Archive for the ‘library technology’ Category


The launch of HathiTrust

Today, we officially launched HathiTrust, a multi-institutional effort to create the universal library–to bring together as comprehensive a body of works as possible and to do it in a way that ensures access, permanence, content preservation, and an advanced environment for research.  See the press release here:  http://www.hathitrust.org/press.  In short, HathiTrust is an effort born [...]


Our hidden digital libraries

Two of my very talented colleagues, Kat Hagedorn and Josh Santelli, just published a nice piece in D-Lib entitled “Google Still Not Indexing Hidden Web URLs.” Kat and Josh and I have discussed this problem off and on, stimulated in part by our frustrations in getting the OAI data collected by OAIster into search services [...]


Next Generation Library Systems

The problem
With the backdrop of the widely touted lessons of Amazoogle—an expression I can barely stand to write—three of the more interesting emerging developments of late have been OCLC’s WorldCat Local, Google Book Search, and Google Scholar. As Lorcan Dempsey argued, the “massive computational and data platforms [of Google, Amazon and EBay] exercise [a] strong [...]