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The scholarly and cultural record
There is an interesting piece by Katie Hafner in today’s NYT arguing that
materials left undigitized may be overlooked
LC WGFBC
The first open meeting of the LC Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic
Control [https://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/
The publication profile of the Divine Bohemian
[https://orlabs.oclc.org/SRW/search/NameFinder?query=local.pnkey+exact+%22myslivecek,%20josef$1737%201781%22]
From an article in
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QOTD: Google books
Peter Brantley, the new Director of the Digital Library Federation writes about
the library digitization initiatives with Google:
> We
Business intelligence
The collection and analysis of data about collections, systems and services is
becoming increasingly important for libraries. For management and
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Libraries, books and network level services
The growth in variety and volume of sites for personal collection management is
fascinating to watch, especially those where addtiional
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LC Working Group on the future of bibliographic control
The LC Working Group on Bibliographic Control is having an open meeting about
‘uses and users’ of data on 8th
Using intentional data becomes routine
I notice that IMDB [https://www.imdb.com] has had a facelift. We use it a lot to
see what
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Institutional cyberinfrastructure
Thomas J. Hacker and Bradley C. Wheeler describe how changing research practices
are creating new support demands and argue for
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Only five computers?: network level computing
Greg Papadopoulos, Sun’s CTO, has a nice blog entry playing on the remark that
Thomas J Watson is sometimes
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Data curation education
What is data curation? Here is one view:
> Data curation is the active and on-going management of data through
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