I have put all my assignments on a separate page (24th June).
Anyone who wants to comment can still do so. Just thought it made it easier to find the truly relevant information in the blog!
Archive for June, 2007
Assignments
Posted in Uncategorized on June 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Mashups
Posted in mashups on June 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
We have been discussing mashups and so I looked at the results of the Library Mashups competion by Talis. They are beyond me but seem comprehensible to the more skilled web 2.0 er…useful little gadgets though and worth a look:
http://www.blyberg.net/2006/08/18/go-go-google-gadget/
I am not sure why Second life is a mashup, although it came second, suitably, and there [...]
Study of tagging and health resources
Posted in Learn log, cataloguing, tagging on June 17, 2007 | No Comments »
Have just found this study of tagging and health resources completed earlier this year on the CILIP cataloguing site.
Conclusions of the study propose that tags could be a useful addition to controlled vocabularies:
“The differing terminology use in tag lists suggests that tagging may be a working
example of Vannevar Bush’s associative trails. He argued that associative [...]
Tags on catalogues,rss feeds from the catalogue, interesting sites and podcasting trial!
Posted in Learn log, Podcasting, cataloguing, tagging on June 17, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Tags and Catalogues
Following up your comment Bertha about tags and catalogues, I went to a conference on Web.2.0 in Sheffield on Friday and this site was shown by one of the speakers.
http://www.aadl.org/catalog
It is the Ann Arbor District library catalogue, which uses tags alongside its traditional catalogue. (It is quite well-known I think, as I remember [...]
Well -blogging works!
Posted in Learn log on June 13, 2007 | No Comments »
I asked about copyright yesterday..and got back just about as authoritative an answer as I could hope for (see comments) today - so this blogging does work for good information! Thanks Phil.
I have been playing around with ideas for a library blog, by mocking up a blog on wordpress, as I agree with Susan it [...]
Blog
Posted in Learn log on June 10, 2007 | 3 Comments »
My Learning log
I feel I have learnt a lot on the course, already. Certainly I never thought I would have a blog on the internet, nor would I have appreciated the conceptual value of using web 2.0. for some of the things I have seen as a result of the reading lists. I am beginning to see [...]
