Last weekend, I read The Information Diet by Clay Johnson. These days before I buy almost anything from a book to a vacuum cleaner I check online reviews. Reviews for this book were mixed, but positive enough for me to buy it. I needed something new on media bias and a reminder to not be [...]
Not including cancelled talks, 100%ofall #swib11 speakers are male with ~1/3 female participants Congrats to #gender #fail via @nichtich @nopiedra on a conference in Germany on semantic web in libraries. I don’t want to overly criticize this conference, as I don’t have more information about it than this tweet. I am not the kind of [...]
Any librarian that thinks that libraries move at a slow pace should try standing outside them sometime. In the past two years alone we’ve seen the the eBook market grow from virtually nothing in non-US markets to dominate conversation, a huge increase in the amount of legal streaming content (and simultaneous geolocking), copyright term extensions, [...]
.!. The Poet movie Two articles out this week describe semantic projects which aim to improve findability and personalisation: An EU-funded project is described in Next-generation hi-fi: deepening the musical experience. One of the aims of the projects, called Semantic Hi-Fi, is to increase the number of ways in which you can search for music [...]
The UBC Health Library has added a page on the Semantic Web to their wiki. Check it out for a links to resources on the concept and a great section on why health librarians should care – The semantic web could potentially be a place where much of the knowledge of librarians and computer scientists [...]