Network Infrastructure for Shared Print Collections
At the ALA Midwinter conference last week, I had the opportunity to talk with several groups about some work that OCLC Research has taken up in the area of distributed …
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What’s up with museum data exchange?
I’ve recently received an e-mail from a researcher in Lugano, Switzerland who is asking about an update on our Museum Data Exchange Mellon grant. This request made me realize that …
Read MoreWebinar on WorldCat Search API
Thanks to my colleague Merrilee for announcing the WorldCat Search API. I guess I was so busy planning a Hackathon in November to help folks use it that I forgot …
Read MoreWhere should the data live? What’s it’s specific gravity?
One of the areas we targeted for attention back in 2006 as we set the work agenda with our new Research colleagues was the nature of interactions with the Integrated …
Read MoreMore Access is Better
One of my RLG colleagues today brought us a question from an institution that was considering their options for what to do with a large mass of digitized content they …
Read MoreBiodiversity Collections Index
Roger Hyam at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh just flipped the switch on a beta version of the Biodiversity Collections Index, a website which aims to connect various silos …
Read MoreA wait that’s (almost) over
As I blogged before, Some things are worth waiting for. And yes, 2008 is indeed the Year of Non-Latin References in LC/NACO Authority Records. The first of the pre-populated name …
Read MoreAcronyms – fragile and high
For quite awhile Lorcan has commented on the relatively heavy weight of library data and exchange standards. In general our community has opted for high value and low participation choices …
Read MoreUnicode milestone
Mark Davis blogged today on the Official Google Blog that Unicode passed a new milestone last December: For the first time Unicode became the most frequent encoding found on Web …
Read MoreNLA Unveils “Library Labs”
The National Library of Australia (an RLG partner institution) has announced a “Library Labs” space “let our colleagues know what we are doing, to invite comments, questions and feedback and …
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