Systems

Systems

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.

Lorcan Dempsey Oct 8, 2008 2 min read

Books

Web 2.0 again

I have just got around to looking at Programming Collective Intelligence [ O’Reilly [https://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596529321/]][Worldcat [https:

Lorcan Dempsey Oct 5, 2008 2 min read

Research ∕ Learning

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.

Lorcan Dempsey Oct 1, 2008 2 min read

Institutions

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

Lorcan Dempsey Sep 28, 2008 3 min read

Systems

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

Lorcan Dempsey Sep 26, 2008 1 min read

Systems

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

Lorcan Dempsey Sep 26, 2008

Systems

Dublin Core in Berlin

A wide range of presentations [https://dc2008.de/programme] from the Dublin Core conference held this week in Berlin is

Lorcan Dempsey Sep 25, 2008

Systems

Worldcat on iPhone

Several colleagues have commented on the view of Worldcat [https://www.apple.com/webapps/searchtools/worldcat.html] optimized for the

Lorcan Dempsey Sep 19, 2008

Books

The flatpack wealth of nations

Robert Crawford’s poem Digital Library, St Andrews [https://www.nationalpoetryday.co.uk/digital-library/], finishes with these lines …. > Where

Lorcan Dempsey Sep 19, 2008 1 min read

Research ∕ Learning

Up front repository work

Mark Leggott has an interesting post on how they plan to construct and populate their institutional repository. > With a

Lorcan Dempsey Sep 15, 2008 1 min read

Systems

Hackathon

Check out the Hackathon being sponsored by the OCLC Developers’ Network [https://worldcat.org/devnet/index.php/Main_Page] and

Lorcan Dempsey Sep 9, 2008

Systems

Chrome links

The new Google Chrome browser has captured major attention since it was launched a few days ago. Here, without extensive

Lorcan Dempsey Sep 9, 2008 3 min read

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