Libraries

01
Sep

Omeka and Its Peers

As an open source, not-for-profit, warm-and-fuzzy, community service oriented project, we don't normally like to talk about market
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31
Mar

Rethinking Access

[This week and next I'll be facilitating the discussion of "Learning & Information" at the IMLS
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23
Nov

Benchmarking Open Source: Measuring Success by "Low End" Adoption

In an article about Kuali adoption, the Chronicle of Higher Education quotes Campus Computing Project director, Kenneth C. Green as
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07
Oct

A Google Books Cautionary Tale

This one made the rounds of Twitter earlier today thanks to Jo Guldi. This month Wired Magazine tells a cautionary
01
Oct

SI and Flickr Commons

Originally published in the journal Archival Science, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries has just released under open access terms a report
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03
Apr

Briefly Noted: Timetoast; Google Books Settlement; Curators and Wikipedians

Via Mashable, yet another timeline service: Timetoast. Many readers will have seen this already, but Robert Darton's February
13
Mar

Briefly Noted: FOSS Culture; Digital Humanities Calendar; Guardian API; WWW Turns 20

GNOME Foundation executive director Stormy Peters has some advice on bridging the gap between institutional and open source cultures. Useful
09
Mar

Briefly Noted for March 9, 2009

This year CHNM and the American Historical Association will be pleased to award the first Rosenzweig Fellowship for Innovation in
26
Feb

Brand Name Scholar

Scholars may not like it, but that doesn't change the fact that in the 21st century's
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10
Feb

Briefly Noted for February 10, 2009

Jessica Pritchard of the American Historical Association blog reports on a panel at last month's annual meeting that
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