Comments for Libtools http://libtools.wordpress.com the System works for US Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:31:24 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Best practices for shareable metadata by Cataloging Futures http://libtools.wordpress.com/2008/07/11/best-practices-for-shareable-metadata/#comment-7 Cataloging Futures Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:31:24 +0000 http://libtools.wordpress.com/?p=246#comment-7 <strong>Got metadata?...</strong> Over on Libtools, Mia makes the point that in order to have shareable metadata you need "value-added data in the first place":... Got metadata?…

Over on Libtools, Mia makes the point that in order to have shareable metadata you need “value-added data in the first place”:…

]]> Comment on Testing embedded objects by rashmi http://libtools.wordpress.com/2007/04/28/testing-embedded-objects/#comment-6 rashmi Fri, 06 Apr 2007 17:50:15 +0000 http://libtools.wordpress.com/2007/04/06/testing-embedded-objects/#comment-6 I found you in RSS feed for Slideshare. Wordpress.com does not allow embedding of SlideShare yet. They don't allow embedding of objects generally and have to make special provisions which they have for sites such as YouTube. We have been talking to them. Hopefully they will allow it soon. (Do email them and drop them a line if you would like this to happen!) rashmi the slideshare team I found you in RSS feed for Slideshare.

WordPress.com does not allow embedding of SlideShare yet. They don’t allow embedding of objects generally and have to make special provisions which they have for sites such as YouTube. We have been talking to them. Hopefully they will allow it soon. (Do email them and drop them a line if you would like this to happen!)

rashmi
the slideshare team

]]> Comment on Stranger than fiction by Mia http://libtools.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/stranger-than-fiction/#comment-5 Mia Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:45:43 +0000 http://libtools.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/stranger-than-fiction/#comment-5 Thanks Joanna! Some great one-liners in there. Thanks Joanna! Some great one-liners in there.

]]> Comment on Stranger than fiction by Joanna http://libtools.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/stranger-than-fiction/#comment-4 Joanna Mon, 12 Mar 2007 19:18:06 +0000 http://libtools.wordpress.com/2007/03/09/stranger-than-fiction/#comment-4 It may possibly be Borges' Library of Babel, but I'm not sure. I read it in a "philosophy of of library and information science" course at Western. His description of what a library contains sticks with me: "Everything: the minutely detailed history of the future, the archangels' autobiographies, the faithful catalogues of the Library, thousands and thousands of false catalogues, the demonstration of the fallacy of those catalogues, the demonstration of the fallacy of the true catalogue, the Gnostic gospel of Basilides, the commentary on that gospel, the commentary on the commentary on that gospel, the true story of your death, the translation of every book in all languages, the interpolations of every book in all books." Type Library of Babel into Google and you can see the full text of the story, along with a Wikipedia entry for it. It's a pretty quick read - completely understanding the story is another issue, however! It may possibly be Borges’ Library of Babel, but I’m not sure. I read it in a “philosophy of of library and information science” course at Western. His description of what a library contains sticks with me:

“Everything: the minutely detailed history of the future, the archangels’ autobiographies, the faithful catalogues of the Library, thousands and thousands of false catalogues, the demonstration of the fallacy of those catalogues, the demonstration of the fallacy of the true catalogue, the Gnostic gospel of Basilides, the commentary on that gospel, the commentary on the commentary on that gospel, the true story of your death, the translation of every book in all languages, the interpolations of every book in all books.”

Type Library of Babel into Google and you can see the full text of the story, along with a Wikipedia entry for it. It’s a pretty quick read – completely understanding the story is another issue, however!

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