Tony Sullivan's List: abstracting and curation

• Also known as Linked Data, the Machine-Readable Web, the Web of Data, or Web  3.0, the Semantic Web relies on highly structured metadata that allow computers  to understand the relationships between objects. Semantic web standards are  complex, and difficult to conceptualize, but they offer solutions to many of the  issues that plague libraries, including precise web search, authority control,  classification, data portability, and disambiguation

• Apart from a new search engine for the home website, the council will  commission a series of "synthesis" reports, offering a summary, evaluation and  links to useful material.

• So who are these people? In support of the president, they throw Molotov  bottles and plant pots from the tops of buildings onto the heads of women and  children. To establish stability and order, they break heads with rocks and legs  with bicycle chains. To have their say in the debate they slash faces with  knives. Who are they? Well, every time one of them is captured his ID says he's  a member of the security forces. And his young captors simply hand him to the  military who are standing by.
• This is the regime that is going to listen to the people and use the coming  months to put in reforms. Sure.
• people here are so way ahead of their government. If you could see the kids on  the street telling you that the regime wants to pin the responsibility for this  movement on the Islamists in order to scare the west – when actually it was  started by 11 Facebook youth groups only one of which has any religious  colouring, and very mild at that.

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• The shooting continued for about 10 minutes and around 200 policemen were  present, the witness said

• The incident came after calls on social networking sites Facebook and Twitter  urged people to take part in protests.

   

  Reports said more than 30,000 heeded the call and in Riyadh, the capital

• content curators: “If we live in a world where information drives what we do,  the information we get becomes the most important thing. The person who chooses  that information has power
• folks who gather, organize, summarize, or republish
• The New York Times is an aggregator of a thousand people’s work. More  than that if you include letters to the editor, opinions, and guest posts and  contracted posts and contracted articles. The New York Times has been  doing aggregation for a hundred years.

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