links for 2011-01-25
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“2011 conference - Theme
“It's the context, stupid!”
Theme: The theme of the 35th annual conference is taken from the title of a 1994 article by Paul Saffo in Wired magazine. In the article, Saffo wrote “It is not content but context that will matter most a decade or so from now. The scarce resource will not be stuff, but point of view.” More than fifteen years later, context has never been so important in providing information to library customers.
Google has created the world's most successful search engine by ranking information based on the context of the web itself. How can we use the context of traditional book and journal publishing to ensure relevance in our discovery interfaces?
How do we take into account the contexts of different kinds of libraries– public, academic, special– when we construct user interfaces or when we draw information from massive data sources or centralized indexes? […]”
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