Weblogs : Semblogging. From Catalogablog:

Semblogging

The Semblogging demonstrator is now out.

Here are some simple notes for looking at the HP Labs semantic blogging demonstrator The blog is intended to show the use of semantic web technologies augmenting the blogging paradigm, and applied to the domain of bibliography management. For further details about the requirements for this demonstrator, see the requirements specification. We believe that the use of semantic metadata can allow a blog to be used in new and powerful ways.

We have chosen bibliography management because it shows how we can use semantic web technologies to push blogging from a communal diary browsing experience to a rich information sharing activity. Specifically, we have divided the functionality into semantic view, semantic navigation and semantic query. [inSilico - A Princeton University Library metadata and digital library blog]

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Weblogs : Read this article - not this one.

A couple libloggers (or should it be two b's?) pointed to this article, "Weblogs: Do they belong in libraries?" without praise for it.

Even so, I think it is worthwhile if only for the fact it led me to this article in the same issue - "Towards Library Groupware with Personalised Link Routing".

According to the article:

"In this article we make a simple case for library groupware as a unifying service model across disparate information environments. We consider the distributed, personalised collection development model that groupware would serve, and propose an architectural model which might provide a first step in an evolutionary path from today's commonplace digital library services towards integrated library groupware."

Jeez, that's all?

This brief article presents an overview of the converging methods of information sharing that are outstripping the library's current technological toolkits- even as we try to keep up through adapatations- that will lead to "user bypass" unless those tools change to meet user's needs. In their words:

"The common thread running through these innovations is that each new service helps individuals move and connect more kinds of information from more diverse resources through the various information communities in which they participate. We are still at a stage where each innovation adds value within a well-defined community or information context, even while we are learning that we will have to meet the needs of users who regularly move between formal and informal communities, and between public and private contexts. Before long, our ability to meet these users' needs will be limited by our inability to allow users to create and connect information sources and services as they see fit."

The only downside of this article? I think I went to library school with two of the authors and I feel very, very small in the grey matter department after reading it. Who ever thought you could have library school classmate envy?

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