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Gift : imagination and the erotic life of property / Lewis Hyde.

Hyde, Lewis, 1945- .

Gift : imagination and the erotic life of property / Lewis Hyde. [0394523016 : ] New York : Random House, 1983.
Call#: Van Pelt Library GN449.6 .H93 1983

"A work of art seems to be a hardier breed; it can be sold in the market and still emerge a work of art. But if it is true that in the essential commerce of art a gift is carried by the work from the artist to his audience, if I am right to say that where there is no gift there is no art, then it may be possible to destroy a work of art by converting it into a pure commodity. I don't maintain that art can't be bought and sold, but that the gift portion of the work places a constraint upon our merchandising."

quoted in the Ecstasy of Influence

Patterns and Inconsistencies in Collaborative Tagging Systems : An Examination of Tagging Practices (application/pdf Object)

This paper analyzes the tagging patterns exhibited by users of del.icio.us, to assess how collaborative tagging supports and enhances traditional ways of classifying and indexing documents. Using frequency data and co-word analysis matrices analyzed by multi-dimensional scaling, the authors discovered that tagging practices to some extent work in ways that are continuous with conventional indexing. Small numbers of tags tend to emerge by unspoken consensus, and inconsistencies follow several predictable patterns that can easily be anticipated. However, the tags also indicated intriguing practices relating to time and task which suggest the presence of an extra dimension in classification and organization, a dimension which conventional systems are unable to facilitate.

Hyperauthorship: A postmodern perversion or evidence of a structural shift in scholarly communication practices?

Cronin,B . "Hyperauthorship: A postmodern perversion or evidence of a structural shift in scholarly communication practices?" Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology [1532-2882] 52.7 (2001). 558-569.

Pennsylvania county planning data kit. Supplement / compiled and coordinated by the Office of Policy, Evaluation and Development, Department of Public Welfare.

Pennsylvania county planning data kit. Supplement / compiled and coordinated by the Office of Policy, Evaluation and Development, Department of Public Welfare. [Harrisburg, Pa.] : Interdepartmental Human Services Planning Committee,
Call#: Van Pelt Library HA601 .P466

Pennsylvania abstract / prepared by the Pennsylvania State Data Center.

Pennsylvania abstract / prepared by the Pennsylvania State Data Center. Middletown, PA : Pennsylvania State Data Center, Institute of State and Regional Affairs, Penn State Harrisburg, 1992-
Call#: Van Pelt Library HA607 .P4

mkipp-caispaper.pdf (application/pdf Object)

This paper examines the context of online indexing from the viewpoint of three different groups: users, authors, and intermediaries. User, author and intermediary keywords were collected from journal articles tagged on citeulike and analysed. Descriptive statistics and thesaural term comparison shows that there are important differences in the context of keywords from the three groups.

Patterns of Interdisciplinary Interactions and Formations in Web-Communities

"Patterns of Interdisciplinary Interactions and Formations in Web-Communities" INFORMATION STUDIES [0971-6726] 12.1 (2006). 61-.

In Google We Trust? [computer file]

"In Google We Trust? [computer file]" The journal of electronic publishing [1080-2711] 9.1 (2006). 1-.

Trust, authority, and reputation are central to scholarly publishing, but the trust model of the Internet is almost antithetical to the trust model of academia. Publishers have been so preoccupied with the brute mechanics of moving content to the online world that they have virtually ignored the challenge that the Internet trust model poses to the scholarly publisher. Publishers can learn much about approaches to handling Internet trust from the actions of major online players outside the publishing industry. Publishers should also benefit from watching the trust models that are being experimented with in the nascent realm of social software applications. Publishers once led the way in establishing the apparatus of trust during the transition from manuscript to print culture in early modern Europe. Ultimately, publishers should again take the lead in helping to establish new mechanisms of trust in what could reasonably be described as "the early modern Internet."

Beneath the Metadata: Some Philosophical Problems with Folksonomy

"Philosophical relativism appears to be the underlying philosophy behind folksonomies. Because of those underpinnings, it is possible to jettison the limitations of a traditional classification statement such as "A is not B". In a folksonomy system, "A is relative to B", because each item's index terms will depend on the individual user and the tags he or she decides to use. A philosophy of relativism allows folksonomy to draw on many users with various perceptions to classify a document instead of relying on one individual cataloger to set the index terms for that item. Thus, classification terms become relative to each user."

DLIST - Complementary or Discrete Contexts in Online Indexing: A Comparison of User, Creator and Intermediary Keywords

Nameless Asia and territorial angst

HIMAL SOUTH ASIAN | June 2003 |

Information Feudalism: Who Owns the Knowledge Economy? by Peter Drahos

First Monday June 2006

Selected papers from the First Monday Conference, FM10 Openness: Code, Science and Content, are available in the June issue! More papers from the Conference will appear in July.

Rational sharing and its limits

People differ in their willingness to share, as well as their reasons to do so. An open collaboration community of willing sharing members thrives on a virtuous cycle: increased sharing often offers stronger reasons for more people to share. However, it may also decline when the cycle goes the opposite direction and turns vicious. What determines the dividing line? We offer insights into this important question based on an analytic understanding of the concept of rational sharing, which is sharing for net gain in personal utility. In a nutshell, a community thriving on rational sharing is essentially an economic system, a platform for creating mutual benefit through exchanges.

Ambient Findability / Peter Morville

How do you find your way in an age of information overload? How can you filter streams of complex information to pull out only what you want? Why does it matter how information is structured when Google seems to magically bring up the right answer to your questions?

Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The death of Wikipedia

Looks at the myth of openness in Wikipedia. Talks about how Wikipedia has really moved towards stricter group-enforced editorial policy. He thinks the myth demeans the individual in contributing to culture.

Shadowmarch. Volume one / Tad Williams.

Williams, Tad. . Shadowmarch. Volume one / Tad Williams. [0756402190 ] New York : DAW Books, 2004.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PS3573.I45563 S44 2004

Law in America : a short history / Lawrence M. Friedman.

Friedman, Lawrence Meir, 1930-. Law in America : a short history / Lawrence M. Friedman. [0375506357 (alk. paper)] New York : Modern Library, c2002.
Call#: Van Pelt Library KF352 .F7113 2002

The Online Books Page: The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom, by Yochai Benkler

The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom. - WikiNotes

The Wiki that contains the book "Wealth of Networks". Interesting both in content and in presentation.

Underground Movie

A short film to watch.

Hokum : an anthology of African-American humor / edited by Paul Beatty.

Hokum : an anthology of African-American humor / edited by Paul Beatty. [1582344345 ] New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2006.
Call#: Van Pelt Library PN6231.N5 H65 2006

Welcome | Creative Commons

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Ex Libris--an E-Zine for Librarians and Information Junkies -- issue 271

read this, laurie

Encyclopedia of housing / Willem Van Vliet--, editor.

Encyclopedia of housing / Willem Van Vliet--, editor. [0761913327 (cloth)] Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1998.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks HD7287 .E53 1998

Encyclopedia of urban America : the cities and suburbs / Neil Larry Shumsky, editor.

Encyclopedia of urban America : the cities and suburbs / Neil Larry Shumsky, editor. [0874368464 (set : alk. paper)] Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c1998.
Call#: Fine Arts Library Reference HT123 .E5 1998

Long signed articles with bibliographies. Topics, people, places.

Encyclopedia of urban cultures : cities and cultures around the world / edited by Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember.

Encyclopedia of urban cultures : cities and cultures around the world / edited by Melvin Ember and Carol R. Ember. [0717256987 (lib. bdg. : alk. paper) ] Danbury, Conn. : Grolier, c2002.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks HT108.5 .E53 2002

Encyclopedia of the city / edited by Roger W. Caves.

Encyclopedia of the city / edited by Roger W. Caves. [0415252253 (alk. paper) ] London ; New York : Routledge, 2005.
Call#: Van Pelt Library Reference Stacks HT108.5 .E63 2005

Don't Leave the Data in the Dark: Issues in Digitizing Print Statistical Publications

By Julie Linden and Anne Green at Yale.

Digitization has the potential to transform scholarly use of data found in print statistical publications. While presenting images of statistical tables in a digital library environment may be desirable, the full potential of such material can be realized only if the resulting digital objects are easy to search and manipulate and are accompanied by sufficient metadata to support extraction of numbers from tables and comparison of numbers across tables.

Library 2.0 article by Walt Crawford

A democracy of groups

Abstract from First Monday:

In groups people can accomplish what they cannot do alone. Now new visual and social technologies are making it possible for people to make decisions and solve complex problems collectively. These technologies are enabling groups not only to create community but also to wield power and create rules to govern their own affairs. Electronic democracy theorists have either focused on the individual and the state, disregarding the collaborative nature of public life, or they remain wedded to outdated and unrealistic conceptions of deliberation. This article makes two central claims. First, technology will enable more effective forms of collective action. This is particularly so of the emerging tools for "collective visualization" which will profoundly reshape the ability of people to make decisions, own and dispose of assets, organize, protest, deliberate, dissent and resolve disputes together.

Parallel Worlds: Online Games and Digital Information Services

Looks at what libraries and librarians can learn from the world of online video games.

p10-de_aguilera.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Video Games and Education / de Aguilera & Mendiz

Wierd. When I click on the link to penntext screen from Penntags, it looks like we don't have te article online fulltext, but the screen I tagged provided a link to the ACM journal that has it. We do have the fulltext. Hmm. A little troubling.

Apparently, there's something in here about video games teaching spatial literacy. Reccomended by David Seaman from DLF.

Wisdom of crowds : why the many are smarter than the few and how collective wisdom shapes business, economies, societies and nations / James Surowiecki.

Mormon America : the power and the promise / Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling.

David says this one is also good, but the other one's better.

America's Saints : the rise of Mormon power / by Robert Gottlieb and Peter Wiley.

David says this is a good book if I want to learn about Mormons, which I do.

Born losers : a history of failure in America / Scott A. Sandage.

I read about this book -- it's the one about the history of US bankruptcy and failure. Looking forward to reading it sometime.

Wired News: Folksonomies Tap People Power

A relatively short article on tagging systems, and their popularity.