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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: Google
Schema.org
Google, Bing and Yahoo have joined their efforts and have created schema.org, a site that offers “a one stop resource” for metadata structure for web pages. There are two schema that stand out as excellent additions to library web sites: … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, Libraries, Library 2.0, OPAC, Web Design
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Google Election Maps
The mid-term elections are shaping up to be quite dramatic (although not quite the roller-coaster ride that we had with the 2008 election season). And Google has come up with a new way to visualize the flood of data that … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Government, History, Maps, Online Services, Politics, Web Design
Tagged 2010 Election, election, Google, Google Maps, Government, History, Politics
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How the Digital Revolution Changed Our World
An visual chart in the current Newsweek sums up many of the changes we have seen over the past decade: Exactly How Much Are The Times A-Changin’? The categories that are in decline speak volumes: The US Postal Service is … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Books, Google, Government, History, News, Periodicals, Publishing, Statistics, WebSearch
Tagged Blogs, Books, Google, History, News, Newsweek, Publishing, Statistics
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gOOGLE Barcode
Google is celebrating the 57th anniversary of the first barcode patent by (surprise!) replacing their logo: Having played around with barcodes over the years, I got curious. I printed out the page, plugged in my declawed CueCat, and scanned the … Continue reading
Google Library?
As the Google Books settlement works its way to becoming reality, it is becoming apparent that Google Books will be transformed into something very much resembling a library. Think of how this might change our roles in society. found via … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, Libraries, Library 2.0, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google, Google Books, Google Books settlement, Libraries, Technology/Internet
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PLOS Currents : Influenza
For those who have been following H1N1 influenza virus news (and those who might expect to get questions about it), the Public Library of Science (PLOS) and Google have launched a new mashup service: PLOS Currents : Influenza is built … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Government, Libraries, Library 2.0, Medical, News, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Publishing, Search
Tagged Google, Government, H1N1, influenza, mashup, Open Access, Public Library of Science, Swine Flu, Technology/Internet
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Perfect Storm
The Perfect Storm is a brief essay in the current issue of the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) newsletter. G. Sayeed Choudhury, the author of the essay, states that “Universities have authentication and authorization systems to identify who … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Google, Groups, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, Open Access, Open Source, Software, Wiki
Tagged Blogs, CLIR, Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), Education, G. Sayeed Choudhury, Google Wave, Library, Open Source, social networking, Technology/Internet, wikis
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Books : A Plan To Scan
A very straightforward and readable overview of the issues surrounding Google’s book scanning project appeared in yesterdays Financial Times : Books : A plan to scan. A prime focus of the analysis is the Orphan Works issue, books that fall … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Ethics, Fair Use, Google, Libraries, Library 2.0, Licensing
Tagged Book scanning, Copyright, Digital libraries, Financial Times, Google, Library and information science, Orphan works, United States copyright law
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Copyfraud – Poisoning the Public Domain
Copyfraud : Poisoning the Public Domain is an introduction to some of the ways that content providers (websites, publishers, etc.) abuse copyright protections when they use public domain materials. A couple of minor points, however: The act of assigning a … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Books, Copyright, Ethics, Google, History, Licensing, Online Services, Publishing
Tagged copyfraud, Copyright, copyright law, creative commons, Project Gutenberg, public domain, Technology/Internet
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HTML 5, Google Wave, and the Future of the Web
Amidst a great many other topics, HTML 5 has been on my mind the past couple of weeks. It started on Tuesday, May 26th, with Kevin Yank posting HTML 5 : Now or Never? on the SitePoint blog. He was … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, Groups, Libraries, Library 2.0, News, Online Services, Open Source, Publishing, Web Design
Tagged collaboration mash-up tool, Facebook, FaceBook/Twitter/Blogging, Google, html, Kevin Yank, Libraries, online meetings, Online Services, Open Source, Sergey Brin, Twitter, Web Amidst, Web Design, web presences
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Open Jurist
Open Jurist is a great add-on to the free case law resources I wrote about a few days ago. Consisting of over 600,000 opinions from the federal court system, including the United States Supreme Court and the Federal Appellate Courts. … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Government, History, Online Services, Search, Web Design
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Google and Microformats
Google has made the jump into supporting Microformats as well as RDFa, calling their implementation “Rich Snippets”! This is great news on several different levels. Semantic markup within web pages provides a way to target searches much more effectively. TechCrunch … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Libraries, Library 2.0, OPAC, Web Design, WebSearch, XML
Tagged Barack Obama, David Peterson, Google, leader, library web sites, microformats, president, RDFa, Rich Snippets, search engines, SitePoint, smarter search results, TechCrunch, United States
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Google Book Search Settlement Links
Peter Murray has an incredibly good selection of links about the Google Book Search Settlement on the Disruptive Library Technology Jester blog. Really. Spend some time perusing them.
Posted in Books, Copyright, Fair Use, Google, Government, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, Publishing
Tagged Copyright, Google, Google Books, Peter Murray, Publishing
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Swine Flu Resources
I suspect that Swine Flu is likely to be a common research question for reference departments around the world during the foreseeable future. I have had an interest in the 1918 influenza epidemic pandemic for several years, and have spent … Continue reading
Google Ventures and Libology
Now that Google Ventures has been officially announced, I can go public with my own news: Libology is one of the first group of startup companies which will be receiving Google Ventures funding. I have been in talks with someone … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Google, Humor, News, OCLC, Web Design
Tagged April Fools Day, Google, Google Ventures, Humor, Libology, OCLC
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Social Backrub
This is just one of my passing thoughts, which I suspect is understood by many, but not necessarily expressed this way: Google’s PageRank is, for all practical purposes, a form of social networking applied to the concept of a particular … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged Google, html, PageRank, social networking, Web Design
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Confusing Assistance with Performance
Amazon.com has given in to the Publisher’s Guild on the issue of text-to-speech capabilities in the Kindle 2. In their press release, Amazon states up front that “Kindle 2′s experimental text-to-speech feature is legal: no copy is made, no derivative … Continue reading
Posted in Audio, Books, Copyright, Fair Use, Google, Licensing, News, OCLC, Publishing
Tagged Amazon, Amazon.com, BookFinder.com Journal, Copyright, copyright law, Fair Use, Google, Google Inc., OCLC, public domain, text-to-speech, writer
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Walt Crawford on the Google Books Settlement
The March 2009 issue of Walt Crawford’s Cites & Insights is devoted to a 30 page essay on the Google Books settlement. His is an opinion that spans many of the issues : he is at once a writer, fair … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Google, Libraries, Licensing, Publishing
Tagged Cites & Insights, fair use advocate, Google, Google Book settlement, Google Books, Walt Crawford, writer
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Google Book Search – Publisher’s Perspective
A Fire on the Plain is a post by Peter Brantley of the University of California that relates the essence of conversations he has had with several rightsholders who were part of the Google Book Search negotiations. An exerpt: From … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Google, Libraries
Tagged Copyright, e-audio, e-book, Google, Google Book Search, Libraries, Peter Brantley, University of California
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A Look Back, A Look Ahead
2008 was an uncertain year for Libraryland. Ideas and tools abound for how we can do more with what we have, and we are becoming more aware of what it is we have : data and the systems to organize … Continue reading
Posted in Google, ILS, Libraries, Library 2.0, Licensing, OCLC, Online Services, OPAC, Open Access, Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged forecasts, Google, higher-level software;, internet use;, Libraries, OCLC, office software, social networking features, USD
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