Here’s a worksheet and helpful guide to finding a technical volunteer for your library, whether that be to do your web page, set up your computers, or administer your network.
A good reference!
Here’s a worksheet and helpful guide to finding a technical volunteer for your library, whether that be to do your web page, set up your computers, or administer your network.
A good reference!
Definition: The Semantic Web is the abstract representation of data on the World Wide Web, based on the RDF standards and other standards to be defined. It is being developed by the W3C, in collaboration with a large number of researchers and industrial partners.
The Semantic Web, which some of you may be familiar with this term, is something that just came across my radar as an interesting melding of web technology, metadata, and way to make information easier for humans to comprehend by providing context to an idea. We’ll be following this one for a while, but here’s a decent introduction to the concept:
The semantic web: How RDF will change learning technology standards
You’ve gotten those messages, purporting to be from your Bank, saying “your account security has been breached! Enter all this personally identifying information and bank account numbers to verify your identity.” These emails come from people called Phishers, and they want to steal your identity. Know your enemy! Read this article about Phishers and Phishing.
Here’s an interesting new resource for librarians who are interested in future and current library technology trends (and I know that you all fit that description!), www.librarytechnologynow.org is a consortium of Texas library and university partners, and it features product reviews of current library technology.
Pretty neat!
TechDay 2005 topic choices are rolling in. Thanks to all who have responded! Wireless technology seems like a popular choice. For now, WebJunction
has a number of resources on the topic.
Many of you have probably already used Wikipedia. Wikipedia:WikiProject Librarians looks at the ways in which librarians could be involved with the resource. “We librarians flatter ourselves that we know a thing or two about organizing information. It’s time we stepped up and contributed to Wikipedia: not just to its content but to its structures and technologies. This project page is intended to provide a rallying point for these activities.”
I keep both Firefox and IE on my computer, but use Firefox 99% of the time. Michael Sauers has compiled ten reasons why your library should use Firefox.
“Grokker is one of the most significant steps toward what many people in education and information sciences have been exploring for years [a tool] where all the relevant information sources are brought together in a single, easy-to-navigate environment.”
— Michael Keller, University Librarian, Stanford University
Grokker – A New Way to Look at Search
For the geeky geeks out there, an explanation of Open Source Software, and how Linux could dethrone Windows. Unlikely, but a nice intro to Open Source.
