Preliminary Inventory of Digital Collections
Incomplete thoughts on digital libraries.
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Detailed Video Engagement Analytics for HTML5 Video
Dec 27, 2012
If you have published video on the Web with HTML5 Video, then you will want to know how engaged your viewers are with your video. This post will lead you through collecting the data you need to assess your video publishing efforts. Services like Google Analytics only get you so far. To get deeper insights into how your video is being used, you may want to track detailed video engagement analytics.
read moreHTML5 Video: Everything I Needed to Know
Dec 22, 2012
While there is a lot of good information on the Web about HTML5 Video, I wanted to put down everything that I gathered together about it. As I work on video projects, I will continue to add more and new information to this post.
This post is in the form of a tutorial where a single page is built up little by little as new problems arise or new features are implemented. I hope for this to be a gentle introduction to HTML5 Video.
read moreLibrary Catalog Pages Ranking in Search Engines
Feb 26, 2012
Recently there was a thread on the code4lib list about local catalog records showing up in results in the search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo!. The anecdotal evidence is that Google is actively crawling and indexing library catalogs like Johns Hopkins'.
Some of the discussion has revolved around how useful this local catalog data is to folks coming from search engines. How many of these users are satisfied with coming to a local library catalog? I think many people will be unsatisfied because they have found something interesting that they cannot access. Much of what academic libraries have is only available to their own students, faculty, and staff or to other institutions through inter-library loan. This situation may be improving for users.
read moreSufficient Metadata and the Open Web
Feb 16, 2012
Recently on the Code4Lib list Patrick Berry asked the question:
When do you know you have enough metadata?
I think this is an interesting question, so thought I would try to provide a longer response in the form of some notes.
read moreDigital Collections, Crawling, and Aggregating Content
Feb 8, 2012
Code4Lib 2012 Lightning Talk That Wasn’t
Lightning talks filled up fast this year at Code4Lib before I had a chance to sign up, which is probably for the best since I had already had the opportunity to give a full length talk. Here is the lightning talk that I had prepared with each slide being followed by my draft speaker notes.
Hi.
Digital Libraries have aspired to create the one big pot of digital library stuff to hold everything. For the most part we’ve used niche protocols, dumbed-down metadata, cumbersome workflows, and lots of time massaging metadata in an effort to achieve these big aggregations.
I want to talk about what I think is better way to do aggregations. There’s a lot more you can build with what I’m talking about, but I want to set aggregations in my sights.
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