Library Cataloging
APIs and Mashups For The Rest Of Us by Gareth Rushgrove appears in the latest Digital Web Magazine.
- Library Mashups
I just received my copy of Nicole C. Engard's Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data. Thank you Nicole for editing this book. I've only have time to skim it and read one paper but it looks like a winner. Can't wait to...
- User-generated Metadata
From Spectator to Annotator: Possibilities offered by User-Generated Metadata for Digital Cultural Heritage Collections by Seth van Hooland will be presented at at the CILIP2006 conference.The changing role of the user, that gradually shifts from a passive...
- Smoking The Podcasting Dope, A Little Bit
This week I got an FM transmitter for my car. Now I can listen to my MP3 player as I drive and have started listening to podcasts. Greg Schwartz of Open Stacks has been making my commute time less tedious. He has a good speaking voice and interesting...
- Visualizing Bibliographic Metadata
Visualizing Bibliographic Metadata - A Virtual (Book) Spine Viewer by Naomi Dushay appears in D-Lib Magazine (October 2004) vol. 10, no. 10.User interfaces for digital information discovery often require users to click around and read a lot of text in...
- Writing
Writing for the Web - How to Write Web-Friendly Content for your Site by Steve Lee.This article provides a short introduction to the basics of writing for the Web. It considers how Web users approach the information they find on the net, and, based on...
Library Cataloging
AIPs and Mashups
APIs and Mashups For The Rest Of Us by Gareth Rushgrove appears in the latest Digital Web Magazine.
This article, the first in a series of two, aims to lift the lid on all things API; the second article will give you some hands-on tools and tips to get you started. For now, it?s all about how we managed to get here--and where here actually is.Why should we even care about this? Well, with an API our users could create mash-ups of our OPACs making them more useful and user-friendly.
- Library Mashups
I just received my copy of Nicole C. Engard's Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data. Thank you Nicole for editing this book. I've only have time to skim it and read one paper but it looks like a winner. Can't wait to...
- User-generated Metadata
From Spectator to Annotator: Possibilities offered by User-Generated Metadata for Digital Cultural Heritage Collections by Seth van Hooland will be presented at at the CILIP2006 conference.The changing role of the user, that gradually shifts from a passive...
- Smoking The Podcasting Dope, A Little Bit
This week I got an FM transmitter for my car. Now I can listen to my MP3 player as I drive and have started listening to podcasts. Greg Schwartz of Open Stacks has been making my commute time less tedious. He has a good speaking voice and interesting...
- Visualizing Bibliographic Metadata
Visualizing Bibliographic Metadata - A Virtual (Book) Spine Viewer by Naomi Dushay appears in D-Lib Magazine (October 2004) vol. 10, no. 10.User interfaces for digital information discovery often require users to click around and read a lot of text in...
- Writing
Writing for the Web - How to Write Web-Friendly Content for your Site by Steve Lee.This article provides a short introduction to the basics of writing for the Web. It considers how Web users approach the information they find on the net, and, based on...