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Comment on Avatars in Peril by slisit

slisit — Wed, 14 May 2008 00:18:39 +0000

I would guess the people proposing this legislation aren’t particularly subtle in their understanding of SL. After all, when something like SL is manifestly pure evil, why try to understand it?

I certainly understand their concern, but it seems to me better handled through local and library policy than national legislation. I think Congress has more important things to worry about, though the things they ought to be worrying about are really hard to solve and won’t make easy political hay.

Comment on Avatars in Peril by Becky

Becky — Tue, 13 May 2008 18:11:36 +0000

What about Teen SL? From my understanding, the under-agers have their own SL to play with. Then again, it is easy to claim to be an adult.

Comment on John Halamka’s Vision for Medical Libraries by Identifying top blogs in any niche « MHSLA Blog

Identifying top blogs in any niche « MHSLA Blog — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:52:33 +0000

[...] UW-Madison SLISI, a post about John Halamka’s editorial in ComputerWorld [...]

Comment on Open Books: Microsoft’s “Me Too” by World’s Largest University-Based Digital Library « UW-Madison SLISIT

World’s Largest University-Based Digital Library « UW-Madison SLISIT — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 02:47:02 +0000

[...] million books in more than 20 languages. This differs from the projects discussed here earlier from Microsoft and Google in that it’s sponsored by universities — in this case universities in the [...]

Comment on Hackfest 2007 Results by Catherine Arnott Smith

Catherine Arnott Smith — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:53:08 +0000

Comment on the “Fantastic Folksonomy Validator” from a faculty member at SLIS: This is in fact exactly how the Consumer Health Vocabulary Initiative team, of which I am a member–

http://www.consumerhealthvocab.org/

works; in fact, just about every piece of research using the Unified Medical Language System as a validator works. Some aspects of this can be automated to accomplish speed in the generation of matching concepts, but the manual part of jurying each user-contributed term is, indeed, the labor-intensive piece.

For a fact sheet from NLM about the UMLS, go here:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/umls.html

I am doing research now comparing user-contributed terms in healthcare to established codes, classifications and vocabularies. Anybody interested in details, feel free to contact me …

Comment on Hackfest by Hackfest 2007 Results « UW-Madison SLISIT

Hackfest 2007 Results « UW-Madison SLISIT — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 03:22:12 +0000

[...] 2007 Results I posted a little while back about Hackfest, a one-day event during the Access Conference where people get together and brainstorm solutions to [...]

Comment on Sedona Public Library and “Playaway” Audiobooks by slisit

slisit — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 02:38:10 +0000

“I can’t help but wonder how many of these things will end up accidentally being lost between seat cushions, sent through the washer or, well, flushed away.”

The same could have been said about the film strips that I was able to check out when I was in elementary school. Dropping the bulky film machine that came along with it was probably a bigger issue, though!

~Becky

Comment on Blind Turning the Page on Audiobook Format by Sedona Public Library and “Playaway” Audiobooks « UW-Madison SLISIT

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 15:04:04 +0000

[...] Sedona Public Library and “Playaway” Audiobooks Coincidentally related to the previous SLISIT post… [...]

Comment on And Speaking of Google by Open Books: Microsoft’s “Me Too” « UW-Madison SLISIT

Open Books: Microsoft’s “Me Too” « UW-Madison SLISIT — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:13:29 +0000

[...] Books: Microsoft’s “Me Too” Just a few days after this post about Google Books vs. the Open Content Alliance, Microsoft has partnered with Yale University to scan 100,000 out-of-copyright books so that it can [...]

Comment on Gates Foundation Announces Grants for Library IT by Personal Computers and Tech News » Gates Foundation Announces Grants for Library IT

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 01:42:51 +0000

[...] UW-Madison SLISIT put an intriguing blog post on Gates Foundation Announces Grants for Library ITHere’s a quick excerptGates Foundation Announces Grants for Library IT October 23rd, … library computers in ten states. Impressive stat: “To date, the foundation has invested $320 million in grants and other support to install computers in libraries and train staff in all U.S. states [...]