LorcanDempsey.net About Contact Tags Writing Presentations Career Membership *Orweblog Search Search LorcanDempsey.net Home *Classics Books Collaboration Collections Institutions Meta Research/Learning Social Systems UX Presentation: Two Metadata Directions Here are some materials from my recent presentation on Two Metadata Directions, including slides, video and a link to a fuller discussion. Lorcan 29 Jul 2021 Systems Two metadata directions Metadata practice is evolving. I discuss two important trends here: entification and pluralization. Lorcan 14 Jul 2021 Systems Working with Ghost: a review This site is built with Ghost and the Krabi template. I use it for blogging and as a professional home on the web. Why Ghost? Here are some initial thoughts. Ask me again in a year's time ... Lorcan 26 Apr 2021 Meta A new web presence: transitions and towers This is a new web presence for Lorcan Dempsey! My goal is to provide a contact point and to bring together various elements of my work, writing and career. In part I am influenced by the decentralizing impulse to control your own archive. Lorcan 19 Apr 2021 Meta Presentation: College, consortium, collaboration, collective collection Constance Malpas and I gave a presentation to the Boston Library Consortium Board of Directors about the dynamics of library collaboration in consortia. It talks about collective collections as an example. Lorcan 21 Jan 2021 Collections Presentation: The RLUK Digital Shift Forum I was pleased to inaugurate the RLUK Digital Shift Forum, with a presentation on Pandemic effects and collection directions. I was especially pleased to be kindly introduced by my longstanding colleague Robin Green, University Librarian at Warwick University, and current chair of RLUK. Lorcan 18 Jan 2021 Collections Collection directions accelerated? Pandemic effects. Over the past few years I have been talking about three systemic ways in which collections, broadly understood, are evolving in a network environment. They are: the collective collection, the facilitated collection, and the inside-out collection. Lorcan 19 May 2020 Collections Calgary Central Library: combining intimacy and civic statement The Calgary central library was on first impression the finest public building I have been in for years. Lorcan 11 Sep 2019 Institutions More Posts Featured Posts Two metadata directions 14 Jul 2021 Working with Ghost: a review 26 Apr 2021 Collection directions accelerated? Pandemic effects. 19 May 2020 Memory institutions redux: pluralizing memories and a stay against forgetting 07 Dec 2018 The powers of library consortia 1: how consortia scale capacity, learning, innovation and influence 28 Feb 2018 News Presentation: Two Metadata Directions 29 Jul 2021 A new web presence: transitions and towers 19 Apr 2021 Presentation: College, consortium, collaboration, collective collection 21 Jan 2021 Interesting? Get updates! Your email address Signup Please check your inbox and click the link to confirm your subscription. Please enter a valid email address! An error occurred, please try again later. Tags Systems Institutions UX Books Research/Learning Social Collections *Classics Meta Collaboration Navigation About Membership Contact Blog posts Newsletter Interesting? Get updates! Your email address Signup Please check your inbox and click the link to confirm your subscription. Please enter a valid email address! An error occurred, please try again later. Lorcan Dempsey on libraries, services and networks © 2021 LorcanDempsey.net - Published with Ghost & modified Krabi