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Jon Udell's notes on K Idehen's vision of linked data. Some good links to examples. Key takeaway is that "we’ve spectacularly failed to help people create that web of linked data in the first place." Udell thinks Idehen's approach is a start. - Bill Anderson

Good documentation on starting EC2 instances. (n.b.: even $.10/hr can add up quickly) - Bill Anderson

I find myself concerned that we will shortly be unleashing these new professionals on the world with unclear, uncertain, perhaps nonexistent job prospects. - D0r0th34

Nobody (except the ALA, and that's a lost cause) is clamoring for the creation of multitudes of non-data librarians. It just seems to me that whenever something new comes down the pike, we get thundering calls for education and NO calls for job creation. I'm even more worried because existing repurposeable people (like, say, me) are not what I would call in high demand. I think the call-for-professionals may turn out to be pretty hollow. - D0r0th34

Instructions for configuring network to use Google Public DNS. Have switched my laptop and so far so good. - Bill Anderson

L Weinstein's DNS diversion test page. The commands work right off the page in OS X. - Bill Anderson

talk about what you'll do to make everything discoverable, citable, and easily (re)usable? sustainability plan? - D0r0th34

See, you may need two pages. ;-) - Bill Anderson from twhirl

that's what the project is about... ;-) But yes, once I stripped it out into sections and added a sustainability bit it bulks it up. Still spending more time on what we can't make available and won't be able to guarantee sustainability of though....oooh, discoverable, haven't done that yet... - Cameron Neylon

I like "orchid eight consulting" - aden

orchid was hungry and eight the creative. - Bill Anderson from twhirl

Some thoughts on the differences between abstractions and concrete things, the web notion of resources, information, and more. Generative. - Bill Anderson

Dorothea's points about user experience neatly captured in this excerpt: "Mendeley offers low effort and high perceived value. IRs demand high effort and return negligible perceived value. ... We cannot, must not repeat this error as we design data-curation systems." - Bill Anderson

Dorothea Salo suggests that data quality might be easily determined by their use and re-use. Christina Pikas' comment suggests that usage alone might not be measure enough. - Bill Anderson

I liked the list of resources available for testing, and the discussion of the common testing errors. But I also found it confusing. Is testing about being scientific or intuitive? Both? - Bill Anderson from twhirl

Another silo, separated from my usual work practices. What happens in Wave stays in Wave. - Bill Anderson from twhirl

Robert Darnton examines the proposed updated Google Books settlement, which still falls short of what's needed for a public library. - Bill Anderson from Bookmarklet

danah boyd's reflection on her Web2.0 Expo experience with a Twitter back channel. Mob behavior is never good. Civil behavior is an individual and personal choice and requires effort. How will I choose to behave? - Bill Anderson

Global science needs global support for globally shared data collections. Hard choices ahead? - Bill Anderson

AAAS is launching a project to crowd-source input on policy. One goal is to enable better scientist/citizen interaction. The NPO is led by Anil Dash of MovableType. - Bill Anderson

DataCite - International Initiative to Facilitate Access to Research Data. A partnership of leading research libraries and technical information providers established to improve access to research data on the internet. Watch for progress. - Bill Anderson

One illustration of using Google Wave for project management. - Bill Anderson

Current Google Wave commands. Required. - Bill Anderson

"... here are two versions of Cat Stevens/Yusuf’s hopeful hymn “Peace Train,” in reverse chronological order, the first world-seasoned, the second youthfully exuberant." - Bill Anderson

I do like the examples. However, "loose" and "lose" are not exactly homophones. I don't love the condescending attitude. - Bill Anderson from twhirl

Some positive action regarding persistence. Good! - Bill Anderson from twhirl

Stefano's concerns about how context is lost when triplifying relational data sets. Seems like an important concern. - Bill Anderson

Stefano's concerns about how context is lost when triplifying relational data sets. Seems like an important concern. - Bill Anderson

Semantic Web: Can Your Computer Read a Web Page Without Your Help? Soon it Might ResourceShelf (blog) Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web format, and the organization that keeps the standards of the Web, the World Wide Web Consortium, have recently been ...

We're not using the word "read" here the way I do when I say that Sean reads a Wikipedia page. Are we? - Bill Anderson from twhirl

ACM puts some preservation plans in place. Finally. - Bill Anderson

CKAN list of Linked Open Data sets, more or less. - Bill Anderson

Nature special issue on sharing S - Bill Anderson

Louis Menand outlines the changes afoot with regard to graduate education (and education in general?) and notes the danger of losing academia's contributions to social criticism and reflection. - Bill Anderson

SSOAR: a multi-lingual repository of social science research papers. - Bill Anderson