Comments for Blog of the Digital Library at the NLS http://digitalnls.wordpress.com The digital division of the National Library of Scotland Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:51:34 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on New shiny Aquabrowser by PennyR http://digitalnls.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/new-shiny-aquabrowser/#comment-148 PennyR Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:51:34 +0000 http://digitalnls.wordpress.com/?p=140#comment-148 Loving the aqua browser on NLS . Gill Hamilton gave an excellent presentation on the NLS usage of this at last week's CILIPS Conference, was really rewarding to see the challenges of bringing together disparate collections under one common means of search. Loving the aqua browser on NLS . Gill Hamilton gave an excellent presentation on the NLS usage of this at last week’s CILIPS Conference, was really rewarding to see the challenges of bringing together disparate collections under one common means of search.

]]> Comment on Google Friday ? by Ritin. K. http://digitalnls.wordpress.com/2007/11/07/google-friday/#comment-135 Ritin. K. Fri, 15 May 2009 13:01:17 +0000 http://digitalnls.wordpress.com/2007/11/13/google-friday/#comment-135 A very innovative way to get the best out of the team. Well i just cannot set aside the day to day work and neither can my co-workers. But yes for sure will set aside some time to ponder about the next week, have brainstorming sessions for the progress of the company and also to catch up on tips, tricks and useful softwares which make life easy for all of us. A very innovative way to get the best out of the team.

Well i just cannot set aside the day to day work and neither can my co-workers.

But yes for sure will set aside some time to ponder about the next week, have brainstorming sessions for the progress of the company and also to catch up on tips, tricks and useful softwares which make life easy for all of us.

]]> Comment on The mysteries of Flickr….. by Vos collections photographiques sur Flickr « Biblioverdose’s Blog http://digitalnls.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/the-mysteries-of-flickr/#comment-133 Vos collections photographiques sur Flickr « Biblioverdose’s Blog Sun, 10 May 2009 20:22:00 +0000 http://digitalnls.wordpress.com/?p=105#comment-133 [...] http://digitalnls.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/the-mysteries-of-flickr/ [...] [...] http://digitalnls.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/the-mysteries-of-flickr/ [...]

]]> Comment on New shiny Aquabrowser by Simon Bains http://digitalnls.wordpress.com/2009/04/17/new-shiny-aquabrowser/#comment-127 Simon Bains Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:19:14 +0000 http://digitalnls.wordpress.com/?p=140#comment-127 Used this as an example of 'diffusion' in a presentation to our Library Committee this week (and NLS Flickr/YouTube for 'concentration'). I suspect some of them were rather nonplussed, but I think it got them thinking... Used this as an example of ‘diffusion’ in a presentation to our Library Committee this week (and NLS Flickr/YouTube for ‘concentration’). I suspect some of them were rather nonplussed, but I think it got them thinking…

]]> Comment on Everyone should AddThis by New shiny Aquabrowser « Blog of the Digital Library at the NLS http://digitalnls.wordpress.com/2009/03/27/everyone-should-addthis/#comment-124 New shiny Aquabrowser « Blog of the Digital Library at the NLS Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:39:03 +0000 http://digitalnls.wordpress.com/?p=116#comment-124 [...] Google Friday Updates « Everyone should AddThis [...] [...] Google Friday Updates « Everyone should AddThis [...]

]]> Comment on The NLS Digital Archive by Simon Tanner http://digitalnls.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/the-nls-digital-archive/#comment-109 Simon Tanner Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:57:53 +0000 http://digitalnls.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/the-nls-digital-archive/#comment-109 I know this is trivial, but I love the choice of header background images i can select to personalise the page. Great simple idea, well executed. I know this is trivial, but I love the choice of header background images i can select to personalise the page. Great simple idea, well executed.

]]> Comment on The NLS Digital Archive by Simon Tanner http://digitalnls.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/the-nls-digital-archive/#comment-108 Simon Tanner Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:54:45 +0000 http://digitalnls.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/the-nls-digital-archive/#comment-108 Wow, this looks great. Well done! Wow, this looks great. Well done!

]]> Comment on The NLS Digital Archive by Simon Bains http://digitalnls.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/the-nls-digital-archive/#comment-107 Simon Bains Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:07:39 +0000 http://digitalnls.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/the-nls-digital-archive/#comment-107 Great to see this go live at last! Congrats, all. Great to see this go live at last! Congrats, all.

]]> Comment on Missing dark matter found in NLS catalogue by Alan Aitken http://digitalnls.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/missing-dark-matter-found-in-nls-catalogue/#comment-97 Alan Aitken Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:58:16 +0000 http://digitalnls.wordpress.com/?p=40#comment-97 DISCLAIMER. I haven't thought this through. Even after considering it for a couple of days, I still don't know if I'm being serious. Bearing that in mind... why not give the job to random strangers who happen to have computers connected to the internet? I'm thinking along the lines of the reCAPTCHA initiative that Carnegie Mellon University is using to get the aforementioned random strangers to do the donkey work on book digitisation projects (see 'What is reCAPTCHA?' at http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html). I appreciate that being a national library means that the NLS would have more concerns than most about the quality of the data in its catalogue, but if your 'metadata volunteers' had to register, were limited to picking from an existing controlled vocabulary (rather than being able to create new authorities), and their work was occasionally (and randomly) assessed by NLS staffers, you never know your luck. If you called it a metadata project and announced it on professional sites and discussion lists, the vast majority of volunteers would be professional cataloguers anyway (who else would want to catalogue at home and at weekends?!) -- so your copy of 'Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance' definitely wouldn't get filed beside the Haynes workshop manuals (as I once saw it on the shelves of a discount bookshop). And if you called it a Web 2.0 project, you'd probably even get a grant for doing it. What could go wrong? Just mention me in your speech to the academy in Stockholm. But send the chocolate first. A DISCLAIMER. I haven’t thought this through. Even after considering it for a couple of days, I still don’t know if I’m being serious. Bearing that in mind…

why not give the job to random strangers who happen to have computers connected to the internet?

I’m thinking along the lines of the reCAPTCHA initiative that Carnegie Mellon University is using to get the aforementioned random strangers to do the donkey work on book digitisation projects (see ‘What is reCAPTCHA?’ at http://recaptcha.net/learnmore.html).

I appreciate that being a national library means that the NLS would have more concerns than most about the quality of the data in its catalogue, but if your ‘metadata volunteers’ had to register, were limited to picking from an existing controlled vocabulary (rather than being able to create new authorities), and their work was occasionally (and randomly) assessed by NLS staffers, you never know your luck. If you called it a metadata project and announced it on professional sites and discussion lists, the vast majority of volunteers would be professional cataloguers anyway (who else would want to catalogue at home and at weekends?!) — so your copy of ‘Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance’ definitely wouldn’t get filed beside the Haynes workshop manuals (as I once saw it on the shelves of a discount bookshop).

And if you called it a Web 2.0 project, you’d probably even get a grant for doing it. What could go wrong?

Just mention me in your speech to the academy in Stockholm. But send the chocolate first.

A

]]> Comment on Missing dark matter found in NLS catalogue by usherjan http://digitalnls.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/missing-dark-matter-found-in-nls-catalogue/#comment-96 usherjan Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:00:48 +0000 http://digitalnls.wordpress.com/?p=40#comment-96 Hi Gill, Good to know you're back in one piece (are you??)! Yes, the dark matter is a good way to describe this - I remember quite a few of the policy changes along the way, and dropping LCSH for the majority of records was reluctantly agreed due to the enormous amount of material which never stops pouring in. What to do about it though? Unless someone finds a way of matching our records with fully subject-indexed records from elsewhere at the push of a button (!)or employing hundres of cataloguers then the matter will remain unresolved (and dark). Jan p.s. check out: http://nlsopublog.blogspot.com/ Hi Gill,

Good to know you’re back in one piece (are you??)!

Yes, the dark matter is a good way to describe this – I remember quite a few of the policy changes along the way, and dropping LCSH for the majority of records was reluctantly agreed due to the enormous amount of material which never stops pouring in. What to do about it though? Unless someone finds a way of matching our records with fully subject-indexed records from elsewhere at the push of a button (!)or employing hundres of cataloguers then the matter will remain unresolved (and dark).

Jan

p.s. check out:
http://nlsopublog.blogspot.com/

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