Notes from yesterday’s weekly status update meeting:

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I’ve read two articles by an editor over at O’reilly, Mike Loukides that I’ve liked a lot. What’s cool is they offer a layperson’s intro to data topics, but then quickly accelerate to specifics, practicalities and examples.

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Peter Sime has posted an 11-slide deck that explains FRBR with Macbeth as his example. (FRBR is a way of expressing the sometimes complex relationships among the Platonic form of the book and all its various manifestations.) (via the frbr blog)

According to an article in the Minneapolis Star Tribune, a St. Louis Park couple had so many books that they bought the house next door and turned it into their own library.

The article doesn’t tell us how many books they own, but a reasonable guess might be, oh, 200 gigabytes worth.

Hi, this is David Weinberger, and I’m thrilled to be able to post that on Monday I’ll be the Lab’s new co-director, along with the fabulous Kim Dulin who has over the past year hired an amazing group of people and guided them toward a set of awesome projects.

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With a precision that we can only assume they are winking at, Google has announced that there are 129,864,880 different books in the world.

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Paul Gillin blogs about CIThread (while disclosing that he is advising them):

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Harvard has announced the creation of the Harvard Library Lab:

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According to Inside Higher Ed, the US Copyright Office has approved “sweeping new exemptions to the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millenium Copyright Act” that allow the educational use of clips of movies decrypted from locked DVDs. Previously the act of decrypting the DVDs was itself (arguably) a violation of the DMCA.

The Association of College & Research Libraries’s Planning and Review Committee has posted what a February survey of the literature and of its members reveals as the top ten trends affecting libraries “now and in the near future.” They list them in alphabetical order:

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