If you haven’t already caught it, Outlook 2007 changes html support rather drastically. In fact it appears to go backwards from the last version of Outlook. The change is from the IE rendering engine to the Word html rendering engine. Some are guessing this is related to anti-trust.
Regardless if your library sends out newsletters that [...]
Not sure how old this is but Apple offers a free on-demand seminar called The Podcast Recipe: Producing a successful show.
Podcasting is one of the most explosive technologies to hit the Internet. And with literally thousands of podcasts available on Apple iTunes, the need for high-quality production is critical. In this free, on-demand, three-part seminar [...]
A new semester and some new problems. The first is Windows Media Player 11. Not yet out via Windows Update so not a huge problem but with the coming release of Vista I think it will be.
I think it was reported in a few places but WMP11 seems to have removed support for the MMS [...]
In case you missed it from my linklog, there’s a nice series of posts over at Alex Faaborg’s blog about microformats and the reasoning behind a new extension called Operator. The posts:
Microformats - Part 0: Introduction
An introduction to microformats and some related links. Also some information on why they are useful.
That’s what microformats are, adding [...]
The Creative Commons people have released a tool that helps you determine whether any exclusive contracts can be terminated. As the laws are complicated it’s largely a tool to help educate and get the word out about the rights authors have so that you can be prepared when your window of opportunity comes. Education [...]
And some more linkies for the reading, apologizes if some are old and overlinked:
What is it like to eat on $30 a month.
Is an API really needed or is structured content enough?
Some ajaxitagging. Pulling in content from social sites on demand. I could see it being used on things like Umlaut to make the initial [...]
LinuxWorld has an article on 10 Web API’s you can really use. Some of the normal ones like Amazon and Google Maps are in there but it was nice to see things like the ATOM protocol highlighted. Here’s a few that also seemed useful:
MediaWiki API - An in-progress API to all the wikimedia stuff and [...]
A couple interviews that might interest some:
An Interview with Casey Bisson
In this 13 minute recording, we’ll hear from Plymouth State University Information Architect, Casey Bisson. Listen in as he discusses a range of topics, including social software, open source, and his new WPOPAC software.
An Interview with Jeremy Frumkin
In this 18 minute recording, we’ll hear [...]
Or at least the possibility of some in library-land. I’ve thrown around the idea back when code4lib’ers were discussing the possibility of a non-profit status for the group, that it might be worthwhile to build some web services/APIs for various things libraries could use such as records, relationships, artwork, etc. Nothing came of it but [...]
If libraries actually had money I could see a similar interface regarding collections.
As seen from the outside. A nice quick post over at Column Two about the role of librarians, in this case institutional:
What this isn’t about is just owning a list of powerful but incredibly difficult to use information sources. Instead, it’s about getting out into the organisation to find ways that they can add direct [...]
Leaving the ILS vendors out of this one. You may have noticed that the Simile people made a modified dump of their catalog available as a data set in RDF, MODs, etc. There’s quite a few people in code4lib that are doing experiments with library data and who also believe in the concept of Open [...]
As usual I try something and then wait so long to post that you’ve probably read about it in 100 other places. One of the recent things I’ve been experimenting with is Wesabe a social financial site in it’s early stages.
I try to keep tabs on my money and have managed to stay out of [...]
A followup to a recent article I commented on. These replies are of course more thoughtful then mine. The first is from Personal InfoCloud:
This assumption that the author of the “Beneath the Metadata” makes that taxonomies are great and help people find things by providing the authoritative terms is wrong. Taxonomies are always less than [...]
Nice post over on Beth’s blog about a library in a box idea (and not the closed black boxes some libraries buy):
Library-in-a-box is coming at these problems from several directions. One goal, for example, is to make an easily distributable CD (it could be distributed, for example, in a box!) that can install Evergreen or [...]
There’s a new issue of Dlib out with an article called “Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy“. There has been some discussion in the library blog arena about it. Here is a round-up and some thoughts. The article goes over traditional cataloging and folksonomy and concludes:
The choice to use folksonomy for organizing information on the Internet [...]
I spent one of my days off this week at the Future of the Integrated Library System Symposium in Windsor. As with most things Art plans, it was worth the time. I’ll probably be posting some more about some of the ideas that came about there but here’s a brief run-down.
Where we are
Thanks to [...]
Some brief searching on Google Local over at SEO by the SEA for major libraries brought up some disappointing results. I’m not overly surprised with the findings.
I’ll probably look at some more libraries to get a better sense of what is going on with Google Local Search and libraries, but it appears that the [...]
The Inquiring Librarian has a nice post entitled More Structured Metadata. She puts nicely what I’ve been meaning to say or maybe have said in the past. There really is a need for some good structured metadata in addition to what is already in the catalog. Ideally you’d have full text to also work with [...]
There’s a nice resource called ANTS (ANimated Tutorial Sharing Project) which hopes to create screencast tutorials for library resources that libraries can share and use.
Over the years, libraries have witnessed a significant growth in their number of online resources; matched with an increasing demand for 24/7 information literacy. At the same time new software [...]
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