User Experience and the Semantic Web Posted by: Fiona in semantic web Libraries and their websites are becoming more user-centred. From wayfinding, to subject guides, to online services, a focus on user experience will help to make all library services more integrated and intuitive. …
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User Experience and the Semantic Web
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How semantic search works
http://www.semanticlibrary.net/2008/06/04/how-semantic-search-works/ReadWrite Web has a recent article on how semantic search works, Semantic Search: Myth and Reality. The article points out that semantic search will not solve all our search problems, it’s simply impossible. …
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It’s all about the data: Recent conference papers, articles and a podcast
http://www.semanticlibrary.net/2008/06/04/its-all-about-the-data-recent-conference-papers-articles-and-a-podcast/The frequency of articles, blog posts and comments about the intersection of the Semantic Web and libraries is steadily increasing! Here are a few recent items - Semantic Interoperability Proceedings The proceedings of the First Workshop on Semantic Interoperability in the European Digital Library which was held on June 2 are now available. …
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'Way Back' is Not That Far Away
http://blog.sforce.com/sforce/2008/06/way-back-is-not.htmlmore than a decade of heavily hyped promises. Data mining in an appliance is seriously cool, but data mining in the cloud -- spanning both virtual space and the additional dimension of time -- is the kind of thing that will ultimately define the true value of the Web.
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Cataloging Futures
http://www.catalogingfutures.com/catalogingfuturesLISNews.org: Librarian and Information Science News LITA Blog Lorcan Dempsey's weblog Metalogger Minerva Shelved Notatu Dignum Off the Mark Organizing Stuff Outgoing panlibus Planet Cataloging repositories for the rest of us schenizzle Semantic Library Tennant: Digital Libraries The Cataloguing Librarian the DIL The FRBR Blog The Serials Cataloger Thingology (LibraryThing's ideas blog) WadingIn washtublibrarian Weibel Lines What I Learned Today…
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Adventures in Ubiquitous Technology
http://www.theanalogdivide.com/?p=39few people have been discussing the potential for mobile phone-friendly services in the library. I’ve got a project going on at MPOW (mum’s the word, for the time being), but it really seems like a no-brainer. Take a tool everyone a) uses, b)
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Adventures in Ubiquitous Technology
http://theanalogdivide.com/2008/05/21/adventures-in-ubiquito...few people have been discussing the potential for mobile phone-friendly services in the library. I’ve got a project going on at MPOW (mum’s the word, for the time being), but it really seems like a no-brainer. Take a tool everyone a) uses, b)
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When should you stop blogging ?
http://librariansmatter.com/blog/2008/05/18/when-should-you-...about whether to keep up with her blogging, Morgan (Exploded Library) has recently restarted his blog after a self-imposed hiatus and Fiona (blisspix) has decided to give up her more personal library related blog in favour of continuing a couple of others. I’ve noticed a huge drop in the number of new posts appearing in my aggregator from librar* blogs. I find twitter is filling the community/comment space that was once filled reading and commenting on blogs. I like Hugh Macleod
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Planet Code4Lib
http://planet.code4lib.orgI’ve written previously about the importance of the mobile web and the role of mobiles in social change. Now the United Nations Foundation (with Vodafone) has released a report on the use of mobiles by relief, advocacy, and development organisations (via Read/Write Web, Report: ‘Mobile Activism’ on the Rise
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Permanent hiatus
http://blisspix.net/2008/05/08/permanent-hiatus/s time to move onto something new, whatever that is. I will be archiving and then selectively removing pages from this blog, but goodness knows that darned Library Songs page is always gonna be here. The fun continues over at Semantic Library, and Libraries Interact where I will continue to blog.
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Mobility issues or digital natives as seniors?
http://c3library.com/2008/05/02/mobility-issues-or-digital-n...http://www.semanticlibrary.net/2008/04/17/the-importance-of-the-mobile-web/
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unstruc chitchatting about information delivery
http://danielabarbosa.blogspot.com. I enjoyed their conversation and thought the point Fiona made that the cataloging community will be the first in the Library to have to deal with Semantic Web is probably on the ball. She also posted an expanded post on why she got interested in Semantic Web as a follow-up to the podcast in which she writes: Beyond these issues, I’m interested in what’s next. I think libraries are a natural fit for the Semantic Web because of its emphasis on RDF, and data and metadata. In some ways it’s a
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Nodalities
http://blogs.talis.com/nodalitiesTying FOAF identity with the identity semantics of OpenID LForum - Linked Discussion Forums on the Web of Data Why I Migrated Over to Twine (And Other Social Services Bit the Dust) Semantic Web in the Startup School Web 3.0 just around the corner? MIME types and library metadata The original FOAF images FOAF & SSL: creating a global decentralised authentication protocol Authoring RDFa from within a Wiki Setting up an RDFa file with Apache (second)
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