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Re-Hashing The Hash Tag - Crowd Competition And Community Standards At The #Aall2009 Conference, Roger V. Skalbeck
Re-Hashing The Hash Tag - Crowd Competition And Community Standards At The #Aall2009 Conference, Roger V. Skalbeck
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This article notes that conferences and events "rely on the hashtag system more than almost any other entity." This year's AALL conference was no exception. Now that the conference is over, this is a great chance to look at conference‑related Twitter activity, searching for possible meaning or moral lessons. If you attended the conference but didn't follow Twitter, here's an insight into what you may have missed, and what you might look forward to trying at the next conference you attend.
The Power Of Collaboration: Worldcat's Copyright Evidence Registry, Roger V. Skalbeck
The Power Of Collaboration: Worldcat's Copyright Evidence Registry, Roger V. Skalbeck
Law Faculty Publications
One of the underlying obstacles to reproducing older books is that there's no central place to look for information about what is protected by copyright and what may have passed into the public domain. Responding to this need, OCLC recently introduced a new system for tracking various copyright details for published books. The new service, still in beta, is called the WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry (CER). It could be a very valuable resource for recording and sharing copyright status information.