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 [...]
A clear indication that concept of semantic web and libraries is moving into the mainstream – ALA’s Library Technology Reports is publishing Understanding the Semantic Web: Bibliographic Data and Metadata by Karen Coyle: The change that libraries will need to make in response must include the transformation of the library’s public catalog from a stand-alone [...]
We’re well into 2009 now, but there’s always time for trends! Kathryn Greenhill at Librarians Matter recently compiled a few of the trends that have been making the rounds on library blogs last month. Cloud, Semantic Web, and Linked Data abound in predictions and in posts emerging through the first two months of the year. [...]
A while ago now, Jodi Schneider floated the idea of setting up a Planet for Semantic Web and Libraries. I had some trouble with various flavours of the Planet and Venus software, so instead I put something I’m calling a ‘Planet Lite’ together in Yahoo Pipes. Let me know if you like it! And feel [...]
Allan Cho over at Allan’s Library links to the announcement that semantic search engine site Hakia is seeking submissions of credible websites and sees it both as an opportunity and a cause for concern. Hakia is asking – Librarians and information professionals can suggest URLs leading to the most credible Websites on a given topic. [...]