Tag Archives: data

The future of the library and librarians

May 18th, 2011

The librarian isn’t a clerk who happens to work at a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user. […] We need librarians more than we ever did. What we don’t need are mere clerks who guard dead paper. Librarians are […]

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The open web and data silos

January 17th, 2011

The mistake my VC friends make is they think it’s either/or. Either you support the open web and are a charity, or you build a silo, monetize it, and get rich. What really happens is that the silos are eventually undermined by the open web. From Dave Winer. More good stuff in his post on what is actually […]

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Not a subset of the data. All of it

May 20th, 2010

With Flickr you can get out, via the API, every single piece of information you put into the system. Every photo, in every size, plus the completely untouched original. (which we store for you indefinitely, whether or not you pay us) Every tag, every comment, every note, every people tag, every fave. Also your stats, […]

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Synchronised swimming manual

February 16th, 2010

No, I’m not taking it up as a pastime, but a friend who knows I’m a bit of an information geek showed me these manuals from her synchronised swimming days. I’m fascinated by the language and symbols that different disciplines have to share the “how” of what they are. (Taken with a mobile phone, hence the poor quality. I’ve tried […]

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Volumes of data

February 9th, 2010

2.3 million photos with location data were uploaded to Flickr this month; 95,634,285 in total. That’s according to Brady Forrest’s post over at O’Reilly Radar on the appearance of Flickr photos on Google Street View. 2.3 million in one month!

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