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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Web 2.0 again
I have just got around to looking at Programming Collective Intelligence [
O’Reilly [https://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321/]][Worldcat
[https:
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Optimal disclosure of published materials
Simon Inger and Tracy Gardner released an interesting report a little while ago
on How scholars navigate to scholarly content.
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The silos of the LAMs
Libraries, archives and museums have different curatorial traditions and
professional outlooks. In the digital environment, correspondences grow, around
both the
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Supporting research data management needs
Several recent reports discuss the evolving environment of institutional
research data management with particular reference to library issues. Here is
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Flexibility may not be a good design goal
Jerry McDonough has written an interesting and important article about XML,
interoperability, and the social context of standards making: Structural
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TagCrowd: yet another tag cloud generator
Several services will now generate tag clouds for you based on a submitted URL
or text. I suppose these make
Dublin Core in Berlin
A wide range of presentations [https://dc2008.de/programme] from the Dublin Core
conference held this week in Berlin is
QOTD: your friendly public library
A UK colleague sent me a pointer to this discussion
[https://www.thecnj.co.uk/camden/2008/091108/news091108_03.
Worldcat on iPhone
Several colleagues have commented on the view of Worldcat
[https://www.apple.com/webapps/searchtools/worldcat.html] optimized for the
