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 Wikis interest group. http://www.libworm.com/rss/librarianqueries.php Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:07:04 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://wplbookclub.blogspot.com/2016/04/louis-riel-comic-strip-biography-by.html In 1869, the Red River Settlement area, home to the French-speaking Metis, is sold to the Canadian government. Louis Riel, the de facto leader of the Red River Settlement, demands that they be granted the right to govern themselves. Not suprisingly, the government refuses this. This story relates Riel's resistance to the Canadian government's mistreatment of the Metis community.Louis Riel - Wikipediahttps://owa.fibrehost.net/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_RielLouis Riel - rethinking Riel (CBC Archives)Louis Riel - Trivial Pursuit (CBC Archives) Place a hold on a WPL copy of the book here. (Source: WPLBOOKCLUB) Wed, 20 Apr 2016 04:00:00 +0100 377637 http://lisnews.org/leaked_list_british_national_party_shows_some_members_librarians This article states, "Members include teachers, librarians, solicitors, nurses and linguists," plus people from many other categories of occupations. More here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1087101/Radio-DJ-fired-BNP-teachers-police-lawyers-e... The British National Party in UK, according to Wiki's s description, "is a far-right and whites only political party in the United Kingdom...The BNP asserts that there are biological racial differences that determine the behaviour and character of individuals of different races, although it does not regard whites as superior to other ethnic groups. The party claims that preference for one's own ethnicity is a part of human nature. Its publicity has often conflated Islam with Marxism, due to both systems aiming to put all the world's people under a common system, and has suggested that mainstream politicians with Marxist pasts are partially responsible for this. Historically, under John Tyndall's leadership, the BNP was overtly anti-Semitic; however, under the current leadership of Nick Griffin, the BNP has focused on criticism of Islam." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Party (Source: LISNews.org) Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:52:45 +0100 674455 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/458383760/ With up to 600 pages, PC Magazine once looked like a small telephone book. It started up in 1982, and I could no more imagine it disappearing than I could the Empire State Building. Early next year, however, PC Mag will exist only as an online publication. The current Web site is here, complete with a headline from a John Dvorak commentary: Why Google must die. My friend made some clueful comments about Google’s shortcomings as a search engine—as opposed to wishing away such services—but the accidental irony couldn’t escape me. Who and what killed PC Magazine’s print edition, beyond the current recession? Another example of paper’s limits First off, the limitations of paper did, and that’s another lesson for the IDPF standards-setters and book publishers who don’t want to venture into interbook linking and standardized annotations. PC Magazine to a great extent is for shoppers foraging for specifics on a hot new desktop, printer or monitor—the very stuff that Google helps dig up from many sources at once. The Web serves as a more efficient conduit for product information or exchange of opinions than paper does. In addition, it has given birth to tiny but more precisely targeted specialty publications, including blogs like this one. The real shocker of the moment So the demise of the print edition—the January issue is the last—was and is inevitable. The real shocker of the moment is that Wikipedia’s item on PC Mag hasn’t been updated as of now (8:25 a.m., Washington, D.C. time) Less free-PR for high-tech vendors at the grocery store: Would you believe, grocery  and drug chains are publicity outlets for high-tech products. Indeed—through magazine cover stories displayed at newsstands. Now there’ll be one fewer cover to tout "The Best New PCs. ... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:25:36 +0100 674525 http://sterlingmortonlibrary.blogspot.com/2008/11/return-to-wild-america.html The featured book at Thursday’s gathering of Leafing Through the Pages, the Sterling Morton Library’s book discussion group, was Scott Weidensaul’s Return to wild America : a yearlong search for the continent's natural soul. The conversation about Weidensaul’s adventure was fascinating and presented another perspective on the original journey of Peterson and Fisher recounted in Wild America : the record of a 30,000 mile journey around the continent by a distinguished naturalist and his British colleague.In addition to our discussion, we gathered a list of potential books to read in 2009. I’ve added this draft to the official Leafing Through the Pages wiki which can be found at: http://leafingthroughthepages.pbwiki.com/ This wiki also includes our reading history detailing what we’ve read since the founding of the discussion group on March 13, 2003. Whew! Lots of great books, stories, poems and conversations! Enjoy the list and join us at an upcoming discussion! (Source: Library Notes) Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 674452 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/457510461/ I had breakfast with Meg Canada last weekend, while finishing my teaching duties in St. Paul. She shared with me a post she wrote at her blog called “How Librarians can be the Ultimate Community Managers.” Meg writes: What is a Community Manager? My friend, Connie Bensen introduced me to the concept at my first social media gathering. I know she has collaborated on the wikipedia definition, and as a librarian herself, and I hope she agrees with my assertion. Community managers help shape online spaces by representing organizations through starting and/or contributing to discussions. They are social media mavens and power users. Community managers solve problems, offer the best customer service, and give organizations a human face. I’ll be adding this to the list of emerging LIS jobs. How are we training new librarians to be Community Managers? Did you ever think that might be a role you’d play? Later she tape into that important bit about the ongoing conversation: Not enough of us tweet outside our community or seek out our users in other social media. Some success with MySpace and Facebook is promising, but we can’t just friend and fan eachother. We need to connect with our patrons, customers and users in online communities. Historically we may not be known for savvy communication skills, but here’s another opportunity. Gathering community input is also a key role of librarians. As we plan services, build new facilities, and evolve into our 21st century selves, libraries have to listen to what our community needs. Let’s face it Gen x and y aren’t attending community meetings at the library. The meetings are happening online. ... Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:19:19 +0100 674091 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/457228906/ In a victory for free speech, the German-language Wikipedia is back online despite a far-left pol’s claim that it defames him. Here’s the fun part. Spurred on by the fuss, more people than ever have now read the evil article about Lutz Heilmann—and the German edition is finding new donors. German version here. Related: New York Times item and earlier TeleRead mention of the controversy (at end of post). Technorati Tags: Lutz Heilmann (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:29:31 +0100 674099 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/textundblog/~3/457001448/ Erfreulicherweise nimmt die Arbeit mit Wikis in immer weiteren Bereichen zu. Immer mehr Institutionen, Firmen und Bildungseinrichtungen erkennen den Vorteil von Wikis als Wissensspeichern und kollaborativen Arbeitswerkzeugen. Doch nicht jede/r MitarbeiterIn ist von Anfang an mit der Wiki-Syntax vertraut, bzw. manchmal liegen Texte in einem anderen Format vor, die niemand händisch in die Wiki-Syntax überführen kann bzw. möchte. Beispiel: Ein Sitzungsprotokoll wurde aus organisatorischen Gründen in der Textverarbeitung des Vertrauens (schlimmstenfalls Microsoft Word) geschrieben und soll nun auch ins Firmenwiki. Dies geschieht meist über den Dateiupload. Doch es wäre ja auch praktisch diesen Text in Wikiform zu haben, etwa damit Arbeitsgruppen ihre Projektfortschritte dort eintragen könnten. Oder ein über die Jahre kontinuierlich gepflegter Infotext schlummert schon ewig auf der lokalen Festplatte eines verdienten Mitarbeiters, doch die Information soll nun allen MitarbeiterInnen des Hauses über das Intranet auf Wikibasis zugänglich gemacht werden. Die Szenarien der Notwendigkeit Word-Texte in die Wikiumgebung zu überführen, ließen sich anhand zahlreicher Beispiele fortsetzen. Worauf ich hinaus will: es wäre doch praktisch, einen Export-Filter zu haben, der solche Informationen direkt aus der Textverarbeitung ins Wiki umwandeln könnte. Und diese wunderbare Arbeitserleichterung, die ein mächtiges Werkzeug im Zwischenspiel zwischen alter Office-Welt und moderner Wiki-Arbeitsumgebung darstellt, gibt es: Wer OpenOffice.org nutzt und als Wiki-Software auf die am meisten verbreitete Spielart, MediaWiki (mit der die Wikipedia betrieben wird) setzt, darf sich über diese Lösung freuen: Sun Wiki Publisher: Mit dem Sun Wiki Publisher lassen sich von OpenOffice aus Texte ganz leicht nach MediaWiki exportieren. Info siehe auch bei Flominator: OpenOffice.org als WYSIWYG-Editor für MediaWiki. (Source: Text & Blog) Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:41:12 +0100 674399 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/earlham/dGCQ/~3/457671935/oclc-fighting-oa-to-bibliographic-data.html There's been a dust-up lately over a policy change announced by the Online Computer Library Center for the terms of use for WorldCat, the union catalog of bibliographic records contributed by OCLC member libraries. It's disputed whether OCLC provides OA to the full WorldCat data: Open Library's Aaron Swartz says it doesn't; OCLC's Karen Calhoun says it does. The new Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records supercedes the earlier Guidelines for the Use and Transfer of OCLC-Derived Records, last revised in the pre-Web era. (Karen Coyle points out that the Guidelines were themselves a response to an earlier attempt by OCLC to claim copyright in WorldCat records. The new policy avoids the term copyright, but does make an oblique reference to "the intellectual property rights [in WorldCat or WorldCat Records]".) The new policy is slated to go into effect in February 2009. Aside from the name change (from "guidelines" to "policy", implying enforceability), key points of the new policy include prohibitions on commercial or "unreasonable" use. (An earlier version of the policy also required attribution to OCLC in each record re-used; in the latest version, the attribution requirement has been weakened to a recommendation.) The "reasonableness" standard is summarized as: Use must not discourage the contribution of bibliographic and holdings data to WorldCat or substantially replicate the function, purpose, and/or size of WorldCat. The restriction has drawn the ire of Open Library, which is building an OA bibliographic catalog. (In a blog post, Open Library's Aaron Swartz also claims that OCLC has "been trying to kill [Open Library] from the beginning -- threatening its funders with lawsuits, insulting it in the press, and putting pressure on member libraries not to cooperate. ... Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 674060 http://freegovinfo.info/node/2151 Today is going to be one of those slow moments in this long slog to liberation. Still mulling over some of the ideas raised in earlier responses to my posts. While I organize my thoughts, I am pleased to see that government information and its implications continue to get mentioned in the popular press -- especially the Plum Book. I am also pleased to see that elements within the American Library Association are making an effort to link e-government services and libraries. See the ALA wiki. Indeed, the historic connections between traditional depository library service/practice and the evolving suite of possible library e-government service remains considerably under-developed. I hope more of us can jump in and contribute to the conversation. See you on Day 64 (Source: Free Government Information (FGI) blogs) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 22:50:34 +0100 673626 http://librarianinblack.typepad.com/librarianinblack/2008/11/book-mob-at-the-san-francisco-public-library.html Through a conference contact a little while back, I got in touch with Rosie Merlin, the Program Outreach Librarian for the San Francisco Public Library.  She organized a Book Mob (flash mob) to coincide with the library's "one book" program that was super-successful and something other libraries could easily model.  I heard about and saw the success of the program through their Flickr photos, so asked Rosie some questions.  Here is the result of our email interview.Can you tell us what a flash mob is, and how a book mob fits in? Quoting Wikipedia, if I may, a flash mob is “a large group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual action for a brief time, then quickly disperse.” In San Francisco we see lots of flash mobs including zombie mobs, pillow fight mobs, dance mobs (Thriller in Dolores Park was a special one), and others. The idea for a book mob came up when we were trying to brainstorm new and crafty ways to launch our One City One Book program. 2008 is our fourth year hosting a citywide book club and we knew we wanted something public and exciting and that went beyond more traditional “set up a table and hand out materials” type outreach (though we did some of that during the morning on mob day). With the help of Mary Abler who works at Friends of the SFPL, Jon Worona, SFPL’s BLIP Bookmobile Manager, and a variety of other smart thinkers, we came up with the idea of San Francisco’s first book mob. We googled “book mob” early on and didn’t find anything along the lines of what we were plotting. I’m happy to say that if you google “book mob” now, you’ll find LJ’s blog post about our event. ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:41:51 +0100 673673 http://blog.lib.uiowa.edu/scholar/2008/11/17/hardin-scholarly-communication-news-november-2008/ A Newsletter for the Health Sciences Campus at the University of Iowa November 2008 | Issue 3.08 Hardin Scholarly Communication News brings together a variety of topics that affect the current system of scholarly communication, with emphasis on new developments, open access and alternative publishing models in the health sciences. This newsletter aims to reflect the interests of its readers so please forward comments, suggestions and entries to include to karen-fischer@uiowa.edu. Table of Contents: Congress’s copyright fight puts open access science in peril Open Access: it’s “just good science” Health Commons - changing the way basic science is translated to help human health Scientific publishing might create a winner’s curse Does online access change citation practices? Publisher-Author Agreements and the NIH Public Access Policy Read publisher policies on copyright, and more… Author’s Rights, Tout de Suite In Boost for NIH Policy, Major Autism Research Organization Mandates Public Access Medical Wiki Backed by Prominent Colleges Will Go Live by Year’s End (Source: Hardin Scholarly Communication News) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:32:35 +0100 673476 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TameTheWeb/~3/456154476/ Via Jessamyn and a slew of emails this weekend from TTW Readers: http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/OCLC_Policy_Change I need to catch up on all of these posts. Jessamyn suggested this one as  http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/linotype/news/220/ So, OCLC decides to update its data licensing policy after 21 years because, quote: “The Guidelineshave also been frequently faulted for their ambiguity about WorldCat data sharing rights and conditions.” Having had to deal with such ambiguity myself when discussing about releasing the Barton Library data from the MIT Libraries, I have to say that I very much welcomed any sort of update in clarification and a more modern and up-to-date licensing agreement between OCLC and its members libraries, if only to focus more precisely what is wrong with it. Some people believe that OCLC is a thing of the past, created in an era where data interchange and inter-librarian communication was hard, more expensive and much harder to coordinate and destined to succumb to some cheaper and higher quality grass-root approach that will emerge spontaneously on the internet. I personally don’t subscribe to that vision: I’ve witnessed with my own eyes the Apache Group turning into the Apache Software Foundation and growing from a few tens of people to thousands, from a relatively unknown bunch of geeks to a pillar of the web ecosystem, a business-school subject and a poster child for modern bottom-up self-organization. My point being that any grass-root approach that will get big enough to take on OCLC on the metadata collection and redistribution service that libraries need will have to incorporate under the pressure of its users (if only for legal liability protection) and will have to find an answer to the same set of problems (policy, governance, financial sustainability) that OCLC has. ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:37:39 +0100 673634 http://enmarchaconlastic.educarex.es/2008/11/17/el-rincon-de-ciencias-de-la-naturaleza/ El Rincón de Ciencias de la Naturaleza se lanza en marzo de 2007 con la finalidad de proporcionar información y recursos a los profesores de Ciencias de Secundaria y Bachillerato, principalmente, aunque en la medida de lo posible atiende las áreas de Infantil, Primaria o Formación Profesional. La semana pasada ha sido elegido como Finalista de los premios Navegantes de Hoy en la categoría Mejor Iniciativa en Software Libre. Tenéis hasta el 30 de noviembre para votar por nuestro Rincón. Está compuesto por varias secciones: Profesores: esta sección está dedicada exclusivamente a los docentes que tienen acceso a material, noticias, contenidos que les pueden ser de utilidad para su actividad docente. Recursos: dedicada a recopilar todo tipo de recursos que pueden ser útiles al profesor en su quehacer profesional. Se organizan en: Nuevos Enlaces:categoría a la que se van incorporando los nuevos enlaces Enlaces: zona en la que se encuentran todos los enlaces, comentados y categorizados según el currículo oficial, pero que cuenta, además, con un buscador para localizar un enlace de forma más rápida. Web 2.0: ya que se trata de un tema de actualidad y de gran interés general, en esta categoría se dan a conocer aquellas noticias, herramientas, eventos en torno a este movimiento en la red y que pudieran ser interesantes de cara a una posible aplicación en el aula y/o en las áreas de Ciencias. Vídeos Educativos: zona a la que se incorporan, desde servicios externos de alojamiento de vídeos, aquéllos que son espectaculares, útiles o aplicables en el aula. Están clasificados por materias en vídeos de Física, de Química, de Biología o de Geología. Descargas:como su propio nombre indica, aquí se encuentra todo material que es susceptible de ser descargado por parte del usuario. ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:18:49 +0100 673464 http://tecnicalia.com/2008/11/17/tec_%c2%abquinta-columna%c2%bb/ La expresión «Quinta columna» se atribuye al general Emilio Mola, quien durante la Guerra Civil, en 1936, informó que las cuatro columnas de tropas sublevadas que se dirgían hacia Madrid serían apoyadas por una “quinta columna” que desde el interior de la ciudad intentaría acabar con el gobierno de la República.En la Segunda Guerra Mundial se llamó “quintacoluminstas” a los franceses que habitaban en territorio de la Alemania nazi. El término también se usa para definir a un sector de la población con supuestas lealtades hacia países distintos a aquéllos en que residen. Fuente: Quinta columna y Fifth column en Wikipedia. # Enlace Permanente Via: Microsiervos Articulos relacionados: ¿Redmond, ciudad abierta?, en El Mundo¡Hay un loco en la autopista!, artículo en El CorreoColumna en El Periódico de Aragón: Adriana OrtizSony Sountina, altavoces en forma de columnaLos verdaderos nativos digitales, columna en Libertad Digital (Source: tecnicalia.com) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:39:36 +0100 673705 http://www.cilip.org.uk/training/calendar/bydate/April09/Web20inreallife.htm UKeiGFind out how 2.0 applications are being used in libraries and information centres, and what actually works. Blogs, wikis, RSS? YouTube, podcasts, Slideshare? Flickr, Connotea, LibraryThing? Facebook, Second Life, Twitter?This workshop will look at the reality of 2.0: what is useful and what is destined for Gartner's 'Trough of Disillusionment', never to be seen again. The workshop will start with a brief overview of Web 2.0 and what it means. It will then look in more detail at how 'stuff' can be used as sources of information, as a means of enhancing services to users, and raising the profile of information services.The areas covered will include: Blogs, wikis, RSS feeds Shared authoring tools Start pages e.g. iGoogle, PageFlakes, NetVibes Social bookmarking services Using YouTube and Flickr as information resources and to promote your group or organisation "Presentation" sites such as Slideshare and Authorstream Social networking sites e.g. Facebook To Twitter or not to Twitter. There will be a heavy practical element to the workshop so that participants can explore Web 2 and try out the technologies for themselves. There will be extensive notes and exercise sheets to guide participants through the day, and all the information and presentations will be available electronically (Source: CILIP – Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:29:17 +0100 673495 http://www.cilip.org.uk/training/calendar/bydate/April09/SearchingtheInternetGoogleandBeyond.htm UKeiGWith the major search engines claiming coverage of over 20 billion web pages in their databases, it is becoming increasingly difficult to locate relevant information. Most of us head straight for Google when we want to search the Internet but Google is not the only search tool. This workshop looks at recent developments at Google and the alternatives, especially the new kids on the block and Web 2.0 'stuff'.Karen Blakeman will take you through the best of the search engine world and highlight how they can be used to significantly improve your results. By the end of the day, participants will have a vital toolkit to help them search more effectively, including key search tools, comparisons, top tips and essential search techniques.Topics to be covered include: different types of search tools and how they work making the most of Google and new features alternatives to Google advanced search techniques to help you track down the so-called "hidden web" image, audio, video and news blogs, RSS, wikis and Web 2.0 resources setting up your customised search engine tracking down pages that have disappeared. Delegates will have ample opportunity to test out advanced search techniques and to compare different search engines. A significant part of the day will be taken up with practical sessions; exercises will be provided but delegates are free to try out searches of their own.This workshop is suitable for all levels of experience. The techniques and approaches covered can be applied to all subject areas. (Source: CILIP – Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:28:54 +0100 673496 http://www.infotogo.com/users/index.asp?RSS=32170 "Wikipedia has been cited almost 300 times in American judicial opinions as of September, 2008. Courts cite Wikipedia for a wide range of purposes. Some citations are merely mundane references to... (Source: Info To Go: Navigating the Internet) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 11:02:00 +0100 673353 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/NetbibWeblog/~3/455816936/ Stop the OCLC powergrab nennt sich eine Initative, die mit der neuen Policy von OCLC nicht einverstanden ist. Dokumtiert wird die Einführung der neuen Policy auf der OCLC Policy Change Wiki Seite, dort sind auch die Reaktionen der, nicht nur bibliothekarischen, “Gemeinde” zu finden. Worum es überhaupt geht, ist dem Weblogeintrag Stealing Your Library: The OCLC Powergrab von Aaron Swartz zu entnehmen: But recently, it’s gone one step way too far. Not satisfied with controlling the world’s largest source of book information, it wants to take over all the smaller ones as well. It’s now demanding that every library that uses WorldCat give control over all its catalog records to OCLC. Den WorldCat finde ich ja eigentlich ziemlich gelungen, abgesehen natürlich davon, dass man als Bibliothek Gebühren für die Anzeige der eigenen Titel zahlen muss… Anfang November gab es zu dem Thema schon etwas Gemurmel in Tim Spaldings Weblog, weil die neue Geschäftspolitik auch Auswirkungen auf Dienste wie LibaryThing, Open Library u.a. haben wird. In einem Talis-Podcast nehmen Vice President WorldCat and Metadata Services, Karen Calhoun and Senior Programme Officer, Roy Tennant zu dem Thema Stellung. Wer keine Lust oder Zeit hat, sich die Diskussion anzuhören, kann eine Zusammenfassung auf blog.ecorrado.us nachlesen. Offensichtlich bestehen noch diverse Unklarheiten. Danke an Stefan für den Hinweis! (Source: netbib weblog) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 09:37:34 +0100 673399 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/455621741/ A Harvard law professor is arguing that the Digital Theft Deterrence and Copyright Damages Improvement Act isn’t constitutional. The reason? In effect, he says, the RIAA is enforcing criminal law. Prof. Charles Nesson, who founded the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard, is defending a Boston University student—one of tens of thousands of people whom the RIAA has accused of online song-sharing. If Nesson succeeds, the RIAA will have one fewer tool to use against piracy. No, I don’t think people should be able to share books with impunity via P2P, but the act is really over the top—with fines as high as $150K for just one violation. The e-book industry is asking for trouble if it relies on  atrocities like this. Better business models would be far, far more effective and durable. Related: Harvard Crimson article. Also on the legal front: Local Wikipedia blocked by German MP, in OhmyNews. As much as I believe in well-stocked national digital libraries, I also believe in robust alternatives. This clip is a good illustration of the reasons why. (Thanks to Wiebe de Jager.) (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:43:17 +0100 673371 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/smwm/~3/454618695/digicmb Drawing in the Dirt » Research 2.0 The OpenScience Project » Cool finds at the NCCB2008 workshop * OpenWetWare * The international genetically engineered machines competition (IGEM) * Registry of Standard Biological Parts * Nature Precedings * Proteopedia * The Open Protein Structure Annotation Network (TOPSAN) * SciVee.tv * FriendFeed Nature Precedings Open research - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Open Source Drug Discovery [OSDD] Network | Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India Science Commons » The Neurocommons (Source: DigiCMB) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:10:02 +0100 673324 http://instructionwiki.org/Library_Instruction_Wiki:Protected_page http://mennlaw.com/pdf/docs/comment552.htm Revision as of 05:08, 17 Nov 2008 Current revision Line 1: Line 1:  +[http://mennlaw.com/pdf/docs/comment552.htm serial console servers] [http://stoneyardbar.com/tester/files/news-709.html home depot store] [http://undiefan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/sitemap.html http] [http://tourismcollege-varna.com/images/articles/pics/ouvileto.html eclipse solar video] [http://fremontwis.com/css/styles/article-163.htm lesboerotica] [http://undiefan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/index.html sitemap] [http://hdclima.com/objects2/thumbs/text1391.htm computer game reviews] [http://lesnemen.nl/ideal/security/img/comment293.htm fondle yourself] [http://saltriverbg.com/ajlin/albums/userpics/10001/resource227.htm alternator amperage high] [http://mennlaw.com/pdf/docs/comment1422.htm inspirational framed art] [http://undiefan.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/index.html sitemap] [http://hdclima.com/objects2/thumbs/text1391.htm computer game reviews] [http://lesnemen.nl/ideal/security/img/comment293.htm fondle yourself] [http://saltriverbg.com/ajlin/albums/userpics/10001/resource227.htm alternator amperage high] [http://mennlaw.com/pdf/docs/comment1422.htm inspirational framed art] dronracboc dronracboc (Source: Library Instruction Wiki - Recent changes [en]) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:08:37 +0100 673335 http://www.affordance.info/mon_weblog/2008/11/les-cons-a-ose.html " ... c'est même à ça qu'on les reconnaît " disait le maître. Diego Maradona et Lutz Heilman osent tout. Le premier, nous apprend Zorgloob, a demandé (et obtenu !!!) des versions locales de Google et de Yahoo!, qu'elles ne fassent plus apparaître de résultats sur la requête "Diego Maradona." La page suivante est donc collector : à vos copies d'écran, car c'est à ma connaissance la première fois dans l'histoire de l'Internet qu'une telle disparition est opérée. Le second (via le toujours excellent Ecrans et de ReadWriteWeb), Lutz Heilman, 42 ans, aujourd’hui député au parlement fédéral du parti die Linke (La Gauche), et ex-agent de la fameuse police secrète est-allemande (Stasi), a demandé et obtenu la fermeture immédiate et ce deux jours durant, de la version allemande de Wikipedia (enfin pas tout à fait mais presque).Deux réflexions croisées : c'est la première fois qu'un particulier obtient l'application aussi radicale et disproportionnée d'un tel "effacement". seuls des états avaient jusqu'ici réussi à faire plier de tels mastodontes, et la négociation n'avait pas porté sur le terrain judiciaire mais uniquement sur le plan ... financier. cela laisse songeur sur plein de plans ... Et une morale façon "vieux con des neiges d'antan" : on n'effacera jamais les livres. On peut les censurer, les brûler, les détruire, les pilonner mais les effacer ... jamais. Et si vous voulez lire une belle histoire à ce sujet, vous pouvez vous précipiter sur Globalia. (Source: affordance.info) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 674430 http://businesslines.blogspot.com/2008/11/november-business-at-lake-county-public.html NEW BUSINESS DVD TITLES at the Lake County Public LibraryDVD 658.812 WHATWHAT DRIVES PHENOMENAL SUCCESS?50 minutes Colleen Barrett explains the success of Southwest Airlines in simple terms. Employee satisfaction is the starting point for customer satisfaction. She describes a hiring process that selects on individual attitudes, sets expectations, and empowers employees from the beginning to do the right thing.DVD 658.046 WIKIWIKINOMICS49 minutesDale Tapscott, CEO of New Paradigm, describes how winning companies innovate and succeed using the knowledge, resources and computing power of millions of people self-organizing into a massive collective force. The Age of Collaboration has changed business through blogs, wikis, chat rooms, peer-to-peer networks and personal broadcasting.DVD 658.4012 EXECEXECUTING YOUR STRATEGY53 minutesDr. Raymond Levitt of Stanford University emphasizes the critical need to revise your strategic portfolio to fit the demands of a dynamic environment. He details the imperatives that enable you to do the right projects, and to do these projects right. Dr. Levitt is the Academic Director of Stanford University’s award-winning Advanced Project Management executive program.DVD 658.4013 DRIVDRIVE BUSINESS PERFORMANCE55 minutesWith examples from Fortune 500 companies, Bruno Aziza and Joey Fitts provide a six-stage approach for developing a culture of performance, including increasing visibility into operations, moving away from a gut feel to a more data-driven decision-making and articulating future success. Mr. Aziza and Mr. Fitts are both associated with Global Business Intelligence Sales Strategy for Microsoft.DVD 658.4 LEVELEVERAGING THE SPOTLIGHT OF LEADERSHIP54 minutesProfessor Jay Conger describes how the natural spotlight that managers and executives find themselves in can have both pros and cons. He explains how to use its power to set direction, lead your people and guide their decision making. Dr. ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 673769 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/earlham/dGCQ/~3/456546263/case-study-in-open-notebook-science.html Jean-Claude Bradley, From ONS to Peer Review: our JoVE Article is Published, Useful Chemistry, November 13, 2008. Our article "Optimization of the Ugi Reaction Using Parallel Synthesis and Automated Liquid Handling" is now published on the Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE). I am very pleased with this because it showcases some interesting approaches to communicate science that were not possible not so long ago. First, and foremost, this demonstrates that lab notebook pages and blog posts can be used to support claims made in a peer reviewed article. ... When providing a reference for a melting point or spectrum, nothing is more relevant that the lab notebook page where the specific batch of product was obtained and characterized. Second, we have demonstrated that it is possible carry out research under Open Notebook Science conditions, write an article openly on a wiki, post it on a pre-print server (like Nature Precedings) and finally publish it in an peer reviewed journal. ... Third, this is a good example of the use of video to enhance the communication of a protocol for a chemical reaction. ... Finally, JoVE is an example of an Open Access journal with some Web2.0 capabilities, like the ability to leave comments and label them as agreeing or disagreeing with the authors. The final article can now also serve as a location for continuing the scientific conversation. (Source: Open Access News) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 673604 http://sethf.com/infothought/blog/archives/001403.html [Below is a guest post from Daniel Brandt, who gives his experiences and speculations below. His views are of course his own and not necessarily my own, but I do believe them worth hearing] There is definitely some sort of filtering going on in Google's rankings for certain keywords. It took 18 months for any of the pages on my wikipedia-watch.org site to rank better than 200 deep or so for any combination of keywords from those pages. During this time, Yahoo and Live.com were ranking the same pages well for the same terms. When I test terms on Google, I test with a multi-threaded private tool that checks more than 30 Google data centers on different Class Cs, and shows the rank up to 100 on each one. I can see changes kicking in and out as they propagate across these data centers. The transitions can take several days in normal cases, as when a new or modified page is appropriated into the results. Wikipedia-watch.org has been a website now for 36 months. During the first half of that period, no pages ranked higher than 200 deep or so, even if you used two fairly uncommon words from that page to search for it (this is documented at wikipedia-watch.org/goohate.html). During the second half of that period, after it took about four months to settle into the transition, the deeper pages ranked okay, and were on a par with Yahoo and Live. But there was still one glaring exception to this rule: the search for the single word "wikipedia" failed to turn up the home page in the first 100 results almost all of the time during this second period. When it did show up, it always ranked within the top 15. When it didn't show up, it was always greater than 100. There was never anything in between, and I've been watching this curiosity for the last six months now. For the first five of these months, it might kick in for a few hours on all data centers, and then disappear. This happened several times. ... Mon, 17 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 673554 http://ksulib.typepad.com/genref/2008/11/libraryh3lp-emo.html One of the General Reference Unit's students, DJ, found a list of all of libraryh3lp's emoticons at: http://code.google.com/p/libraryh3lp/wiki/SupportedEmoticons. These are visible in the Libraryh3lp widgets, and from the webchat (http://libraryh3lp.com/webchat) operator interface. Unfortunately, they aren't all visible in Pidgin. (Source: K-State Libraries: General Reference) Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:26:40 +0100 673308 http://weblog.ib.hu-berlin.de/?p=6246 Digitale Spiel-, Kommunikations- und Arbeitsräume stehen im Zentrum der wissenschaftlichen Betrachtungen von Urs Gasser, Direktor der Forschungsstelle für Informationsrecht an der Universität St. Gallen. Die nach 1980 geborenen jungen Menschen könnten sich ein Leben ohne Google und Wikipedia nicht mehr vorstellen. Internetexperte Urs Gasser über eine global vernetzte Generation: http://www.dradio.de/ Sein Blog: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ugasser/ (Source: IB Weblog) Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:20:55 +0100 673237 http://conniecrosby.blogspot.com/2008/11/innovation-in-tough-economic-times.html This Thursday I will be facilitating a roundtable discussion at the next Toronto Girl Geek Dinners. I have been attending meetings of this group for about a year, and have found them to be very collegial. It is a fantastic group of interesting women from a range of industries. The group also encourages younger members by having a number of students sponsored for the evening. Usually we have a speaker, but the group has gotten so comfortable with one another that we thought an opportunity for us to talk with one another would be a nice change of pace. Inspiration for the discussion: The ability to do sustained innovation is the one competitive edge left. Innovation is the driver of performance, growth and stock market valuation." - Bruce Nussbaum, 10 Worst Innovation Mistakes in A Recession (Business Week) The details: Toronto Girl Geek Dinner #9 November 20, 2008 Hot House Cafe at 7:00 p.m. Sign up on the wiki The 9th Toronto Girl Geek Dinner, sponsored by PriceWaterhouseCoopers, will feature a discussion about how we, as leaders in our respective areas of technology, can continue to innovate during tough economic times. Some of the topics we will cover include taking smart risks, using a downturn as a catalyst for innovation, finding a solid strategy, and the opportunities for people inside organizations and for entrepreneurs. To wrap up our Toronto Girl Geek Dinners for 2008, PricewaterhouseCoopers has graciously agreed to pick up the tab for everyone's dinner. We all thank them for their generosity are thrilled to have them on-board and participating in our event! (Source: Connie Crosby) Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:05:00 +0100 673253 http://healthlibrary.blogspot.com/2008/11/clinical-informatics-wiki-clinfowiki.html Web 2.0 technology for clinical decision support- ClinfowikiHealth Library Blog. Published by kairosmix. (Source: Health Library - Web 2.0 for Health Professionals) Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:01:00 +0100 673301 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/11/15/taxpayer-group-announces-government-spending-transparency-web-site/ Taxpayer Group Announces Government Spending “Transparency” Web Site The 362,000-member National Taxpayers Union (NTU) today joined with the online resource Sunshine Review in the next major step toward building a collaborative community of advocates for government “transparency.” NTU has integrated its Show Me the Spending Web site with Sunshine Review’s Wikipedia-like site that enables people to find and share information about whether state and local governments are effective, accessible, and responsible with tax dollars. Now, anyone from think-tank staffers to taxpayer activists can edit the site, available at www.showmethespending.com, to reflect transparency news and updates from their respective states. Source: National Taxpayers Union (Source: ResourceShelf) Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:56:28 +0100 672977 http://www.swissarmylibrarian.net/2008/11/15/reference-question-of-the-week-11908 A patrons walks up to the desk, slides me this piece of paper, and says, I was walking in the woods behind my house and found a plaque with this written on it. Can you tell me what it says? He then elaborated saying the plaque was made of stone and the characters were painted onto it and it looked like an ancient language so he went online and found Omniglot.com and by looking at the alphabets there decided they must be Runic characters and in front of the plaque was a little container which he didn’t open but he photographed the whole area and… It took awhile before I could get a word in edgewise, but the longer he talked, the more it sounded to me like he had found either a letterbox or a geocache. When I did get a chance, I asked him a few more questions in this direction, and his answers made me feel I was on the right track. He had never heard of letterboxing or geocaching, but after a quick explanation, he was interested. I told him that both were treasure-hunting activities, in which the participants follow either clues or GPS coordinates, and then have to solve puzzles, riddles or codes to find the “treasure.” I showed him the websites where many letterboxes and geocaches are registered, http://www.letterboxing.org, http://www.atlasquest.com, and http://www.geocaching.com. Since the “clue” he brought in was entirely encoded in Runic characters (a quick check on Wikipedia’s Runic article and a couple books on Runes confirmed this), I guessed that this was a geocache, so we started there. We first tried searching by zip code, but that brought back too many results. Geocaching.com’s advanced search also allows searching by coordinates, so we went to Google Maps and I had him show me as closely as possible where he found the plaque. ... Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:31:21 +0100 672954 http://www.librarian.net/stax/2536/what-is-up-with-oclc/ This all started with a little wink-wink posting about OCLC from Tim over at LibraryThing which was the first I’d heard about OCLC’s policy changes. As someone who doesn’t interact with OCLC or their data too much, I didn’t really understand this and had to wait for some clarification posts to understand both what was going on and how it affected people and projects like LibraryThing and Open Library. The upshot as I understand it is that OCLC is basically saying “Sure you can share your records, but not with people or organizations who materially compete with us” That’s my summary anyhow. Here’s the non-legalese policy on the OCLC site. Here’s the more legalese version. Here’s a wiki version of the changes between the “old” new policy and the new policy. Isn’t technology grand? Karen Calhoun a VP over at OCLC has written a defense of the new policy on her own blog; there is some lively discussion happening in the comments. There is also this podcast of Roy Tennant and Karen Calhoun talking with Richard Wallis from Talis (whose business model is also potentially affected by this policy change) about the ramifications of this change. So, the policy OCLC has put up has been revised somewhat, doesn’t go into effect until February, and gives people a lot of time to think about what if anything they want to do about this. Tim Spalding has a business model that is compromised by OCLCs refusal to let their members share these records. The Open Library project is also possible compromised and Aaron Swartz has written two posts about the policy change: Stealing Your Library: The OCLC Powergrab and OCLC On The Run. He also directs people to the Stop OCLC Petition if you’d like to sign on to ask OCLC to repeal these changes. ... Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:31:17 +0100 672994 http://freegovinfo.info/node/2141 As promised, starting this week, Guide of the Week is supporting the "__ Days to Government Information Liberation" initiative by highlighting guides from the ALA GODORT Handout Exchange Wiki that shed light on important Presidential transition issues as defined by the Government Accountability Office's urgent issues page at http://www.gao.gov/transition_2009/urgent/. This page highlights the following 13 "urgent issues": oversight of financial institutions and markets, U.S. efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, protecting the homeland, undisciplined defense spending, improving the U.S. image abroad, finalizing plans for the 2010 Census, caring for service members, preparing for public health emergencies, revamping oversight of food safety, restructuring the approach to surface transportation, retirement of the Space Shuttle, ensuring an effective transition to digital TV, and rebuilding military readiness. Today, we focus on oversight of financial institutions and markets. The Handout Exchange Wiki offers several items that look helpful: Banking, Banks and Credit Unions (University of Colorado at Boulder Government Publications Library, 2008) Government Documents on Banking (Bert Chapman, Purdue University, 1999) Last updated 3/10/2008 Housing (Bert Chapman, Purdue University, 2001) Last updated 3/10/2008 I've actually covered Bert Chapman's guide to housing in a prior edition of Guide of the Week, so I won't cover that guide in detail again. His banking guide provides the usual intro and helpful catalog terms. Then it highlights a number of resources helpful to monitoring oversight efforts, including: Annual Report Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. ... Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:14:17 +0100 672898 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/VNJN/~3/454173160/filosofa-python.html .Según Wikipedia, en la página del lenguaje Python indica que "...el código que sigue los principios de Python de legibilidad y transparencia se dice que es "pythonico". Contrariamente, el código opaco u ofuscado es bautizado como "no pythonico" ("unpythonic" en inglés). Estos principios fueron famosamente descritos por el desarrollador de Python Tim Peters en El Zen de Python" 1. Bello es mejor que feo. 2. Explícito es mejor que implícito. 3. Simple es mejor que complejo. 4. Complejo es mejor que complicado. 5. Plano es mejor que anidado. 6. Ralo es mejor que denso. 7. La legibilidad cuenta. 8. Los casos especiales no son tan especiales como para quebrantar las reglas. 1. Aunque lo práctico gana a la pureza. 9. Los errores nunca deberían dejarse pasar silenciosamente. 1. A menos que hayan sido silenciados explícitamente. 10. Frente a la ambigüedad, rechaza la tentación de adivinar. 11. Debería haber una -y preferiblemente sólo una- manera obvia de hacerlo. 1. Aunque esa manera puede no ser obvia al principio a menos que usted sea Holandés.[17] 12. Ahora es mejor que nunca. 1. Aunque nunca es a menudo mejor que ya. 13. Si la implementación es dificil de explicar, es una mala idea. 14. Si la implementación es fácil de explicar, puede que sea una buena idea. 15. Los espacios de nombres (namespaces) son una gran idea ¡Hagamos más de esas cosas!Fernando Bordignon (@) 2006 (Source: Apuntes, son solo apuntes) Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 673159 http://tlnewsau.blogspot.com/2008/11/last-post.html I had fun putting this blog together but stopped posting when I saw little more need for it. Since I started blogging has become mainstream for TLs and libraries and the emergence of Wikis, Twittering, Social Networking Sites and availability of RSS feeds.As retirement looms I have decided to put this blog to bed. My blogging will continue with Men at Work and Geniaus.TLNews is now an archive (Source: TLNewsau) Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 672963 http://information-literacy.blogspot.com/2008/11/virtual-worlds.html The discussions continue regularly on Infolit iSchool in Second Life (SL), the virtual world. Most recently, Robin Ashford (a librarian from the USA, Robin Mochi in SL) led a discussion about the Academic librarian in Second Life. The picture show the assembled people, mainly from the UK and USA. She was speaking, and other people were using text chat: there is a transcript of the chat here : http://sleeds.org/chatlog/?c=339. There was a lively discussion so although you don't get most of Robin's comments, there are other observations you might find interesting. Robin recently did a presentation at a conference in SL and her powerpoint is here: http://www.slideshare.net/RobinAshford/academic-librarian-in-second-life-presentationThe previous week, a Professor in the School of Education here at Sheffield University (Jackie Marsh, Jackie Darkstone in SL) gave a talk on Out of school play in online virtual worlds and the implications for literacy learning (6th November 2008). Her blog is here: http://digitalbeginnings.blogspot.com/ She has done research looking at how young children are using virtual worlds, particularly Club Penguin. She was speaking in chat, and the chatlog is here: http://sleeds.org/chatlog/?c=337Finally, there was an exploration of Infolit iSchool (our island) last week. If you can get into SL, there is a notecard with landmarks and commentary here: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/128/224/22/ and the text of the notecard is on the wiki here http://infolitischool.pbwiki.com/An+exploration+of+the+island (Source: Information Literacy Weblog) Sat, 15 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 672960 http://freegovinfo.info/node/2140 As I watch and read the what is happening at the national level (presidential transition, financial crisis, two major world wars, a major meeting of the 20 largest economies in Washington, D.C.), I wonder if government/civic information librarians can learn and sustain a collective knowledge building effort that captures the added value, bibliographic structures, and shape of the policy narrative I refer to in earlier posts. What I have in mind is modeled on the weather alerts here in the Midwest -- trying to get early word out about violent weather nearby; are the various community alerts issued about missing people or crime nearby. So, what I suggest is something that I call an Adelaide Alert (in honor of Adelaide Hasse.) The purpose of these alerts would be to put together web tools or resources that help explain and track major complicated public policy and government events. These events are so profound (and at times, predictable) that if an organized group of government information librarians can get their act together to cooperate across geographic and institutional lines, they could sustain a major reference source that would be free to anyone with access to the web. Think of it as an information grange or cooperative. These tools would list significant official sources that discuss the event; would provide a timeline or outline of how the event came to be and what might happen; would list secondary or authoritative non-government resources. It would be updated on a regular basis and maintained by the cooperative. Yes, they could by wikis, they could be web pages, they could be whatever social software we would choose to use. If we truly get radical, these large-scale reference cooperatives could be coming the cutting edge for preservation. In other words, for those of us so inclined, we could be sure that the important government/official sources part of the Alert are preserved in some coordinated fashion (much along the lines LOCKSS project. ... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:09:08 +0100 672612 http://walt.lishost.org/2008/11/blog-analysis/ Nope, this isn’t more advance flogging for The Liblog Landscape 2007-2008. (You’ll get that soon enough, along with a special offer for early purchasers. If you’re wondering: I uploaded the PDFs to Lulu yesterday, and am now waiting for the proof copy, which could take a couple of weeks.) This is a Friday funny–and a slightly delayed joining in an offhand meme I saw at Helene Blowers’ Library Bytes. Namely, a few blog analyzers…and in this case, how they rate this here blog. Typealyzer This one claims to do a Myers-Briggs style analysis of the blog. I just ran it and came up with: ESTP - The Doers The active and playful type. They are especially attuned to people and things around them and often full of energy, talking, joking and engaging in physical out-door activities. The Doers are happiest with action-filled work which craves their full attention and focus. They might be very impulsive and more keen on starting something new than following it through. They might have a problem with sitting still or remaining inactive for any period of time. Bwahahah… yep, that’s me, out there playing volleyball when I’m not on the links or joking with my huge array of friends, since I’m so attuned to people. And, you know, never following through on anything, which is why Cites & Insights disappeared after six issues and I’ve never managed to complete any of those books I’ve started writing… What’s most absurd here is that I ran the same site’s test a few days ago (November 10), when Blowers posted her item–and came out INTP, The Thinkers (and an introvert). I’m notoriously an introvert (and yes, I tested that way on a real Myers-Briggs test–I think it was INTP. ... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:57:29 +0100 672527 http://www.slaw.ca/2008/11/14/the-friday-fillip-121/ Take a seat. Not just any seat, of course. One that suits your needs and, well, that part of you. Ever since human beings discovered that they could bend in the middle, proper seating has been a matter of considerable importance. If you happen to be a court, sittings are even more significant, but that’s a whole nother business, as they say. This is about plain old citizenry sitting and, more precisely, the chairs that enable it. Those of you who work at firms likely have ergonomically correct (or at least adjustable, so the instructions promise) chairs, like the Aeron, that wildly popular apotheosis of posterior props. Some would say it’s perfection in chair design. It evidently merits it’s own Wikipedia page and a place in MOMA’s permanent collection. But my pick for the perfect chair — for the best combination of form and function — is a chair designed nearly 150 years ago. The Thonet Model No.14 (a.k.a. Vienna cafe chair) hit the market in 1859 and has never looked back. As the fascinating International Herald Tribune story points out, the chair consists of ten screws, two nuts and six pieces of wood (two circles, two sticks and a couple of arches). Then, it cost about the price of a bottle of wine. Now, a licensed reproduction will run you just under $500. Though you can still see knockoffs of this beautiful, sturdy and light piece of furniture pretty much everywhere, including Ikea (albeit in resin). You can also find contemporary interpretations of it, for example those done by Tomás Alonso or by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa. I understand that for all this chair’s grace and efficiency, fin de siècle Wien might not be your idea of good design, or even good taste. In that case, you might take a look at the nextmaruni chair museum, an online gallery of seats of a more modern bent. There’s sure to be something there to match your… aesthetic. (Source: Slaw) Fri, 14 Nov 2008 18:53:30 +0100 672697 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/LibraryClips/~3/452676961/ The other day I posted on Knowledge flow networks and Post-KM : enterprise 2.0, facilitation and complexity, these along with an older post include how I think KM and enterprise 2.0 can come together. In this post I pointed to a post by Tom Davenport on recognising the difference in the planned and outcome KM approach compared to the enterprise 2.0 emergent approach (with sharing, learning, connections happening along the way). He also concurred with Andrew McAfee saying there is an element of facilitation and gardening, this is the part I call KM 2.0. I think KM 2.0 is a layer on top of enterprise 2.0. Samuel Driessen’s post pointed me to a comment by James Dellow on Tom’s post. Samuel disagreed with James that enterprise 2.0 is only about technology, saying it’s also about the people and the networks. It’s all semantics at the moment, sure enterprise 2.0 is a technology that allows connections, network effects and emergence that we didn’t have previously, but we all know without participation and management 2.0 values it’s nothing. When we talk about enterprise 2.0 we often also mean the culture, adoption and human part of it, we assume a new style of bottom-up work. The last thing we want to do is stifle the potential of the tools with a top-down approach. I think KM 2.0 comes in to make sure enterprise 2.0 is left alone and emergence can happen, but then comes in to guide and facilitate, to make sure it’s adaptive in the best possible way. Anyway this leads me to some descriptions of this movement by James Dellow in an article in the Image & Data Manager Magazine Sep/Oct 2008. Lately James writes a lot about Intranet 2.0, and is even seeking a publisher for a book on this subject. James offers various ways or choices in implementing Intranet 2.0 into your organisation. 1. Tactical Social Computing 2. Enterprise Web 2.0 3. Enterprise 2. ... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:52:37 +0100 672392 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/kkJF/~3/452719300/een-niet-al-te-diepe-duik-in-deepdyve.html Daniëlle onderstreepte het gisteren ook maar weer eens: de informatiebehoefte van onze klanten verandert in hoog tempo. De behoefte aan verdieping neemt af.Nu ik erover nadenk besef ik weer even dat ik zelf ook niet ontkom aan de vervlakking. Als ik bijvoorbeeld kijk naar mijn zoekmachinegebruik moet ik onderkennen dat ik in het afgelopen jaar eigenlijk alleen maar gebruik heb gemaakt van Google. Voorheen combineerde ik dat nog wel met machines als Scirus, Alltheweb en Ask.com, maar het afgelopen jaar is dat er niet meer van gekomen. Dat heeft niet alleen te maken met gemakzucht en de tevredenheid over Google: het komt ook voort uit het feit dat ik me beroepsmatig minder met speurvragen bezighoud dan voorheen. Die speurvragen sluipen heel geleidelijk uit het takenpakket maar het is ook duidelijk waarneembaar dat klanten steeds minder vaak een beroep doen op je zoekvaardigheden. Ze zoeken zelf wel of gaan gewoon minder diep.Toen ik begin deze week op de nieuwe zoekmachine DeepDyve stuitte leek het me gezien het bovenstaande wel een goed idee om weer eens te experimenteren met een alternatieve zoekmachine. Het is altijd een soort van spannend om het diepe web van nabij te mogen aanschouwen.Ik heb de machine 5 kansen gegeven. Zocht natuurlijk even op 'Zeeuwse Bibliotheek' en constateerde dat ik maar een treffer kreeg: het Wikipedia-lemma. Toen ik overschakelde naar Engelse zoektermen werd het niet veel beter. Wikipedia wederom, een paar nieuwsresultaten en een paar niet-relevante treffers uit Open Access Databanken. Zoekend op wetenschappelijke termen kreeg ik al meer relevants in beeld maar die informatie is alleen interessant als je, uhm, wetenschapper bent.Helemaal eerlijk is het niet, zo'n beperkte test, maar dat is hoe het gaat, anno 2008. Ik ben nu alweer klaar met deze machine. Er zijn al zoveel alternatieven. Er is al zoveel input. ... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 07:47:00 +0100 672569 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Spellboundblog/~3/452618671/ My work now includes more SEO (Search Engine Optimization) work and so I have added SEO focused blogs to my RSS feedreader. Today I spotted Search Engine Land’s post Business Opportunities For Video News Archives. Stephen Baker calculates that 35 years worth of archive footage equals 51,100 hours of content per station. With approximately 20 stations per broadcast group he estimates a cost of $30 million per group to digitize each broadcast group’s archive of news footage. See the original article for more details on his calculations. He then proposes 3 approaches to monetizing these efforts and leveraging the resulting digitized video: Media-Centric Wikipedia - complete with an expectation that social media contributions would provide “scalable way for creating editorial metadata, such as descriptions and story summaries that would be costly to otherwise create”. This makes me think of Flickr Commons for video. Education Site - akin to NBCU’s iCue site I mentioned in my post about NBC News Archive footage on Hulu. “Efforts like this provide educational/subscription opportunities as well as sponsorship/advertising opportunities—what advertiser doesn’t want to get in front of 13 - 18 year olds?” News Site Extension - described as “bolting the news archive onto the existing site”. The major benefit of this is that “more content provides more SEO opportunity and, hence, larger audience reach.” Baker concludes: In a market where traditional media is struggling to create unique and compelling online experiences and business models, the archive represent a differentiator that can jump-start audience building and monetization initiatives. Not only is it an important representation of world history that must be saved for “preservation-sake”, the archive represents a large, untapped online opportunity. ... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:38:35 +0100 672690 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/smwm/~3/450346186/digicmb International presentation of the new Development Centre's library Wiki platform Sharepoint Intranet (Source: DigiCMB) Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:20:02 +0100 672301 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/blogspot/smwm/~3/451484262/digicmb Data on display : Nature News Era of Scientific Secrecy Near End | LiveScience 100+ Incredible Open Courseware Resources for Science Geeks | Eduk8 Scholr 2.0 Research 2.0 searchingforscience wiki / Tags or Bookmarks The Future of Knowledge Wilbanks.pdf (application/pdf-object) john wilbanks' blog - Nature Network (Source: DigiCMB) Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:20:02 +0100 672300 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DrwebsDomain/~3/453117767/stealing-your-library-the-oclc-powergrab-aaron-swartzs-raw-thought.html Stealing Your Library: The OCLC Powergrab (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought). Raw Thought: Stealing Your Library: The OCLC Powergrab This is the story of a monster, a sorcerer's apprentice, a nice little thing that's grown and grown until it's gotten out of hand and turned on its creators. It's the story of a little-known organization called OCLC (the Online Computer Library Center) that is -- no joke -- trying to steal your library, all of our libraries, for itself. OCLC was founded in 1967 by Fred Kilgour, a pioneering Ohio librarian, with a simple idea: Instead of having every library in the country separately catalog a book -- laboriously entering its title, author, and subjects in just the right format -- why not have one person enter the cataloging information, upload it to a central computer, and then let everyone else download a copy from there? It was called WorldCat, for World Catalog, and it's been a resounding success. Today it has around 50 million book records. But OCLC, the group that owns and operates it, has been a different story. It started small -- a little office in Ohio, a set of membership dues to share the cost of running the servers. But OCLC's control passed from librarians and academics to business people (its senior executive comes from consulting firm Deloitte & Touche). They realized they had a monopoly on their hands and as costs for running servers have gone down, their prices have gone up. They charge you once to get your records added to WorldCat and charge you again to get them back out and charge you a third time for a whole series of additional fees and services. And these prices are high. ... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 673260 http://acrlog.org/2008/11/14/empowering-our-users-with-fair-use/ Editor’s Note: Working at an academic institution in Philadelphia had its advantages recently for providing proximity to a significant event - the formal release of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education. My colleague Kristina De Voe, Reference Librarian for English & Communications at Temple University, attended the event. Here she shares some observations and thoughts from the event, along with some useful links. Many thanks to Kristina for contributing this guest post. On November 11, 2008 I attended the release event for the much anticipated Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education, a succinct, easy-to-understand document outlining the concepts and techniques for interpreting the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fittingly taking place at Philadelphia’s National Constitution Center and coordinated by The Center for Social Media, The Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, and Temple University’s Media Education Lab, the event was attended by fair use stakeholders: educators, students, copyright lawyers, and librarians. An archived stream of the event is available, but as media literacy maven Renee Hobbs and other panelists spoke on the significance of the Code in terms of both teaching and student learning, I was struck by their sheer call to action. Here is a document that we as librarians can use as a teaching and learning tool with our faculty, our students, and one another. Whether helping faculty design amazing curricula or helping students with research projects, promoting a stronger culture of fair use within our institutions allows us to help empower our users in accessing and utilizing media rich resources – available from our libraries or elsewhere. ... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 672434 http://www.librarybytes.com/2008/11/thing-15-jfk-vs-nixon-aka-blog-vs-wiki.html Thing 15 of the CML Learn & Play challenge asks you to comment on your findings about wikis. Here's a discovery I made tonight... who'd have thunk that JFK and Nixon actually debated the merits of Blogs vs Wikis over 40 years ago. I'm Serious... have a look :)PS: Watching this video makes me wonder how this topic might have played out in a Obama / McCain showdown. On second thought, I think we already know. But, if your curious at all on learning about how the Obama camp successfully engaged the public through social media like blogs and wikis, MIT Technology Review had a great cover story on his campaign's use of online tools last month titled, How Obama Really Did It. Even if your not an Obama fan, from a social media standpoint it's an interesting read. (Source: LibraryBytes) Fri, 14 Nov 2008 02:58:00 +0100 672687 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Library_science&diff=251686421&oldid=prev My bad, It was a good edit ← Previous revision Revision as of 01:59, 14 November 2008 Line 37: Line 37: According to U''.S. News & World Report'', library and information science ranks as one of the "Best Careers of 2008."<ref>Best Careers. ''U.S. News & World Report'' http://www.usnews.com/features/business/best-careers/best-careers-2008.html</ref> The median annual salary for 2007 is reported as $51,400 USD in the United States,<ref>[http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/best-careers/2007/12/19/librarian-executive-summary.html Librarian: Executive Summary - US News and World Report<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> with additional salary breakdowns available by metropolitan area, with San Francisco coming in the highest with an average salary of $64,400 and Philadelphia the lowest at $48,200.<ref>[http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/best-careers/2007/12/19/librarian-executive-summary.html Librarian: Executive Summary - US News and World Report<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> This is up from the median salaries in 2006 as $49,060 reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The increase can basically be attributed to keeping pace with inflation. A $49,060 salary in 2006 was adjusted to $50,457.33,<ref>BLS Inflation Calculator http://www.bls.gov/cpi/</ref> and while data is not yet posted for 2008, adding the same rate of inflationary increase for 2008 (1.028%) one could project an inflationary salary adjustment as $51,894.46 for the 2008 fiscal year.<ref>[http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos068. ... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:59:24 +0100 672309 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Library_science&diff=251686271&oldid=prev Reverted edits by 173.70.40.43 to last version by JDubman ← Previous revision Revision as of 01:58, 14 November 2008 Line 37: Line 37: According to U''.S. News & World Report'', library and information science ranks as one of the "Best Careers of 2008."<ref>Best Careers. ''U.S. News & World Report'' http://www.usnews.com/features/business/best-careers/best-careers-2008.html</ref> The median annual salary for 2007 is reported as $51,400 USD in the United States,<ref>[http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/best-careers/2007/12/19/librarian-executive-summary.html Librarian: Executive Summary - US News and World Report<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> with additional salary breakdowns available by metropolitan area, with San Francisco coming in the highest with an average salary of $64,400 and Philadelphia the lowest at $48,200.<ref>[http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/best-careers/2007/12/19/librarian-executive-summary.html Librarian: Executive Summary - US News and World Report<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> This is up from the median salaries in 2006 as $49,060 reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The increase can basically be attributed to keeping pace with inflation. A $49,060 salary in 2006 was adjusted to $50,457.33,<ref>BLS Inflation Calculator http://www.bls.gov/cpi/</ref> and while data is not yet posted for 2008, adding the same rate of inflationary increase for 2008 (1.028%) one could project an inflationary salary adjustment as $51,894.46 for the 2008 fiscal year.<ref>[http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos068. ... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:58:33 +0100 672310 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Library_science&diff=251686184&oldid=prev Removing spam ← Previous revision Revision as of 01:58, 14 November 2008 Line 37: Line 37: According to U''.S. News & World Report'', library and information science ranks as one of the "Best Careers of 2008."<ref>Best Careers. ''U.S. News & World Report'' http://www.usnews.com/features/business/best-careers/best-careers-2008.html</ref> The median annual salary for 2007 is reported as $51,400 USD in the United States,<ref>[http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/best-careers/2007/12/19/librarian-executive-summary.html Librarian: Executive Summary - US News and World Report<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> with additional salary breakdowns available by metropolitan area, with San Francisco coming in the highest with an average salary of $64,400 and Philadelphia the lowest at $48,200.<ref>[http://www.usnews.com/articles/business/best-careers/2007/12/19/librarian-executive-summary.html Librarian: Executive Summary - US News and World Report<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> This is up from the median salaries in 2006 as $49,060 reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The increase can basically be attributed to keeping pace with inflation. A $49,060 salary in 2006 was adjusted to $50,457.33,<ref>BLS Inflation Calculator http://www.bls.gov/cpi/</ref> and while data is not yet posted for 2008, adding the same rate of inflationary increase for 2008 (1.028%) one could project an inflationary salary adjustment as $51,894.46 for the 2008 fiscal year.<ref>[http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos068. ... Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:58:01 +0100 672311 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ThoughtsAndExperiments/~3/452399791/ Mobile Device Setup - Zimbra :: Wiki Configuration settings for over the air synch of zimbra with supported devices (tags: calendar zimbra activesync) Mobile collaboration tools for enterprise messaging for mobile devices This is the overview page for the phone compatability for mobile devices including things like motorola razr through the zimbra mobile edition. (tags: zimbra email framework internet mobile networking web2.0 example ajax)        (Source: Thoughts and Experiments) Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:30:27 +0100 672201 http://www.slaw.ca/2008/11/13/screencasting-triumph/ I attended an American Association of Law Libraries webinar on screencasting and podcasting this week. I heard about this session via Slaw and decided to attend to see if this tech would fit in nicely with our current Intranet offerings. Kerry Fitz-Gerald, Reference Librarian, Seattle University School of Law Library and Rita Kaiser, Reference Services Librarian, King County Law Library educated and inspired me. The session was just over an hour, and due to my longitunal location ran from 11 a.m. to 12ish. I was so inspired, I bought a headset with a mic at lunch, and proceeded to avoid the November budgeting process for my library by creating a my first ever screencast. The 3.5 minute video I made with with CamStudio shows our internal process for gathering a case from WestlaweCarswell and downloading it. The target audience are legal assistants who have just been issued passwords for WeC. My hope is that offering up this canned process will encourage users to look to our Intranet for those how-to bits in the moment when they need something. I plan to measure the statistics on views of the video to see if there is a diminishing rate of return on my 2 hour investment of creating it. With luck, the metrics will show that investing time and energy into creating screen casts in our environment is: viable - the technology piece does not create a bunch of calls to our helpdesk on using the video format efficient - the learning objective for training staff to download cases from a service they haven’t used before is met sustainable - we can overcome barriers to creating these pieces and offer other objects using this tech cost effective - using the free software piece and the support of our wonderful IT group gives us a professional product to deliver More info? An overview of screencasting from Wikipedia. Rita has posted a great bibliography for How to Train Without Showing Up. A video is available on using CamStudio. ... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:11:16 +0100 672703 http://www.imaginaryplanet.net/whats-up-with-ebooks-interview-nagle-2008.mp3 Here’s the mp3 of an Advisorpress.com podcast I did with Peter Johnson on the subject “What’s Up with e-books?” This 55 minute discussion provides a good overview of the e-book world in November 2008. What is environmentally-friendly, endorsed by Oprah, distributed worldwide, can be read in the dark, empowers aspiring authors, could end textbook shortages, and gets 38 million hits on Google? E-books! And this month, on our Author Marketing Teleseminar, we have just the person to bring us up to date on this emerging form of publishing! Robert Nagle…will share his views on the current state of this emerging industry. According to Wikipedia, as of 2008, new marketing models for e-books are being developed, formats are beginning to homogenize, and dedicated reading hardware has been produced. E-books have achieved global distribution, and electronics manufacturers are releasing more e-book readers for general consumer use, such as Amazon’s Kindle model or Sony’s PRS-500. E-books have seen tremendous market growth in Japan throughout the 2000s and currently has an e-book market worth ¥10 billion. E-books may be reaching a tipping point. Just a few days ago, Oprah Winfrey gave an enthusiastic endorsement of Amazon’s Kindle E-book reader on her nationally-syndicated TV show, while major publishers are launching new titles as well as backlist titles in E-Book format. Apple’s extremely popular iPhone is also breeding a whole new generation of E-book users, with its gorgeous screen and wireless download capabilities. Robert Nagle is a Houston-based technical writer with a background in literature and teaching. He holds a master’s degree in creative writing from Johns Hopkins University and writes pseudonymous fiction. Robert is TeleRead’s Web administrator and frequent contributor. ... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:18:04 +0100 672187 http://theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2008/11/13/john-palfrey-born-digital-presentation.html Notes from John Palfrey’s talk for the MacArthur Foundation at Google Chicago point of the book Born Digital was to bust some of the myths and look at differences in behavior between digital natives and people like their grandparents shouldn’t treat everybody the same way just because they have the same technology - may not use it the same way how they define this specific group of kids (not all millennials) - born after 1980, access to the technology (only 1 billion people), skills to use it 5 characteristics 1. “I blog therefore I am” express their identity online and offline - they don’t distinguish between the two avatars as another version of identity one difference is “subscribe to *me*” 2. multitaskers a lot of debate over multitasking and what it is, but they’re doing multiple things at once example of game in which boys tried to maintain as many IM conversations with as many girls as they could at once 3. consumers to creators interact with digital format - seems self-evident, but presumption is immediate access because digital (eg, digital camera vs a disposable one); movie theater vs YouTube, print vs searchable text presumption of media in digital form and that it’s social and shared held a contest to design the logo for “Digital Natives” project at Harvard Law School - got 136 entries (32 from the kid who won), just for the glory (no prize) 4. mash up different media, putting different forms of media together comes down to a series of technologies - RSS, Google Docs, lightweight collaborative tools 5. ... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 06:17:13 +0100 671855 http://rafaelsidi.blogspot.com/2008/11/accelerating-science-openly.html Congratulations to Jean Claude Bradley and his co-authors Khalid Baig Mirza, Tom Osborne, Antony Wiliams, Kevin Owens for publishing in JOVE."..... we have demonstrated that it is possible carry out research under Open Notebook Science conditions, write an article openly on a wiki, post it on a pre-print server (like Nature Precedings) and finally publish it in an peer reviewed journal. No, this won't work with every publisher. But if communicating science openly (beyond the confines of the regular Open Access model) is important to you, there are options out there that don't take anything away from the traditional system of academic validation." UsefulChem.This kind of innovative initiatives and creative scientists make scientific publishing business exciting, and an industry that you want to be in.Rafael Sidi (Really Simple Sidi) (Source: Really Simple Sidi (RSS)) Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 672312 http://jdupuis.blogspot.com/2008/11/michael-cairns-on-publishing-in-digital.html Thanks to Michael Cairns of Information Media Partners for bringing his recent presentation to my attention. It is one he delivered at the Frankfurt Bookfair Supply Chain Meeting and the full title is Publishing in a Digital Age: How Traditional Publishing is Leveraged.Slides here and video too.I like what Michael says in the speaker's notes at the end, for slides 22 and 23:So I ask the following: Do we want to hang on with our finger tips operating in an increasingly unfamiliar business environment? Or, do we embrace the opportunities that digital publishing offers and endeavour to influence and manipulate the publishing environment of the future to our advantage? The answer is obvious but it connotes significant change. *snip*Lastly, I hope you will not begrudge me for not mentioning supply chain once in this presentation. Frankly, the changes I have discussed will change everything about our supply chain and that much should be obvious.As Michael points out, he doesn't really mention supply chain anywhere in his presentation and I think that's probably very appropriate from the academic library perspective. What's the supply chain for getting book-like information from the producers/publishers to our patrons? In a world of Google Books, big ebook collections that we can buy directly from publishers, torrent sites and Wikipedia, there are very nearly an infinite number of supply chains out there. And academic libraries do have roles in many of those supply chains, but not all of them.Or perhaps we can imagine a world with just one (important) digital supply chain -- maybe Google, the 800 pound gorilla of the online (publishing) world, will become that ebooks supply chain in the future. I think with their latest announcement they may be setting itself up as a kind of supply chain by selling to individuals and licensing to libraries. As I said in that post, it's a potential game-changer for the ebook business for academic libraries. ... Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 672266 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/earlham/dGCQ/~3/452082243/notes-on-workshop-on-open-scientific.html Jonathan Gray, After the Workshop on Open Scientific Resources, Open Knowledge Foundation Weblog, November 12, 2008. Blog notes on the Workshop on Finding and Re-using Open Scientific Resources (London, November 8, 2008). See also the wiki notes, especially "Planned Actions". ... [D]iscussion turned to guidelines for making knowledge open, and to advocacy for open science. We came up with a ‘recipe’ for opening up content and data - and talked about a possible ‘unlocking service’ to request material be made open, or at least for licensing status to be clarified. ... (Source: Open Access News) Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 672156 http://www.uni.uiuc.edu/library/blog/2008/11/hard-words.html Ms. Linder is using a wiki for many of her assignments this year. Right now the sophomores are working on a poetry explication project. They just started today, but already seem to be making the most of the wiki's link-a-bility. My favorite example is from the group that is analyzing "Nuns Fret Not," by William Wordsworth. These students created a page of "hard words" they need to define. Just click on one of the linked words and you'll see.As I browse through the students' pages, I'm assuming/hoping that their use of media fits the spirit of the newly released Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education. If not, I guess I've spilled the beans. I won't tell the copyright police if you won't. (Source: Gargoyles loose in the library) Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 672122 http://ratodebiblioteca.blogspot.com/2008/11/no-pessoal-e-transmissvel-esta-semana.html O pessoal... e transmissível de Carlos Vaz Marques teve esta semana dois programas muito interessantes na temática web e futuro da internet.Na internet de futuro, cada vez mais, tudo será gratuito. A tese é do editor-chefe da revista Wired e Chris Anderson vem explicá-la, na conversa com Carlos Vaz Marques.Ouvir aqui: http://www.tsf.pt/paginainicial/AudioeVideo.aspx?content_id=1043201E também:Considera Barack Obama um político wiki. O presidente da Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento das Comunicações, Diogo Vasconcelos, na véspera do congresso que será inaugurado pelo Presidente da República, é o convidado de Carlos Vaz Marques, ao fim da tarde.Ouvir aqui: http://www.tsf.pt/paginainicial/AudioeVideo.aspx?content_id=1042061A disponibilização de PodCasts nas rádios foi extraordinário para mim. Se já ouvia muita rádio, hoje, ter a possibilidade de ouvir ou voltar a ouvir um programa é mais uma razão para acompanhar o que de muito bom se vai fazendo na rádio em Portugal. (Source: :: rato de biblioteca ::) Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 672040 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/a-informacao/~3/451085675/cuidados-com-wikipdia.html "Pai" da Wikipédia diz que usuários devem ter cuidado com enciclopédia on-lineAutores: Felipe Maia e Sara UhelskiData: 12/nov/2008Fonte: Folha de S. Paulo.O co-fundador da Wikipédia, Jimmy Wales, afirmou nesta quarta-feira, durante sabatina da Folha, em São Paulo, que a Wikipédia é "boa", mas os usuários precisam tomar cuidado ao acessá-la. Ele aconselha que todos estejam atentos sobre a confiabilidade das fontes de cada verbete antes de acreditarem nas informações."A pessoa precisa ter a noção a respeito de onde vem aquela informação, e não aprendê-la diretamente", disse. Por outro lado, explicou que o mesmo cuidado deve existir ao usar qualquer outra fonte, inclusive as tradicionais --Wales reconhece que a Wikipédia tem erros, "assim como qualquer enciclopédia".O empresário citou um estudo realizado em 2005 que analisou a Enciclopédia Britânica e verificou que havia três erros por página. Ele lembrou também uma pesquisa realizada no ano passado, que indicou a Wikipédia como fonte mais confiável do que a versão on-line da Brockhaus, tradicional enciclopédia da Alemanha.Wales afirmou que os usuários devem ficar atentos aos alertas presentes em cada verbete. Em caso de dúvida, deve-se entrar no sistema de discussão do portal e ver qual informação está sendo questionada por outros internautas.SabatinaJimmy Wales, 42, co-fundador da Wikipédia, é sabatinado pela Folha nesta quarta-feira. Wales é entrevistado por Ana Lucia Busch, diretora-executiva da Folha Online, Vinicius Mota, editor de Opinião, Rodolfo Lucena, editor de Informática, e Carlos Kauffmann, gerente do Banco de Dados da Folha.Contando com tradução simultânea, Wales também responde a perguntas da platéia do teatro Folha, localizado no shopping Pátio Higienópolis, em São Paulo. ... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:21:00 +0100 671699 http://marlenescorner.blogspirit.com/archive/2008/11/12/bibsdeuxpointzero.html Merci aux étudiants du Master 2 Métiers des archives, des bibliothèques et de la documentation de l'Université de Provence de m'avoir accueillie ce matin pour leur parler de bibliothèques et web 2.0. Juste quelques impressions : - Les fils RSS, c'est vraiment pas encore rentré dans les moeurs, même des jeunes. Nous avons encore du boulot de sensibilisation de ce côté là.- La différence entre blogs et wikis (et le reste des sites web) est de plus en plus floue dans les usages : on peut utiliser blogs et wikis comme des sites web, juste parce que c'est plus facile, pas forcément pour leurs caractéristiques de blog ou de wiki (c'est d'ailleurs ce que je fais pour mes supports de cours) - et c'est pas facile à expliquer.- Ca les a bien fait rire quand je leur ai proposé de devenir fans de la page de la BU de droit et d'éco sur Facebook :-)J'ai mis mon support sur Slideshare. (Source: Marlene's corner) Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:19:11 +0100 671774 http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_York_Public_Library&diff=251258619&oldid=prev Telephone Reference Service ← Previous revision Revision as of 03:29, 12 November 2008 Line 85: Line 85: Of its 82 branch libraries, 35 are in Manhattan, 34 are in the Bronx, and 11 are in Staten Island. Of its 82 branch libraries, 35 are in Manhattan, 34 are in the Bronx, and 11 are in Staten Island. - == Telephone Reference Service == + == ASK NYPL (Live Help 24/7) == - The New York Public Library has a telephone-reference system that was organized as a separate library unit in 1968 and remains one of the largest. Located in the Mid-Manhattan Library branch at 455 Fifth Avenue, the unit has 10 researchers with degrees ranging from elementary education, chemistry, mechanical engineering and criminal justice, to a Ph.D. in English literature. They can consult with as many as 50 other researchers in the library system. + Since 1968 Telephone Reference has been an integral part of The New York Public Library’s reference services. Now known as ASK NYPL[http://www.nypl.org/questions/], the service provides answers by phone and online via chat and e-mail. The service fulfilled nearly 70,000 requests for information in 2007. Inquiries range from the serious and life-changing (a New Orleans resident who lost his birth certificate in Katrina needing to know how to obtain a copy; turns out he was born in Brooklyn), to the fun or even off-the-wall (a short-story writer researching the history of Gorgonzola cheese). In 1992 a selection of unusual and entertaining questions and answers from ASK NYPL was the source for Book of Answers: The New York Public Library Telephone Reference Service’s Most Unusual and Entertaining Questions, a popular volume published by Fireside Books. National and international questioners have included scores of newspaper reporters, authors, celebrities, professors, secretaries, CEOs, and everyone in between. ... Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:29:10 +0100 671569 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/449802419/ "The Apple rumor du jour is that Sony Music Entertainment will license DRM-free tracks to iTunes, under the iTunes Plus program," reports Billboard.biz. Time for Sony’s e-book side to experiment with DRMless ePub, which its new reader devices can display? Maybe with social DRM? I think so! Without traditional DRM to gum things up, ePub is a standard for real. Sony and independent stores—the company laudably plans to reach out to indies, when its forthcoming readers go wireless—could exploit this to the max in marketing. "Buy from us and own your e-books for real." My personal stake is this matter—as a writer I know: Sony will need cooperation from publishers. But at least the DRMless approach should be available as an option for cooperating houses. I’d love to see The Solomon Scandals offered through Sony without "protection"; I’m not just talking theory here. My publisher, too, dislikes DRM’s hassles for consumers. To one extent or another, the technology is a threat to our livelihoods, and I really dislike Amazon’s DRM requirements. A DRMless option would be one way for Sony and friends to distinguish themselves from Amazon and woo consumers and forward-looking publishers. A reminder: The TeleBlog has both pro- and anti-DRM readers, and I encourage both sides to speak up here, in a civil way. Related: Wikipedia item on Sony Music Entertainment. Image credit for "Social Way" photo: Casey West. (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:15:59 +0100 671204 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/449763234/ I have created a new blog entitled Stealing Speech: A Commentary on the Long History of Publishers’ Attempts to Restrict Free Speech. I’ll do some cross-posts, most of which will be quite relevant to TeleRead. David Rothman’s vision of well-stocked national digital libraries would obviously have come true by now in the absence of copyright. But what is the connection between copyright and the translation issue mentioned in the headline here? Copyright reduces the number of translations available—and the pleasures available to readers. The case history below shows what’s at stake here. Why the nuances of the Verne novel matter When the remake of Journey to the Center of the Earth came out, I thought I should go to the trouble of reading the book—I saw the older movie a long time ago and therefore am familiar with the story. Jules Verne is without a doubt an interesting author. He was one of the founders of western science fiction and a singularly imaginative person. His books have enough suspense and unexpected, even miraculous, events that should entertain all but the most die-hard action junkies. If that were not enough, his books are also an excellent source of information about how the world appeared through the eyes of a 19th Century western scientist. Hollywood rarely, if ever, depicts faithfully an author’s original story, so reading the book would also give me the only complete picture of this seminal bedrock of modern culture. I could not read the original, though, because I do not read French. Thereupon I turned my search to Project Gutenberg to find the English translation of this famous work. This would be the closest I could get to the original without years of study in a language for which I have no interest. The Gutenberg surprise This is where Project Gutenberg surprised me. ... Tue, 11 Nov 2008 17:32:22 +0100 671205 http://bsf.org.br/2008/11/11/jimmy-wales-no-brasil/ Jimmy Wales, o fundador do Wikipedia, está aqui no Brasil participando de uma série de eventos, e ontem eu, Tiago Murakami, Cauê Araújo e Gerlandy Leão fomos prestigiar. Não dá pra nem pra assimilar direito, mas o cara é o promotor da maior enciclopédia do mundo, idéia que está diretamente relacionada com os preceitos da biblioteconomia, levantando a bandeira de todas as questões de acesso à informação, construção do conhecimento, participação colaborativa, democratização da informação, etc. Tem alguns textos falando sobre o debate de ontem, vale mencionar: O embate entre o mundo acadêmico formal e o processo de aprendizado na internet elevou o tom da discussão no debate. Gilson Schwartz, professor da USP (Universidade de São Paulo), questionou a validade das informações presentes da Wikipédia e da obtenção de dados pela rede. “Será que esse processo é de aquisição de conhecimento mesmo ou é só a difusão de algo que não passa por um critério que ainda existe na universidade, que é passar por uma avaliação, pela crítica de seus pares?”, disse. “É a mesma coisa ler algo de um físico especializado ou de um ‘zé mané’ blogueiro?” A fala do professor sofreu vaias da platéia e os gritos de “Jimmy, Jimmy”. Os desafios e oportunidades para produções colaborativas de conhecimentos livres no Brasil foi o tema de debate no Centro Cultural São Paulo, que contou também com a participação de Gilberto Dimenstein, Gilson Schwartz, Karen Worcman, Ladislau Dowbor, Lala Deheinzelin, Reinaldo Pamponet e Renato Rovai. Eu fiz anotações de alguns pontos importantes. ... Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:03:13 +0100 671679 http://tecnicalia.com/2008/11/11/tec_a-las-11-del-11-del-11-de-1918/ World War I ends (El final de la I Guerra Mundial) – A las 11 de la mañana del día 11 del mes 11 de 1918, la Gran Guerra tocaba a su fin. Ese día, a las cinco de la madrugada Alemania, falta de tropas y suministros y a punto de ser invadida, firmaba el armisticio con los Aliados en un vagón de tren en Compiégne, Francia. La Primera Guerra Mundia dejó nueve 9 millones de soldados muertos y 21 millones heridos. Sólo Alemania, Rusia, Austria-Hungría, Francia y Gran Bretaña perdieron cada uno un millón de vidas. Además murieron al menos cinco de civiles a causa de enfermedades, hambre y frío. Más en Primera Guerra Mundial, en Wikipedia. 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Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:00:00 +0100 671620 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/DigitalKoans/~3/448677310/ The National Digital Information Infrastructure Preservation Program has funded the two-year JHOVE2 project, which will " develop a next-generation JHOVE2 architecture for format-aware characterization." Project particpants are the California Digital Library, Portico, and Stanford University. Here's an excerpt from the Digipres announcement: Among the enhancements planned for JHOVE2 are: Support for four specific aspects of characterization: signature-based identification, feature extraction, validation, and rules-based assessment A more sophisticated data model supporting complex multi-file objects and arbitrarily-nested container objects Streamlined APIs to facilitate the integration of JHOVE2 technology in systems, services, and workflows Increased performance Standardized error handling A generic plug-in mechanism supporting stateful multi-module processing Availability under the BSD open source license To help focus project activities we have recruited a distinguished advisory board to represent the interests of the larger stakeholder community. 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Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:30:21 +0100 671021 http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/001805.html Posting will be light this week as I am attending the 2008 RLG European Partners meeting later in the week. I go to Paris via a meeting in Ottawa tomorrow ..... Too much flying :-( I was traveling through National in Washington DC a while ago. I was tired. It was early in the morning and I was coming off a bumpy and cramped commuter flight from Columbus, Ohio (purportedly within an hour and a half's flying time of 56% of the US population, I seem to remember reading somewhere). I passed by a display of retro Pan Am flight bags, proud with that iconic logo. They were on sale. Since then, it seems that I have been seeing retro flight bags everywhere. As a young child, the logo was very familiar to me, and not a little magical. I had an uncle who worked with Pan Am, and for a while there were always bags or other items around. It was a time when flying was exciting and even exotic. And Pan Am seemed more exciting than the rest. I notice that Wikipedia describes Pan Am as a "cultural icon of the 20th Century". Indeed, the flight bag, and that logo in particular, seem to belong to a different era. And it is perhaps now, when the excitement has been squeezed from most flying, that the logo can come to life again as an emblem of the glamor of an experience that has mostly faded away. Note: logo copied from the Wikipedia page about the image. Note the fair use rationale. Quick Bookmarks: del.icio.us  Digg   Google  Reddit   Furl (Source: Lorcan Dempsey's weblog) Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:30:01 +0100 670658 http://walt.lishost.org/2008/11/creativity-innovation-and-more-at-pln/ What’s new at the PALINET Leadership Network (PLN)? Creativity and innovation begins a new set of innovation-related notes with two items from Leader’s Digest as written by Leslie Dillon, PLN’s contributing editor. Eric Schnell offers Thoughts on libraries and innovation, adapted from several earlier posts. You’ll learn more about Libraries and e-government here–and about the 2009 LLAMA Mentoring Program here (note the December 1, 2008 deadline for applications). The October 2008 Leader’s Digest provides significant new additions to articles as varied as Problematic management, Mentoring notes, Problematic communication and behavior, Qualities of successful leaders, Managing change, Marketing notes, Wikipedia notes, Service attitudes, Should libraries host user generated content?, Technology trends and Technology tidbits. You’ll also find new lists of the most widely-read articles at PLN in What’s hot at PLN?, reflecting activity from October 8 through November 7, 2008. They’re varied lists, worth your exploration–but be sure to explore beyond the hottest articles! As always, we invite your feedback and contributions. Two of the items above came in directly from PLN users, one via email to crawford at palinet.org, one directly contributed via Talk page. It’s your network; you can help make it current and lively. That’s this week’s post at PLN Highlights, the easiest way to keep up with what’s new at PALINET Leadership Network. (Source: Walt at Random) Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:48:06 +0100 670683 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/arlisnap/~3/448457461/ Efforts are afoot to create an ARLIS/NA Annual Conference Survival Wiki, and we’d like your input to get things started!  The wiki is intended to complement the conference website and blog by... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] (Source: [ArLiSNAP]) Mon, 10 Nov 2008 14:36:33 +0100 671366 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/teleread/KHnj/~3/448288645/ Wikipedia is almost like a wire service these days, with near-instant updates reflecting such events as election results. Excerpt from New York Times: True to Wikipedia’s belief in transparency, while the editing is taking place there are public discussions over wording and what facts to include that can be read in all their tedious detail. Many pixels have been already been used to discuss whether Mr. Obama is technically the president-elect, even before the Electoral College has voted. You’ll see in the article that the consensus is that he is. Imagine a time when instant updates might be routine in the world of nonfiction e-books. Positives? Yes. But will people be easily able to see older versions, just as they can use Wikipedia’s history feature? (Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:47:44 +0100 670808 http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/11/10/resource-of-the-week-change-is-good/ Resource of the Week: Change Is Good By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor Here in the U.S., at long last, we have a new President-Elect. And, for the first time, this means a new presidential transition website. Simple but elegant and still under construction — Change.gov. At the top left, you’ll see a countdown, in days, till the January 20, 2009 inauguration. “The Newsroom” is basically a blog of press releases from the new administration that sits front and center on the site. You’ll also find biographies of Barack Obama, the President-Elect, and Joe Biden, the Vice President-Elect. You can watch Obama’s election victory speech in Grant Park, in Chicago. There are a variety of links at the bottom of the page under the headings Newsroom, Learn, American Moment, America Serves, and About This Site. There’s also a link you can click to apply for a job in the new administration. Fill out the brief online form and you’ll receive, via e-mail, a link to a more extensive online form. (Note: These are non-career positions, not civil service.) Among the links at the bottom of the page — and also along the right side — you’ll find a link to something called the GSA Transition Directory: The Presidential Transition Act of 2000 (P.L. 106-293) authorizes the General Services Administration (GSA) to develop a transition directory in consultation with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The Act provides that the transition directory “shall be a compilation of Federal publications and materials with supplementary materials developed by the Administrator that provides information on the officers, organization, and statutory and administrative authorities, functions, duties, responsibilities, and mission of each department and agency. ... Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:14:21 +0100 670644 http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/textundblog/~3/448237702/ Nun kann mensch ganz sicher nicht mit Social Media (also mit dem Einsatz von Blogs, Wikis oder Diensten wie YouTube) die Welt verändern. Doch Prozesse anstoßen und viral verbreiten können Menschen damit sicher. Wenn sie etwas zu sagen haben und wenn sie es gut angehen. Die Tipps von Brian Clark auf Copybogger klingen banal, doch sie sind durchaus zutreffend: Can You Really Change the World With Social Media? Whether you want to launch a business, promote a cause, or elect a President, the answer is clear: Yes you can—when you turns to we. But given the way social proof drives social media, the way you frame your initial message is critical. You want the momentum of social proof aligned with where you want to go, not with where things are. What you say matters. Just remember that how you say it is what you say. Weiterlesen auf Copyblogger: «How to Change the World Using Social Media» (Source: Text & Blog) Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:42:18 +0100 671378