Open Libraries

Presenting at ALA panel on Future of Information Retrieval

Jay Datema — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:43:39 +0000

The Future of Information Retrieval

Ron Miller, Director of Product Management, HW Wilson, hosts a panel of industry leaders including:
Mike Buschman, Program Manager, Windows Live Academic, Microsoft.
R. David Lankes, PhD, Director of the Information Institute of Syracuse, and Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University.
Marydee Ojala, Editor, ONLINE, and contributing feature and news writer to Information Today, Searcher, EContent, Computers in Libraries, among other publications.
Jay Datema, Technology Editor, Library Journal

Add to calendar:
Monday, 25 June 2007
8-10 a.m, Room 103b
Preliminary slides and audio attached.

NetConnect Spring 2007 podcast episode 3

Jay Datema — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 15:21:36 +0000

In Requiem for a Nun, William Faulkner famously said, “The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.” With the advent of new processes, the past can survive and be retrieved in new ways and forms. The new skills needed to preserve digital information are the same ones that librarians have always employed to serve users: selection, acquisition, and local knowledge.

The print issue of NetConnect is bundled with the April 15th issue of Library Journal, or you can read the articles online.

Jessamyn West of librarian.net says in Saving Digital History that librarians and archivists should preserve digital information, starting with weblogs. Tom Hyry advocates using extensible processing in Reassessing Backlogs to make archives more accessible to users. And newly appointed Digital Library Federation executive director Peter Brantley covers the potential of the rapidly evolving world of print on demand in a Paperback in 4 Minutes. Melissa Rethlefsen describes the new breed of search engines in Product Pipeline, including those that incorporate social search. Gail Golderman and Bruce Connolly compare databases’ pay-per-view in Pay by the Slice, and Library Web Chic Karen Coombs argues that librarians should embrace a balancing act in the debate between Privacy vs Personalization.

Jessamyn and Peter join me in a far-ranging conversation about some of the access challenges involved for readers and librarians in the world of online books, including common APIs for online books and how to broaden availability for all users.

Books
New Downtown Library
Neal Stephenson
Henry Petroski

Software
Greasemonkey User Scripts
Twitter
Yahoo Pipes
Dopplr

Outline
0:00 Music
0:10 Introduction

1:46 DLF Executive Director Peter Brantley
2:30 California Digital Library

4:13 Jessamyn West
5:08 Ask Metafilter
6:17 Saving Digital History
8:01 What Archivists Save
12:02 Culling from the Firehose of Information
12:34 API changes
14:15 Reading 2.0
15:13 Common APIs and Competitive Advantage
17:15 A Paperback in 4 Minutes
18:36 Lulu
19:06 On Demand Books
21:24 Attempts at hacking Google Book Search
22:30 Contracts change?
23:17 Unified Repository
23:57 Long Tail Benefit
24:45 Full Text Book Searching is Huge
25:08 Impact of Google
27:08 Broadband in Vermont
29:16 Questions of Access
30:45 New Downtown Library
33:21 Library Value Calculator
34:07 Hardbacks are Luxury Items
35:47 Developing World Access
37:54 Preventing the Constant Gardener scenario
40:21 Book on the Bookshelf
40:54 Small Things Considered
41:53 Diamond Age
43:10 Comment that spurred Brantley to read the book
43:40 Marketing Libraries
44:15 Pimp My Firefox
45:45 Greasemonkey User Scripts
45:53 Twitter
46:25 Yahoo Pipes
48:07 Dopplr
50:25 Software without the Letter E
50:45 DLF Spring Forum
52:00 OpenID in Libraries
53:40 Outro
54:00 Music

Listen here or subscribe to the podcast feed

NetConnect Winter 2007 podcast episode 2

Jay Datema — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 07:53:01 +0000

This is the second episode of the Open Libraries podcast, and I was pleased to have the opportunity to talk to some of the authors of the Winter netConnect supplement, entitled Digitize This!

The issue covers how libraries can start to digitize their unique collections. K. Matthew Dames and Jil Hurst-Wahl wrote an article about copyright and practical considerations in getting started. They join me, along with Lotfi Belkhir, CEO of Kirtas Technologies, to discuss the important issue of digitization quality.

One of the issues that has surfaced recently is exactly what libraries are receiving from the Google Book Search project. As the project grows beyond the initial five libraries into more university and Spanish libraries, many of the implications have become more visible.

The print issue of NetConnect is bundled with the January 15th issue of Library Journal, or you can read the articles online.

Recommended Books:
Kevin
Knowledge Diplomacy

Jill
Business as Unusual

Lotfi
Free Culture
Negotiating China
The Fabric of the Cosmos

Software
SuperDuper
Google Documents
Arabic OCR

0 Music and Intro
1:59 Kevin Dames on his weblog Copycense
2:48 Jill Hurst-Wahl on Digitization 101
4:16 Jill and Kevin on their article
4:34 SLA Digitization Workshop
5:24 Western NY Project
6:45 Digitization Expo
7:43 Lotfi Belkhir
9:00 Books to Bytes
9:26 Cornell and Microsoft Digitization
11:00 Scanning vs Digitization
11:48 Google Scanning
15:22 Michael Keller’s OCLC presentation
16:14 Google and the Public Domain
17:52 Author’s Guild sues Google
21:13 Quality Issues
24:10 MBooks
26:56 Public Library digitization
27:14 Incorporating Google Books into the catalog
28:49 CDL contract
30:22 Microsoft Book Search
31:15 Double Fold
39:20 Print on Demand and Digitization
39:25 Books@Google
43:14 History on a Postcard
45:33 iPRES conference
45:46 LOCKSS
46:45 OAIS

NetConnect Fall 2006 podcast episode 1

Jay Datema — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 03:55:20 +0000

This is the first episode of the Open Libraries podcast, and I was pleased to have the opportunity to talk to some of the authors of the Fall netConnect supplement, entitled Libraries 2010. It features three librarians, including Karen Coombs, University of Houston Libraries; Melissa Rethlefsen, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, and Dorothea Salo, George Mason University. They talk about their articles in the Fall 2006 issue of netConnect, as well as Zotero, project management tips, using social software, and the upcoming online conference Five Weeks to a Social Library.

The issue covers how libraries are doing strategic planning for the next four years, particularly with online initiatives. The Product Pipeline article covers social reference services, including Connotea and CiteULike.

You will be able to read the articles online. We’re eager to hear your comments about the episode, since we’re still figuring things out as we go.

Show notes:
Dorothea strongly recommends the newly-released Zotero for citation capture
What problem does social software solve? Think “group projects”
One low barrier tool for library project management: Google Calendar
Learn about the surprising profitability of society publishers

Firefox Extensions:
CustomizeGoogle
TabMixPlus

Text Editors:
oXygen
Eclipse

0 Music and Intro
2:45 Dorothea on Zotero
4:23 Social Software=”Group Projects”
5:38 Karen on Writely
7:00 Melissa on Mayo
8:43 Karen on Project Management
12:40 Dorothea on repositories
16:40 Melissa on open access
18:20 Dorothea on open access monoliths
20:20 Melissa on society publishers
22:21 Karen on Texas Digital Library project
25:19 ARL Spec Kit on Institutional Repositories
26:34 MARS is 2
27:00 Karen on early adopters
27:50 DSpace Hacks
28:26 Open source projects and plugins
33:13 CVS for DSpace
34:25 Karen on wikis, blogs, and production
36:45 Melissa on Mayo’s Live Journal project
40:40 Evangelizing your project
43:13 The freedom to fail
43:47 Library School
45:00 Recommended books and software
49:20 Long Tail and Recommendation of Crowds
51:14 Eclipse
52:17 Open Access and Terry Prachett
54:08 Upcoming conference presentations
57:22 Five Weeks to a Social Library