Welcome to the Disruptive Library Technology Jester. From here you can browse the musings and visions of a library technologist as he walks the fine line between the best of the library profession on one side and the best of technology on the other.
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Recent Posts
It was only a few months ago that I was teasing Dan Chudnov for joining Twitter. Now I’ve gone and done it myself. I don’t expect to be using it much, but after observing the “Falls Church, VA” incident yesterday, I thought it would be an useful tool to have at-the-ready. Here’s the story of what inspired it.
Tagged culture, dltj, internet, twitter
I found this meme via Karen Schneider’s entry. Although I wasn’t explicitly tagged, I thought it was interesting enough to add an entry to the meme’s Flikr pool.
With all due respect to Karen — and I agree that a love of reading is important — but it is a sense of wonder that encourages a love of reading and all sorts of other critical character traits. This is a picture of my daughter when she was about three years old. She is on the back deck of our Connecticut house watching a caterpillar crawl up our gate. She loves to read (and now three years later is reading scores of books on horses and dolphins from the elementary school library), and as her father I hope the same sense of curiosity will sustain her love for reading, arts, sciences, and life.
Tagged libraries, meme
This morning I got an invitation to join ResearcherID, a new author profile service from Thomson Scientific. The service sounds nice enough — who doesn’t want to take steps to avoid confusion between authors? — and if you have access to other Thomson products (like ISI Web of Knowledge or Web of Science) it may be even nicer. I’m all for the establishment of unique identifiers so we can start to do some interesting things with co-citation analysis and mining the web of connections in journal articles, but I’m not signing up. At least not yet.
Tagged identifier, metadata
This is a stub for a page where I’ll put my schedule. I’m creating the stub so there is something in the tag page and Atom feed for DLTJ at Annual as listed on the “Who’s Blogging Annual?” page on the ALA Wiki. At the very list, I know I’ll be at the JPEG2000 program. More posted here later.
Permanent link to this post (61 words, estimated 15 secs reading time)
Tagged alaannual2008
Links to OPAC Enhancements, Wrappers, and Replacements:
GSoC: JPEG2000 JPIP Server and Viewer Applet:
The Jester Joins Twitter:
Passing on ResearcherID: