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Scott Peterson

Google Transparency Report - 0 views

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  • Scott Peterson on 31 May 12
     
    The Transparency Report is a report Google has recently made available that shows requests to remove copyrighted material from Google's search results but also requests from governments to remove information and inquiries from governments about Google's users. Unsurprisingly the U.S., is first in user data requests, but oddly followed by India and France.
Jennifer Parsons

Cataloging in the cloud « all things cataloged - 0 views

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shared by Jennifer Parsons on 06 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • The cloud computing models [1] of leading library systems vendors will not only change the way data is stored, but will also affect the way we catalog.
  • global and local
  • more content, less standard
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  • governance
  • we’re headed in the direction of a “global consortium”, in which system vendors become data providers
  • Jennifer Parsons on 06 Jul 12
     
    An interesting observation by a British librarian that the new, incoming model of cataloging done and stored in the cloud by vendors will cause some shifting in practices.   Namely, vendors' records will be seen as "master records."  Also, the sheer number of different people using the same "master record" will result on an easing of standards, while at the same time a governing structure will have to be set up in order for libraries to determine which standards to loosen and which to adhere to.
Scott Peterson

Master files for eBooks - 0 views

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shared by Scott Peterson on 09 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 09 Aug 12
     
    The Project Gutenberg Text Encoding Initiative is intended to create a machine readable (not intended for human eyes) file that encodes markup and formatting data. When processed by a conversion script it outputs usable formats including PDF and UTF-8, keeping the same formatting across all. While an interesting idea I've heard little about it, and there doesn't seem to be a converted effort to make PGTEI a standard for eBooks.
adrienne_mobius

Ebooks Choices and the Soul of Librarianship - 0 views

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shared by adrienne_mobius on 07 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 07 Aug 12
     
    This article points out that many of the values of librarianship (privacy, sharing, preservation) are in conflict with current ebook models. Ebooks are not private ("libraries can't protect data stored with third parties"), ebooks can't be shared ("people can't give their used ebooks to the library"), and ebooks can't be preserved ("we can't preserve files we can't keep"). Even access is not universal ("Does your ebook platform provide content that's compatible with all devices?").
Megan Durham

As Libraries Go Digital, Sharing of Data Is at Odds With Tradition of Privacy - 0 views

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shared by Megan Durham on 06 Nov 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 06 Nov 12
     
    Harvard librarians learned that lesson when they set up Twitter feeds broadcasting titles of books being checked out from campus libraries. It seemed harmless enough-a typical tweet read, "Reconstructing American Law by Bruce A. Ackerman," with a link to the book's library catalog entry-but the social-media experiment turned out to be more provocative than library staffers imagined.
Jennifer Parsons

Vatican Digitizing its Entire Library into 2.8 Petabytes of Data - AppNewser - 0 views

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shared by Jennifer Parsons on 15 Mar 13 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Parsons on 15 Mar 13
     
    The 2.8 petabytes of storage space was donated to the Vatican by EMC, as part of its Information Heritage Initiative.
Justin Hopkins

Shareable: Libraries Aren't Dying, They're Evolving - 1 views

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shared by Justin Hopkins on 26 Jul 12 - No Cached
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      Justin Hopkins on 27 Jul 12
       
      This is so true. I remember back in the old days of COIN (Columbia Online Information Network). COIN was an ISP that the public library ran. It was free for anyone to use, but if you wanted a decent connection or access to email you had to pay. It was in the days before www. Anyway it was so cool and the perfect example of how libraries were quick to jump on the new tech. I remember seeing the metal and smoked glass cabinet full of modems on the second floor of the old library building out where everyone could see and marvel at it. It had a big sign hanging from the ceiling "COIN".
  • The State of America’s Libraries Report for 2011 notes that library visitation per capita and circulation per capita have both increased in the past 10 years.
  • “In general, libraries embraced the internet right away,” says Raphael. “And not just to provide computers for patrons. They recognized that it became a new tool for librarians.”
  • Scott Peterson on 26 Jul 12
     
    A positive four part blog entry about how libraries are evolving to meet new needs, strengthen communities during bad economic times, and are centers for sharing. Overall I think this article is the most realistic one I've read in some time. It still acknowledges that libraries are doing more with less, and that perceptions of libraries are slow to change.
Justin Hopkins

How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking | Gadget Lab | Wired.com - 0 views

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shared by Justin Hopkins on 14 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • They could have used my e-mail accounts to gain access to my online banking, or financial services. They could have used them to contact other people, and socially engineer them as well. As Ed Bott pointed out on TWiT.tv, my years as a technology journalist have put some very influential people in my address book. They could have been victimized too. Instead, the hackers just wanted to embarrass me, have some fun at my expense, and enrage my followers on Twitter by trolling.
  • I bought into the Apple account system originally to buy songs at 99 cents a pop, and over the years that same ID has evolved into a single point of entry that controls my phones, tablets, computers and data-driven life. With this AppleID, someone can make thousands of dollars of purchases in an instant, or do damage at a cost that you can’t put a price on.
  • Justin Hopkins on 14 Aug 12
     
    This is the rest of the story of the Wired.com writer who got hacked. It's really alarming how easily this was done and also the *why*. The hackers just liked his 3 character twitter user name (there obviously aren't a lot of short twitter user names) and were out to hijack it. Dude lost the photos of his kids first year and loads of other irreplaceable stuff when they remote wiped his phone and laptop to prevent him from taking his twitter account back.
Megan Durham

Daily Chronicle | NIU to help libraries avoid 'bit rot' - 0 views

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shared by Megan Durham on 16 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 16 Aug 12
     
    DeKALB - With the help of a $575,000 grant, a group of university librarians and curators hope to have an answer to a growing problem. Lynne Thomas, curator of rare books and special collections at Northern Illinois University's Founders Memorial Library, learned in October that NIU, along with four other universities, secured a grant to study the best practices for storing digital data.
adrienne_mobius

XKeyscore: NSA tool collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet' | World ne... - 0 views

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shared by adrienne_mobius on 01 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 01 Aug 13
     
    "A top secret National Security Agency program allows analysts to search with no prior authorization through vast databases containing emails, online chats and the browsing histories of millions of individuals, according to documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden."
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