Monday, March 21, 2005

Blogging, Journalism And Credibility. Disinformation Mar 21 2005 1:34PM GMT [Moreover - Blogging news] 10:24:10 AM

Amazon's "Open" search results. Building off of Alane's call over at It's All Good to "peer outside the garden walls" of the library world, I stumbled over to the O'Reilly "Emerging Technology Conference" to see what happened. After doing so, I began to beat myself around the neck and head for wimping out on asking my boss to attend this conference as I was not sure how I would adequately explain how all of this is related to libraries. Lots of interesting content - especially some of the announcements at the conference, such as this - Amazon Calls for Open Search Results: "The first results of Amazon's OpenSearch effort have begun to take shape on its A9.com search engine. The site includes over 35 searches from other sites, including the New York Times and photo site Flickr, which can appear as columns alongside normal Web searches. To fulfill its OpenSearch vision, A9.com has built an extension to the RSS 2.0 standard. The initiative is comprised of XML-based search results, XML files that identify and describe a search engine, and OpenSearch aggregators such as A9.com that support the standard. "We want this to do for search what RSS has done for content," said Bezos." It seems like if anyone can drive this sort of stuff, it is either Amazon or Google. With local search becoming a bigger and bigger player, how could we integrate library holding's into the local search function of A9? Better yet, how can we show Amazon or Google it is worth their while to make sure that library holdings get included in their searches? [TechnoBiblio] 7:17:16 AM

	Friday, March 18, 2005

RSS: Moving Into the Mainstream by Randy Reichardt, Cameron Science and Technology Library, Universi .... RSS: Moving Into the Mainstream by Randy Reichardt, Cameron Science and Technology Library, University of Alberta. From Ei UPDATE, March/April 2005 [Peter Scott's Library Blog] 9:55:52 AM

	Wednesday, January 26, 2005

MSN Gets Ready to Expand RSS Support. eWeek Jan 13 2005 2:58AM GMT [Moreover - Online information news] 10:24:01 AM

	Saturday, August 21, 2004

PRISM 1.2 available for public comment. PRISM 1.2 is now available for a 45-day period of public comment. PRISM stands for "Publishing Requirements for Industry Standard Metadata". From yesterday's press release: "PRISM defines a set of XML metadata vocabularies that assist in automating repetitive tasks that are used in accessing, managing, tracking and repurposing content. The PRISM Specification and the PRISM Aggregator DTD, which is an application of the PRISM Specification, provide tools for interoperability so that organizations can easily and automatically syndicate, acquire, exchange and find magazine and mainstream journal articles, catalogs, images, and other types of content across multiple repositories....In addition to posting PRISM 1.2 for comment, the PRISM Working Group is posting two related specifications in the 'Contributed Resources' area of the PRISM website. These resources, an RSS (RDF Site Summary) 1.0 module for PRISM 1.2 and an RDF schema for PRISM 1.2 were developed by Nature Publishing Group, a leading science publisher, but they are of general utility and can be used by all publishing domains, scientific, educational, trade, or otherwise." The PRISM standard was developed by the non-profit IDEAlliance. [Open Access News] 11:57:56 AM

	Friday, April 23, 2004

XML 2004. The State of XML "As a software developer I feel increasingly unhappy with the development of a monolithic mass of technology building up, only reasonably accessible behind a Java or .NET API. In contrast, the REST model of composed, simple interactions s [Planet RDF] 7:58:28 AM

	Tuesday, April 20, 2004

XMLEurope, Monday. I'm in Amsterdam at the RAI conference centre for XMLEurope 2004. I have some photos from Monday's sessions (and also some from walking around Amsterdam yesterday). ldodds, mattb, dajobe, jang, danbri, shellac, edd (naturally!), Steve Cayzer were all around,... [Planet RDF] 8:03:32 AM

	Tuesday, March 16, 2004

Sun snatches up XML guru. Tim Bray, one of the three editors of the XML 1.0 specification, said he expects to work on new applications for Web logs.and RSS technology. [Computerworld News] 8:05:56 AM

	Wednesday, March 10, 2004

Presentations online. The presentations from the conference, Thinking Beyond Digital Libraries - Designing the Information Strategy for the Next Decade (Bielefeld, February 3-5, 2004), are now online. Several are on OA and OAI-compliant repositories. [Open Access News] 12:20:18 PM

	Thursday, March 04, 2004

Amazon Offers Many RSS Feeds.  Amazon is offering numerous RSS Feeds. 9:02:38 AM

	Tuesday, February 24, 2004

The Coming RSS Revolution. Syndication Source: Forbes The Coming RSS Revolution An introduction to RSS from a mainstream business publication. Feedster and NetNewsWire are mentioned. No mention of other syndication standards. Information professionals wanting to learn more about RSS and other syndication tools should check out this "classic" article by Steven Cohen and his Library Stuff site. Jenny Levine's site is also a good place to learn more. Both Steven and Jenny continue to be the leaders in teaching the library community about RSS and syndication. Finally, the article doesn't mention that many web-based solutions exist that allow you to organize and read RSS and other feeds without having to purchase and download any software. Bloglines.com (free) and MyFeedster (free) are two examples. See Also: Librarians' Index to the Internet Now Offers a Feed of Its Wonderful "What's New This Week" List [ResourceShelf] 1:11:33 PM

	Tuesday, February 10, 2004

RDF and OWL are W3C Recommendations. The World Wide Web Consortium today released the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the OWL Web Ontology Language (OWL) as W3C Recommendations. RDF is used to represent information and to exchange knowledge in the Web. OWL is used to publish and share sets of terms called ontologies, supporting advanced Web search, software agents and knowledge management. Read the press release for the full list of twelve documents and testamonials to see how organizations are using these technologies today. [Planet RDF] 10:34:23 AM

	Thursday, February 05, 2004

OAI and OA-X. Henk Ellermann is on the team with folks from KNAW and DARE to extend the OAI protocol. He's written a brief introduction to the extended protocol, which allows for the exchange of object files, not just metadata. This is the key to supporting full-text searching, presenting thumbnails of image files, and creating new data providers that pull selected objects from other providers. It also standardizes the ingest procedure, which could be used to automate journal submissions or harvest papers from personal web sites for an institutional repository. [Open Access News] 9:37:56 AM

	Tuesday, January 20, 2004

Blogs at the University Libraries. As more universities get involved in campus-wide weblog projects, I see more libraries being on the forefront in these efforts. Take The University of Minnesota Libraries. They are working to get weblogs to their campus community. Maybe there needs to be a weblog about the various universities that are going (or need help going) this route. (link via Blog Drivers Waltz) [Library Stuff] 8:38:29 AM

	Thursday, January 15, 2004

Institutional repository at the U of Amsterdam. Kurt De Belder built an innovative OAI-compliant institutional repository for the University of Amsterdam, with funding from SURF. Among the nice features are a powerful search engine that supports field searching, indexing by Scirus along with the OAI-compliant search engines, a long-term preservation arrangement with the Royal Library of the Netherlands, and a "Document of the day" highlighted on the front page with a link. It has an easy way to pull together publication lists for individual authors (such as this one for J.F.A.K. van Benthem, whom I used to read in my past life as a logician). An associated site provides OA to Amsterdam dissertations, and highlights a "Dissertation of the day". [Open Access News] 3:32:29 PM

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