Monthly Archives: March 2013

Amazon buys goodreads

robinna/ March 28, 2013/ social media/ 0 comments

 Well this is interesting. When asked how Goodreads would be integrated into Amazon, and the all-important question of how, and when, a retail component might be rolled into the site–currently users can buy books through a host of third party retailers, including Amazon–both Chandler and Russ Grandinetti, Amazon v-p, Kindle content, skirted the subject.  When pressed, Chandler said: “We don’t

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art, metadata, google reader, and more

robinna/ March 15, 2013/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

a few things to do/read tonight… read and reflect: the life and death of artist, mike kelley http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324678604578340322829104276.html google spring cleaning – todo! http://mashable.com/2013/03/15/google-spring-cleaning/transitioning from google reader to feedly http://blog.feedly.com/2013/03/14/google-reader/Scavenge my delicious bookmarks for pinterest http://delicious.com/georgiawebgurlexplore: Bib frame for periodicals https://listes.services.cnrs.fr/wws/d_read/ontologie-patrimoine/PRESSoo_01.pdfmarvel – Photographer To The Tsar: The Russian Empire In Color http://www.rferl.org/media/photogallery/24928691.html

Intro to the Semantic Web class – BibFrame, FRBR, RDA, Linked data for Libraries

robinna/ March 6, 2013/ Uncategorized/ 0 comments

Hey there, Don’t forget – Lyrasis members – FREE (only 25$ for nonmembers)! Session on Linked data, FRBR, BibFrame, RDA = intro to the Semantic Web for libraries. FRIDAY! Join me for a learning lunch! This session is part of the LYRASIS second Friday series, a series of workshops providing information about and sharing new ideas and resources for resource

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Linked data & Semantic Web Intro

robinna/ March 1, 2013/ semantic web/ 0 comments

Intro to linked data (presentation on linked data for a library conference) This was for a conference last fall, but I forgot to publish it here, too! we’ll talk about some of these concepts on Friday in the Intro to the Semantic Web session.