Here is a letter from our very own Paul Deschner, to the Harvard Library community (and—now—beyond). It was so well received here that we thought it worth sharing more broadly.
Read more of "Quality Rules"Here is a letter from our very own Paul Deschner, to the Harvard Library community (and—now—beyond). It was so well received here that we thought it worth sharing more broadly.
Read more of "Quality Rules"UPDATE: Awesome Box is now well beyond the pilot phase. Visit awesomebox.io to learn how to get one at your library.
The Harvard community now has the chance to declare something Awesome. Just by dropping it in a box. Amazing, useful and entertaining library materials can now be returned to the Awesome Boxes in Widener and Lamont.
Read more of "Awesome Box Pilot"Paul, David, and I spent part of last week in San Francisco at DPLA West.
Read more of "LIL on the West Coast"Congratulations to the Open Knowledge Foundation on the launch of BibSoup, a site where anyone can upload and share a bibliography. It’s a great idea, and an awesome addition to the developing knowledge ecosystem.
Read more of "BibSoup Beta!"While cleaning out my phones SD card I found these two photos.
Read more of "A couple photos"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 sources. Here’s a 17-minute podcast with her.
Read more of "[podcast] Karen Coyle on modern data for modern libraries"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.
Read more of "[podcast] Sebastian Hammer on federated search"We just concluded class #2 of the Library Test Kitchen, our experimental seminar in the Graduate School of Design. The course is a collaboration between Jeffrey Schnapp (Professor of Romance Languages & Literature, Director of metaLab) Ann Whiteside (Director, Frances Loeb Library), Ben Brady (GSD) and me (Jeff Goldenson). It is the continuation of a seminar this past Fall entitled Bibliotheca, the Library Past/Present/Future. There are many other folks involved in the Test Kitchen—people from the Innovation Lab, the greater Harvard Library and metaLab, who are taking part, and we’re just at the beginning.
Read more of "Library Test Kitchen"“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
Read more of "Library Lab/The Podcast 011: A Technological Graveyard?"A recent webinar hosted by the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) featured our ShelfLife and Stackview applications. Also featured in the webinar was a stack browsing application developed by the North Carolina State University Libraries.
Read more of "ASERL Webinar - ShelfLife and Stackview"