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Standard deviations in data modeling, mapping and manipulation

Or: Anything goes. What are we thinking? An impression of ELAG 2015 This year’s ELAG conference in Stockholm was one of many questions. Not only the usual questions following each presentation (always elicited in the form of yet another question: “Any questions?”). But also philosophical ones (Why? What?). […]

June 16, 2015February 3, 2020Dataconferences, data, data management, elag, elag2015, libraries, library systems, linked data, standards

Analysing library data flows for efficient innovation

In my work at the Library of the University of Amsterdam I am currently taking a step forward by actually taking a step back from a number of forefront activities in discovery, linked open data and integrated research information towards a more hidden, but also more fundamental enterprise […]

November 27, 2014February 14, 2020Librarydata, data management, enterprise architecture, information infrastructure, libraries, library systems, linked data, metadata

Roadmaps, roadblocks and data finding users

Lingering gold at ELAG 2014 Libraries tend to see themselves as intermediaries between information and the public, between creators and consumers of information. Looking back at the ELAG 2014 conference at the University of Bath however, I can’t get the image out of my head of libraries standing in […]

June 19, 2014January 12, 2020Librarybots, collections, conferences, data, elag, elag2014, libraries, library systems, lingering gold, linked data, open data