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Q&A Interview With Harvard University Librarian, Dr. Robert Darnton, About National Digital Public Library
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|Here’s are three questions and answers from the complete interview that appears in the July 24, 2011 edition of the Boston Globe: IDEAS: So why not leave it to Google? DARNTON: It became clear, as Google’s project evolved, that it would be a commercial enterprise, and in fact an enterprise attached to a gigantic monopoly. […]
Comparing Health Care Quality: A National Directory In every community across America, both good and bad care is being delivered in doctors’ offices and hospitals. Bad care causes medical errors and poor outcomes and wastes resources and money. That’s why it is important to know if health care providers deliver high-quality health care by making […]
From a San Mateo Daily Journal: A new state law that takes effect Jan. 1 will add an extra layer of privacy for library users in the digital age. California’s library privacy laws were created before the advent of the Internet and, as a result, an individual’s interaction with the library outside of circulation was […]
From PC World: Google has acquired Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition, known as PittPatt, a company that develops technology for recognizing faces in images and video, according to PittPatt’s website. Its founders began developing the technology at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute in the 1990s and formed PittPatt in 2004 as a spin-off from the university, the […]
From ALA: More than a dozen new posters and bookmarks make their debut, including those inspired by the popular children’s book series “Bad Kitty” and “Five Little Monkeys,” as well as Caldecott Honor recipient Marla Frazee and author Mary Lyn Ray’s forthcoming book “Stars.” [Clip] Whit & Wisty Allgood, the magical teen heroes of James […]
From Publishing Perspectives: Last year Brazil’s Nation Library Foundation’s “Program for Supporting The Translation and Publishing of Brazilian Authors Abroad” invested R$536,000 [US$343,000] with foreign publishers to support literary translation. This resulted in 68 different books published in 18 countries, including Spain, Germany, England, France, Italy, the United States, Argentina, Mexico, Israel, Croatia among others. […]
Direct to African Statistical Yearbook 2011 (3rd Ed.) 343 pages; PDF From the Introductory Material: The 2011 African Statistical Yearbook was prepared under the overall umbrella of the African Statistical Coordination Committee set up by major continental organizations dealing with statistical development namely the African Development Bank (AfDB), the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), the […]
From Rome Reports: The Vatican has launched a mobile version of it’s main web page. By visiting mobile.vatican.va all the Holy See’s online services is now available on your hand held mobile device. [Clip] Going mobile is the most recent technology update the Vatican has made. On June 28th the Holy See unveiled their new […]
From a comScore Blog Post: To get a better understanding of how Google+ is performing to date and who is using it, comScore pulled together some figures based on the first 21 days of its public existence (June 29, 2011 – July 19, 2011). Importantly, these data are based on unique visitors (which is different […]
From a SemanticWeb.com Article: [The] Bing webmaster help site indicates Microsoft wants to play nice with whatever markup approach webmasters want to implement – microdata, microformats, or RDFa. The site mark-up overview on the page referenced says that Bing’s “crawlers do not prefer one specification over another. It’s entirely up to you to decide which […]