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Peter E. Murray

Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally

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  • Thursday Threads: RDA Test Results, Author's Rights Denied, Future Copyright Scenario

    This week we got the long-awaited report from the group testing RDA to see if its use would be approved for the major U.S. national libraries. And the answer? An unsatisfying, if predictable, maybe-but-not-yet. This week also brought new examples of the tensions between authors and publishers and libraries …

     Posted on  June 16, 2011
     and last updated June 17, 2011
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Machine-Meaningful Web Content and Successful IPv6 Test

    Two threads this week: the first is an announcement from the major search engine on a way they agree to discover machine-processable information in web pages. The search engines want this so they can do a better job understanding the information web pages, but it stomps on the linked data …

     Posted on  June 09, 2011
     and last updated June 09, 2011
     ·  8 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Google Book Search summary, Bad Side of Filtering, Academics Editing Wikipedia

    School is out and the summer heat has started, but there is no signs yet that the threads of technology change are slowing down. This week's threads include a healthy review of the Google Book Search lawsuit settlement, the downside of recommendation engines, and how academics are contributing to Wikipedia …

     Posted on  June 02, 2011
     and last updated June 02, 2011
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Beyond MARC, Library-controlled DRM, Spam Study

    Threads this week without commentary. (It has been a long week that included only one flight of four that actually happened without a delay, cancellation, or redirection.) Big announcements are one from the Library of Congress to re-envision the way bibliographic information travels, one from Douglas County (Colorado) Library's experiment …

     Posted on  May 26, 2011
     and last updated May 27, 2011
     ·  3 minutes reading time
  • Retro Thursday Threads: Ideas for Publishers, New Reading Experiences, Internet Operating System

    I recently started reading content from a tablet device and in doing so re-encountered a list of web pages stashed in a Read It Later queue that are over a year old. Not only were these pages interesting enough to read a year ago, but in light of a year's …

     Posted on  May 19, 2011
     and last updated May 19, 2011
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Digital Legacies, Zettabytes of Information, Digital Books, Alternate Network Architectures

    Mind-expanding topics this week. The threads start with a potentially morbid, but definitely intriguing, topic: what is to become of our personal digital legacies? If that isn't enough to blow your mind, the next topic is an accounting of the amount of information processed in 2008. Still hanging in there …

     Posted on  May 12, 2011
     and last updated May 12, 2011
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Cloud Computing and Data Centers -- Amazon, Facebook, and Google

    This week's DLTJ Thursday Threads is about data centers -- those dark rooms with all of the blinking lights of computers doing our bidding. Data centers hit the mainstream news this week with the outage at one of Amazon's cloud computing clusters. And since computers and their associated peripherals consume a …

     Posted on  April 28, 2011
     and last updated January 01, 2025
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Kindle Library Lending, Ebooks #1 in Sales, Recommendation Engines

    I tried to stay away from ebooks again, in this edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads (I managed to do so last week), but the threads of announcements and conversations are too crucial to ignore. Just yesterday Amazon and OverDrive announced plans to lend library ebooks to Kindle users. The press …

     Posted on  April 21, 2011
     and last updated April 21, 2011
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Teaching Search, OCLC Research Library Partnership, Shelvar App

    Another week, another set of threads of library and library-related topics. (Who ever said this profession was boring? Well, I once did, but that is a thread for another day.) Information literacy hit the mainstream this week with noted usability analyst Jakob Nielson noting that internet users need to learn …

     Posted on  April 13, 2011
     and last updated April 14, 2011
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: HarperCollins/OverDrive (still), Wikimedia Survey, Microsoft Academic Search

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    We can't leave the hot topic of ebooks behind in this edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads, but at least it is only the lead thread and not the entire focus of this post. HarperCollins made news when one of …

     Posted on  April 07, 2011
     and last updated January 15, 2018
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: HarperCollins, Google Book Search Settlement, DPLA, Juggling Robots

    It is another e-books issue of DLTJ Thursday Threads with updates on three significant efforts: HarperCollins, Google Book Search Settlement, Digital Public Library of America. And, just for fun and to keep this from turning into purely a legal and blue-sky policy blog, we have a video of juggling robots …

     Posted on  March 31, 2011
     and last updated March 28, 2022
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Google Books Settlement, Cornell on NDAs, Hans Rosling on Literacy

    This week's big news is hard to miss -- we have a decision by the judge evaluating the settlement agreement in the Google Book Search lawsuit. This is probably the first of many follow-ups in DLTJ as this case keeps taking interesting twists and turns. Also of note this week is …

     Posted on  March 24, 2011
     and last updated January 15, 2018
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Open Source in Health Care, The Big Deal, Archives of Web Pages

    We're taking a break this week from the HarperCollins e-book story; although the commentary continues from librarians (and a few authors), there hasn't been anything new (that I've seen) from HarperCollins itself. There is still plenty more to look at, though. First up is a report from the health care …

     Posted on  March 17, 2011
     and last updated January 15, 2018
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: HarperCollins (again), Digital Public Library of America, Kindle Millionaires

    Last week's DLTJ Thursday Threads theme of ebooks continues again this week, and the top story from last week is the top story again this week: the debate over the limited checkout ebooks terms set by HarperCollins. While there seems to be nothing new from either HarperCollins or OverDrive (except …

     Posted on  March 09, 2011
     and last updated March 10, 2011
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: HarperCollins Ebook Terms, Internet Archive Ebook Sharing, Future of Collections

    It is an all e-books edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads this week. The biggest news was the announcement of the policy change by HarperCollins for ebooks distributed through OverDrive. Beyond that, though, was an announcement of a new sharing model and program through the Internet Archive. Lastly is a slidecast …

     Posted on  March 02, 2011
     and last updated March 03, 2011
     ·  8 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Free Music Scores, Hiring for Attitude, National Broadband Map

    Hickory, with true-to-life parting attitude (left) and Mittens
    This week's Thursday Threads is delayed, but for good reason. If you will indulge me with a personal note, this week saw the passing of our 20-year-old cat, Hickory, and the addition of a 6-month-old kitten, Mittens, to our family. Needless to …

     Posted on  February 24, 2011
     and last updated February 25, 2011
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Estimating and Understanding Big Data, Key Loggers Steal Patron Keystrokes

    Two entries on big data lead this week's edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads. The first is at the grandest scale possible: a calculation of the amount of information in the world. Add up all the digital memory (in cell phones, computers, and other devices) and analog media (for instance, paper …

     Posted on  February 17, 2011
     and last updated February 17, 2011
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Website Accessibility Reporting Service and Remixes in Film

    This week's DLTJ Thursday Threads has just two pointers. First, a new volunteer web service to report problems with websites, which may be useful for not only our own sites but for the sites our patrons visit. Second, a nine-minute video that illustrates the reuse of themes and ideas in …

     Posted on  February 10, 2011
     and last updated February 10, 2011
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: So-called "Internet Kill-switch", IP address exhaustion, demographics of P2P piracy

    This week of DLTJ Thursday Threads covers a wide range of topics. First, from a public policy perspective, is news that the U.S. Senate has a bill proposing the study of an internet "kill-switch" that some are speculating could behave like what happened in Egypt last week. Next, from …

     Posted on  February 03, 2011
     and last updated February 03, 2011
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Kindle Singles and Kindle Accessibility, Sped-up Discourse, ISBN Troubles

    This week Amazon takes center stage of DLTJ Thursday Threads with a report of their new Kindle Singles program for medium-form digital content and a screen-reader-aware version of the Kindle reader application for PCs. After that is a look at how scholarly discourse is changing -- radically! -- with the availability and …

     Posted on  January 27, 2011
     and last updated January 27, 2011
     ·  7 minutes reading time