Lorcan Dempsey

Lorcan Dempsey

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1941 posts
Institutions

Pause

I note that the Google Print Library program is being paused. It will be interesting to see what happens next:
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Systems

A billion holdings

[https://worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/isbn/1592233724]The OCLC website is now carrying details of the billionth holding in WorldCat. It
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Social

Gender

A couple of things of late about gender differences on the web. Researchers at the University of Glamorgan have been
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Systems

Open sourcing

Spotted a while ago on a vendor t-shirt at a conference: ‘we help make open source affordable’ 😉 Whatever about using
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Systems

Weibel lines

My colleague Stu Weibel contributed a nice retrospective on metadata [https://www.dlib.org/dlib/july05/weibel/07weibel.html] to
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Systems

Sound metadata

The introduction of Yahoo! Audio Search [https://audio.search.yahoo.com/] has alerted us to the benefits of putting metadata
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