Lorcan Dempsey

It has been interesting seeing how quickly the ‘long tail’ has been adopted as a phrase in a wide range

My colleague Stu Weibel [https://weibel-lines.typepad.com/] talks about webulation. The concept is similar to webification as used by

From the blog of Harvard economist, Dani Rodrik: > An article [https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/magazine/27wwln-idealab-t.

The report [https://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/meetings/meetingsummary-may9.html] from the second open meeting of the Library of Congress

I have just watched the video [video opens on a web page [https://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/49]

In recent presentations [https://www.oclc.org/research/staff/dempsey/presentations.htm] I have been referring to the University of

I think it is useful to think of four sources of descriptive metadata in libraries. These are not mutually exclusive,

There has been some discussion – less than I expected – about Google’s steps to develop a unified search across its

Blake is the favorite to win American Idol in our house but we thought he was going to lose out

Dario Taraborelli has a reflective post on the potential impact of tagging and social software on scientific communication. His particular

Andrew Motion [https://orlabs.oclc.org/SRW/search/Identities?query=local.pnkey+exact+%22motion,%20andrew$1952%22] , current UK poet

OpenID [https://openid.net/] has been generating quite a bit of interest as a lightweight decentralized approach to identity management