If you’ve worked in technology at all you probably recognize the name “O’Reilly”—it has become practically synonymous with “tech help.” For anyone who has tried to code a line of html, or figure out what the heck that icon on the iPhone screen is, O’Reilly Media has produced a manual to explain it.
Read more of "Library Lab/The Podcast 005: Stock in Paper"LibLabapalooza
The Harvard Library Lab, which issues grants for library innovation at the University, is holding a forum in which all the projects get 5 mins to introduce themselves. (The names prefacing these blurbs are of the presenters, who are not always the project leads or developers.)
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Thanks to the tireless efforts of Dan Jones, the series producer, the Library Innovation Lab podcast series is now available at iTunes.
Read more of "Podcasts now at iTunes"Why don’t more academics do Open Access publishing?
A report on a survey of 350 chemists and 350 economists in UK universities leads to the following conclusion about open access publishing:
Read more of "Why don't more academics do Open Access publishing?"Library Lab/The Podcast 004: We Read in Public
Guarding patron privacy is kind of the default in the library business. When it comes to knowing who checked out what and when libraries usually prefer to flush the cache—except when it comes to collecting fines!
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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, open-source plug-in for web browsers developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
Read more of "Library Lab/The Podcast 003: The Digital Citation"We’re in the Digital Public Library of America beta sprint!
We’ve entered the DPLA’s “beta sprint,” along with thirteen fantastic partners (so far)!
Read more of "We're in the Digital Public Library of America beta sprint!"Does anonymization work?
Klint Finley at ReadWriteWeb discusses a report from the Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner that asks if anonymization preserves privacy against attempts to re-identification. The report concludes that anonymization remains an important safeguard, and that the risks of re-identification of individuals within a crowd of anonymized data are lower than many fear.
Read more of "Does anonymization work?"Preserving the physical form
Kevin Kelly recently posted his thoughts on the Internet Archive’s physical preservation approach. The post is well worth the read, but if you’ve reached your link-clicking quota today, the following sums it up nicely:
“The big idea that EVERY digital form ultimately rests in a physical form is a deep truth that needs to be understood more widely.”
MacKenzie Smith on open licenses for data and metadata
MacKenzie Smith of MIT and Creative Commons talks about the new 4-star rating system for open licenses for metadata from cultural institutions:
The draft is up on the LOD-LAM site.
Here are some comments on the system from open access guru Peter Suber.