Tweeting tides updated
Almost a year ago I implemented a system that took tidal data which was openly published by Land Information New Zealand for some ports around the country and published them as real-time status updates on Twitter. Each time there is a high or low tide, a tweet is sent that says what the time is, [...]
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Library Mashups book – Chapter 17 now Open Access
A new book ‘Library Mashups – Exploring new ways to delivery library data‘ has now been published. The book, edited by Nicole Engard, has a great list of 25 authors from all across the globe, including well known names in the library-tech world such as Tim Spalding, Ross Singer, Bess Sadler and Bonaria Biancu. The [...]
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Tweeting temporal tidal data
There are movements worldwide to free not only research publications through the Open Access publishing movement, but also to make data sets free and open. In New Zealand work in this area is being championed by the public OpenGovt.gov.nz site which has a useful open data catalogue of online open government created data sets. Having [...]
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Follow Google’s green arrow to open content
There is some more good news for repositories that surfaced this weekend (via Peter Suber’s blog and Klaus Graf) about how Google Scholar now highlights results that have open access versions of papers by the addition of a green flag / arrow / triangle. Google continues its behaviour of showing the publishers version of the paper [...]
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Google bring Scholar richness into normal search results
Some good news for open access repository advocates: It seems that the normal Google search engine has now started bringing the richness of Google Scholar results into the main Google search results. This extra information includes: The (first) author’s name Links to papers that have cited it Links to related articles Links to other versions For [...]
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Pro mashups book with a CC license
I’ve just followed a link to a blog from someones email footer, and found a book published this year: Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services (Apress, 2008). The blog is by the author of the book Raymond Yee. I was attracted to the blog and the book for two reasons: I love mashups, and when I [...]
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