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In the Library of the Future, 3
In the Library of the Future, you'll be able to read any book in any size type, in any font. Youll be able to specify different fonts for different types of paragraphs — headings, footnotes, quotes,...
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Library of the Future, 4 children's book section
In the children's book section of the Library of the Future, you can have your type in any color you want, no matter how old you are.
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In the Pay Library of the (near) Future, 5
In the Pay Library of the (near) Future, you'll be able to purchase or rent a book from any publisher as easily as you can get money from any bank's ATM today (even if you're overseas — systems in...
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In my work with the IRIS project, I have had the opportunity to meet and work with people doing topic modeling. Sounds like an exciting subject. It is. Take Latent Semantic Analysis, tweak it to...
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Library of the Future. 7
The books in the Library of the Future will be more like Paul Ford’s Ftrain than Pete Dexter’s Train.Photo of F train by John Villanueva, www.transitspot.com. Used by permission.
View ArticleIs there a cure for my sinful Topic Maps thinking?
A while back I wrote an article about fixing really bad XSLT code, mostly digging into the functional and declarative nature of XSLT. One part if it talked about schema design, how this practice to me...
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I had an idea. Maybe it's not a new idea, but it's an idea, and I don't get them all that often, or at least ones I think are worthy of sharing with the entire nation of the United States of America,...
View ArticleScan This Book!
An excerpt from Scan This Book!, by Kevin Kelly, The New York Times:"The dream is an old one: to have in one place all knowledge, past and present. All books, all documents, all conceptual works, in...
View ArticleIf libraries are so important, why are they so underfunded?
Everything the libraries do, they do on shoe-string budgets. I've whinged about resource management and allocation, tools, people and priorities at libraries in the past, but all of that is within the...
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