Category Archives: Information Management

An agile approach to the development of Dublin Core Application Profiles

Posted on January 6, 2010 by paulwalk

I have been asked to provide a position paper for next week’s Future of Interoperability Standards meeting hosted by CETIS. This blog post is one I have been meaning to write for ages so I’m offering it as a position … Continue reading →

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Library hackers FTW

Posted on November 28, 2008 by paulwalk

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?

Posted on July 25, 2008 by paulwalk

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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Repository architecture #83

Posted on July 7, 2008 by paulwalk

At a JISC workshop last Thursday I was invited to present some ideas around an architecture to support and exploit repositories in the UK. I gave the presentation the title Repository Architecture #83 . My intention was to suggest some … Continue reading →

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Making digitised content available for searching and harvesting(2)

Posted on April 28, 2008 by paulwalk

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.

Posted on March 16, 2008 by paulwalk

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

Posted on February 14, 2008 by paulwalk

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

Posted on December 17, 2007 by paulwalk

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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