Kristy Lee
Systems Librarian
Connexion [OCLC - Cataloging and Metadata] Karen Coyle's recent presentations. List of commonly used links from presentations List of some useful semantic web tools Slides for "Linked Data, Easy as 1, 2, 3," Singapore, 2013.
(PDFs, in zip file) Think "Different" (PDF) DC2012 (Kuching) and Emtacl12. CCS Forum presentations - Turning Catalogers into Semantic Web Engineers, or, Out of the Catalog Drawer and onto the Internet Highway. Turning Catalogers into Semantic Web Engineers, or, Out of the Catalog Drawer and onto the Internet Highway.
The Semantic Web often enters into discussions about the future of cataloging and the purpose of RDA. To meet users’ expectations catalogers must become Semantic Web engineers so the library catalog will get out of the drawer and onto the Internet highway. Speakers addressed issues to consider as we approach the entrance ramp. Better Living Through Macros. Better Living Through Macros by Joel HahnLead Cataloger, Niles Public Library District.
Education/Learning. Organize your resources in an online binder - LiveBinders. Origami club. Kristy Lee (vicbury. Sql. Orange and blue, color of SUNY New Paltz. Mobile Perspectives: On websitesMobile Matters: Communication Trumps Technology (EDUCAUSE Review. Susan T.
Evans (stevan@wm.edu) is Director of Creative Services at the College of William & Mary. Comments on this article can be posted to the web via the link at the bottom of this page. "Mobile is the future for content delivery. Colleges and universities need to establish a strategy now and make the decisions necessary to take advantage of this communication opportunity.
" Mobile technology is a favorite discussion topic among senior IT leaders and higher education administrators. Talking with key constituencies is a large, and not easily quantifiable, percentage of what we do in higher education. Your institution may not have a mobile site right now, but it will. So, what to do about mobile? Primary Audiences. Mastering Google Analytics Custom Variables. I’ve got a stack of posts that I want to write, and realized that the all deal with Custom Variables.
So, to make sure that we’re all on the same page when it comes to custom vars, here’s my guide to Mastering Google Analytics Custom Variables. For those of you that have not used custom variables, CVs are a way for you to insert custom data into Google Analytics. What kid of custom data? Almost any kind of data. As long as the data is available to you in the source code of a web page you can pass it to Google Analytics via a custom variable. Google Analytics & Webmaster Tools Now Track the Impact of Tweets, Likes & +1s. Google is getting more social , and its web analytics tools are no exception; Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools have added new tools for tracking the impact of tweets, likes, +1s & more on your website’s traffic.
Google Webmaster Tools now has a “+1 Metrics” section, which provides reports on the impact of the +1 Button on search. The new analytics show how +1s affect your website’s clickthrough rate (CTR). It tracks the amount of +1s on a given page, the CTR with +1 annotations and the CTR without +1 annotations. The new tool also graphs out the amount of annotated impressions and annotated clicks your website receives over time.
Google has also added an Activity report and an Audience report to Webmaster Tools. Even more useful is Google’s new Social Plugin Tracking tool for Google Analytics. Social Plugin Tracking generates three reports: Social Engagement, Social Actions and Social Pages. Web Analytics. Mobile phone emulator (by COWEMO) Mobile Emulator for desktop. By Andreas Bovens, Chris Mills, Patrick H.
Lauke Introduction Making sure that your site looks great and works exactly as it should in mobile and tablet browsers can often be a tedious process — you typically need one or more physical devices, or some form of virtual machine emulating the whole operating system, and that’s just the start. Our Opera Mobile Emulator for Windows, Linux and Mac makes things a whole lot easier. It’s a small, native application that’s easy to install on your desktop machine and runs exactly the same code as its mobile phone version — that way, you can be assured that what you’re seeing on your test environment is practically identical to the experience your end users will get.
Universities and Libraries Move to the Mobile Web (EDUCAUSE Quarterly. Key Takeaways Web-enabled smartphones (and their applications) have converged with cloud computing to change the ways people interact with each other and their environments. The academic community has only recently adopted mobile technology, and the few existing studies focus on one or two institutions rather than taking a cross-institutional view of mobile websites. Mobile Site Builder - Springy News - May 2011. Forget about the Hollywood Summer Blockbusters, the Mobile Site Builder from Springshare is this season's must-see!
Check out what the Mobile Site Builder can do for you! Create a fully-mobilized library website quickly and easily! Don't worry about ensuring viewability on various screen sizes! The Mobile Site Builder does it all for you! Create up to 10 top-level menu items and 10 secondary menu items.No special mobile URLs! Mobile Site Builder: Special Offer. Free Ebooks. Help.
Amazon to Allow ePub eBooks on the Kindle e-Reader. We have some rather breaking news with online giant Amazon and their highly successful line of Kindle e-readers.
It seems many publishers have been told by the company that in the near-future, they should be submitting their books to Amazon in EPUB format and not exclusively MOBI. They also went on to let us know that Amazon was indeed planning something BIG and that soon the Kindle ereader will have the full capability to read ePub books. This news has been confirmed by at least 4 publishing companies we have spoken with during the last few days. The Amazon Kindle, for the last six years and more, has exclusively sold books on its Amazon Bookstore in the Mobi format. They also devised applications for major platforms such as Android, iOS, PC, Blackberry, and Windows Phone 7 for reading their books. Four publishers in the last week have confirmed that Amazon has indeed told them they now have an option to submit eBooks to be listed in the Amazon store in ePub format.
Free Ebooks. No Shelf Required — A moderated discussion of the issues surrounding eBooks, for librarians and publishers. From the OverDrive blog: OverDrive conducted an end user survey from June 26-July 15, 2015.
Administered via library websites, the survey collected input from 16,756 respondents. Their full report examines the positive effect the shift to digital content has had on the role of libraries in their communities by helping attract new readers, serve existing patrons better and reach beyond their physical walls. There is a nice infographic on the original OverDrive blog post. Click here to see the full report and survey. MADISON, Wis. eBook FAQs. 36 Most Common Questions Answered by the OITP eBook Task Force. I’m just getting back from ALA and there is so much to process, wrap up and share!
Last week the OITP eBook Task Force released these ebooks FAQs. pdf here Frequently Asked E-book Questions from Public Librarians Prepared by the OITP E-book Task Force.