Daily Archives: 19 March 2007

USGS Land Cover Database

Posted on 19 March 2007 by Rick Mason

It’s not at the “web-based, jump in – the water’s fine” stage (though they indicate that they are working towards this), but the United States Geologic Service (USGS) has developed a National Land Cover Database from 2001 LandSat imagery. This … Continue reading →

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Second Thoughts on Google Library Project?

Posted on 19 March 2007 by Rick Mason

Peter Brantley is the Director of Digital Library Technologies for the California Digital Library (note that the blog that I reference has a different title, but I suspect that they are combining his current employer and a previous title, based … Continue reading →

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ERIC links to libraries via WorldCat

Posted on 19 March 2007 by Rick Mason

The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) search tool has added a “Find in a library” link to many of their search results, which will open WorldCat in a new browser window with detail on which libraries in your area subscribe … Continue reading →

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Users and Uses of Bibliographic Data meeting summary

Posted on 19 March 2007 by Rick Mason

The official summary of the Users and Uses of Bibliographic Data meeting held by the Library of Congress at Google’s headquarters last week has been posted. Karen Coyle’s blog has her notes from the meetings. from Coyle’s InFormation and Catalogablog

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