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July 29, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tidbits
All of today's tidbits are from one blog! Well, all but one. David Rosenthal on digital preservation. I had this bookmarked to blog about, but… Chris Rusbridge beat me to it, saying everything I would have. Yes, online-versus-offline. Yes, research...
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July 28, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tactics
Another thing I meant to call out in the context of the Jupiter-goes-boom event was the nod to data gathered by people who aren't connected to the formal research enterprise save tangentially. This event was first noted by someone not...
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July 27, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Miscellanea
There's a string of "day in the life" librarian posts happening, so I thought I'd throw one in. Today wasn't a typical day, I suppose… but I don't really have typical days, especially these days. 6:00-ish am: Wake up, kick...
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July 25, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tidbits
Interesting and perhaps relevant: Jean-Claude Guédon's examination of power in science. Does e-research destabilize this situation? How? If it doesn't, should it? Should copyright in academic works be abolished? Makes the obvious point that journal-article authors don't use copyright for...
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July 23, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Jargon
Because I've seen it quoted, misquoted, and usually not attributed at all… “Converting PDF to XML is a bit like converting hamburgers into cows." That is the quote I know of. It comes from revered XML developer Michael Kay on...
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July 22, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tactics
And we're back! (With a four-note theme. Wait, that's Peter Schickele on Beethoven. Never mind.) So yesterday before our enforced break, I asked what we could learn about e-research from a big chunk of space flotsam hitting Jupiter. What had...
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July 21, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Metablogging
I am reliably informed that there will be a server upgrade going on tonight, so ScienceBlogs will be down for the count until it is complete. While I'm gone, have a look at the goings-on around Jupiter, and think about...
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Dorothea Salo
Category: Tidbits
Cliff Lynch on institutional repositories. I don't agree with quite all of it (institutional repositories are here to stay? really? in this budget environment? sez who?), but an hour with Cliff Lynch is always an hour well spent, and...
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July 19, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Reviews
Borgman, Christine L. Scholarship in the Digital Age: Information, Infrastructure, and the Internet. MIT Press, 2007. Worldcat page, Powell's page (no, I get no kickback). This calm, clear volume provides a thorough grounding in the practices of academic researchers around...
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July 18, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tactics
Lively welcome here at ScienceBlogs, I must say. Two posts, a soft launch, and eighteen comments already! The comments have turned up a question deserving of further discussion. On my first post, commenter Jim Lund said: E-research? Why make a...
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