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I really struggled to shoehorn everything I wanted to talk about during my ILI 2009 presentation into the slides, so this blog post goes into a bit more depth than I'll probably talk about…
slide 1 & 2
I'm still in two minds about whether or not the word "exploit" has too many negative connotations, [...]
For those of you interested in the developer competition being run by the JISC MOSAIC Project, I've put together a quick & dirty API for the available data sets. If it's easier for you, you can use this API to develop your competition entry rather than working with the entire downloaded data set.
edit (31/Jul/2009): [...]
A good couple of years ago, I blogged about "lending paths", but we've not really progressed things any further since then. I still like the idea that you can somehow predict books that people might/should borrow and also when you might get a sudden rush of demand on a particular title.
Anyway, whilst heading back [...]
It doesn't seem two minutes since the library refurbisment started, but we're now into the final year of the project. This time, it's floors 2 and 3 that are getting the treatment. I'll be snapping some shots of floor 2 tomorrow, but here's some from (the now closed) floor 3…
Just a quick plug to say that there are still spaces available at the "Open Source: Free Speech, Free Beer and Free Kittens!" event at Hudderfield on Friday 26th June. Full details and a link to the booking form are available on the CILIP University College and Research Group web site.
Speakers at the event [...]
I've been meaning to get around to adding a web service front end on to the book usage data that we released in December for ages. So, better late than never, here it is!
It's not the fastest bit of code I've ever written, but (if there's enough interest) I could speed it up.
The web [...]
For anyone who's interested in how libraries and librarians are blogging about the swine flu outbreak, I've just added a dedicated RSS feed over on the HotStuff 2.0 blog: http://www.daveyp.com/hotstuff/?p=268
Despite a widespread network failure that seemed to affect quite a few universities, I finally managed to pick up all of the #cilip2 tweets from today's event: http://www.daveyp.com/blog/stuff/cilip2.html
Whenever I get a spare half-an-hour, I'll do some analysis of the tweets. If anyone want a tab separated version of the data, you can grab it [...]
I'm guessing it's safe to post this now, although I'm still expecting a phone call from lawyers representing OCLC and/or The Library Journal after "accidentally" stumbling on the news before it officially broke :-S
The LJ article (written by Marshall Breeding) isn't live at the moment, but it the annoucement has appeared on the OCLC home [...]
Is your library looking a little tired and shabby? Are you patrons listless and lackadaisical? Are you in need of inspiration? Have you shifted your paradigms recently? Do you believe that ideas should come at regular 15 minute intervals and always be less than 140 characters long?
I should have thought of [...]