Category: Technology

Jul 16 2007

IRENE – Image, Reconstruct, Erase Noise, etc.

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IRENE (Image, Reconstruct, Erase Noise, etc.) is a new technological development that will help in the preservation of millions of sound recordings that are currently being lost because of lack...

Jun 07 2007

Maps, Technology, USA

Google Street View

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Yesterday there was an article at SFGate about one of Google’s latest inventions, Google Street View. Just like it sounds, this new technology lets you travel through selected cities (San...

May 21 2007

Europe, Technology, World

Replacing cash with cell phones

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A new technology is emerging in Zimbabwe, one that uses cell phone messages to exchange currency for goods. Mukuru.com is a company that has set up a system by which...

May 17 2007

Libraries, Technology, USA, World

Room to Read

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Room to Read is an amazing nonprofit organization founded by John Wood, a former executive at Microsoft who had his life flipped upside down after traveling to Nepal. On this...

May 11 2007

Databases, Digital, Open Access, Technology, USA, Web 2.0, World

Encyclopedia of Life

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Later this year the project to create an Encyclopedia of Life will pick up speed for this ambitious project. The encyclopedia was first proposed by scientist E.O. Wilson who wished...

May 04 2007

Databases, Digital, Libraries, Open Access, Technology, USA, Web 2.0

April 16 Archive

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Just a couple of weeks after the incidents at Virginia Tech, the university’s Center for Digital Discourse and Culture (CDDC) with help from George Mason University’s Center for History of...

May 01 2007

Databases, Digital, Europe, Libraries, Open Access, Technology, World

eFIL – Electronic Information For Libraries

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Yesterday I attended a fascinating lecture on eIFL which is an independent consortium for library consortia. Basically what it does is help libraries in the developing world access online journals...

Apr 28 2007

Digital, Technology, USA, Web 2.0

Semacodes

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A Semacode is a machine-readable, Data Matrix symbol which encodes URLs; basically it’s a barcode for web locations. The idea is to create one of these labels which looks like...

Apr 20 2007

Academic Libraries, Americas, Libraries, OPAC, Open Source, Public Libraries, Tagging, Technology, Tools, USA, Web 2.0

WPopac

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At the same lecture that I attended earlier this week I learned about the Cook Memorial Library in Tamworth, NH. This small public library has done away with their old...

Apr 20 2007

Archives, Libraries, Photographs, Technology, USA, Web 2.0

Social Tagging and Cataloging

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Earlier this week I attended a lecture that addressed social tagging and its use to libraries. Today more and more libraries and archives are trying to make themselves more visible...