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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: Web Design
NASA Needs A Library Solution (But So Do Libraries)
In a merging of two of my great interests, NASA has issued a Request For Information (ROI) on how best to “analyze and catalog notes from spaceflight pioneer Wernher von Braun into an electronic, searchable database or other system.“ At … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Classification, Government, History, Libraries, Library 2.0, News, Online Databases, Software, Space, Web Design, Wiki
Tagged library technology, library tools, NASA, pdf, Wernher von Braun
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Web 3.0 Concepts Explained in Plain English
Web 3.0 Concepts Explained in Plain English is a collection of presentations, all striving to describe the next phase of web activity and development. If all you look at is the single slide that sums up the differences between the … Continue reading
Posted in Presenting, Web Design
Tagged Library 2.0, Stephen's Lighthouse, Web 2.0, Web 3.0, web activity, Web Design, web generations
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Why HTML 5
This has been a busy week; so much so that the previous post, HTML 5, Google Wave, and the Future of the Web was started last weekend, with some editing and additions each day, and them actually posted yesterday. Note … Continue reading
Posted in Online Services, Web Design
Tagged Google, html, HTML 5, Web Design, web developers, web standards, XHTML
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HTML 5, Google Wave, and the Future of the Web
Amidst a great many other topics, HTML 5 has been on my mind the past couple of weeks. It started on Tuesday, May 26th, with Kevin Yank posting HTML 5 : Now or Never? on the SitePoint blog. He was … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Google, Groups, Libraries, Library 2.0, News, Online Services, Open Source, Publishing, Web Design
Tagged collaboration mash-up tool, Facebook, FaceBook/Twitter/Blogging, Google, html, Kevin Yank, Libraries, online meetings, Online Services, Open Source, Sergey Brin, Twitter, Web Amidst, Web Design, web presences
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National Library of Australia’s Search Prototype
The National Library of Australia has launched the beta of their new search interface, SBDS Prototype (SBDS stands for Single Business Discovery Service, I think), and the search experience is not only better than any other library-related search I have … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, Search, Web Design
Tagged Lorcan Demsey, National Library of Australia, OPAC, Roy Tennant, SBDS Prototype, Search, search experience, search interface, search interfaces, Search Prototype The National Library of Australia, Single Business Discovery Service, The National Library of Australia
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Open Jurist
Open Jurist is a great add-on to the free case law resources I wrote about a few days ago. Consisting of over 600,000 opinions from the federal court system, including the United States Supreme Court and the Federal Appellate Courts. … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Government, History, Online Services, Search, Web Design
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Information Streams
Eric Shonfeld at TechCrunch writes: “Once again, the Internet is shifting before our eyes. Information is increasingly being distributed and presented in real-time streams instead of dedicated Web pages. The shift is palpable, even if it is only in its … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, Software, Web Design
Tagged Blogs, dedicated Web pages, Digg, Eric Shonfeld, Facebook, html, internet usage, internet use trends, library web site, must-have library web site technology, RSS, streams, TechCrunch, Twitter, web presence, Wiki
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Useful Lists to Browse
This post will contain just a couple of links, but there is a wealth of information on the other end of each: 101 Great Free Sites and Downloads You’ve Probably Never Heard Of has been put together by PC World. … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Licensing, Online Services, Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged Blogs, creative commons, downloads, media, media resources, PC World, Software, web developers
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A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods
A Periodic Table of Visualization Methods is a great resource if you have information you need to present visually, but don’t know the best way to express it. Simply go to the site and let your mouse hover over the … Continue reading
Posted in Classification, Web Design
Tagged periodic table, style vs. substance, visualization, visualization methods
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Google Ventures and Libology
Now that Google Ventures has been officially announced, I can go public with my own news: Libology is one of the first group of startup companies which will be receiving Google Ventures funding. I have been in talks with someone … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Google, Humor, News, OCLC, Web Design
Tagged April Fools Day, Google, Google Ventures, Humor, Libology, OCLC
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Social Backrub
This is just one of my passing thoughts, which I suspect is understood by many, but not necessarily expressed this way: Google’s PageRank is, for all practical purposes, a form of social networking applied to the concept of a particular … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged Google, html, PageRank, social networking, Web Design
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TicTOCs in the OPAC
File this as a future wish-list item for your online catalog: There is a new and interesting way to connect an OPAC search result for a journal to the full-text journal articles, and it is called ticTOC. The application of … Continue reading
It was twenty years ago today…
Sir Tim Berner-Lee started what is now known as the World Wide Web exactly twenty years ago. In this posted video from Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) 2009, he discusses how it started, where we are, and where we might be … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Event, History, Online Services, Web Design
Tagged Tim Berner-Lee
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