Systems
Doing things with software and data.
1058 postsInstitutional discovery systems
The University of Wisconsin – Madison has made available its report about
institutional discovery services [pdf
[https://staff.library.wisc.edu/
Google and virtual bookshelf
SEO by the Sea wonders about Google’s plans for what it calls a ‘virtual
bookshelf site’. It presents a
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Workflow is an intermediate consumer
I have been using the following contrast in presentations for a while. This is
to make a distinction between library
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Consistent access to French archives and manuscripts
Calames [https://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/] is a recently released catalog of
archives and manuscripts in French universities and
Analytics: mind the gap
In a digital environment our actions shed data which can be collected and mined.
We leave traces. In this context
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Keeping research data
The JISC has made a report on digital preservation costs
[https://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/keepingresearchdatasafe.aspx]
available.
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Recommendation and Ranganathan
From time to time, we see a discussion about the relative merits of Google, or
Amazon, and library catalogs as
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Tagging at the network level
There is a fascinating entry by Seb Chan of the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney
documenting experiences one month into their
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Boxed in: a set of search boxes
Libraries have major challenges in developing their websites. Think just of the
information resources they provide access to. There are
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Computational advertising
I was very interested to read this brief piece about the ‘new discipline’ of
‘computational advertising’:
> Web advertising is
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