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August 31, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Praxis
When I was but a young digital preservationist, I was presented with an archival problem I couldn't solve. This should not sound unusual. It happens a lot, for all sorts of reasons. If I can keep a few people from...
Posted 5:11 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 27, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tactics
I said awhile ago that we don't know who's going to do data curation yet. I absolutely believe that. I probably should have added, though, that we can have a pretty good idea who's not going to do it: anybody...
Posted 6:15 PM • • 0 TrackBacks
Dorothea Salo
Steve Lawson and the LSW are three-fifths of the way to the goal of $5000 for the flood-ravaged Louisville Free Public Library by September 1. The last two-fifths are the hard part. If you can help, please do. Comment here...
Posted 5:26 PM • 2 Comments •
August 25, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Jargon
I'd like to start our tour of book and library information-management techniques with a glance at the humble back-of-book index. I started the USDA's excellent indexing course back in the day, and while it became clear fairly quickly that I...
Posted 6:14 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 24, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tidbits
Hello, Monday. My tidbits folder overfloweth. Want to text-mine JSTOR? Looks like you can. Garret McMahon talks about FriendFeed, scholarly communication, and embedded librarianship. Part of the reason I'm here is that I believe, with Garret, that we librarians can't...
Posted 5:10 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 21, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Metablogging
Well, I've been here for about a month now, and I've quite enjoyed myself! (And I finally did send in my contract, Erin. Really. I did.) Thanks to all who have commented. (Well, except a spammer or two, but I...
Posted 5:28 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 20, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Praxis
Many people, first confronted with the idea of data curation, think it's a storage problem. A commonly-expressed notion is "give them enough disk and they'll be fine." Terabyte drives are cheap. Put one on the desk of every researcher, network...
Posted 5:34 PM • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 19, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Praxis
Five years ago (really? goodness, it hardly seems possible) I gave a preconference session at the Extreme Markup Languages conference (which is now Balisage) entitled "Classification, Cataloguing, and Categorization Systems: Past, Present, and Future." I have learned to write better...
Posted 5:50 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 18, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Praxis
I see a lot of metadata out there in the wild woolly world of repositories. Seriously, a lot. Thesis metadata, article metadata, learning-object metadata, image metadata, metadata about research data, lots of metadata. And a lot of it is horrible....
Posted 6:00 PM • 6 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
August 17, 2009
Dorothea Salo
Category: Tactics
The publisher Information Today runs a good and useful book series for librarians who find themselves with job duties they weren't expecting and don't feel prepared for. There's The Accidental Systems Librarian and The Accidental Library Marketer (that one's new)...
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