LibWorm.com provides a librarian RSS filtering service. Over 1500 RSS librarian sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest headlines from journals and sites in the Tagging/Folksonomy interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:54:04 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/M_t9w4dEaTQ/ A couple of weeks ago, the amazingly talented Dion Hinchcliffe put together a blog post under the title of “The 2010 Social Business Landscape” that would probably classify as one of the most insightful, resourceful and essential articles published during the course of this year that everyone in the industry should be reading. Yes, in case you may not have seen it, it is that good! Worth while your time, for sure!, specially, if you are into some amazing graphicware like this one. But, there is something missing from that article, don’t you think? Something that, in my opinion, is one of the fundamental pillars from Enterprise 2.0. Have you spotted it yourself already? Indeed, social bookmarking / tagging! Not sure what you would think, but I strongly believe that social bookmarking and social tagging are still an important and rather critical part of a successful Enterprise 2.0 adoption strategy. I would even go one step further and state that social bookmarking / tagging are probably essential key elements behind the social computing philosophy altogether. Yet, it’s interesting to see how they both keep getting neglected time and time again, when they are just so critical. I mean, can you imagine … having your business put together and create a massive index of must-have links with annotations and tags across the board that would help you re-find content much much easier than through just the traditional taxonomies? No, neither could I. My good friend, Harold Jarche, talked about this very same thing as well not long ago on a virtual IBM event for the community of social software evangelists that I co-lead with one other colleague and which I blogged about over at Personal Knowledge Management by Harold Jarche (BlueIQ Ambassadors). ... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:24:51 +0100 868507 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/3bDu-JvCEDU/ From an email: I am a graduate student in the Dept. of Library & Information Science, National Taiwan University. I am writing to you because I read your article and thus understand that you had researched Delicious.com before. I’m currently doing my thesis research on Delicious users’ social relations and tagging behaviors. I am now on the stage of collecting data from Delicious user. Would you please fill out my questionnaire if you are currently using Delicious? It may take you approximately 20-30 minutes to complete the questionnaire. I would highly appreciate if you could also forward this questionnaire to anyone you know who also use Delicious. Thank you very much for your help. Here is the link: http://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/344453/Delicious-User-Survey Sincerely, Yi-Fan Chen, Graduate Student Dept. of Library & Information Science National Taiwan University Chi-Shiou Lin, Assistant Professor (Thesis Advisor) Dept. of Library & Information Science National Taiwan University (Source: Tame The Web: Libraries and Technology) Mon, 30 Aug 2010 13:42:23 +0100 867535 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/08/29/neh-awards-new-digital-humanities-start-up-grants/ The NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program has made 28 new awards. Here's an excerpt from the press release: American University — Washington, DC The Map of Jazz Musicians: an online interactive tool for navigating jazz history's interpersonal network Fernando Benadon, Project Director Outright: $49,777 To support: The development of an online tool to map connections and collaborations among American jazz musicians. Bank Street College of Education — New York, NY Civil Rights Movement Remix (CRM-Remix) Bernadette Anand, Project Director Outright: $25,000 To support: A series of workshops to plan the development of location-based smartphone applications about the African-American Civil Rights Movement based around sites in Harlem, NY. Boston University — Boston, MA Evolutionary Subject Tagging in the Humanities Jack Ammerman, Project Director Outright: $13,767 To support: A two-day meeting of humanities scholars, librarians, and computational analysis experts to consider how to improve existing cataloging software that attempts to better classify interdisciplinary humanities research. Brown University — Providence, RI A Journal-Driven Bibliography of Digital Humanities Julia Flanders, Project Director Outright: $49,659 To support: Development of a project led by the staff of Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) to create, manage, export, and publish high quality bibliographical data across the digital humanities research domain. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867658 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/BDfVISosX2s/ The NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants program has made 28 new awards. Here's an excerpt from the press release: American University — Washington, DC The Map of Jazz Musicians: an online interactive tool for navigating jazz history's interpersonal network Fernando Benadon, Project Director Outright: $49,777 To support: The development of an online tool to map connections and collaborations among American jazz musicians. Bank Street College of Education — New York, NY Civil Rights Movement Remix (CRM-Remix) Bernadette Anand, Project Director Outright: $25,000 To support: A series of workshops to plan the development of location-based smartphone applications about the African-American Civil Rights Movement based around sites in Harlem, NY. Boston University — Boston, MA Evolutionary Subject Tagging in the Humanities Jack Ammerman, Project Director Outright: $13,767 To support: A two-day meeting of humanities scholars, librarians, and computational analysis experts to consider how to improve existing cataloging software that attempts to better classify interdisciplinary humanities research. Brown University — Providence, RI A Journal-Driven Bibliography of Digital Humanities Julia Flanders, Project Director Outright: $49,659 To support: Development of a project led by the staff of Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) to create, manage, export, and publish high quality bibliographical data across the digital humanities research domain. ... Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:01:59 +0100 867320 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/08/28/reference-question-of-the-week-82210 This was sort of a frustrating question, but in the end was fun - mainly because I get to tag this post “gonzo reference.” A patron came rushing up to the desk (literally) and said he quickly needed to know John Philip Sousa’s religion. Since time was important, I gave the patron Encyclopedia Britannica and showed him how to find the John Philip Sousa article, while I searched Wikipedia. Neither identified his religion, so the next step was to grab the one Sousa biography we had on the shelf, and the patron looked through the index under “faith,” “religion,” etc., while I kept searching our databases and the internet. Again, neither of us located anything quickly, except for a quote online attributed to Sousa: My religion lies in my composition. That didn’t exactly answer the patron’s question, but he felt Sousa must have meant that, regardless of what religion he was officially, he wasn’t himself a very religious person, and that was good enough for the patron. He thanked me and rushed out. But I was still surprised that such an simple fact wouldn’t have been more readily available. I decided to keep searching until I found it, and then add the fact to Wikipedia - mainly because I can. I was already in the library’s catalog, so I requested a Sousa biography from another library (John Philip Sousa: American Phenomenon) that seemed likely to have the information. When it arrived, I started flipping through it, then wondered if this had been scanned into Google Books - turns out, it had. I searched the content of the book for “religion” and found the answer I was looking for at the bottom of page 102. I then composed a little paragraph and added it to Wikipedia: Although Freemasonry is an organization influenced by religious beliefs, John Philip Sousa himself was not. ... Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:39:57 +0100 866694 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/DK4YiPam5Mo/ The San Diego History Center is recruiting a Project Manager/Cataloger. Here's an excerpt from the ad: This is a professional position requiring a high level of skill and competency and the ability to work with limited supervision and make duty-related decisions. The Project Manager/Cataloger will perform a variety of duties in order to achieve the goals stated in an IMLS-funded project, namely, to digitize, catalog and make available over 7,000 images from the E.H. Davis Collection of American Indian images. The project Manager/Cataloger will be responsible for planning the project, ensuring that milestones are met, writing reports, doing research, and cataloging photographs and drawings from the E.H. Davis Collection in collaboration with members of the local American Indian Community as well as scholars. SDHC also plans to invite social tagging of the newly-created collection records via the web. The Project Manger/Cataloger will work on the social tagging dimension in coordination with the Balboa Park Online Collaborative. This will be a full-time position for a period of 18 months. (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:08:06 +0100 867324 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/08/26/project-managercataloger-at-san-diego-history-center/ The San Diego History Center is recruiting a Project Manager/Cataloger. Here's an excerpt from the ad: This is a professional position requiring a high level of skill and competency and the ability to work with limited supervision and make duty-related decisions. The Project Manager/Cataloger will perform a variety of duties in order to achieve the goals stated in an IMLS-funded project, namely, to digitize, catalog and make available over 7,000 images from the E.H. Davis Collection of American Indian images. The project Manager/Cataloger will be responsible for planning the project, ensuring that milestones are met, writing reports, doing research, and cataloging photographs and drawings from the E.H. Davis Collection in collaboration with members of the local American Indian Community as well as scholars. SDHC also plans to invite social tagging of the newly-created collection records via the web. The Project Manger/Cataloger will work on the social tagging dimension in coordination with the Balboa Park Online Collaborative. This will be a full-time position for a period of 18 months. (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 27 Aug 2010 03:06:43 +0100 866043 http://librarychronicles.blogspot.com/2010_08_01_archive.html#4679528851179419249 The following was meant as a comment to this AZ post featuring a highly questionable piece of political advertising. But it was too long for the comment form so I put it here. I'm pretty sure Dambala checks this space from time to time.Dude. You don't think this is a pretty slimy ad? I mean put Richmond's well documented problems aside and just look at this. In this spot we get one unidentified young white girl relating to us a poorly defined encounter with (someone we are meant to assume is) Richmond during which she "felt threatened" although it isn't made at all clear what "threatening" behavior was on display. We aren't told where they are. (The text says "a bar in Baton Rouge." The girl does not say anything about where they are which also seems strange.) Nor are we given any other information about the context of their conversation. Then we are presented with the young lady's account of what might be interpreted as a fairly brash statement by the person we are left to assume is Richmond. Although we don't know. We don't even know who she is. We have no idea, in fact, just what sort of happening, if anything, is being described to us at all.We are treated to several repetitions of that tag line, though. A completely unsubstantiated and unexplained line. Delivered by a mystery person. Who we know was "really bothered" by it.On the plus side, she has a nice hat.I watched that ad tonight during the news and immediately thought, "Who the fuck are these slimeballs?" Thanks to Open Secrets, we learn that they are a shadowy new post-Citizens United style PAC registered by New Orleans attorney and Juan LaFonta donor, Stuart H Smith. ... Thu, 26 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 866016 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/08/20/court-web-site-guidelines-notification-content-securit/ Earlier this week, I presented the CCCT IntellAction Working Group selection of principles that should guide the design and organization of court web sites. In this post, I further explain the next three principles: Principle #4: Notification Principle #5: Content Organization & Search Principle #6: Security Comments and suggestions are welcome! Principle #4: Notification The option of subscribing to content (or notification of new content) is often an expected web site feature. This is typically achieved by offering one or several RSS feeds, one or several email subscriptions or, ideally, offering both RSS feeds and email-based subscriptions. Each court web site audience should be provided with recommended notification channels, thereby increasing the likelihood of the court web site becoming truly interactive. Selected taxonomy terms (see below, Principle #5: Content Organization & Search) should have their own page on the site, RSS feed and email-based subscription. Notification further empowers web site stakeholders. Principle #5: Content Organization & Search There are three methods to organize content on a web site. All three methods should be used for court web sites: Menu Navigation. First and foremost, menu navigation should be tested by users (User Acceptance Testing – UAT) and relentlessly optimized, because it is the primary means of accessing content for web site visitors Taxonomies. Taxonomies are terms (or categories) controlled by web site administrators to classify and organize content. Only web site administrators can create and update such terms. These terms, often called categories on web sites, are displayed along content and can usually be clicked on to get to all content belonging to the same category Free Tagging. Free tagging (also called “Social Tagging”) allows creators of content to assign terms on-the-fly to their own content and/or to existing content. ... Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:05:23 +0100 867076 http://bentleywg.livejournal.com/1330564.html The First Thing You Should Do With Facebook Places: Don't Let Other People Tag You. http://gawker.com/5616329/the-first-thing-you-should-do-with-facebook-places-dont-let-other-people-tag-you"So, everyone's excited about the new Facebook Places, right? The Facebook service that lets you check-in, Foursquare style, at whatever hip Sushi bar/bicycle repair shop you happen to be in. Oh, and also other people can check you in, too.Facebook places, which rolls out this evening, allows your friends (and only your friends) to tag you when checking into a place. ... Here's how to make sure other people can't tag you on Places." (Source: BentleyBlog) Thu, 19 Aug 2010 11:20:07 +0100 865769 http://gypsylibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/08/short-article-note-on-web-20-tools-for.html Citation for the article:Deitering, Anne-Marie, et.al., "Library Instruction 2.0." Public Services Quarterly 5.2 (April 2009): 114-124.Read via Interlibrary Loan.This piece is mostly a list of some Web 2.0 tools with some suggestions and tips on how they can be used for library instruction. If you are a pretty savvy librarian who knows how to use the major 2.0 tools, you can probably safely skim the article. There are some basic tips that can be useful, which include: Using Delicious (http://delicious.com) and tagging to highlight issues with the concept of tagging versus a controlled vocabulary. (116).Using Google Reader (http://www.google.com/reader) to organize and track information. I use Google Reader quite a bit for my current awareness needs. Using Creative Commons, both for finding content that may be used freely and for your own material. My blogs are licensed with Creative Commons, by the way. There are a couple other items included. This article is one to keep handy when you need some ideas to enhance or supplement your library instruction. The only catch is that it came out in 2009, which means most of it was likely written up in 2008 or earlier, and the Web has changed a bit since then. Some of these tools are pretty much common, and there are many other new ones. On the other hand, I do get a good amount of students (and some faculty) who have no idea what a feed reader is. However, the tools listed here seem to have stood the test of time (if we can understand that time moves quite swiftly in the Web). I am keeping the article in my files for future reference, plus it would be interesting to consider what other tools librarians would add to this list by now. (Source: The Gypsy Librarian) Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:48:00 +0100 866512 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/08/17/the-virtual-life/ That’s right: not the virtuous life — though it may be that — but the virtual one. Those of you who are considering opening a virtual law office might like to go that extra furlong and emulate Kelly Sutton, who has sold pretty much everything he owned and now lives a life enhanced by not much more than a bike and a computer. The BBC has just picked up on the Sutton saga, that began over a year ago, when, stimulated by a book on escaping the 9-5 work drag, he set himself the project of selling off his possessions, with the signal exception of his computer. On his (appropriately minimalist) Cult of Less website, he lists all his belongings, tagging some as sold, some as for sale, and some as being keepers. And, as those who’ve shunned the high overhead of law offices will attest, there’s a lot we’re accustomed to that we don’t in fact require. Because Sutton is young, the story of his transformation focuses a good deal on the replacement of books and CDs by internet content. But any tour of a typical middle class house (or office) will reveal much underused and unnecessary stuff. On the other side of the argument, there’s the matter of comfort (which seems likely to be the job of the blue chair) and visual art (which isn’t fungible with a screenshot of a Vermeer), of course. And Mr. Sutton does’t talk much about how he keeps and prepares food — if in fact he does. Too, Mr. Sutton has no children, which allows for a somewhat more toy-free environment. So should you practice in the park? Likely not. But for me, at least, there’s something important in this reminder that, even in a society that seems to have as its most important activities shopping and television, it’s possible to resist the worst of commodity fetishism — provided, I suppose, that what counts is sublimated into the information aether (and viewed on a Mac?). ... Tue, 17 Aug 2010 14:41:11 +0100 867087 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AginfoBlogFromIaald/~3/Tvi5FA4nmCM/ifpri-adopts-3-d-approach-to-web.html Chris Addison writes:To accommodate a complete change in the way we use the Internet to find information and stay in touch, a new and different strategy for online publishing is essential. At IFPRI, we have been experimenting with the concept of a “3-D” approach using (1) decentralized content, (2) a descriptive system to put information in context, and (3) ways to ensure we are part of the discussion. So, we have been looking at our work through 3-D glasses, and it has brought the system vividly to life.1. DecentralizeFirst, we have begun to decentralize what we do by moving from a “one-platform-fits-all” approach to one that encourages the most appropriate platforms for particular types of content. Individuals, projects, divisions, and departments in the organization need to be able to update information online, so the ability to input data and documents cannot rest solely with one group. We make extensive use of Slideshare and YouTube whenever content is photo- or video-based. To post short communications, we use Wordpress, which we also use to create “websites on the fly.” Our publications follow an open-access workflow that ensures they are published on the IFPRI website and stored on the server repository to be accessible to all. The decentralization also applies to how our content reaches our audience. We have turned the core IFPRI website into a web engine able to produce content feeds, which can be used by others. These feeds are now one of the top sources of traffic to our website. We are also rapidly moving toward providing content that can be embedded elsewhere, as is the case with the Global Hunger Index map.2. DescribeSince our content is now so well dispersed in different platforms, it is essential to link related items through a descriptive system so that information is displayed in context. ... Mon, 16 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0100 867406 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/hiYx-pigfnc/ If you have been following this blog for a little while now, you would know how Personal Knowledge Management, a.k.a. PKM, or Personal Knowledge Sharing (PKS), whichever term you would prefer to make use of, has always been one of my favourite topics to talk about and share some further insights over here and elsewhere. It’s been all along one of those areas that has always caught my attention since way back when I was first involved with KM in the late 90s. It’s one of those fascinating fields that has permeated successfully throughout time from traditional KM and into the world of Social Networking reaching a new level of awareness that surely makes it all worth while diving into, if you haven’t done so just yet. More than anything else, because, if anything, that interest will keep raising as time goes by! And here is why … Managing knowledge is quite a daunting task; in fact, most people claim (I am one of them, too!) that it is almost impossible to manage it successfully. How can you manage what you yourself don’t know really that well after all? How can you manage what you are just not even aware you are knowledgeable about till you are confronted with it? How can you manage what you know till you eventually have a need for it to resurface again? Quite an interesting set of questions, don’t you think? So where does Personal Knowledge Management fit in then? Well, indeed, it’s impossible to manage knowledge, even your own knowledge. However, knowledge workers can have a good chance to self manage some of that knowledge so that they can re-find and reuse it effectively and efficiently at a later time. There are a whole bunch of processes and traditional technologies that have been helping people try to figure out how they can have their own PKM strategy. ... Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:39:29 +0100 866212 http://infobib.de/blog/2010/08/04/best-archives-on-the-web-awards-2010/ Archives Next benennt die Gewinner der Best Archives on the Web Awards in den Kategorien Best re-purposing of descriptive data (Gewinner: The Smithsonian Institution, Collections Search Center und City of Burnaby Archives, Charting Change: An Interactive Atlas of Burnaby’s Heritage), Best use of crowdsourcing for description (Gewinner: Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid, Waisda?; Honorable Mention: PhotosNormandie on Flickr), und Most innovative archives on the Web (Gewinner: The Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, Rich Media: Conservation History Association of Texas, Texas Legacy Project Records; Honorable Mention: HerStory 360, The HerStory Scrapbook). Die Gewinner sollen auf Archives Next in den nächsten Tagen näher vorgestellt werden. (Source: Infobib) Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:37:59 +0100 866203 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/25/uk-jisc-and-open-access/ by Neil Jacobs We’ve just published an account of Open Access and JISC’s contributions to it over the years: It covers how OA meets institutional and sector demands for sustainable efficiency and effectiveness in scholarly communication, how work in the UK fits into a wider international picture, and how it works for stakeholders including researchers, institutions and publishers. It also includes case studies and a list of relevant JISC and related reports. We are working with others this year to coordinate OA developments at a UK strategic level, and so it’s timely that this review of JISC’s work is available, showing the work done both at that level, but also by helping institutions implement practice and systems that make OA a reality, something JISC’s been in a unique position to do. Access the Complete Report Source: JISC Information Environment Team Hat Tip and Thank You: Peter Suber and the Open Access Tagging Project (OATP) (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:13:18 +0100 862186 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/24/conference-paper-could-social-tags-enrich-the-library-subject-index/ Access the Complete Paper (8 pages; PDF) By: Constantia Kakali & Christos Papatheodorou In: Libraries In the Digital Age 2010, Zadar (Hungary), May 24-28, 2010 From the Abstract: Social tagging aims to generate folksonomies through the users’ collaboration and activation. This paper is motivated by the trend of several libraries to adopt social tagging functionalities and presents a tag analysis study aiming to exploit a social tag collection for the benefit of the subject description of an academic library material. In this context, cataloguers are interviewed to assess the semantic value of the concepts expressed by the set of social tags and discuss the possibility of their incorporation in the well-formed and structured library authority file. Access the Complete Paper (8 pages; PDF) Source: Libraries In the Digital Age 2010 (via E-LIS) (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:41:56 +0100 862052 http://sites.menashalibrary.org/2010/07/21/social-cataloging-and-the-future-wilsworld-2010/ LibraryThing – Tim Spaulding Ladder of social cataloging 1. Personal cataloging 2. Sharing – library, opinions, data 3. Implicit social cataloging 65 million tags! Tagging is making sense for yourself – magical when large groups do it 5 recommendation algorithms 4. Social networking Connection news Librarians who LibraryThing – largest group 5. Explicit social cataloging No authority file 6. Collaborative cataloging 200 Collections of Presidential book collections and others – way cool Not about features or central control Traditional cataloging has physical basis – size of catalog cards Millions of tags wash out the impact of bad tagging This is about giving things to people – not user generated content! Embrace radical openness Library catalogs stuck in 2001 No permanent linking to bib records Go with the grain of Internet Trust people Let others in Be on the web LibraryThing for Libraries Reviews Different editions pulled together Similar reads Tag cloud Virtual shelf browser – adds browsability (Source: Sites and Soundbytes) Wed, 21 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 861379 http://nnlm.gov/mcr/news_blog/?p=7147 Have you wanted the chance to learn more about Web 2.0 technologies such as wikis, blogs, social bookmarking, and social networking?   MCR is offering a 7-week online class using a self-discovery format called Learning 2.0. You may recall that we previously taught an implementation of Learning 2.0 called “13 Things” (based on the popular “Learning 2.0 23 Things” class originally created by Helene Blowers at the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenberg County).  Based on your feedback, we’re now offering the class in 2 parts.  The first part is called “6 Things Learning 2.0 Part I.” The class will also be offered to members of the NN/LM Pacific Southwest Region. The class is offered in an asynchronous format, so you can participate at any time that works for you.  We anticipate the class work will take (on average) 2 hours of your time per week.  We will have one mandatory orientation session the first week of the class — this session will be held using Adobe Connect.  If you can’t attend the session, you can watch the recording online. Please see the class description and agenda below for more information.  Important pre-requisite:  you must be able and willing to sign up for various online services that will require registration and an e-mail address. The class will be held from July 26, 2010 through September 10, 2010.  The class is FREE. Class enrollment will be limited to 20 participants from MCR (first come, first serve based when you fill out the registration form). The class has been approved for 12 MLA CE credits. To register, please go to:  http://tinyurl.com/mcrclasses and scroll down to the listing for the “6 Things Learning 2.0 Part I ” class.  Click on “Register” to fill out the registration form. For more questions or more information contact Sharon Dennis at sdennis@lib.med.utah.edu. ... Mon, 19 Jul 2010 14:22:18 +0100 860828 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/VI-TT65sWQk/ This is a follow-up to my post Enterprise microblogging needs a facelift to rival email. In that post I talked about adding an item in the stream to your Watchlist This way you can keep in the loop about a conversation without you having to be a poster or a commenter I also talked about communally grouping items via contributors tagging them with a hashtag This way you can keep in the loop about the greater task that is generating all these items Differences You are not being cc:ed, rather you "pull" the content to you (filtering your own information) you can be @mentioned which is like the to: or cc: field but this won’t happen in every post and comment, so it’s up to people to add it to their Watchlist The sender has an understanding of who needs to be involved in a conversation, but this is not always apparent at the start of a task, and there are plenty of people on the edges who need to be consulted that emerge Now anyone can find a conversation, add it to their Watchlist, get involved Deeper than In-the-flow and Above-the-flow A while back a defining post was made on the difference between working Above-the-Flow (volunteering to share information and experiences based on engagement, trust, audience, reciprocity), and In-the-Flow (communicating and asking questions about tasks using social tools rather than email…doing what you are already doing in new tools). Well what I want to describe here is going deeper than In-the-Flow…to the artifacts of the activity itself. Example We have a web conference about a task that involves people across teams. We set up a group space. We use this group space to ask the task team questions. We use this group space to communicate our individual progress to the task members. ... Mon, 19 Jul 2010 09:45:23 +0100 860611 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/16/full-text-article-the-democratization-of-metadata-collective-tagging-folksonomies-and-web-2-0/ by Joshua M. Avery Vol. 5 (2010) From the Introduction: The following paper will explore some of the ways in which folksonomies are shaping notions and methods surrounding contemporary knowledge management, how they are currently being used, and how information professionals are reacting to these developments. This paper will also explore the future of folksonomies and their contribution to the growth of Web 2.0 and a more democratic World Wide Web. Because of the nature of folksonomies and their omnipresence throughout the information economy, this paper will examine both scholarly and popular sources. Access Full Text Article Source: Library Student Journal Peer Reviewed, Open Access Journal (Source: ResourceShelf) Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:23:47 +0100 860230 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/H8wj5f1YbqU/ OK, here’s the solution upfront. You can read the rest of this post to know why this needs to happen. SOLUTION Requirements More than 140 characters (like Yammer and Socialtext Signals) Inline comments; also posts in their own right (like Yammer and Socialtext Signals) Request Add a post to your Watchlist like an RSS Reader but subscribing at the post level Imagine rather than "favouriting/liking" a post, you are actually subscribing to it This way you can be notified of any new comments about a post Tag posts in your Watchlist a tagcloud/list would be accessible in the left hand pane of the microblogging app list preferred posts from your Watchlist in the left hand pane for one click access see it turn bold-which signifies new content-and displays a number-which signifies the number of new comments in that post Follow a Hashtag like saving Twitter search queries in your sidebar but more like an RSS Reader subscribing to a tag Click on it to view as a stream Reason for this feature is to catch new posts (and comments on those posts) on the same topic or task accessible from the left hand pane of the client and turns bold-which signifies new content-and displays a number-which signifies the number of new posts and comments in existing posts These requests are necessary to catch posts and comments that stream by that are important to you. Microblogging in the enterprise is a different context from the consumer web; people are doing real work and need to be able to catch important posts in the stream. ... Fri, 16 Jul 2010 15:16:04 +0100 860128 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/07/14/50-years-of-cataloguing-and-change-a-profile-of-helen-lucas/ An Wired Campus article by Jennifer Howard profiles Helen Lucas, a cataloger, who retired this summer after 50 years on the job at Fairfield U. The profile begins with Ms. Lucus, a recent high school graduate in 1960, using an IBM Executive typewriter. “It had proportionate spacing on it. Every letter took up a certain amount of space, and they were all different.” Here are some other examples of how things are SO different today. + She said he biggest “professional shift” took place in 1973 when Fairfeld University joined OCLC. They had one direct link to OCLC HQ in Ohio. They were given manuals on how to use the system but no formal training. + “It [OCLC} transformed all our work flows because we also had to learn computer language, we had to become familiar with the MARC format, we had to know the tagging.” + Circulation: From “blue and white cards” to bar codes. It took eight months to convert. +”Automation has just revolutionized the whole profession,” Ms. Lucas says. “Technology has changed everything for the better.” + On the Future: “I don’t think there’s ever going to come a day when there’s no more books in the library. I think there’s just going to be a lot more of the other stuff.” You can read the entire article and learn what Ms. Lucas has planned for her retirement here. Source: Chronicle of Higher Education (Wired Campus) (Source: ResourceShelf) Wed, 14 Jul 2010 22:28:49 +0100 859681 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/07/call-for-articles-ideas-journal-call.html Call for articles & ideas - Journal call for papers from Library Hi Tech NewsLibrary Hi Tech News (LHTN), is actively seeking submissions. LHTN is an established (1984+) print and online monthly journal that quickly publishes articles of interest to our international readership. The journal’s major focus is on developments in library technology. Although not formally peer reviewed, LHTN is indexed in Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA), Scopus, INSPEC, Current Index to Journals in Education and others. Published by Emerald Publishing Group, LHTN is interested in articles of varying lengths, reports from relevant conferences, and case studies of library use of technology. The editors will work with authors that are new to LIS publishing, and those who are seeking outlets for reporting on practical uses of IT in libraries. Publishing your article in LHTN can be “a place to start,” analogous to a “poster session in print” and does not preclude publishing a more fulsome piece in a peer-reviewed journal at a later date. Readers consider LHTN the source to hear what’s coming next in terms of technology development for academic and public libraries. ... Wed, 14 Jul 2010 04:00:00 +0100 860596 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/Rd3eLjgaVW8/ Following a chat with Mark Surman of the Mozilla Foundation a week or two ago, I’ve been pondering a possible “flip” between: a) the production of course materials as part of a (closed) internal process, primarily for use within a (closed) course in a particular institution, and then released under an open license (such as a Creative commons license); and b) the production of course materials in the open that are then: i) pulled into the institution for use within a (closed) course; or ii) used (or not) to support self-directed learning towards an assessment only award. In the OU, the course production model can take a team of several academics, supported by a course manager, media project manager, editor, picture researcher, rights chasers, developers, artists, et al. several years to produce a course that will then last for between five and ten years of presentation. In addition, handover of course materials may take place up to a year before the first presentation of the course. Course units are typically drafted by individual authors, and then passed for comment and critical reading to the rest of the course team. Typically, materials will pass through at least two drafts before final handover. (After a little digging, and the help of @ostephens, I managed to track down some reports on how course production was managed in the early years of the OU: Course Production: Some Basic Problems, Course Production: Activities and Activity Networks, Course Production: Planning and Scheduling, Course Production: The Problem of Assessment, though I haven’t had chance to read them yet…) For the OU short course T151 Digital Worlds, the majority of the course team authored content was published as it was being written on a public WordPress blog (Digital Worlds Uncourse Blog); in the current version of the course, students are referred to that public content from within the VLE. ... Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:14:35 +0100 858809 http://www5.oclc.org/downloads/research/webinars/20100527ld.m4v By: Lorna M. Campbell and Sheila MacNeill From the Documents (6 pages; PDF) This briefing paper will provide a high level overview of key concepts relating to the Semantic Web, semantic technologies, linked and open data; along with references to relevant examples and standards. The briefing is intended to provide a starting point for those within the teaching and learning community who may have come across the concept of semantic technologies and theSemantic Web but who do not regard themselves as experts and wish to learn more. The examples and links are intended as starting points for further exploration. Source: JISC CETIS, the Centre for Educational Technology and Interoperability Standards Hat Tip: Peter Suber and the Open Access Tagging Project See Also: Conference Paper: Linked Data for Libraries Paper will be presented next month at IFLA. See Also: New Video: An Introduction to Linked Data From Sandro Hawke at WC3 See Also: New York Times Releases First Collection of Subject Descriptors as Linked Open Data See Also: Ralph LeVan from OCLC Research Conducted a Webinar re: Linked Data on May 27, 2010 Linked Data is a hot topic. It provides a mechanism to expose library data in a way that is understandable to non-librarians, thereby facilitating community development of services that go beyond traditional library resources and creatively exploit library data in valuable new ways. In this webinar, OCLC senior research scientist Ralph LeVan explains what Linked Data is about and how OCLC produces it, using examples from VIAF (The Virtual International Authority File). He also talks about topics such as Real World Objects, Generic Documents, Content Negotiation and RDF. Linked Data Webinar Slides (19 Slides; PPT) (Audio: .wmv (60 min.) (Audio: .m4v (60 min.) Part Two of Ralph LeVan’s Linked Data Webinar Took Place on July 1st + The audio from the webinar will be available soon but 15 . ... Thu, 08 Jul 2010 20:49:00 +0100 857928 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibrariansMatter/~3/1lQ3X1p7p1o/ Help! I need a librarian’s librarian. Anyone have any ideas about how to solve this one? I *can’t* be the only one who has spread her content over many,many sites. I start at Curtin Uni next week and I want to: keep my academic references / papers / thoughts and jottings in order and accessible and sharable. be able to tag, store and retrieve them at the flick of a button and without interrupting my everyday workflow. (Don’t we all ? ) have a place that I can flick references/readings that I want students to look at.. possibly with annotation (Tumblr? Delicious?) have an online portfolio/repository of my own writings/audio of presentations that I can link to when people ask about them I am toying with starting a “Kathryn as an academic” blog … mainly so I can use all sorts of tools but have a single place to pull in the feeds from the tools, and then point people that I want to share with to just the one spot… (Or maybe I should start a separate friendfeed account for that ?) Currently I use: A Zotero account for my “personal and scholarly” citations (for papers I am writing etc). Synced via Firefox on my own PCs and at Zotero on the web A Delicious account for my “non-scholarly and want to share” bookmarks (like WordPress hacks). Not backed up. Evernote for my personal jottings, screenshots and crap. Synced on my own PCs, iThings and the web. Dropbox as a backup for whatever I am writing, a place to pop pdfs I want to read on my iThings and for sharing co-created works while they are being made. Synced between my PCs and the web. Instapaper to save readings that are pushed out in Twitter that I want to find later and read on my iThings. Not backed up. My Slideshare account for the public face of my presentations, plus audio on my own webserver if it is a screencast. Presentations backed up on my PCs. Synchronised slidecasts not backed up. ... Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:30:50 +0100 858863 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/pandia/vfbc/~3/-H_eyQg3GCU/3002-insights-from-a-social-network.html How do you engage the visitors on your site? How do you work to develop new interactivity? A lot of insight can be gleaned from the experiences of the people who are out there getting their feet wet, building online communities from scratch. Here is an interview with Marina Cianfarani, owner of qmpeople, a social network with some original features. Disclosure: qmpeople is a Pandia Sponsor. Pandia: Your site has been online since 2004, but it wasn’t launched in earnest before 2008. Did you do a lot of market analysis before launching the site? Marina Cianfarani: Yes, even though we did have clear ideas in mind for our site since the start. We have seen that many social networks had the same characteristics and lack of personality so it has been simple for us to develop qmpeople. Nevertheless we understand that nowadays it’s crucial for anyone to know the market, actual and potential competitors and emerging trends. For that reason we initially launched qmpeople only in Italy (our country of origin) and after more than six months of 360 degrees analysis we decided to expand our initiative to the international arena. Outsourcing Pandia: We understand that you are a rather small company. How do you manage to keep it running. Through outsourcing? Marina Cianfarani: Yes, we outsource a large part of our activities. For example, we chosen our SMS gateway in South Africa, hosting solution in USA, domain management distributed across several authorities/providers thanks to a custom DNS solution, legal experts on Internet laws in Ukraine as well as many young collaborators in different parts of the world. ... Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:39:30 +0100 856818 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/textundblog/~3/aSgslR_Vamg/ GlastoTag ist ein interessantes Foto-Tagging-Projekt: Eine Aufnahme (genau genommen 36 Aufnahmen, verbunden zu einem Mega-Foto) mit 70.000 Leuten drauf, die aufgefordert werden, sich in das Bild rein zu zoomen, sich selbst zu finden und zu taggen (also sich selbst auf dem Bild mit ihrem Facebook-Account zu verlinken). Es soll ein Rekord aufgestellt werden: das am meisten getaggte Bild zu schaffen. Die Aufnahmen wurden mit zwei 50 Megapixel-Kamera Hasselblad H4D-50 auf dem englischen Musikfestival Glastonbury gemacht. So weit, so interessant. Bedenklich ist natürlich, dass das Ganze nicht aus Altruismus, Begeisterung fürs Festival oder Liebe zum Taggen initiiert wurde, sondern dass sich dahinter eine virale Marketing-Kampagne des Mobilfunkanbieters Orange verbirgt. Trotzdem: clever gemacht. 2.700 haben ihre Gesichter erkannt und sich bereits getaggt. Und das werden garantiert noch mehr… Infos auf spanisch bei ALT1040 (gleichzeitig meine Quelle): ¿Dónde está Wally en el festival Glastonbury? ¡Etiquétalo! Infos auf englisch bei The Next Web: 1.3 Gigapixel photo on track for Most Tagged Online Image Ever © Markus Trapp for Text & Blog, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: (Source: Text & Blog) Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:49:13 +0100 857470 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/ezFR/~3/3h5Epu_FpDE/ New Features Add support for the new firmware of the Azbooka A few speedups for calibre startup, should add up to a few seconds of startup time on slower machines Support for the Sweem MM300 Add keyboard shortcut for Download metadata and covers Bug Fixes Fix regression in 0.7.5 that broke conversion of malformed HTML files (like those Microsoft Word outputs) Don’t download tags from librarything, as the tagging there is not very good Add mimetype for FB2 so that it can be served by the content server Ensure cover is not resized to less than the available space in the Edit Meta Information dialog SONY driver: Only update collections when sending book to device for the first time calibre should now work on windows when the location for the library contains non-ascii characters Cover browser once again distorts instead of cropping covers that have an incorrect aspect ratio ISBNDb metadata plugin: Fix bug causing only first page of results to be fetched Move iTunes driver to the bottom so that it doesn’t interfere with device detection for people that have iphones and an ereader plugged in Digg us. 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(Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Mon, 28 Jun 2010 13:40:43 +0100 855534 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/kraftylibrarian/OLay/~3/buPLVCPqhhw/ I often get asked by people in the library about the best medical apps for their phone.  That is a little bit like asking me what car they should buy.  It all depends on the individuals needs and the type of phone they have.  The first step, is the phone.  Most people who ask me about apps have already made their phone decision.  But if  they haven’t bought a specific phone or they are looking to upgrade, the number and type of apps available play an important part of the decision (Blackberry App World only lists 276 in Health & Wellness, they don’t have a medical category).  In addition to apps there are a lot of other factors in the phone selection process such as carrier, institutional access/support, and whether you live in a rural area all important things to consider.  I found the article at iMedicalApps.com, “Should medical progressionals get an iPhone, Blackberry or Android phone? It’s complicated,” to be helpful when deciding on a type of phone.  They also have good reviews on various medical apps, so if you or somebody you know has already purchased an iPhone or Android they can browse through the blog and read about the apps. The blog is written by several people who either already have their MD or are MD/MPH students who are all interested in technology (a given considering this blog) and are practicing in specialties.  While the blog reviews various apps from the Android it tends to be very iPhone heavy.  This could be due to the fact the iPhone has the most (by far) medical apps available on the smartphone market but it could also be that most of the authors tend to be iPhone users and the site was formally http://www.iphonemedicalappreview.com. (Given that old URL I would expect it to be iPhone centric.)  However I did I noticed one person listed as an author who specifically writes about the Android. ... Wed, 23 Jun 2010 23:33:58 +0100 854464 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/GiJVaDuvF9I/3934 Oh no! What example will I use when I talk about tagging? This came across AUTOCAT yesterday: Subject Headings for Cooking and Cookbooks June 22, 2010 The Library of Congress issued the list of the new and revised subject headings for materials on cooking and cookbooks on June 22, 2010 (http://www.loc.gov/aba/cataloging/subject/weeklylists/). These new and revised headings will be distributed beginning with the CDS distribution file vol. 25, issue 24 dated June 14 and will continue until completed. The revision of Subject Headings Manual (SHM) H 1475, “Cooking and Cookbooks,” is forthcoming and will be posted as a PDF file on the public Cataloging and Acquisitions Web site ( http://www.loc.gov/aba/ ). It will also be included in SHM Update Number 2 of 2010, which will be distributed in the fall. The word “cookery” has been changed to “cooking” in approximately 800 subject headings (e.g., Cooking, Cooking (Butter), Cooking for the sick, Aztec cooking, Cooking, American–Southwestern style). A topical subject heading for Cookbooks and a genre/form heading for Cookbooks have also been approved, and are available for use. Most of the Children’s Subject Headings in the form Cookery–[Ingredient] have been cancelled in favor of the adult heading Cooking ([Ingredient]). However, three of those headings have been retained and revised: Cooking (Buffets), Cooking (Garnishes), and Cooking (Natural foods). In cases where reference structure for a heading has been changed but the heading itself has not, the heading was omitted from the list. For example, the headings Brunches, Comfort food, and Tortillas had the broader term Cookery, which has been changed to Cooking. None of these three headings appear on the Weekly List. The references on approximately 500 headings have been changed. ... Wed, 23 Jun 2010 10:36:17 +0100 854630 http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/White-Paper/Article/How-to-Achieve-an-Information-Advantage-67871.aspx An "information-advantaged" company is one that uses information more effectively than its competitors. The Leadership Council for Information Advantage released a report this month that discussed how to turn information into a competitive advantage. While it is a high-level goal, the recommendations were concrete and merit consideration. One source of rich information is the data that is contained in paper or electronic documents. In this article we'll discuss how case management technologies such as capture and process automation and can help organizations use information for competitive advantage.The information within a document is enormously valuable, but if it exists only on paper or locked in an electronic format like Word or PDF, it is difficult to use. When data is transferred to business systems using manual data entry and tagging/classification, you are throttling your productivity with manual steps that are expensive, slow and error-prone. . . . (Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Business Process Management) Tue, 22 Jun 2010 12:00:00 +0100 855104 http://blog.njla.org/archives/2010/06/#000860 By ABBOTT KOLOFF • STAFF WRITER • June 15, 2010 MORRISTOWN -- Parts of the Morristown & Morris Township Library are expected to be ready to open by late August, almost three months after an explosion ripped through the building, according to the building’s insurer. Ross Koch, an executive general adjuster for Travelers Insurance, told the town council on Tuesday night that asbestos remediation will be conducted in part of the library within the next month. He said newer parts of the building, which were not severely damaged, could be open to the public by mid to late August. However, it’s not clear whether electricity will be restored by that time. “I can’t tell you when (electricity will be restored,” said Ron Morano, a spokesman for Jersey Central Power & Light. “We are working with the library to get them open again.” Library officials were not immediately available to comment. Koch said there is no timetable for reopening the oldest wing of the building. Officials with Travelers and JCP&L spoke to the council last night, as had been requested by Mayor Timothy Dougherty. The mayor also had requested the Public Service Enterprise Group, which has a gas line at the library, to appear at the meeting. Karen Johnson, a PSE&G spokeswoman, said earlier Tuesday that her company declined to attend because it determined it was not responsible for the explosion. JCP&L officials have said they believe a combustible gas caused the explosion but have not said what kind of gas might have been involved. PSE&G officials have said they determined natural gas was not present after the explosion. “Our facilities didn’t contribute to the explosion,” Johnson said Tuesday. Dougherty said PSE&G told him their equipment was “fine” and that there was only so much they could say because of the possibility of future litigation. “I’m sorry PSE&G chose not to come,” Dougherty said. ... Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:00:00 +0100 853160 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/06/17/metadata-creation-social-media-can-provide-for-a-broader-range-of-contributions-and-sources/ by Karen Smith-Yoshimura From the Article: For the past year, a 21-member RLG Partner Social Metadata Working Group from five countries has been reviewing social metadata sites, analyzing the results of a survey sent to social metadata site managers, and discussing the factors that contribute to successful—and not so successful—social metadata sites of most relevance to libraries, archives and museums. Open Context is an example of a discipline-based site inviting archeologists to share and comment on excavation site discoveries. The working group reviewed 73 sites with social metadata features. [Our emphasis] Social metadata takes many forms: tagging, comments, reviews, images, videos, ratings, recommendations, lists, links to related articles, etc. Success depends on the site’s objective. Increasing traffic is not necessarily the prime driver. Some sites are looking to connect with a new audience, while others want to gather user contributions. A number of cultural heritage organizations have successfully used the Flickr community to identify “mystery photos” or the source of illuminated manuscript pages. The National Library of Australia’s Historic Australian Newspapers, 1803 to 1954, is an example of harnessing the passion of genealogists. Within its first year, with no publicity, enthusiasts edited more than five million lines of OCRd text. Access the Full Text Article Source: NextSpace See Also: Leveraging Social Media (PDF; 23 slides) by Karen Smith-Yoshimura, Program Officer, OCLC Research Presented at OCLC Digital Forum West 2009 on September 17, 2009 (Source: ResourceShelf) Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:45:18 +0100 852856 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lint/~3/96wrIQBwjmU/ With a public holiday across half the country, AFL matches and the early morning and early painful start to the day with the World Cup – there was a distinctly sleeperish feel to many of the days posts. Jenelle and Naomi blogged specifically on being tired with several others, Virtually a Librarian, FromMelbin, Bonito Club,  LiberryDwarf, Options from an OPL, Miss Sophie Mac,   mentioning long weekends, tiredness and similar themes for coming down with meme fever. Cookering is a recurring and delicious theme across the challenge.  For day 14 I was delighted with Sallysetsforth’s recipe for coconut macaroons which I have tasted and can personally attest to their yumminess.  Bookgrrl’s pumpkin feast is definitely one to write home about with thai pumpkin soup, pumpkin scones and red lentil and pumpkin dahl. Lastly on the foody theme, Walking Upside Down keeps me recipe guessing and salivating with her weekly menu plan. A special mention, I empathised with Justgirlwithshoes trying to dry laundry in Melbourne’s Winter but also celebrated in the construction of a new clothesline (this is close to my own heart, having just recently installed our own outdoor clothesline). Nearing the halfway mark, and with the Winter cold now firmly set in , reflecting also seemed to be on the cards. Librarian with different hats reflected specifically on #blogeverydayinJune and on how much she has learnt from other librarians and the value in reflecting on daily life. ... Tue, 15 Jun 2010 11:19:52 +0100 853291 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/EV4y4WV46RE/johnt Network weaving diagram How Will "Augmented Reality" Affect Your Business? - John Sviokla - Harvard Business Review Augmented reality and ID tagging might be the killer apps for video glasses - Trends in the Living Networks 20 Best Augmented Reality iPhone Applications Video of Bruce Sterling keynote on the dawn of the augmented reality industry - Trends in the Living Networks 16 Top Augmented Reality Business Models | PERSONALIZE MEDIA Failure of the Waterfall approach for intranets, IM, KM and collaboration projects - chieftech's blog Linda Stone: Are We at War With Technology? A framework for social learning in the enterprise (Source: Library clips) Sat, 12 Jun 2010 07:00:00 +0100 851960 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/NetbibWeblog/~3/VerVttg9Dbw/ Das Bibliotheksportal informiert für EinsteigerInnen über Web 2.0 Anwendungen in Bibliotheken, näher eingegangen wird auf die Themen Weblogs, Wikis, social Tagging, Katalog 2.0 und soziale Netzwerke. (Source: netbib weblog) Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:31:25 +0100 851393 http://liszen.com/trends/story.php?title=Media_Library_Plugin_2-0 The true power of Media Library Plugin 2.0, comes from image tagging. It allows you to tag your WordPress images or attachments with the existing Wor (Source: pligg - all) Fri, 11 Jun 2010 07:00:23 +0100 851322 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/gUsPLtUL4Io/ Amazon Kindle software version 2.5 is being received by customers, including a person at Kindleboards.com who received version 2.52 and also Frankie Sutton at the Amazon forum. The first alert I saw was from @mykindlestuff. Particulars will be reported later. See earlier report about planned roll-out as described by a tech rep to ebook addict and to an earlier hands-on report. Will return soon. UPDATE – Kindle forum members are continuing to see delivery-reports for software update v2.52. No one knows if this is the ‘final’ version but at least reports of receipt keep coming in after 3-4 days of no activity. Some details - . The much anticipated alphabetical-sorting of listed Collections on the Home Page is not part of the update in this roll-out, sad to say – this was tested and reported by edward boyhan in the ongoing software-update thread linked to before but now over 2,100 notes long. . One thing not mentioned previously but a part of 2.5 is that a long book title expands to full title now (in smaller font) when the file is highlighted, so that now it’ll be easier to differentiate between files with the same beginning title despite the lack of room to show it on the first line. . While v2.5 users experienced some slowdowns and more battery drain than before, the v2.52 users have had only positive reports so far (but it hasn’t been long). The organization folder-like tagging system has been ‘wished for’ (in Amazon language) for over 2 years, so this is a big and much-anticipated change for Kindle users. UPDATE2 – At the forums, people have been wondering if the update is being delivered to Kindles outside the U.S., and so far we’ve heard from Taiwan and the UK. Whispernet-delivered software dates to now millions of Kindles, globally, can take 3-4 weeks to be distributed. ... Tue, 08 Jun 2010 14:35:07 +0100 850726 http://blogs.ala.org/nrmig.php?title=ala_annual_2010_best_bets_for_metadata_l&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 Below is a list of metadata and digital library-friendly sessions for ALA Annual 2010. Planning to attend a session or already reporting on a session? Think about blogging it here! If you would like to blog any of the sessions, please contact Kristin Martin at kmarti@uic.edu with your name, e-mail address, and preferred session. Fuller descriptions, when available, are linked to. See a section not on here that you think would be of interest? Suggest it! I've tried to be inclusive as possible with the sessions as metadata is a cross-disciplinary topic within library and information science. Sessions of interest include metadata, digital projects, digital technology, and cataloging, and are from all different groups within ALA. Note that many of the sessions are sponsored through LITA, which has its own blog and they are also looking for bloggers. They are listed here for interest and I will link to write-ups following the conference. Friday Sessions 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM on 06/25 FRBR Interest Group Location: MAY in Chinese BR Unit/Subunit: ALCTS 3:30 PM - 5:15 PM on 06/25 Cataloging and Classification Forum (CCS) Location: HIL in Lincoln Unit/Subunit: ALCTS - CCS 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM on 06/25 Electronic Resources Management Interest Group Location: HIL in Fairchild Unit/Subunit: LITA, ALCTS 4:00 PM - 5:15 PM on 06/25 Competencies and Education for a Career in Cataloging Interest Group Location: JW in Commerce Unit/Subunit: ALCTS - CCS Saturday Sessions 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM on 06/26 Technical Services Managers in Academic Libraries Interest Group Program Location: MAD in Constitution Unit/Subunit: ALCTS 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM on 06/26 Grassroot Prog. ... Sun, 06 Jun 2010 16:24:27 +0100 850102 http://joblist.ala.org/modules/jobseeker/controller.cfm?rssjobid=15003 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Information Organization (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) The School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee is accepting applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Information Organization for 2010-2011. The information organization fellowship is designed for recent PhDs who are interested in knowledge and/or information organization. We are seeking candidates with research and teaching interests in a range of topics or applications including but not limited to classification theory, domain analysis, ontology and epistemology, resource description, metadata, information architecture, taxonomies, ontologies, tagging, and/or the Semantic Web. Applicants interested in cultural perspectives and/or collaborative research are particularly welcome. ... Sat, 22 May 2010 00:15:01 +0100 845956 http://feeds.plos.org/~r/plos/PublishingBlog/~3/FrNnx_g1qS0/526 Later this year, PLoS will launch a prototype version of the PLoS Hub for Biodiversity, a resource that will aggregate relevant articles from a range of open-access sources including our own journal websites and PubMed Central. Biodiversity is a very broad interdisciplinary topic with data, analyses and ideas currently spread across many locations. By aggregating dispersed information, the PLoS Hub for Biodiversity will help to develop important links between measures of species diversity and the ecological and evolutionary science that is investigating the causes and consequences of biodiversity change. The aims of this website will be to create a place to share the latest findings, to connect researchers who have complementary interests and ideas, and to accelerate the pace of research and discovery. We're collaborating with a number of different organizations to create this new site including: the Census of Marine Life (their Tagging of Pacific Predators group have already published a PLoS Collection and other groups will join them shortly); the California Academy of Sciences; the Natural History Museum, London; the Consortium for the Barcode of Life; the Encyclopaedia of Life and the Biodiversity Heritage Library. The first iteration of the PLoS Hub will be a collaboration between PLoS and community members who will help to populate and curate the Hub. It will introduce features that demonstrate some of the real potential of open-access content, such as semantically-tagged articles. Subsequent releases of Hubs will incorporate capabilities so that Hubs can be tailored to the needs of particular communities. We encourage all biodiversity researchers to publish their work in one of the PLoS Journals so that we can easily bring all this content together in the Biodiversity Hub. Remember, the Hub doesn't publish work in its own right; it aggregates articles from a number of different sources including our own. ... Thu, 20 May 2010 17:16:50 +0100 848220 http://vivabibliotecaviva.blogspot.com/2010/05/tuites-5eol-v-encontro-oeiras-ler-parte.html miguelmcorreia    #5eol em pausa para almoço 38 minutes ago via web Reply Retweet janjos    #5eol @mekije: Desassociar a Biblioteca de Livros nas mentes dos Teens. Associar a "Aprender", about 1 hour ago via TweetDeck Reply Retweet miguelmcorreia    #5eol Não mudou muito com a tecnologia. Os miúdos usam FB para comentar miúdas e outras mensagens como faziam há 20 anos atrás. about 1 hour ago via web Reply Retweet miguelmcorreia    #5eol Embora os jovens hoje usem muito hoje a tecnologia não o fazem de forma crítica, ou até inteligente. about 1 hour ago via web Reply Retweet angelinaper    #5eol time for questions. ... Thu, 20 May 2010 04:00:00 +0100 847018 http://www.affordance.info/mon_weblog/2010/05/le-like-tuera-le-lien.html L'économétrie de l'attirance contre l'économie du lien. Ou comment le "like" pourrait bien tuer le "lien". PROLOGUE. Le web de demain au (haut) risque du paratexte. Du paratexte, Wikipédia donne la définition suivante : "Le paratexte est l'ensemble des discours de commentaire ou de présentation qui accompagnent une œuvre. (...) Il peut être donné soit par l'auteur de l'œuvre, soit par d'autres écrivains ou non-écrivains. Le paratexte contient aussi le « péritexte » qui est constitué du titre, du sous-titre, de la préface, des épigraphes, des notes en bas de page, des phrases en marge, des informations périphériques, de la dédicace, des renvois et de la quatrième de couverture." Le web, en sa totalité comme en chacune de ses parties, émergées ou immergées est une immense oeuvre collective. Une oeuvre à tout le moins "ouverte" comme dirait Umberto Eco, mais incontestablement une oeuvre. La paratexte est radicalement différent de l'intertextualité. L'intertextualité qui est définie par Gérard Genette comme : "un processus indéfini, une dynamique textuelle : le texte ne se réfère pas seulement à l'ensemble des écrits, mais aussi à la totalité des discours qui l'environnent." Donc : Les "oeuvres", les textes - à prendre ici au sens large, c'est à dire les documents quelle que soit leur nature, multimédia ou non - les textes qui composent le web sont en relation d'intertextualité. Ils sont inclus dans un environnement vaste, très largement distribué (réticulé), profondément rhizomatique. L'appel du trou noir. Et deux prémisses pour situer les enjeux. L'une sous forme de question, l'autre résolument affirmative. La masse des contenus générés (= le web comme oeuvre ouverte) est-elle soluble dans le paratexte aujourd'hui dominant ? Ce que nous appelions le web comme co-construction de liens, est en passe de céder. ... Sun, 16 May 2010 04:00:00 +0100 845303 http://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/paper-contest-global-information.html The Special Interest Group on International Information Issues (SIG-III) of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) announced its competition for papers. The theme for this year’s paper contest is: "Navigating Streams in a Global Information Ecosystem". Topics include the following areas: “(1) Intercultural Information Ethics: Critical reflection on the ethical challenges related to the global and cross-cultural production, storage, and distribution of information, as well as the ethical dimensions of the global development and implementation of information systems, infrastructures, and policies. (2) Information Behaviour: Information needs, information seeking, information gaps and sense-making in various contexts including work, interests or every-day life activities by individuals or groups. (3) Knowledge Organization: Indexing, index construction, indexing languages, thesaurus construction, terminology, classification of information in any form, tagging (expert, user-based, automatic), filtering, metadata, standards for metadata, information architecture. (4) Information Systems, Interactivity and Design: How people use and communicate with information systems; the design, use and evaluation of interactive information technologies and systems, including interfaces and algorithms; search and retrieval, browsing, visualization, personalization. (5) Information and Knowledge Management: Information and knowledge creation, transfer and use at the personal, group, organizational and societal levels. The management of the processes and systems that create, acquire, organize, store, distribute, and use information and/or knowledge. ... Thu, 13 May 2010 04:00:00 +0100 844608 http://www.nlc.state.ne.us/nlcpodcast/NCompassPodcast050.mp3 Trainer Michael Sauers applies the super-search strategies he is known for to the latest generation of Web tools. Blogs, RSS, Flickr, podcasting, mashups, the read/write Web, Google, visual search engines, folksonomies, Firefox Search Plugins, Del.icio.us, and more. Irreverent and fun, this presentation will expose you to some of the more recent tools that make the most of the Web 2.0 environment: from improving basic search skills and evaluating search results to making the best use of search engines, both common and cutting-edge. Sauers will also show you how best to organize your resources for quick access at the reference desk. Play audio: Play video: Download (MP3) Subscribe to the NCompass Podcast (Audio RSS) Searching 2.0 links (Source: Travelin' Librarian) Wed, 12 May 2010 15:58:07 +0100 843457 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/05/event-survive-or-thrive-making-most-of.html Received via email.*Survive or thrive: making the most of your digital content Conference*http://www.surviveorthrive.org.uk/8-9 June 2010Macdonald Hotel, Manchester*Background*The growth of digital content and use of content on the Web has been rapidly changing over the past decade. The digital deluge provides opportunities but how can these best be exploited? Are you making the most of your content? What are the technical and strategic approaches required to thrive in today's environment?Question this conference will start to address:How do we exploit the value of distributed resources, linked data, geospatial tagging and metadata etc?In terms of scale what are the issues and barriers? What does working at web scale mean and offer? How can the crowd be exploited?What are the issues and opportunities for opening up content?How do we effectively and efficiently meet the needs of users and taking the best advantage of the available technologies? For example personalisation?How do sectors work together? Education, the cultural heritage sector, engaging business and community and the public and private sectors? What role should strategic agencies play?*Aim*The aim of the conference is to bring together community of experts to provide a focus on the above questions. This will allow us to identify the key approaches that universities, colleges, the cultural heritage and public sectors can pursue to support education, research and the wider knowledge economy.*Outcomes*It will provide a *Position Paper*, based on the workshop discussion that gives direction to content providers in the networked environment.Also the outcomes of the workshop will help to inform JISC programmes and service approaches, in particular the resource discovery and access strategies that JISC pursues; for example the JISC and  Research Libraries UK Resource Discovery Task Force vision and the JISC's  Strategic Content Alliance as appropriate. ... Wed, 12 May 2010 04:00:00 +0100 843539 http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2010/05/older-news-items.html Gary D. Price over at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker brought some news items to my attention.Canadiana Authorities searches over 660,000 name, title and name/title authority records derived from the AMICUS database.Helping online communities to semantically enrich folksonomies by Freddy Limpens, Fabien Gandon, and Michel Buffa.This paper presents our approach to collaborative and semiautomated semantic structuring of folksonomies. Tags freely provided by users of online communities are not semantically linked, and this hinders signi cantly the potentials for browsing and exploring these data. We propose a sociotechnical system combining automatic handlings of tags, using state of the art algorithm, and user friendly interfaces designed after a careful analysis of the usage of our target communities. Much like folksonomies, our socio-technical system lets each user maintain his own view while still bene ting from others contributions. As a complement to similar approaches, our approach supports conicting point of views all along the life-cycle of semantically enriched folksonomies.The March/April 2010 Issue of CLIR Issues (no. 74) includes By Any Other Name by CLIR President, Chuck Henry. Gary says it has "Some interesting thoughts on the role and importance of cataloging and classification in the digital age." (Source: Catalogablog) Wed, 12 May 2010 04:00:00 +0100 843520 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/pLIEG-HEAH8/event-survive-or-thrive-making-most-of.html Received via email.*Survive or thrive: making the most of your digital content Conference*http://www.surviveorthrive.org.uk/8-9 June 2010Macdonald Hotel, Manchester*Background*The growth of digital content and use of content on the Web has been rapidly changing over the past decade. The digital deluge provides opportunities but how can these best be exploited? Are you making the most of your content? What are the technical and strategic approaches required to thrive in today's environment?Question this conference will start to address:How do we exploit the value of distributed resources, linked data, geospatial tagging and metadata etc?In terms of scale what are the issues and barriers? What does working at web scale mean and offer? How can the crowd be exploited?What are the issues and opportunities for opening up content?How do we effectively and efficiently meet the needs of users and taking the best advantage of the available technologies? For example personalisation?How do sectors work together? Education, the cultural heritage sector, engaging business and community and the public and private sectors? What role should strategic agencies play?*Aim*The aim of the conference is to bring together community of experts to provide a focus on the above questions. This will allow us to identify the key approaches that universities, colleges, the cultural heritage and public sectors can pursue to support education, research and the wider knowledge economy.*Outcomes*It will provide a *Position Paper*, based on the workshop discussion that gives direction to content providers in the networked environment.Also the outcomes of the workshop will help to inform JISC programmes and service approaches, in particular the resource discovery and access strategies that JISC pursues; for example the JISC and  Research Libraries UK Resource Discovery Task Force vision and the JISC's  Strategic Content Alliance as appropriate. ... Wed, 12 May 2010 04:00:00 +0100 843473 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/05/07/the-friday-fillip-196/ It’s no secret that Canada’s mailboxes are disappearing. You often have to walk a mile or more for one of these ‘old skool’ objects. What you may not know, though, is that our scarce mailboxes are disappearing behind a kind of camouflage. Canada Post is going with a teflon sheet coating for the boxes that sports a crazy pattern of our postal codes, hoping to clad all of them by the end of the year, according to a story in the Toronto Star. The point of this covering is not to make the boxes disappear from view, as would be the case for most camouflage; rather, it’s an attempt to stop or discourage tagging. Often mis-labelled graffiti, tagging is the practice that some people have of making their distinctive mark on public objects — a pathetic human version, perhaps, of a pet’s urge to pee on lampposts and the like. Unlike classic graffiti, which typically uses words (or, latterly, images), tagging is simply a meaningless marring. The Canada Post hope is that the new mailbox coverings will be an unattractive canvas for taggers, because of the confusion of messages already in place. For reasons that escape me, there’s mailbox just opposite the end of my street. It has been visited by taggers, who made an effort to find the space with the least “camo” to do their dirty work. And while it’s not exactly invisible, their handiwork is far less eye-catching than it is when it has a blank surface to work with. Post Canada’s effort put me in mind of another kind of camouflage that’s not aimed at invisibility: razzle dazzle. Used during both world wars on some ships, razzle dazzle (or simply, dazzle, as the British called it) was an attempt to make it difficult for enemy spotters to get a proper fix on the ships. ... Fri, 07 May 2010 13:44:52 +0100 842969 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/-c0eRmtlENc/isko-uk-event-new-technologies-for.html Seeing is believing: new technologies for cultural heritage - 9 June, 2010 - London, UK - Access to cultural heritage collections and information is a hot topic with the public and even with some politicians. Information professionals in museums, galleries and libraries, including managers of virtual collections on the Internet, now have the opportunity (as well as the obligation) to harness technology and bring our cultural assets to the people. Even more, we can actively engage the public in tagging and otherwise participating in curation! Come to this seminar to hear about current work with texts, archives, objects and museum collections, from both a theoretical and an implementation standpoint, and to look at a variety of approaches to the material including Web 2.0 solutions (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Tue, 04 May 2010 21:34:26 +0100 841342 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/05/03/roddy-macleod-on-open-access-journals-tables-of-contents-and-rss/ Our friend (and one of the biggest influences on ResourceShelf), Roddy MacLeod, continues a series of posts listing new open access journals (taken from the DOAJ) and identifying if the publication does or does not have a Table of Contents RSS feed. If it does, the URL is provided. In this post, he explains why table of contents RSS feeds are so important for open access journals. + List #4 + List #3 + List #2 + List #1 Source: Roddy Macleod’s Blog Hat Tip: Peter Suber & Open Access Tagging Project (Source: ResourceShelf) Mon, 03 May 2010 09:01:50 +0100 840856 http://www.slaw.ca/2010/04/29/racial-profiling-and-national-security-issues/ With allegations of racial profiling in Arizona’s new immigration law abuzz throughout the media this week, it was interesting for me to come upon the speaking notes for a recent speech by Jennifer Lynch, Q.C., Chief Commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC); the speech, “The Effectiveness of Profiling from a National Security Perspective”, brings the issue closer to home. Briefly, the stated intent of the law passed by the Arizona State Legislature is to ensure the security and well-being of American citizens living in Arizona, by protecting them from illegal immigrants and drugs. The new law, which comes into effect in July 2010, requires local and state law enforcement to question people they suspect are in Arizona illegally about their immigration status. It also makes it a state crime to be in Arizona illegally; meaning, immigrants unable to produce documents showing they are allowed to be in the United States could be arrested, jailed for up to six months and fined $2,500 US, and ultimately deported. As a result, if you look like an immigrant, you are a target of the law. In Arizona, which shares a border with Mexico, this law is specifically aimed at Hispanics, and results in what we call racial profiling. Other states are experiencing the same feelings as in Arizona; Texas, in particular, is thinking of enacting similar legislation. Going back to the Canadian perspective, the CHRC Chief Commissioner’s speech was prepared for her role as a witness before the House of Commons Standing Committee on Transport, Infrastructure and Communities, studying and assessing aviation safety and security in Canada. The study will examine Safety Management Systems, which consist in part of behavioural recognition techniques, a vital element of aviation security screening. It’s a whole other issue you might say, but it’s one that is similar and aiming at safeguarding national security in Canada. ... Thu, 29 Apr 2010 14:36:49 +0100 840962 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/04/29/survey-results-social-software-in-academia-three-studies-on-users%e2%80%99-acceptance-of-web-2-0-services/ Access the Complete Report (8 pages; PDF) By: Katrin Weller, Ramona Dornsta?dter, Raimonds Freimanis, Raphael N. Klein, and Maredith Perez (2010) Department of Information Science Heinrich-Heine-University Du?sseldorf In: Proceedings of the WebSci10: Extending the Frontiers of Society On-Line, April 26-27th, 2010, Raleigh, NC: US. From the Abstract: This paper presents a summary of the results of three surveys, questioning different groups of users on their usage of social software tools in academic settings. The first survey addressed students across various disciplines, the second one addressed only students in information science and related disciplines, and the third one addressed researchers and university teachers across several disciplines. The different studies had slightly different foci (and thus did not comprise the same set of questions), but all considered aspects such of ‘which Web 2.0 services are known?’ and ‘how are they used?’ In this paper, the different survey results related to use of social software are summed up and compared [Snip] From the Conclusion: Wikipedia is the Web 2.0 application that currently plays the most important role for academic life. It is comprehensively known both to students and academic staff and has caught up with the popularity of Google. Furthermore, it is highly used in academic contexts, students and teachers/researchers use it as an information resource. But this usage is rather of passive nature. Only less than one fifth of students in Survey A have ever edited a Wiki page and 21% of academic wiki users in Survey C describe themselves as passive users. Other Web 2.0 achievements seem to play a minor role in academic work. Those services which serve entertainment purposes (like social networking, YouTube or Flickr) are widely known to students. Academic staff participants furthermore had a considerable awareness for weblogs, vod- or podcasts, and Twitter. ... Thu, 29 Apr 2010 12:11:58 +0100 839840 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/ZUEPZfvXAzw/ Worried about losing your e-book reader? (Or iPod, iPhone, laptop, netbook, or other expensive device?) Our sister blog AppleTell reports on a service that might offer a solution—or at least provide a little peace of mind. TigerTag is a registration service that lets you tag your devices with individual serial numbers that can be used to tag your items so that any potential good samaritan who finds them has only to look your ID up on the website to find out how to get it back to you. You can order sheets of serial-number stickers for basically the cost of shipping and handling. While relying on the kindness of strangers is no guarantee you’ll get your lost or stolen device back, it’s at least better than not doing anything at all. I might just have to look into this service myself. Digg us. Slashdot us. Facebook us. Twitter us. Share the news. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:53:47 +0100 839526 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/04/27/research-helping-online-communities-to-semantically-enrich-folksonomies/ Access the Complete Paper (8 pages; PDF) by: Freddy Limpens, Fabien Gandon, and Michel Buffa, (2010) Source: In: Proceedings of the WebSci10: Extending the Frontiers of Society On-Line, April 26-27th, 2010, Raleigh, NC: US. (In Press) Our approach to semantically enriching folksonomies is to create a synergistic combination of automatic handling of folksonomies, to bootstrap the process, and of users contributions at the lowest possible cost through user friendly interfaces. We propose a socio-technical system which supports conflicting points of view regarding the semantic organization of tags, but also helps online communities to build up a consensual point of view emerging from individual contributions. Source: WebSci10 (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 27 Apr 2010 09:01:02 +0100 839205 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/04/call-for-papers-semantic-digital_26.html Call for papers: Semantic Digital Libraryhttp://inderscience.blogspot.com/2010/04/call-for-papers-semantic-digital.htmlA special issue of International Journal of Knowledge and Web IntelligenceDigital libraries focus on storing and organizing digital objects according to various scopes and facets. Intelligent access to these objects are provided through metadata/semantic-based or content-based search engine according to users’ requirements. Semantic services enhance the organization of digital objects to facilitate their access, the exploitation of their structure and meaning for both humans and machines. Semantic digital libraries require database management systems for the handling of structured data, taking into consideration the models used to represent semantics. To foster the realization of the semantic digital library, metadata models, ontology models, and query languages have been combined to realize digital library services.However, technologies for semantic digital libraries such as database engines, RDF data store, topic maps servers, SPARQL queries, and RDFS/OWL ontologies and folksonomies often appear to be immature. Solid semantic management layer concepts, architectures, and tools are important to everyone in the semantic digital library ecosystem, and creating them requires a strong community, with a critical mass of involvement. This special issue focuses on two main issues:* the evolution of semantic digital libraries as a knowledge environment with digital library services and* semantic digital libraries for improving user experiences.The goal of the special issue is to bring out the best practices, current research and promising trends in the semantic digital library. ... Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 840598 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/04/25/lecture-and-webcast-pubmed-central-turns-a-decade-old/ Interesting content follows. This lecture/webcast from just over a months ago, will be of interest to librarians, publishers, people interested in open access, authors, scientists, database developers, and others. Here’s a Blurb About the Lecture: What can researchers expect next from PubMed Central? David Lipman, [an excellent speaker] Director of the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the National Library of Medicine, gives an overview of the past, present, and future of the National Institutes of Health’s archive of biomedical research articles. On its 10th anniversary, PubMed Central is one of the world’s largest archives of freely accessible full-text journal articles. Its launch in February 2000 marked a major step toward providing greater access to the results of publicly funded research. Questions from the audience are asked and answered. The program and video run about 51 minutes. Access the Lecture/Video See Also: New Books Feature added to New PubMed (March 20, 2000 via NLM Technical Bulletin) Source: Scholarly Communication Program / Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) at Columbia University Hat Tip: Peter Suber and the Open Access Tagging Project (Source: ResourceShelf) Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:07:25 +0100 838646 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.education.web4lib/16215 The next generation of Global Position System satellites slated for launch in May 2010 combined with RFID will create many new opportunities for information and resource tracking. http://oceanstatelibrarian.com/#research.htm (Sorry for any duplication - seems to be a filter problem) ************************************************* Robert L. Balliot Bristol, Rhode Island http://oceanstatelibrarian.com/contact.htm ************************************************* (Source: gmane.education.web4lib) Wed, 21 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 837554 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/04/call-for-papers-semantic-digital.html Call for papers: Semantic Digital Library (A special issue of International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence)URL: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/callpaper.php?callID=1366Digital libraries focus on storing and organizing digital objects according to various scopes and facets. Intelligent access to these objects are provided through metadata/semantic-based or content-based search engine according to users’ requirements. Semantic services enhance the organization of digital objects to facilitate their access, the exploitation of their structure and meaning for both humans and machines. Semantic digital libraries require database management systems for the handling of structured data, taking into consideration the models used to represent semantics. To foster the realization of the semantic digital library, metadata models, ontology models, and query languages have been combined to realize digital library services.However, technologies for semantic digital libraries such as database engines, RDF data store, topic maps servers, SPARQL queries, and RDFS/OWL ontologies and folksonomies often appear to be immature. Solid semantic management layer concepts, architectures, and tools are important to everyone in the semantic digital library ecosystem, and creating them requires a strong community, with a critical mass of involvement. This special issue focuses on two main issues:* the evolution of semantic digital libraries as a knowledge environment with digital library services and* semantic digital libraries for improving user experiences.The goal of the special issue is to bring out the best practices, current research and promising trends in the semantic digital library. ... Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 838521 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/04/16/congratulations-to-peter-suber-open-access-tagging-project-celebrates-1st-anniversary/ Simmons University, home of the Open Access Directory, points out the Open Access Tagging Project (OATP), that open access access expert and ResourceShelf friend, Peter Suber created in 2009, is celebrating its first anniversary today. Congrats and kudos Peter. While we do our best to provide news of the big OA stories on ResourceShelf, the place to see them all is by utilizing the OATP. If open access is a topic you follow, you might want to think about becoming a contributor. This article that Peter wrote gives all of the details you’ll ever need. The actual home page and place to find the feeds you want is here. Make sure to review the OATP links page as well as the FAQ. We’re also very happy that Peter every now and then finds worthwhile material for the OATP either via an email we send from RS HQ or by simply scanning ResourceShelf regularly. Since open access is now a major topic in many areas of the library world and frequently discussed in journals, blogs, and conferences, it’s a topic worth spending some time with and the OATP is THE place to begin. One more time. Congrats to Berkman Center at Harvard Fellow and so much more (scroll to the “current positions” heading, when does he sleep?)) Peter Suber. (Source: ResourceShelf) Fri, 16 Apr 2010 19:55:18 +0100 836180 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Librarianinblack/~3/A33Q9Dx-1uc/sopac.html CIL2010: SOPAC 2.1: Digital Strategy for the New Library This was a presentation from John Blyberg from Darien Library in Connecticut.  What is SOPAC?  It’s a social OPAC built on the Drupal content management system.  The impetus behind SOPAC was to take a best of breed content management system that was open source and merge it with the catalog. John says: “You may have the best website in the world, but when your user click on Catalog–BOOM, they’re in the ghetto.” Ann Arbor wanted to create an online persona and identity connected with the library. Three libraries currently running SOPAC are Darien Library, Ann Arbor District Library, and the Palos Verdes Library District. Newport Beach Public Library and the SAILS Library Network in Massachusetts are both mid-integration with SOPAC. With SOPAC, all online activities with the library are conducted through DRUPAL.  SOPAC invokes two software libraries: LOCUM & Insurge.  It runs with SQL and Sphinx. SOPAC development is user experience driven.  It is built for end users, not librarians.  They wanted a catalog that would be friendly to their users.  Users don’t care about the little stuff librarians do, all they want is to find materials in an environment that doesn’t make them feel stupid.  The catalog should look really nice. Tagging in SOPAC is key.  The community tags items which changes the ability for everyone else to find things.  That element was a key change from SOPAC 1 to SOPAC 2.  They also use tagging to provide staff favorites.  It is a dynamic list that lets you sort the list in many ways.  They also use “better than the book” as a tag to mark movies that were better than the books they were based on.  Darien does a program called “Meet us on Main Street.”  It’s a readers advisory session where librarians recommend books that are coming out, favorite titles and subjects, etc. ... Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:16:38 +0100 836710 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/_zt_X6MZmho/3712 I’m now ready to drool over the new features coming to SOPAC 2.1. John started by telling us what SOPAC was and if any of my reader’s don’t know it’s a social OPAC built using Drupal — and it’s open source so that moves it to the top of my list To learn more about SOPAC there are plenty of articles out there and of course a chapter in Library Mashups. So why do you want SOPAC? John puts it best when he says: “Your web site is great, but when people click on the catalog link, Boom! They’re in the ghetto!” Our websites can be the most gorgeous easy to navigate site on the planet, but then our patrons need to search our catalog and they’re dumped in this horrible mess of a site. So one of the key design directives for SOPAC was that it had to “look good.” Drupal makes that easy because you have access to tons of canned templates and the ability to design your own templates on top of it. One example of the social capabilities in SOPAC is tagging. Tagging is of course a feature for patrons, but the staff love it too! They’re using it to generate staff favorite lists by tagging things as ’staff favorite.’ Another staff tag that is used often is ‘better than the book’ to make it clear which DVDs are actually better than the book. Next there are reviews & ratings like Amazon or other online booksellers. In addition to the community reviews you can get content from Syndetics (a pay service they subscribe to). They even made it so that you can follow the reviews from a specific user – in the case of their library lots of people follow the reader’s advisory librarian’s reviews. ... Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:10:51 +0100 835591 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/G3nnIY2dejM/ Here’s a bit of sad news. The beleaguered Palm Inc. has put itself up for sale, working with Goldman Sachs and Qatalyst Partners to try to find a buyer, Bloomberg reports. As we previously reported, Palm has been having a hard time lately as its devices simply failed to find a market. Word of the sale comes as no surprise; sooner or later something like this had to happen. In a way, history is repeating itself, because the original Palm ran out of money and had to sell itself to US Robotics shortly after getting started. If any one company could be said to be synonymous with the original e-book revolution, it would be Palm. The original Palm Pilots were the devices that first hooked people on e-reading. An editor of science-fiction books that I know fell in love with the Pilot when he realized that he could put an entire manuscript into a box that weighs 4.7 ounces and fits into his jacket pocket. "You really have to have spent a decade of your life schlepping 600-page manuscripts around to understand how attractive this is," he says. He admits that he wouldn’t use the Pilot’s tiny screen — it’s smaller than an index card — for major editing. But, he says, "An enormous amount of what an editor has to do day in and day out is just reading. These days, if I can get an e-text version of a big document I have to read, the first thing I do is hot-sync it onto my Pilot." It is probably a measure of how quickly we get used to improvements that looking back at that original 160×160 resolution black-and-white LCD screen now would seem like reading on a pocket calculator. But back in those days, it was the height of e-reading convenience. Even Microsoft was stuck playing catch-up, coming out with a product it unbelievably tried to get away with naming “Palm PC” before Palm litigated to force a change to “Pocket PC”. ... Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:51:44 +0100 835005 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryCloud/~3/KdCnvH1UxxM/cil-digital-commons-ilr.html Digital Commons @ ILRBuilding Digital Communities with Digital CollectionsJim DelRosso, Web & Digital Projects ManagerCatherwood Library, Cornell UniversityBuilding communities in your libraries, to build a sustainable collection we need to have integrated communities around them.what we can learn about the physical communities around actual libraryhow we can build social communities around digital collectionsEmail, chat, IM allow us to work with patrons; this is a basis for building more. These three things build upon each other creating the foundation for digital collection (overview).Interest in the collectionWhat do they want? What do they need? How do they differ and how do we address those needs? This is often addressed in person as a reference interview, but if we use it when building a collection it moves toward assessment and creating ownership of the collection. It provides value and "outcome- based assessment." How patrons are going to use the collection. Ownership in the collectionUser-created content works to allowing patrons to have a stake in ownership for the collection. User-sponsored content on a larger scale than to have them simply request what they want to have. User-organized content allows them to put them in an order useful to them. The repository, DigitalCommons @ ILR allows users to upload their own content (even though they are doing the physical uploads with an inclusion of focus on scholarly content). Investment in the collectionHow do you know they are invested? Better use of digital collection including tagging, views, and comments within the collection. There seems to be an increase of interaction with librarians - and best of all - interaction among themselves. "The investment looks a lot like a community."What about tagging and folksonomy? Tag clouds vs meta data. The Powerhouse Museum Collection in Sydney, Australia; anyone can tag and anyone can remove the tag. ... Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:32:00 +0100 836614 http://community.livejournal.com/libraries/951140.html The library I'm normally based at is planning on introducing a self service counter, which means the stock has to be fitted with an RFID tag.Top management made a blunder, the software & hardware for the system was not compatible with our computers and so we're now behind schedule.The response from said managers was to suggest that we get rid of 2/3 of our stock so the tagging process won't take so long. At first I thought she was joking, but no, they seriously considered chucking away the majority of our resources. Needless to say I wasn't impressed with their reasoning. (Source: Library Lovers' LiveJournal) Mon, 12 Apr 2010 11:00:15 +0100 835768 http://hurstassociates.blogspot.com/2010/04/cil2010-digital-commons-building.html Jim DelRosso, from Cornell's ILR School (and Digital Commons), is the presenter. Interest -- people have interests which brings them to the library.  Assessment helps libraries understand interest in larger contexts. Jim notes:The need to listen to our patrons is related to the how much they agree with us.The need to educate our patrons is inversely related to how much our patrons disagree with what we are doing.Outcome-based assessment - How are user lives going to be different once you implement the service?  Once you understand what they need and how their lives will be different, you can creative effective marketing of the service.  (I can tell that he took IST 613 - Planning, Marketing and Assessing Library Services in the SU iSchool!)They are not only surveying users, but also gathering information from Google Analytics.We need to dig deeper into how user audiences interact with collections.  This needs to be studied.  He doesn't know of good studies on this topic.  If you know of any, let him know.Interest should lead to a sense of ownership among users.  A sense of ownership has nothing to do with who bought the material.  It is who values the materials.  A sense of ownership comes to light through user-generated connect, user-requested, and user-organized connect...all which can occur in/with a library.They are uploading a lot of user-created content to DigitalCommons@ILR.  But libraries do continue on scholarly content, which means they may be judging the content.Jim notes that browsing digital content needs to be improved.  He'd like to see a Pandora (music) for books.  Can tagging help?  Can users not only add tags, but delete tags? (see Powerhouse Museum)  That would help to ensure that the tags are appropriate, because people who are really invested in the collection will want the tagging to be good. ... Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 835069 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Digitization101/~3/JfzXuzUw0x4/cil2010-digital-commons-building.html Jim DelRosso, from Cornell's ILR School (and Digital Commons), is the presenter. Interest -- people have interests which brings them to the library.  Assessment helps libraries understand interest in larger contexts. Jim notes:The need to listen to our patrons is related to the how much they agree with us.The need to educate our patrons is inversely related to how much our patrons disagree with what we are doing.Outcome-based assessment - How are user lives going to be different once you implement the service?  Once you understand what they need and how their lives will be different, you can creative effective marketing of the service.  (I can tell that he took IST 613 - Planning, Marketing and Assessing Library Services in the SU iSchool!)They are not only surveying users, but also gathering information from Google Analytics.We need to dig deeper into how user audiences interact with collections.  This needs to be studied.  He doesn't know of good studies on this topic.  If you know of any, let him know.Interest should lead to a sense of ownership among users.  A sense of ownership has nothing to do with who bought the material.  It is who values the materials.  A sense of ownership comes to light through user-generated connect, user-requested, and user-organized connect...all which can occur in/with a library.They are uploading a lot of user-created content to DigitalCommons@ILR.  But libraries do continue on scholarly content, which means they may be judging the content.Jim notes that browsing digital content needs to be improved.  He'd like to see a Pandora (music) for books.  Can tagging help?  Can users not only add tags, but delete tags? (see Powerhouse Museum)  That would help to ensure that the tags are appropriate, because people who are really invested in the collection will want the tagging to be good. ... Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 834977 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/04/library-hi-tech-news-call-for-papers.html LIBRARY HI TECH NEWS -- Call for PapersLibrary Hi Tech News (LHTN, published by Emerald, is an established (1984+) print and online monthly journal that quickly publishes articles of interest on developments in library technology to our international readership. Although not formally peer reviewed, LHTN is indexed inLibrary and Information Science Abstracts (LISA), Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA), Scopus, INSPEC, Current Index to Journals in Education and others.For more information and sample articles, please see:http://info.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=lhtnLHTN is interested in articles of varying lengths, reports from relevant conferences, and case studies. The editors will work with authors that are new to LIS publishing, and those who are seeking outlets for reporting on practical uses of IT in libraries. Publishing your article in LHTN can be a place to start, analogous to a poster session in print” and does not preclude publishing a more fulsome piece in a peer-reviewed journal at a later date. Readers consider LHTN the source to hear what’s coming next in terms of technology development for academic and public libraries. ... Sun, 11 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 836575 http://www.labrujulaverde.com/gmail/gmail-etiquetas-anidadas-y-previsualizacion-de-mensajes/ Desde ayer tenemos dos nuevas funcionalidades en Gmail labs: etiquetas anidadas y previsualización de mensajes. Etiquetas anidadas Hasta ahora sólo podíamos crear etiquetas de primer nivel para almacenar y tagear los mensajes. Con la nueva característica se pueden crear estructuras jerárquicas, todo lo complejas que queramos. Para crear etiquetas que dependan de otras simplemente hay que crearlas introduciendo el separador ‘/’ tal y como se puede ver en la imagen. Previsualización de mensajes Los mensajes que recibimos en nuestro inbox muestran sólo un pequeño número de carácteres del contenido. Pero si activamos la característica Message Sneak Peek podremos hacer crtl-clic (clic derecho en Windows) sobre la línea del mensaje y obtener una previsualización del mismo. Si tenemos activados los atajos de teclado es todavía más fácil, sólo habremos de pulsar ‘h’ para abril el panel de previsualización, y luego nos desplazaremos por los mensajes con ‘j’ y ‘k’. Con ‘esc’ salimos del modo previsualización. Recuerden que para poder disfrutar estas nuevas funcionalidades hay que activarlas en la pestaña Labs de las preferencias de nuestra cuenta de Gmail. Si te ha gustado el post puedes votarlo en bitacoras.com para que otros puedan descubrirlo © Guillermo Carvajal para La Brujula Verde, 2010. | Permalink | 1 Comentario | Guardar en Delicious (Source: La brujula verde) Fri, 09 Apr 2010 08:37:24 +0100 834762 http://invisibleweblog.blogspot.com/2010/04/streams-in-information-ecosystem.html ASIST 2010 will consist of the following six tracks including:Track 1 – Information BehaviourInformation needs, information seeking, information gaps and sense-making in various contexts including work, interests or every-day life activities by individuals or groups. Track 2 – Knowledge Organization Indexing, index construction, indexing languages, thesaurus construction, terminology, classification of information in any form, tagging (expert, user-based, automatic), filtering, metadata, standards for metadata, information architecture.Track 3 – Information Systems, Interactivity and DesignHow people use and communicate with information systems; the design, use and evaluation of interactive information technologies and systems, including interfaces and algorithms; search and retrieval, browsing, visualization, personalization.Track 4 – Information and Knowledge ManagementInformation and knowledge creation, transfer and use at the personal, group, organizational and societal levels. The management of the processes and systems that create, acquire, organize, store, distribute, and use information and/or knowledge. Selected papers will be published in the International Journal of Information Management.Track 5 – Information UseHow people re-purpose existing knowledge from a variety of sources (scientific, humanities, news, family, friends, colleagues), forms (articles, books, video, audio, tweets), locations (work, home, in transit) and mediums (cell-phones, PDAs, digital libraries) to advance knowledge, solve problems, improve information literacy, and learn.Track 6 – Information and Society: Economic, Political, Social IssuesCopyright issues, policies and laws; national and international information policies; privacy and security; economics of information, personal rights vs. freedom of information; surveillance; globalization and the flows of information; computerization movements; social informatics. (Source: The Invisible Web Weblog) Fri, 09 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 834596 http://digital-scholarship.com/digitalkoans/2010/04/08/omeka-1-2-released/ The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University has released Omeka 1.2. Here's an excerpt from the download page Omeka version 1.2 includes following features and plug-ins: Four themes that are easy to adapt with simple CSS changes and theme configuration Exhibit Builder plugin with 12 page layouts and 5 exhibit themes Tagging for items and exhibits RSS feeds for items COinS plug-in making items readable by Zotero SimplePages plugin for easily making static pages Here's a brief description of Omeka from Omeka: Serious Web Publishing. Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Its "five-minute setup" makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog. Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming. It brings Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic and cultural websites to foster user interaction and participation. It makes top-shelf design easy with a simple and flexible templating system. Its robust open-source developer and user communities underwrite Omeka’s stability and sustainability. Read more about it at "Configurable Themes in 1.2." Related Posts No related posts. (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 09 Apr 2010 03:05:57 +0100 834385 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/eLwkdFpePrA/ The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University has released Omeka 1.2. Here's an excerpt from the download page Omeka version 1.2 includes following features and plug-ins: Four themes that are easy to adapt with simple CSS changes and theme configuration Exhibit Builder plugin with 12 page layouts and 5 exhibit themes Tagging for items and exhibits RSS feeds for items COinS plug-in making items readable by Zotero SimplePages plugin for easily making static pages Here's a brief description of Omeka from Omeka: Serious Web Publishing. Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Its "five-minute setup" makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog. Omeka is designed with non-IT specialists in mind, allowing users to focus on content and interpretation rather than programming. It brings Web 2.0 technologies and approaches to academic and cultural websites to foster user interaction and participation. It makes top-shelf design easy with a simple and flexible templating system. Its robust open-source developer and user communities underwrite Omeka’s stability and sustainability. Read more about it at "Configurable Themes in 1.2." Related Posts Omeka 1.1 Released Omeka Image Annotation Plugin 1.0 Beta EmeraldView Front-End to Greenstone Digital Library Software Digital Exhibit Software: Omeka 1.0 Open Source Biological Specimen Database System for Museums: Specify 6 Released (Source: DigitalKoans) Fri, 09 Apr 2010 03:05:39 +0100 834675 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2010/04/07/april-7th-stream.html hello, #fla10! come to salons 13–14 and we’ll chat about tagging. you’re it. [shifted] @GameCouch bummer — would have loved to play some games with you. hello to your friends! [shifted] Share: No tags for this post. (Source: The Shifted Librarian) Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:57:49 +0100 834319 http://nelh.blogspot.com/2010/04/flowdock-looks-interesting.html Potentially useful...A spin-off of Finnish software development company Nodeta, Flowdock aspires to help developers and others sift out actionable bits of knowledge from ongoing conversations and make them retrievable. Their team messenger services allows separation and tagging of conversational elements. 'In Flowdock, the epiphany comes when you tag a chat message for the first time,' Nodeta and (Source: Libraries in the NHS) Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 833817 http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2010/04/pnla-quarterly.html A couple of articles of possible interest in the latest PNLA Quarterly.Virginia Schilling. The Catalogers' Revenge: Unleashing the Semantic WebJill Bauhs Jensen. Folksonomies for Digital Resources (Source: Catalogablog) Wed, 07 Apr 2010 04:00:00 +0100 833584 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/6Fxs8w6Dkis/ Last week Friday, my good friend, the always enlightening Euan Semple, posted one of those very thought provoking blog posts that one cannot ignore, just like that. Under the title Being Human he shared a few insights around the abstract that he submitted for the wonderful Social Business Edge conference event that will be taking place in New York in a couple of weeks and where he will be one of the many talented speakers. In that article he comes to reflect some more on why knowledge workers, in general, face some tough issues at work, while they keep pushing the limits on their wider adoption of social software within the enterprise. Mainly: "The biggest challenge to getting people to share isn’t to do with technology it is to do with very personal challenges and issues that relate to their sense of self and their relationship with their employers" The conversations that have sparked as a result of that blog entry by Euan have been amazingly inspiring (Go and read through the comments as well!) and surely are worth while reading through to get a glimpse of the potential solutions that the corporate world could well start exploring. The sooner, the better. KM extraordinaire Jack Vinson also picked up this topic under the post "What is it about humans?" and he actually finishes off that relevant article with some very thought provoking and controversial questions whose answers could perhaps address most of the key points that Euan discusses on his post. So what is it? Why are knowledge workers so afraid of sharing what they know (Their ideas, experiences, know-how, skills, lessons learned, etc. etc. ... Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:03:10 +0100 833607 http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/iapril-2010-managing/3054/ WHEN: Thursday, April 8, 12 – 1pm WHERE: Digital Instruction Resource Center (DIRC), 14N-132 For researchers struggling to manage their data, basic strategies will be provided for: best practices for retention and archiving effective directory structures and naming conventions good file formats for long-term access data security and backup options metadata, tagging, and citation other relevant issues Contact Amy Stout with any questions. (Source: MIT Libraries News) Fri, 02 Apr 2010 14:16:55 +0100 832092 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/talis/panlibus/~3/jbKaPJ3a5Ww/understanding-the-semantic-web-4.php In this final post exploring questions and themes around Karen Coyle’s Understanding the Semantic Web report, I want to look at the coexistence of the universal and the particular in the Semantic Web. This is something that Karen touches on in her report: Of course, it is not reasonable to assume a single system of identifiers for everything on the Web. Undoubtedely, different communities will assign identifiers of their own, some overlapping with those of another community. This may seem reasonable in the year 2010. However, a glance back at the history of ideas might make us a little more circumspect. Certainly, for the last three centuries, the dominant paradigm among scientists and intellectuals has been the universal over the particular. The universal is what Karen is referring to with “a single system of identifiers for everything on the Web.” But in this postmodern moment, there is a strong suspicion of universalism, as articulated by Karen, and a favouring of the local and particular. We have seen this in the flourishing of folksonomies alongside more authoritative taxonomies. Making sense of the world The reasons behind the breakdown in belief in universal values is an intellectual question far too big for this post, involving the horrors of two world wars, the end of the Cold War signalling the demise of big ideas, and other more local crises such as May 1968 in France and the US’s Vietnam War, all of which contributed to a sense of disillusion with the certainties of the old order and a distrust of grand narratives. We only have to look back at the archetypal Victorian amateur botanist to see how much things have changed. He would have been concerned with the coining of universal terms to describe objective features, with orders and classes depending on the number and position of male and female organs of the flower, for example – in other words universally recognised objective features. ... Mon, 29 Mar 2010 11:08:06 +0100 831868 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/23/uk-search-engine-collects-historical-resources/ Sounds like some type of federated search tool is being developed for historians. Plus, it appears after reading a couple of sentences that databases developed/managed with some human intervention (perhaps a structured vocabulary as seems to be the case here) might also make for a more accurate and timely retrieval process. From the Article: A search engine is being created to help historians find useful sources. The Connected History project will link up currently separate databases of source materials. Once complete, it will give academics or members of the public a single site that lets them search all the collections. Once completed the search engine will index digitised books, newspapers, manuscripts, genealogical records, maps and images that date from 1500-1900. “There are a number of electronic resources that have been created by universities and by commercial providers,” said Professor Robert Shoemaker from the University of Sheffield which is heading the project. “They are all available, and all separate and some require subscriptions.” “We are creating a kind of sophisticated Google for those selected range of resources that we know are of high quality,” he said. Much of the work involved in the Connected Histories project will be tagging and annotating entries so classification systems are standardised. Source: BBC (Source: ResourceShelf) Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:23:44 +0100 829049 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Elsua/~3/I3Yr9E4BFag/ Almost a week afterwards, it looks like it’s now a good time for me to resume my regular blogging activities over here in this blog once again more, as I just returned back from my latest business trip (To London, this time around, to participate in SOMESSO/Headshift’s Social Business Summit) and, where once again, getting connected throughout the entire time has been a bit of a challenge, to the point where very shortly I’m going to be blogging about another major resolution I will be adopting that I am sure is going to generate some discussion… But that would be at another time For now, I just want to let you know folks that I’m already working my way through putting together a draft blog post, where I can summarise some of the major highlights from the Summit itself, which I have thoroughly enjoyed and from which I have learned tremendously a good amount of terrific insights shared by a good bunch of the attendees. As a taster, check out the fantastic reviews of the event from Anne McCrossan, Jemima Gibbons, Ton Zijlstra and David Terrar, amongst several others. All around a wonderful event that just marked, to me, the beginning, of a long lasting conversation… Anyway, so what will I be talking about on this particular blog post, you may be wondering, right? Well, something I think I should have written about a long time ago, but that I kept neglecting time and time again. In a way, it was triggered again by some of the conversations I had during the break(s) at the Social Business Summit, so I thought it would be a good time to finally address it, at least, with this initial blog post. ... Mon, 22 Mar 2010 20:01:00 +0100 829420 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/03/16/two-forthcoming-papers-on-crowdsourcing-open-access-wikisource-legal-humanities-research/ Note: The full text of each paper is free to download via SSRN (Social Studies Research Network) 1. Crowdsourcing and Open Access: Collaborative Techniques for Disseminating Legal Materials and Scholarship by Timothy K. Armstrong University of Cincinnati College of Law Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal, Forthcoming University of Cincinnati Public Law Research Paper No. 10-07 Partial Abstract: This short essay surveys the state of open access to primary legal source materials (statutes, judicial opinions and the like) and legal scholarship. The ongoing digitization phenomenon (illustrated, although by no means typified, by massive scanning endeavors such as the Google Books project and the Library of Congress’s efforts to digitize United States historical documents) has made a wealth of information, including legal information, freely available online, and a number of open-access collections of legal source materials have been created. Many of these collections, however, suffer from similar flaws: they devote too much effort to collecting case law rather than other authorities, they overemphasize recent works (especially those originally created in digital form), they do not adequately hyperlink between related documents in the collection, their citator functions are haphazard and rudimentary, and they do not enable easy user authentication against official reference sources. The essay explores whether some of these problems might be alleviated by enlarging the pool of contributors who are working to bring paper records into the digital era. The same “peer production” process that has allowed far-flung communities of volunteers to build large-scale informational goods like the Wikipedia encyclopedia or the Linux operating system might be harnessed to build a digital library. 2. Rich Texts: Wikisource as an Open Access Repository for Law and the Humanities by Timothy K. ... Tue, 16 Mar 2010 21:55:11 +0100 827005 http://news-libraries.mit.edu/blog/iapril-2010-complete/3042/ All sessions take place in the Digital Instruction Resource Center (DIRC), 14N-132, with the exception of the Institute Archives session on April 9, which will take place in 14N-118. Pre-registration is required for some, but not all sessions. See below for details. Research Techniques for Writers and Editors Friday, April 2, 1 – 2pm Learn how to use the Libraries’ resources and databases to research your own articles or find past articles written about MIT. This workshop will show you how to connect from your desktop to a wealth of online resources licensed to MIT, such as LexisNexis, Factiva, Proquest, historic newspaper databases and more. The experts at the Libraries will show you best techniques. This workshop is tailored to MIT communications professionals, or those with an interest in journalism and science writing. Managing Research Data 101 Thursday, April 8, 12 – 1pm For researchers struggling to manage their data, basic strategies will be provided for: best practices for retention and archiving effective directory structures and naming conventions good file formats for long-term access data security and backup options metadata, tagging, and citation other relevant issues Managing Your References: Overview of Endnote, RefWorks and Zotero Thursday, April 8, 5 – 6pm Using citation management software to create and maintain a collection of references is becoming more common and important in today’s academic world. These software packages (EndNote, RefWorks & Zotero) allow users to search databases, retrieve relevant citations, and build a bibliography to be added to a paper or thesis or stored for future reference. But which software package should you use, and how do you get started? Please pre-register for this session. Ga-Ga for Google Friday, April 9, 12 – 1pm Take the popular search engine to a new level. ... Tue, 16 Mar 2010 16:08:30 +0100 826900 http://outofthejungle.blogspot.com/2010/03/watch-out-for-foursquare.html And you thought foursquare was just a cool little social media tagging tool. Well, it is. You use your cell phone to add a metadata tag to anyplace, and you can set up a game. "Earn badges!" urges the website, "Unlock your city." Or your campus. And the Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the game is taking off at campuses, in an article titled, "Will Your College Be Covered in Virtual Graffiti?" by Marc Parry. There is a lot more than what I quote here: Since Foursquare's debut last year, students have diligently labeled, praised, and, in some cases, profaned college campuses. Take this note, easily Googled, that somebody calling himself Mock Redneck Jr. left at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte: "The library has Free Wi-Fi, Barely Legal girls and a warm place to drop a deuce."Now imagine this nightmare scenario: A prospective student's mother goes on a college tour. She pulls out a phone. Her expression screams oh-my-gosh as she reads Mr. Redneck's note. Maybe she goes on to a dorm, and perhaps its residents have left other goodies online. The teacher they loathed. The room they smoked pot in. The couch they had sex on.Here's how it works. Foursquare players see a list of nearby places. They can "check in" to any of them, and, if they want, have their arrival broadcast to "friends" on Foursquare and other networks like Facebook and Twitter. They can create new places and leave public "tips" about existing ones, like the "free Wi-Fi" at the Charlotte library. They earn "badges"—for example, "gym rat"—for checking in at various spots. If they check in at one spot often enough, the game crowns them "mayor."As in, Wesley Chen is mayor of the Original California Taqueria."It's kind of like a passive-aggressive way of telling your friends where you are," says Mr. ... Tue, 16 Mar 2010 04:00:00 +0100 827070 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ouseful/~3/w3ToNVA9XRY/ On Thursday, I get to go down to the JISC offices to pitch our “vision” for the Digipedia website based on a submission earlier this year to the Strategic Content Alliance: Digipedia from Prototype to Pilot Service invitation to tender. The pitching will be competitive, so there’s all the more reason to post the application we made to see how well it sits with members of the community who might be expected to use it… Outline Project Description The Digipedia pilot will be a web resource containing authoritative information on the digital content lifecycle that will be the focus of a community of practice for policy makers and practitioners in the field. We propose an architecture for Digipedia that combines lightly-coupled authoring, publishing and community features within an integrated, editorially controlled platform. We will structure content so that it is portable and republishable using RSS/Atom, ensuring that content is widely visible and laying a sustainable foundation for the future. We will demonstrate how the content can be reaggregated into a wide variety of thematic views and incorporate innovative tools to improve browsing and searching of information. Audience surgeries will be used to ensure that developments meet the needs of project sponsors. We will use experience gained elsewhere (Open University projects, WriteToReply, JISCPress) to design a web resource that encourages user-generated contributions. We will engage with SCA sponsors and other stakeholders to foster the community, and provide branded opportunities for organisational contributions that will pave the way for sustainable content. We will conclude the project by investigating avenues for the long-term sustainability of Digipedia. The Open University, as a major publisher of digital content in the not-for-profit sector, is well placed to contribute to the Digipedia community of practice. ... Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:58:48 +0100 828273 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/CgPloB3QtRg/building-trust-promoting-community-and.html Building Trust, Promoting Community, and Enhancing RA Services Outside the Physical Library with Laurel Tarulli, Collection Access Librarian, Halifax PL – 1 hour audio conference - "Social catalogues are changing the way we think of the library catalogue. No longer an inventory, but a place - what role will the next generation library catalogue play in readers' advisory services? Through suggesting reading ideas to tagging, social catalogues have the potential to break out of the library and bring readers' services to the reader. This session will explore why and how readers' advisors and technical services' staff should be working together, and the benefits ofcollaboration" - March 17, 2010 (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Sat, 13 Mar 2010 16:23:48 +0100 826191 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/yZD7zQeRE90/ I spent some time this week going through my ebook library, tagging everything with appropriate labels and pasting in book summaries from bookstore websites. With almost 800 books in my growing collection, I wanted to have an easier time finding unread books to suit my mood, or old favourites to explore and re-visit. So what did I learn from my ebook spring cleaning? ‘Have it’ and ‘Will Read it’ are Two Different Things I learned that there are so many great books I can be spending my time on. Why waste it on things which don’t really interest me? It’s like the time my sister sent me the spreadsheet with all her Fictionwise books listed. I went through the list, which was about 200 books at the time, and only found a handful I might like to read. I’m sure that, legality notwithstanding, she would happily burn me a CD with the whole lot of them if I wanted her to, and then I would have a lot of books. But I’d probably never read them because they just are not my thing—and for what it’s worth, I shared MY list with her and she thought my taste in books was equally terrible. So I let go of my classics guilt and deleted all the ones I had downloaded because they were ‘important’ books and I ‘ought to’ read them. And I let go too of some free books I had downloaded from Sony and Smashwords just because they were there. I put in those book summaries and if it left me feeling cold, I read the first few pages. If I wasn’t sold on the book by then, I deleted it, guilt-free. I’ll spend my reading time on books I really, really love. There is Something to be Said for The Process of ‘Publishing’ It pains me to say this, it really does, because I believe in indie publishing as an idea. And if I did publish any of my own stuff, it would probably be as an indie author. ... Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:53:08 +0100 826091 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TechsourceBlog/~3/8h-Ks57aNw4/annotating-the-real-world.html Over the course of the last year, there has been a lot of discussion about the interaction between the real and the virtual via mobile phones, specifically about using barcodes as a unique identifier that can be read by a mobile phone's camera. In Japan and other countries, it is very common to see this sort of thing done via a type of code called a QR Code, a form of 2 dimensional barcode. There are lots of places online wh you can create your own QR Code, and many phones come with the ability to read them built in. For smartphones with applications stores, like the iPhone App Store or Android Market, there are many barcode reading apps to chose from.Some libraries are playing around with QR Codes and other methods of annotating the real world via digital metadata. One tool that I just discovered is called StickyBits, and it takes a different model that I find really interesting. Instead of concentrating on linking physical objects to a single virtual place or information, StickyBits allows people to attach content to a given barcode, and have others see it. It's a form of tagging, but instead of tagging via terms, the user is tagging with any digital information they want: audio, video, photo, or text. For instance, a user could use StickyBits to tag a book with a video review. Even more interesting is the fact that multiple people in multiple locations can attach multiple objects to the same barcode. It's a method of harnessing the best of the network effect, with the additional benefit of extending the tagging to any object with the same barcode. For example, it would only take one person attaching a video review to the barcode of a bestseller to make that review available to everyone who happens to pick up a copy of that bestseller anywhere. It not only distributed creation of content, but zero-lag distribution of content across real objects. ... Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:04:52 +0100 826352 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/iRcS/~3/ARefbKQ_mj4/common-tag.html "Common Tag is an open tagging format developed to make content more connected, discoverable and engaging. Unlike free-text tags, Common Tags are references to unique, well-defined concepts, complete with metadata and their own URLs. With Common Tag, site owners can more easily create topic hubs, cross-promote their content, and enrich their pages with free data, images and widgets" (Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:39:33 +0100 825269 http://centeredlibrarian.blogspot.com/2010/03/quotiki-social-quotes-wiki.html Quotiki is a social quotes wiki that lets you quickly find and enjoy quotes. As a member of the community, you can start tagging, rating, submitting and collecting quotes.Find famous people and your friends in speeches, dialogs, chat logs, quotations, sayings, jokes and more! Tag yourself and other people in your favorite quotes and easily share them with friends. (Source: The Centered Librarian) Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 825965 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2010/03/09/coverguess-from-librarything CoverGuess was released last week, and the LibraryThing blog post explains the what and why better than I can: What is CoverGuess? CoverGuess is a sort of game. We give you covers, and you describe them in words. If you guess the same things as other players, you get points. Why are you doing this? The goal is to have fun, but also to build up a database of cover descriptions, to answer questions like “Do you have that book with bride on the bicycle?” You have to have a LibraryThing account to play, but it’s worth a free account to get in on the action. CoverGuess was inspired by one of my favorite internet timesinks, Google’s Image Labeler. Both of these make the internet a better place, but CoverGuess could actually help in answering reference questions. I’ll be keeping watch for when the search component is released, but for now, racking up tagging points is fun. (Source: herzogbr.net blog) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:29:06 +0100 825032 http://www.slis.indiana.edu/careers/view_job_specific.php?job_id=6983 State: Washington, D.C. Library Associates Companies (LAC) seeks for *immediate consideration* candidates for the position of Electronic Content Designer in the greater Washington DC metro area. The Electronic Content Designer will assist with migrating content to a CMS; analyze, edit, update and tag content; recommend navigation, look and feel; prepare content for migration. The position is full time for six months. Must be a US Citizen in order to be considered. Primary Responsibilities: · Perform content analysis and mapping to determine navigation and layout; · Implement content transfer to content management system; · Create new graphics and visual designs within existing guidelines; · Implement RSS feeds and similar notification features; · Assist with usability testing and translating results into design and organization updates; · Assign metadata to digital content using existing guidelines and taxonomies; · Identify, recommend, implement, and document best practices for creating online museum exhibits; · Write new and update online text. Minimum Experience Required: · Experience with HTML · Knowledge of graphics tools such as Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, or Visio; · Experience with web content-creation tools such as Adobe Flash, Dreamweaver CS3, XHTML/CSS, JavaScript, ActionScript 3.0, CGI; · Experience with information architecture, user task analysis, interface design; · Experience with metadata, taxonomies, and tagging; · Experience with digital information repositories · Some knowledge of PHP, MySQL or Perl; · Knowledge of image capture and delivery techniques. To Apply: In order to apply and be considered for this position, please follow the registration link below. http://jobs.libraryassociates. ... Tue, 09 Mar 2010 10:30:02 +0100 824773 http://catalogablog.blogspot.com/2010/03/common-tag.html Common Tag is an interesting project, it is an attempt to create more linked data.Common Tag is an open tagging format developed to make content more connected, discoverable and engaging. Unlike free-text tags, Common Tags are references to unique, well-defined concepts, complete with metadata and their own URLs. With Common Tag, site owners can more easily create topic hubs, cross-promote their content, and enrich their pages with free data, images and widgets.It uses RDFa. There is a tool, Zemanta, to help embed Common Tags in weblogs. (Source: Catalogablog) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824837 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/LuLw6Tn2HNM/johnt Incredibly Dull: Lurking, a Personal Story Lurkers can be passing your links on. They can be taking on what you say and have conversations infecting others with what they learnt from you. Anecdote: Endings are important for how we remember experiences Social Tagging and the Enterprise: Does Tagging Work at Work? The Problem with the Data-Information-Knowledge-Wisdom Hierarchy - The Conversation - Harvard Business Review (Source: Library clips) Mon, 08 Mar 2010 08:00:00 +0100 825385 http://www.affordance.info/mon_weblog/2010/03/culture-documentaire-et-folksonomies.html Article "de commande", pour la revue "Documentaliste, sciences de l'information", à paraître fin Février 2010. La version ci-dessous est celle de soumission, non encore revue et corrigée pour publication définitive. La version définitive sera déposée en archives ouvertes au moment de sa parution.Culture documentaire et folksonomies. L’indexation à l’ère industrielle et collaborative. Des folksonomies aux hashtags, quelles cultures informationnelles ? A L’INDEX. Il a déposé des photos de ses vacances sur FlickR ; recherché une vidéo d’un extrait de colloque sur YouTube ; partagé des signets sur Delicious ; publié un article sur son blog ; bavardé sur Twitter à propos d’un événement récent ; consulté des photos ou des profils de ses amis sur Facebook. Dans chacun de ces cas de figure et dans bien d’autres encore, l’usager a, en sus de son activité de dépôt, de recherche, de publication, de consultation ou de simple conversation, été invité à pratiquer une indexation libre. Une indexation sur ses propres traces informationnelles ou sur celles produites par d’autres. Une indexation qui traverse nos espaces numériques publics, privés et intimes, désormais réunis en une même sphère d’indexabilité. Une indexation à l’unisson de la cinétique des traces auxquelles elle s’attache : synchrone, instantanée, fragmentaire, plurielle. Enfin, une indexation parfois collaborative et le plus souvent, transparente aux autres, à tous les autres. C’EST EN FORGEANT QU’ON DEVIENT FORGERON ET C’EST EN INDEXANT ... QU’ON FINIT SUR TWITTER.Communauté. Wikipédia définit la « folksonomie » comme : « un processus de classification collaborative par des mots-clés librement choisis, ou le résultat de cette classification. ... Sun, 07 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824977 http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/~r/theguardian/books/rss/~3/RL-u4q_bBh8/shirley-hughes-top-10-picture-book-characters From Fungus the Bogeyman to Babar the Elephant, the creator of Dogger and Alfie looks at the compelling creations that turn small children into readersShirley Hughes has written and illustrated more than 50 books, selling some 11.5m copies, and collected a string of awards for creating some of the most enduring characters in children's literature, including Dogger, Alfie, and Lucy and Tom. Her latest book is Don't Want to Go, published this week by The Bodley Head.Buy Shirley Hughes books at the Guardian bookshop"With picture books small children can see themselves as readers long before they have learned to decipher the text. They turn the pages with relish, exploring the plot through the illustrations with tremendous concentration. They are learning how to look, rather than being passively overwhelmed by fast moving electronic imagery. Little wonder then, that the great heroes and heroines of picture books are among the world's best remembered fictional characters."1. Fungus the Bogeyman – Raymond BriggsFungus is one of Briggs's most inventive picture books. Adults as well as children will be gleefully sucked down into that world deep in the slime, a place of blocked drains, dubious smells and infestations, where the Bogey family thrive. Fungus's sorties above ground to plague luckless humans who are fighting a losing battle against Bogeydom are wonderfully funny. 2. The Bear with Sticky Paws – Clara VulliamyWhen The Bear with Sticky Paws arrives at Pearl's house, chaos of one kind or another ensues. Clara Vulliamy can draw real children as convincingly as she can invent anthropomorphic animals, a rare quality in contemporary picture books. (I have to declare an interest here, as she is my daughter!) These stories explore Pearl's changing reactions to the engagingly maverick bear, who tears through the action with delicious abandon.3. ... Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:00:01 +0100 823030 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/1Hyco-AbYUY/3617 Barry Graubart from Alacra talked to us about ‘The New Aggregation’ and the Alacra Pulse product. Barry started by telling us what we already know – news breaks on the web now, research has gotten decentralized, and “good enough” is now good enough. Barry deals with the financial market (bankers) so his examples refer to those doing business in the finance world. The goal is to find out the nuggets that are interesting to our customers and passing them on to them in real time. We can’t deliver everything! We can’t deliver 100,000 blogs – there are a handful of sources that break news and then it becomes an echo chamber. That said, clients are not asking for all the business news, they want the important events delivered to them. In addition we need to consider tagging, an example we know that Woolies = Woolworths, but searching for Woolworths will not turn up information on Woolies. With tagging we still need humans though! You don’t want to set an automated tagger loose on some of these articles. The end result is the Alacra Pulse site which aggregates content from various open web sources, they are offering links and summaries and not licensing the content. Technorati Tags: nfais (Source: What I Learned Today...) Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:14:18 +0100 823149 http://librarywriting.blogspot.com/2010/03/cfp-journal-of-library-metadata.html CFP - Journal of Library MetadataThe Journal of Library Metadata, a peer-reviewed journal, marks the growing importance of metadata in libraries and other institutions. As libraries collect, produce, distribute and publish more information than ever before, the metadata that describes these resources becomes more critical for digital resource management and discovery. The Journal of Library Metadata is the exclusive forum for the latest research, innovations, news, and expert views about all aspects of metadata applications and about the role of metadata in information retrieval. The journal is published quarterly by Routledge/Taylor & Francis.The journal covers all aspects of metadata applications including (but not limited to):* Application Profiles* Best practices* Controlled vocabularies* Crosswalking of metadata and interoperability* Digital libraries and metadata* Federated repositories* Federated searching* Folksonomies* Individual metadata schemes* Institutional repository metadata* Metadata content standards* Metadata harvesting* Ontologies* Preservation metadata* Resource Description Framework* Resource discovery and metadata* Search engines and metadata* SKOS* Tagging and tag clouds* Topic maps* Visual image and moving image metadataThe journal publishes three categories of articles: standard, peer-reviewed articles; shorter, non-peer reviewed articles and short viewpoint articles.* Peer-reviewed articles (original research): 10-50 double-spaced pages.* Short, non-peer-reviewed articles, often practical in nature: 500-2,000 words with limited citations.* Upbeat viewpoint articles giving the author’s opinion on a timely topic related to metadata applications: 500-2,000 words with or without citations. Focus should be on improvements or solutions instead of negative aspects of an existing system, standard or service.Editor:Jung-ran ParkDrexel UniversityFor more information please visit the submission instructions: http://www.informaworld. ... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:00:00 +0100 824124 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/web2learning/YOVk/~3/GC3d36r9mFo/3600 Roger Strouse from Outsell followed Clay Shirky with his talk titled: “What Information Users Really Value.” Throughout the talk, Roger gave us insights into what users are thinking based on studies and surveys that Outsell has performed. Roger started with what he called a ‘provocative statement’ – ‘In a challenging environment, meeting users’ value expectations is necessary for survival’ — why are we talking about this 2010 – when we’ve been thinking about this for 20 years now. The problem is that advertising budgets are shrinking, “free” is a competitor, users are sophisticated and know what’s possible, and good enough is good enough. The economy isn’t all that has changed for users though. Users are rethinking about what’s valuable. There are rising expectations for online experiences. Providing information is not enough anymore, you need to provide a well-rounded experience (tagging, commenting, interaction in general). There is also a morphing definition of authority – there is a dislike for peer-reviewed content. Users expect to be able to get academic and professional data on their mobile devices more than ever before. This all adds up to users have very different value filters than they used to have. Users now value things like usability, fun and sophistication. I can (and you know you can to) think of plenty of these research products that I’d rather stay very very far away from simply because of the usability and/or interface design. Another key value we’re used to hearing about is the desire to aggregate content – mix free and fee content together because users don’t want to be searchers – they want all their content in one place. ... Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:20:39 +0100 823156