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From Broadcast Engineering Metadata has never really got the juices going at IBC or anywhere else, but now at least it is being much more talked about and taken seriously by all participants in the content value chain. This will be reflected at IBC2011, where the fast expanding role of metadata in search and recommendation […]
Title: “Internet of Things: Services and Applications Categorization” Authors: Matthew Gigli, Simon Koo Source: Advances in Internet of Things, Vol.1 No.2, July 2011 (OA Journal) From the Abstract: In this paper we attempt to categorize the services provided by the Internet of Things (IoT) in order to help application developers build upon a base service. […]
ebrary Now Partnering with 120 University Presses, 12 New University Press Partners Announced Today
|From an ebrary Announcement ebrary today announced new publishing partners University of Arizona Press, University of New Mexico Press, University of Illinois Press, University of Oklahoma Press, Wayne State University Press, Michigan State University Press, Mercer University Press, The University of Arkansas Press, Kassel University Press, Leuven University Press, The University Press of North Georgia, […]
From The Daily Athenaeum (WVU): The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded the West Virginia University Libraries with a $266,000 grant to help digitize West Virginia newspapers written between 1836 and 1922. “This grant both continues and rewards the leading role that the WVU Libraries have historically played in preserving West Virginia newspapers of […]
New Report from OCLC Research: "Single Search: The Quest for the Holy Grail"
Academic Libraries, Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users
|Note: Terms like one-search, metasearch, federated search, central index, harvesting, central index, central repository, and many other terms are all part of the single search world in one way or another. The report discusses a number of issues including: Institutional and Technical Considerations Metadata Considerations Access Considerations Direct to Report: Single Search: The Quest for […]
Now Available: “A first, tiny step: view recent Google+ posts in the Gmail people widget!” That’s what Mark Striebeck, the person in charge of developing Gmail’s front-end reports in a new post. He writes: You can now see the most recent Google+ post that the sender of the email shared with you in the Gmail […]
From a Post by Chris Meadows on TeleRead: Galleycat reports that a group of 39 Japanese manga publishers has launched a portal site called JManga, offering digital English translations of manga readable in a Flash-based on-line reader. The manga is for sale via point-based subscription, but also offers free one-issue previews. It has a number […]
From Merlin John Online: A new research project by the Open University explores the much-debated concept of “the digital native”. The university does this by making full use of the rich resource which is its own highly diverse student body. It concludes that while there are clear differences between older people and younger in their […]
Here’s a new Factbox from Reuters listing some key dates for the 2012 presidential election in the U.S. Direct to Factbox: Key Dates in 2012 U.S. Presidential Race Politico is providing access to their daybook listing candidate schedules. Nice!
Washington Post Op/Ed: "Don’t Kill America’s Databook" (U.S. Census Statistical Abstract)
Data Files, Jobs, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, School Libraries
|From a Column by Robert J. Samuelson: …the [Census] agency’s 2012 budget would eliminate the Statistical Compendia Branch, which compiles the Stat Abstract and other publications (example: the “County and City Data Book”). The cut: $2.9 million and 24 jobs. Both the book and online versions of the Stat Abstract would vanish. This is a […]