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Tuesday, January 30, 2007

AAP Article Link List

Open Access — laura


Sunday, January 28, 2007

The BBC’s Fifteen Web Principles

Tomski: The BBC’s Fifteen Web Principles

  1. Build web products that meet audience needs: anticipate needs not yet fully articulated by audiences, then meet them with products that set new standards. (nicked from Google)
  2. The very best websites do one thing really, really well: do less, but execute perfectly. (again, nicked from Google, with a tip of the hat to Jason Fried)
  3. Do not attempt to do everything yourselves: link to other high-quality sites instead. Your users will thank you. Use other people’s content and tools to enhance your site, and vice versa.
  4. Fall forward, fast: make many small bets, iterate wildly, back successes, kill failures, fast.
  5. Treat the entire web as a creative canvas: don’t restrict your creativity to your own site.
  6. The web is a conversation. Join in: Adopt a relaxed, conversational tone. Admit your mistakes.
  7. Any website is only as good as its worst page: Ensure best practice editorial processes are adopted and adhered to.
  8. Make sure all your content can be linked to, forever.
  9. Remember your granny won’t ever use “Second Life”: She may come online soon, with very different needs from early-adopters.
  10. Maximise routes to content: Develop as many aggregations of content about people, places, topics, channels, networks & time as possible. Optimise your site to rank high in Google.
  11. Consistent design and navigation needn’t mean one-size-fits-all: Users should always know they’re on one of your websites, even if they all look very different. Most importantly of all, they know they won’t ever get lost.
  12. Accessibility is not an optional extra: Sites designed that way from the ground up work better for all users
  13. Let people paste your content on the walls of their virtual homes: Encourage users to take nuggets of content away with them, with links back to your site
  14. Link to discussions on the web, don’t host them: Only host web-based discussions where there is a clear rationale
  15. Personalisation should be unobtrusive, elegant and transparent: After all, it’s your users’ data. Best respect it.

Website Design — laura


Tuesday, January 23, 2007

SOPAC

Just linking to the original post and some of the responses for my own memory.

Now excuse me while I clean up the drool.

Library Links — laura


Libraries facilitate open access to information with open source software

Linux.com | Libraries facilitate open access to information with open source software

Getting libraries in the minds of Unix geeks isn’t a bad idea either…

Open-Source Software — laura


Koha with Class: Free Hosted Koha for Library Classrooms

Koha with Class: Free Hosted Koha for Library Classrooms | oss4lib
Just like Dialog, students can now play with Koha during school. Brilliant advertising for Liblime and Koha.

Open-Source Software — laura


Identity by URI

ebyblog » Blog Archive » Identity by URI

OpenId really makes the most sense in managing your identity. It’s a lesson we’ve learned on the Internet many times now (and are going to learn many more). In this world, it works better decentralized. It’s an old Internet joke that the ‘Web sees censorship as damage and routes around it. But that’s true. It’s also an essential element of the network. OpenID lets pieces (identities) be added and deleted as needed without breaking the rest of the whole.

Personal note. I’ve used the Wordpress plugin on another blog and it worked perfectly. It’s a nice way to add it in without hacking all your themes. I’ll probably be installing it here soon.

Update 1/30: You can now use your Yahoo! account as an ID too.

Update 2/17: AOL has gotten in on the act.

Web Tools — laura


Saturday, January 20, 2007

Building a Library Web Site on the Pillars of Web 2.0

Building a Library Web Site on the Pillars of Web 2.0

Website Design — laura


Giant, amazing study of Free/Open software

Boing Boing: Giant, amazing study of Free/Open software

Rishab Ayer Gosh has led an international, interdisciplinary team of researchers through an enormous study of Free/Open Source Software. The paper, called “Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU,” runs to 287 page. It exhaustively documents the way that Free/Open technologies dominate information technology and describes who actually writes Free/Open software. It also talks about what it would cost to replicate the benefits of Free/Open software through proprietary development (EU12 billion!), how many person years that would take (131,000!), and projects the total size of the Free/Open market in the years to come.

Rishab’s one of my favorite researchers, a really sharp cookie who writes superbly. This is the most authoritative study of Free/Open code I’ve seen, and no one is better suited to write it than Rishab.

Open-Source Software — laura


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