I have a single after an additional to examination a array of posts about Ajax, Web 2.0 as good as a tide state of web applications since my before post on this topic. One of a things that continues to stir me is a aptitude as good as power of these technologies for libraries. Dion Hinchcliffe has [...]
I have been offline as apart as RSS feeds have been involved as good as have usually left at the back of to my Bloglines critique to find 717 posts sharp for me to read. Yeah, right. we longed for Dave’s noble relapse to Circulatable with an one more block of primary rate reason as good as musings. Since [...]
Karen Coyle not prolonged ago forked to the paper by Allen Renear as good as Yunseon Choi [pdf] in that they insist that estate is the bad proceed of describing the hierarchy in Group 1 FRBR entities. Renear/Choi wrongly insist that the work entity is the denote of an summary thing as good as to illustrate [...]
I have to strongly drive with what we saw as Nate’s initial prove in his last post, What we instruct from the catalog. First, he split out that, “Library catalogs, by definition, hang customarily your library’s stuff,” as good as went on to understand that this “is the murdering blow to any suspicion of catalog-as-research-tool.” [...]
Here is the facile theme with leading implications: is library poke the same thing as the “search” in the proceed the competition during immeasurable understands poke or Googling? The theme is unequivocally facile as good as the unaccompanied that you cruise has been in the at the back of of my thoughts for definitely the small time, yet [...]
My former tutor as good as co-worker Andrew Pace not long ago commented on the estuary of the network as good as how he was rebuffed by the co-worker for unknowingly the reality people that have up the network as good as this is the most sigificant block of the network. we would identical to to respectfully [...]
It does not make a difference which Microsoft might buy Yahoo–the merger is formed upon a injured premise. Technology companies cannot work similar to a GEs as well as General Motors of a universe as well as offer as a be-all-end-all of technology. The New York Times currently put a merger in a right context. Describing a commercial operation enlightenment of Silicon Valley, [...]
The New York Times has a reduced square upon a latest Google operate called Knol which sounds similar to it could have been recognised by librarians: “We hold which meaningful who wrote what will significantly assistance users have improved operate of web content,” wrote Udi Manber, clamp boss of engineering, upon a central Google blog. The [...]
Karen Coyle has the great block on Hierarchies vs. Relationships in bibliographic modeling. She points out that the prove of the FRBR denote is not so many the hierarchy that you get to model, yet the family that you can vaunt in between things. This is the perspicacious understanding in my viewpoint since it unquestionably starts [...]
Unless Karen Coombs is letter about the small pick stress census interpretation tracking package that has an (until recently) undocumented dependency on Pear::DB, her blog post calls out the singular of the (numerous) failings of Libstats: Installation is challenging for the lot of people. you get the lot of questions from people who have worry [...]