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Oxford University, Vatican libraries to digitize works The Bodleian Libraries of the University of Oxford and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV) said on Thursday they intended to digitize 1.5 million …
Another one from the ProgrammableWeb file: The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913, describes itself as a “fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of …
My recent week chock full of Code4Lib goodness was sponsored by Amanda Vizedom of Wind River Consulting. She’d been lucky enough to grab one of the precious few available registrations …
A value scenario for the use of metaphor in design Metaphor has a power to mislead and misdirect. Kensing and Madsen (1991) introduce it as a tool to start conversations …
(class assignment, IMT 540) Within the design process, scenarios and personas are described as techniques for collecting disparate relevant facts into a cohesive representation of the design situation’s full context …
News: Reuters apparently wants us to think about state-supported hacking as a rapidly legitimizing element of the national arsenal. Exploit traffic is the new rocket’s red glare apparently, faster, cheaper, …
In developing my iSchool portfolio lately, I’ve been struck by the extent to which instruction is represented. I’ve done plenty of training in my past along with development of training …
Oof. My brain is largely mush at this moment, thanks to a battle spanning 2 days with the evil, nasty mod_rewrite function in my hosting environment. This site is hosted …
The experience of actually implementing my high-context friend’s navigation program fully validated my understanding that parsing context is what’s hard, nevermind the simple linear stuff like math. Google Maps definitely …
I’m thinking a comprehensive taxonomy of cocktails is needed to really fulfill the promise of the House of Bols online cocktail selector. Who’s with me?