Monthly Archives: August 2012

Linked data, Libraries – How, Why & MARC

robinna/ August 30, 2012/ Libraries, social media, semantic web, tutorials/ 0 comments

Two excellent presentations together, one focused on MARC/linked data; the second focuses on user experience but in terms of how linked data and the FRBR (Functional Requirements of Bibliographic Records) model could possibly impact that experience. The first (Philip E. Schreur, Stanford) focuses on bibliographic data and MARC.  Really great overview and explanation of linked data and its potential impact

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Using IFTTT to push instagram to a secondary tumblr blog (or for anything)

robinna/ August 29, 2012/ social media, that's cool, twitter, photography/ 6 comments

Apparently, I signed up for IFTTT a while ago, but I haven’t done anything with it, until I read about this tumblr user who wanted to push his instagram pix to a secondary tumblr blog. His thought was to use the post via email – this approach who would work for most blogs (look under settings to find your blog by

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Teaching and Presentations: Metadata, Semantic Web, Social Media

robinna/ August 22, 2012/ social media, twitter/ 0 comments

Open classes for September:Social Media: Facebook for Pages (not just for libraries by the way). This 2 day class covers everything from privacy, setting up an institutional/business account to customizing a page…  Separate your personal Facebook account from an institutional account Create a customized presence in Facebook Add special features using plugins and apps Roll your blog, bookmarks, or twitter into

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Free access to British publicly funded research

robinna/ August 7, 2012/ open access, that's cool/ 0 comments

The British government is planning to make all publicly funded research freely accessible by 2014. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jul/15/free-access-british-scientific-research “British universities now pay around £200m a year in subscription fees to journal publishers, but under the new scheme, authors will pay “article processing charges” (APCs) to have their papers peer reviewed, edited and made freely available online.” This decision comes as a result

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