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Bruce's Information Management Blog

I am currently working for a large government library and doing lots of cataloguing . I created this blog so that I could share my ideas about the Information Management (IM) field. I hope to share this site with the people I meet on my journey to learn more about this crucial and constantly changing field.

Showing posts with label AJAX. Show all posts

Showing posts with label AJAX. Show all posts

Friday, 25 August 2006

What Tim Berners Lee has to say about Web 2.0

I really like this design and I agree with the quote by Tim Berners Lee.

Posted by Bruce at 1:44 pm No comments:

Labels: AJAX, Tim Berners Lee, web 2.0

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Libraries learning 2.0

Canberra Learning 2.0 - ACT public libraries Web 2.0 course

About Me

Bruce: Professional interests include: trust and authoritativeness on the Web, Reference, Research, Digital Access to resources, the 'Semantic Web', Application 'hacks' leading to customisation and increasing levels of personalisation, Web Usability, etc.

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Blog Archive

▼ 2007 (3)
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  - A Report on Painting with words - the National Gal...
  - Tools that I am keen to try out.
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► 2006 (17)
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- ► September (2)
- ► August (7)

Chicklets

Random books I have read or want to read

Some of my Photos

This is a Flickr badge showing public photos from Burusu. Make your own badge here.

Links

Personal Plugs

My girlfriend Makiko crafts a range of interesting things and sells them on her hobbity.etsy.com site.

A Glossary of Terms

AJAX
Personal Information Manager (Wikipedia)
The Long Tail (Wikipedia)
Web 2.0 (Wikipedia)

Applications I am interested in

Inmagic - DBTextworks a flat file textbase
KE Software - EMu (Electronic Museum) content management software for museums
Vernon Database Systems - content management system for museums

Blogging Issues

What the biggest lie about blogging? by Ann Hadley 29 Jun 06
The top 10 things you should know about blogging, by Carole Matthews, Jul 25 05
Blogging vs your Career, by Rod Boothby 21 Aug 06

Careers and Workplace Issues

Librarian Careers Information: Resources for Prospective Librarians (Australia) seen originally on 'The Road Less Travelled: a Blog which explores niche topics others ignore' by Bhatt N.
Librarians in the job market: a strange dichotomy, by Teece P. , Incite, Dec 05

Copyright, Digital Rights, and Privacy

Attack the pirates, not the viewers, Mark Pesce, The Age, 26 Nov 06
Australian Copyright Council
Backdown on draconian laws, Asher Moses, Sydney Morning Herald, 05 Dec 06
Click at your own risk, Sydney Morning Herald, Aug 03 04
Creative Commons - a way to easily mark creative work with the freedoms you want it to carry
eBusiness Privacy and Security (Australian Info.)
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Frontiers Australia: protecting and promoting on-line civil liberties

Dialog (Databases for search professionals)

Dialog Home Page
Bluesheets - Detailed information on individual databases

Information Management News

eLearning Technology: Enterprise 2.0 - Advice on learning and teaching using Web applications.
elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog - Advice on Knowledge Management (KM) and the uses of Web applications to allow collaboration and the sharing of knowledge.
Incite - news magazine of the Australian Library and Information Association
Information Research - a scholarly journal on issues in the field of Information Management
KmWiki - Knowledge Management forum using the collaborative 'power' of the Wiki
Library Success: A Best Practices Wiki
NextSpace The OCLC Newsletter

IM Standards

Commonwealth Manual for AGLS Metadata - Australian government standards for metadata
Dublin Core: a user guide for simple Dublin Core
PADI Metadata Schema - created by the NLA (National Library of Australia)
W3C Standard for recording date time

Library Humour and Pop Culture References,etc.

A Quiz to Enjoy: What type of book are you? I am a science fiction book by the way... an old school Heinlein I hope. Seen originally on 'The Road Less Travelled: a Blog which explores niche topics others ignore' by Bhatt N.
Check out the The Library 2.0 Idea Generator! Seen orginally on Dave Pattern's weblog
Library Avengers Quiz: Am I geeky enough to be a librarian
Library Humour collected into a Flickr photo set by library_mistress
LibraryThing Beta - Catalog your books online. This site lets you put up to two hundred books online in your own catalog organised in a way of your choosing. Cool eh.
New York Times article 2007 "A hipper crowd of shushers" - an insulting and patronising article.
Uncyclopedia entry on Librarian - a great send up of wikipedia and librarians

Reference Resources

'The initial reference interview' - Australian National Training Authority