links for 2009-02-01

"With the help of Prezi you can create maps of texts, images, videos, PDFs, drawings and present in a nonlinear way."

"I'm very proud to announce that Library Services at the University of Huddersfield has just done something that would have perhaps been unthinkable a few years ago: we've just released a major portion of our book circulation and recommendation data under an Open Data Commons/CC0 licence. In total, there's data for over 80,000 titles derived from a pool of just under 3 million circulation transactions spanning a 13 year period."

"There’s some interesting data hiding inside of our Integrated Library Systems! Here are four days worth of search terms, about 17,000, that were entered into DCPL’s OPAC earlier in the month. "

"We protest against the use of surveillance cameras in public places because the cameras violate our constitutionally protected right to privacy. We manifest our opposition by performing specially adapted plays directly in front of these cameras. We use our visibility - our public appearances, our interviews with the media, and our website - to explode the cynical myth that only those who are 'guilty of something' are opposed to being surveilled by unknown eyes."

"Street With A View introduces fiction, both subtle and spectacular, into the doppelganger world of Google Street View."

On May 3rd 2008, artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited the Google Inc. Street View team and residents of Pittsburgh’s Northside to collaborate on a series of tableaux along Sampsonia Way. Neighbors, and other participants from around the city, staged scenes ranging from a parade and a marathon, to a garage band practice, a seventeenth century sword fight, a heroic rescue and much more...

"Can Civic pride be created through information access?
Can a library can maintain the sustainability of a local economy, a culture and populace? Perhaps becoming part of the reason for continuation of the society itself?"