Monthly Archives: December 2010

A fascinating and clear and concisely written article, thanks Peter Murray for the reference. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=jep;view=text;rgn=main;idno=3336451.0013.305 Academic Search Engine Spam and Google Scholar’s Resilience Against it Joeran Beel and Bela Gipp Journal of Electronic Publishing Volume 13, Issue 3, December 2010 … Continue reading →

Or: What “web-scale” innovation looks like From the comments at: http://blog.okfn.org/2010/11/29/open-bibliographic-data-how-should-the-ecosystem-work/ Jennifer Younger, chair of the Catholic Research Resources Alliance (CRRA) Board of Directors, president of OCLC Global Council, and co-chair of the OCLC Record Use Policy Council, writes (excerpted): …At the … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/17/books/17words.html The digital storehouse, which comprises words and short phrases as well as a year-by-year count of how often they appear, represents the first time a data set of this magnitude and searching tools are at the disposal of Ph.D.’s, … Continue reading →

B.Eversburg on the RDA listserv writes: Meanwhile, most of us will agree that RDA is still off the mark in that regard [getting us to “new rules and new formats for a new information era” in the words of Peter … Continue reading →

A post I made in conversation on the NGC4Lib list, that will be nothing new for programmers in the audience, but may be useful to the less technical amongst us. I didn’t realize how much ‘magic’ search results ranking — … Continue reading →

I have added patron account info display to our in-development blacklight app demo.  Since you’d need a local account to see it, and you’d need an account with overdue items and such to fully kick the tires, I’ve made a … Continue reading →

Architecting for shareabiltiy I’ve often talked before about the need, when sharing open source projects, to make sure any local configurations or customizations or over-rides are kept cleanly seperate from the shared code.  This allows you to more easily update … Continue reading →