Michael Habib-
Section on useing XFN, hCard, etc. to create a portable social network. I wrote about this idea over a year ago after a discussion we had at BarCampRDU 2006.
Monthly Archive for July, 2007
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The Society for Preservation of Hebrew Books & HebrewBooks.org (about page)
This non-profit has a mission to preserve all Torah Seforim ever printed. So far they have 11,000 classical Hebrew books available for download.
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PublishYourSefer.com - About Our Reprints Program
This company partners with HebrewBooks.org and Lulu.com (disclosure: I am an employee of Lulu) to offer on-demand reprinting for over 12,000 books. Wow! How is this done?…
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This is accomplished through the Lulu api, which “allows partners and outside developers to programmatically publish books.” Given that Lulu authors maintain full ownership of their books, why can’t libraries offer on-demand reprints of digitized books?
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PublishYourSefer’s sister site, They offer consulting and services for digitizing collections, using print on demand to “monetize” collections, Also have periodicals and books for purchase.
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[CODE4LIB] Using OpenID in libraries
A discussion. (Thanks Jay)
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OpenID and Education.
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From 04/06 - “Tagging systems don’t work because a ton of people use them; they work because tags are valuable to us. “
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This student needs help conducting research on his Master’s Thesis on “Collaborative Indexing Systems”, i.e. tagging. Please take his 15 minute tagging “survey” if you get a chance. “Tobias Kowatsch, Student of Computer Science in Media at Hochschule Fu
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BIGWIG got in trouble with LITA for not using enough LITA branding. However, I am joining LITA because of BIGWIG.
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Karen Coombs’ response to Jason’s post and the LITA Letter. “But the truth is that the only way the system changes is if people participate and try to change it.”
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A deeper discussion of ALA committees resulting.
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A peak at Del.icio.us usability testing. Posted on Flickr of course.
