Brief and interesting post @ RSS4Lib about projects to tag various library catalogs, and the relevance of lesser used tags. No mention of PennTags, but there is a brief mention of MTags from the University of Michigan. The real value of tagging is like that of a library: it’s the collections, the constructed universe of things that someone (a librarian,
Apparently today is copyright day… Given that I use RSS feeds to pull my content into other sites (facebook, my portfolio, etc.), I sometimes get caught up in the ease of use and forget that RSS is a really a form of syndication. Hmm… today I came across this interesting post via my google reader: a brief discussion of some
I’ve been looking at a plugin to expand my image gallery (hosted at my domain via opensource coppermine, not the flickr version) by using feeds — basically, for each category I would have a feed. I looked at migrating to different systems, too: Gallery, plogger, and 4images. Here is the rundown of what I need: RSS Feeds per category/image album
I think this sounds like a really interesting way to learn a language — social networking & multimedia style! Mashable has a good overview & review here: Babbel is the latest site to teach new languages through a social Web-based immersion program, where the majority of the content is packaged into lessons created by Babbel. So far, languages such as
Collocate and Disambiguate: Currents in authority control and authority data, a new blog on authority control. It seems to be off to a good start (and I love the name!)
Jonathan Harris on storytelling, reality, and documenting life. Among his projects is ” we feel fine”. His script picked up some of my blog writings a few year ago. I thought it was an interesting project. I can’t get the video to embed, but the link is here.
Build the Open Shelves Classification Description: I hereby invite you to join the Open Shelves Classification (OSC), a free, “humble,” modern, open-source, crowd-sourced replacement for the Dewey Decimal System. —from LibraryThing. You can follow its progress or contribute to its effort here
So, I volunteered to whip up a little flowchart of a project. It’s fairly straightforward and the critical path is rather obvious. I also think I’m pretty good with flow charts. Not only have I been to lots of project management workshops and classes, but I spent way too much time in a previous position (information/document specialist & blueprint librarian)
Okay, I’m not sure I see exactly why it would be better to post from googledocs to your blog (especially, if you use blogger and are already logged in via your google login), but here goes: did you know that you can publish directly to a blog via google docs? http://googledocs.blogspot.com/2008/07/live-blogging-with-docs.html One caveat, though: scheduling/future posts do not seem to
Well, if you haven’t heard all of the chatter and buzz, Google Librarian Central hadn’t been updated in a year (before today, that is)…and Google wasn’t at ALA leaving some librarians to call out google for punking librarians or even using librarians, while other librarians proclaimed, we weren’t surprised! While I fall more on the side of “google is a