Flying a drone – of sorts- through the NYPL
What a cool project. Yay Gopro! http://www.theatlanticcities.com/neighborhoods/2013/11/amazing-drones-eye-view-new-york-public-library/7487/
1311, 2013
Category Archives: 3D
0111, 2013
Looking forward > Topics in stem / Future trends in life and education
1 Year or Less Learning analytics Mobile learning Online learning Virtual and remote laboratories 2-3 years adoption 3D printing (I’ve also read 5-7 years) Games and Gamification Immersive learning environments Wearable technology (yes! waiting for my clothes that automatically adjust for temperature!) 4-5 years adoption Flexible displays Internet of Things (Everything physical is tagged; everything is taggable; everything connects with
1710, 2013
GLAMLOD: Linked data, semantic web group meetup
Some of you may remember this group was formed last year after GLA. Please excuse crossposting: Interested in linked data? Interested in the semantic web? Not even sure what the heck that is or how it applies to libraries, archives, or museums? GLAMLOD: Georgia Libraries, Archives & Museums Linked Open Data (http://www.facebook.com/glamlod/) is hosting a meetup in atlanta in November.
0808, 2013
Linked data presentations
Reading list: linked data & ex-libris Linked data and Ex Libris products – introduction – Lukas Koster, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Publishing Aleph data as linked open data – Silke Schomburg, HBZ, Germany Linked open dedup vectors – An experiment with RDFa in Primo – Corey Harper, New York University, USA Exploiting DBPedia for use in Primo – Ulrike Krabo, OBVSG, Austria Linking library and theatre data – Lukas
0808, 2013
RDA/FRBR reading list
Lots of RDA/FRB in this list: Karen Coyle: Understanding the Semantic Web: Bibliographic Data and Metadata, Chapters 1 and 2 http://alatechsource.metapress.com/content/g212v1783607/?p=b4700bc9fec34b12a3f42a94a9fd9d4f&pi=0 Diane Hillmann, Karen Coyle, Jon Phipps and Gordon Dunsire: RDA Vocabularies: Process, Outcome, Use http://dlib.org/dlib/january10/hillmann/01hillmann.html Barbara Tillett: What RDA Is and Isn’t http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/trainthetrainer.html RDA Prospectus: http://www.rda-jsc.org/rdaprospectus.html (Presentation with Slides and Notes) Tom Delsey: Moving Cataloguing into the 21st Century.
0408, 2013
2005, 2013
LInked data, big data presentations archives
OCLC/Lyrasis discussion/presentation that Peter Murray and I facilitated:Shared Data: Shared Data & Big Data for Libraries from robin fay Archive: http://tinyurl.com/d89qzmf Linked Data: Linked data for Libraries from robin f Archive: http://tinyurl.com/cob9uur
0805, 2013
Global Change Queue (Batch edit) @ELUNA 2103 notes
Global Data Change Queue Notes (Compiled by Robin Fay @georgiawebgurl ; http://www.contentdivergent.blogspot.com) http://works.bepress.com/julene/ (many batch edit presentations) Eluna presentation: http://works.bepress.com/julene/5/ What can GDC do? Can edit marc tags, fields can delete, edit, add can set preferences can limit by user names including create rules but not implement – so some one person could create rules but someone else has authority
1204, 2013
Cataloging: Cuttering resources
I put this together for someone else and thought I would share it with you too! ________________________________________cutter tables athttp://www.itsmarc.com/crs/mergedProjects/cutter/cutter/basic_table_cutter.htm and the cataloging calculator is a pretty nifty tool:http://calculate.alptown.com/ This is a good overall resource:http://www.itsmarc.com/crs/mergedProjects/cutter/cutter/contents.htm One of the main things to be aware of in cuttering, is the local shelflist. 😉 As for creating call numbers, for us that would be
2112, 2012
Survey on Research practices of historians
Ithaka S+R’s Research Support Services for Scholars program has released the report of their NEH-funded study, Supporting the Changing Research Practices of Historians(http://www.sr.ithaka.org/news/understanding-historians-today-%E2%80%94-new-ithaka-sr-report). Here’s a brief description of the project from the report’s Executive Summary: In 2011-2012, Ithaka S+R examined the changing research methods and practices of academic historians in the United States, with the objective of identifying services to better support them. Based on interviews