VIAF design pattern
A blog entry by Paul Walk – An infrastructure service anti-pattern
[https://blog.paulwalk.net/2009/12/07/an-infrastructure-service-anti-pattern/] –
drew some
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Institutional researcher pages: an example
Reputation management and researchers
I have written a couple of times recently (here
[https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/002011.
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How to repost?
I ‘re-posted’ [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/002035.html] my entry on
the ‘two ways of Web 2.0’
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Being friends with the librarian in the Bibliothèque National
[I bring back this entry prompted by the selection of The Arcades Project in the series of canonical works in
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Research assessment and the library ...
I am pleased to note the appearance of a new report on research assessment and
the role of libraries. This
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The information, er, protocol society ...
The ‘information society’ is a vague term, but seems to convey enough of
something useful to stay in currency. Frank
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Being foreign
The emotional relationship of the long-term foreigner to both their adopted and original homes changes over time.
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The importance of books ..
I read the interesting Communicating knowledge: how and why UK researchers
publish and disseminate their findings and its supplementary reports
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The two ways of Web 2.0 - retread
[I first published [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001556.html] this in
March 2008, and still find it useful
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QOTD: Spiders and flies and classics
Reading Concerning E.M. Forster [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/317928617] by
Frank Kermode, I was reminded of one of
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Stuff as a service ...
First, a note on a couple of recent media experiences …
We went to The boat that rocked [https://www.imdb.
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Your new home page
Tony Hirst [https://ouseful.wordpress.com/] has made the interesting observation
that an organization’s real home page is the
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