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Url:http://orweblog.oclc.org/
Author(s):Lorcan Dempsey
Language:English
Tags:library, metadata, web 2.0
Description:On libraries, services and networks.
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Popularity:112 Followers

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The importance of books ..
I read the interesting Communicating knowledge: how and why UK researchers publish and disseminate their findings and its supplementary reports (literature review and bibliometric analysis) on a tr...more
2009-12-20
The two ways of Web 2.0 - retread
[I first published this in March 2008, and still find it useful to think in terms of concentration and diffusion. I was reminded of the entry and prompted to 'recycle' it - despite its age - when I...more
2009-12-20
QOTD: Spiders and flies and classics
Reading Concerning E.M. Forster by Frank Kermode, I was reminded of one of my favorite quotes, Forster's response to Eliot's criticism of his remarks about D.H. Lawrence ...So they corresponded and...more
2009-12-13
Stuff as a service ...
First, a note on a couple of recent media experiences ...We went to The boat that rocked (aka Pirate Radio) recently and were determined to enjoy it. For those that don't know, it is a movie set in...more
2009-12-13
Your new home page
Tony Hirst has made the interesting observation that an organization's real home page is the first page of its Google results. One of the several announcements made by Google last week was one abou...more
2009-12-11
Choice is hard work: an anecdatum
We got an iMac for family use in the Summer. I never liked the keyboard and the mouse keeps sticking as crumbs and so on get lodged in it. Myself and my son headed off to Micro Center the other eve...more
2009-12-06
Beyond bibliographic records
Our cataloging model revolves around the 'manifestation', the particular edition or version of a work that is to be added to the collection. This is also the unit of bibliographic exchange: we ship...more
2009-12-06
QOTD: Great cultural collisions
There is an interview with Paul McGuinness, manager of U2, in the weekend FT. McGuinness has been an active participant in discussions about the impact of network distribution on the music business...more
2009-12-06
Counting books ...
I have been careful in recent posts about numbers to note that the term 'book' has no precise referent. One person's book is another person's pamphlet, or ...Brian Lavoie and I have an article in t...more
2009-11-29
Network as a service ...
We have entered the era of Everything-as-a-service, where lowering transaction costs mean that a growing range of capacities can be sourced from the cloud. It has become common to talk about a thre...more
2009-11-29

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