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Local library data in the new global framework

2011 has in a sense been the year of library linked data. Not that libraries of all kinds are now publishing and consuming linked data in great numbers. No. But we have witnessed the publication of the final report of the W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group, the […]

January 5, 2012February 14, 2020Libraryauthority files, bibligraphic framework, bibliographic formats, catalog, frbr, innovation, integration, libraries, library systems, linked data, metadata, rdf, semantic web

User experience in public and academic libraries

A couple of recent events got me thinking about differences and similarities of public and academic libraries in the digital age. I used to think that current and future digital developments would in the end result in public and academic libraries moving closer to each other, but […]

April 9, 2010January 12, 2020Libraryacademic libraries, dbup10, digital branch, future, innovation, libraries, library types, public libraries, special libraries, ugul10, university libraries, user experience

Just in time or just in case?

Metasearch vs. harvesting & indexing The other day I gave a presentation for the Assembly of members of the local Amsterdam Libraries Association “Adamnet“, about the Amsterdam Digital Library search portal that we host at the Library of the University of Amsterdam. This portal is built with our […]

October 16, 2009February 14, 2020Librarycatalog, discovery tools, exlibris, federated search, harvesting & indexing, innovation, integration, library systems, metasearch, next generation

Social networking high and low of the year

Last month the Dutch Advisory Committee on Library Innovation published its report “Innovation with Effect“. The report was commissioned by the Dutch Minister of Education, Culture and Science, the charge was to draw up a plan for library innovation for the period 2009-2012 including a number of required […]

December 16, 2008January 12, 2020Libraryeducation, innovation, policy, social networking, web2.0