Oxford Internet Survey - 2007

The Oxford Interent Institute has just published the latest survey of online trends in the UK, sponsored by, amongst others, HEFCE and the British Library. It makes a very interesting read - and particularly shows how libraries are an important way for people to access the internet, particularly those who are 'lapsed' and have never used the internet. It also highlights the role of librarians as trusted guides and libraries are the third most significant source of information after the internet and friends and family.

I will need to look at this carefully - not least of which is that 77% of people use the internet at least once a month to find information about local events.

TED | Talks | Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo (video)

TED | Talks | Blaise Aguera y Arcas: Jaw-dropping Photosynth demo (video)

Amazing demonstrations of PhotoSynth - which does fantastic things with images ... makes you wonder what we could do with it ...

JISC Digitisation Blog » Conference 2007: Panel session: Business models and sustainability

JISC Digitisation Blog » Conference 2007: Panel session: Business models and sustainability

I am at a fascinating JISC Conference in Cardiff. Unfortunately I missed the session linked to here - but the whole conference is being blogged. This session is fascinating - with its different perspectives.

MICHAEL Code Generator

See the post on the MICHAEL Community blog
http://michaelcommunityuk.blogspot.com/

MultimediaN E-Culture Project - Basic Search

MultimediaN E-Culture Project - Basic Search

This is the project that Guus Schreiber talked about at the EVA EDL Workshop. It uses semantic web technologies - and is really neat if you type in 'picasso'. This (if you use Firefox) finds work with this in the title, works by him, and works by people he was associated with. This all comes from AAT relations. The 'piece de resistance' is an automatically generated timeline of works and related artists.

Guus says that all we have to do is to 'SKOSify' our vocabularies and it will all be wonderful. His demonstrator certainly makes you think he could well be right