Library Cataloging
BlogBridge: Library is a soon-to-be-released product that looks interesting. It is a tool for organizing and presenting RSS feeds. This might be a good way to provide access to news for specialized groups we serve. One for the genealogy folks, another for the bird watchers, another for the anime crowd. For each resource it provides a thumbnail of the page, link, RSS, and an OPML file for the group.
- Data Portability Policy Statements
Image via CrunchBaseThe DataPortability Project has announced a data portability policy statement and released a tool to create a statement for your organization. The heart of the Portability Policy is a set of plain language questions that we hope will...
- Problems With Names
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names shows the computer folks are finding names a problem. We could have told them that a long time ago.So, as a public service, I?m going to list assumptions your systems probably make about names. All of these assumptions...
- Public Libraries
I'm typing this and reading some of my e-mail in the Louisville Public Library. Another example of a library as an important part of the community. It looks to have been built in the 60's or 70's. It has people, like me, on the public access...
- Portals
A LITA intrest group on portals has created a Web site for their mission.The Internet Portals Interest Group defines a portal as a service (and related systems and approaches to organization) that facilitates organized knowledge discovery through the...
- Library 'blogs
Blake Carver and Steven M. Cohen have teamed up to provide LISFeeds. This is a one-stop-site for library related RSS feeds. There are about 25 sites so far. Just click on the 'blog title in the left hand pane and read postings in the right. Then click...
Library Cataloging
BlogBridge: Library
BlogBridge: Library is a soon-to-be-released product that looks interesting. It is a tool for organizing and presenting RSS feeds. This might be a good way to provide access to news for specialized groups we serve. One for the genealogy folks, another for the bird watchers, another for the anime crowd. For each resource it provides a thumbnail of the page, link, RSS, and an OPML file for the group.
Here is a crucial point that many people will miss but is critical to understand BBL: BlogBridge:Library is a piece of software that you can install on your own server, inside your firewall. It's not the content of the library (the books,) it's the software to organize the library (the building.)BlogBridge:Library (BBL) creates a flexible web based structure to showcase Feeds, Reading Lists and Podcasts to employees in your company, or members of your organization. It will be the 'store' where users can browse and search for recommendations of content to read with their Aggregators. And, here's the important point: these are recommendations by people in your organization for people in your organization.RSSP.S. Thurs. June 15. BBL is written with PHP and uses MYSQL, mainstream requirements. They will package it with installation instructions so that any basically skilled web master should be able to install it. Pricing not yet determined.
- Data Portability Policy Statements
Image via CrunchBaseThe DataPortability Project has announced a data portability policy statement and released a tool to create a statement for your organization. The heart of the Portability Policy is a set of plain language questions that we hope will...
- Problems With Names
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names shows the computer folks are finding names a problem. We could have told them that a long time ago.So, as a public service, I?m going to list assumptions your systems probably make about names. All of these assumptions...
- Public Libraries
I'm typing this and reading some of my e-mail in the Louisville Public Library. Another example of a library as an important part of the community. It looks to have been built in the 60's or 70's. It has people, like me, on the public access...
- Portals
A LITA intrest group on portals has created a Web site for their mission.The Internet Portals Interest Group defines a portal as a service (and related systems and approaches to organization) that facilitates organized knowledge discovery through the...
- Library 'blogs
Blake Carver and Steven M. Cohen have teamed up to provide LISFeeds. This is a one-stop-site for library related RSS feeds. There are about 25 sites so far. Just click on the 'blog title in the left hand pane and read postings in the right. Then click...