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[podcast] Karen Coyle on modern data for modern libraries

Karen Coyle visited us today to talk with us about why it is time for libraries to move to a more modern idea of data, one that focuses more on the data and less on the records, and probably one that makes use of the linked data format that consists of links pointing at public [...]

February 9, 2012
| David Weinberger | Tags: , , , | 19 Comments

[podcast] Sebastian Hammer on federated search

In this 23min podcast [ogg here], Sebastian Hammer, president of IndexData, explains the srengths and limitations of federated search, which runs queries on a distributed set of sources, as opposed to using a big honking centralized index.

February 7, 2012
| David Weinberger | Tags: , , | 13 Comments

Library Lab/The Podcast 011: A Technological Graveyard?

Listen: 23:07 (Also in ogg) “Your average citizen is not technologically savvy,” says Marilyn Johnson, the author of This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All Even as technology takes over more and more of our lives many of us are living in a technology cemetery, filled with old gadgets we [...]

February 2, 2012
| Dan Jones | Tags: , | 26 Comments

[podcast] Alison Head on what students do in libraries

Listen: 26:28 Alison Head, who is spending time with us at the LiL as she simultaneously is a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center — she is the co-diorector of Project Information Literacy at the Univ. of Washington’s Information School — spoke with us about a new study she’s done with Michael Eisenberg [pdf] about [...]

December 13, 2011
| David Weinberger | Tags: | 6 Comments

Michael Jensen on NAP’s decision to publish for free

Michael Jensen explains why the National Academies Press decided to make its material openly available.

November 9, 2011
| David Weinberger | Tags: , | 3 Comments

Eric Frank on open textbooks

Eric Frank is the president and co-founder of Flat World Knowledge, Inc., which publishes peer-reviewed online textbooks available under Creative Commons license. He explains his business.

November 8, 2011
| David Weinberger | Tags: , , , | 7 Comments

Avi Warshavsky on the future of textbooks

Avi Warshavsky builds online textbooks for Center for Educational Technology in Israel. He talks about whether textbooks have a future.

November 7, 2011
| David Weinberger | Tags: , , | 61 Comments

Library Lab/The Podcast 009: What Libraries Want

Listen: 20:46 (Also in ogg) The way we search for information on the web has antecedents in the way search works in traditional libraries and research journals. There’s metadata, and there’s also a sense of allowing the content that is most cited to float to the top. So why the library of the future still [...]

November 1, 2011
| Dan Jones | Tags: , | 18 Comments

Robert Darnton on books, ebooks, Google Books, and the DPLA

Robert Darnton, historian and Director of the Harvard Library, talks about the future of books and libraries.

October 17, 2011
| David Weinberger | Tags: | 241 Comments

How we assess credibility

Soo Young Rieh is an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. She recently finished a study (funded in part by MacArthur) on how people assess the credibility of sources when they are just searching for information and when they are actually posting information. Her study didn’t focus on a particular age [...]

October 7, 2011
| David Weinberger | Tags: , | 1 Comment