Year: 2008
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New Futures for Authority Data
These are notes from a talk by Thom Hickey from OCLC at the Libraries Australia Forum 2008. What is the future of authorities – they need to have wider and wider coverage. For instance names used in journal articles and machine generated and machine assisted input into the authority files, it’s not just librarians that are creating…
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Social networks and the Libraries Australia forum
On October the 23rd Libraries Australia is holding its annual forum at the Powerhouse Museum. Â I’ve decided to use the event as a practical introduction to many staff members of the National Library on how social networks can be used to enhance an event. I’m going up there with my laptop and will sit in…
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Webjam 8 presentation
A video of the presentation I gave at Webjam 8 has been posted. Â Thanks again to Lachlan for organising such a fantastic night.
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State Library of New South Wales Flickr mashup
The State Library of New South Wales have joined Flickr commons, which means that with one small change to my code, I can reproduce my “then and now” mashup for their collection. Â There isn’t a great deal of photos that have been geo-tagged as yet, but that’s the beauty of this – anyone can go…
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Powerhouse street view mashup
Recently I’ve been thinking of more and more ways that museums and libraries can expose their collections via other methods besides typing a search term into a search box – yawn… Like most Australians I’ve been playing around with the street view data Google have added in for Australia cities and it got me thinking,…