Declaration of Metadata Independance:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that Metadata is essential to all Users, and that the Creation of Metadata endows certain inalienable Rights, that among these are the right to collect, the right to share and the pursuit of Happiness through the reuse of the Metadata… (read more)
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Posted November 6, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: declaration of independence, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, metadata. Be the first one.

The Chronicle’s Tech Therapy podcast last week featured Libraries vs. IT Departments. (Via.)

Posted October 16, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: conflict, information technology, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, podcast, Tech Therapy, The Chronicle. Be the first one.

Hi, I’m Casey. I developed Scriblio, which is really just a faceted search and browse plugin for WordPress that allows you to use it as a library catalog or digital library system (or both).
I’m not the only one to misuse WordPress that way. Viddler is a cool YouTube competitor built atop WordPress that allows you [...]

Posted September 22, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: BuddyPress, DevCamp, identity management, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, scriblio, social software, wordpress. Be the first one.

I announced yesterday Scriblio’s integration of Google’s new book viewability API that links to full text, previews, or additional book information (depending on copyright status and publisher foresight). Now that it’s live with Plymouth’s full catalog, I spent a moment browsing the collection and taking note of what books had what.
I get no preview for [...]

Posted March 14, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: book previews, book viewability API, GBS, Google Book Search, lib20, libraries, library 2.0. Be the first one.

(crossposted at Scriblio.net)
Using the newly released book viewability API in Google Book Search, Plymouth State University’s Lamson Library and Learning Commons is one of the first libraries to move beyond simply listing their books online and open them up to reading and searching via the web.
Take a look at how this works with books [...]

Posted March 13, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: books, ebooks, GBS, Google Book Search, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, library catalogs, read online, scriblio. 2 Comments.

This Slashdot post asks the same question a lot of people do: “can libraries be saved from the internet?”
Slate has an interesting photo essay exploring the question of how to build a public library in the age of Google, Wikipedia, and Kindle. The grand old reading rooms and stacks of past civic monuments are giving [...]

Posted March 5, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: architecture, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, obsolescence. 3 Comments.

Take note of the “New Feature: Text this to your cellphone” line above.
Adam Brin of Tricollege Libraries explained that the “text this to me” feature he built to send location information about items in the library catalog as text messages to a user’s cell phone is being used as many as 60 times a [...]

Posted February 28, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: catalog, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, library catalogs, scriblio, sms, text this to me, txt. 5 Comments.

[]I’m excited and honored to be joining Meredith Farkas and David J. Fiander in a roundtable discussion of Top Tech Trends, an OLITA program at Superconference. We’ve made a pact not to share our trends with each other in advance (no peeking), so it’ll be interesting to see how much overlap we have and how [...]

Posted February 2, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: libraries, library 2.0, LITA, next generation catalog, OLA, OLITA, Ontario Library Association, presentation, superconference, superconference2008, top tech trends. 5 Comments.

I’m honored to be invited to the Ontario Library Association Superconference to present my work on Scriblio today (session #1329). A PDF of my slides is online.
Scriblio has had about a year of use in production at each of three sites, and the lessons suggest that Web 2.0 technologies really do work for libraries. And [...]

Posted February 1, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: libraries, library 2.0, next generation catalog, OLA, Ontario Library Association, presentation, scriblio, superconference, superconference2008. Be the first one.

Like Mr. Ranganathong said: “The intellect cannot be tied down with a decimal thong.” (via)

Posted January 21, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches. Tags: clothing, funny, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, Ranganathan, Ranganathong, S. R. Ranganathan, Shiyali Ramamrita Ranganathan, thong. Be the first one.