There’s a nice summary of a panel called “®evolution in Scientific Publishing: How will it Affect You?” that was held apparently at the Society for Neuroscience conference. There’s some interesting discussion and I’m also a little amazed that no one seemed to understand blogging. There are some issues that come up:
Say for instance Open Access [...]
pbinkley writes about the problem with OpenURL resolvers and how augmenting them with outside data may help. I do like some of the things Umlaut is doing and I’m hopeful that things improve. Worth a read.
Give me good detailed metadata and my resolver should nail it for you first time; give me vague or faulty [...]
A drupal-based digital library CMS is available as a prototype. Has some potential of a low barrier for use.
There appears to be very few general-purpose, open-source digital library collection management systems. Applications such as DSpace and MDID are vertical, in the sense that they are optimized for a specific audience or type of document. Generalized [...]
One of the nice features of Firefox 2.0 is that you can assign other applications to be your feed handler (when you click the feed icon in the address bar) including web-based ones like Google Reader or Bloglines. I personally use a local install of Gregarius. The latest version out of SVN has a button [...]
Came across a post over at Business Logs (great blog) called The User Experience Bar Is Now Sky High which showed off some of the upcoming interfaces to some web apps. Definitely some interesting things being done and it will be interesting to see how many of these become common place. The one that stood [...]
The PDF “book” Getting Real that I’ve quoted here quite a bit is now available online in HTML form for free. You can still purchase the PDF or printed copy (lulu publishing). I recommend giving it a read if you haven’t already.
Getting real is less. Less mass, less software, less features, less paperwork, less [...]
Article worth a read though I’m not sure if I belong to a specific camp:
This concept, often referred to as progressive enhancement, means starting with the actual content, which normally consists of text and sometimes images. Once that is in place you add styling to make the content aesthetically attractive to those who can perceive [...]
The audio for presentations have been posted along with some of the presentations themselves. I couldn’t find an actual podcast feed so I create one myself. You can find it at odeo and it’s available in multiple formats.
I recently updated by Debian testing box and it appeared to upgrade python to 2.4. Since then when I went to my Trac install and went to browser it gave an error that “no module named svn”. With googling I found multiple places that went the route of manually installing svn and trac. Luckily I [...]
Something to watch out for with resources. Users will have the option of not installing it. From the announcement:
To help customers become more secure and up-to-date, Microsoft will distribute Internet Explorer 7 as a high-priority update via Automatic Updates and the Windows Update and Microsoft Update sites. Internet Explorer 7 will be available for users [...]
Here are the presentations that have been posted online. I’ve done some conversions on a couple to make them easier to use.
Art’s Introduction
An overview of why we showed up
Available as html slideshow
Beth’s Presentation
My writeup of the presentation
Powerpoint Version
PDF Version - 5.3 MB
Karen’s Presenation
My writeup of the presentation
Powerpoint Version
PDF Version - 930K
From the release:
We are now accepting proposals for prepared talks for Code4lib 2007.
Code4lib 2007 is a loosely structured conference for library technologists to commune, gather/create/share ideas and software, be inspired, and forge collaborations. It is also an outgrowth of the Access HackFest, wrapped into a conference-ish format. It is the event for technologists building digital [...]
Not completely my opinion but there is an op-ed piece that is worth reading. It’s also worth reading the comments/responses. From the piece:
Rather than build an expensive new library downtown in the mistaken belief that such a monument to 19th century information technology will bring the community together, the city of Lawrence needs to consider [...]
An interesting comment system over at Jack Slocum’s blog that uses the Yahoo UI kit with Wordpress. It allows you to comment on any “block” which includes paragraphs, headings, images, etc.
I’ve seen this done in other systems but I do like how it’s handled here. A similar interface was thrown around for commenting on articles [...]
Recommendations and relevency can be big business. Netflix is offering a prize for someone who improves their recommendations based on sample data. Datamining has the potential of helping libraries increase relevency and help people find books that might interest them or even just relationships between items. However, there is a big privacy issue involved when [...]
A couple of ajax-type web apps have added “infinite scroll” implementations. The infinite scroll being that when you get near the bottom of the results page it dynamically loads more results. There’s no real paging, just loading.
The two apps I’ve seen it in now are the new Google Reader when viewing a subscription and the [...]
Came across this via SuperPatron. It looks like AADL lends out street maps for people that are going on vacations and the like. I think this is an interesting service as a lot of times it’s a waste for someone to buy a map when they will only be there for a few days. Could [...]
ScienceBlogs held a challenge for bloggers to complete a SAT style writing assignment in the allotted timeframe. The results were rather low compared to high school students.
Well, 500 people looked at the essay question, but just 109 were able to complete a scoreable response under the time limit. That alone should demonstrate that the SAT [...]
I had used Book Burro before but didn’t find an easy way to add libraries, so instead tried out LibX. That’s changed now as they’ve added WorldCat support, which our library participates in. Doesn’t give status information but it’s a nice quick glance at least.
I went ahead and tried out CrazyEgg on some pages I had thrown together. There’s quite a few things that could probably be tweaked or changed. It was easy to get some quick data as some of my coworkers have the page as their homepage. I have to say it was really easy and non-obtrusive. [...]
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