New York Times embraces Linked Data | The Semantic Web | ZDNet.com. Pikas Developments In Sci Tech Search Web Search U 08. Reader (26) Library of Congress and partners launch World Digital Library: UNESCO-CI. Google Book Search Bibliography. Open Access News. Web 2.0: What Comes Next? Using This Knowledge And Preparing For The New Wave of Web Technology. Note: This post was created for a graduate level class at the University of Alberta: EDES 501 Web 2.0 for Libraries. We have just spent the past five weeks experimenting and researching web 2.0 tools. So what? What does it all mean for libraries, and what do we do next? The benefits of web 2.0 technologies are clear: they are "about poviding a platform for users to contribute their unique voices and perspectives to the web; they’re also about affording end-users the ability to get social with each other around that content, whether that content is text, a link, an image, a video clip, or just about anything else you generate in digital format" (Etches-Johnson 2008).
Anderson (2007) writes that web 2.0 technologies are about: Individual production and user-generated content.Harnessing the power of the crowd.Using data on an epic scale.Fostering the architecture of participation. If I Am Ever In Charge... I also believe that blogs are fantastic tools for libraries. Barriers To Implementation. Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars - The Chronicle Review. By Geoffrey Nunberg Whether the Google books settlement passes muster with the U.S.
District Court and the Justice Department, Google's book search is clearly on track to becoming the world's largest digital library. No less important, it is also almost certain to be the last one. Google's five-year head start and its relationships with libraries and publishers give it an effective monopoly: No competitor will be able to come after it on the same scale. Nor is technology going to lower the cost of entry.
Scanning will always be an expensive, labor-intensive project. Of course, 50 or 100 years from now control of the collection may pass from Google to somebody else—Elsevier, Unesco, Wal-Mart. That realization lends a particular urgency to the concerns that people have voiced about the settlement —about pricing, access, and privacy, among other things. Doing it right depends on what exactly "it" is. Start with publication dates. How frequent are such errors? Twingly Channels. Confirmed: Twitter is Saving All Your Tweets, After All. Forest fires in California, the plane landing on the Hudson river, the Mumbai hotel attacks - these historical events and many more have been recorded by everyday people on the ground, using Twitter.
The historic record may be much, much richer as a result - but you can't access it through search.twitter.com right now. Many people have worried that the inaccessibility of historical Twitter search results might mean that the messages weren't being saved at all. Company co-founder Biz Stone told us otherwise by email today, though. Twitter is in fact saving all the tweets. You just can't access them through search "right now. " OPM - Opetuksen ja tutkimuksen toimintaympäristö 2020. Korkeakoulukirjastojen rakenteellinen kehittäminen digitaaliseksi palveluverkoksi. Korkeakoulujen rakenteellisen kehittämisen tavoitteena on koulutus- ja tutkimustoiminnan laadun parantaminen ja vaikuttavuuden lisääminen tiivistämällä korkeakouluverkkoa ja vahvistamalla korkeakoulujen profiloitumista ja painoaloja.
Korkeakoulujen kirjastot ovat keskeinen opetuksen ja tutkimuksen infrastruktuuri ja niiden toiminnan laadun takaaminen korkeakoululaitoksen kehittämisessä ensiarvoisen tärkeää. Tieto- ja viestintäympäristön rakentuessa enenevästi sähköisten prosessien varaan myös kirjastojen rooli palvelujen tuottajana on voimakkaasti muuttumassa.
Yliopistojen lainsäädännön ja korkeakoulujen rakenteiden muutos samoin kuin muut toimintaympäristön muutokset edellyttävät korkeakoulukirjastoilta ennakkoluulotonta yhteistyö- ja kehittymistahtoa. Ryhmä esittää edellä mainitun tavoitteen saavuttamiseksi useita kirjastojen kehittämiseen, resursointiin ja niitä koskevan lainsäädännön tarkasteluun liittyviä osatavoitteita. Teens Don't Tweet? They May Start Soon. "Teens don't tweet. " Over the past few weeks, this fact has been reported time and time again by analysts, bloggers, and even mainstream media. Why the obsession with the teenage crowd on Twitter?
Perhaps it's simply because adults can't believe that they, not teens, for once are responsible for the birth of an Internet phenomenon. But before all you adults get too comfortable with your Twitter dominance, take a look at the recent data from comScore. It appears that the youngest Twitter users - those in the 12-24 bracket - are now the fastest-growing segment of Twitter's population. Kids Don't Use Twitter According to a recent article in the New York Times, teens are more likely to use text messaging than Twitter for keeping up with their friends. Twitter's Youth Sees Growth Although Twitter didn't attract teens at the outset, that could still change. Statistics Can be Misleading But wait - a quick glance at these statistics can be misleading. Anderson Analytics - Web 2.0. New Study Shows How Different Generations Use Facebook Reports from Inside Facebook earlier this year have shown the growth in Facebook use amongst users over 35 and baby boomers especially.
Now, a new study from Anderson Analytics shows how different generations are using social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and LinkedIn. According to the numbers, the top reasons for joining a social network across all generations are to “keep in touch with friends” and “for fun.” However, as expected, older users are primarily using the site to keep in touch with family.
Generation Z users (13 to 14 years old) use MySpace and Facebook more than any other site in the study by a long shot, with Facebook slightly trailing behind MySpace at 61% to 65%. 9% of this group use Twitter, and none use LinkedIn. 75% of Generation Y users (15 to 29 years old) use MySpace compared to Facebook at 65%. Sponsored Post Hands-On Social Media Training for Beginners.
"Twitter förändrar hur vi alla kommunicerar" Open Access News. Open Access News. Open Access News. SCOAP3. Hardworking Repositories: The Global Picture. To round off the picture of hardworking repositories (ie repositories which receive regular daily deposits) here is the global top ten repositories listed with the number of days in the last year in which deposits were made. The data is obtained from the Registry of Open Access Repositories. There are all sorts of caveats attached to this list! Firstly, I removed two entries because they were not "institutional" but "national" in scope. Secondly, I left in two "departmental" repositories (ECS and EEMCS) because - dammit, if a department can achieve regular deposits then so should a whole institution! Thirdly, this table depends on OAI harvested data from ROAR - if there are any problems with the OAI feed then it will affect the analysis. And perhaps most importantly, this table does not take into account the types of deposit that were made on the days in question.
» What percentage of open-access journals charge publication fees? The Occasional Pamphlet. In the popular conception, open-access journals generate revenue by charging publication fees. The popular conception turns out to be false. Various studies have explored the extent to which OA journals charge publication fees. The results have been counterintuitive to many, indicating that far fewer OA journals charge publication fees than one might have thought. You can verify this yourself using some software I provide in this post. The first study of what we’ll call the “publication-fee percentage”, by Kaufman and Wills, showed that fewer than half of the OA journals they looked at charge publication fees. Bill Hooker came up with a clever way of calculating a figure for publication fee percentage, by taking advantage of the publication fee metadata hidden in the “for authors” journal listings at the Directory of Open Access Journals to calculate the figure as of December 2007.
Hooker performed his study using a combination of automated and manual methods. . #! Google Wave Preview. As we announced in August 2010, we are not continuing active development of Google Wave as a stand-alone product. Google Wave will be shut down in April 2012. This page details the implication of the turn down process for Google Wave. Stage 1: Google Wave is read-only -- January 31, 2012 In this stage, you will no longer be able to create or edit waves. Marking a wave as read will also not be saved. Robots that try to write to a wave will stop functioning. During this time, you will continue to be able to export your waves using the existing PDF export feature. If you want to continue using Wave, there is an open source project called Walkaround that includes an experimental feature to import all your waves from Google.
Still more reports and books on the future of academic libraries : Confessions of a Science Librarian. For those of you new to Confessions of a Science Librarian, I’ve been publishing various lists of books and reports/white papers for the last little while. The reports and books explore various ideas, issues and trends that I think will be important in the development of academic libraries over the next several years and range pretty far and wide in terms of subject matter. I’ve done four lists so far, mentioning a rather frightening number of different items: Reports Books The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth by Clayton M. As usual, if you know of any books or reports that might be interesting, please let me know. Föreskrifter om elektroniska handlingar för statliga myndigheter träder i kraft 1 juli 2009. Open Access News.
PARSE.insight | Permanent Access to the Records of Science in Europe. Objectives The motivation of the PARSE.Insight project is to contribute to the long-term access to the digital resources created by scientific endeavour. It is widely recognised that there are risks that such resources might be lost to future use unless active steps are taken for their preservation. Not only hardware, media and formats change, but knowledge, required to interpret and reuse data, also changes over time. There are of course many initiatives under way dealing with this problem, but PARSE.Insight aims to look across communities to seek a common infrastructure. The project aims to deliver: The PARSE.Insight project has strong links with the European Alliance for Permanent Access to the Records of Science.
Work performed and results achieved In the first year of project the main emphasis of the project has been surveying communities with an interest in digital preservation to build up insight, and developing a draft roadmap for the e-infrastructure. Collections Trust - Press Release - MDA and MODES Join Forces to Improve Access to Standards. DLIST - Digital Cultural Heritage: Concepts, Projects, and Emerging Constructions of Heritage. Digital Library of Information Science and Technology (DLIST) is a cross-institutional, subject-based, open access digital archive for the Information Sciences, including Archives and Records Management, Library and Information Science, Information Systems, Digital Curation, Museum Informatics, records management and other critical information infrastructures.
The archive can be used for new materials as well as for classics such as the The Five Laws of Library Science 1931, Ranganathan, S. R. We also are particularly interested in multi-cultural and cultural competency aspects of the DLIST subject domain. Academics, researchers, and practitioners create a wealth of content that includes published papers, instructional materials, tutorials for software and databases, bibliographies, pathfinders, bibliometric datasets, dissertations and reports. DLIST aims to capture this wealth of information in a library that is openly available for re-use and global dissemination. Yet more reports & books on the future of academic libraries. Yes, yes, I'm still completely obsessed with this futuristic prognostication business (consider that a bit of foreshadowing).
I will continue to try and make the laundry lists a little shorter and more digestible. Reports Books The Future of Management by Bill Breen & Gary Hamel Redefining Literacy 2.0 by David Franklin WarlickSlow Reading by John MiedemaTwitter Revolution: How Social Media and Mobile Marketing is Changing the Way We Do Business & Market Online by Warren Whitlock & Deborah MicekYouTube for Business: Online Video Marketing for Any Business by Michael Miller Secrets of Social Media Marketing: How to Use Online Conversations and Customer Communities to Turbo-Charge Your Business! As usual, I'm happy to take suggestions for other books, reports, blogs, etc. about the future of academic libraries here in the comments, on Friendfeed or via email (jdupuis at yorku dot ca). (Apologies for all the social media marketing books. Association of Research Libraries :: Library Assessment Conference 2008 Proceedings Now Available. Wpfdlptrans.pdf (application/pdf Object)
4/2/09. Open Access News. Library of Congress in New Media Initiatives - The Library Today. Contact: Matt Raymond, (202) 707-0020 Library of Congress Makes More Assets and Information Available Through New-Media Initiatives YouTube and iTunes Launches Will Follow Groundbreaking Flickr Pact to Bring More Treasures to the Public The Library of Congress will begin sharing content from its vast video and audio collections on the YouTube and Apple iTunes web services as part of a continuing initiative to make its incomparable treasures more widely accessible to a broad audience. The new Library of Congress channels on each of the popular services will launch within the next few weeks. "The Library of Congress launched the first U.S. agency-wide blog two years ago and continued its pioneering social-media role with initiatives such as the immensely successful Flickr pilot project," said Librarian of Congress James H.
The Flickr pilot placed the Library in a leadership role for other cultural and government communities exploring Web 2.0 possibilities. JISC and UCISA become formal partners. Jisc and UCISA (the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association) have formalised their working partnership with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding. This official partnership formalises the already successful collaboration between both organisations. It will help define projects and programmes of work, enabling Jisc and UCISA to work together in an even more effective and complimentary way.
Jisc’s executive secretary, Dr Malcolm Read, said: ‘It is essential Jisc works in collaboration with professional and expert bodies to ensure our activities are well-informed, relevant and provide value for money and high impact. This partnership agreement is a tangible sign of this commitment and is very welcomed.’Tinson added: ‘UCISA and Jisc have a long history of collaboration. I look forward to building our relationship further through this partnership and to working together to help institutions meet the challenges of the difficult times ahead.’
CIL2009: New Strategies for Digital Natives.