This
repository contains works produced, sponsored, or submitted by OCLC
Research. In general, the works are research-oriented and are in the
subject area of library and information science. Many items describe
OCLC Research projects, activities, and programs and were originally
published by OCLC, while others are from peer-reviewed scholarly
journals. The repository contains metadata (MARC, Dublin Core) about
publications and, whenever available and permitted, a link to the full
digital text of items described. The repository is under construction.
At present the repository contains:
* 507
metadata records (out of 913 items published by OCLC staff since
1979) * links to the full text of 288 items.
It
contains current publications back to 2001, all "born digital"
publications, and at least 40% of OCLC Research's corpus of work. A
complete bibliography of OCLC Research publications is available here. This has been added to Research Resources
Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has also been added to Directory Resources
Subject Tracer™ Information Blog under Information and Information
Science Directory Classification. This will be added to Academic Resources
2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.
Founded in 1967, OCLC Online Computer Library Center is
a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research
organization dedicated to the public purposes of furthering access to
the world's information and reducing information costs. More than
45,000 libraries in 84 countries and territories around the world use
OCLC services to locate, acquire, catalog, lend and preserve library
materials. Researchers, students, faculty, scholars, professional
librarians and other information seekers use OCLC services to obtain
bibliographic, abstract and full-text information when and where they
need it.
OCLC Research is one of the world's leading
centers devoted exclusively to the challenges facing libraries in a
rapidly changing information technology environment.
“In celebration of libraries and
their heritage of technological innovation, OCLC Research is
sponsoring a software contest to encourage innovation in the use of
web-based services for libraries.
Prize
$2,500 in
cash
Visit with OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc., in
Dublin, Ohio
Potentially have your code incorporated in OCLC
services for libraries
You may also use Open
WorldCat, either by simply incorporating links to publicly
accessible records or by enrolling in Open WorldCat's Partner Access program. Contact us
if you wish to discuss enrolling in this program for the purposes of
this contest.
Your mission is to write a program that does
something interesting and innovative with the WorldCat data using at
least one of the OCLC-provided services. You must submit a working
prototype.
Part of your job is to convince us of why your
program is interesting and why it will help libraries and/or library
users; other than that, you're free to implement whatever strikes your
fancy.”
And they were smart enough to ask Jon Udell to be a judge
– good call! I hope we see some really cool stuff come out of
this, in more than just a proof-of-concept way. Makes me wish I could
actually program. Entries are due by midnight on May 15. If
you’re entering, good luck!
"From the document, 'The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern
Recognition report was produced for OCLC’s worldwide membership
to examine the significant issues and trends impacting OCLC,
libraries, museums, archives and other allied organizations, both now
and in the future. The scan provides a high-level view of the
information landscape, intended both to inform and stimulate
discussion about future strategic directions.'
I saw a piece of this report last month and even had the chance to
provide some feedback and comments that made it into the final
version. I have not yet had time to read the whole thing, but what I
did see was pretty solid and does provide a good overview of current
and future issues for libraries. Naturally, I agree with a lot of
what's in the report, although I did have an interesting dialogue with
the author, which is where some of my quotes come from (mostly in the
FutureFr
amework section).
Some of the quotes that are not from me but could be because of
their "shifted-ness" include:
"Wi-Fi, short for wireless fidelity, is a
technology that has captured the heart of the information consumer and
is filling tables at coffee shops across the world.... Jupiter
Research reports that 6 percent of U.S. consumers have used Wi-Fi
services in a public place. Why not make the library the first public
place for the next 50 percent?
The high school students interviewed for the scan told us that the
technology tool they wanted most was a PDA device that 'contained all
the information they needed to do their work.' Vendors are
responding. Several vendors now offer PDAs under $100, making it
possible for the information consumer to get a PDA for about the price
of two video games. Personalization, alert technology
and other PDA-friendly information services have brought a world of
convenience to the business user. The information consumer is ready
for libraries to bring 'all the information they need to do their
work' to their PDAs." [Security, authentication, and Digital Rights
Management (DRM), p.
5]
"What if libraries and OCLC and all the other players in the world
of structured access to information erased the organizational charts,
the artificial separations of content, the visible taxonomies, and the
other edifices real or otherwise built to bring order and rationality
to what we perceive as a chaotic universe? What if we built an
infosphere rich in content and context that was easy to use,
ubiquitous and integrated, designed to become woven into the fabric of
people’s lives; people looking for answers, meaning and
authoritative, trustable results? How do we take information,
information sources and our expertise to the user, rather than making
the user come to our spheres?" [Future Frameworks, p.
5]
It will be interesting to gauge the reaction to this document
and to see if OCLC
can successfully use it as a springboard to implementing the
frameworks discussed (or helping their members to implement those
frameworks). I hope they do a follow-up in a year to evaluate its
impact on the organization and/or libraries. Personally, an API into
WorldCat that could be used
as an
ISBN lookup service would be pretty high on my list in terms of
integration into the web in the user's infosphere (hint, hint).
It was only a matter of time. OCLC started to "get" RSS
and began providing a feed for
research announcements earlier this year, and now they're
blogging, too. Well, a few of them are, anyway, and it's the folks
behind the Environmental
Scan leading the way. Why? Because It's All Good. :-)
"A cool blog from OCLC Online Computer Library Center staff about
all things future that impact libraries and library users. A
conversation that starts with the Environmental Scan and goes from
there."
The Ohio College Library Center ( OCLC ) has released a
report on current trends in the information world . The analysis
examines social habits of searching, library economics, and impacts of
digitization, then offers challenging recommendations for information
specialists.
Extreeeeeeme ISBNs! OCLC and xISBN01/23/2004 02:20 PM The OCLC has a cool little project called xISBN. It lets you provide
an ISBN and get a list of associated ISBNs (from reprints, other
editions, etc.) It's available at...
This interview with Tim Berners-Lee, Director of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was
conducted by OCLC Researcher Stuart Weibel. Tim agreed to discuss his
perspectives on major trends in the information landscape and their
impact on use and access to public information. This interview was
conducted in support of the OCLC environmental scan of the Library and
Information communities, developed for strategic planning purposes for
OCLC and its member libraries.
Just thought I'd let you know that we've put up a new version of the
ISBN database. We've done a lot of work to pull works with variant
titles together (which helps with The Innovator's
Dilemma) and made the retrievals consistent, so that any ISBN in a
group retrieves that same ISBN group (which also helps with I's D).
We've learned a lot about how ISBNs are used (and misused).
Thanks for the update, Thom. Sure enough, my original examples now
work as advertised. Here's what Thom was referring to:
There are a few caveats here. First, the one-to-many algorithm doesn't
seem to be fully bi-directional. In the example above, we'd like to
get from 0066620694, a paperback, to 0875845851, a hardcover. But
although we can get from 0875845851 to
0066620694, we can't get from 0066620694 to
0875845851. [Jon's Radio: Multi-ISBN
LibraryLookup]
Those two links didn't used to yield the same set of ISBNs. Now they
do. Cool!
...
OCLC Project Opens WorldCat Records to Google
OCLC Project Opens WorldCat Records to Google10/30/2003 08:09 AM Barbara Quint reports about how OCLC is allowing Google .. OCLC
Project Opens WorldCat Records to Google .. p Information Todays
webbplats .. Info Today ..
InfoToday
infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb031027-2.shtml track this
site | 7 links
RESEARCH AND CONSULTING FIRMS MERGE Telecom Research Institute (TRI) to Merge into Dittberner Associates Inc. Next Generation OSS/BSS Research Program
Latest W3C publications02/25/2003 10:16 AM The following documents have been published recently by the W3C: SVG
Printing Requirements, OWL Language Reference, DOM Level 3 Events,
Voice XML 2.0 (Candidate Recommendation), and XML Protocol Abstract
Model
Publications by Nigel Bevan06/06/2002 04:35 PM "All these documents are downloadable. To read these documents you
must have the free Adobe Acrobat Reader."
Latest Publications and Happenings05/17/2004 05:59 AM The last few months have been extremely busy for me as I have been in
the content creation mode. I have listed some of the freely available
content that I have created. I also appreciate comments, suggestions
and resources!
Searching the Internet White
Paper Includes 11 Page White Paper, 8 Page Spanish
Translated White paper, 10 Minute Audio and five 4 minute segments
Online Streaming Video http://www.SearchingTheIn
ternet.info/
Deep Web
Research Updated this Subject Tracer by adding two new
sections: 1) Peer to Peer, File Sharing, Grid and Matrix Search
Engines 2) Resources - Semantic Web Research http://www.DeepWebResearch.inf
o/
Subject Tracer™ Information
Blogs Currently 30 Subject Tracers and Growing!
Available through: Virtual Private Library http://www.VirtualPrivate
Library.com/
At this web page, BRB provides a core group of links
to FREE government searchable public records sites along with some
important non-government sites. You will not find superfluous sites or
multiple listings of the same link. We have indicated if a site is not
searchable by name. The links list is updated weekly. This has been
added to Finding People
Subject Tracer™ Informatiuon Blog. This has also been added to
Business Intelligence
Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be
added to Business
Resources 2004-05 Internet MiniGuides.
Peachpit plans plethora of Panther publications11/12/2003 02:54 PM Peachpit Press has unveiled the
first of its seven Mac OS X 10.3 ("Panther") titles with the release
of Maria Langer's "Mac OS X 10.3 Panther: Visual QuickStart Guide"
(ISBN 0321213513). The US$24.99 offers task-based, step-by-step
instructions and includes chapters on networking, security, Unix, the
Classic environment, utilities, and system preferences.
Dow Jones Exec Tries To Get Other Publications To Lock Up Content
Dow Jones Exec Tries To Get Other Publications To Lock Up Content03/29/2005 08:46 PM As more and more people are noticing that the Wall
Street Journal is becoming less relevant in important discussions
-- mainly because of their decision to lock up content behind a pay
wall -- Journal owner Dow Jones is apparently trying to push other
publications to make the same mistake. The company's president of
electronic publishing has announced that other
publications should put up a pay wall just as many are discovering
the power of online advertising and the ability to get more traffic by
being as free and accessible as possible. He claims "it would be good
for the industry," if more publications charged -- but he really means
it would be good for the WSJ, because there would be less free content
competing with his content. He also claims that "publishers in all
mediums have tended to devalue their brands," which is missing the
point (by a wide margin). If anyone has "devalued" their brand, it's
the Wall Street Journal, by taking itself out of the discussion.
People don't just consu
me the news any more, they are a part of the process, and that
includes the ability to help
spread the news. The Wall Street Journal doesn't seem to realize
that the times have changed -- which is too bad for a publication that
claims to be so good at spotting important trends.
Ideas for Online Publications: Lessons From Blogs, Other Signposts
The author of washingtonpost.com's White
House Briefing column and deputy editor of niemanwatchdog.org shares
his ideas on how this new medium must continue to evolve. He calls for
a new round of conversations between online and print editors. Very
interesting article and well worth the read ....
Roles of Traditional Publications and New Media in Innovation Journalism
Roles of Traditional Publications and New Media in Innovation Journalism04/05/2005 04:44 PM Andreas Cervenka, AffŠrsvŠrlden, was working at Sweden's
largest daily during the boom and saw a demand for tomorrow's news
today, so he started his own new media venture. One thing they started
with was the attention of other journalists,...
eCommerce and web based Sales Order Processing system for HB Publications
Find the latest information on
information science and the federal library community or the newest
FEDLINK program innovations and product and service offerings. The
Online Video Library adds another dimension to the resources available
online. Featured are: FedLink Technical Notes, New Handbook on Federal
Librarianship and the FLICC Newsletter. This will be added to Academic Resources
2004-05 Internet MiniGuide.
Howlett Research Corp. Publishes Research Report on Raser Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB: RSTG)
Howlett Research Corp. Publishes Research Report on Raser Technologies, Inc. (OTC BB: RSTG)07/02/2004 03:36 AM Raser is a research and development company focused on developing
advanced motor technology for broad applications, including the
growing electric hybrid vehicle market. It has developed several
innovations in electric motors and controllers that increase torque
and power, allowing reduced manufacturing costs and providing enhanced
performance. Applications span virtually the entire universe of
electric motors, including industry, the military, as well as the
automotive sector. [PRWEB Jul 2, 2004]
Axogenic and University of Sydney Collaboration Supported by Australian Research Council Grant for Biotechnology Research in Genetics
Axogenic and University of Sydney Collaboration Supported by Australian Research Council Grant for Biotechnology Research in Genetics12/19/2004 03:17 PM AXOGENIC and U. of Sydney collaboration is intended to result in the
discovery of new technologies for human interaction with complex data
structures arising from the analysis of DNA microarray data. The new
technologies will take the form of 2D and 3D interactive
visualisations which, when later integrated into Axogenic's product
line, will help speed discovery in genetic and proteomic research,
with applications across a broad range of life sciences. [PRWEB Dec 3,
2004]
The Power-Aware Systems Department of the Austin Research Lab invites applications for Research Staff Member positions.
How to run your own yum repository07/23/2004 04:48 AM Yum is a powerful tool that greatly improves package handling on
RPM-based Linux distributions. This tutorial explains how to create a
local yum repository, configure your machine to use this repository,
and customise a yum RPM to automatically use this repository.
Railroad Repository 0.109/14/2004 02:37 PM A standards-based repository for large binary files. Grok Description matches for OCLC Research Publications Repository GrokA matches for OCLC Research Publications Repository
Xrefer Offers Free Xreferplus Access During National Library Week
Xrefer Offers Free Xreferplus Access During National Library Week04/19/2004 06:55 AM xrefer has announced that they're offering free access tot heir
xreferplus ready reference service during National Library Week (April
18-24.) This is access for libraries only; you can get more...
The purpose of this
bibliography is to collect the work published about the bibliomining
process in libraries. While there are many pieces on data mining, and
bibliometrics, the focus on this bibliography are those projects which
would be considered part of the bibliomining process. Sections
include: 1) Introductions, 2) Specific Bibliomining Applications
including a) Management and Decision-Making, b) Collection Development
/ Acquistions, c) Reference and Reader's Advisory (Recommendations),
d) User Studies, e) Digital Libraries, f) Bibliometrics, g) Data
Warehousing, and h) Specific Technologies; and 3) Privacy Issues
Sampling. This has been added to the articles section of Deep Web Research Subject
Tracer™ Information Blog.
John J. Miller on Election 2004 & Vice President on National Review Online
This site offers links to publications, references, and web
sites that focus on qualitative research methods. The bibliography is
organized into more than 30 categories which reflect the many genres
of qualitative inquiry as well as some of the critical methodological
issues that challenge qualitative researchers. I have also added this
to my Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Research Resources.
Faceted Classification bibliography
Faceted Classification bibliography10/30/2003 11:31 PM William Denton created Putting Facets on the Web: An Annotated
Bibliography: a classified, annotated bibliography about how to design
faceted classification systems and make them usable on the World Wide
Web. (Yes, the facet goodness is back on!)...
Bookmarklet flood03/20/2003 11:58 AM One more bookmarklet for today. It makes a simple DOM inspector of
active window and it's document. Tested in IE6/XP,...
Bookmarklet bonanza
Bookmarklet bonanza03/20/2003 08:32 AM Two excellent new bookmarklets by Ian Lloyd, extending our own show
divs with colour. Show and label divs with ids...
Anyone know if it would be possible to create a bookmarklet that
emulates an EyeDropper style
application: as you move it around the page it shows you the hex
colour code for the pixel directly under the mouse pointer? I'm pretty
sure it can't be done but I'd love to be proved wrong.
Problems with your bookmarklet?
Problems with your bookmarklet?03/13/2003 10:15 AM Note: This problem should only affect those who downloaded version 2.2
yesterday, before 10:00 pm (when we slipped in the...
I was thinking it would be really useful to just highlight some
text on a webpage and click a bookmarklet in your browser link
bar and have it do a feedster search. Matt Mower gets all the
credit for this idea. And, well of course, Bottom Feeder
who already has this working.
Anyway ... I just update to IE 6 which seems to have disabled
bookmarklets. I can drag it to the links bar andeven though I
say Yes its ok to add it, it seems to just disappear into the
void. Anyone know anything?
So I have most of the code for this but I can't test the pesky
thing. Arrggh!
These bookmarklets let you see how a web page is coded
without digging through the source, debug problems in web pages
quickly, and experiment with CSS or JS without editing the actual
page.
Some killer bookmarklets:
Computed styles. As near as I can tell, this one lets you
click on an element and displays the styles applied to it both
directly and inherited from higher up the cascade.
Generate source. Displays the entire DOM tree as formatted
text.
View variables. Displays all JavaScript variables and functions
in scope on the page.
Shell. Gives you a JavaScript shell in the current page
scope.
Great, great tools here. Incidentally, these are only the "Web
Development" bookmarklets. There are hundreds of
bookmarklets on the site. Some of them are jaw-droppingly good,
and worthy of their own post.
If you don't know how a bookmarklet works, just pick one you like,
then drag it to the bookmark bar on your browser. Find a page where
you want to use it, and click the bookmark.
"I could have switched LibraryLookup over to this technique, but
never did because it only works with Amazon. I've always liked the
idea that LibraryLookup can also work with isbn.nu and All Consuming and other book
sites. (It'd be cool if they all emulated Amazon's metadata pattern,
but they don't.) Still, in the context of this excellent new WorldCat
hack, I thought the non-ISBN-dependent solution might be useful. So
here it is:
Amazon/Google/WorldCat bookmarklet: A/G/W (drag to linkbar) "
Most excellent - nice work, everyone! Another ringing endorsement
for open, web services-based back-ends for library catalogs.
An
excellent general bibliography compiled and maintained by Gerry
McKiernan, Science and Technology Librarian and Bibliographer, Science
and Technology Department, Iowa State University Library. Ames, IA
50011. This has been added to the resource listing in my Bots Blogs and News Aggregators
presentation.
Version 56 of Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Available
Version 56 of Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Available12/17/2004 06:37 PM It's up to version 56! It's the Scholarly Electronic Publishing
Bibliography and it now contains information on over 2,275 articles,
books, and other sources related to scholarly electronic publishing
efforts...
Version 58 of Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Available
Version 58 of Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Available06/17/2005 07:21 PM Version 58 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography has hit
the scene. This new version contains over 2,400 articles, books, and
other resources related to scholarly electronic publishing on the...
Version 52 of Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Version 52 of Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography12/15/2003 09:24 AM 52 ... 52... 52! Version 52 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing
bibliography is now available. The bibliography has gotten up to over
2,050 articles, books, and other resources related to scholarly
electronic publishing. The HTML version is available at
http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html...
Alchemy : A Bibliography of English-Language Writings
This bibliography contains 2,800 items on alchemy
and its influences on Western thought and science. The author uses the
term alchemy specifically to mean "European alchemy in the period from
around the 13th century onwards," although works from and about the
Middle East, Africa and South Asia are also represented. The
bibliography, organized based on a subject index at the site, also
contains URLs for those items in the bibliography which are available
online. This has been added to Academic Resources
2004 Internet MiniGuide.
Version 54 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography
Version 54 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography07/16/2004 10:02 PM Charles Bailey has rolled out version 54 of the Scholarly Electronic
Publishing Bibliography, featuring over 2150 articles, books, and
other items related to scholarly electronic publishing online. In
lovely HTML...
BlogBib - An Annotated Bibliography on Webl0gs and Blogging
An Annotated Bibliography on Weblogs and Blogging, with a
Focus on Library/Librarian Blogs...This annotated bibliography created
by Susan Herzog, Information Literacy Librarian @ Eastern Connecticut
State University includes definitions, articles about blogging and
about library blogs, books, studies, links to samples of the myriad
library blogs, tools for creating and using blogs, and links to
presentations on blogging. This has been added to my Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators
presentation.
John Kerry for President - The 2004 GOP Convention: Four Days Filled With Lies, Mischaracterizations, Distortions, And Half-Truths
I wrote a bookmarklet to make up passwords for me. It asks for my
master password, which is all I have to remember, and uses it to make
a unique password for each site. It even types the password into any
password fields on the current page for me, whether I'm registering
for a new account or logging in on a subsequent visit. [...]
How does it work? It gets the hostname from the page's URL and
mixes it together with your personal master password using a little
cryptographic magic we call MD5. It will always get the same result if
given that hostname and master password, but will never get that
result if either changes. (Well, once in a few billion times it
might.)
Just don't lose sleep at night worrying about MD5 cracks.
Lars Trieloff has created a very nice
bookmarklet that makes it easy to add bookmarks to Roller's bookmark
manager. I've tried it and works. It and captures both the URL of the
page you are currently on, as well as the newsfeed URL (if the page
includes the autodiscovery tags). Read more here: Roller bookmark bookmarklet
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