Research ∕ Learning The challenge of research data The curation of research data poses an interesting question for those contemplating the future of research libraries. It is another Lorcan Dempsey May 22, 2005 1 min read
Institutions Who is the catalog for? The current discussion about the catalog and its centrality or otherwise prompt me to repeat a passage from my favorite Lorcan Dempsey May 18, 2005 1 min read
Institutions The user interface that isn't Increasingly we need to think about library services in the context of the full web of user experience. This is Lorcan Dempsey May 15, 2005 6 min read
UX The prisoner and the catalog From an interview with Edward Tufte: > Probably the only generalization about the Internet is that there is none, which Lorcan Dempsey May 15, 2005
Misc Games some people play/make An interesting story about the University of Derby has been picked up in various places. The University runs a course Lorcan Dempsey May 12, 2005
Institutions Backstage Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo!: they are all massive data presences on the web. In various ways, they open up access Lorcan Dempsey May 11, 2005 1 min read
Systems Rich browsing [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/granville.png] Eric Hellman has an interesting post in the current discussion on Web4lib Lorcan Dempsey May 11, 2005 2 min read
Systems Remixing and RSS [https://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000108.html]I talk about remixing [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/000657.html] and Lorcan Dempsey May 9, 2005 1 min read
Systems Mental models of search The usually interesting Jackob Nielsen’s current alertbox is about mental models of search: > Search is such a prominent Lorcan Dempsey May 9, 2005 1 min read
Systems Archiving the web The UK Web Archiving Consortium is a group of national bodies collaborating to selectively archive websites of interest. Not the Lorcan Dempsey May 9, 2005 1 min read
Books Amazon: making data work I spent a little while just now looking at Amazon’s Statistically Improbable Phrases (distinctive patterns of words in a Lorcan Dempsey May 7, 2005 2 min read
Institutions Recombinance all the way up ... remixing all the way down I have been using recombinance quite a lot in the last year or two to talk about how network flow Lorcan Dempsey May 6, 2005 2 min read