Skip to main content

Home/ Groups/ LIS/KM Resource
sperkins

Subject Librarian 2.0? » HigherEd BlogCon - 0 views

  • This presentation will focus on one librarian’s practical use of blogs in an effort to convey her philosophy that regardless of the technical aspects of the changing information landscape (Library 2.0?), the song, generally, remains the same when it comes to the messages subject librarians need to convey.
sperkins

Authority - 0 views

  • I have a problem with authority. It's not that I'm independent, insubordinate, and contrarian. I am, but that's not my problem. My problem is with the rising abuse of the word amongst bloggers, wikipedians, folksonomists, and other social software activists.
sperkins

The Economics of Attention: Style and Substance in the Age of Information by Richard A.... - 0 views

  • Art is whatever the artist wishes to call to our attention. Art is an act of attention the artist wishes to invoke in the beholder.
  • in an information economy, the real scarce commodity will always be human attention and that attracting that attention will be the necessary precondition of social change.
  •  
    An excerpt from Richard Lanham's The Economy of Attention:  Style and Substance in the Age of Information. 
sperkins

DC-dot - 0 views

  • This service will retrieve a Web page and automatically generate Dublin Core metadata, either as HTML <meta> tags or as RDF/XML, suitable for embedding in the <head>...</head> section of the page. The generated metadata can be edited using the form provided and converted to various other formats (USMARC, SOIF, IAFA/ROADS, TEI headers, GILS, IMS or RDF) if required. Optional, context sensitive, help is available while editing.
sperkins

oss4lib | open source systems for libraries - 0 views

  •  
    "Our mission is to build better and free systems for use in libraries. Toward this end, we maintain a listing of free software and systems designed for libraries (the physical, books-on-shelves kind), and we track news about project updates or related issues of interest."
sperkins

Mozilla Firefox - 0 views

  • If you know nothing about HTML, this is where you start
sperkins

Koha - Open Source ILS - Integrated Library System - 0 views

shared by sperkins on 19 Sep 07 - Cached
  • Koha is a full-featured open-source ILS.
sperkins

Audacity: Free Audio Editor and Recorder - 0 views

  • Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
sperkins

DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD. - 0 views

  •  
    Information on Linux distributions, features, and packages.
sperkins

PADI - Preserving Access to Digital Information - 0 views

  • PADI is a subject gateway to international digital preservation resources
sperkins

Finding Information on the Internet: A TUTORIAL - Table of Contents - 0 views

  • This tutorial presents the substance of the Internet Workshops (current schedule) offered year-round by the Teaching Library at the University of California at Berkeley. The content on this site has been updated to reflect the latest trends in search engines, directories, and evaluating web pages.
sperkins

GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program - 0 views

  • GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
sperkins

Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) Official Web Site - 0 views

  • The METS schema is a standard for encoding descriptive, administrative, and structural metadata regarding objects within a digital library, expressed using the XML schema language of the World Wide Web Consortium.
  •  
    This site includes extension schemas, example documents, profiles, a registry, presentations, suggested readings, tools & compatible software, a listserv, and a wiki. 
sperkins

Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) - 0 views

  • The Library of Congress' Network Development and MARC Standards Office, with interested experts, has developed a schema for a bibliographic element set that may be used for a variety of purposes, and particularly for library applications. As an XML schema, the "Metadata Object Description Schema" (MODS) is intended to be able to carry selected data from existing MARC 21 records as well as to enable the creation of original resource description records.
  •  
    This site includes mappings, stylesheets, guidelines, example documents, tools and utilities, a registry and listserv, presentations, news & announcements, and related XML formats. 
sperkins

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.
sperkins

Metacrap - 0 views

  •  
    Doctrow outlines seven "insurmountable obstacles" to a world of reliable metadata. 
sperkins

IFLA - The official website of the International Federation of Library Associations and... - 0 views

shared by sperkins on 19 Sep 07 - Cached
  •  
    IFLA (The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions) is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession."
sperkins

The Right to Read - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF) - 0 views

  •  
    The article describes a possible future scenario where copyright dominates and individual freedom suffers. 
sperkins

Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki - Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki - 0 views

  • Welcome to Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki. This wiki was created to be a one-stop shop for great ideas and information for all types of librarians
sperkins

VuFind: Home - 0 views

  • VuFind is a library resource portal designed and developed for libraries by libraries. The goal of VuFind is to enable your users to search and browse through all of your library's resources by replacing the traditional OPAC to include:
« First ‹ Previous 361 - 380 Next › Last »
Showing 20 items per page