Paul Hagon
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Everything I know about cataloguing I learned from watching James Bond
At VALA2010 I did a presentation titled ‘Everything I know about cataloguing I learned from watching James Bond’. What I was trying to explore was the notion of how searching for objects is changing. We are now so used to full text search for books, journals and newspapers that the traditional forms of metadata, such at…
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YQL mashups for libraries
In October GovHack was held in Canberra. I went along as a participant, but also to advise any teams on the use of the National Library of Australia’s API’s. One of the things I spent my time doing there was to make some YQL Open Data Tables for some of the Library’s services. Why is this…
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Immediate sharing
This week the east coast of Australia was blanketed in a dust storm. The worst day was on Wednesday the 23rd when Sydney was blanketed in errie red dust. The social networks were bombarded with people’s accounts of the events. I decided to do a little analysis of how quickly people reacted to the event…
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Common Ground
I’m really excited to be playing a small part in the upcoming Common Ground meet up to be held on the 2nd-3rd October 2009. Common Ground is a global meet up celebrating the Commons on Flickr to be held by as many of the institutions in the Commons as possible. The institutions will be projecting…
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Using VLC for screen capture
I recently had to make a screen capture for embedding into a Keynote presentation. As this sort of thing isn’t something I do often I didn’t really want to pay money for a program to do it. Luckily, something totally unrelated happened and I found the solution. VLC, the open source media player was updated…