2012 is shaping up to be an interesting and exciting year – and I don’t mean all that Mayan hype! I’m starting the month by moving from the Dunedin Public Libraries marketing team and joining the Dunedin City Council’s web team. The web team has in turn been incorporated in to a council wide communications and marketing team as part of some internal restructuring undertaken at the end of 2011. While I’ll still look after [...]

The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) is a project to create a common vocabulary for describing educational content. It was formed after the big three search vendors (Google, Bing and Yahoo) announced in June that they were working on a metadata framework that would be common across all search platforms and aid search engine indexing. The idea behind the LRMI is to establish a “a lightweight vocabulary that sits on top of existing tagging schema” [...]

Wednesday November 23rd 2011 was a very interesting online news day. Not so much for the actual news story – but rather what followed. The Twittersphere was abuzz earlier in the day after a helicopter crashed at Auckland’s Viaduct Basin while installing a fake Christmas Tree. Video coverage of the installation work was at the time being webstreamed live by the tvnz.co.nz team. It’s an event you can never imagine free-to-air television affording live coverage [...]

A short plug for my employers new exhibition launched today at the Dunedin Public Libraries Reed Gallery. The exhibition entitled Signs & Symbols: Decoding Mediaeval & Renaissance Iconography explores the meanings behind the symbols and visual cues found in mediaeval and Renaissance manuscripts. More than twenty manuscripts from the thirteenth to sixteenth century are on display, drawn from the Alfred and Isabel Reed Collection; the second largest collection of such manuscripts held by a New [...]