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The Future of the Library
A few days ago I posted (The opportunities that libraries missed) a link to Peter Murray-Rust's blog where he is discussing the future of the library and getting ideas for his talk at JISC's Libraries of the Future Debate at the Bodleian April 2nd 2009. The whole series of his posts (starting with librarians of the future - part I) and the comments he received from readers are definitely worth reading. Continue reading
Grading WhiteHouse.gov
Grading WhiteHouse.gov, By Jose Antonio Vargas, Washington Post, March 24, 2009. Remember when government information was boring and no one talked about it? Well, not anymore! Now everyone wants to weigh in on making government information accessible and interesting and useful. At the Washington Post, there is a new series, Grading WhiteHouse.gov, "a monthly feature that invites five thinkers across the online political and cultural spectrum to grade President Obama's WhiteHouse.gov." Cool! Continue reading
Transforming the Relationship Between Citizens and Government: Making Content Findable Online
Transforming the Relationship Between Citizens and Government: Making Content Findable Online, by Vanessa Fox, O'Reilly Radar, Mar 24 2009.
The most important feature government web sites can add isn't really feature at all. But it would absolutely transform the relationship between citizens and government and make an amazing array of public data available. What's this magic feature? Make government web sites search engine friendly.Continue reading
Call for help in redesigning Congress Online
Your Government Needs You: Re-design Congress Online, by Phil Glockner, ReadWriteWeb, March 20, 2009.
This is an open call for your thoughts and suggestions on the legislative databases that should be made accessible, as well as how that data could be used to drive innovative approaches on policy and 'shape the future of the nation'. There are a number of ways you can participate in this open call: you can submit ideas via this surveymonkey link, use the #honda2.0 and #opengov hashtags in your tweets, and, of course, leave a comment on the original article.Continue reading
Library Application Program Interfaces
For reasons of serendipity, this seems to have been API week at FGI. We just keep posting stories about APIs. So, here is one more. It's not new, but still a good one:
- Library Application Program Interfaces, By Roy Tennant, TechEssence, July 17th, 2008.
Application Program Interfaces (APIs) are structured methods for one software application to communicate with another. APIs allow programs to interoperate and share data and services in a standard way. Here is a list of library-related APIs that library developers may find useful.Continue reading
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