Interesting 4-part workflow describing a high-quality technique for copying audio from TechKing.
Category Archives: Digital Libraries
Bookmark: High-quality audio copying
12-Apr-11Below is a presentation I gave last week at ACRL’s IdeaPower Unconference in Philadelphia. Great format as it allows some fairly “edge” ideas (read “unproven”) out in the open. The presentation narrative is in comment fields in the native pptx file, and so you’ll need to download the file in order to understand what it’s [...]
Business Insider has an interesting argument indicating that Craiglist is being slowly, but surely, disrupted. Generally speaking, Craigslist has been “good enough” to not be disrupted head-on. Nevertheless, the world moves on, and the gaps in their product (due to a stubborn obstinate refusal to invest in technology) grow wider and wider. As tablets, smartphones, [...]
PLE: Curation Micro-Services
03-Jan-11Over the next year I’m creating a plan for investigating and implementing digital curation micro-services in some form. A first step in this project is a learning environment on the topic.
Gartner’s Hype Cycle 2010 Analysis
09-Oct-10Gartner has an interesting analysis of current technologies plotted against the Hype Cycle. The Hype Cycle is a model for interpreting technology adoption. According to the model: Technology Trigger: A potential technology breakthrough kicks things off. Early proof-of-concept stories and media interest trigger significant publicity. Often no usable products exist and commercial viability is unproven. [...]
BookLiberator
28-Sep-10Interesting DIY project using simple, consumer-grade cameras and an ingenious box frame to hold them. The project website is at www.bookliberator.com. According to their blog, they will be using two pieces of free software: scantailor for post-processing and djvubind for OCR, metadata and conversion to the djvu format.
Poster of Metadata Standards (PDF)
NY Times Information Graphics
29-Jul-10Fascinating video describing how the NY Times graphics department works.
Networked Thinking
08-Jul-10Extremely rewarding slide presentation by a Google UX researcher. The Real Life Social Network v2 View more documents from Paul Adams. Main takeaways for me: “Make no mistake about this. Everyone in this room will need to learn how to design social features on websites. Whether you like it or not.” (biggest surprise from our [...]
Bookmark: Decapod Project
27-May-10Decapod is an interesting project with partners from Germany, Canada, and Anarbor, MI and funded through The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. From the site: The solution will address these problem areas: Allow the camera based capture of bound material by using computer vision techniques to produce flat, clean page images equivalent to those produced from [...]