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"Zebra is a high-performance, general-purpose structured text indexing and retrieval engine. It reads structured records in a variety of input formats (eg. email, XML, MARC) and allows access to them through exact boolean search expressions and relevance-ranked free-text queries. Zebra supports large databases (more than ten gigabytes of data, tens of millions of records). It supports incremental, safe database updates on live systems. You can access data stored in Zebra using a variety of Index Data tools (eg. YAZ and PHP/YAZ) as well as commercial and freeware Z39.50 clients and toolkits. Zebra is free software, available under the GPL license."

"The change that libraries will need to make in response must include the transformation of the library's public catalog from a stand-alone database of bibliographic records to a highly hyperlinked data set that can interact with information resources on the World Wide Web. The library data can then be integrated into the virtual working spaces of the users served by the library. If all of this sounds otherworldly and vague, it is because there is no specific vision of where these changes will lead us. The crystal ball is unfortunately shortsighted, in no small part because this is a time of rapid change in many aspects of the information ecology. The few things that are certain, however, point to the Web, and its eventual successors, as the place to be. For libraries, this means yet another evolutionary step in the library of our catalog: from metadata to metaDATA."

"permet de visualiser en un coup d'oeil et quelques clics les résultats de Google et d'Amazon en les regroupant par thématique (clusters). Objectifs : - pouvoir déterminer quels est l'étendue de votre notoriété ; - repérer les sites ou ressources web pouvant diffuser un buzz (négatif ou de votre création) ; - repérer les relais d'opinion pour votre organisation ou votre marque ; - pouvoir créer des liens entre des sites qui n'en ont pas encore ; - comme tout moteur de recherche : découvrir des nouvelles sources."

"Data visualization has finally gone viral, says guest columnist UC Berkeley e-learning librarian Char Booth, and we have Twitter to thank"

"MasterKey is a growing and evolving family of tools for building sophisticated information discovery solutions. They can be used individually, or they can be combined together using a shared service-based architecture. Some of the tools have been released by Index Data under OSS (open source software) licenses, whereas others, at this time, are made available exclusively to our customers. To complement the software, Index Data offers a full range of support, consulting, and development services. For businesses, our components are flexible and modular enough to fit into practically any existing software platform. For consortia and larger libraries, we offer an opportunity to create a solution which is uniquely adapted to local needs, while also based on open software components and open standards."

"The purpose of this paper is to present the implementation of LibraryThing for Libraries LTFL in an academic library and analysis of usage of LTFL data and their potential for resource discovery in the catalog. Design/methodology/approach - The paper reviews the literature on social tagging and incorporation of third-party user-generated metadata into the library catalog. It provides an assessment based on the analysis of total absolute usage figures and frequency of use of LTFL data. Findings - Based on the data available, usage of LTFL data in the catalog is low, but several possible contributing factors are identified."