Category Archives: Ideas

Cool things others are doing in the library or tech community that might be useful for me in the future. Or just generally things I’ve seen that I think are pretty cool.

AWS Offers New Data Sets

Posted on February 28, 2009 by Rosalyn Metz

Amazon Web Services is offering data sets for Freebase, DBpedia, and US Bureau of Transportation Statistics.  They have other datasets as well. The datasets are available via Elastic Block Storage: Amazon EC2 customers can access this data by creating their … Continue reading →

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Jing for Screencasting

Posted on February 27, 2009 by Rosalyn Metz

At Code4Lib I saw Becky Yoose give a lightning talk on AutoIt, a cool tool that is supposedly faster than Macro Express (but much more complicated in terms of writing the programs). So while that was great, what was even … Continue reading →

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OAI-ORE LITA Presentation with Herbert Van de Sompel

Posted on January 25, 2009 by Rosalyn Metz

Yesterday I went to the LITA sponsered talk about OAI-ORE. I went because I wanted to see the man (the myth, the legend) behind SFX and OpenURL, as well as bX, Ex Libris’ new recommender service.  Basically, if it weren’t … Continue reading →

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