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Bush: Solving Information Technology
I think the answer Bush was trying to solve by imagining his ideal information technology of the future was described in his own article. The example of the two men who are debating on how “people...
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What a DL Is and Isn’t
So far from the readings I don’t think anyone has a complete definition of a digital library, though the Kuny and Cleveland do a decent job of defining it by defining what it isn’t. They say the...
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The True Cost of the DPLA
The biggest problem with the DPLA will be its funding. Having a project as big as this is going to cost some serious amount of money. Darton says, “It would be the digital equivalent of the Library...
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Omeka vs. WordPress
Disclaimer: I am speaking about the WordPress.com hosted blogs/CMS’s. The ones you host on your own are a bit more complicated. It seems like many of you all have not had a lot of experience with...
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Types of Images (And some cool links too!)
The way librarians benefit from using different kinds of digital images is the way everyone else can benefit from using different types of digital images. Just like a screwdriver is used for screws...
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Using Metadata and Omeka
Hello everyone. Make sure you take a look at a. d. m. n.’s post about Gartner’s, Duval’s and Doctorow’s articles. She discusses more of the theory of metadata. I’ll ask you to take a look at this...
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You Can Be a PM Too!
What experience do you have in project management and project planning? I have a decent amount of experience with project management. My undergraduate degree is partly in project management. I have...
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Usability: It’s Pretty Tricky
Usability is one of those things that can be easy to do, but hard to master. Many programmers and developers come out with good products that users can use, but they may not be easy to use. This is...
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Troubles with Copyright
Copyright can be a very hard thing to deal with not just in digitizing your collections. It is very costly if you find yourself in litigation and many libraries don’t want to deal with/challenge...
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Reflecting on the Big Picture
Through the course of the semester I have truly learned what a digital library is. Oddly enough it wasn’t that far off from what I wrote about in Week 1. During Week 1 we discussed Bush’s concept of...
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