Institutions Roots Announcing the availability of the resource below, The National Library of Ireland [https://www.nli.ie/] claims that genealogy is Lorcan Dempsey Dec 21, 2003
Systems Tim Bray and search Many of you will have seen this, but interesting to note the series. > This series of essays on the Lorcan Dempsey Dec 19, 2003
Institutions TEL, SRU and CLD The TEL project reports one of its main outcomes to be a “flexible systems architecture [https://www.europeanlibrary.org/pdf/ Lorcan Dempsey Dec 19, 2003
Research ∕ Learning 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 Lorcan Dempsey Dec 18, 2003
Systems 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 Dec 18, 2003 1 min read
Systems 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 Dec 16, 2003 1 min read
Systems OAI service providers A new report from the DLF looks at OAI harvesting activities: A Survey of Digital Aggregation Services. Martha Brogan [https: Lorcan Dempsey Dec 13, 2003
Current awareness Two further current awareness resources, not in the form of Blogs but which might benefit from being so. Paula Kaufman, Lorcan Dempsey Dec 11, 2003
Misc 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 Dec 10, 2003 1 min read
UX Cluetrain manifesto The library community is highly networked. Particular segments of the library community are more strongly networked. They talk a lot, Lorcan Dempsey Dec 8, 2003
Systems David Weinberger on metadata Author of Small pieces loosely joined and co-author of the Cluetrain manifesto on metadata. > But that means that metadata, Lorcan Dempsey Dec 8, 2003
Systems Microsoft and CRM > Microsoft will launch a global assault on the Customer Relationship Management market on Monday with the release of multi-language Lorcan Dempsey Dec 7, 2003