Archive for the ‘Libraries’ Category
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Many possible takes on this picture. What comes to my mind first is the idea of the Attention Economy --The idea that in the days of the traditional library, before the Internet, information was a limited resource. Libraries could afford to work under the assumption that "we've got the good ...
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
Just as I was about to compose two articles this morning on metadata problems in Google Book Search and in library catalogs ... lo and behold ... I came across science-publishing-library blogger Eric Hellman's article White Dielectric Substance in Library Metadata on much the same theme -- It has some ...
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Friday, August 7th, 2009
Mark Rabnett, in his article Five ways to improve PubMed says what many medical librarians are no doubt thinking. The Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) system, used by the National Library of Medicine to index articles in PubMed/Medline, is certainly one of the best indexing systems in the world. Unfortunately the ...
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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 ...
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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, June 19th, 2009
Why is the Library of Congress not more involved in discussions of Google Book Search and the impending Settlement? Google searching finds virtually no evidence that LC has had any voice at all in the recent flurry of talk on this. For example, these Google web searches pull up only ...
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Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Several commentors on my recent article about Salman Rushdie's imaginative foretelling of the Web have suggested that Rushdie's vision -- of a library made up of the Stream of all Stories ever told -- was influenced by Jorge Luis Borges' story The Library of Babel -- which describes the universe ...
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Wednesday, May 13th, 2009
When I first read the passage below in Salman Rushdie's Haroun and the sea of stories three years ago, it struck me as a remarkable word picture of my experience of the Web. So of course I went right to Google to see if anyone else had made this connection ...
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Thursday, May 7th, 2009
Two recent articles, one by a librarian and one by a publisher, talk of the growing realization on the part of both parties that they increasingly have common interests, as both learn how to deal with the the implications of electronic publishing -- Librarian Barbara Fister's Library Journal cover story ...
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
Why is this not being more widely reported?! Library of Congress Inspector General Karl Shornagel's 60-page PDF report, as far as I can find, has been linked only in two short postings in non-library blogs, and in a few Twitter tweets, since Schornagel reported to the House Administration Committee on ...
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