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December 18, 2009
Library and Archives Canada: Getting Ready For RDA
Library and Archives Canada has set up a website answering frequently asked questions about RDA. It is a good starting point and has some good links.
October 27, 2009
NISO Conference
A new webinar from NISO. Remember that there is a fee. However, with registration, you also have access to their archives for a year.
Join NISO for our November webinar Data, Data Everywhere featuring Migration
and System Population Practices.
When:
November 11, 2009
1:00 – 2:30 p.m. (Eastern Time)
About the Webinar:
The scope and scale of metadata repositories continues to grow, [...]
September 25, 2009
OCLC: Expert Community Experiment and Data
OCLC recently held a number of webinars summing up their Expert Community Experiment. These webinars should be posted soon on their Expert Community Experiment website.
Basically, the information summarized was a compendium and brief analysis of the monthly reports on the Expert Community Experiment. As the monthly statistics indicated, the experiment was a success. The number [...]
September 21, 2009
Are you an OAIster Data Contributer?
OCLC just recently made this announcement concerning any institutions that are OAIster database contributors.
In January, OCLC announced a partnership with the University of Michigan to ensure continued access to your open-archive collections through the OAIster database and expand the visibility of your collections to millions of information seekers through OCLC services. This message provides [...]
September 14, 2009
Cuil, A New Search Engine
We recently saw a new search engine in last April by the name of Wolfram Alpha. Several blog posts have talked about this and its features. I have to admit that I returned to Google because the search results were better. However, I’m always on the lookout for new search engines. Recently, I found Cuil.
Started [...]
July 7, 2009
Rise of Digital Books
I found a good article called, “Books born digital”, by Lance Eaton (Library Journal, May 15, 2009). In short, Lance summarizes the rise in the publication of digital content linked in part to what users want but also to the rising costs of publishing paper books. This phenomenon is already well known and has also [...]
May 8, 2009
Visualizing Opinions
The Media Center at the University of Berkeley has an interested new tool called the Opinion Space. Once you register, you can visually get a sense of where you stand in terms of your opinions. This is an interesting take on comparing and contrasting opinions and ideas.
May 5, 2009
Video on Copyright
Copyright can be a difficult to understand. What’s the difference between fair use and being in the public domain? Perhaps you already know the answer.
If not, however, I found this video the other week that explains clearly what copyright is. It is the the brainchild of the Copyright Clearance Center. As with all material published, [...]
