Smithsonian Crowdsourcing Since 1847! | The Bigger Picture
Given our interest in social metadata, interesting that one of our partners (Smithsonian) has been at “crowdsourcing” for such a long time!
The Case for Cursive – NYTimes.com
The death of cursive. Could it really lead to less of an interest in (paper-based) archives? (Merrilee)
News: No Room for Books – Inside Higher Ed
University of Denver announces book move and is greeted with mountains of criticism. Read mostly for the comments (Merrilee)
Amazon’s lengthy cloud outage shows the danger of complexity
The risks of storing in the cloud… (Karen)
Linked data creates a new lens for examining the U.S. Civil War – O’Reilly Radar
Finally a LinkedData story that doesn’t come from a library POV! (Merrilee)
on the NRC Ph.d Program evaluation: Perhaps the most significant misguided decision in the recent study came when the committee voted against including any measures of reputational standing or perceived quality of programs. [Michalko]
Bruce Washburn (retired, 2021) was a Principal Software Engineer in OCLC Research. He provided software development support for OCLC Research initiatives and participated as a contributing team member on selected research projects. He operated the ArchiveGrid discovery system and provided software development support for selected OCLC Products and Services.
