I’ve mentioned Wesabe’s Data Bill of Rights before. John Battelle has now posted on his formulation of a bill of rights:
So, I submit for your review, editing and clarification, a new draft of what rights we, as consumers, might demand from companies making hay off the data we create as we trip across the web
Some [...]
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 [...]
From the site:
reCAPTCHA improves the process of digitizing books by sending words that cannot be read by computers to the Web in the form of CAPTCHAs for humans to decipher. More specifically, each word that cannot be read correctly by OCR is placed on an image and used as a CAPTCHA. This is possible because [...]
One the great things about libraries are the events some hold, be it author talks, workshops or movies. Unfortunately I’ve been rather disappointed by the way events are presented on most library sites. Some don’t even feature or list them on the homepage which is a shame. There are some other things I think would [...]
I read 2600 once in awhile as it usually has a few decent articles on barriers and how to get around them. Its also nice to see what people are using or playing with. In the recent Winter 2006-2007 issue there was an article titled “Library Self-Checkout Machine Exploit”. If you get a copy I [...]
Via the Bokardo blog:
I think that social features are bigger than many people view them. They are a long-term strategy that takes lots of resources. You can’t simply bolt on a feature here or there (well, unless it’s article sharing or something super simple like that) and expect to realize the benefits of making a [...]
Or full cataloging in this post. Library Juice compared Last.fm and LibraryThing and describes the benefit of having both controlled and user data.
The real functionality of both Last.fm and LibraryThing, though, rests not on user tags but on the standards-based metadata for the objects in it - books for LibraryThing and music tracks for Last.fm. [...]
Note: Many of the examples below only include screenshots. As these are development versions I don’t want to overwhelm them with traffic. If you pop in #code4lib you’ll probably be able to get a peek at them.
What is Solr?
If you were at Code4Lib 2007 then you were probably beat over the head with Solr. If [...]
Via What I Learned Today, I came across an older talk (but recently posted) by Eben Moglen called The Renaissance of Invention: Free Software and the Next American Century. I used to try to keep up on much of IT Conversations but have fallen quite behind with everything that’s going on. If you haven’t already [...]
I noted before the discussion on machine tags. Another example has come about with Revish, the book review community, pulling in images from Flickr that use the book:isbn=********** tag. An example page is Bulletproof Ajax. From their blog:
There are only a few people using this at Flickr at the moment, but there are a lot [...]
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 [...]
Another article worth reading. Still playing catchup.
Being able to preserve digital data is a must for a golden age of research information, and a major risk is therefore the rapid obsolescence of digital objects. File formats, software, and hardware are constantly being superseded, so the curation of digital objects involves regularly migrating files into currently [...]
While I still haven’t gotten time to fully grok dchud’s Open Data is not the point, some more posts regarding the importance of open data have come about. While I agree with dchud that it’s definitely not the whole story, it is an important one.
Alf over at Hublog posts some of the replies he’s gotten [...]
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 [...]
I’m way behind in lots of things right now but I might as well post something. The keynote on the first day of Code4Lib 2007 was by Karen Schneider who writes at Free Range Librarian, among other places. You can view a video of her presentation on google and download links should be available soon [...]
I met some Talis people at code4lib and was rather impressed by their presentations. Here is one you should watch.
Liblime acquired Katipo Communications’ Koha Division. The press release reads like PR but had a nice tidbit:
The acquisition also highlights one of the unique features of an open-source business and development model: “Katipo’s Koha customers don’t need to worry about switching to a new ILS,” explains Rachel Hamilton, Director of Katipo Communications. “With open source, [...]