Library Cataloging
We're surrounded by free factual information, but there's a bill in Congress that would lock it all up. The Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act (DCIMA, H.R. 3261) extends extremely broad copyright-like protections to collections of factual data - data like the price of a TV, the temperature in Arizona or infomation collected during scientific research. DCIMA would allow companies to sue anyone who interferes with their ability to profit from data that they collect. In other words, academic researchers, public libraries, Internet innovators and other database users would have to pay up if someone else claimed to have assembled the data first. This is not only unecessary, it's bad policy.Make your voice heard with the EFF Action Center.
- Connecting People And Their Work
BibApp is a tool to connect people and their research interests at an institution. BibApp is a campus research gateway and expert finder. It matches researchers on your campus or research center with their publication data and mines that data to see collaborations,...
- Xtech
Some interesting themes at the upcoming XTech Conference.The second of the new tracks is called Open Data. Increasingly more information owners are choosing to be an active part of the web, rather than just hosting HTML pages. Some of the highest profile...
- Metadata
Denmark has opened a depository and UDDI for metadata.This website provides information about data interchange standards for the public and private sector. The development and publication of standards is supported with four different tools:An Infosite...
- Preservation Of Digital Holdings
LC has over eight terabytes of digital data in the American Memory Project. Keeping that useful with changing technology will be a challenge. Library of Congress, San Diego Supercomputer Center to Evaluate SDSC SRB Data Grid for Preservation of Digital...
- Archives
I've just noticed I've yet to mention the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC). This co-operative effort ranks with OCLC and RLIN as one of the most useful in the history of information description.The National Union Catalog...
Library Cataloging
Access
We're surrounded by free factual information, but there's a bill in Congress that would lock it all up. The Database and Collections of Information Misappropriation Act (DCIMA, H.R. 3261) extends extremely broad copyright-like protections to collections of factual data - data like the price of a TV, the temperature in Arizona or infomation collected during scientific research. DCIMA would allow companies to sue anyone who interferes with their ability to profit from data that they collect. In other words, academic researchers, public libraries, Internet innovators and other database users would have to pay up if someone else claimed to have assembled the data first. This is not only unecessary, it's bad policy.Make your voice heard with the EFF Action Center.
- Connecting People And Their Work
BibApp is a tool to connect people and their research interests at an institution. BibApp is a campus research gateway and expert finder. It matches researchers on your campus or research center with their publication data and mines that data to see collaborations,...
- Xtech
Some interesting themes at the upcoming XTech Conference.The second of the new tracks is called Open Data. Increasingly more information owners are choosing to be an active part of the web, rather than just hosting HTML pages. Some of the highest profile...
- Metadata
Denmark has opened a depository and UDDI for metadata.This website provides information about data interchange standards for the public and private sector. The development and publication of standards is supported with four different tools:An Infosite...
- Preservation Of Digital Holdings
LC has over eight terabytes of digital data in the American Memory Project. Keeping that useful with changing technology will be a challenge. Library of Congress, San Diego Supercomputer Center to Evaluate SDSC SRB Data Grid for Preservation of Digital...
- Archives
I've just noticed I've yet to mention the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC). This co-operative effort ranks with OCLC and RLIN as one of the most useful in the history of information description.The National Union Catalog...