I’m using this blog partly as a place where I can store information about interesting websites I have been visiting during my research into SEO, metadata, etc. I’m also posting citations for interesting articles I have read.

Most recent:

March 22, 2016:

• UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), The Globalisation of Cultural Trade: A Shift in Consumption–International flows of cultural goods and services 2004-2013
• Per Nyborg, Feb 1, 2008 Blog: GLOBALHIGHERED: Bologna and Lisbon – two processes or one?

March 21, 2016:

• Kalev Leetaru. (2016). “Reimagining Libraries In The Digital Era: Lessons From Data Mining The Internet Archive“. Forbes / Tech, March 19, 2016.
• Open Content Alliance http://www.opencontentalliance.org/ – Nothing seems to have happened on this site since 2010!
• Library of Congress Blog: “The Signal: Digital Preservation“
• International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC)
• https://open-data.europa.eu/en/data/
• The GDELT Project – a global database of society
• Google Search Info Graphic (one page pdf)
• MTSR 2016 10th International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research

March 11, 2016:

• SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition): http://sparcopen.org/
• Google Group SPARC IR: https://groups.google.com/a/arl.org/forum/#!forum/sparc-ir
• MOZ: “Google Algorithm Change History”: https://moz.com/google-algorithm-change

March 10, 2016:

• Google Group SPARC IR: “Google Scholar discoverability of repository content” (discussion from 2012): https://groups.google.com/a/arl.org/forum/#!topic/sparc-ir/ocH_BM5GG_Q
• TEI (Text Coding Initiative): http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml
• CENDARI (Collaborative EuropeaN Digital ARchive Infrastructure): http://www.cendari.eu/
• Christian Lauersen, The Library Lab: “Towards Rubicon: The Academic Library and the importance of making a choice”: http://christianlauersen.net/2016/03/08/towards-rubicon/
• Sara Tanksalvala, Thomson Reuters: “Open Access is shaping the academic world”: http://stateofinnovation.thomsonreuters.com/open-access-is-shaping-the-academic-world
• Sara Tanksalvala, Thomson Reuters: “Eye of the research metrics storm: Libraries are the leading force for demonstrating impact”: http://stateofinnovation.thomsonreuters.com/eye-of-the-research-metrics-storm-libraries-are-the-leading-force-for-demonstrating-impact