricing models are just as complex and varied as they were in 2005. Most publishers use a variety of means to establish prices. It is notable that fewer publishers are providing online access free with print and instead are offering online-only subscriptions. Open access advocacy has clearly had an effect on publishers' thinking. The proportion of publishers offering optional open access to authors has grown from 9% in 2005 to 30% in 2008. However, the take-up of the author pays open access option is exceedingly low. Licensing terms have become more generous, as publishers have become more comfortable with the use of digital content, including allowing use in Virtual Learning Environments and repurposing to create learning objects. Publishers' practice on authors' rights is changing. ... Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0100 660757 http://www.escholarlypub.com/digitalkoans/2008/10/13/scholarly-publishing-practice-third-survey-2008-academic-journal-publishers-policies-and-practices-in-online-publishing/ ALPSP has released Scholarly Publishing Practice, Third Survey 2008: Academic Journal Publishers' Policies and Practices in Online Publishing. It is available for purchase by non-ALPSP members. Here's an excerpt from the press release: Key findings include: Publishers—especially large publishers and commercial publishers are launching new journals at a higher rate than in 2005. The growth trajectory of online availability has been steady since 2003. There is still some difference between the disciplines, with 96.1% of STM and 86.5% of arts, humanities and social science titles accessible online. Pricing models are just as complex and varied as they were in 2005. Most publishers use a variety of means to establish prices. It is notable that fewer publishers are providing online access free with print and instead are offering online-only subscriptions. Open access advocacy has clearly had an effect on publishers' thinking. The proportion of publishers offering optional open access to authors has grown from 9% in 2005 to 30% in 2008. However, the take-up of the author pays open access option is exceedingly low. Licensing terms have become more generous, as publishers have become more comfortable with the use of digital content, including allowing use in Virtual Learning Environments and repurposing to create learning objects. Publishers' practice on authors' rights is changing. Fewer publishers now require authors to transfer copyright to the publisher and will instead accept a licence to publish. The growth of institutional and subject based repositories has prompted a rethink on authors' rights to post their articles on the web. Large publishers have relaxed prohibitions on posting pre-prints, but have imposed embargoes on the final accepted version. Publishers are at different stages of development in their implementation of Web 2. ... Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0100 660494 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/deakialli/com/~3/418628397/ En unas horas me marcho a Guadalajara a impartir el curso La Web Social en la biblioteca para bibliotecarios dela Red de Bibliotecas Públicas de Castilla La Mancha, repasando mis notas recordé que tenía pendiente publicar un post sobre los la Biblioteca Municipal de Burgos y sus bibliotecarios. Los bibliotecarios de la bufanda, como se hacen llamar en su simpático blog Burgostecarios y que tienen también un blog de anécdotas bibliotecarias (de obligada visita), asistieron al curso de la FGSR sobre los clubes de lectura del que fui docente, allí ya demostraron que les sobran ganas y no les faltan inquietudes en esto de la Biblioteca 2.0 y entre práctica y práctica de las herramientas de la web social,  Rafael Ibañez (Ayudante de biblioteca de la B.M. de Burgos) me comentó que en su catálogo con Absys, hab implementado un servicio de marcadores sociales, lo que facilita y esquiva el problema de los enlaces no permanentes en los resultados de las búsquedas de la gran mayoría de los OPACS en España: Y además de ésto, la Biblioteca Municipal de Burgos tiene su propia cuenta en Twitter en donde ofrecen información, notas y avisos de interes para sus usuarios, así lo cuentan en la página web del Ayuntamiento de Burgos: La Biblioteca Municipal de Burgos ofrece un nuevo servicio de alertas mediante el que se obtendrá un seguimiento instantáneo de las novedades informativas relacionadas con sus servicios [...], que permitirá a los ciudadanos suscritos recibir los mensajes por tres vías diferentes: a través de su cuenta personal de Twitter, que puede incrustar en su Web personal a través de diferentes servicios de mensajería instantánea (GTalk, LiveJournal, Jabber) a través de mensajes SMS en el teléfono móvil. De esta manera, la Biblioteca Municipal incrementa su experiencia en el ámbito de las nuevas tecnologías y avanza por la vía de la aproximación de sus servicios a todos los ciudadanos. ... Sun, 12 Oct 2008 15:00:57 +0100 660054 http://erikhoy.blogspot.com/2008/10/picasa.html I begyndelsen af september lancerede Google betaudgaven af Picasa 3.0. Den falder i tråd med Googles øvrige tiltag i retning af at private efter behag kan gøre deres private fotoalbum offentlige og dertil søgbare, under overskriften Web Albums. Det nærmeste vi kan komme Googles svar på en af webbens mest populære åbne fotobaser, den Yahoo-ejede Flickr.Som sædvanligt også med flere af Googles øvrige produkter integreret, bl.a. Google Maps, så du har mulighed for at vise hvor billedet er fra.Tags er nøgleordet her. Altså emneord som fotografen selv indsætter. I den nye version er det gjort lettere ved at tagging kan foretages på mange billeder på en gang. Så nu behøver du altså ikke at tagge hvert enkelt af de 300 fotoer fra moster Marens 90 års fødselsdag. Og om 10 år, når hun fylder 100, kan du bare tagge dem på samme måde, så har du et fuldgyldigt overblik over de to begivenheder.Picasa Web Albums skal downloades, den fylder 7,4 MB.En af de store nyheder er at Picasa Web Albums skulle være i stand til at genkende ansigter. Dvs at hvis du blot tagger Onkel Ole på et par fotoer, kan du søge i dine albums og finde Onkel Ole på andre fotoer, som du derefter kan tagge. Det har jeg ikke efterprøvet, da jeg ikke har særligt mange billeder i Picasa. Men det er vist ikke set før.Det er også blevet lettere at dele med andre uden at de skal logge på. Nøglen til Picasa skulle findes i et link som du sender til dem. Og billederne kan nu uploades i samme opløsning som de blev optaget, altså ikke noget med jpg eller jpeg.Det meste af fornyelsen af Picasa drejer sig om nogle smartere håndteringsværktøjer, drag-and-drop for layout og indhold, touchering, upload af film til YouTube, automatisk fjernelse af rødøjer mm.Udover det er der også et spil, “Where in the World?”. Det går ud på at gætte hvor et bestemt billede er taget ved at klikke på verdenskortet. ... Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0100 659859 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/416807473/ In the past many discoveries and innovations have come by accident or by chance, rather than a team hurting their heads with too much innovation think, “no matter how much I try I just can’t think of an innovation”. It doesn’t usually happen if you sit around doing nothing, it happens when you are involved in life, participating, interacting, only it’s not what your chasing, it’s what happened on the way, it’s what’s triggered, it’s the accidents (the gifts from the gods;) etc… It’s happened to all of us that we are researching on one task and come across a gem we can use for another task…or this gem may take our current task in a new and better direction. I think as long as we are participating and active we increase the opportunity to be exposed to more great information and people, it may just trigger something inside. Definition This catalyst, the spark happens by serendipity, here’s what wikipedia has to say at this point in time: “Serendipity is the effect by which one accidentally discovers something fortunate, especially while looking for something else entirely” “It was once when I read a silly fairy tale, called The Three Princes of Serendip: as their highnesses travelled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of…” “…the word is the “sagacity” of being able to link together apparently innocuous facts to come to a valuable conclusion. Thus, while some scientists and inventors are reluctant about reporting accidental discoveries, others openly admit its role; in fact serendipity is a major component of scientific discoveries and inventions. ... Fri, 10 Oct 2008 13:52:57 +0100 659281 http://yourlibrarycsu.blogspot.com/2008/10/delicious-whats-new-on-net.html Are you stuggling to keep up to date with recent policies, reports and research in your particular subject area?Your Library has just added a Delicious New on the Net section to each of our Subject Support pages. Each day, as new policies and reports are released, we are adding them as bookmarks into Delicious and tagging them with your subject areas. This allows them to be pushed out to your relevant subject support pages as soon as we add them to Delicious. You no longer need to sort through endless reports. Just bookmark your particular subject support page and do a quick check each day to see if there are any new reports of interest to you. To see an example of our new service, scroll down to Step 4 - New on the Net on our Subject Support - Agriculture page.If you miss a report, you can click on our Delicious link at the bottom of the list, to see our archive of all reports etc. in your subject area, saving you valuable time.Prefer to receive updates via RSS feed delivered to your desktop? No problem. Delicious will give you an option to subscribe to your particular subject area at the bottom of each Delicious page.For all of our bookmarks you can visit http://delicious.com/csulibrary (Source: Your Library@CSU) Fri, 10 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0100 659226 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LibrariansMatter/~3/416164516/ I’m at the Art Librarians’ Conference, MySpace is an ArtSpace in Brisbane. Me - Second Life as a platform: social space, art space, real space My keynote was called - to keep with the theme - Second Life as a platform: social space, art space, real space. It involved about 17 minutes of machinima that I created to illustrate my points, so I’m not inserting the slides here as they don’t make too much sense. Basically I talked about: 1. Fly over of Info Island. Machinima 2. What is Second Life, Limitations, Possibilities and Libraries 3. Questions about Real Life concepts raised by a MUVE: Identity Individuality The Body Ability and disability Having a voice “Game” and “play” Time Location Co-presence Intellectual property Public and private Lawfulness Consumption Visual metaphor Representation Aesthetics Exhibit 4. Art Objects not born digital in Second Life - Sistine Chapel at Vassar island and Machinima of Info Island art gallery and Museum of Music 5. Art Objects born digital in Second Life -  Machinima of Babelswarm, the Australian Arts Council funded project 6. Art in the Space between Real Life and Second Life - Augmented Reality. Excerpt from little movie of Julian Stadon’s SLARIPS installation 7. I finished up with a clip of an art environment built just to make a movie. I didn’t want to spoil the mood afterward, so the last two slides just said “Aaaaaaaah” and “Thank You”. Robbie Dingo’s Watch the Worlds clip is below so you understand what I mean: Axel Bruns, who was the second keynote speaker has blogged the session, New Impulses for Libraries: Drawing on Second Life and Produsage… so you can check out what a third party thought. Axel Bruns - All the world’s a library: produsage and user-led curation Axel’s talk was just what I wanted to hear about. ... Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:47:57 +0100 659738 http://splat.lili.org/node/304 Official registration for SPLAT 101 has closed, but you can still participate in this self-paced online course! Join others and learn about these six technology-based resources that can save you time and money at work and home. Week 1 – Blogs Week 2 – RSS Week 3 – IM Week 4 – Online Applications Week 5 – Wikis Week 6 – Tagging Still have questions? Read our FAQ, leave us a comment, or contact a SPLAT member directly using the list to the left. We hope you'll join us to learn these technologies the fun and casual way with SPLAT 101! (Source: SPLAT - Special Projects Library Action Team blogs) Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:26:41 +0100 659548 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LibrariansMatter/~3/415485511/ I have this thing I say when people get worried about opening up our sites to our users to help create content: If your library is like mine, you allow bottled water the building. There is nothing to stop users from deliberately upending the whole bottle all over a PC and destroying it. But they don’t.” I wonder about the “nothing to stop them” bit. Maybe the best security is other users of the facility - engaged and passionate users - who would quickly tackle the delinquent water pourer.  There is a lot of literature around new ways that rail stations are being protected - create a  beautiful art space where people come to do other things and take pride in the place created. In these cases security becomes self-regulated. This is what seems to be happening at the State  Library of Queensland. Walking past the  cafe on the ground floor, I noticed that the chairs seemed too big to drag through the door at night. I asked a staff member and she said that they leave them out after the cafe closes. There are always people around 24/7 using the free wireless. In fact, the backpackers’ tourist buses make stops here so passengers can get off to contact home.  There is no evidence of graffiti either -  although the concrete walls, which remind me of what you might see in an isolated abandoned factory, seem to be screaming for user based tagging of a different kind. (Source: Librarians matter) Thu, 09 Oct 2008 06:02:42 +0100 659739 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/textundblog/~3/413742212/ Klasse Tipp von Robert Basic: Den nach Firefox zweitbesten Browser kann mensch sich seit etwas mehr als einer Stunde exklusiv auf den Seiten von chip.de in der finalen Version 9.6 herunterladen. Auf dem Handy ist Opera mit seinem sehr guten Opera Mini bereits erste Wahl für mich, und auch als Zweitbrowser auf dem Rechner bin ich mit Opera, dem pfiffigen Browser aus Norwegen, immer sehr zufrieden. Zum Download - einen Tag vor dem offiziellen morgigen Release auf Opera - geht es hier: chip.de. [via Basic Thinking] Update 23:45 Uhr: Gerade hab ich mir nochmal Opera 9.6 angeschaut und bin begeistert von der mehrspaltigen Feed-Vorschau, die durch ihr Layout einen guten Einblick in das zu abonnierende Blog gibt. Hier schön zu sehen am Beispiel des Feeds des ciberaBlogs: (Source: Text & Blog) Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:59:50 +0100 658538 http://reidkerrarkive.blogspot.com/2008/10/visualizeus-delicious-for-images.html "vi.sualize.us is a social bookmarking website for visual contents — vi.sualize.us (read visualize us) allows you to remember your favorite images around the web, and share them with everyone."If delicious is for tagging & sharing web-pages, vi.sualize.us is delicious for images. Easiest way to use is with the Firefox extension which installs on the toolbar. Just activate - add image to vi.sualize.us - click on the image you want to "save" & a thumb-nail is saved in your vi.sualize.us account. (Yeah, I forgot, you need to register). Tag the image when you're adding it. And you'll get this:Why use it? Well, if you're working in education / e-learning & use a lot of Creative Commons images in your materials, it's desirable to acknowledge the source. Necessary even. (If you're using copyrighted images, well, stop reading now, this will be of no interest or concern to you).Scenario. Find a "nice" image on Flickr, save it locally, upload to website / blog / whatever. Of course, you saved it as 2pussycats_playing.jpg & you can't remember the where, when or from whom. Tag in vi.sualize.us & you don't have that problem. And you can share your bookmarked images with your colleagues. (It's called collaboration).And it's free. Highly recommended.On the subject of Creative Commons images in Flickr, the advanced search option does allow searching for images available under the various flavours of the CC licence. Neater option is FlickrCC which again comes highly recommended. Use both & you won't have to bother about the copyright police ever again.vi.sualize.us - http://vi.sualize.us/FlickCC - http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/ (Source: aRKive) Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0100 658168 http://keptup.typepad.com/academic/2008/10/humans-vs-zombies-on-campus.html Welcome to the world of Humans vs. Zombies (HvZ), a tag-like game that is the latest trend in campus entertainment. An HvZ game typically involves hundreds of students and runs 24 hours a day for days on end; dwindling numbers of humans try to fend off and outlast growing legions of zombies. The rules are fundamentally simple: Zombie tags human, human becomes a zombie. Unlike movie zombies, with shambling walks and undead makeup, zombies in the game just wear headbands to distinguish them from armband-wearing humans. The Internet has played a big role in the spread of the game. Read more at: http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2008-10-05-zombie-tag_N.htm (Source: The Kept-Up Academic Librarian) Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:00:00 +0100 657784 http://www.librarybytes.com/2008/10/thing-13-delicious-its-like-putting.html I’ve been a fan of Del.icio.us for several years now and still fondly remember how liberating it felt during those first few months to be able to tag/bookmark websites without being chained to a local browser. I guess it’s still liberating in way, but it’s a norm that I have long gotten used to.Today, whenever I do find myself promoting the use of Del.icio.us to others I often liken it to the analogy of a “toy box.” For me Del.icio.us is the perfect tool to tag interesting finds that you may stumble across during the day so that you can pull them out and play with them later. In essence it's my “toy box.” Where I store my toys, so that when I have 10 or 15 minutes free in my day, I don’t spend those precious few minutes searching the web for something new discover. Instead I just jump on over to Del.icio.us and click on find that I recently tagged “PlayTime” or “MustBlogThis” and use my time to explore these finds more. :)Try it! Image: Slide 32 from my presentation, From Players to Guides. (Source: LibraryBytes) Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:07:00 +0100 657696 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ahniwa/~3/413226641/