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This American Life #441: When Patents Attack

2011-08-10T15:40:00.001-05:00

Why would a company rent an office in a tiny town in East Texas, put a nameplate on the door, and leave it completely empty for a year? The answer involves a controversial billionaire physicist in Seattle, a 40 pound cookbook, and a war waging right now, all across the software and tech industries. (Transcript)

Drexel iSchool Open Notebook Science Talk

2008-11-18T16:35:00.004-05:00

This talk covers Open Notebook Science from an information technology perspective. It was presented by Jean-Claude Bradley at the Drexel iSchool on November 11, 2008. Although solubility measurements and chemical reactions are mentioned the focus is more on how information is stored, retrieved and used using free and hosted services such as Blogger, GoogleDocs, Wikispaces, ChemSpider, CDD and others. The UsefulChem project and the Open Notebook Science Challenge are highlighted.

audio (mp3)
screencast
slides

Semantic Future for Libraries – Martin Malmsten Talks with Talis

2008-11-04T16:54:00.001-05:00

Originally posted on August 19, 2008 in the Talis Panlibus blog.

Martin Malmsten is from the LIBRIS department of the Royal Library of Sweden – LIBRIS being the discovery interface for the library.

Since joining as a software developer has been absorbed in to the world of library search and discovery. He played a major part in the build and launch of the latest LIBRIS search interface which has introduced under the surface some Semantic Web and Linked Data features.

We discuss his career, the use of User Centered Design & Iterative Development methodologies, the Semantic Web techniques and technologies he used, and their future applicability to the library domain.

Items discussed in our conversation:

LIBRIS
User-centered design and the next generation OPAC – a perfect match?
RDF / Linked Data representations of cataloged data via LIBRIS:
- URI for the Royal Library - http://libris.kb.se/resource/library/S
- URI for the subject heading "Mödrar" (Mothers in English) - http://libris.kb.se/resource/auth/154863
- URI for August Strindberg - http://libris.kb.se/resource/auth/94541
- URI for the book "The difference Engine" - http://libris.kb.se/resource/bib/5060570
- The book "The difference Engine" in OpenLink RDF browser - http://demo.openlinksw.com/DAV/JS/rdfbrowser/index.html?uri=http%3A%2F%2Flibris.kb.se%2Fresource%2Fbib%2F5060570
Cool URIs for the Semantic Web

Jonathan Gorman Talks with Talis

2008-11-04T16:49:00.001-05:00

Originally posted on July 18, 2008 in the Talis Panlibus blog.

In this Talking with Talis podcast I am in conversation with Jonathan Gorman from the University of Illinois.

Jon can often be found on the code4lib IRC channel discussing many aspects of innovation with the community of library software developers and enthusiasts.

In our conversation we discuss his career and some of the tasks and projects he is involved with. Mentioned in our discussion is Jon’s article for Code4lib Journal about using Authority data in VuFind.

Ed Summers Talks with Talis

2008-11-04T16:41:00.004-05:00

Originally posted on June 30, 2008 on the Talis Panlibus blog.

Ed Summers has recently been active in exposing Library of Congress Subject Heading data as Linked Data using Semantic Web technologies and RDF, through his experimental service at lcsh.info.

In this conversation we find out how Ed’s career, not always on a traditional library path, has led him to his work in the Library of Congress, his pragmatic interest in things Semantic Web, and why he has needed to experiment outside of the LoC.

In this conversation we reference:

Michele Kimpton and Sandy Payette Talk with Talis about DSpace, Fedora, and collaboration

2008-11-04T16:32:00.002-05:00

Originally posted on October 10, 2008 in the Talis Xiphos blog.

In our latest podcast I talk with Michele Kimpton and Sandy Payette. Michele is Executive Director of the DSpace Foundation, and Sandy the Executive Director of Fedora Commons. We discuss the repository software solutions offered by each community, before exploring the implications of their recent announcement of a collaboration between the two organisations.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3)
Cornell
DSpace Foundation
DSpace Sponsorship Programme
Fedora Commons
Fedora Generic Search Service (GSearch) module
Fedora Project (Red Hat Linux distribution)
Harvard Open Access Repository
HP Labs
Internet Archive
MIT
Mulgara (and podcasts with Paul Gearon and David Wood)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Science Foundation (NSF) DataNet
Andy Powell and Pete Johnston podcast
Simile
Herbert van de Sompel podcast
Zotero

Talis talks with Herbert van de Sompel about SFX, OAI, and Repositories

2008-11-04T16:30:00.003-05:00

Originally posted on September 6, 2008 in the Talis Xiphos blog.

In our latest podcast I talk with Herbert van de Sompel of the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. We discuss Herbert’s pivotal role in the development of SFX and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), before turning to a broader discussion of issues related to the use of repositories in preserving and providing access to scholarly literature and data.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

Talis talks with Pete Johnston and Andy Powell about the changing face of Repositories

2008-11-04T16:23:00.003-05:00

Originally posted on August 8, 2008 in the Talis Xiphos blog.

In our latest podcast, I talk with Pete Johnston and Andy Powell of the Eduserv Foundation. We build upon themes that they have been discussing elsewhere, and explore their views on the current state of (institutional and other) Repositories.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

arXiv
ATHENS
CHEST
Jim Downing’s blog
Dublin Core Metadata Initiative
Eduserv
Eduserv Foundation
eFoundations blog
Elsevier
FRBR
JISC
JISC Repositories Conference
Brewster Kahle
Linked Data
MLA
Nature Network
Nature Publishing Group
Open Archives Initiative (OAI)
OAI Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE)
OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (PMH)
Andy Powell’s VALA Presentation and eFoundations blog post
‘Andy Powell is spot on‘ post to Panlibus blog
Slideshare
Ed Summers’ blog
SWAP profile
SWORD
UKOLN
VALA Conference

Library 2.0 Gang 10/08: Financial Crisis or an opportunity?

2008-10-26T19:56:00.001-05:00

Originally posted on 10th October 2008 on the Talis Library 2.0 Gang Podcast.

Unless you have been living under a stone for the last few months, the turmoil in the world financial markets can not have escaped your notice, but how will this, and the inevitable recession that we are heading in towards, influence libraries and their suppliers?

Is the library world insulated from it? Does it mean that open source become more popular because it is perceived to be cheaper, or less because there will be less funding for those involved? Does it mean that pressure to purchase add-on components as against full systems will increase? What pressures will there be on the vendors both traditional and open source? Does this mean that libraries will become more or less significant in their communities? Is this an opportunity or a crisis or both?

Joining gang members Marshall Breeding and Carl Grant to discuss this, our guest this month is Talis CEO and avid Bloomberg watcher, Dave Errington.

The conclusion seems to be that it is definitely a crisis for the world economies, but this first recession in an online world could be an opportunity for libraries if they are willing to grasp it. Take a listen and see if you agree.

During the conversation Carl references a Chronicle of Higher Education, Tech Therapy, podcast about the culture clash between librarians and IT in the academic environment. You can listen to that podcast by following this link.

Library 2.0 Gang 09/08: System Procurement

2008-10-26T19:54:00.001-05:00

Originally posted on 9th September 2008 on the Talis Library 2.0 Gang Podcast.

All are agreed that the purchasing of a library system is not an insignificant undertaking, but in these times of rapidly changing 2.0 technology and open source systems, are the current procurement processes still fit for purpose?

To help with the discussion we are joined by two guests this month who are both veterans of many tender processes:

Karen Reece Sales Manager, Talis.
Rob McGee Founder and President of RMG Consultants Inc.

Gang members Carl Grant and Marshall Breeding join in the discussion about the frustrations of the procurement process and how it may or may not be applicable. There again, the process does lead to contractual rigor, but is it at the expense of stifled innovation.?

To help the discussion along Rob McGee has provided a couple of his white papers on the subject:

Request for Proposals for Integrated Library Systems [pdf]
Information Technology Strategic Planning for Libraries [pdf]

Although coming from differing points of view, the gang and our guests agreed on one piece of advice for libraries – make friends with your purchasing department, involving them fully in preparing requirements with vision.

Library 2.0 Gang 08/08: Open Source Systems

2008-10-26T19:50:00.002-05:00

Originally posted on 12th August 2008 on the Talis Library 2.0 Gang Podcast.

Open Source Software has been around for many years. Open Source components have been used to develop library systems since the late 1990’s. Koha, acknowledged as the first fully open source library system was launched by its New Zealand based developers in 2000. The growing interest around open source, stimulated by Koha, was given a significant boost when Georgia Public Libraries launched Evergreen in September 2006.

We have two guests this month:

Karen G. Schneider, Community Librarian for Equinox Software, the support organisation which grew out of the Evergreen project.
L J Haravu Chief Domain Specialist, Verus Solutions Pvt., Ltd., Hyderabad India, the software company behind NewGenLib the Open Source library system successfully spreading across India and the Middle East.

Stimulated by the success of the organisations represented by our guests, the gang for this month – Nicole Engard, Talin Bingham, Andrew Nagy, Marshall Breeding, and Carl Grant – go on to discuss how Open Source Library Systems, and the open approach behind them, have changed the way all system suppliers both commercial and Open Source are delivering their systems and engaging with their customers.

Library 2.0 Gang 07/08: ALA - Anaheim

2008-10-26T19:47:00.001-05:00

Originally posted on 8th July 2008 on the Talis Library 2.0 Gang Podcast.

22,000 Librarians congregated in Anaheim California between June 26th and July 2nd for the American Library Association 2008 Annual Conference and Exhibition. With over 300 educational programs, over 2000 committee meetings and events, the exhibition, opening and closing sessions, and the presidents program to choose from - and Disneyland just down the road - it was a busy time for those that attended.

Outgoing ALA President, Loriene Roy joins the Gang as our guest this month to reflect on the conference.

The Gang members, who all attended the conference, on this show are Char Booth, Carl Grant, Marshall Breeding, and Oren Beit-Arie. Amongst the topics discussed were the suitability of the venues chosen for ALA conferences, the return on investment for vendors as some conference attendees deliberately avoid the exhibition floor, concerns patron privacy and it’s effect on innovation, and the way librarians don’t discuss their failures.

Library 2.0 Gang 06/08: Bolt-on OPACs

2008-10-26T19:44:00.000-05:00

Originally posted on 10th June 2008 on the Talis Library 2.0 Gang Podcast.

Against the background of Web 2.0 and Library 2.0, we have seen the emergence of complementary, or bolt-on, products for Library Systems. Gradually we are seeing a moving away from the tradition of libraries purchasing absolutely everything from their ILS vendor.

It is now becoming normal for libraries to purchase URL Resolvers, Electronic Resource Management software, and Federated Search products from 3rd parties. This trend is becoming most prevalent in the area of search and discovery interfaces, these ‘Bolt-on OPACs’ being available from both commercial and open source providers.

Our guest Taco Ekkel is Director of Development for Medialab Solutions, the Amsterdam based company who produced Aquabrowser, the first commercial example of a complementary OPAC. He is joined by Gang members Matt Goldner, Betsy Graham, Andrew Nagy, Marshall Breeding, and Carl Grant, to discuss where these products are going and what was learnt from Aquabrowser.

Library 2.0 Gang 05/08: ILS API

2008-10-26T19:39:00.003-05:00

Originally posted on 6th May 2008 on the Talis Library 2.0 Gang Podcast.

Those reading library technology blogs, or attending conferences over the last couple of years, can not have failed to be aware of the pressure for Library System developers and vendors to open up those systems and provide API access.

Against this background, the Digital Library Federation (DLF) launched a working group to analyze the issues involved in integrating “integrated library systems” and discovery systems, and create a technical proposal for how such integration should be accomplished.

Following a survey of libraries, the working group produced a draft recommendation which was discussed at a meeting in Berkeley, California on March 6th attended by representatives of the DLF , academic libraries, and major library application vendors. Subsequent to this meeting participants agreed to the ‘Berkeley Accord’ supporting a set of essential functions for an API.

John Mark Ockerbloom Chair of the DLF Working Group is our guest this month. In conversation with the Gang members Talin Bingham, Oren Beit-Arie, Marshall Breeding, Andrew Nagy, and Dan Mullineux.

During the conversation we reference:

The DLF ILS API Wiki
Blog post by Innovative Interface’s Betsy Graham
Project Jangle

Library 2.0 Gang 04/08: Google Book Search API

2008-10-26T19:36:00.002-05:00

Originally posted on 8th April 2008 on the Talis Library 2.0 Gang Podcast.

Google Book Search has created much interest since its appearance as Google Print back in 2004. Recently they released an API to enable the embedding of Google Book Search resources in to sites, not least library OPACs.

This month’s gang Oren Beit-Arie, Tim Spalding, Warwick Cathro, John Blyberg, and Carl Grant are joined by guest Google Product Manager, Frances Haugen who gives an interesting insight in to the thinking behind and application of the API. During the conversation Frances suggests that those who wish to offer comments about and suggestions for future API developments should contact her by mail - fhaugen@google.com.

The Gang also discuss how services such as Google Book Search, The Open Library, LibraryThing, and others may be indicators of how in the future library systems will increasingly use globally based services to handle resources traditionally held locally.

Library 2.0 Gang 03/08: Code4lib

2008-10-26T19:30:00.004-05:00

Originally posted on 11th March 2008 on the Talis Library 2.0 Gang Podcast.

The Open Library, ILS APIs, and New Cataloguing Influences, are the subjects under discussion in this show. Gang Regulars John Blyberg, Nicole C Engard, Carl Grant, Char Booth, and Rob Styles are joined by Aaron Swartz from The Open Library.

The topics for this month’s show were drawn from the excellent Code4lib 2008 Conference February 25-28, in Portland, OR. - The Open Library, ILS APIs, and new influences on cataloging.

The following are referenced in the conversation:

ALA LITA Ultimate Debate :: There’s No Catalog like No Catalog

2008-07-29T18:32:00.006-05:00

Thanks to the Internet Resources and Services Interest Group (IRSIG), there was another Ultimate Debate panel at ALA Annual 2008. The title this year was “There’s No Catalog like No Catalog”, and a full recording of the debate was podcast on the LITABlog. Panelists included Stephen Abram, Joe Janes, Karen Coyle, and Karen Schneider.

Podcast originally posted on July 5, 2008. [MP3 file: 105:47]
See also Roy Tennant's three summaries in Library Journal: [1], [2], [3]

Talking With Talis :: Tim Berners-Lee

2008-03-20T11:25:00.003-05:00

Originally posted on Talking With Talis on February 27, 2008.

In our latest podcast interview I talk with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web and now Director of the World Wide Web Consortium. We discuss the Semantic Web's readiness for mainstream adoption, and explore a wide range of issues from Linked Data to the writing of new books for developers.

For further discussion of the interview's content, see this post on ZDNet's latest blog, The Semantic Web.

Download MP3 [63 mins, 30Mb]. Read transcript

During the conversation, we refer to numerous resources. These are linked from the transcript, and reproduced below;

Sir Tim Berners-Lee
DBpedia
FOAF
Giant Global Graph
GRDDL
Linked Data Planet
Linked Data Project
Linked Open Data Workshop
Musicbrainz
N3
OpenAuth
OWL
RDF
'The Semantic Web', Scientific American 2001
Semantic Web Interest Group
SPARQL
Swoogle
Tabulator
Weaving the Web
World Wide Web Consortium

Talking With Talis :: Richard Cyganiak

2008-03-20T11:19:00.004-05:00

Originally posted on Talking With Talis on March 13, 2008.

Latest recording on technical matters is a chat with Richard Cyganiak, who's currently working on the Sindice Semantic Web search engine, though is probably best known for his leading role in the Linking Open Data project (maintaining the cloud diagram :-)

In the podcast Richard describes various technical details of these projects, and talks about the nature of data on the Web in the wild, as RDF, microformats and increasingly RDFa. He also discusses some of the practical issues in mapping existing databases to the Semantic Web (the kind of techniques Tim Berners-Lee mentioned in his podcast with Paul a few weeks ago).

Richard naturally mentions the principles of Linked Data :

Use URIs as names for things
Use HTTP URIs so that people can look up those names.
When someone looks up a URI, provide useful information.
Include links to other URIs. so that they can discover more things.

Download MP3 [47 mins, 44Mb]

DERI Galway
Richard @ Freie Universität Berlin (via D2R)
HP Labs Semantic Web Research
Sindice Semantic Web search engine/API
Giovanni Tummarello
microformats, RDFa
TagSoup liberal HTML parser
foaf:knows
Give yourself a URI, Cool URIs for the Semantic Web
LinkingOpenData W3C SWEO Community Project
Chris Bizer
DBpedia
Joshua Tauberer
rdfabout.com (including a billion-triples dataset of U.S. Census statistics)
RKB Explorer
Hugh Glaser @ Scientific Commons
Linking Open Data mailing list, The Linking Open Data dataset cloud
Linked Data (Tim Berners-Lee Design Issue note)
RDF/XML, Turtle - Terse RDF Triple Language[see also : Why RDF is more than XML]
Tabulator Semantic Web browser
SPARQL
last.fm
W3C RDB2RDF Incubator Group
D2RQ - Treating Non-RDF Databases as Virtual RDF Graphs
Tim Berners-Lee podcast

Talking With Talis :: Tom Morris

2008-03-14T15:24:00.003-05:00

Originally posted on Nodalities on March 8, 2008.

Today's verbal delight features Semantic Web hacker (and philosopher) Tom Morris, initially talking about using XML to describe real-world things, mentioning the advantages of RDF. He then describes his experiences with the Ruby programming language, and offers thoughts on practical aspects of working in the distributed environment of the Web. Tom tells of ideas he has around using Bluetooth with RDF, before giving his opinion of platforms like Facebook, and related novel aspects of online gaming. He concludes by talking about his recent experience of organizing SemanticCamp London, and encouraging other people to try the BarCamp approach to conferences.

Download MP3 [52 mins, 48Mb]

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources:

Tom Morris (blog)
OPML 2.0, RelaxNG
Google Contacts Data API
tommorris / rena
Rake (Ruby make), RSpec (Behaviour Driven Development framework for Ruby)
Jena, rdflib
NSFW: Not Safe For Work
microformats, GRDDL
Tim Berners-Lee
git, github
"Fork (software development)" on Wikipedia
ID3 (Rhythm and blues/Contemporary R&B on Wikipedia)
Colorado Benefits Management System
SKOS (Simple Knowledge Organization System)
SHA hash functions
BlogTalk WebCamp SocialNetworkPortability
LightBlue (cross-platform Python Bluetooth API)
BlueFOAF: discover nearby friends with Bluetooth
Dan Brickley, Dave Beckett, Matt Biddulph
danbri's MacBook Air
Growl
Inverse Functional Property
SubEthaEdit
Facebook, MySpace, OpenSocial
AOL, CompuServe, Prodigy (Wikipedia links)
Twitter, Dopplr
Rails, Amazon EC2
Pownce, Heroku
Drupal and the opportunity of RDF, video
EVE Online
The profile attribute and GRDDL
Dan Connolly
URI-Based Extensibility
Web 3.0 has checked into buzzword hotel...
Semantic Web Aliases
SemanticCamp, BarCamp, BarCampParis, BarCampBrighton
SWIG (Semantic Web Interest Group), mailing list
N3, DBpedia, Linking Open Data
#swig on irc.freenode.net

The Mark of Zotero: Two-Clicks to Citation Management

2008-03-12T08:21:00.003-05:00

Originally presented at OPAL on January 23, 2008.

The Mark of Zotero: Two-Clicks to Citation Management, a presentation made by Chris Strauber, Reference and Web Services Librarian at Wofford College.

Streaming audio about Zotero with text chat and PowerPoint slides (playback time of 42 minutes)
downloadable MP3 audiorecording about Zotero (13 MB; playback time of 42 minutes)
PowerPoint slides about Zotero
Video about the Zotero interface (runtime 5:10)
Video about how Zotero captures citations and content (runtime 4:13)
Video about how Zotero creates bibliographies (runtime 3:39)
Blog post by Mark Dingemanse of the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics about why he made the switch from Endnote to Zotero.

EDUCAUSE 2007 :: Bruce Schneier on Information Security: Ten Trends [Keynote]

2008-02-19T16:50:00.003-05:00

Originally posted on EDUCAUSE Connect on October 31, 2007.

In this 43 minute podcast, we feature a keynote speech by Bruce Schneier, author and Chief Technology Officer for BT Counterpane, Inc. This speech was delivered at the EDUCAUSE 2007 Annual Conference in Seattle, Washington on October 26th, 2007. It is entitled "Bruce Schneier on Information Security: Ten Trends".

Surveying current trends in information security, it’s clear that a myriad of forces are at work. But fundamentally, security is all about economics: both attacker and defender are trying to maximize the return on their investments. Economics can both explain why security fails so often and offer new solutions for its success. For example, often the people who could protect a system are not those who suffer the costs of failure. Changing these economic incentives will do more to improve security than will more technology.

Bruce Schneier notes on his blog: "I spoke at the Educause conference this year in Seattle. There's a podcast and video of my talk available ("Ten Trends of Information Security"; I've given the talk before) as well as a podcast of an interview with me."

Talking with Talis :: Daniel Lewis on the Social and Semantic Webs

2008-02-19T16:36:00.006-05:00

Originally posted on Talking with Talis on November 24, 2007.

In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I talk with Daniel Lewis. We discuss some of his ideas about the 'Social Web', and the relationship between this and the ideas and technologies of the Semantic Web.

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

Media Berkman :: Aaron Swartz on the Open Library Project

2007-11-08T11:47:00.000-05:00

Aaron Swartz, co-founder of Reddit.com and Tech Lead for the Open Library project, spoke at this week’s installment of the Berkman Center’s Luncheon Series.

Listen to the MP3 or view the MOV (time: 1:03:39)

Aaron spoke about how, thanks to new technology, the grand vision of a library containing every book in the world is now within our grasp. He discussed how the Open Library Project, a loose collection of technologists, publishers, librarians, and book-lovers, has taken up this challenge by trying to create a website collecting everything we know about books — including library records, publishers’ blurbs, full-text and scans, reviews, and more

Aaron was previously a co-founder of Reddit.com, which was purchased by Condé Nast in late 2006. He was worked on Internet specifications for RSS and RDF and was one of the early team members of the Creative Commons project. He is the author of a number of free software packages and a co-founder of Jottit.com.

+ Open Library vision
+ Aaron Swartz’s website

Berkman Fellow David Weinberger live-blogged the lunch, and you can check out his comments and summary here.

Jon Udell's Interviews With Innovators :: Beth Jefferson on BiblioCommons

2007-11-08T11:35:00.000-05:00

Originally posted on Jon Udell's Interviews With Innovators on November 30, 2007.

This week’s ITConversations show features Beth Jefferson, founder of BiblioCommons Inc., a company that aims to reinvent and federate the online catalogs of public libraries. She’s thinking very creatively about the social forces that such a federation could marshall. The idea is not to create yet another social network. Instead, she wants to promote the social discovery — and social cataloging — of books, CDs, videos, and other kinds of library resources. Social networks pivot on interpersonal relationships. A BiblioCommons-enabled network would, in a complementary way, pivot on those resources.

How would such a network achieve meaningful scale? Beth has found some data which suggests that if you federated lots of public library catalogs, the combined user population would rival some of the web’s largest sites. Enabling those folks to connect with one another, in the context of resource collections that share common metadata, would be a big deal.

The BiblioCommons software is only now entering its first trial phase. But you can see some of what it does in Beth’s presentation at code4lib, a conference for library technologists.

Talking with Talis :: Danny Ayers on the Semantic Web

2007-10-07T19:06:00.000-05:00

Originally posted on Talking with Talis on 14 March 2007.

In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I talk with Semantic Web developer and evangelist, Danny Ayers. We discuss the Semantic Web and the notion of Linked Data, before touching briefly upon Metaweb's Freebase, which had just been released at the time.

Download MP3 [52 mins, 36 Mb]

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources

Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators :: Barbara Aronson

2007-10-07T18:59:00.000-05:00

Originally posted on Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators on August 30, 2007.

In this edition of Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators, host Jon dell speaks with Barbara Aronson, program manager for the World Health Organization's Health InterNetwork Access Initiative (HINARI). Thanks to this program, qualifying hospitals, universities, and other organizations in 70 of the poorest countries receive free access to many of the best biomedical journals. Another 43 somewhat less poor countries pay token fees to access the journals, an arrangement that has drawn criticism from some open access advocates. Barbara Aronson argues that the developed world's notion of open access is too narrow, that HINARI is an important form of open access, and that it has also become a laboratory in which publishers can explore a tiered pricing model that may ultimately apply to developed countries too.

The economics of scientific publishing notwithstanding, HINARI represents a revolution in poor countries' access to current medical research. And researchers in those countries aren't just consuming the information. They're also processing it to produce new research that reflects their own very different circumstances.

Download MP3 35:41, 16.3 mb

Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators :: Timo Hannay

2007-10-07T18:49:00.000-05:00

Originally posted on Jon Udell's Interviews with Innovators on July 5, 2007.

As director of web publishing for Nature Publishing Group, Timo Hannay is applying web 2.0 principles to the realm of science. His projects include: Connotea, a social bookmarking service for scientists; Nature Network, a social network for scientists; and Nature Precedings, a site where researchers can share and discuss work prior to publication.

The social and collaborative aspects of these systems are, of course, inspired by their more general counterparts on the web: del.icio.us, Facebook and LinkedIn, the blogosophere. But while the general web provides useful models, science doesn't yet provide the same incentives to participate. Change is coming, though, and Timo Hannay and his team are doing everything they can to accelerate it.

Download MP3 46:14, 21.2 mb

Resources:

Talking With Talis :: A conversation with LibLime's Joshua Ferraro

2007-10-07T18:40:00.000-05:00

Originally posted on Talking With Talis on September 26, 2007.

Joshua Ferraro President, Technology for LibLime discusses Open Source library systems in this Talking with Talis podcast. The Open Source alternative to the traditional model of library system purchase has attracted much interest over recent months. Joshua dispels a few myths and clarifies what it is like for a library to go OS.

Download MP3 [31 mins, 28Mb]

David Lankes :: "Library as Conversation" Free Library of Philadelphia President’s Forum, Philadelphia, PA

2007-09-24T14:43:00.000-05:00

David Lankes has given a number of similar presentations to promote the idea of Libraries as Participatory Networks, a project he developed with the Information Institute of Syracuse and the American Library Association's Office for Information Technology Policy.

Thoughts on how libraries facilitate conversations. The idea is based on a simple theory: Knowledge is created through conversation; libraries are in the knowledge business; therefore, libraries are in the conversation business. Though libraries serve a vital role as community memory keeper, they often fall short of the ideal. Lankes will explain how by embracing the participatory online technologies from Web 2.0 libraries can advance not just their communities, but their positions within them. You’ll learn how adopting network concepts and software promotes the library’s most fundamental mission: knowledge creation and dissemination.

He's put up a podcast and slides of his most recent talk to the Free Library of Philadelphia President’s Forum in September 2007 and has also made the talk available as a streamed video and a Google video.

LITA Top Technology Trends - ALA Annual 2007 :: Roy Tennant

2007-07-03T09:06:00.000-05:00

Originally posted on the LITA Blog on July 2, 2007. [7:45min]

The fourth of our seven part Top Technology Trend podcasts from this year’s ALA Annual meeting is here! There were six Trendsters live at ALA Annual, and this section is devoted to the one and only Roy Tennant.

LITA Top Technology Trends - ALA Annual 2007 :: Karen Coombs

2007-07-03T09:05:00.001-05:00

Originally posted on the LITA Blog on July 2, 2007. [11:29min]

The third of our seven part Top Technology Trend podcasts from this year’s ALA Annual meeting is here! There were six Trendsters live at ALA Annual, and this section is devoted to the LibraryWebChic herself, Karen Coombs.

LITA Top Technology Trends - ALA Annual 2007 :: John Blyberg

2007-07-03T09:02:00.000-05:00

Originally posted on the LITA Blog on June 29, 2007. [11:15min]

The second of our seven part Top Technology Trend podcasts is here! There were six Trendsters live at ALA Annual, and this second installment is by John Blyberg.

LITA Top Technology Trends - ALA Annual 2007 :: Marshall Breeding

2007-07-03T08:57:00.000-05:00

Originally posted on the LITA Blog on June 28, 2007. [7:18min]

The first of our seven part Top Technology Trend podcasts from this year’s ALA Annual meeting is finally here! There were six Trendsters live at ALA Annual, and the first lucky one to be podcast is Marshall Breeding.

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

2007-06-08T08:42:00.000-05:00

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

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

Download MP3 (17.5 MB file; playback time of 57 minutes)

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

2007-06-08T08:23:00.000-05:00

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.

Download MP3 [56 mins, 39Mb]

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources:

Resource Description and Access (RDA), Karen Coyle & Diane Hillmann - D-Lib Magazine
NGC4LIB mailing list
Futurelib Wiki
The Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control

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

2007-06-08T08:16:00.000-05:00

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.

Listen Now Download MP3 [70 mins, 48 Mb]

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources:

Artistic License
Bioinformatics
Biomed Central
Cancer Research UK
Chemistry Central
Creative Commons' Attribution License
dbpedia
GNU GPL License
Journal of the American Chemical Society
JUMBO
UK Medical Research Council (MRC)
Peter Murray-Rust's blog
Nature
UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
Open Access on Wikipedia
Open Data panel at WWW2007
Open Data on Wikipedia
OpenID
OpenLink's Virtuoso
PLoS ONE
Science
Science and Technology Committee of the House of Commons report, Scientific Publications: Free for All?, plus documented responses in 2004 and 2005.
Science Commons
SPECTRa-T
vCard
The Wellcome Trust
Wikipedia

David Weinberger :: Metacrap and Flickr Tags: An Interview with Cory Doctorow

2007-05-25T14:41:00.000-05:00

Originally posted on David Weinberger’s Wired News Podcast on May 3, 2007.

In this new series, which is cosponsored by Wired News and the Harvard Berkman Center for the Internet and Society, David Weinberger, author of the new book Everything Is Miscellaneous, talks with some of the leading businesspeople, scientists, and thinkers who are coming up with innovative new ways of putting ideas, information and knowledge together. Now that the digital age has blown apart traditional ways of organizing information, what’s next? Suddenly, everything is miscellaneous.

David kicks off the series by interviewing novelist, BoingBoing co-editor, digital rights activist and entrepreneur Cory Doctorow. For Cory, piling up information without strict organizational rules can be workable provided that we have sufficiently reliable metadata. The problem is that people don’t all use metadata the same way or use tags consistently, and that can be a real obstacle to making coherent sense of piles of information.

David and Cory discuss the advantages and pitfalls of explicit and implicit metadata, tags and the rules governing the use and re-use of content in commerce and culture.

NPR's Science Friday :: Encyclopedia of Life / Digital Libraries

2007-05-15T14:51:00.000-05:00

Originally broadcast by NPR's Science Friday on May 11, 2007.

Want to flip through the pages of every book in the world? Several efforts are working to digitize and make available online all the information that might be hiding on the shelves of libraries around the world. We'll talk to leaders in the digital libraries community, and talk about just how they intend to go about bringing every book published into the online world.

Plus, this week scientists announced a new effort to create an online encyclopedia of life. Pulling information from labs, libraries, and museums around the world, the project aims to make a multimedia web page for every known species on the planet. We'll talk to one of the project's leaders.

Guests:

Gary G. Borisy - Member of the Steering Committee, Encyclopedia of Life Project

Brewster Kahle - Digital Librarian, Director and Co-Founder The Internet Archive

Michael S. Hart - Founder, Project Gutenberg

Michael Keller - University Librarian Director of Academic Information Resources Stanford University

Dan Chudnov :: Library Geeks 011 - Gary Price

2007-05-15T12:53:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by Dan Chudnov on May 10, 2007.

Gary Price of ask.com is like that great reference librarian you remember from childhood or with whom you used to work who *always* knows seven great answers to any question that starts with "Where would I go to look for...", and tells you which ones to try, in which order, and how they complement each other, and is always right. Except Gary and his colleagues do this for everybody on the whole web through his sites ResourceShelf and Docuticker, and for the past year through his job at Ask. Gary and I met several years ago, and we're new neighbors now, so we sat down together at a local coffee shop to catch up and to talk about his career and how he approaches his work.

There's a bit more ambient noise on this recording than usual, which means our recording levels are uneven sometimes, and I'm sorry about that. I hope you'll agree, though, that we have so much to learn from Gary about politely getting in the faces of our users to teach them what's out there and how to get the most out of it while saving them time, effort, and aggravation that it's worth listening through the noise.

Some of the many resources Gary mentions included:

This is one to listen to when you're sitting at your machine, or at least with a notepad nearby, because for everything listed above, he mentions at least two more resources worth your time and attention, and you'll want to try them out.

Access 2006 :: Roy Tennant - Getting the Goods: Libraries & The Last Mile

2007-05-08T08:59:00.000-05:00

Talk given at the Access 2006 conference on October 13, 2006.

Keynote Talk - MP3 (46:46)

Roy Tennant is User Services Architect for the California Digital Library. He is the owner of the Web4Lib and XML4Lib electronic discussions, and the creator and editor of Current Cites, a current awareness newsletter published every month since 1990. His books include Managing the Digital Library (2004), XML in Libraries (2002), Practical HTML: A Self-Paced Tutorial (1996), and Crossing the Internet Threshold: An Instructional Handbook (1993). Roy has written a monthly column on digital libraries for Library Journal since 1997 and has written numerous articles in other professional journals. In 2003, he received the American Library Association’s LITA/Library Hi Tech Award for Excellence in Communication for Continuing Education.

Access 2006 :: Ross Singer - The Ümlaut and Ü: Öpening the OpenURL

2007-05-08T08:53:00.000-05:00

Talk given at the Access 2006 conference on October 13, 2006.

MP3 (9:43)

Ross Singer is an application developer at Georgia Tech Library, creating web services for both the public web presence, maintaining the library’s intranet, and working to create an R&D lab for library apps. He founded the Metro Atlanta Library Technology Association (MALTA) in 2005. Earlier, he worked in library IT at both Emory University General Libraries and University of Tennessee Libraries and had a short stint in the corporate world at internet.com (now JupiterMedia) in New York City. Ross has a B.A. in Theatre from the University of Tennessee. See his website for more on his projects, papers and presentations.

Access 2006 :: Tito Sierra - Improving the Catalogue Interface using Endeca

2007-05-08T08:52:00.000-05:00

Talk given at the Access 2006 conference on October 12, 2006.

MP3 (25:14)

Tito Sierra is a Digital Technologies Development Librarian at North Carolina State University Libraries. Before NC State, he worked as a Program Manager and Web Developer at Amazon.com. He has a BA in Government from Harvard University and a MS in Information Management from Syracuse University.

Access 2006 :: Stan Ruecker - Experimental Interfaces for the Dynamic Visual Grouping of Data During Browsing

2007-05-08T08:48:00.000-05:00

Talk given at the Access 2006 conference on October 14, 2006.

David Binkley Emerging Technology Award Presentation :: MP3 (60:58)

Dr. Stan Ruecker is an Assistant Professor of Humanities Computing in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. He is a graduate of the University of Regina (BA Hons English 1985, BSc Computer Science 1988), the University of Toronto (MA English 1989), and the University of Alberta (MDes 1999, PhD 2003). His PhD research was on the affordances of prospect for computer interfaces to large, interpretively-tagged text collections. His postdoctoral research dealt with browsing interfaces for electronic documents. His current research interests are in the areas of computer-human interfaces, text visualization, and information design.

Access 2006 :: Paul Miller - Transforming Libraries the Library 2.0 Way

2007-05-08T08:45:00.000-05:00

Talk given at the Access 2006 conference on October 13, 2006.

MP3 (40:56)

Paul Miller, Technology Evangelist, Talis. Paul joined Talis in September 2005 from the Common Information Environment (CIE), where as Director he was instrumental in scoping policy and attracting new members such as the BBC, National Library of Scotland and English Heritage to this group of UK public sector organisations. Previously, Paul was at UKOLN where he was active in a range of cross-domain standardisation and advocacy activities spanning Government, education, libraries, museums and archives. At Talis, Paul is active in raising awareness of new trends and possibilities, as well as working to nurture a community of developers around an emerging Library 2.0 Platform. Paul has a Doctorate in Archaeology from the University of York.

Access 2006 :: Mark Jordan - Drupal Hacks for Libraries

2007-05-08T08:39:00.000-05:00

Talk given at the Access 2006 conference on October 13, 2006.

MP3 (11:55)

Mark Jordan is head of Systems at Simon Fraser University and maintains drupaLib.

http://drupalib.interoperating.info

Access 2006 :: Anne Christensen - Library Chatbots in Electronic Reference

2007-05-08T08:37:00.000-05:00

Talk given at the Access 2006 conference on October 13, 2006.

MP3 (25:57)

Anne Christensen is a Web Services Librarian at the State and University Library in Hamburg. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Library and Information Science from Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and is currently enrolled in the MLIS program at Humboldt University in Berlin.

Access 2006 :: Peter Binkley - Faceted Search with Solr

2007-05-08T08:32:00.000-05:00

Talk given at the Access 2006 conference on October 13, 2006.

MP3 (9:59)

Peter Binkley is the Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian at the University of Alberta where he is currently responsible for, among other things, the Peel Prairies Portal digitization project. He has also worked at the Alberta Library as a TAL Online Developer where he was the first developer of the virtual union catalogue TAL Online. He holds an MLIS from University of Western Ontario and a Ph.D., M.A., B.A. in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto.

Access 2006 :: Annette Bailey - LibX: A Firefox Extension for Libraries

2007-05-08T08:27:00.000-05:00

Talk given at the Access 2006 conference on October 13, 2006.

MP3 (20:20)

Annette Bailey received her MLIS degree in 2001 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Annette is the digital Assets Librarian at Virginia Tech’s University libraries. Before joing Virginia Tech, she was a research librarian at SRI International. She is the co-developer of LibX.

Talking with Talis :: Richard Cameron talks about Citeulike

2007-05-07T13:17:00.000-05:00

Originally posted on Talking with Talis on May 4, 2007.

In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I talk with Richard Cameron about Citeulike.

Citeulike started as a personal project to help Richard with work towards his PhD. On the day he turned it on, nine people found it and signed up. Today 37,000 others have joined them.

We discuss the site, its users and uses, now and in the future.

Listen Now | Download MP3 [29 mins, 20Mb]

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources:

MediaBerkman :: Teresa Hackett on Digital Libraries in Developing Nations

2007-05-02T19:40:00.000-05:00

Originally posted in MediaBerkman on May 2, 2007.

The role and mission of libraries is to collect, organise, preserve and make available the world’s cultural and scientific heritage for current and future generations. Publicly funded libraries operating for the public benefit support access to knowledge, as well as education and training, critical to developing nations whose human resource is central to their advancement. Digital technologies are transforming the way that libraries work. What new opportunities are being created? What challenges do we face and how is eIFL.net addressing them?

Teresa Hackett runs eIFL-IP “Advocacy for Access to Knowledge: copyright & libraries”, a programme to raise awareness in copyright issues for libraries in 50 developing and transition countries. The goal is to build capacity and expertise amongst the eIFL.net library community and to represent the interests of members in key international policy fora such as WIPO, UNESCO and the WTO. Previously, Teresa was the Director of the European library association (EBLIDA), provided technical support to the European Commission library research programme and was part of the team to establish electronic information centres at the British Council Germany. Teresa is currently an Expert Resource Person on the Copyright and Other Legal Matters Committee of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA-CLM). She is a chartered librarian and in 2004 completed a post-graduate diploma in legal studies at the Dublin Institute of Technology.

AudioBerkman is a production of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 2.5 license. Download the audio podcast (time: 1:14:10). Also available as a QuickTime video (Runtime: 1:14:10, size: 320×240, 208MB, QuickTime .MOV, H.264 codec).

Jon Udell's Interviews With Innovators :: Bob Glushko & AnnaLee Saxenian

2007-05-02T15:38:00.000-05:00

Originally posted on Jon Udell's Interviews With Innovators on April 13, 2007.

This week I got together with Bob Glushko and AnnaLee Saxenian to discuss their new program in services design at UC Berkeley's school of information. I had earlier interviewed Bob Glushko about the book he co-authored, with Tim McGrath, on document engineering. Now a professor in the school of information at Berkeley, Bob headed up Commerce One's XML architecture and technical standards activities from 1999 to 2002, and is now a member of the OASIS board.

AnnaLee Saxenian is the dean of Berkeley's school of information. Her 1996 book, "Regional Advantage: Culture and Competition in Silicon Valley and Route 128", is the classic and often-cited study of how gregarious engineers in the Valley created social capital that produced a competitive advantage for the region. In 1996 she followed that with "The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy."

To commemorate the announcement of their new program, Information and Service Design, a symposium was held in early March. Graduate students gave presentations based on papers they'd written, and in preparation for this podcast I watched more of the videos of those presentations than I had planned to. These are mostly older students who have returned to school with a combination of work experience and an appreciation for the contemporary digital lifestyle. Now they're learning how to apply those perspectives to the new interdisciplinary science of service design. You can see, in those videos, that they're having fun learning about this stuff. And you can hear, in this podcast, that Bob Glushko and AnnaLee Saxenian are having fun figuring out how to teach it.

Resources:

Jon Udell's Interviews With Innovators :: Art Rhyno

2007-05-02T15:31:00.000-05:00

Originally posted on Jon Udell's Interviews With Innovators on April 27, 2007.

Art Rhyno is a systems librarian at the University of Windsor, in Ontario, Canada. He's a self-proclaimed library geek with a passion for innovative ways to make library information systems more useful.

In this conversation Jon Udell and Rhyno discuss the themes that emerged from the recent code4lib conference. They also talk about Rhyno's ongoing interest in making connections between systems that live on the desktop and systems that live in the cloud.

Rhyno and his wife are also the owners of the Essex Free Press, a weekly community newspaper that's been published since 1896. They reflect on the mission of local newspapers, and on how emerging Internet technologies can support and extend that mission.

Resources:

Talking with Talis :: Bess Sadler talks about eIFL and Library-in-a-box

2007-05-02T15:26:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by Talking with Talis on April 25, 2007.

In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I talk with Bess Sadler of the The University of Virginia Library, about her involvement with eIFL and the Library-in-a-box project.

Library-in-a-box is the first project of the Free and Open Source Software division of eIFL. It seeks to enable the development and use of Open Source Library Systems in developing and transition countries.

Listen Now | Download MP3 [36 mins, 25Mb]

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources:

Jon Udell's Interviews With Innovators :: Geoffrey Bilder

2007-04-09T14:26:00.000-05:00

Originally posted on IT Conversations on April 6, 2007. See also Jon Udell's blog posting about this conversation.

Although Tim Berners-Lee once famously declared that "Cool URIs don't change," factors beyond our control make it hard for most of us to avoid link rot. Geoffrey Bilder is the director of strategic initiatives for CrossRef, a company whose mission is "to be the citation linking backbone for all scholarly information in electronic form." CrossRef, in other words, is in the business of combating link rot.

The world of scholarly and professional publishing revolves around reliable citation. In previous podcasts with Tony Hammond and Dan Chudnov I've explored some of the technologies and methods used by these publishers -- including digital object identifiers and OpenURL -- to assure that reliability.

CrossRef plays a key role in that technological ecosystem. In this conversation, Geoffrey and I discuss how everyday blog publishing systems could offer the same kinds of persistence, integrity, and accountability provided by scholarly and professional publishing systems. And we explore why that might matter more than most people would think.

Geoffrey Bilder is Director of Strategic Initiatives at CrossRef, and has over 15 years experience as a technical leader in scholarly technology. He co-founded Brown University's Scholarly Technology Group in 1993, providing the Brown academic community with advanced technology consulting in support of their research, teaching and scholarly communication.

Bilder was subsequently head of IT R&D at Monitor Group, a global management consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 2002 to 2005, he was Chief Technology Officer of scholarly publishing firm Ingenta, and just prior to joining CrossRef, he was a Publishing Technology Consultant at Scholarly Information Strategies, where he consulted extensively with publishers and librarians on emerging social software technologies and how they may affect scholarly and professional researchers.

Resources:

Chronicle of Higher Education :: Brewster Kahle - How Digital Book Collections Will Change Academe

2007-04-06T13:45:00.000-05:00

Brewster Kahle, Director of the Internet Archive, was interviewed this week in a Chronicle of Higher Education podcast on the Economics and Feasibility of Mass Book Digitization. Among the many interesting points in the interview was that one of the biggest challenges is to such a mass digitization effort to believe that to digitize massive numbers of books and make them available is actually possible. The Open Content Alliance has put together a suite of technology that brings down the cost for a color scan with OCR to 10 cents per page or about $30 per book. He then goes on to perform this calculation: the library system in the U.S. is a 12B industry. One million books digitized a year is $30M, or “a little less than .3 percent of one year’s budget of the United States library system would build a 1 million book library that would be available to anyone for free.” He also covers copyright concerns including the more liberal copyright laws in countries such as China.
(Abstract from Peter Murray)

Talking with Talis :: Dan Champion talks about Revish

2007-04-06T09:48:00.000-05:00

Originally posted on the Talking with Talis podcast on March 27, 2007.

In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, Richard Wallis talks with Dan Champion founder of Revish.

Revish is a book review community site which is to be launched on Friday 30th March 2007. We talk about Dan's career and how the idea of Revish took shape and developed in to a reality. How Revish differs from other book sites such as Shelfari and LibraryThing is also discussed as well as the motivations of the type of person that would want to be a member of the Revish community.

Download MP3 [17 mins, 4 Mb]

During the conversation, we refer to the following resources:

MediaBerkman :: Gavin Yamey on “Opening Up to Open Access: What Can Other Disciplines Learn from the Sciences?” (part 2)

2007-04-05T15:26:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by MediaBerkman, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society Podcast, on March 17, 2007.

Gavin Yamey on “Opening Up to Open Access: What Can Other Disciplines Learn from the Sciences?”

Download part two of the audio podcast (time: 23:10).

What can academics do to ensure that their research results are included in the growing “knowledge commons?” Gavin Yamey MD, Senior Editor of PLoS Medicine and Consulting Editor of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, shares his experiences in the open access movement and explores possible avenues for its expansion to other fields, with a focus on the social sciences and humanities.

MediaBerkman :: Gavin Yamey on “Opening Up to Open Access: What Can Other Disciplines Learn from the Sciences?” (part 1)

2007-04-05T15:21:00.000-05:00

Download part one of the audio podcast (time: 1:17:38).

Code4Lib 2007 :: Dan Chudnov - Fun with ZeroConf MetaOpenSearch

2007-04-05T12:15:00.000-05:00

Presentation by Dan Chudnov at Code4Lib 2007 in Athens, GA on March 1, 2007.

What if we could share our libraries like we can share music in iTunes? Maybe we can. Maybe a little ZeroConf and OpenSearch added to existing library systems like metasearch and service resolvers can help make it happen faster, easier, and cheaper than you might think. Or two of those, at least.

Play talk on Odeo.

Video and slides available.

Code4Lib 2007 :: Ed Summers - Atom Publishing Protocol Primer

2007-04-05T12:11:00.000-05:00

Presentation by Ed Summers at Code4Lib 2007 in Athens, GA on March 1, 2007.

The Atom Publishing Protocol is an HTTP based protocol for publishing and editing Web resources. It has direct relevance for libraries and archives that are increasingly interested in building repositories of content on the web. In this presentation I will cover why the protocol was created, how it is being developed, and how to build out and exercise a simple APP application.

Play talk on Odeo.

Video and slides available.

Code4Lib 2007 :: Bess Sadler and Tigran Zargaryan - Library-in-a-Box

2007-04-05T11:59:00.000-05:00

Presentation by Bess Sadler and Tigran Zargaryan at Code4Lib 2007 in Athens, GA on March 1, 2007.

Libraries in developing countries have difficulty implementing and supporting commercial ILS systems. Poor support for internationalized interfaces and expensive software licensing fees contribute to an increasingly unsupportable situation in libraries around the world. Electronic Information for Libraries is currently planning the development of "Library-in-a-Box," an open-source, fully internationalized integrated library system, designed to be easy to install and support, and with next-generation OPAC features like faceted browsing. Library-in-a-box will build on the work already done by evergreen and koha. This talk will discuss the current state and future plans of this project.

Play talk on Odeo.

Video available.

Code4Lib 2007 :: Terry Reese - LibraryFind

2007-04-05T11:11:00.000-05:00

Presentation by Terry Reese at Code4Lib 2007 in Athens, GA on February 28 / March 1, 2007.

Over the past 1/2 year, Oregon State University (OSU) Libraries have been actively developing a hybrid federated search service called LibraryFind. We believe that our approach is unique in a number of ways (knowledge-base management, caching, OpenURL integration). OSU believes LibraryFind has something to contribute to the library community, and I’d like to show attendees what LibraryFind is, some things we learned through usability studies and how they can get the software and start playing.

Play talk on Odeo.

Video available.

Code4Lib 2007 :: Michael Doran - The Intellectual Property Disclosure Process: Releasing Open Source Software in Academia

2007-04-05T11:06:00.000-05:00

Presentation by Michael Doran at Code4Lib 2007 in Athens, GA on March 2, 2007.

Presentation by Michael Doran at Code4Lib 2007 in Athens, GA

This presentation will cover the copyright issues and pitfalls that arise when a locally created software application is being considered for release under an open-source license. It will be based on the knowledge and experience gained shepherding two applications through the intellectual property disclosure process at the University of Texas at Arlington, so that the applications could be officially released as open source.

Play talk on Odeo.

Video and slides available.

Code4Lib 2007 :: Casey Durfee - Open-Source Endeca in 250 Lines or Less

2007-04-05T09:30:00.001-05:00

Presentation by Casey Durfee at Code4Lib 2007 in Athens, GA on March 2, 2007.

I will detail how you can create an OPAC with features comparable to Endeca or AquaBrowser's search products (faceted browsing, relevancy ranking, fuzzy searching) using the open-source Apache Solr search engine and your favorite web programming language. I will present a catalog with most of Endeca's features in 250 lines of code or less and discuss performance/scalability concerns and common pitfalls when using Solr.

Play talk on Odeo.

Video available.

OPAL LIS Topics and Trends :: The Internet: Fact or Fiction: Web Site Evaluation Strategies

2007-04-04T11:29:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by OPAL LIS Topics and Trends.

The Internet: Fact or Fiction: Web Site Evaluation Strategies presented by librarians from the Library of Congress on November 8, 2006.

OPAL LIS Topics and Trends :: A 21st Century Printing Press: Blogs as a Publishing Mechanism

2007-04-04T11:28:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by OPAL LIS Topics and Trends.

A 21st Century Printing Press: Blogs as a Publishing Mechanism presented February 13, 2007 by Rebecca Hedreen as part of the Five Weeks to a Social Library series of online workshops.

(18.1 MB file; playback time of 43 minutes)

Text chat transcript

OPAL LIS Topics and Trends :: Blogging Beyond the Basics

2007-04-04T11:27:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by OPAL LIS Topics and Trends.

Blogging Beyond the Basics presented on February 15, 2007 by Nanette Donohue as part of the Five Weeks to a Social Library series of online workshops.

(21 MB file; playback time of 52 minutes)

Text chat transcript

OPAL LIS Topics and Trends :: Getting Up to Speed with RSS Feeds

2007-04-04T11:24:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by OPAL LIS Topics and Trends.

Getting Up to Speed with RSS Feeds presented on February 20, 2007 by Michele Mizejewski as part of the Five Weeks to a Social Library series of online workshops.

(16.6 MB file; playback time of 41 minutes)

Text chat transcript

OPAL LIS Topics and Trends :: Make Your Library del.icio.us: Social Bookmarking in the Stacks

2007-04-04T11:22:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by OPAL LIS Topics and Trends.

Make Your Library del.icio.us: Social Bookmarking in the Stacks presented on February 22, 2007 by Jason Griffey from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga as part of the Five Weeks to a Social Library series of online workshops.

(25.8 MB file; playback time of 64 minutes)

Text chat transcript

OPAL LIS Topics and Trends :: The Wonderful World of Wikis

2007-04-04T11:21:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by OPAL LIS Topics and Trends.

The Wonderful World of Wikis presented on March 1, 2007 by Chad Boeninger from Ohio University and Starr Hoffman from the University of North Texas as part of the Five Weeks to a Social Library series of online workshops.

(8.4 MB file; playback time of 55 minutes)

Text chat transcript

OPAL LIS Topics and Trends :: flickr + libraries

2007-04-04T11:20:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by OPAL LIS Topics and Trends.

flickr + libraries presented on March 6, 2007 by Michael Porter and Steve Lawson as part of the Five Weeks to a Social Library series of online workshops.

(21.1 MB file; playback time of 53 minutes)

Text chat transcript

OPAL LIS Topics and Trends :: Copyright and the Academic Librarian, Part 2

2007-04-04T10:20:00.000-05:00

Part 2 of Copyright and the Academic Librarian, presented on March 14, 2007 by Rebecca Butler, the author of the book, Copyright for Teachers and Librarians, published by Neal-Schuman in 2004. Sponsored by the Rolling Prairie Library System.

(15.5 MB file; playback time of 39 minutes)

OPAL LIS Topics and Trends :: Copyright and the Academic Librarian, Part 1

2007-04-04T10:11:00.000-05:00

Part 1 of Copyright and the Academic Librarian, presented on March 14, 2007 by Rebecca Butler, the author of the book, Copyright for Teachers and Librarians, published by Neal-Schuman in 2004. Sponsored by the Rolling Prairie Library System.

(32.3 MB file; playback time of 81 minutes)

ACRL Podcasts :: Ever Wonder What the Future Holds?

2007-04-04T09:33:00.000-05:00

Originally posted on the ACRL Podcast on March 31, 2007.

The ACRL Research Committee unveiled the top ten assumptions for the future of academic libraries during ACRL National Conference on Saturday March 31, 2007. A panel representing community and liberal arts colleges, research university libraries, as well as an observer of the higher education environment reacted and commented upon the assumptions.

Listen to Pamela Snelson, president, ACRL and college librarian at Franklin and Marshall College, and James L. Mullins, chair of the ACRL Research Committee and dean of libraries at Purdue University discuss the top ten assumptions.

Now it's your turn. The Research Committee wants to know what you think:

How does each assumption impact your library or you professionally?
Are you aware of any developing issues or nascent trends that are not captured in the list?

Reply online by April 30, 2007, at https://marvin.foresightint.com/surveys/Tier1Survey/ACRL/156

Top ten assumptions for the future of academic and research libraries:

1. There will be an increased emphasis on digitizing collections, preserving digital archives, and improving methods of data storage and retrieval.

2. The skill set for librarians will continue to evolve in response to the needs and expectations of the changing populations (student and faculty) that they serve.

3. Students and faculty will increasingly demand faster and greater access to services.

4. Debates about intellectual property will become increasingly common in higher education.

5. The demand for technology related services will grow and require additional funding.

6. Higher education will increasingly view the institution as a business.

7. Students will increasingly view themselves as customers and consumers, expecting high quality facilities and services.

8. Distance Learning will be an increasingly common option in higher education, and will co-exist but not threaten the traditional bricks-and-mortar model.

9. Free, public access to information stemming from publicly funded research will continue to grow.

10. Privacy will continue to be an important issue in librarianship.

IT Conversations :: Karen Coyle on Libraries and Web Standards

2007-03-30T09:09:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by IT Conversations on March 12, 2007.

Libraries don't always get the credit due them for setting information technology standards. This work continues as the emerging semantic Web allowing easier integration of information. Digital library consultant Karen Coyle describes the benefits of this work to all Web users, such as plug-ins for Firefox, and a common standardized layer of metadata across the Web, such as the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative. Meanwhile, in an age of Google and Microsoft digitizing books for their own businesses, libraries are trying to figure out the tradeoff between such ease of access and librarians' need for control over the data in an authoritative way. The standards process is also in flux, trending away from formal standards towards more ad hoc, user-generated standards. What role does the Open Content Alliance play? How does today's library decide what to throw away and what to keep?

Learning Times :: "Blended Librarians" in the LT Green Room

2007-03-20T12:25:00.000-05:00

Originally posted in the LearningTimes Green Room on November 10, 2006.

In this episode, Susan Manning and Dan Balzer are joined by John Shank and Steven Bell, co-founders of http://www.blendedlibrarian.org, a community of librarians who blend instructional design, technology, and librarianship. John is Instruction Design Librarian and Head of Instructional Design Services at Penn State University - Berks Campus and Steven is Director of the Library at Philadelphia University. The interview was conducted with Skype.

The definition of the blended librarian is an academic librarian who combines the traditional skill set of librarianship with the information technologist’s hardware and software skills and adds to that the instructional or educational designer’s ability to apply technology appropriately in the teaching and learning process. Librarians integrating themselves into the teaching/learning process.

They do it all! Is it all about multi-tasking? It’s not just about wearing lots of hats but branching professionally into new areas.

Will multi-tasking make librarians relevant? John says no, but a librarian who has a deeper understanding and can apply these technologies to meet service needs will have lasting power. It’s all about partnerships.

Information literacy skills development is part of the blended librarian’s work. This led to a discussion of whose job it is and some about faculty resistance. John has solutions! Context specific information fluency building.

Goal for community is to develop tools and models. You can find them at http://www.blendedlibrarian.org and then join the blended librarians online learning community for interactive discussion, lists, resources, and webcasts.

EDUCAUSE CONNECT :: An Interview with Google's Vint Cerf

2007-03-15T19:39:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by Matt Pasiewicz on September 25, 2006.

This 25 minute recording provides coverage of an interview with Google's Vint Cerf. In a couple of weeks, Dr. Cerf will be speaking at our Annual Conference, and we hope to see you then. For now, let's listen in as we cover a range of topics including Google Video, digital preservation, intellectual property, net neutrality and high performance computing.

EDUCAUSE 2006 Podcast :: An Interview with MIT's Phil Long

2007-03-15T19:26:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by Matt Pasiewicz reporting for the EDUCAUSE 2006 Podcast on October 17, 2006.

The attached MP3 provides continuing coverage of a series of interviews conducted at the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference. Listen as Marilu Goodyear hosts a 30 minute interview with Phil Long, Senior Strategist for the Academic Computing Enterprise at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Among other things, they take on the issue of patents, discuss Ray Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns, and tackle the prospects for continued research on learning space design.

EDUCAUSE 2006 Podcast :: An Interview with Rachel Edwards

2007-03-15T19:20:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by Matt Pasiewicz reporting for the EDUCAUSE 2006 Podcast on November 3, 2006.

In this 16 minute recording, we'll hear from Rachael Edwards, Learning Grid Manager at the University of Warwick. Listen in as she shares a bit about their innovative library and learning space.

EDUCAUSE 2006 Podcast :: An Interview with Susan Perry

2007-03-15T19:11:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by Matt Pasiewicz reporting for the EDUCAUSE 2006 Podcast on November 3, 2006.

In this 13 minute recording, Bill Hogue sits down down with CLIR's (Council on Library & Information Resources) Interim President, Susan Perry, for a discussion about digtial preservation, IT/Library collaboration, and much more.

EDUCAUSE CONNECT :: An Interview with Casey Bisson

2007-03-15T19:03:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by Matt Pasiewicz (EDUCAUSE) on December 18, 2006.

In this 13 minute recording, we'll hear from Plymouth State University Library Information Technologist, Casey Bisson. Listen in as he discusses a range of topics, including social software, open source, and his new WPOPAC software.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.

EDUCAUSE CONNECT :: An Interview with Jeremy Frumkin

2007-03-15T18:58:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by Matt Pasiewicz (EDUCAUSE) on December 18, 2006.

In this 18 minute recording, we'll hear from Oregon State's Gray Family Chair for Innovative Library Services, Jeremy Frumkin. Listen in as he discusses federated search, open source, and the upcoming Code4Lib conference.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.

EDUCAUSE CONNECT :: An Interview with Janet McCue

2007-03-15T18:52:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by Matt Pasiewicz (EDUCAUSE) on December 18, 2006.

In this 22 minute recording, we'll hear from Director of the Mann Library & Associate University Librarian for Life Sciences at Cornell University, Janet McCue. Listen in as she touches on topics like research computing, social software and much, much more.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.

EDUCAUSE CONNECT :: An Interview with Christopher Blackall

2007-03-15T18:47:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by Matt Pasiewicz (EDUCAUSE) on December 18, 2006.

In this 19 minute recording, we'll hear from the National Portfolio Coordinator of the Australian National University, Christopher Blackall. Listen in as he shares thoughts on institutional repositories, standards, and more.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.

EDUCAUSE 2006 Podcast :: An Interview with Bruce Taggart

2007-03-15T18:39:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by Matt Pasiewicz reporting for the EDUCAUSE 2006 Podcast on December 18, 2006.

In this 17 minute recording, Marliu Goodyear sits down with Lehigh University Vice Provost of Library and Technology Services, Bruce Taggart, to cover a range of topics including professional development, accessibility and portals.

EDUCAUSE CONNECT :: An Interview with Brad Wheeler

2007-03-15T18:32:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by Matt Pasiewicz (EDUCAUSE) on December 18, 2006.

In this 15 minute recording, we'll sit down with Indiana University CIO, Brad Wheeler. Listen in as he takes on the issue of patents, cyberinfrastructure, open source as a professional development exercise and the role of librarians in research.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.

EDUCAUSE CONNECT :: An Interview with Lisa Hinchliffe

2007-03-15T18:24:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by Matt Pasiewicz (EDUCAUSE) on December 18, 2006.

In this 15 minute recording, Lisa Hinchliffe, Head of the Undergraduate Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, shares some thoughts on, among other things, the role of librarians in the social computing sphere and shares some thoughts on her experiences there.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.

EDUCAUSE CONNECT :: An Interview with Geneva Henry

2007-03-15T18:19:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by Matt Pasiewicz (EDUCAUSE) on December 18, 2006.

In this 15 minute recording, we'll hear from Rice University's Digital Library Initiative Executive Director, Geneva Henry, about a range of topics including open source, connexions, intellectual property and more.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.

EDUCAUSE CONNECT :: An Interview with Glenda Morgan

2007-03-15T18:15:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by Matt Pasiewicz (EDUCAUSE) on December 18, 2006.

In this 17 minute recording, we'll hear from Cal State's Director of Academic Technology Research, Glenda Morgan. Listen in as she shares some thoughts about her research into faculty use of technology, intellectual property, and a range of other topics.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.

EDUCAUSE CONNECT :: An Interview with Diane Harley

2007-03-15T14:44:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by Matt Pasiewicz (EDUCAUSE) on December 18, 2006.

In this 16 minute recording, we'll hear from Diane Harley, a Senior Researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. Listen in as she covers a range of topics, including her research of faculty use of digital materials, open access, scholarly communication and more..

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.

EDUCAUSE CONNECT :: An Interview with Eileen Fenton

2007-03-15T14:42:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by Matt Pasiewicz (EDUCAUSE) on December 18, 2006.

In this 16 minute recording, we'll hear from Portico's Executive Director, Eileen Fenton. Listen in as she shares some background on Portico their digital preservation work.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.

EDUCAUSE CONNECT :: An Interview with Chuck Henry

2007-03-15T14:39:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by Matt Pasiewicz (EDUCAUSE) on December 18, 2006.

In this 21 minute recording, we'll hear from incoming CLIR president, Chuck Henry. Listen in as he shares some thoughts on the involvement of libraries in scholarly publishing, cyberinfrastructure and much more.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.

EDUCAUSE CONNECT :: An Interview with Bill Arms

2007-03-15T14:36:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by Matt Pasiewicz (EDUCAUSE) on December 18, 2006.

In this 13 minute recording, we'll hear from Cornell's Bill Arms. Listen in as he shares some thoughts on the evolving landscape of digital libraries.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.

EDUCAUSE CONNECT :: An Interview with Herbert van de Sompel

2007-03-15T14:31:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by Matt Pasiewicz (EDUCAUSE) on December 18, 2006.

In this 20 minute recording, we'll hear sit down with the Team Lead for Digital Library Research at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Herbert van de Sompel. Listen in as he discusses a range of topics including institutional repositories, scholarly communications and more.

See also:
http://www.mesur.org
http://www.projectcounter.org
http://www.openarchives.org/ore/
http://public.lanl.gov/herbertv/

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.

EDUCAUSE CONNECT :: An Interview about Zotero

2007-03-15T14:27:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by Matt Pasiewicz (EDUCAUSE) on December 18, 2006.

n this 15 minute recording, we'll hear from GMU's Roy Rosenzweig and Josh Greenberg. Listen in has they cover a range of topics including the very interesting Zotero Firefox Extension.

Also of interest:
http://h2obeta.law.harvard.edu/

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.

EDUCAUSE CONNECT :: An Interview with MacKenzie Smith

2007-03-15T14:23:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by Matt Pasiewicz (EDUCAUSE) on December 18, 2006.

In this 19 minute recording, we'll hear from MIT's MacKenzie Smith about a range of interesting work evolving out of SIMILE, D-Space and more..

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.

EDUCAUSE 2006 Podcast :: Creating and Using Social Bookmarking in a University Library

2007-03-15T14:14:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by Carrie Windham reporting for the EDUCAUSE 2006 Podcast on January 24, 2007.

In this 45 minute recording from the 2006 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference Session, we’ll hear from Laurie Allen and Michael Winkler in a session entitled, “Penntags: Creating and Using Social Bookmarking in a University Library.” We’ll learn how librarians at the Penn Library created a social bookmarking system that allows librarians, faculty, and students to tag, create, and share content and how that system has expanded library services and resources.

EDUCAUSE CONNECT :: An Interview with Paul Gandel

2007-03-15T12:26:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by Matt Pasiewicz (EDUCAUSE) on October 19, 2006. Partially transcribed by Tom Keays.

The attached 14 minute recording provides coverage of an interview with Syracuse CIO, Paul Gandel with EDUCAUSE's Gene Spencer. About 10 minutes into a wide-ranging discussion covering topics such as strategies for talking with the press, data visualization, and scholarly communication, there was a section on the ideas of the library information commons and embedded librarianship.

See also:

EDUCAUSE CONNECT :: An Interview with James Michalko

2007-03-15T12:17:00.000-05:00

Originally posted by Matt Pasiewicz (EDUCAUSE) on December 18, 2006.

In this 14 minute recording, we'll get an update from OCLC's Jim Michalko. Listen in as he shares thoughts about a range of developments including the combination of RLG and OCLC..

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2006 Fall Task Force Meeting. The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.