Mar 3, 2008 | Technical
Omeka is a platform modeled on WordPress for publishing collections and exhibitions online. There is no shortage of these types of tools, but this is one of the first that is really using Web 2.0 technologies. Zotero indicates that it is a Zotero-compatible...
Feb 27, 2008 | Technical
From the Australian Design Awards comes a conceptual eBook reader that claims to be the “book of the future.” First thoughts: I love the idea of marrying a touch screen to an eBook device (why hasn’t this been done yet?), I can also appreciate the...
Feb 25, 2008 | Technical
Here is some interesting research being conducted by a collective of art museums (including SFMOMA and Guggenheim) with project Steve Tagger: a social tagging experiment exploring the benefits to folksonomy in the field of art. It reminds me of the discussion...
Feb 20, 2008 | Technical
John Mark Ockerbloom’s conclusion that In libraries, size of your collection is important, but even more important is what your readers can do with the collection. In the early going of mass digitization, quantity makes the big headlines; in the long run,...
Feb 20, 2008 | Technical
I signed up with LibraryThing ages ago and then forgot about it. I described it as “del.icio.us for books”, and I still think it captures the essence of the site. Like Amazon’s recommendations service, LibraryThing can suggest new titles based on...
Feb 20, 2008 | Technical
We’ve always known there was room for work in professional reading in the field of law, but a new initiative has put the pressure on: In a site that just went live tonight, Carl has begun publishing the full text of legal opinions, starting back in 1880, and...
