In "Europeana: An Infrastructure for Adding Local Content" Rob Davies describes a Best Practice Network under the eContentPlus Programme to make available locally sourced digital content to the Europeana Service.
Librarians are embracing Twitter as a helpful tool to bring together community and make work easier. Whether you are just starting out with Twitter or are looking for ways to improve your existing Twitter experience, the following tips, tools, and resources will have you Twittering like a pro in no time. Dive into this list to find everything you will need to use Twitter in your library.
Audioplayer, der komplette Verzeichnisse abspielt und dabei ohne Playlisten auskommt; unterstützt sowohl MP3- und MP2-Dateien als auch Winamp-Input-Plug-ins; das portable Programm lässt sich ohne Installation vom USB-Stick starten
Placing a Twitter “follow me” button on your website or blog is certainly one of the easiest way to convert visitors into Twitter followers. Designing a beautiful Twitter icon or badge can be challenging for those who know less about design, but the good news is – there are plenty of nice and high quality Twitter icons and badges available for free.
3lib.org, pronounced “freelib”, is a project by the Open Library Society. We improve the access to and the use of freely available scholarly metadata. Most of the records discussed here are already used in the Society’s AuthorClaim service. We are making the records available here for others to use them.
A List Apart Magazine (ISSN: 1534-0295) explores the design, development, and meaning of web content, with a special focus on web standards and best practices.
If you’re a designer or developer, you’ve probably heard about Git, and you might know that it has become immensely popular, especially among the open source community. Though it may seem cryptic at first, this version control system could change the way you work with text, whether you’re writing code, or a novel.
This article covers why version control is important, how to install the Git version control system, and how to get started with your first repository. Once you start using Git, you’ll want to throw everything into it, from full-blown apps to blog post drafts, because it’s so easy and versatile.
A new kind of web—a semantic web—would be made up of information marked up in such a way that software can also easily understand it. Before considering how we might achieve such a web, let’s look at what we might be able to do with it.
During the proposed 12-month period of the planning grant, the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Libraries will collaborate with the College of Liberal Arts, to develop a multi-dimensional model for assessing support for scholarship and research in the context of a large research campus. Sixteen academic departments have been selected for exploration within the humanities and social sciences.
Version Control (aka Revision Control aka Source Control) lets you track your files over time. Why do you care? So when you mess up you can easily get back
Islandora is an open source project underway at the Robertson Library at the University of Prince Edward Island. Islandora combines the Drupal and Fedora software applications to create a robust digital asset management system that can be used for any requirement where collaboration and digital data stewardship, for the short and long term, are critical.
New retrieval paradigms, user interfaces, and visualization techniques have to unleash the power of the Semantic Web and at the same time hide its complexity from the user. Based on this vision, the journal welcomes contributions ranging from theoretical and foundational research over methods and tools to descriptions of concrete ontologies and applications in all areas. We especially welcome papers which add a social, spatial, and temporal dimension to Semantic Web research, as well as application-oriented papers making use of formal semantics.
The eXtensible Catalog (XC) Project is working to design and develop a set of open-source applications that will provide libraries with an alternative way to reveal their collections to library users.
AboutThisDay.com is a date based 'on this day in history' style search engine of facts like births and deaths of people, events and holidays. You can refine the results using year range and category filters and the results are sorted using a home-grown popularity algorithm
A "legacy system" in the world of computing provides a useful analogy for understanding the precarious state of contemporary academic publishing. This comparison might also keep us from stepping backward in the very act of stepping forward in promoting Open Access publishing and Institutional Repositories. I will argue that, vital as it is, the Open Access movement should really be seen in its current manifestation as academic "middleware" servicing the "legacy system" of old-school scholarship.
One of the biggest disadvantages of static site generators is that they are static and can’t include comments. There are multiples solutions to solve this problem. You could add a third party blog engine like Disqus, but this has the drawback of including a third-party tool with a bad privacy record in your website. Another solution would be to host an open-source alternative but this comes at the cost of a higher maintenance burden.
The Research Group Agile Knowledge Engineering and Semantic Web (AKSW) is hosted by the Department for Business-oriented Information Systems (BIS) of the Institute of Computer Science (IfI) / University of Leipzig.
OntoWiki facilitates the visual presentation of a knowledge base as an information map, with different views on instance data. It enables intuitive authoring of semantic content, with an inline editing mode for editing RDF content, similar to WYSIWIG for text documents.
Several cutting-edge thinkers will prepare short opinion pieces on future trends/issues/developments that are likely to impact research, instruction, and scholarly communication. These essays will serve as the foundation for panel discussions between some of these thinkers, selected respondents, and attendees on emerging roles for libraries and librarians, particularly collections and technical services librarians. This symposium will build upon the themes developed in the ALCTS Symposium, “Living Digital.”
The word 'memetracking' or ('meme tracker') has been used to describe services such as Memeorandum , Megit , Tailrank and Chuquet . I can't call them 'memetrackers'. I like them, they're useful sites and all that, but they aren't 'meme' trackers.
Alfie Kohn writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. The author of ten books and scores of articles, he lectures at education conferences and universities as well as to parent groups and corporations.
The Alliance for Permanent Access aim is to foster the development of an ecosystem of trusted digital repositories to enable Europe to fully exploit the potential of European scientific collaboration. The accessibility (permanent), quality assurance and preservation of key data collections are and will be one of the major driving forces for the advancement of science but also for applications thereof.
B. Krause, A. Hotho, and G. Stumme. Advances in Information Retrieval, 30th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2008, 4956, page 101-113. Springer, (2008)