… and by “fail-safe” I mean safe to fail with minimal consequences. That’s the question I’m wondering about after viewing this Cory Doctorow lecture a couple of weeks ago: The transcript can be found here: http://craphound.com/cambridge_biz_lectures.txt A few key quotes: The Internet turns out to be much better at allowing people to form groups than [...]
Tag Archives: digitization
Authority lies in Social Proof
12-Jun-07It’s been one of those months where several ideas seem to congeal all at once. Last year I conducted usability interviews with students where I asked them if they were worried about the authority of the documents they were finding. 100% of that sample said they were not. That made little sense to me until [...]
On Google and Privacy and Library Search
10-Jun-07A quick comment on the latest privacy analysis conducted by Privacy International. Their methodology is a very interesting read because it appears to be directly counter to what Google is doing with search and data aggregation. Two points in particular: Data collection and processing What type of information does the site collect, with and without [...]
Free academic images from ARTStor
19-Mar-07Found via Academic Commons, ARTstor is planning to soon start offering high-def digital images for academics. This is great news, and somewhat surprising since it seems many companies are trying to crack down on the availability of digital content: Viacom’s lawsuit against YouTube and the RIAA’s influence regarding potential fees levied against online radio are [...]
Digital Preservation
26-Sep-06I’m heading out to Cornell next week to attend a Digital Preservation Management workshop. In the preparatory readings, two preservations services caught my eye: HD Rosetta: This service will etch documents onto a nickel plate at such a small resolution that from an 8.5″ x 11″ plate you can retrieve up to 18,000 pages of [...]
Is it library work?
09-Sep-06Terence Huwe has an interesting article in the recent edition of Online. Here’s the citation: Huwe, T. K. (2006). From librarian to digital communicator. Online, 30(5), 21-26. He charts the path through which the U. Berkeley’s Institute and Industrial Relations Library has inserted itself into the information flow starting back when e-mail was such a [...]