Episodes
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LibraryLab: Karen Coyle on modern data for libraries
Karen Coyle on what modern library data should look like. Interviewed by David Weinberger
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Sebastian Hammer explains federated search
Sebastian Hammer explains federated search's strengths and limitations. Interviewed by David Weinberger of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab and DPLA.
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011: A Technological Graveyard?
"Your average citizen is not technologically savvy," says Marilyn Johnson, the author of This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All Even as technology takes over more and more of our lives many of us are living in a technology cemetery, filled with old gadgets we have no...
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010: What Students Do in Libraries
Alison Head, who is spending time with us at the LiL as she simultaneously is a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center — she is the co-diorector of Project Information Literacy at the Univ. of Washington's Information School — spoke with us about a new study she's done with Michael Eisenberg [pdf]...
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009: What Libraries Want
The way we search for information on the web has antecedents in the way search works in traditional libraries and research journals. There's metadata, and there's also a sense of allowing the content that is most cited to float to the top. So why the library of the future still being waylaid?…
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LibraryLab/Shorts: Paola Mazzucchi on Orphaned works
Paola Mazzucchi of Arrow talks about her project for identifying the copyright holders of “orphaned works,” i.e., works that are in copyright whose copyright holders are not known and/or findable.
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LibraryLab/Shorts: Jonathan Rothman on Orphaned works
Jonathan Rothman of the HathiTrust talks about his project for identifying the copyright holders of “orphaned works,” i.e., works that are in copyright whose copyright holders are not known and/or findable.
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LibraryLab/Shorts: Chris Freeland of the Biodiversity Heritage Library on supporting collaborative scientists
Chris Freeland of the Biodiversity Heritage Library on supporting collaborative scientists.
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LibraryLab/Shorts: Doron Weber of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation on his hopes for the DPLA
Doron Weber of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation on his hopes for the DPLA
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LibraryLab/Shorts: Stefan Gradmann on libraries after books become mere temporary configurations of small pieces
Stefan Gradmann (Humbold Universitaet) on libraries after books become mere temporary configurations of small pieces.
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LibraryLab/Shorts: Brewster Kahle reads from a prescient book
Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive, reads from an oddly prescient 1936 about preserving the current media types.
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LibraryLab/Shorts: Kristin Eschenfelder on why cultural institutions worry about sharing
Kristin Eschenfelder of University of Wisconsin Madison discusses her recent research on why cultural institutions resist making their materials openly available (videoed at the LODLAM conference).
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LibraryLab/Shorts: Roy Tennant on OCLC and linked data
Roy Tennant of OCLC talks about that organization’s commitment to linked data. At 2:30 he recapitulates his announcement that OCLC will release bibliographic data for the million works most widely held by libraries. Towards the end, he talks about the tension at the OCLC between opening data and...
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LibraryLab/Shorts: Eric Hellman on freeing works for all
Eric Hellman explains how GlueJar.com will enable readers to pool money to buy the rights to works so that those works can be made available for free to the world. (Recorded at the LOD-LAM conference in San Francisco.)
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LibraryLab/Shorts: How to digitize a million books
Brewster Kahle gives a tour of one of the Internet Archive‘s book scanning facilities. This one is part of the Archive’s San Francisco headquarters.
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LibraryLab/Shorts: Anra Kenney and Susan Chun on museum attendee data
Anra Kennedy of Culture 24 and Susan Chun of the Audience project talk at the LOD-LAM conference about the value of data about the attendees of museums and other cultural institutions, and the advantages and limitations of making that that data open.
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LibraryLab/Shorts: Dan Brickley on libraries, linked data, and cataloguing the Web
We’ve had the pleasure of working with Dan Brickley this summer on a spectacularly difficult and interesting project, trying to figure out how to associate content from the Web with the sorts of categories used by libraries. In this podcast, Dan reflects on some of the general issues facing...
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LibraryLab/Shorts: Robert Darnton on books, ebooks, Google Books, and the DPLA
Robert Darnton, historian and Director of the Harvard Library, talks about the future of books and libraries.
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LibraryLab/Shorts: How We Assess Credibility
Soo Young Rieh is an associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. She recently finished a study (funded in part by MacArthur) on how people assess the credibility of sources when they are just searching for information and when they are actually posting information.…
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008: The Molecule of Data
How can libraries use the power of metadata — those little molecules of information that help describe the greater work — to help users get more out of their search for resources? Karen Coyle — herself a librarian — has spent decades helping to build an understanding of the incredible new powers...
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006: From Brick and Mortar to 1s and 0s
Some might assume that libraries and museums have outlived their purpose. When every book and archive can be recreated and reinterpreted digitally to create an incredible user experience, how is the physical and human infrastructure of the institution still necessary? It's a challenging question,...
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005: Stock in Paper
If you've worked in technology at all you probably recognize the name "O'Reilly" — it has become practically synonymous with "tech help." For anyone who has tried to code a line of html, or figure out what the heck that icon on the iPhone screen is, O'Reilly Media has produced a manual to explain...
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004: We Read in Public
Guarding patron privacy is kind of the default in the library business. When it comes to knowing who checked out what and when libraries usually prefer to flush the cache — except when it comes to collecting fines! But in an age of public Amazon purchase lists, automatic tweets, and even sites...
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003: The Digital Citation
It starts with an idea: You're a scholar and you use the web to search for sources. How can you collect your sources and their metadata without having to copy, paste, reformat? Or spend your starving researcher's budget on some proprietary software? That's only the beginning for Zotero, a free,...
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002: Free Knowledge
Scholarly journals were once enormously expensive. Because they were pricey to produce — it took a lot of money to coordinate the peer review, and to edit, print, bind, and distribute all those volumes — access was pricey as well. But digital publishing and collaboration has reduced many of the...
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001: Concrete Digital
There's a lot of talk about what the future of publishing looks like. Designers and innovators draw up these artistic visualizations of tablets, touchscreens, and interactive multimedia literature mashups to illustrate the possibilities. But one designer is thinking a lot more about what is lost…
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007: The Velocity of Books | The Library Lab
With the web, people are reading more than ever before you could say. But what are we reading? Likely it's all short form: blog posts, tweets, status updates. They're words, but it's not exactly literature. But innovators attempting to bridge the gap between literacy and the social web have found...
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