A workshop that worked!
[Edit: added link to online workshop materials] Usually I spend my Fridays working at home trying to stop my cat from encrypting my e-mails, but Friday August 25th I spent …
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Hear for yourselves – mp3’s from the Forum
Those of you who know Merrilee know that she usually has a big smile on her face. Well, the other day she had an extra-big smile on her face. When …
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And now, for the final installment of the RLG Forum report… Following lunch on Tuesday, we reconvened with a set of talks on folksonomies, or user supplied tagging. Daniel Starr …
Read MoreRLG Forum, day two, part one
Today, we are only going to update you on the first half of the second day – otherwise this post would get too long, and besides, we want to go …
Read MoreRLG Forum, day one
Today was the first day of the RLG Member Forum, and so far, it seems to be a great success. Our venue, the theater at the Folger Shakespeare Library, is …
Read MoreUnstoppable new working group
We’re certainly not lacking any excitement these days at RLG – as if the recent news weren’t enough, today at around 10:30 am our nook of Mountain View had a …
Read MoreCollection Description for bugs and butterflies
In a previous post, I hinted at the collaborative work I’m engaged in with a number of natural history institutions. Our working group ominously titled itself RAVNS or Resources Available …
Read MoreMetropolitan’s Scholars’ License
I had a chat with Susan Chun of the Metropolitan Museum a couple of weeks ago, and she told me how their 3 year investigation into procuring a digital asset …
Read MoreMust-read articles – is it too early for best of 2006?
I finally had the opportunity to catch up and read some articles that had been pointed out to me by others and with which many of you are already likely …
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Handcrafted Metadata
Last week I went to WebWise in LA, now a conference sponsored jointly by IMLS, the Getty and OCLC, where about 350 folks had gathered to explore the theme “Inspiring …
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