digital library

Reading as sharing

Few days ago, Craig Mod, wrote a piece about his reading habits, about how digital ebooks got him excited for years, and then he slowly came back on paper. Craig’s critics to ebooks, to the whole ecosystem of digital books, are completely reasonable. If we have to rely on Amazon’s Kindle for storing our books,Continua a leggere “Reading as sharing”

Library’s New Dimensions

We need to add some new dimensions to the library. The library today is 2-D, relying heavily on linear order – linear order of shelves, linear order of headings in the catalog, and linear order of catalog records that are retrieved with searches. The first dimension that we need to add is linking; linking betweenContinua a leggere “Library’s New Dimensions”

Semantic Europeana for Digital Humanities #ECDL 2009

Questa è la presentazione che Stefan Gradmann, di Europeana, ha gentilmente fornito a noi studenti del DILL durante ECDL 2009, a Corfù. La presentazione è rilasciata in CC-BY-SA. Si parlerà di Europeana, biblioteche digitali, metadata, semantic web, digital humanities, ontologie e anche di uno strano ma affascinante hyper Nietzsche. Enjoy. PS: sono graditi feedback

De Bibliotheca digitale, Google Book Search et Settlement/4

Nelle settimane scorse, durante il processo, Google aveva richiesto ed ottenuto per domani 7 ottobre lo slittamento dell’udienza per stabilire la correttezza dell’Accordo. Anche se il Settlement originale è ormai morto, domani sarà una giornata importante. Le parti in carica forniranno un aggiornamento sulle loro discussioni. Vari enti del mondo profit e non, in primisContinua a leggere “De Bibliotheca digitale, Google Book Search et Settlement/4”

Digital Libraries as Phenotypes for Digital Societies, Gary Marchionini. #ECDL 2009

NOTE: Live-blogging. Getting things wrong. Missing points. Omitting key information. Introducing artificial choppiness. Over-emphasizing small matters. Paraphrasing badly. Not running a spellpchecker. Mangling other people’s ideas and words. Posted without re-reading. You are warned, people. (thanks for this, Dave!) Gary Marchionini is professor in the School of Information ad Library Science. His interests are relatedContinua a leggere “Digital Libraries as Phenotypes for Digital Societies, Gary Marchionini. #ECDL 2009”