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“Digital and Information Trends on the Library Landscape,” AASTO RAC, Wilmington, NC. Presented changes in libraries as a result of a changing technology landscape.
Abstract: A discussion of the changing role of libraries in industry from external information providers, to organization wide repositories.
Slides: https://davidlankes.org/rdlankes/Presentations/2005/AASHTO.pdf
Slides from the presentation are now available here. A discussion of the changing role of libraries in industry from external information providers, to organization wide repositories.
Well, yesterday I finished up a working demo site of Story Starters for the National Science Digital Library. Doing that and teaching kept me too busy to blog. My plan is to make a more general and scalable demo for the world. Hopefully I can have that up by the end of the week. My intention is to also tie in Reference Extract.
Right now in Reference Extract you can search digital reference knowledge-bases and then extend your search to cited references.Like this:
DR Archives –> Cited Searches
No imagine, chaining more specific searches together, so now we can add blogs in Story Starters:
Blogs –> DR Archives –> Cited Searches
Making this capability generic, a local library could add their archives, and then extend to Reference Extract:
My Library –> DR Archives –> Cited Search
And one could continue to add more links:
My Library –> DR Archive –> Cited Search –> Google
The idea would be to make a general utility to tie these searches together in a seamless interface and allow any interface mix and match (and collapse) these chains based on a given user interface. So a library could go:
My Library –> Cited Search –> Google
etc.
Just an idea. Off to start the Story Starter site.
Sorry for the silence, but I am in the middle of IST 759, the capstone course for SU’s Certificate of Advanced Studies in Digital libraries. It is turning out to be a great class. 8 students hanging out in a lab working on PHP code all day…at least it is fun for me.
Bob Martin ends his term as director of the Institute for Museum and Library Services (see link here IMLS: What’s New: Current). Bob did an amazing job of not only building IMLS, but really driving forward libraries and museums. The field is better because of his service and vision.
Thanks again Bob.
We’re in the process of developing a service called “Story Starters.” It is sort of a fun idea that grew out of an immediate need. The immediate need was a way to connect Blogs with our QABuilder software. Where we’ve ended up (for now) is a general blog starting service. A person or organization posts some list of items they want to be blogged about, and from within blogging software (WordPress to start with), can browse lists and pick the ones they want to blog about. The resulting blog entries are then aggregated and sent back to the posting agent…read more to see why this might be useful.
Continue reading “Story Starters”
My article on the digital reference research agenda has just been published in the latest RUSQ:
Lankes, R. David (2004). “Digital Reference: Fusing Research and Practice.” Reference & User Services Quarterly 44(4) pp. 320-326
I’ve been invited to a symposium at the University of Washington to discuss faster economic transfer of research and innovation in information, computer, and management science.
From the invitation:
We write to invite you to join us at the University of Washington on September 13 and 14,
2005, in launching a unique series of research symposia investigating the creation of new billion
dollar market segments in the 21st Century. By bringing together and building a network of multi-
disciplined leaders in the study of innovation, we believe that we, collectively, can reduce the
time to transfer new innovation into economic value.
For the past year, a number of us have been researching and meeting to discuss the
innovation process that leads to new billion dollar market segments like 3Com in Networking,
Adobe in graphics, Google in search, Real Networks in Internet video, and Amazon in e-retailing.
Nineteen new billion dollar market segments came out of Internet1 research and innovations, each
segment seemingly arose from a unique and rather messy innovation process taking 10 to 15
years.
We are now at the cusp of a second surge of emerging billion dollar market segments as
the Internet has reached ubiquity and deep penetration into business and the home, our work and
play. As this phenomenon is occurring, however, its speed and efficiency is slowed by limited
understanding of the innovation process that enables new market segments and companies to
emerge. All too often, innovation is undermined by reliance on out-dated management practices
and communications breakdowns between creators and managers.
The organizers of the symposium are: Mike Eisenberg, Dean, UW Information School; Ed Lazowska. UW Computer Sciences; Dick Nolan, UW Business School; and Rob Austin Harvard Business School
So as I mentioned I’m working on linking blogging and digital reference, and trying to figure out how to pass messages between the two without doing a major re-work on QABuilder. Then it hit me (I’m slow sometimes)…this is what we built NISO AZ to do, and why we integrated it into QABuilder. It should be a simple matter to get questions and answers into QABuilder using NISO AZ.
Continue reading “NISO Rises from the Ashes”
We’re busy working with WordPress to link it to QABuilder, our digital reference research package we developed for the NSF’s National Science Digital Library. It is looking quite promising. In particular we’re looking at using WordPress plugins. I also think XML-RPC has some promise to do this as well.
Continue reading “Linking Blogging and Digital Reference”