Archive for July, 2009
Friday, July 31st, 2009
Spurred on by positive reaction to my recent article on metadata, I did more digging in Twitter, and came across this interesting tweet from Christian Science Monitor librarian Leigh Montgomery (@CSMLibrary):
#Journalism future? 'It's in the data.' #Metadata, that is - makes the #news last, rather than a perishable commodity http://tr.im/lmetadata
9:52 ...
Posted in Libraries, Metadata, Newspapers, PicsNo, Publishing, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
As so often happens, there are gems far down in Mike Cane's blog article (Dumb eBooks Must Die, Smart eBooks Must Live) that deserve more prominence. Cane says the real potential of eBooks will only be realized (attained) when the "hidden" metadata content is brought out (Boldface added):
All of this ...
Posted in Google Book Search, Libraries, Metadata, PicsYes, The Stream, Uncategorized, eBooks | 2 Comments »
Friday, July 10th, 2009
An earlier article, Color Pictures in Google Books, discussed a few examples of color pictures in full-view books in GBS. Below are more examples in the areas of botany, medical botany, and dermatology.
Google Books titles with color pictures - Botany, Medical Botany
[Examples below link to screenshots in Flickr of Overview ...
Posted in Color, Flickr, Google Book Search, PicsNo, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
The recently announced addition of thumbnail navigation to Google Book Search is, unfortunately, only available for full-view. But all magazines in GBS are full-view, so thumbnails are especially useful for them, since [because] they have so many pictures. To use thumnails, go to Read this Magazine (or Book), and click ...
Posted in Google Book Search, Magazines, PicsYes, Thumbnails, Uncategorized | No Comments »
Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
This is excerpts from part 2 of Michael Nielsen's seminal and long article, Is scientific publishing about to be disrupted?. Part 1 of Nielsen's article is a general consideration of how industries fail, with particular discussion of the newspaper industry and blogs. Part 2 is the heart of Nielsen's case ...
Posted in Google, Journals, PicsNo, Publishing, Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
