Of late I’ve been updating an article on Access to Knowledge and the impact of policy and governance on access to scholarly information online. As I mentioned on my post about Web 3.0 a few months ago, I think it is important to develop a focus on enabling access. We can have all the semantic [...]
We’re pulling together the content and site for the Semantic Library Learning Program, and one of the questions that has come up is what are the background skills? What do you need to know before you learn about the Semantic Web? The list includes XML, databases, and metadata amongst others. Another more broadly defined skillset [...]
A few bookmarks while I was conferencing and traveling: Semantic Library: RDF in Practice This recent podcast by Robert Wolfe at MIT (via Catalogablog) is what I’ll be listening to on my commute tomorrow. Topics include SIMILE, RDF and SKOS. RDA satellite conference report The Bib Blog has a good summary of the RDA pre-conference [...]
It’s been a whirlwind couple of months, but one of the things I was happy to see at the 2008 IFLA Congress in Quebec City last month was a flyer for the Mobile Library service at the Aalborg Libraries in Denmark. The Mobile Library includes content specifically adapted for mobiles, as well as a mobile-friendly [...]