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The image above appears on the Apple.com homepage. Apple’s Official Statement Here. If you would like to share your thoughts, memories, and condolences, please email rememberingsteve@apple.com From the New York Times: Bill Gates, the former chief executive of Microsoft, said in a statement that he was “truly saddened to learn of Steve Jobs’s death.” He […]
UPDATE: Here’s an Interesting “Reference” Feature Mentioned in the Official Product Launch Announcement: Amazon invented X-Ray, a new feature that lets customers explore the “bones of the book.” With a single tap, readers can see all the passages across a book that mention ideas, fictional characters, historical figures, places or topics that interest them, as […]
From Semantic Universe: Ruben Verborgh and Seth van Hooland have launched Free Your Metadata, “a demonstrator site for showing how even irregular metadata can have valued to others and how, if it is released rather than clutched tightly onto (until that mythical day when it is ‘perfect’), it can be cleaned up and improved using […]
Here’s a link to a 20+ minute interview with Bill Boarman, Public Printer of the United States. It aired on NBC 4 (WRC TV, NBC owned station in DC) and is now available on the GPO’s YouTube channel. Boarman discusses a number of topics with program host, Jim Handley. Direct to Interview
The Financial Times has published a nearly 800 word obit about eBook founder, public domain advocate, and so much more, Michael Hart. It’s available with an FT subscription or with a free registration (for a limited number of articles). The obit includes comments by Hart from 2006 email interview he did with Richard Poynder. Direct […]
Sue Polanka (No Shelf Required) reports that De Gruyter will acquire the entire journal portfolio of Berkeley Electronic Press (Bepress). The post also an interview with Sven Fund, CEO of the company. Direct to: “De Gruyter acquires 67 journals from bepress – details from De Gruyter’s Sven Fund” (via No Shelf Required)
From The Hill: He moves a little more slowly now, at 82, and gets more questions about whether he’s thinking of retiring, but that seems to be the last thing on James Billington’s mind as he begins his 25th year as the Librarian of Congress. “I have no plans at this point — sorry to […]
UPDATE: We want to add several IMPORTANT reads about InTech that you might want to read. Apologies for not including them earlier. We want to say thank you to several readers for bringing these items and what they discuss to our attention. 1. “The OA Interviews: Sciyo’s Aleksandar Lazinica” by Richard Poynder 2. “More predatory […]
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|DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) 2011 Conference gets underway next week in The Hague and the conference web site is home to interviews with DCMI leaders and conference speakers. + Emmanuelle Bermès, Modern Art Museum Centre Pompidou Metadata and semantic web expert Emmanuelle Bermès is a keynote speaker at this year’s Dublin Core conference in […]
Some sad news to report. An info visionary and go-getter, Michael Hart, the founder of Project Gutenberg has passed away at the age of 64. An obit has been posted on the Project Gutenberg web site. History books that discuss publishing and information technology will need to devote a sizable amount space to Michael who […]