Moving up the value chain
I have just spent some time at home in Ireland, a country which has changed
enormously in the last fifteen
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Relatively available at the point of need
Tony Hey [https://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~ajgh/] who has been overseeing the
development of the UK e-science core
Books and markets
Hal Varian has an interesting piece in today’s NYT about Amazon and the impact
of used book sales on
Web services glossary
I look at Loosely Coupled [https://www.looselycoupled.com/] from time to time as
a good place to keep up
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Search interfaces
Another [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000431.html] paper from Dan
Rehak. A useful comparison of machine interfaces for
Groningen thoughts
The LIBER 34th Annual Conference in Groningen was a congenial event in an engaging city. LIBER, for those unfamiliar with
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Open Source and OpenURL 1.0
OCLC Research publishes a range of open source software
[https://www.oclc.org/research/software/default.htm], some of it
Serving network people
[https://www.agnic.org/agnic]A few months ago I was pleased to give a short
presentation [ppt
[https://www.
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Crawling library resources
A colleague points me to Tony Boston’s discussion of how the National Library of
Australia has exposed NLA resources
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Libraries and academic books
On my travels I have been reading the weighty Books in the digital age
[https://www.polity.co.uk/book.
Value and impact
The LASER Foundation [https://www.bl.uk/concord/laser-about.html] commissioned a
report [pdf [https://www.bl.uk/about/cooperation/
That Reading Room again
More [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000718.html] about the The British
Museum Reading Room, which was until recently
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