With the Data Harmony User's Group in full swing, today started the case studies. Personally, I find these the most interesting because it is a real life application of all the technology, including the hurdles and bumps along the way.
Classifying art has always been a challenge. Museum collections are mostly indexed in individual databases. This prohibits collaboration and comprehensive searching. The Smithsonian Museum of American Art (SAAM) hopes to change that. It has launched the American Art Collaborative (ACC), a consortium of 14 museums across the country that will connect these databases.
The term corporate librarian isn't heard much these days. In the world of downsizing, redundancy, and streamlining, most organizational charts seem to be missing this very valuable position. There is a new resource out there addressing this very problem. "Corporate Libraries: Basic Principles in a Changing Landscape."
Sometimes I mess around with the Siri app on my iPhone, but that is the extent of that. However I have noticed more and more of my friends actually using the talk feature on their mobile phone to search the Internet. It is their verbal Google.