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As we noted some months ago, George Oates, former designer and more at Flickr, probably the best designed site on the web, moved to the OpenLibrary. And now this exciting move has borne some fascinating fruit: OpenLibrary Machine Tags on Flickr.

Stick with us. Machine tags are machine-readable versions of the ubiquitous tag system that Flickr and now many, many sites use to describe and organise content. So far, they’ve mostly been used to link last.fm music gigs or upcoming events with photos, but they’re expanding slowly.

Machine tags are an incredibly important link…

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• kewlchops: A new leaf. quot;I#039;m very excited about my first day at work tomorrow in my new job at the Internet Archive, here in San Francisco, in the beautiful Presidio. I#039;ll be heading up the Open Library project.quot; George Oates, ex-Flickr. Good good good.
• The Book Oven: Gutenberg Rally. The Book Oven, currently in private alpha, offers the welcome proposal of publishing services in the cloud. Will be checking it out, but here#039;s one of their tools in action: crowdsourcing copy edits on Gutenbeg texts.
• iBookmark: Locative Texts and Place-based Authoring [PDF] Booktwo#039;s quot;storypointquot; idea gets closer with this

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