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“Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog”的内容更新

累计：715 篇（自 2007-05-24 起）

更新：约3篇/周，最后更新14 天前

Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog

Big data .. big trend

[i spoke at the lita top technology trends at dallas. i had a trend in reserve - big data - but did not use it. here is something along the lines of what i might have said ...]big data is a big trend, but as with expressions for other newly forming areas, it may evoke different things for different people. a few years ago, academic libraries might have... (14 天前)

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Linking not typing ... knowledge organization at the

'knowledge organization' seems a slightly quaint term now, but we don't have a better in general use. take the catalogue. this has been a knowledge organization tool. when an item is added, the goal is that it is related to the network of knowledge that is represented in the catalogue. in theory, this is achieved through 'adjacency' and cross reference, ... (48 天前)

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End of the digest ....

for almost as long as this blog has been going we have had an associated digest. this has gone out to over 800 people. the frequency of the digest has changed as the frequency of posting has gone down. we have decided that it is now time to turn off the digest. while the blog continues, it has become more a venue for occasional comment than a steady stre... (128 天前)

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Collections are library assets

i quite like using the word 'assets' with reference to library collections. we tend to think of assets in positive terms, as things that are valuable. more of that later. i was interested to see rick anderson remark on the vocabulary used by my colleague constance malpas a while ago. this was in the context of a generous note about constance's "cloud-so... (170 天前)

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The ILS, the digital library and the research librar

job adverts are interesting for a variety of reasons. they give a sense of skills and attributes in demand. they say something about how the hiring institution wants to present itself. and they can indicate trends. i have been interested to see three research libraries look for senior digital library posts in recent months. associate director for digit... (184 天前)

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Preserving musical heritage ...

one of the casualties of the london riots last week was a sony distribution warehouse.the building, owned by sony dadc, was also the main hq for the uk's biggest distributor of independent music, pias. [more than 1.5m cds destroyed in sony warehouse fire]interestingly, sony looked after the stock of more than 150 record labels at the warehouse. accordi... (187 天前)

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Nostalgia, the Dublin Irish Festival, and variant fo

the dublin irish festival is on this weekend - dublin, ohio, that is. i notice that moya brennan is performing.as some folks will know, moya brennan is an irish singer who was a member of the well-known family group, clannad. they emerged in the 70s, playing very much in a traditional irish music idiom. as they evolved, they developed a style that was i... (195 天前)

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