Category: Discovery
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OCLC’s Results from the International Linked Data Survey for Implementers
OCLC's Hanging Together blog has just concluded a really interesting series of posts analyzing the responses they got to a recent survey on implementation of linked data projects. If you're at all interested in the semantic web, you really should check out the series: Many thanks to all of you who participated in the international…
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Thinking the unthinkable – doing away with the library catalogue (UKSG)
Here's a thought-provoking talk given by Simone Kortekaas of Utrecht University Library in the Netherlands at this year's UKSG conference. In it, she talks about how they decided to do away with their discovery tool and steer users to Google Scholar, Web of Science, and Scopus. Utrecht appears to be a science-heavy institution. The title…
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Calgary Public Library now supported by Library Extension (Chrome)
Yay, the Chrome Library Extension now supports Calgary Public Library. When you're on Amazon.com (not Amazon.ca though), a small box will appear to the right to tell you whether you could borrow a book you're looking at from CPL, either in paper or via Overdrive. I've asked that the UofC be added as well, and…
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Open Sourcing the Wellcome Library
I've had this open in one of my tabs for weeks, and just haven't made the time to play with it further, but it's definitely worth checking out – so go do it! The Wellcome Library ("We are one of the world's major resources for the study of medical history. We also offer a growing…
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Elsevier opens its papers to text-mining
As reported in Nature, Elsevier has opened its papers to text-mining, though with a few restrictions that rankle some. I wonder if there are text mining opportunities outside biology? Certainly in the humanities, but that’s not Elsevier’s forte, methinks. Posted with Blogsy
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How do they do that? (WordPress / Drupal)
From time to time I find myself wondering what module a given Drupal site uses to perform some nifty action or another. A while back I found a tool that helps with that spy work for WordPress called simply What WordPress Theme is that? And then I finally found Drupal X-Ray, which does the same…
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Google Scholar takes on web-based citation managers (sort of)
Yesterday, Google Scholar announced Scholar Library. This would initially appear to be a shot across the bow of Zotero and Mendeley and the like, but at this time Scholar Library doesn't allow you to *import* anything that you've found outside of Google Scholar. Still, it's an interesting move. Also at this time, they still allow…
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Knowledge Creation Platforms – what a wonderful start to a story
Yesterday a colleague passed on a link to a wonderfully thoughtful journal article: Knowledge Creation Platforms: The Next Step after Web-Scale Discovery, by Carl Grant, whom I am now following on Twitter. In this piece, Carl brings us up to speed with a brief history of how technology has gotten us (libraries) to our current…
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Podcast Recommendation: The New Disruptors
I recently started listening to a new (to me) podcast called The New Disruptors, which you may find interesting. Its tagline is "Discussing the profound changes in the economy for making things." I just finished listening to episode 26, an interview with Tom Gerhardt and Dan Provost, who have successfully crowdfunded three projects (two physical,…