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After a recent makeover, search engine Ask has a nice clean interface and some
nice features. One that is foregrounded
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Spinning
I have observed [https://blog.oclc.org/lorcand/archives/001556.html] that
‘concentration’ – of data, of connections, of computing capacity
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QOTD: IBM and standards
On the politics and business of standards making …..
> Bob Sutor, vice president of open source and standards, tells me
User behaviors
My colleague Lynn Connaway has been working on several collaborative projects
looking at user behaviors over the last few years.
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LAM Consolidation and public funding
It looks as if Ireland is to follow Canada in amalgamating its national archives
and national library. However, the driver
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Blogging and Montaigne: musing and raving, humours and conceits
I returned from my travels last night to find a new edition of the Atlantic
waiting for me. It grabbed
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A local view
[https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/scienceportal/subject.php?subjectId=53]I have had a
chance to see more [https:
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Starbucks and Arcadia
Posting has been light as I am in Cambridge (UK) this week. Some of the time I was talking with
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Books as History
I have just read with enjoyment David Pearson’s finely produced Books as history
[Oak Knoll Press [https://www.oakknoll.
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djatoka, OpenURL and OOMRef-J
djatoka, “A Reuse Friendly, Open Source JPEG 2000 Image Server” developed at Los
Alamos National Laboratory, Research Library, was released
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Stitching costs
The diversity of systems and resources that libraries manage means that integration is a major challenge. Libraries incur 'stitching costs' in tying these together to build services and to reduce complexity for the user.
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Library resources on the web
Cambridge University Library has launched an interesting new website
science@Cambridge [https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/scienceportal/]. It provides
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