Listen: 27:09 Also in ogg It starts with an idea: You’re a scholar and you use the web to search for sources. How can you collect your sources and their metadata without having to copy, paste, reformat? Or spend your starving researcher’s budget on some proprietary software? That’s only the beginning for Zotero, a free,… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Podcasts
Anra Kenney and Susan Chun on museum attendee data
Anra Kennedy of Culture 24 and Susan Chun of the Audience project talk at the LOD-LAM conference about the value of data about the attendees of museums and other cultural institutions, and the advantages and limitations of making that that data open.
How to digitize a million books
Brewster Kahle gives a tour of one of the Internet Archive‘s book scanning facilities. This one is part of the Archive’s San Francisco headquarters: Recorded during a tour of the facilities, as part of the LOD-LAM conference.
Eric Hellman on freeing works for all
Eric Hellman explains how GlueJar.com will enable readers to pool money to buy the rights to works so that those works can be made available for free to the world. (Recorded at the LOD-LAM conference in San Francisco.)
Kristin Eschenfelder on why cultural institutions worry about sharing
Kristin Eschenfelder of University of Wisconsin Madison discusses her recent research on why cultural institutions resist making their materials openly available (videoed at the LODLAM conference).
Roy Tennant on OCLC and linked data
Roy Tennant of OCLC talks about that organization’s commitment to linked data. At 2:30 he recapitulates his announcement that OCLC will release bibliographic data for the million works most widely held by libraries. Towards the end, he talks about the tension at the OCLC between opening data and the need to fund the infrastructure for… Read more »
Brewster Kahle reads from a prescient book
Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, reads from an oddly prescient 1936 about preserving the current media types:
Library Lab/The Podcast 002: Free Knowledge
Listen: 23:59 Also in ogg Scholarly journals were once enormously expensive. Because they were pricey to produce — it took a lot of money to coordinate the peer review, and to edit, print, bind, and distribute all those volumes — access was pricey as well. But digital publishing and collaboration has reduced many of the… Read more »
Live from the DPLA: Rachel Frick on library collaboration
Live from the DPLA
Here are some more short interviews with folks who attended the Digital Public Library of America meeting in Amsterdam. Stefan Gradmann (humbold Universitaet) on libraries after books become mere temporary configurations of small pieces: Doron Weber of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation on his hopes for the DPLA: Chris Freeland of the Biodiversity Heritage Library… Read more »