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An In-Depth Interview: "Unlocking HathiTrust: Inside the Librarians' Digital Library"
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Preservation, Profiles, Publishing, Resources
|Many questions about what HathiTrust does, how they do it, and how some use it, etc. they’re very likely going to be answered in this 2800 word interview published by Library Journal. Title: “Unlocking HathiTrust: Inside the Librarians’ Digital Library” An Interview by Char Booth, Instruction Services Manager & E-Learning Librarian at the Claremont Colleges […]
"OCLC to Release 1 Million Bib Records"
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|On The Harvard Library Innovation Laboratory Blog, David Weinberger reports on Roy Tennant’s announcement about the one million bibliographic records during the LODLAM (Linked Open Data in Libraries Archives and Museums) conference earlier today. UPDATE: Dr. Weinberger has posted a six interview talk with Tennant.
The May/June 2011 Issue (46.3) of EDUCAUSE Review is Now Available
Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, News
|Direct to Table of Contents Here are a Few Of the Articles Found in the May/June 2011 Issue: E-Content Enabling Noncompetitive Collaboration at Web Scale Rachel L. Frick Note: Rachel L. Frick is Director of the Digital Library Federation program, Council on Library and Information Resources. Leading the Higher Education IT Organization: Six Building Blocks […]
A Public Library In Indiana Adds Microsoft Tags To About 20,000 Bibliographic Records
Digital Preservation, Interviews, Libraries, Profiles, Public Libraries, Publishing
|The tagging was done at the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library using Microsoft Tags (similar to QR codes). Here’s one small portion of an email interview by Microsoft’s Holly Richmond with EVPL Library Webmaster Josh Weiland and Community Relations & Development Officer Amy Mangold. The interview appears on the Microsoft Tag Blog. Tag (Holly Richmond): It […]
Video: Short Interviews Recorded at the Digital Public Library of America Working Group Meeting
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|The Harvard Library Innovation Lab (HLIL) blog has been updated during the past few days with several brief video interviews recorded at the Digital Public Library of America Working Group meeting that took place about a week ago in Amsterdam. David Weinberger, co-director of HLIL conducts the interviews. 1. Interviews (Post 1) Interviews with Jonathan […]
Cataloging/Metadata: "The Search for a Minimum Viable Record"
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|A new article from O’Reilly Radar by Audrey Watters. It’s cool to see that topics that were not to long ago primarily of interest to information pros and the information industry continue to breakout and become of interest to others like the developers and other info techies who frequent O’Reilly Radar. This article provides an […]
The New York Public Library Releases First in a Series of Free iPad Apps
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|From the NY Times: “Biblion: The Boundless Library” is the name for a series of apps available on Apple’s tablet computer that highlight different elements in the library’s collection. It was developed by the library and the design firm Potion. [Clip] The first edition showcases the library’s 1939-1940 New York World’s fair holdings, which are […]
The April 2011 HathiTrust Update is Now Available Online
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|Direct to HathiTrust Update (April 2011) New PageTurner Online E-Reading Tool Enhanced Local Digitization Ingest “Michigan staff worked with Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Yale University, and the University of Illinois in April on ingest of locally-digitized volumes. We expect to begin ingest of volumes from Madrid in May, as well as the full set of […]
From a USA Today Interview by Jefferson Graham: Wikipedia, which turned 10 this year, is almost a household name. Now Wales is trumpeting sister site Wikia, which he set up for fans of TV shows, movies and video games to wax poetically about their favorites, without the restrictions of the by-the-facts neutral encyclopedia. “It’s where […]
The interview with Mullenweg was recorded at SXSW in March for the Bloomberg “Venture” program hosted by Chris Valerio. The complete program (about 22 minutes) is found in four segments. Part 1 (6:41) Part 2 (5:50) Part 3 (4:50) Part 4: (4:00)