Library Cataloging
I've added a PICS tag to the head section of this site. Personally, I like the use of self-rating sites and leaving the decision on what to see in the hands of the user. In both IE and Netscape, there is a content advisor that can block sites which contain violence, sex, or other possible disturbing content from the user. It is up to the user to select what they will accept. Just the opposite if the approach taken by Congress. This ties into cataloging since it could be used to describe a site. It is certainly more descriptive than the MPAA ratings. This system has been in place for quite some time and never caught on. Maybe given the current debate over the CIPA it will be an option. Could a public library set the IE content advisor and call that their filtering device?
A nice article on PICS is PICS: Internet Access Controls Without Censorship by Paul Resnick and James Miller.
I have to give a plug to a very fine comic strip Overdue. I'm glad I subscribed to get mine sent to me every morning.
There will not be a posting Monday. I'm taking the day off. See you Tuesday.
- Tags Into Rdfa
LODr looks interesting. It brings tagging, Web 2.0, into the Semantic Web, Web 3.0.LODr is a RDF-based (re-)tagging service, that allows people to weave their Web 2.0 tagged data into the Linked Data Web and provides a dedicated browsing interface. LODr...
- Recommender System For The Dspace
A Recommender System for the DSpace Open Repository Platform by Desmond Elliott, James Rutherford, and John Erickson. HPL-2008-21.We present Quambo, a recommender system add-on for the DSpace open source repository platform. We explain how Quambo generates...
- Scout Portal Toolkit
The Scout Portal Toolkit version 1.2.0 is now available for download.This release incorporates functionality from the Content Workflow Integration System (CWIS) software the Internet Scout Project is currently developing for the NSF's National Science...
- Cipa
Where is the report "Filtering Software: the Religious Connection" by Nancy Willard? It would be important for many libraries to have access to it, given recent events. Library Journal has a summary available. However, all the links I find no longer work.I'm...
- 'blog Metadata
There are several projects to add metadata to Web logs to provide better access to them. However, everybody seems to be working in isolation. I began by adding Dublin Core, A-Core and PICS. That was OK. DC and PICS were standards, and A-Core was based...
Library Cataloging
Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS)
I've added a PICS tag to the head section of this site. Personally, I like the use of self-rating sites and leaving the decision on what to see in the hands of the user. In both IE and Netscape, there is a content advisor that can block sites which contain violence, sex, or other possible disturbing content from the user. It is up to the user to select what they will accept. Just the opposite if the approach taken by Congress. This ties into cataloging since it could be used to describe a site. It is certainly more descriptive than the MPAA ratings. This system has been in place for quite some time and never caught on. Maybe given the current debate over the CIPA it will be an option. Could a public library set the IE content advisor and call that their filtering device?
A nice article on PICS is PICS: Internet Access Controls Without Censorship by Paul Resnick and James Miller.
I have to give a plug to a very fine comic strip Overdue. I'm glad I subscribed to get mine sent to me every morning.
There will not be a posting Monday. I'm taking the day off. See you Tuesday.
- Tags Into Rdfa
LODr looks interesting. It brings tagging, Web 2.0, into the Semantic Web, Web 3.0.LODr is a RDF-based (re-)tagging service, that allows people to weave their Web 2.0 tagged data into the Linked Data Web and provides a dedicated browsing interface. LODr...
- Recommender System For The Dspace
A Recommender System for the DSpace Open Repository Platform by Desmond Elliott, James Rutherford, and John Erickson. HPL-2008-21.We present Quambo, a recommender system add-on for the DSpace open source repository platform. We explain how Quambo generates...
- Scout Portal Toolkit
The Scout Portal Toolkit version 1.2.0 is now available for download.This release incorporates functionality from the Content Workflow Integration System (CWIS) software the Internet Scout Project is currently developing for the NSF's National Science...
- Cipa
Where is the report "Filtering Software: the Religious Connection" by Nancy Willard? It would be important for many libraries to have access to it, given recent events. Library Journal has a summary available. However, all the links I find no longer work.I'm...
- 'blog Metadata
There are several projects to add metadata to Web logs to provide better access to them. However, everybody seems to be working in isolation. I began by adding Dublin Core, A-Core and PICS. That was OK. DC and PICS were standards, and A-Core was based...