- We Do Not Know We Are Born (Digital)
- Web 2.0 in U.S. LIS Schools: Are They Missing the Boat?
- Noa Aharony asks whether library and information science
schools in the United States are underestimating the opportunities offered
by Web 2.0 applications.
- SWORD: Simple Web-service Offering Repository Deposit
- Julie Allinson, Sebastien François and
Stuart Lewis describe the JISC-funded SWORD Project which
has produced a lightweight protocol for repository deposit.
- Human-powered Search Engines: An Overview and
Roundup
- Phil Bradley looks at the major contenders and discusses the value of this type of search engine.
- Ancient Cultures Inside Modern Universes
- Edgardo Civallero writes on preservation and dissemination
of intangible South American indigenous heritage and updating information
using Web-based tools.
- RepoMMan: Delivering Private Repository Space for
Day-to-day Use
- Richard Green and Chris Awre describe
work undertaken at the University of Hull to place Web services at the heart
of its personalised digital repository provision.
- E-Publication and Open Access in the Arts and Humanities in the UK
- Malcolm Heath, Michael Jubb and David Robey review recent UK discussions and
evidence about e-publishing and open access, their impact and implications for researchers in the arts and humanities.
- Version Identification: A Growing Problem
- Dave Puplett outlines the issues associated with versions
in institutional repositories, and discusses the solutions being developed
by the Version Identification Framework (VIF) Project.
- Collaborative and Social Tagging Networks
- Emma Tonkin, Edward M. Corrado, Heather
Lea Moulaison, Margaret E. I. Kipp, Andrea
Resmini, Heather D. Pfeiffer and Qiping
Zhang gather a series of international perspectives on the practice
of social tagging of documents within a community context.
- Saving Energy in the Workplace
- Eddie Young outlines some of the issues faced by a Systems
Administrator when trying to save energy in the workplace.
- Exploiting the Potential of Blogs and Social Networks
- Gill Ferrell reports on a one-day workshop about Blogs
and Social Networks, held in Birmingham in November 2007.
- Global Research Library 2020
- Jessie Hey and David Pearson report on a series of strategic workshops on the Global Research Library 2020 - the first of which, the Willows Lodge Workshop, was held in the Pacific North West of the US in the Autumn of 2007.
- MCN 2007: Building Content, Building Community - 40 Years of Museum Information and Technology
- Günter Waibel and Jean Godby report on the Museum Computer Network annual meeting, held 7-10 November, 2007 in Chicago, Illinois.
- Newsline: News and events
- Programming Collective Intelligence
- Pete Cliff tries to remember A-level mathematics as he
dives into the fascinating world of machine learning and statistics and how
to apply these techniques to Web-accessible datasets.
- Digital Copyright
- Stuart Hannabuss looks at an interesting Nile cruise of
a book about intellectual property.
- Digital Information and Knowledge Management plus
Print vs. Digital
- Sylvie Lafortune looks at two books edited by Sul H. Lee
dealing with the impact of digital information on libraries, librarianship,
information providers and library users.
- The University of Google: Education in the (Post)
Information Age
- Judy Reading reviews a work that may engender considerable
debate in months to come.
- Blended Learning
- Brian Whalley reviews Barbara Allan's book on blended learning
for Information and Library Science staff and educational developers.
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