Nature web focus on scholarly publishing
A collection of articles on open access to scholarly literature: Nature web
focus: Access to the literature: the debate continues
Who reads blogs
Survey results show characteristics of blog readership.
> This survey shows that blog readers are older and more affluent than
Guidelines for use of identifiers in DC and LOM metadata
> This document provides guidelines for encoding a number of commonly used
identifiers in Dublin Core (DC) metadata [https://dublincore.
Campus IT issues
The top IT issues for universities are listed in an article in the current
EDUCAUSE REVIEW | May/June 2004, Volume
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Google apologizes for result caused by ranking
Aaron Swartz notes interesting Google action:
> Google has “bought” an ad for the search term Jew
[https://www.google.
Official Google blog
> Get the latest word direct from the Googleplex about new technology, hot issues,
and the wide world of search.
Public higher education
Transcript of Second HEPI Annual lecture: the destruction of public higher
education in America and how the UK can avoid
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Who owns the data
An interesting set of blog entries discuss the centralised massive presence of
Google in the loosely coupled web world. Is
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Hal Varian on IT as a commodity
Hal Varian reviews Nicholas Carr’s book Does IT matter
[https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1591394449/
Data curation
Interesting overview of survey of scientists, librarians and others about need
for research data curation services. Includes a schematic of
LAM and memory
The policy framework for libraries, archives and museums has come together in
several contexts, although actual services have not converged
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McGrath on classification
Much followed blogger Sean McGrath on classification and metadata.
> My favorite example of shelf-stuff type 3 came from the
