http://bibliotheke.org watching libraries evolve Thu, 08 Nov 2007 19:59:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The US Copyright Office has granted six DMCA exemptions, a few of which are great for libraries and universities, although they denied proposed exemptions, such as for region coding or backing up DVDs, that would benefit consumers. Persons making noninfringing uses of the following six classes of works will not be ... http://bibliotheke.org/archives/2006/11/25/six-new-dmca-exemptions/ Engadget has been reporting over the last couple weeks on the upcoming e-book reader from Sony. More details can be found in the BusinessWeek article. It will support PDF docs as well as e-books from the Sony Connect online store and will retail for about $300-$400. Engadget ... http://bibliotheke.org/archives/2006/01/13/sony-to-annouce-e-book-reader/ Some might say moves like this are the future, but it sure seems awfully insecure in the long run, IMHO. http://bibliotheke.org/archives/2005/12/28/japanese-library-to-substitute-library-cards-with-biometrics/ The library world has been buzzing for the last few days over an article in a small newspaper relaying a report from two UMass Dartmouth professors that a senior at the school claimed he was visited by, as the article put it, “two agents of the Department of Homeland Security” ... http://bibliotheke.org/archives/2005/12/22/the-little-red-book-scandal/ iRex Technologies has announced The Illiad, a competitor to the Sony Librie. According to the product specs it will have an 8.1-inch 1024 x 768 ePaper display, a 400MHz INTEL X-Scale Processor, about 224MB internal FLASH memory for content and will support PDF, XHTML, TXT and MP3 when released ... http://bibliotheke.org/archives/2005/12/21/irex-illiad-electronic-reader/ It looks like Sanger is finally putting his ideas for a more “authoritative” Wikipedia alternative to the test with Digital Universe. Sanger’s well-publicized criticisms of what he sees as Wikipedia’s lack of respect for expertise have contributed to widespread debate how the wiki model’s accuracy compares to traditional reference ... http://bibliotheke.org/archives/2005/12/21/digital-universe-attempt-to-make-a-more-authoritative-wikipedia-alternative/ Hot on the heels of widespread criticism of Wikipedia’s authority, Nature conducted a comparison and found that the difference in accuracy between science articles in Britannica and Wikipedia is not that big. See the Nature article for details. However, as noted in the Slashdot posting, some folks at Wikipedia found ... http://bibliotheke.org/archives/2005/12/15/nature-wikipedia-britannica/ With Musipedia you can use this applet to translate the whistle into Pasons Code and search the database for matching tunes. Parsons Code is a neat way of encoding melodies: Each pair of consecutive notes is coded as “U” (”up”) if the second note is higher than the first note, “R” (”repeat”) ... http://bibliotheke.org/archives/2005/12/15/musipedia-search-by-music-by-whistling/ George Washington University’s Daniel J. Solove asks “What If Copyright Law Were Strongly Enforced in the Blogosphere?” I think that it is a fair generalization to say that the use of copyrighted material is much more liberal in the blogosphere than in regular print publications. If I were writing something in ... http://bibliotheke.org/archives/2005/12/15/coyright-and-blogs/ John Seigenthaler tells his story. http://bibliotheke.org/archives/2005/11/30/the-story-of-a-fake-bio-on-wikipedia/