Archive for the ‘PicsNo’ Category
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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Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
Kevin Kelly's long NY Times article in 2006 on Google Book Search has some elegant words on the transformative effect of digital books in general, beyond GBS. I'll precede excerpts from Kelly with bits from some of my recent articles, which resonate in interesting ways.
Kelly's comments parallel the static print ...
Posted in Digitization, Google Book Search, Metadata, PicsNo, The Stream, Uncategorized, eBooks | 1 Comment »
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 »
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 ...
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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 »
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
In his recent New Yorker article, The Cost Conundrum, Atul Gawande compares McAllen Texas, which is one of the most expensive health-care markets in the US, with Rochester, Minnesota, home of the Mayo Clinic, which has a relatively low expenditure, and a high-quality health system. Below are long excerpts from ...
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Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Last week New York Times reporter David Carr paid a visit to the GooglePlex, to learn more about Google Book Search. His article on this got little attention, maybe because the title and lead paragraphs didn't communicate that the subject was, in fact, Google Book Search and the Settlement. So ...
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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 ...
Posted in Google Book Search, Libraries, Library of Congress, PicsNo, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Monday, June 8th, 2009
A few excerpts from Clive Thompson's interesting thoughts on digitization last week:
Books are the last bastion of the old business model—the only major medium that still hasn't embraced the digital age. ... Literary pundits are fretting: Can books survive in this Facebooked, ADD, multichannel universe? ... To which I reply: ...
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Friday, May 15th, 2009
In a prophetic passage written in 1990, Salman Rushdie paints a vivid word picture of the Ocean of the Streams of Story that I've suggested is an uncanny envisioning of the yet-to-be-created Web. Right now, the evolution of the Web seems to be speeding up, and two recent commentaries, one ...
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