Interesting Bits from the OCLC Update Breakfast
I think it is a statistical anomaly that many of the meetings I attended during ALA Midwinter were somehow related to OCLC. That statistical anomaly has certainly played out in postings here on DLTJ of my impressions of Midwinter meetings. Continuing with this thread of OCLC events, I attended the OCLC Update Breakfast Sunday morning for a membership-dues-paid croissant and orange juice, and to listen to Jay Jordon’s biannual update on the past, present and future of OCLC. What follows are highlights that I found interesting in the course of his remarks, but certainly not a comprehensive report of what was said. ...
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Disruptive Library Technology Jester - January 18, 2010 Author: Peter Murray Tags: Meeting alamw10 HathiTrust oclc worldcat
Digital Reference Services in 2009
2009 will probably be remembered by those of us who follow digital reference services as the year that mobile reference services really took off. Between Twitter and text message reference services, there were tons of blog posts, articles, presentations, discussion threads on mailing lists and social networking sites, in which library staff explored how they could embrace (or were already embracing) mobile technology for reference services. In an article in Library Journal this October, Ellyssa Kroski noted the same upward trend in activity around text message reference services. From my perspective, the high point of acti...
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Digital reference - December 23, 2009
Digital Reference Services in 2009
2009 will probably be remembered by those of us who follow digital reference services as the year that mobile reference services really took off. Between Twitter and text message reference services, there were tons of blog posts, articles, presentations, discussion threads on mailing lists and social networking sites, in which library staff explored how they could embrace (or were already embracing) mobile technology for reference services. In an article in Library Journal this October, Ellyssa Kroski noted the same upward trend in activity around text message reference services. From my perspective, the high point of acti...
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Digital reference - December 23, 2009 Author: Stephen Francoeur
HathiTrust Will Release Search Engine Indexing 1.5 Billion Pages from Digitized Books and Other Materials
Next month, the HathiTrust will release a full-text search engine indexing 1.5 billion pages from digitized books and other materials from 25 member research libraries.
An experimental version of the search engine is now available.
Read more about it at "HathiTrust Launching Full-Text Library of Books."
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DigitalKoans - October 27, 2009 Author: Charles Bailey Tags: E-Books Google and Other Search Engines Mass Digitizaton Print-on-Demand
Promises, promises
The MacArthur Foundation, among whose fundable ‘causes’ is credibility in online information, is funding the start up costs of the reference extract project, that the New York Times characterized as “Google if built by librarians”. Michael Eisenberg, emeritus Dean of the UW iSchool, is leading this effort involving David Lankes of Syracuse University, and a team at OCLC led by Jeff Penka.I spent a day last week among a dozen or so invited advisors brainstorming the direction and development of this system. The group included librarians, technologists, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and researcher...
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Weibel Lines - December 15, 2008 Author: stuart.weibel Tags: online reference web search
Reference Extract: MacArthur Grant for Librarians to Add to Web Search, November 2008
"Researchers and developers from OCLC, the world’s largest library cooperative, and the information schools of Syracuse University and the University of Washington today announced their par...
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Info To Go: Navigating the Internet - December 14, 2008
The Wisdom of Crowds of Librarians Is on the Way—In Time: Reference Extract
Barbara Quint - “Google can sleep easier—for a while, at least. A flurry of press coverage suggesting that “radical, militant librarians” —as the FBI refers to members of this profession—were heading its way turns out to be a little previous.”
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Library Stuff - November 24, 2008 Author: Steven Tags: Google
The Wisdom of Crowds of Librarians Is on the Way—In Time: Reference Extract
The Wisdom of Crowds of Librarians Is on the Way—In Time: reference extract
Google can sleep easier—for a while, at least. A flurry of press coverage suggesting that “radical, militant librarians” —as the FBI refers to members of this profession—were heading its way turns out to be a little previous. While experts from three top library and information science institutions have begun a process that they promise will lead to a new search engine with a new infrastructure designed to emphasize authoritative content, the process is at very early stages yet. According to R. David Lankes, Ph.D., director of ...
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ResourceShelf - November 24, 2008 Author: ResourceShelf Tags: Uncategorized
The Wisdom of Crowds of Librarians Is on the Way—In Time: Reference Extract
Google can sleep easier—for a while, at least. A flurry of press coverage suggesting that "radical, militant librarians" —as the FBI refers to members of this profession—were heading its way turns out to be a little previous. While experts from three top library and information science institutions have begun a process that they promise will lead to a new search engine with a new infrastructure designed to emphasize authoritative content, the process is at very early stages yet. According to R. David Lankes, Ph.D., director of the Information Institute of Syracuse (http://iis.syr.edu) and associate professor at Syrac...
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Infotoday Newsbreak RSS Feeds - November 24, 2008 Tags: NewsBreak
OPLIN 4Cast#123: Reference Extracts, domain backlinks, usability, image editors
1. Librarians to Construct Filtered-Web Search Engine - From reference extract: reference extract is envisioned as a web search engine, like Google, Yahoo and MSN. However, unlike other search engines, reference extracts will be built for maximum credibility by relying on the expertise and credibility judgments of librarians from around the globe. Users will enter a search term and get results weighted towards sites most often referred to by librarians at institutions such as the Library of Congress, the University of Washington, the State of Maryland, and over 1,400 libraries worldwide.
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The OPLIN 4cast - November 19, 2008 Author: editor Tags: reference extract usability backlinks Blogpulse GIMP LinkLove Pixlr SuperLame
Commenting on Scapes and Reference Extract
I've been adding a number of comments to David Lankes' recent post on the connection between Scapes and reference extract. Rather than repeat those comments here, I'll just link to them here.
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Digital reference - November 19, 2008 Author: Stephen Francoeur
Commenting on Scapes and Reference Extract
I've been adding a number of comments to David Lankes' recent post on the connection between Scapes and reference extract. Rather than repeat those comments here, I'll just link to them here.
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Digital reference - November 19, 2008 Author: Stephen Francoeur
A deeper explanation of Reference Extract
In the past few weeks, the word in library land about reference extract has been that it is some sort of response to Google by librarians pining to build their own search engine of librarian-approved web sites. It is, in fact, the first step to build something more grand and interesting than just another web search engine. You can get a better idea of what that thing is from David Lankes, who posted this video recently on his blog:
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Digital reference - November 18, 2008 Author: Stephen Francoeur
A deeper explanation of Reference Extract
In the past few weeks, the word in library land about reference extract has been that it is some sort of response to Google by librarians pining to build their own search engine of librarian-approved web sites. It is, in fact, the first step to build something more grand and interesting than just another web search engine. You can get a better idea of what that thing is from David Lankes, who posted this video recently on his blog:
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Digital reference - November 18, 2008 Author: Stephen Francoeur
Outils de recherche (13/11/08)
- Giglia, E. (2008) To Google or not to Google, this is the question . European Journal of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine 44(2):pp. 221-227.(déposé sur E-LIS, 26/10/08)"This article explores some Google features not so widely known, and other search engines with useful devices to perform a more efficient search in the biomedical field."- Blog Search Engines : The Complete Overview(source: Search Engine Journal / via iLibrarian, 03/11/08)- Quoi de nouveau sous les moteurs ?(source: affordance.info, 06/11/08)- reference extract - the answer to a credible search engine?(source: No Shelf Required, 10/11/08)A propos du ...
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pintiniblog - November 13, 2008 Tags: Outils de recherche
Too Late or Just Right? OCLC, I-Schools Announce Reference Extract Web Search Project [Library Journal]
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Library Link of the Day - November 13, 2008
Librarians to Construct Filtered-Web Search Engine
From reference extract: reference extract is envisioned as a web search engine, like Google, Yahoo and MSN. However, unlike other search engines, reference extracts will be built for maximum credibility by relying on the expertise and credibility judgments of librarians...
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Law Librarian Blog - November 13, 2008 Author: Joe Hodnicki Tags: Information Technology
MacArthur Grant for Librarians to add to Web search [OCLC]
MacArthur Grant for Librarians to add to Web search [OCLC].
News releasesOCLC, Syracuse University and University of Washington to help develop a new Web search experience based on expertise from librarians
DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 7 November 2008—Researchers and developers from OCLC, the world's largest library cooperative, and the information schools of Syracuse University and the University of Washington today announced their participation in a new international effort to explore the creation of a more credible Web search experience based on input from librarians around the globe. Called the "reference extract,&q...
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DrWeb's Domain - November 13, 2008 Author: DrWeb Tags: Library
Search engine with credibility of librarian
A project, reference extract, is currently in the planning stage to build a web search engine with the search capabilities of Google and the results credibility of a librarian. In a very small nutshell, the idea is to use the data from QuestionPoint Service to provide the web resources cited by librarians and to rank these resources according to words in the customer’s query, the words on the page plus the frequency librarians cite the resources.
According to the project proposal, “QuestionPoint represents over 2,000 libraries around the world” including academic, public, government and national librari...
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librariesinteract.info - November 12, 2008 Author: Peta Hopkins Tags: Special projects Technology librarians search engines
Using crowdsourced librarians to outsmart Google: Reference Extract project
Arstechnica: How do people judge credibility on the Internet? According to research from the "Credibility Commons" project, the two top factors are 1) how pretty does it look? and 2) do I agree with it already? This is, to say the least, a nonoptimal way of evaluating information, and the reference extract project wants to use extensive academic credibility research to build a search engine that can out-Google Google—and the group has $100,000 in funding to come up with the technical blueprints for the system.
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LISNews.org - November 12, 2008 Author: Anonymous Patron Tags: Internet
Libraries make the Huffington Post
Think what you will about the Huffington Post, and there was some positioning against Google that wasn't quite what one might have hoped for in the best of worlds: "Librarians attempt to Outsmart Google"...but still. Librarians made mainstream blogland.It's all about the new project to help develop a new Web search experience based on expertise from librarians called reference extract. Short of sounding like a spice rack essential in a Hogwarts kitchen, it sounds like a very cool idea and look forward to seeing more.
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It's all good - November 12, 2008 Author: Alice
Crowdsourcing Librarians to Create a New Search Engine
From the “About reference extract”
About reference extract
reference extract is envisioned as a web search engine, like Google, Yahoo and MSN. However, unlike other search engines, reference extracts will be built for maximum credibility by relying on the expertise and credibility judgments of librarians from around the globe. Users will enter a search term and get [...]
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NN/LM Middle Atlantic Region Blog - November 11, 2008 Author: Administrator Tags: Technology
Too Late or Just Right? OCLC, I-Schools Announce Reference Extract Web Search Project
reference extract aims to draw on librarians, add credibility to search results.
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Library Journal News - November 10, 2008
Librarians Want to Out-Google Google With a Better Search Engine
Librarians Want to Out-Google Google With a Better Search Engine
Have you ever wished for a personal reference librarian, an information guru to point you to the most reliable sites whenever you search the Web? A new search-engine project aims to simulate something like that. The trick? Weighting search results so that librarians’ picks rise to the top.
Called reference extract, the project is being developed by the Online Computer Library Center and the information schools of Syracuse University and the University of Washington. OCLC is an international cooperative that shares resources among more than 69,000 libraries...
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ResourceShelf - November 10, 2008 Author: ResourceShelf Tags: Information Literacy Intellectual Property Libraries and Librarianship Search News Web Search
Reference Extract : des bibliothécaires dans le moteur
“Google est partout, facile à utiliser, et quand même efficace pour proposer des résultats utiles. Mais je ne peux pas toujours faire confiance à ces résultats."[...]"Y a-t-il un moyen d'améliorer cela ?" C'est ce que s'est dit l'un des fondateurs de reference extract, un futur nouveau moteur de recherche, qui s'appuiera sur l'expertise des bibliothécaires pour valider les résultats : il s'agira de confronter les résultats avec les sites les plus souvent signalés comme références par plus de 1 400 bibliothèques à travers le monde, dont la bibliothèque du Congrès, et vraisemblablement des bibliothèques du...
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Marlene's corner - November 10, 2008 Tags: Moteurs de recherche
Reference Extract: The Librarian-Recommendation-Weighted Search Engine
OCLC, the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, and the University of Washington Information School have received a $100,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to plan a librarian-recommendation-weighted search engine called reference extract.
Here's an excerpt from the press release:
"Sometimes, the simplest ideas are the most powerful," said Dr. Mike Eisenberg, Dean Emeritus and Professor at the Information School of the University of Washington and a lead on the project. "The best search engines are great for basic search, but sometimes the Web site results l...
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DigitalKoans - November 9, 2008 Author: Charles Bailey Tags: Information Schools Search Engines
Reference Extract: The Librarian-Recommendation-Weighted Search Engine
OCLC, the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University, and the University of Washington Information School have received a $100,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to plan a librarian-recommendation-weighted search engine called reference extract.
Here's an excerpt from the press release:
"Sometimes, the simplest ideas are the most powerful," said Dr. Mike Eisenberg, Dean Emeritus and Professor at the Information School of the University of Washington and a lead on the project. "The best search engines are great for basic search, but sometimes the Web site results l...
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DigitalKoans - November 9, 2008 Author: Charles Bailey
OCLC’s planned search engine: The pros and cons of Web crapola filtering by librarians
Was All in the Family—the TV show where Archie Bunker raged against black people, Jews and other supposed inferiors—the first entertainment outlet to use the word "crapola"?
And did that in turn pave the way for respectables to be able to utter "crap" in public?
Damned if I know. I simply recall hearing a cable commentator say such things.
If I put the above on the Web as absolute fact, then I’d be spreading, er, crapola—unverified information that may or may not be accurate, even if Google picks it up because of TeleRead’s prominence in its niche.
Weighted toward sites po...
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TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - November 8, 2008 Author: David Rothman Tags: E-books and all that blogs e-books and other digipubs ebook ebooks librarian librarians libraries libraries schools tech library reference extract.OCLC Syracuse University University of Washington All iin the Family Google Li
Reference Extract
"reference extract is envisioned as a web search engine, like Google, Yahoo and MSN. However, unlike other search engines, reference extracts will be built for maximum credibility by relying on the expertise and credibility judgments of librarians from around the globe. Users will enter a search term and get results weighted towards sites most often referred to by librarians at institutions such as the Library of Congress, the University of Washington, the State of Maryland, and over 1,400 libraries worldwide. This grant will support planning for reference extract and building the foundation necessary to implement it as a ...
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Peter Scott's Library Blog - November 8, 2008
Custom Search Engines via Google Co-op
Bill Drew has been wondering why more library bloggers aren't talking about Google Co-op's recently introduced Custom Search Engine (CSE) capability. Well, I'm not anywhere near an A-list library blogger, but for my part I've been too busy lately to squeeze out a blog post more than once every few weeks, let alone try out CSE. However, Bill's enthusiasm sparked my curiosity, so I decided to give it an hour or two of my time to see what it could do.
All I can say is: Boo-yah!
As soon as I saw what it was about and what it could do, I knew what I wanted to try to do with it. I've previously discussed the ...
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