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E-research, cyberinfrastructure, data curation, open access... an academic librarian examines how computers change research and libraries.
Book of Trogool bloggers are Elizabeth Brown, Dorothea Salo, and Sarah Shreeves.
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By Beth BrownCategory:
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As a new blogger here at Book of Trogool I'd like to thank Dorothea for the opportunity to share in the discussion of evolving issues in technology, libraries, research, and scholarly communication. I'm currently the Scholarly Communications and Library Grants...
Posted July 14, 2010 • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
By Dorothea SaloCategory:
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Oh, if I'd only had this picture for Zombie Day... Credit for the photo to UK Serials Group. Credit for the alteration of the speech bubble (you can see the original slide here if you care to) to Steve Lawson....
Posted July 13, 2010 • • 0 TrackBacks
By Dorothea SaloCategory:
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I'm just back from lunch, after giving my UKSG talk first thing this morning. Here are slides plus notes: Who owns our work? (notes) I'm aware that some of the notes are cut off owing to font size; I'll fix...
Posted April 13, 2010 • • 0 TrackBacks
By Dorothea SaloCategory:
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This is my blog post for Ada Lovelace Day, on which we celebrate technical achievement by women. I'm writing it the day before, and setting it to post at midnight. I hope someone is writing a biography of Henriette Avram....
Posted March 24, 2010 • • 0 TrackBacks
By Dorothea SaloCategory:
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We have a guestblogger today! At my request, Peggy Schaeffer kindly sent me the following introduction to Dryad, which I reproduce as I received it (save for minor formatting details). I will happily pass any questions in the comments on...
Posted March 11, 2010 • • 0 TrackBacks
By Dorothea SaloCategory:
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I interrupt your regularly-scheduled blog to ask for some help... comments closed on this post so that you'll comment where it'll do the most good. --- Apologies for duplication, and please forward/repost as appropriate... We are working on comparing four...
Posted March 9, 2010 • • 0 TrackBacks
By Dorothea SaloCategory:
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Blogging is liable to be sparse next week, as I will be at Science Online 2010 to do a workshop about institutional repositories, and talk about libraries generally alongside the inestimable Stephanie Willen Brown. Here are the slides for my...
Posted January 8, 2010 • • 0 TrackBacks
By Dorothea SaloCategory:
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I had the honor to participate in a futurist exercise by ALA's Association for Library Collections and Technical Services. The short essays they solicited have been placed online; they are well worth perusal. I wish the discussants at ALA's Midwinter...
Posted January 4, 2010 • • 0 TrackBacks
By Dorothea SaloCategory:
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This is a pushmi-pullyu post. I need some help with an environmental scan, so I'll get us started and the rest of you smart folks can amplify my knowledge. I want to understand what's going on where with data curation...
Posted November 12, 2009 • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
By Dorothea SaloCategory:
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So here's an interesting problem I ran into today. You have metadata in an XML file. You want to make the file self-describingly self-correcting, so you want to embed its checksum inside it. The problem is, you can't add the...
Posted November 10, 2009 • 7 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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