We're Disrupted, We're Librarians, and We're Not Going to Take It Anymore
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On the second day of the OCLC Global Council meeting [agenda PDF] there was a presentation by Robin Murray (VP, OCLC Global Product Management) and Jim Michalko (VP, OCLC Research Library Partnership) called “Linked Open Data”. The title of the presentation was an understatement because the real heart of the matter was WorldCat data as linked open data. The presentation was about an hour long, and despite the technical difficulties was fascinating to listen to through the streaming video feed. OCLC says the archive of the meeting will be available at some point, and I urge you to check it out when it becomes available.
This is a preview of WorldCat May Become Available as Library Linked Data under ODC-BY. Read the full post (856 words, 3:25 minutes estimated reading time)
Little Free Library, near Cafe Zoma by Jeremy Cusker, on Flickr
This is a preview of But Is It a Library? — Reflections on ‘Little Free Libraries’. Read the full post (442 words, 1 image, 1:46 minutes estimated reading time)
You’ll get the sense that this week’s Thursday Threads is stacked towards cultural awareness. First is the view of a developer of the female gender in a room of peers at a meeting of the Digital Public Library of America. The second thread is a pointer to a story about Facebook’s software release process, and it leads into a story about the role of alcohol in technology conferences and reflections from the library technology community.
This is a preview of Thursday Threads: Developer Genders, Facebook Release Engineering, Alcohol Among Technologists. Read the full post (2485 words, 9:56 minutes estimated reading time)
Thursday Threads has been a back-burner activity for quite a while now. Blame it on too many interesting things happening at home and at work (to say nothing of the early arrival of spring weather). This week will be only a slight exception with just two threads of mention rather than the typical three or four. First is the announcement by Blackboard that it is starting up an open source support division and acquiring/hiring some of the bigger names in that sector. Second is a reflection on two independent stories about the effect of copyright uncertainty and digital rights management on book materials.
This is a preview of Thursday Threads: Open Source Advocates Twitch at Blackboard’s Strategy and Effect of Copyright/DRM on Access. Read the full post (845 words, 1 image, 3:23 minutes estimated reading time)
