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Some tweaks at Google Scholar

Sep 29, 2017

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Somehow I wasn't subscribed to the Google Scholar blog already, and missed last week's announcement that they'd made some tweaks to the interface of Google Scholar. Today though I was presented with a big link under the search box to the post on their blog touting Better ways of getting around. I've gotta say I…

Free access to the Rights, Action, and Social Responsibility Collection from de Gruyter

Apr 10, 2017

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Paul R. Pival

in Ideas, Scholarship

Until the end of 2017, de Gruyter is offering free access to its Rights, Action, and Social Responsibility ebook Collection for "all students and faculty". You do have to register, and it appears that when I did so, I did so for my entire University! I had expected an email with a username and login, but…

Factiva filters for Fake News Phenomenon

Apr 3, 2017

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Paul R. Pival

in Scholarship, Service, Tutorials

Thanks to a tip from my colleague Dani I learned that Factiva has recently added a filter for fake news. Like many things with Factiva (IMHO), it's not terribly intuitive to find, so here are the steps. You can either add this as a filter to a search you've already run, or just use it…

Hydrator is my new favourite tool to hydrate tweet-ids (aka so many tools!)

Feb 3, 2017

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Paul R. Pival

in Data, Scholarship, Social Networks, Web/Tech

Update – April 18, 2023: From the developer: Twitter's changes to their API which greatly reduce the amount of read-only access means that the Hydrator is no longer a useful application. The application keys, which functioned for the last 7 years, have been rescinded by Twitter. For the past couple of weeks I've been helping…

First run on autoEdit 2, open source transcription tool

Dec 14, 2016

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Paul R. Pival

in Scholarship, Tutorials, Web/Tech

Having had this tab opened for what seems like forever, I finally got around to running some tests of autoEdit 2, an open-source automatic transcription tool (automatically creates a text file from a given audio or video file). This tool only runs on the Mac, and there are two flavours, if you will. One, Gentle…

Archive of tweets from Semantic Web in Libraries (swib) 2016

Dec 8, 2016

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Paul R. Pival

in Data, Discovery, Scholarship, Social Networks

As I did last year, I have captured all the tweets from this year's Semantic Web in Libraries conference using the TAGS tool for Google Sheets. As of this posting there are 630 tweets with the hashtag #SWIB, 573 of them unique. Last year had 1,736 tweets! with 1,633 of them unique. Here's the archive…

Alberta Open Data Developments

Nov 29, 2016

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Paul R. Pival

in Data, Scholarship

Yesterday was a pretty good day for Open Data in Alberta. First, the City of Calgary went live with a Socrata version of their Open Data portal. Previously they had been running on some sort of Microsoft SharePoint (my guess) site, and it was not a particularly pretty or useful thing. Really looking forward to…

Mita makes the case: Why Libraries Should Maintain the Open Data of Their Communities

Nov 17, 2016

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Paul R. Pival

in Data, Discovery, Scholarship, Service, Web/Tech

Mita Williams has an excellent blog post titled Why Libraries Should Maintain the Open Data of Their Communities. It's a long (for a blog post), but important read, and includes an excellent history of how Canadian government data has evolved, and how it compares (poorly) to US government data . I've been making the same…

National Research Council peer reviewed publications – a data mining or data viz opportunity?

Nov 10, 2016

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Paul R. Pival

in Discovery, Ideas, Miscellaneous, Scholarship, Social Networks

Surely someone smarter than me can think of something interesting to do with the following? National Research Council peer reviewed publications, 2015 National Research Council peer reviewed publications, 2014 National Research Council peer reviewed publications, 2013 National Research Council peer reviewed publications, 2012 Each of these contains citation information for peer reviewed scientific and technical…

Anatomy of an Information Trap, Part II: Setting Up and Sharing Google Alerts

Jul 28, 2016

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Paul R. Pival

in Scholarship, Service, Social Networks, Tutorials, Web/Tech

Tara Calishain at ResearchBuzz has posted part 2 of her 3 part series on creating and working with information traps, Setting up and sharing Google alerts. In this post I learned how to automatically create and populate columns in a Google Sheet using IFTTT. Off the top of my head I can think of at…

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