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Some Logic Around Search, Identifiers, and Discovery
I’ve always had a gut feeling that identifiers help in adding authority to search results. If a website about a book has an ISBN on it, chances are the ISBN is referring to the actual book. This is...
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Cars, Threads, and Deleuze
It has been a week. A week since I was bowled over by the thought of ebooks embedded in DNA. I meant to blog more about that, but life got in the way immediately after I’d posted that little bit. I had...
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On the Open Web…
…anyone can be a public figure. We have a potential for 7 billion public figures.
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Shipping
Ever accidentally order something from China? Ebay has had East Asian merchants offering free shipping for quite some time, and if you’re not careful, you can wind up buying something from one of them...
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A Great Conversation
Brian O’Leary, Peter Turner and I had a great talk on Brian’s blog post here.
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At Last, A Settlement That Understands Search
I was in Frankfurt when the settlement between AAP and Google occurred. It seemed there was, essentially, a massive shrug. “They had this lawsuit hanging around for years, and basically the publishers...
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Searching for Emery Koltay
I was fortunate to be in the UK for the FutureBook 2012 conference, followed by an International DOI Foundation meeting in Oxford. While having dinner with Stella Griffiths, the Executive Director of...
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Identifiers in everyday life
I talk a lot about identifiers. It’s my job. The esoteric identifiers – DOIs, ISNIs, ISTCs. The pragmatic ones – ISBNs. The other day I found myself in a meeting referring to URIs while the developers...
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A thought on identifiers and books
In mid-March of 2006, NISO convened a roundtable of experts and thought leaders in digital resources, at the National Library of Medicine in Bethesda, Maryland. The goal of this meeting was to...
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