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Monthly Archives: August 2007

Is your educational website worthy?

Through EDITH, your candidate educational website will be in the company of a lot of others: currently EDITH is generating over 250 website candidates a day!
With so many websites, which ones should Information Officers add to the collection?
In last week’s POC meeting we realised that the existing EDITH selection path for candidate website would not […]

Your challenge is our challenge

Last month I challenged you to think how we could describe website and online resources accurately.
Here’s our thinking for the metadata ‘describe’ phase: to turn describing websites into a game that anyone can play online.
Here’s how we got there:
1. http://www.mturk.com/mturk/help?helpPage=whatis Mechanical Turk is probably one of the best known early web based crowdsourcing systems used […]

Who’s doing web 2.0 well?

I got very excited about how the structure of the web is changing under the momentum of web 2.0. The penny dropped when I realised Flickr, YouTube, Google and Del.icio.us, Yahoo Pipes aren’t websites - they’re fundamental web 2.0 service infrastructure.
Those organisations who doing great things in the web2.0 space are those who do […]