Offline-mode has gotten some press since it was added to the Firefox roadmap. Some of the rails programmers have probably been watching Joyent Slingshot:
Joyent Slingshot allows developers to deploy Rails applications that work both online and offline (with synchronization), and with drag/drop into and out of the application as in a standard desktop application.
There is [...]
Google has a preview available of their mapplets along with some documentation. Here’s a screenshot of the weatherbug mapplet:
With the custom markers and search form available it may be interesting to throw together a mapplet for worldcat or a local consortia, plotting the libraries that carry the item and possibly status if available. You could [...]
via O’Reilly Radar again (subscribe if you don’t already):
It adds the ability to create and share maps directly from Google’s site (you can see a map that I created above). These maps will be added to Google geoindex and will be available to search in Google Earth and in Local Search. These maps will be [...]
Once referred to as “tripletags” supposedly but now called Machine Tags, due to Flickr’s adoption of their use for geocoding, etc. From machinetags.org:
Machine tags, or triple tags, are tags that are made up of three parts (namespace:predicate=value) in order to give extra information. Machine tags have been in use for a while now on sites [...]
Via O’reilly Radar I found a blog post that is definitely worth reading. If you haven’t already read it, you should. Also read O’reilly as he comments on why digitization of full-text is important and provides a few other links.
I was idly trying a search on “roads” to see what sort of a literature would [...]
There was a post over at Panlibus about find it in Talis links being added to Google Scholar. I have links to WorldCat and MSU so had presumed it was a IP thing. I had forgotten that I had set it up in my preferences. A post over on the Google Librarian blog pointed out [...]
From over at Christina’s LIS Rant:
Flabbergasted: Springerlink has Google ads!…..So apparently charging us $1-10k per journal isn’t enough. I am absolutely amazed, flabbergasted, and well, horrified. Are they trying to prove that we’re putting them out of business with our open access (tongue in cheek), we evil librarians?
The google ad’s are on the item view [...]
One of the powers of full text, even if you don’t present it to users, is that you can build some interesting things on the data analysis. One such tool is mapping of place names in the works. I believe I’ve previously blogged it but one example is Gutenkarte which maps locations in texts available [...]
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