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- My linked data bon mots: "link globally, cache locally." (must give credit to @dchud for idea behind this quote.)
- "Libraries were once the center of the information universe. Fifteen years ago, if I had told you about the coming internet, you would have assumed that li..."Libraries were once the center of the information universe. Fifteen years ago, if I had told you about the coming internet, you would have assumed that libraries would have a prominent place on it. They don't. Libraries, including WorldCat, rarely show up in web searches, even for books. I lay the blame squarely at the wrong-headed decision to keep library data off the "real web" and to push WorldCat as a "aggregation point" for nobody.
- MORE than 65,000 19th-century works of fiction from the British Library’s collection are to be made available for free downloads by the public from this sp...MORE than 65,000 19th-century works of fiction from the British Library’s collection are to be made available for free downloads by the public from this spring.
- Pawan Sinha details his groundbreaking research into how the brain's visual system develops. Sinha and his team provide free vision-restoring treatment to ...Pawan Sinha details his groundbreaking research into how the brain's visual system develops. Sinha and his team provide free vision-restoring treatment to children born blind, and then study how their brains learn to interpret visual data. The work offers insights into neuroscience, engineering and even autism.
- Victor Keegan: The issue of copyright is a global nightmare for anyone interested in digital preservation
- This Linked Data Horizon Scan was commissioned from Paul Miller of the Cloud of Data by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The work was intend...This Linked Data Horizon Scan was commissioned from Paul Miller of the Cloud of Data by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The work was intended to provide an overview of current developments with respect to Linked Data, and to make a series of recommendations to JISC and the wider community.
publications
- Ricky Erway Liber Quarterly. The Yournal of European Research Libraries(2009)
- Cesare Concordia and Stefan Gradmann and Sjoerd Siebinga June 2009. Paper for the Meeting: 193. Information Technology at the "World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Council 23-27 Aug...Paper for the Meeting: 193. Information Technology at the "World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Council 23-27 August 2009, Milan, Italy http://www.ifla.org/annual-conference/ifla75/index.htm Date submitted: 03/06/2009.
- Roy Tennant (2004) Author’s version, published in Library Hi Tech, vol 22 2 2004, pp.175-181. .
- Suzanne E. Thorin August 2003. Presented at e-Workshops on Scholarly Communication in the Digital Era, August 11-24, 2003. Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan. .