Ryan Eby got me excited about S3 a while ago when he pointed out this post on the Amazon web services blog and started talking up the notion of building library-style digital repositories.
I’m interested in the notion that storage is being offered as a commodity service, where it used to be closely connected to servers [...]

Posted May 9, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: amazon, amazon web services, AWS, commodity service, internet applications, ryan eby, s3, simple storage service. One Comment.

A chat with Ryan Eby, also an Edward Tufte fan, elicited this line about another reason we continue to struggle with the design of our catalogs:
data isn’t usable by itself
if it was then the OPAC would just be marc displays
And yesterday I was speaking with Corey Seeman about how to measure and use “popularity” information [...]

Posted January 21, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: corey seeman, data visualization, libraries, library, library 2.0, library catalog, metrics, opac, opac 2.0, popularity, ryan eby, search rank, search ranking. 3 Comments.

A9, the search engine from Amazon.com, does some pretty interesting things that libraries should be aware of. First, any library considering a metasearch product should look at what can be done for free, and second, libraries should take a look at the OpenSearch technology that drives it.
So now, when searching for Harry Potter, you’ll also [...]

Posted October 21, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: a9, lamson library, metasearch, michigan state university, opensearch, plymouth state university, ryan eby, search engine, search engines, search technology, seattle public library, university, web search, websearch, xslt. Be the first one.