Thursday, December 7, 2006

WPopac

Hi class,

Check out a new tool that combines OPAC with a user-based blog called WPopac:

http://www.plymouth.edu/library/opac/


See you tomorrow in class!

Rong

Friday, December 1, 2006

Steve.Museum for social tagging images

Hi class,

Check out this site:

http://steve.thinkdesign.com/steve.php?task=collection_start

You will love this!

Rong

MySpace and libraries

Check out the following library MySpace pages:

http://www.myspace.com/brooklyncollegelibrary

http://www.myspace.com/hennepincountylibrary

http://www.myspace.com/mountkiscolibrary

http://www.myspace.com/tinaatjpl

(source: infolink article by Linda Braun)

Rong

New Tools -- digg and vox

Hi class,

Just a couple of new things you may work to checke out:

1. Digg, the social bookmarking and rating site -- users rate content posted by others and popular contents go to the front page of the Digg site -- it also shows how many people said "I digg it."

http://www.digg.com

2. vox, the blogging tool that give bloggers the power of creating a neighborhood and choosing which members of the neighborhood get to see the blog posts.

http://www.vox.com


Rong

Monday, November 13, 2006

Check out the Data Mining Open Source Software

Hi class,

You may be interested in the Open Source Software for data mining, called Weka.

Here is the link to the site where you can download Weka:

http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/ml/weka/

See you on Friday,
Rong

Sunday, November 12, 2006

Welcome from Rong

Hi class,

Welcome to the LIS488 blog page. If you have any thing regarding the course, please post your messages here.

Have fun!

Rong