Friday, June 8, 2007

OPAL LIS Topics and Trends :: An interview with David Weinberger

Originally posted on OPAL LIS Topics and Trends on June 6, 2007.

An interview with David Weinberger, author of the book Everything is Miscellaneous.

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Talking With Talis :: Diane Hillmann talks about metadata and standards

In this Talking with Talis podcast, Paul Miller talks with Diane Hillmann of Cornell University.

Diane has been associated with library metadata standards, such as Dublin Core and RDA for many years. We discuss these and other standards and the recent meeting, held at the British Library which recommended the bringing together of work on RDA and DCMI. We also go on to discuss the work of the National Science Digital Library Metadata Registry, RDF and how the Semantic Web will influence library metadata and the way it is produced and shared.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources:

Talking With Talis :: Peter Murray-Rust on Open Access, Open Data, Science, and the Semantic Web

Originally posted on Talking With Talis on May 31, 2007.

In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, Paul Miller talks with Professor Peter Murray-Rust of the Unilever Centre for Molecular Sciences Informatics at the University of Cambridge.

In a wide-ranging conversation, we look at the changing nature of academic publishing, the importance of primary data to the process, and the remarkable potential of the Semantic Web in both streamlining and enriching the endeavour.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources: