Category Archives: Information Management

Library hackers FTW

Yesterday I went along to Mashed Library UK 2008 in London. Quickly abbreviated to ‘mashlib’, the event was the brain-child of Owen Stephens. Owen did most of the organising, aided by David Flanders who provided the space at BirkBeck college, … Continue reading

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Blog commons?

You may have noticed that I have included a statement on this blog’s ‘home-page‘ to the effect that: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 UK: England & Wales License. This is standard blurb from the Creative … Continue reading

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Making digitised content available for searching and harvesting(2)

Back in February I was asked to give a talk to the JISC Digitisation Programme meeting. I blogged about this shortly beforehand asking for comments and suggestions. The response was fantastic – I received a bunch of great suggestions and … Continue reading

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Digital library pipeline for a million books.

I was pleased to be invited by Brian Fuchs to a ‘Million Books Workshop’ at Imperial College, London last Friday. A fascinating day, in the company of what was, for me, an unusual group of 20-30 linguists, classical scholars and … Continue reading

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A minor response to Repositories thru the looking glass

In Repositories thru the looking glass over on the eFoundations blog, Andy Powell gives a summary of a keynote he gave to the Vala Conference last week. It’s interesting stuff, and I will take the time to look at the … Continue reading

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Finely tuned antennae

The discovery to delivery hook-line has been used for a while to describe a goal of those information services which support the academic researcher. The challenge to academic libraries, national information services etc. has been to support the researcher from … Continue reading

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