Library Cataloging
Image via CrunchBaseThe DataPortability Project has announced a data portability policy statement and released a tool to create a statement for your organization.
- Linked Data And Libraries: What? Why? How? (ncompass Live)
On Wednesday, January 11, 2012, 10-11:00 a.m. Central Time NCompass Live presents the webinar Linked Data and Libraries: What? Why? How? In October of 2011, the Library of Congress released a statement outlining its efforts to move away from the MARC...
- Librarything
LibraryThing has added RSS feeds. We should take a look at this tool and see what it tells us about what we could be doing. Folks like to share the books they are reading. Maybe we have been so concerned with privacy that we have neglected the social...
- Privacy
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released logfinder, a software tool to help people reduce the unnecessary collection of personal information about computer users. Often computer network servers automatically log information about who has...
- 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...
- Os Library System
Emilda 1.0.0 is the first version to be released under the GNU General Public License and future development is also to be performed under the GNU GPL.Some of the key features of Emilda are:Full featured Web-OPAC, allowing comprehensive system management...
Library Cataloging
Data Portability Policy Statements
Image via CrunchBaseThe heart of the Portability Policy is a set of plain language questions that we hope will become a common vocabulary between software users and providers. Through these questions, a provider can disclose what they do or do not, to enable data portability. Eventually, we intend to release machine-readable version of these policies.If your site provides APIs or not this is a nice easy way to let people know.
Data portability applies to a much broader set of software products than just social networks. The promise of data portability is that everyone benefits when work can be repurposed ? by yourself with other tools or by other people. Any tool that lets people enter or organize their digital ?stuff? should control how that stuff can be reused. Text documents, music play lists, pictures, and research data are just as valuable to share as ?friend lists? and address books.
We do not promote any particular technology or approach; there are no right or wrong answers. While a social network might want to illustrate the myriad ways that they connect people and allow for data portability, a service focused on deeply personal medical or financial issues might want to highlight the fact that they allow no portability at all. Our intent is simply to increase communication and ensure that both parties ? visitors and the service itself ? each know what they should expect from the other.
- Linked Data And Libraries: What? Why? How? (ncompass Live)
On Wednesday, January 11, 2012, 10-11:00 a.m. Central Time NCompass Live presents the webinar Linked Data and Libraries: What? Why? How? In October of 2011, the Library of Congress released a statement outlining its efforts to move away from the MARC...
- Librarything
LibraryThing has added RSS feeds. We should take a look at this tool and see what it tells us about what we could be doing. Folks like to share the books they are reading. Maybe we have been so concerned with privacy that we have neglected the social...
- Privacy
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released logfinder, a software tool to help people reduce the unnecessary collection of personal information about computer users. Often computer network servers automatically log information about who has...
- 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...
- Os Library System
Emilda 1.0.0 is the first version to be released under the GNU General Public License and future development is also to be performed under the GNU GPL.Some of the key features of Emilda are:Full featured Web-OPAC, allowing comprehensive system management...