What is known about GetFTR at the end of 2019
In early December 2019, a group of publishers announced Get-Full-Text-Research, or GetFTR for short. There was a heck of a response on social media, and the...
Linking Technologies
Publishers going-it-alone (for now?) with GetFTR
In early December 2019, a group of publishers announced Get-Full-Text-Research, or GetFTR for short. I read about this first in Roger Schonfeld’s “Publishers...
Memento: An RFC and a Chrome Plugin
A belated congratulations to the Memento team on the publication of their RFC and Google Chrome plugin for the Memento WWW time travel protocol. A fan of th...
WorldCat May Become Available as Library Linked Data under ODC-BY
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 Micha...
EBSCOhost Connection Records Found In-The-Wild
EBSCOhost Connect was announced in the spring of 2006 as near as I can recall. (I can't find the press release about it on the EBSCO website. As close as I ...
Analysis of PubGet – An Expedited Fulltext Service for Life Science Journal Articles
In June, a new service that speeds access to life sciences literature reached a milestone. Called PubGet, it is a service that reduces the number of clicks ...
Collocating Serial Formats Via “Linking ISSN”
Earlier this week I received an e-mail from the director of the ISSN International Center announcing a session at the ALA Annual Conference in Anaheim to tal...
OAI-ORE Alpha Specifications Updated
As a result of discussions coming from the OAI-ORE open meeting in Baltimore in the first week of March, the document editors released a new version of the O...
OAI-ORE Open Meeting, March 3 2008, Johns Hopkins University
Here is the press release describing the event: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Open Archives Initiative Announces Public Meeting on March 3, 2008 to Release Object...
“Using Access Data for Paper Recommendations”
Here is a pair of papers that I'd like a chance to digest at some point. The first is "Recommending Related Papers Based on Digital Library Access Records" ...
A Report on Namespaces Used by OAI-PMH Repositories
I had a need for a survey of the metadata namespaces used by OAI-PMH repositories, so I wrote up a quick shell script and XSLT style sheet to parse through t...
The Intersection of the Web Architecture with Scholarly Communication
Two previous posts on dltj.org have described the OAI Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) project and the theory behind what has become known as the 'Web Archite...
Working With the Web Architecture
As you may have noticed, the web has evolved a set of common principles that are a mix of ratified standards and ad hoc practices. The notion of a Web Archi...
Introducing the OAI Object Reuse and Exchange Initiative
In the past few months a new group has formed to tackle the problem of representing and exchanging complex digital objects in a web-based environment. I am ...
Google News Archive Search — Where Are the Links to Content from Libraries?
Extra! Extra! Read All About It! "Explore History as it Happened: Google News Now Has Archive Search" Extra! Extra! </p> In my imagination I can ...
A Known Citation Discovery Tool in a Library2.0 World
When it comes to seeking a full-text copy of that known-item citation, are our users asking "what have you done for me lately?" OpenURL has taken us pretty ...
Automated Faceted Analysis In Google?
Has anyone else started seeing what looks to be faceted topical headings at the top of Google searches? This past weekend I was the groomsman at my brother'...
Electronic Resource Management Systems in Consortial Environments
This is a summary of the discussion of the LITA Library Consortia / Automated Systems Interest Group meeting on Monday morning of the ALA Annual Convention i...
“Identifiers Roundup” — LITA Standards Interest Group in conjunction with NISO
This is a report of the presentations from the LITA Standards Interest Group at the ALA Annual Conference, 24-Jul-2006, in New Orleans. Pat Stevens, interim...
Authentication and Access in a Metasearch Environment
Mike Teets of OCLC and I teamed up to write an article on Metasearch Authentication and Access Management for this month's D-Lib Magazine. The first part of...
Google’s “Related Links” as a library’s “Find More Items Like This”?
On Thursday, Google announced a new service in the labs: Related Links Last week, we quietly rolled out Google Related Links, which lets you display a unit ...
Resources for Describing Visual Materials
A recent thread on describing visual materials from the IMAGELIB mailing list sparked the descovery of these resources. First was this bibliography of thesa...
Onto the Scholar’s Desktop with Firefox Scholar
I first encounted Firefox Scholar (a.k.a. SmartFox) in a Chronicle of Higher Education article by Jeffrey Young, and noted with interest this statement in th...
Introducing Geographic Scope to Physical Collections
So I don't know how this one slipped past me: you can link directly into Open WorldCat via an ISBN/ISSN REST-based URL. Now any Web site can create "Find in...