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Revenge of the Blog People! - 2/15/2005 - Library Journal - 0 views

  • A blog is a species of interactive electronic diary by means of which the unpublishable, untrammeled by editors or the rules of grammar, can communicate their thoughts via the web.
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Annals of Information: Know It All: The New Yorker - 0 views

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    This is an article in the New Yorker about Wikipedia.
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The Right to Read - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) - 0 views

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    The article describes a possible future scenario where copyright dominates and individual freedom suffers. 
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Ontology of Folksonomy - 0 views

  • This article is an attempt to clarify the distinct roles for ontologies and folksonomies, and previews some new work that applies the two ideas together - an ontology of folksonomy.
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Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags? - 0 views

  • In this article we look at what makes folksonomies work. We agree with the premise that tags are no replacement for formal systems, but we see this as being the core quality that makes folksonomy tagging so useful. We begin by looking at the issue of "sloppy tags", a problem to which critics of folksonomies are keen to allude, and ask if there are ways the folksonomy community could offset such problems and create systems that are conducive to searching, sorting and classifying. We then go on to question this "tidying up" approach and its underlying assumptions, highlighting issues surrounding removal of low-quality, redundant or nonsense metadata, and the potential risks of tidying too neatly and thereby losing the very openness that has made folksonomies so popular.
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Library 2.0 Theory: Web 2.0 and Its Implications for Libraries - 0 views

  • This article posits a definition and theory for "Library 2.0". It suggests that recent thinking describing the changing Web as "Web 2.0" will have substantial implications for libraries, and recognizes that while these implications keep very close to the history and mission of libraries, they still necessitate a new paradigm for librarianship. The paper applies the theory and definition to the practice of librarianship, specifically addressing how Web 2.0 technologies such as synchronous messaging and streaming media, blogs, wikis, social networks, tagging, RSS feeds, and mashups might intimate changes in how libraries provide access to their collections and user support for that access.
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ACM Queue - Social Bookmarking in the Enterprise: Social bookmarking tools are taking o... - 0 views

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    "The apparent success of Internet-based social bookmarking applications begs the question of whether large enterprises or organizations would also benefit from social bookmarking systems. To investigate this question, at IBM we are designing and developing an enterprise-scale social bookmarking system called dogear. The rest of this article describes the design challenges and early lessons learned from a friendly trial of the technology."
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Public access computing and Internet access in public libraries - 0 views

  • This article focuses on the importance of public library Internet access in times of emergencies and for a range of electronic government (e–government) services at the individual and community–wide levels.
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Baker's Smudges - 9/1/2006 - Library Journal - 0 views

  • Open source collaborations hope to revive the insights once garnered from dirty catalog cards
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KMWorld.com: Search: an interesting muddle - 0 views

  • the software has a small footprint and can run on a laptop, IBM has added incremental indexing, support for 200+ document types, support for 30 languages and linguistic features such as synonym detection, spelling correction, lemmatization, stemming and a "did you mean" feature that suggests alternative queries. The relevance ranking is adjustable. It does not rely on link analysis, which often fails inside the enterprise. Instead it uses OmniFind relevance ranking algorithms.Based on the Lucene open source search engine, the OmniFind Yahoo Edition goes beyond commodity search. It is certainly quick to install: Download it, configure it in three clicks and point it at a URL to crawl. However, it is also configurable and customizable. Administrators can change the look and feel of the search page, create shortcuts to other Web pages or best answers to a top query. Reporting tools monitor usage to determine null or frequent searches, and to gauge the effectiveness of the results being returned.
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The End of LC Subject Headings? - 5/15/2006 - Library Journal - 0 views

  • Should the Library of Congress (LC) jettison Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), the longstanding professional taxonomy? That’s one of the provocative suggestions in a new report released last month by LC. “The Changing Nature of the Catalog and Its Integration with Other Discovery Tools,” commissioned by LC and written by associate university librarian Karen Calhoun of Cornell University, was making waves weeks earlier, thanks to a critical review of a draft of her paper, written for AFSCME 2910, the LC Professional Guild, by Thomas Mann (author of The Oxford Guide to Library Research). It warned of “serious negative consequences for the capacity of research libraries to promote scholarly research.”
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CRM Daily | What's Best for Web Analytics: Client, Server or Hosted? - 0 views

  • Beyond the fancy charts and deep insights that set some analytics programs apart from others, there are three distinct differences among them that every enterprise should consider. Those differences are based on where the software resides. And, in the end, you may find that using multiple tools can give you the best of all worlds.
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DLIST - Cataloging and You: Measuring the Efficacy of a Folksonomy for Subject Analysis - 0 views

  • Folksonomies, or user-created taxonomies, are currently used as collaborative tools to describe images, films, hyperlinks, and other objects and documents. LibraryThing is a website that lets users catalog their own book collections through the use of Library of Congress Subject Headings and social tagging. This paper records the results of exploratory research focusing on the connection between folksonomies and controlled vocabulary and utilizing LibraryThing as a possible benchmark to measure tagging’s efficacy and accuracy as an instrument for subject analysis.
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The Limitations of Server Log Files for Usability Analysis - Boxes and Arrows: The desi... - 0 views

  • Server log files are inappropriate for gathering usability data. They are meant to provide server administrators with data about the behavior of the server, not the behavior of the user. The log file is a flat file containing technical information about requests for files on the server. Log file analysis tools merely assemble them in a conjecture-based format aimed at providing insight into user behavior. In the commentary below, I will explain why the nature of the web, the HTTP Protocol, the browser, and human behavior make it impossible to derive meaningful usability data from server logs.
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An Intrepid Guide to Ontologies » AI3:::Adaptive Information - 0 views

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    This author provides a guide to ontologies. 
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    Note the bridging role that an ontology plays between a domain and its content.
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The Escapist : Dewey Decimals and Dance Dance Revolution - 0 views

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    This post explores the potential for gaming in educational and library settings. 
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DLIST - Collaborative Reference Work in the Blogosphere. Reference Services Review, 34(... - 0 views

  • This paper explores the use of blogs as a platform for providing reference service, and discusses Lyceum, an open source software project from ibiblio.org, for this purpose.
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Students Find That Wikipedians Are Tougher Graders Than Their Professor - Chronicle.com - 0 views

  • Anyone can add to Wikipedia, the popular online encylopedia, but whether a submission survives is determined entirely by its global community of users — and apparently those users are tougher graders than college professors.
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ACRL - - 0 views

  • In this article we will identify resources for locating faculty blogs, identify some well-regarded faculty blogs worthy of review, and discuss how faculty blogs can benefit academic librarians and why we should be reading them as part of our regular keeping up routine. Our goal is to encourage our academic librarian colleagues to add more faculty blogs to their regular regimen of blog reading.
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Towards a Theory of Information: Information: Mystical Fluid or a Subject for Scientifi... - 0 views

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    Access to the full-text PDF article from the British Computer Society.
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