Exploring the landscape of cloud computing – Webex

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Erik

Today I had the pleasure of talking with a class on cloud computing run by Infopeople and coordinated by Roy Tennant. This was the first chance I have had to share the results of some of my research in cloud computing and chat with librarians about how they are using cloud computing.

Cloud computing adoption in libraries

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Mith Digital Dialoges – Peter Kay on the book

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Erik

Today’s Digital Dialog featured Peter Kay who talked about the current state of the book/e-book and how discovery, social media and new forms of reading are changing how we read.

A few interesting moments – SmallDemons as an alternative discovery layer to traditional online booksellers, “we need to understand the bookiness of books, the music industry failed to see the musicness of music”, the emergence of the book app, and “Its important for authors to encouter that digital dark night of the soul” and get off twitter.

The session was tweeted by some folks in the session and Peter has a personal site.

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Jeremy York – Guest Lecturer from HathiTrust

Posted on November 8, 2011 by Erik

On Monday night our LBSC670 course heard from Jeremy York of the HathiTrust. Jeremy gave the class an overview of the HathiTrust dataset and metadata standards and explored with us the implications of metadata standards choices.

The theme of copyright issues and restrictions weaved itself through the Question & Answer session and it was interesting to hear more about when access to digital text is triggered. Part of the conversation was grounded in differentiating the how copyright impacts preservation and access issues. Many thanks to Jeremy for taking time to meet with the class!

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Roy Tennant Guest Lecture for LBSC 670

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Erik

This past Monday I had the pleasure of having Roy Tennant join my course on Information Organization (LBSC 670) for a discussion on the direction of metadata creation, management and use for libraries. This virtual lecture was my first experience with the Wimba platform (which worked pretty well) and we were able to include a similar course from the Catholic University of American LIS program.

Roy took a few minutes to discuss some of the research tools at OCLC Research and discussed some findings about the frequency of MARC tag usage from their analysis of the OCLC database. His talk referenced a published report from last year on the topic. The screen shot from the talk about highlights one graph from this talk. Of note is the yellow bubble on the left side of the graph which shows the use rates of different “identifier” fields (e.g. 024, 035, etc).

Many thanks to Roy for taking time out of his schedule to chat with my class!

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Digital Library Federation 2011 Forum

Posted on November 4, 2011 by Erik

On Monday and Tuesday of this week I attended the 2011 DLF forum in Baltimore MD. It was the first time I had been to Baltimore in a few years and the first time I had ventured outside of DC by car in a while. The conference opened with a keynote by David Weinberger who talked about the DPLA session the previous week and explored ideas surrounding the connection and utilization of data in a highly connected digital environment.

On this theme the conference talks and between-session discussions tended to focus on metadata and archival/curation topics and the systems I heard several people mention included HistoryPin, id.loc.gov, and in general – linked data.

The poster sessions over lunch on day 1 were very interesting and featured some familiar projects like extensible Catalog and VuDL but also some new projects like the Open Parks Grid and ViewShare.org. It looks like some of the posters are online at the DFL Forum Community Showcase site if you want more info.

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