Oxford scholarship online
Couple of interesting things about this announcement from ingenta and Oxford
University Press. They are taking 700 books online, with
Roots
Announcing the availability of the resource below, The National Library of
Ireland [https://www.nli.ie/] claims that genealogy is
Tim Bray and search
Many of you will have seen this, but interesting to note the series.
> This series of essays on the
TEL, SRU and CLD
The TEL project reports one of its main outcomes to be a “flexible systems
architecture
[https://www.europeanlibrary.org/pdf/
Metadata and institutional repositories
Some interesting presentations at the 2003-2004 RLG Members’ Forum
[https://www.rlg.org/events/haveandhold2003/index.html]. Discussion of Cornell
Shibboleth and library portals
> Shibboleth is a federated system of authentication and authorization that can
address many of these issues. When institutions and
Lorcan Dempsey
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Metadata and metadata
Interesting, and I think accurate, observation by Stuart Sutton in his review of
Cilla Caplan’s new book on metadata
Lorcan Dempsey
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OAI service providers
A new report from the DLF looks at OAI harvesting activities: A Survey of
Digital Aggregation Services. Martha Brogan
[https:
Current awareness
Two further current awareness resources, not in the form of Blogs but which
might benefit from being so.
Paula Kaufman,
Economic value of the British Library
Interesting results from an investigation commissioned by the British Library
trying to put a value on the benefit to the
Lorcan Dempsey
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Cluetrain manifesto
The library community is highly networked. Particular segments of the library
community are more strongly networked. They talk a lot,