Comments for Panlibus http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus Thu, 15 May 2008 16:21:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 Comment on Silos, Silos, Silos by Scribe http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2008/04/silos-silos-silos.php#comment-3783 Scribe Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:09:20 +0000 http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2008/04/silos-silos-silos.php#comment-3783 Great post! Got me thinking, in fact. Two things: 1) As with fashion, three instances of something make it a trend. If you heard "silo" three times, it's a bona fide trend. Congratulations! :) 2) Re: the semantic web. Do you think that we're still just dreaming of the green grass on the other side of the fence? I used to hear the semantic web called "web 2.0"; now it's called "web 3.0", and we're still wishing for it to happen "eventually." Is the web 3.0 revolution in searching even something that libraries could ever dream to spearhead, given the lack of funding? Even Google needed a few million dollars to start-up. Great post! Got me thinking, in fact.

Two things:
1) As with fashion, three instances of something make it a trend. If you heard “silo” three times, it’s a bona fide trend. Congratulations! :)

2) Re: the semantic web. Do you think that we’re still just dreaming of the green grass on the other side of the fence? I used to hear the semantic web called “web 2.0″; now it’s called “web 3.0″, and we’re still wishing for it to happen “eventually.” Is the web 3.0 revolution in searching even something that libraries could ever dream to spearhead, given the lack of funding? Even Google needed a few million dollars to start-up.

]]> Comment on NLA Innovative Ideas Forum by Sydney and then back again « It Occurs http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2008/04/nla-innovative-ideas-forum.php#comment-3267 Sydney and then back again « It Occurs Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:18:53 +0000 http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2008/04/nla-innovative-ideas-forum.php#comment-3267 [...] Australia was a great place to visit, populated, if a little sparsely, by great friendly people who were interested in what I had to say.  Which can be no bad thing, as after all that was the reason I went. [...] […] Australia was a great place to visit, populated, if a little sparsely, by great friendly people who were interested in what I had to say.  Which can be no bad thing, as after all that was the reason I went. […]

]]> Comment on ILS Vendors Support ‘Berkeley Accord’ on APIs by Working group on digital library APIs and possible outcomes « Jakoblog — Das Weblog von Jakob Voß http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2008/04/ils-vendors-support-berkeley-accord-on-apis.php#comment-2503 Working group on digital library APIs and possible outcomes « Jakoblog — Das Weblog von Jakob Voß Sun, 13 Apr 2008 12:49:00 +0000 http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2008/04/ils-vendors-support-berkeley-accord-on-apis.php#comment-2503 [...] libraries. See their agenda and the current draft recommendation (February, 15th) for details [via Panlibus]. I’d like to shortly comment on the essential functions they agreed on at a meeting with [...] […] libraries. See their agenda and the current draft recommendation (February, 15th) for details [via Panlibus]. I’d like to shortly comment on the essential functions they agreed on at a meeting with […]

]]> Comment on Visiting TALIS by Hobart - Mountain & River « It Occurs http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2008/04/visiting-talis.php#comment-1803 Hobart - Mountain & River « It Occurs Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:16:57 +0000 http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2008/04/visiting-talis.php#comment-1803 [...] two was a business day with the Tasmanian State Library, before leaving for [...] […] two was a business day with the Tasmanian State Library, before leaving for […]

]]> Comment on CILIP Chief Executive Bob McKee Talks With Talis by Panlibus » Blog Archive » From the CEO’s shelf http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2008/01/cilip_chief_exe.php#comment-1526 Panlibus » Blog Archive » From the CEO’s shelf Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:34:01 +0000 http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2008/01/cilip_chief_exe.php#comment-1526 [...] A few days ago I recorded a podcast with Bob McKee the Chief Executive of CILIP - the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in the UK.  The interesting and entertaining podcast can be listened to here. [...] […] A few days ago I recorded a podcast with Bob McKee the Chief Executive of CILIP - the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in the UK.  The interesting and entertaining podcast can be listened to here. […]

]]> Comment on Globally Availability Aware API From Google Book Search by art http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2008/04/globally-availability-aware-api-from-google-book-search.php#comment-1025 art Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:20:21 +0000 http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2008/04/globally-availability-aware-api-from-google-book-search.php#comment-1025 Google is strongly conservative on the copyright issue. For example, "The Canadian Rebellion of 1837" by David Breakenridge Read (pub. 1896) can't be downloaded in Canada using Google Books (though MSN does make the full text available). There seem to be many cases like this (thanks to Donna Dinberg for pointing this out to me), but I think from a technology standpoint, there is a dynamic of access and availability in library systems that runs counter to limiting content by crude IP identification. In other words, libraries, and library systems, should be places where the greatest attempt is to make all access equal instead of reinforcing border constraints. I'd like to see the "Find this book in a Library" link be more than an entry point to OCLC and I'd also like to see the Google Book API go beyond a "link and hope" kind of mechanism, since I think libraries would be willing to mediate the constraints to access in ways that no other organization would. Maybe some capacity for server-side manipulation would increase the chances that a user is not reminded that geography currently favours very small sections of the planet. Google is strongly conservative on the copyright issue. For example, “The Canadian Rebellion of 1837″ by David Breakenridge Read (pub. 1896) can’t be downloaded in Canada using Google Books (though MSN does make the full text available). There seem to be many cases like this (thanks to Donna Dinberg for pointing this out to me), but I think from a technology standpoint, there is a dynamic of access and availability in library systems that runs counter to limiting content by crude IP identification. In other words, libraries, and library systems, should be places where the greatest attempt is to make all access equal instead of reinforcing border constraints. I’d like to see the “Find this book in a Library” link be more than an entry point to OCLC and I’d also like to see the Google Book API go beyond a “link and hope” kind of mechanism, since I think libraries would be willing to mediate the constraints to access in ways that no other organization would. Maybe some capacity for server-side manipulation would increase the chances that a user is not reminded that geography currently favours very small sections of the planet.

]]> Comment on Perceptions 2007 - Marshall Breeding Talks with Talis about an International Survey of Library Automation by Panlibus » Blog Archive » Polaris Library System CEO, Bill Schickling Talks with Talis http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2008/01/perceptions_200.php#comment-855 Panlibus » Blog Archive » Polaris Library System CEO, Bill Schickling Talks with Talis Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:52:34 +0000 http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2008/01/perceptions_200.php#comment-855 [...] 2007, published in Library Technology Guides by Marshall Breeding. The survey was the subject of a previous Talking with Talis podcast with Marshall [...] […] 2007, published in Library Technology Guides by Marshall Breeding. The survey was the subject of a previous Talking with Talis podcast with Marshall […]

]]> Comment on Looking forward to WorldCat.org by Panlibus » Blog Archive » The Future of OCLC ? http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2006/07/looking_forward.php#comment-853 Panlibus » Blog Archive » The Future of OCLC ? Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:51:54 +0000 http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2006/07/looking_forward.php#comment-853 [...] actually represents quite a shift from current offerings such as WorldCat.org which, although good, draws users back to a destination site; even when it pretends to reach out in the form of its downloadable search box… I was [...] […] actually represents quite a shift from current offerings such as WorldCat.org which, although good, draws users back to a destination site; even when it pretends to reach out in the form of its downloadable search box… I was […]

]]> Comment on Onerous DRM forces MIT to back away from SAE by Panlibus » Blog Archive » Where the music industry leads…. http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2007/03/onerous_drm_for.php#comment-851 Panlibus » Blog Archive » Where the music industry leads…. Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:51:00 +0000 http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2007/03/onerous_drm_for.php#comment-851 [...] once the giant oil tanker that is the music industry starts to turn will others follow. As I discussed earlier onerous DRM software and conditions are getting in the way of providing information to the people [...] […] once the giant oil tanker that is the music industry starts to turn will others follow. As I discussed earlier onerous DRM software and conditions are getting in the way of providing information to the people […]

]]> Comment on LibraryThing / Talis - Data Partnership Bears Fruit by Panlibus » Blog Archive » LibraryThing gets serious press coverage http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2008/01/librarything_ta.php#comment-849 Panlibus » Blog Archive » LibraryThing gets serious press coverage Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:47:31 +0000 http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2008/01/librarything_ta.php#comment-849 [...] Since the beginning of the year, the LibraryThing blog has been busily announcing things like 13 law libraries and 22 science and technology libraries now available as sources to search when cataloguing your books. Long gone are the days when you could only expect to find books that are available on Amazon catalogued in LibraryThing. We at Talis were proud to be the subject of the first announcement in the 2008 batch of announcements, when Tim revealed the benefits of a partnership between LibraryThing and Talis, making the many millions of titles catalogued by British Library and within the Talis Union available as sources (as I discussed at the time). [...] […] Since the beginning of the year, the LibraryThing blog has been busily announcing things like 13 law libraries and 22 science and technology libraries now available as sources to search when cataloguing your books. Long gone are the days when you could only expect to find books that are available on Amazon catalogued in LibraryThing. We at Talis were proud to be the subject of the first announcement in the 2008 batch of announcements, when Tim revealed the benefits of a partnership between LibraryThing and Talis, making the many millions of titles catalogued by British Library and within the Talis Union available as sources (as I discussed at the time). […]

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